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Explosion at oil refinery in Iran’s Abadan
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Stop Freaking Out About Drinking Recycled Poo-Water, Expert Says
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 06:11 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why it's time to talk about poo
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 6:50 Comments || Top||


Randi Weingarten blames politicians for turning teachers into 'social justice warriors'
[Washington Examiner] Teachers union leader Randi Weingarten claimed Thursday that it was politicians who have turned teachers into "social justice warriors."

Parents and teachers want to focus on what is best for the children, Weingarten said during a town hall with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, but restrictions on books and answering controversial questions have led to burnout.

"Very few teachers thought that they were going into teaching to be social justice warriors," Weingarten said, according to Fox News. "That has been what has created some of the burnout. And that's not parents. That's politicians. Parents just want the best for their kids. And so do the teachers."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2022 03:05 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Notice that Weingarten did not deny her flock had become.... 'social justice warriors.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2022 3:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Always the victim...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/03/2022 6:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd go with two species of a common genus is at play.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/03/2022 19:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
‘Worst Has Yet To Come’: Civil Unrest Set To Surge Worldwide As Socioeconomic Pressure Builds, Report Warns
[ZeroHedge]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 06:13 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Biden Publishes Autobiographical Memoir 'My Struggle'
[Babylon Bee] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
has announced the release of an autobiographical memoir entitled My Struggle, detailing his strategic plans for growing the power of the government and taking over the world. The book reportedly describes the reasoning for his hatred of certain people groups and why his political enemies must be crushed if the nation is to once again become a great empire.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ghost Written -- He does not indicate, via his public actions, speeches and demeanor, the possibility, he has the mental capability and capacity to have written one word of this fictional tome.
Posted by: Marilyn Shogum6384 || 09/03/2022 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  /\The Babylon Bee™ is a Christian-themed satire site. They are laughing at Biden.
Posted by: magpie || 09/03/2022 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^ The comment is STILL VALID - He lacks the mental capacity to write his own speeches, put two or three words together which make any sense, even WITH the aid of his last surviving dog...🤣 - Satire or Not - Perish the Thought of His Thoughts, He is stuck in 1970s and is making the USA re-live that failure decade with him.
Posted by: Muggsy Omavins9910 || 09/03/2022 1:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Dictator in chief Biden’s ‘extreme’ hypocrisy Go Ahead Suck on this Satire, Biden is no longer even funny, in the funnies, Impeach and Expel Him from Office - Bigger Crook than Nixon - No longer tolerated by anyone with a brain.
Posted by: Elmons Glomoger7731 || 09/03/2022 2:13 Comments || Top||

#5  You are right Elmons, we're well beyond satire. We have apparently moved into the Geheime Staatspolizei phase.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2022 2:32 Comments || Top||

#6  When it is published in Germany, will it still be "Mein Kampf"?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/03/2022 3:10 Comments || Top||

#7  ...yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/03/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden's speech probably sounded better in the original Austrian.



Biden today: Throw another shrimp on the barbee!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/03/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#9  [rockyandbullwinkleannouncerON]

"...Tune in for our next exciting episode -

'Biden publishes autobiographical memoir, My Struggle, or -

Triumph of the Shill!"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/03/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Biden Had a Rocky 2021. Expects a Bullwinkle 2022.

And this published earlier this year, sometimes there is prophesy, from the oddest corners of the internet; Biden, was für ein Dummkopf in diesem Anführer steckt
Posted by: Theasing Sleating8482 || 09/03/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#11 
Hell, the title even sounds like something a SOCIALIST would have written.

Or was the person that chose the title playing off the MLK jr. book title for the Mid-Term Black vote.

Or is this another one of those $$$ Million dollar book deals to hide Deep State funding, like Bill & Hillary, Obama & Michel☻ all got?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/03/2022 17:39 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Western Arms Support for Ukraine-Peter Zeihan
We are seeing a tremendous amount of arms and technology flowing into Ukraine from NATO members, Sweden and Finland. This amounts to one of the greatest transfers of tech and materiel since the collapse of the Cold War. But the arms purchases and transfers aren't just happening from NATO to Ukraine, but amongst NATO members as well.

