[Bee] A new study indicates a disturbing trend as testicular injuries in women's sports are increasing at an astounding rate. Researchers are baffled as these statistics have skyrocketed from literally zero reported testicular injuries among female athletes just a few years ago.
"This new wave of testicular injuries to female athletes has really come out of nowhere," said Dr. Ryan Kitchen of Boston College's Institute of Sports Medicine. "Years ago, there were absolutely no reported testicular injuries that occurred during women's sporting events. If only we could determine what led to this sudden rise. Such a puzzle!"
Institutions around the world have also noticed the disturbing trend and are pouring research dollars into discovering the cause, which is almost certainly a complicated issue with no easy or obvious answers whatsoever.
Critics have argued that it's not actually possible for a female athlete to suffer a testicular injury. "Yeah, that can't happen," said Dr. Adam Kinunen of the Restore Sanity to Sports research group. "Considering the fact that having testicles in the first place means a person is not a female, it would stand to reason that such an injury is impossible. In layman's terms, these are dudes."
Trans activist groups have come out in full force against anyone who dares to suggest women cannot have their testicles injured because women can't have testicles. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" said Sunshine Fluffsprinkle, spokesperson for Insanity Now, a trans rights group in response to the findings. "BLLRRRAAAWWRRRR FFFRRGGGTHTHTH!"
At publishing time, concerned researchers in the field of sports medicine were consulting with athletic equipment manufacturers to design protective athletic cups specifically designed to protect female testicles.
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[Townhall] Start with the War of 1812, about 50 years after colonies' Stamp Act protests. There's a touch of absurdity here. Because of the slowness of trans-Atlantic communication, Congress declared war because of British restrictions on neutral shipping six days after the British repealed them. Americans won their major land victory in New Orleans, 15 days after the peace treaty had already been signed in Ghent.
The Americans' strategy was based on a delusion -- that Canadians would welcome American conquest -- and American tactics were riddled with blunders. Detroit was surrendered without a shot, and Washington was left undefended, allowing the British to burn the White House. The treaty left in place the status quo, and the positive response was psychological, verging on delusional. In historian Gordon Wood's words, this inconclusive war "did finally establish for Americans that independence and nationhood of the United States that so many had doubted."
Almost exactly 50 years later, the U.S. plunged into civil war, which outgoing President James Buchanan might have prevented by sending troops to secessionist South Carolina, as his mentor Andrew Jackson had done almost 30 years earlier.
Fast forward 50 years to the only American president who spent his boyhood in the Confederacy, watching Sherman march into South Carolina, Woodrow Wilson. After Congress, with 56 dissenters, voted to enter World War I, Wilson superintended the overbroad 1917 Espionage Act. As Adam Hochschild vividly recounts in "American Midnight", the Wilson administration imprisoned those who spoke against the war or the draft, including Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. Wilson deported aliens supposedly involved in radical activities under the supervision of the 20-something J. Edgar Hoover. He censored the press, stamping out what liberals today call "misinformation," and cooperated with local efforts to suppress German cultural organizations. History does rhyme, about every 50 years - a typical adult's lifetime. Interesting coincidence. Go read the rest.
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Sure, sex/drugs/rock-n-roll/love in the '70s.
Woke/Trans/Migrants/Murder in the '20s.
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Real history is a problem for many who cite it. One of the major issues of the War of 1812 was the use of the British of the native tribes in America to forestall the development of the Northwest Territories. They had been using the natives for decades as proxies. When American forces finally broke one major effort at the battle of Fallen Timbers they chased the natives to the gates of a British military fort on American soil. Newspapers in that part of the country referred to the situation as the Anglo-Indian War. No, the war did not end in the status quo as the native resistance had been effectively destroyed allowing for the settlement of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Elliott Wave Theory holds that each wave within a wave count contains a complete 5-3 wave count of a smaller cycle.
Mr Howe wrote, “turning” is about 20 years long, what the authors call the length of a generation [generational wave].
These four turnings are akin to the four seasons in nature, beginning with spring and ending with winter. These turnings then continue to repeat just like nature.
“The cycle begins with the First Turning, a “High” which comes after a crisis era.
“The Second Turning is an “Awakening,” when institutions are attacked in the name of higher principles and deeper values.”
“The Third Turning is an “Unraveling,” in many ways the opposite of the High.”
“Finally, the Fourth Turning is a “Crisis” period. This is when our institutional life is reconstructed from the ground up, always in response to a perceived threat to the nation’s very survival.”