This sort of large-scale purchasing and upgrading of Europe's militaries is going to have a profound impact on the continent, well beyond Russia's current conflict with Ukraine.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/03/2022 10:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are finally giving themselves bullets and spare tires? Wonders never cease!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/03/2022 20:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden signs $40B Ukraine aid as country rules out ceding territory
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 22:49 Comments || Top||


Economy
FedEx delivery network is 'on brink of COLLAPSE' because rising costs have pushed contractors to brink of bankruptcy, owner of delivery truck fleet warns
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 06:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Judd Garrett - 'Something rotten in the state of Denmark'
[Judd Garrett] "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." Marcellus famously told Horatio in Act 1 of Shakespeare’s best-known play, Hamlet. The something rotten in Denmark was the royalty, the leadership, the rulers. Hamlet’s uncle Claudius had murdered Hamlet’s father to become king, and then he married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. Shakespeare quite possibly chose the word "rotten" because, as the old saying goes, "fish rot from the head down", and the rot in Denmark was coming from the top. The worst type of corruption is from the top. The rot, the corruption had not only infected the elite, the ruling class in Denmark but it was also permeating and infecting the rest of the country.

We are witnessing this same thing in real time America. The raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago is evidence that something is rotten in the United States. It shows that the corruption at the highest level of our government and our institutions is real, entrenched and pervasive, and it is permeating to the rest of society. This rotten corruption can be traced to the Clintons. Why did Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton have a private e-mail server set-up in her home on which she conducted state business which is not only illegal but dangerous to our country? Over one hundred classified documents were being held on that server, and that server was unsecure and had been hacked by outside parties. She was using a private server to conduct state business so the people at the State Department would not be able to see what she was doing — how she was leveraging her position to enrich and empower herself. There was no legitimate or legal reason to have her own private server, yet she did. And there was no legitimate or legal reason to Bleach-Bit 33,000 emails that had been subpoenaed after the private server was discovered. Yet she did that also.

The Clinton foundation is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and was being used by the Clintons to launder money to themselves. Hillary Clinton was using her position as Secretary of State to further enrich that corrupt organization which in turn enriched her and her husband. In the years Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and up to the 2016 Election when she was odds on favorite to win the Presidency, her husband, Bill Clinton was receiving upwards of $500,000 from foreign countries, like Russia, for a 20-minute speech. This is equivalent to anonymous people paying $100,000 for Hunter Biden’s finger paintings. The 20-minute speeches and the paintings were merely the guise foreign actors were using to purchase influence that the Bidens and Clintons were more than willing to sell.

We are told that the Clinton Foundation is about addressing humanitarian issues across the world. But it seems like the Clinton Foundation donors stopped caring about humanitarian issues as soon as Hillary was no longer going to be the President of the most powerful country on the planet. By the year 2020, donations to the Clinton Foundation had plunged 75% from its high in 2016. If the foundation was really about fighting world hunger, then donations should not depend on whether the head of the foundation was the President of the United States or not. If former President Bill Clinton’s speeches were so riveting that he could command a half million dollars for 20 minutes in 2016, then the price tag for the same speech should not drop to $25,000 in 2020 after Hillary lost the Presidency. In 2016, did Russia pay $500,000 simply to hear Bill Clinton speak, or was there something else they were going to receive for that extra $475,000?

The raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was merely another step in the ongoing plan to take Trump out. Trump is a threat to them because Trump has the potential of exposing the massive corruption by the Washington elite. Why was it necessary for the FBI to raid Donald Trump’s home when the National Archives could have easily received the documents in question through the subpoena process? And why did the FBI need a general warrant instead of a specific warrant for the documents in question? If possessing classified documents is such an egregious crime that the FBI needs over 30 agents to raid the home of a former President why were there no criminal referrals against Hillary Clinton who had hundreds of classified documents on her private server at her home, or against former head of the FBI, James Comey who leaked classified documents to the New York Times?

The raid had very little to do with the documents the National Archives wanted nor was the FBI protecting nuclear secrets. Those documents were merely a pretext for the FBI to raid Trump’s home to get their hands on other documents that could be damning to the FBI, specifically documents related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation, otherwise known as the Russian Collusion Hoax. That hoax investigation was initiated by the false Russia Dossier that was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and used by corrupt FBI agents to illegally spy on Donald Trump’s campaign, transition team and Presidency. And all of their corruption has to be covered up. The January 6 committee like the Mar-a-Lago raid is about covering up the crimes the powerful have committed. Using a committee to have witnesses repeatedly make the statement that the 2020 election was not stolen, was their way to cover-up the fact that they had committed massive voter fraud in that election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2022 09:39 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Think we all kinda surmised the cover was a cover.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 14:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Is There a Way To Save Our Republic From the Traitorous Usurpers?
[News With Views] The French Reign of Terror was only one example in history that was caused by circumstances very similar to ours, so should you not expect the same outcome now? Our Founding Documents demand involvement of the people to retain their Republic. The criminals who usurped our government for profit and power are traitors. Their other objectives for their Unconstitutional actions are the total destruction of the Republic, starvation, enslavement and impoverishment of our people. Is this not painfully obvious to all?