Authors have stated America entered a new Fourth Turning in 2008. In their book published in 1997, they pegged the next crisis would in 2005. Three shy of the 2008 bubble. They conclude this turning will likely last until around 2030."
Previous Anglo-American Fourth Turnings:
- American Revolution (1773-1794)
- Civil War (1860-1865)
- Great Depression/World War II (1929-1946)
[ZMan] Just a few months ago, Western media was hailing the wonderfulness of their bosses in the political class over the decision to send tanks to Ukraine. The West was going to send modern battle tanks. The first batch would be Leopard II tanks from Germany followed by Abrams tanks from America. On top of that, the Poles donated their Patriot system to Ukraine. This would cure the missile problem. Maybe F-16’s were not far behind, the media told us.
Here we are entering the spring and the mood has shifted. This story in the Washington Post would have been called Putin propaganda a few months ago. It explains the terrible condition of the Ukrainian army. Six months of Russian grinding with artillery and now air power has killed tens of thousands of Ukraine’s best soldiers. This story published in Politico is about the growing troubles in the collective West over how to go forward with the Ukraine war.
One reason the mood has shifted in the West is it is impossible to hide the reality on the battlefield much longer. Reliable estimates say the Ukrainians have lost 200,000 soldiers in the last year. That is killed in action. An equal number have been wounded, with the majority unable to return to service. On the Russian side, the death toll is much lower, around 20,000, with two or three times that wounded. This disparity means it is a matter of time before the Ukrainians crack.
There is also the fact that there is no way for the West to change the numbers of this war with methods or tactics. The West committed Ukraine to a style of fighting that cannot now be abandoned in favor of a new approach. They are throwing all available resources into defending every inch of turf. The trouble is, the West is running low on weapons and ammunition. An army that is low on men and material is an army headed for defeat, under any conditions.
Of course, what we are seeing is a change in the narrative. The old narrative was based on the Russians running out of men and material and the heroic Ukrainians, armed with weapons from their morally superior backers in the West, would go on the great counter offensive and drive the Russians from the Donbas. That has been the story for a year, but now that story is inoperative. Since Western leaders live in a fictional world of their own creation, they need a new narrative.
The new narrative will probably blame the Ukrainian leadership for the failures on the battlefield and maybe the failure to conduct negotiations. There are rumors being floated in Western media that NATO commanders have been telling the Ukrainians to abandon Bakhmut, but Zelensky has ordered a defense of the city. As the envelopment of Ukrainian forces in the region becomes more obvious, Western leaders will get more chatty about how this is the fault of Zelensky.
For those unfamiliar, Bakhmut is a central stronghold in the center of what had been called the Zelensky line in Donbas. The Russians have been laying siege to this heavily fortified stronghold for months. They have fire control over the main roads and the Wagner group is conducting operations in the city. More important, a larger encirclement is forming to contain about 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers. This is a big battle that the Ukrainians are losing.
Another subplot to the new narrative emerged last month when Washington started floating claims about who bombed the Nord Stream pipelines. First was the story planted in the New York Times claiming that a couple of guys in a canoe blew up these underwater pipelines at the direction of Ukraine. Then the Wall Street Journal was given a taste with this story. The European press was given a taste with this story posted in the Financial Times.
The absurdity of the claims is not important. There is simply no way that a group of Ukrainian partisans pulled off this attack. What is important is that these stories seeded a new narrative about the Ukrainian leadership. Instead of being heroic defenders of freedom, they are erratic and unreliable. They do things like assassinate the daughter of Alexander Dugin without telling their Western sponsors. You can easily see where this will lead once it is time to exit the current narrative. Elites always have a scapegoat ready to go. Avoiding blame is their favorite game. Whatever they do, is never their own fault. Ever.
Another sign that the tide is turning against the blood-drenched Kagan cult over Ukraine policy is the response to the Russian downing of an American drone. The United States has been providing intelligence to the Ukrainian army since the start. They have satellites over Ukraine and use these advanced surveillance drones. The Russians could blind the satellites and take down the drones, but that would risk escalation, so they have been quiet about it until now.
There can be no doubt that the decision to take down the drone was made at the highest levels with Kremlin permission. The changing reality on the battlefield and the changing rhetoric from the West probably led to this. The Russians wanted to test if the changing rhetoric can be trusted. Washington’s tepid response to the incident suggests that there is no appetite for escalation. The Ukraine party in the West is winding down and everyone is thinking about heading home.
This does not mean the end of the war is imminent. Right now, the Ukrainians are locked into a strategy of fighting to the last man. The Russian are happy to oblige as they now think the only solution is a military solution. They need to grind down and break the Ukrainian army. Then they will impose their preferred political solution on Ukraine, whether it is with Zelensky or his successor. This process will probably take the rest of this year, perhaps longer.
What comes next for the West is plotting out the rest of the narrative in the coming months when it becomes clear that Ukraine cannot launch an offensive. This will close out the old narrative completely. Ukrainian tanks will not be driving through Moscow after all, so the new narrative will need a new ending. This new ending will allow the West to declare that whatever result the Russians impose will fall far short of their goals, thus scoring a win for Western narrative makers.
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Reliable estimates say the Ukrainians have lost 200,000 soldiers in the last year. That is killed in action. An equal number have been wounded, with the majority unable to return to service. On the Russian side, the death toll is much lower, around 20,000, with two or three times that wounded. This disparity means it is a matter of time before the Ukrainians crack.
Reliable estimates, huh? Excuse me if I'm a bit skeptical. I don't believe anybody knows how many have died on either side. We might never know.
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I doubt the people responsible for our current Ukraine policy even considered the possibility that Ukraine might win. Now they are freaking out.
I don't believe they thought Putin would resist NATO's expansion into Ukraine with a "special military operation". They miscalculated, plain and simple.
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Whether the so-called reliable estimates are anywhere near accurate or not, it's a good bet that the death toll is horrendous. What's disturbing is that Biden doesn't care. If he did, he would be calling for negotiations to stop the fighting. It's that callous attitude toward the deaths of others that makes me think the man is truly sick.
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Opinion piece refers to something called the Kagan cult.
I think that refers to the Institute for the Study of War since one of the founders is named Kagan. But I'm not sure.
Regarding the opinion piece estimate of 20k fatalities is about an order of magnitude below the estimates of US and NATO intel.
Remarkably the piece fails to discuss the two successful Ukraine counteroffensives or the Russian retreat from the North.
and it is approaching 400 days of this ghastly conflict
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[News With Views] Mid-Flight Heart Attack Kills Pilot After COVID Jab, Nov. 10, 2021 by Ty & Charlene Bollinger
"On October 15, American Airlines Flight 2740 was traveling from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Fort Meyers when the unthinkable happened. As the plane began a gradual descent toward southwest Florida, the pilot in command began convulsing and had a cardiac arrest. Fortunately, the aircraft was still on autopilot, giving the co-pilot time to evaluate the situation, unharness himself, pull the pilot from his seat, and try to administer CPR. But his efforts were in vain.
"The co-pilot returned to his seat and squawked 7700, the international transponder code for "I have an emergency." The plane landed safely, but the co-pilot was put on administrative leave for having left his seat and endangering the aircraft, our source said.
"It was later determined that the pilot had a fatal heart attack caused by myocarditis, a known side effect of the Covid-19 vaccinations. He had received his second dose of the vaccine two weeks before that flight. His last full physical was three months prior, and his doctor had given him a clean bill of health," a source told The Australian National Review.
"Yet another pilot fatality took place a week later, and it, too was a departure from Dallas/Fort Worth. American Airlines Flight 971, an Airbus A321, departed DFW for LAX at 8:00 a.m. Midway through the flight, the co-pilot complained he had chest pains but chalked it up to having eaten a spicy meal before departure. He told the captain it was indigestion.
"As the plane flew at 32,000 feet over the New Mexico/Arizona state line, the co-pilot started convulsing and vomiting on the flight controls. At that point, the captain contacted Air Traffic Control, requesting permission to swing around and make an emergency landing in Albuquerque, NM, but the Controller, after consulting American Airlines, denied the request and compelled the captain to complete the flight to LAX.
"The co-pilot died in his chair, also from acute myocarditis. He had gotten his second COVID shot (the Pfizer/BioNTech concoction) 21 days ahead of that fateful flight.
"The PIC [Pilot In Charge] was put under a gag order and told not to discuss the incident with anyone under threat of losing his job," the source said. "There is a systematic effort going on right now to prevent the public from knowing about pilots getting very ill or very dead in the air. The airlines don’t want to lose money, and the administration doesn’t want the public to know the true dangers of the vaccine. I know for fact that Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg ordered the airlines to classify incidents involving pilot deaths."
Judicial Watch should file a FOIA on the claim above regarding classifying pilot deaths.
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Pro-Ukrainian? How very odd.
[RIA] The American media are commenting with undisguised surprise on the "unexpected escalation of the situation in Syria," as they call a series of strikes on American military bases illegally located on the territory of this country. What is there to be surprised about? As US generals recently reported at a House Military Committee hearing, "Iran-backed forces" have attacked these bases about 80 times over the past two years. That is, in theory, such raids should already become common for various kinds of commentators.