Politicians from both parties, judges, and government bureaucrats get their bribes and orders from the major corporations. Corporate Directors in turn take their orders from the Parasitic Super Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC, wealthy families you never see) whose stock holdings control the corporations and most everything else.

Under the "Enumerated Powers" of our federal Constitution (created by the several States), the federal establishment was granted only very limited powers, and certainly not the expansive powers of a legitimate organic national government. Those powers are reserved for the states, which are independent Republics. The federal establishment has unconstitutionally usurped most of its powers from the states, which is why a majority of its laws are unconstitutional. The FBI should take notice that the federal establishment has no police powers in the states, none. Its private rules and codes apply only to its corporate employees and its own property, which is very limited. The Private Federal Reserve Bank is unconstitutional (as is our money) because it is not gold and silver. Our founders learned from history that inflation was impossible with gold and silver money and made theft by government very difficult. This is but a taste of the corruption. Remember, the United States and its founding documents were created specifically to protect our Rights!

People who support the Constitution and fight the traitors are patriots, not terrorists. They are fighting the usurpers, not the legitimate government. The traitors who rule this country with the barrel of a gun should be on notice that our Founding Documents give legal standing to the patriots who oppose them. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution giving legal standing, rights, protection or support to usurping traitors ruling our country with the barrel of a gun. The traitors must suffer the wrath of the people alone, naked of any protected rights or legal support from our Constitution, which does not apply to them as usurpers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2022 11:13 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's been an oligarchy for a couple decades and now you're noticing it?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/03/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this a trick question?
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/03/2022 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/03/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||


Judge dismisses Carter Page suit against Comey, FBI over alleged FISA abuse
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/03/2022 06:03 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have not read the article yet, but let me guess: Dismissed for lack of standing
Posted by: SteveS || 09/03/2022 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  An integral part of the victimization plot, dismissed as planned. I have always believed beltway insider, top USN Academy grad, and Navy Intelligence officer, Carter Page was an integral and witting component of the Trump campaign monitoring effort.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
~ Jean Racine, Britannicus (1969)
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/03/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
~ Jean Racine, Britannicus (1969)

Yeah, now you tell me, I dated both of them in February 2022....
Posted by: Gloluse Bucket1658 || 09/03/2022 22:10 Comments || Top||



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  Explosion at oil refinery in Iran’s Abadan
Fri 2022-09-02
  Nigerian Fighter Jets Reportedly Kill 49 Boko Haram Fighters In Separate Camps
Thu 2022-09-01
  Border officials in Texas make largest cocaine bust in 20 years inside baby wipe shipment
Wed 2022-08-31
  ‘This Is Not a Revolution': Shiite Cleric Tells Iraqi Rioters to Stop After 30 Deaths, 400 Wounded
Tue 2022-08-30
  32 Killed, 159 Injured in Libya Clashes; Death Toll Continues to Rise
Mon 2022-08-29
  Iraq Presidential Palace Stormed, US Embassy Helicopter Evacuation
Sun 2022-08-28
  Jewelry designer unmasked as Russian spy luring NATO chiefs into honeytraps
Sat 2022-08-27
  Five people shot dead in the center of Canada's capital
Fri 2022-08-26
  The Russians unsuccessfully advanced in the Avdiiv, Slavyan and Bakhmut directions
Thu 2022-08-25
  At least 15 killed, 50 more injured after the Russian missile strike on the railway station in Chaplyne near Dnipro
Wed 2022-08-24
  UN Warns Against Military Confrontation in Libyan Capital
Tue 2022-08-23
  Fauci stepping down as NIAID chief
Mon 2022-08-22
  Hadhramaut tribes mobilise against Islah Party militias
Sun 2022-08-21
  Mogadishu hotel attack, Day 2: After 30 hours it’s over - at least 30 toes up, including all Al Shabaab turbans, 40 maimed
Sat 2022-08-20
  ISIS 'Beatle' El Shafee Elsheikh sentenced to life in prison


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