But the military does not hide its surprise at the nature of the new attacks, which last Thursday led to the death of one American (the authorities constantly refer to the dead man as a “contractor”, without deciphering his occupation) and injuring six US servicemen of varying severity. According to The New York Times, citing two officials, the base's air defense systems were "not fully functional" at the time of the attack, whatever that means.
The Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar points to complete disarray in the ranks of the US military over how the kamikaze drone bypassed the high-tech defense system.
That’s certainly one perspective.
The publication calls the attacks "the beginning of resistance against the occupiers" and even connects it (of course, without confirming its assumptions) with the reconnaissance activities of Russian aviation. Just the day before, representatives of the US Central Command said that our aircraft "violated the airspace of an American military base" in Syria 25 times during March.
Agree, it’s funny to hear this from the lips of Pentagon representatives after their escapades against Russia in connection with the fall of their UAVs into the Black Sea. I remember John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the US National Security Council, called the restrictions imposed by Russia on flights near our borders "illegal." But as you can see, the Americans consider themselves entitled to impose much more serious restrictions on flights in the zone of their absolutely illegal occupation of the sovereign state of Syria - and they don’t see anything strange in this!
And the point here is not only the notorious double standards professed by Washington - everyone has long been accustomed to this. The fact is that the Americans, judging by their surprise at the attacks in Syria, have not yet realized what Pandora's box they have opened with their actions in Ukraine and the terrorist attacks against Nord Stream.
Assuming the Americans did indeed do it, a thing not yet proved.
They have not yet realized that by their own adventures they have made their military and mysterious "contractors" much more vulnerable (who, apparently, are engaged in an elementary robbery of Syrian oil).
By robbery the writer means we are enabling the Kurds to control its sale, which supports their fight against ISIS and continued imprisonment of captured ISIS hard boys and their families. The alternative being to let them escape into the wild, which would be a bad thing for everyone in the region, including Russian forces busily supporting the Assad government.
Now, anyone can shrug their shoulders and, trying to make a serious face, say: "Some pro-Ukrainian activists on camels got to the American base in Syria and attacked it with homemade Molotov cocktails." After the ridiculous version of the Nord Stream explosions, which is openly ridiculed in the United States itself, from now on, any sabotage anywhere in the world can be explained in the same spirit.
Well, and not confirmed by anyone, hints that Russian pilots allegedly aimed at American targets in Syria look completely frivolous against the backdrop of the revelations that the British The Times recently published in its report about a certain Ukrainian sabotage group carrying out terrorist attacks against the Russian military . in the Zaporozhye region. Without a twinge of conscience, these terrorists confessed to the reporter that they had committed a war crime - that they were deliberately ambushing medical evacuation teams. Moreover, they use the CIA satellite and a special program of the American intelligence service to select their terrorist attacks. Neither the British newspaper nor the CIA see anything shameful in this.
It is not surprising that American "soldiers of fortune" openly and unashamedly declare that while in Ukraine they do not consider themselves bound by "international rules of war." They are well aware that in a "world based on rules" and not on law, no funny body like the International Criminal Court will hold the American military accountable.
But as the Americans themselves cross more and more "red lines", expanding the boundaries of the unspoken "rules" they have established, they are beginning to face similar responses. And then they are surprised by the new nature of the attacks in Syria - after all, these are attacks against the very "rules" that operate in some parts of the world and do not work in others.
So far, the Americans have responded by bombing some targets in Syria, claiming to have killed up to 19 "pro-Iranian militants." Although local sources report that US aircraft bombed purely civilian targets, including food depots, killing seven civilians. According to the remark of US President Joe Biden himself that he "is not looking for a conflict with Iran", it is clear that the White House is seriously alarmed by the situation with its military in Syria. Apparently, they understand that this is only the beginning of a series of "unexpected escalations." After all, from these "pro-Ukrainian activists" who commit sabotage here and there, you can expect anything and anywhere.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bee] A new study indicates a disturbing trend as testicular injuries in women's sports are increasing at an astounding rate. Researchers are baffled as these statistics have skyrocketed from literally zero reported testicular injuries among female athletes just a few years ago.
Start with the War of 1812, about 50 years after colonies' Stamp Act protests. There's a touch of absurdity here. Because of the slowness of trans-Atlantic communication, Congress declared war because of British restrictions on neutral shipping six days after the British repealed them. Americans won their major land victory in New Orleans, 15 days after the peace treaty had already been signed in Ghent.
