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-Land of the Free
Yet Another Vaccine Horror Story
[TennesseeConservativeNews] As part of a custody battle, a Tennessee judge ordered a family to vaccinate all three of their children, all of whom had never been vaccinated. Five-year-old Isaac immediately became ill and was eventually diagnosed with severe regressive autism.

It wasn’t until he enrolled his daughter in high school that, while obtaining her records from the local health department, he had a chance to view Isaac’s records. That’s when he saw that Isaac had received 18 vaccines in one day.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/23/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a Tennessee judge ordered a family to vaccinate all three of their children

What the fuck does that have to do with anything about a custody hearing?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/23/2024 15:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Its the magic word “vaccine” which drug companies have carefully established as a social norm so that you have to opt out with difficulty

And on opting out it is seen as child abuse to not give children this “miracle of science”

But “miracle” is a religious word. Science has evidence not miracles.

And by the way, the coerced mRNA shots for covid are repurposed gene therapies, nothing at all like the traditional vaccines

The new mRNA gene-vaccines are way more dangerous and contaminated with DNA fragments from the manufacturing process where they are cooked up in huge vats of antibiotic resistant e.Coli bacteria which are broken open to release the mRNA. They cant clean all the waste DNA fragments out easily
Posted by: Anon1 || 10/23/2024 16:46 Comments || Top||

#3  This is what it looks like when corporations run your government
You lose the freedom to say no to injecting their products

Rfk jr would have ended this, but he dropped out of the presidential race
Posted by: Anon1 || 10/23/2024 16:48 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ RFK Jr. is a clown on the American national stage. As an Aussie fangirl, you wouldn't even understand
Posted by: Frank G || 10/23/2024 18:24 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Documents from the Patriotic War of 1812 have appeared in the Glavarkhiv service
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Residents of Moscow have received an additional opportunity to search for information about their ancestors and compile a family tree. They can find them in the capital's Main Archive, which published documents from 1812 in the virtual museum "Moscow - with care for history". This was reported on October 22 by Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development Anastasia Rakova.

“This year, the capital’s Main Archives Department published lists of those awarded for participating in the Patriotic War of 1812 <…> the new section contains not only the names of officers, but also privates, militiamen, partisans, townspeople, and even peasants who became heroes of those distant events,” the deputy mayor noted.

Information about officers, soldiers and peasants who distinguished themselves in battles with Napoleon is available in the new section "Heroes of the War of 1812". In the virtual museum, you can also find historical information about the ancestors of city residents who lived through the Great Patriotic War. For example, in the "Collections" subsection of the "1941-1945" hall, you can see the names of Muscovites who performed labor feats during the war, awarded the "For the Defense of Moscow" medal, as well as lists of soldiers who defended the skies above the city.

Citizens can find the names of their relatives among half a million people - not only military personnel, but also civilians. All surnames are listed in alphabetical order.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, an archive was discovered in Moscow that could have belonged to the writer and journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky. The materials were handed over to the city's cultural heritage department by one of the Russian capital's historians.

It is known that he acquired these archives at Moscow book stalls. Among the artifacts were letters addressed to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, business cards, notes written by his hand, articles, essays, reviews and more.

Posted by: badanov || 10/23/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under:


Detailed Report From Kiel Institute on Russian vs NATO Rearmament Production Rates
[KielReport] Fit for war in decades: Europe’s and Germany’s slow rearmament vis-à-vis Russia.
Ninety-three pages. In English.
Posted by: Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 || 10/23/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Scary: Get Ready for President Vance
[LA Times] Remember when some people (yes, one of them was me) used to obsess over President Biden’s age and future because we were worried about a President Kamala Harris? She’s come into her own as the Democratic nominee, especially for non-Californians unfamiliar with her career before the Senate. We are learning much more about her contributions and experience as vice president, and watching her handle the challenge of an abbreviated campaign with skill, humanity and toughness.
Setting the stage.
Now it’s JD Vance’s turn under scrutiny. Two things are different.

First, Donald Trump, 78, is showing signs of deterioration that are far more expansive and disturbing than those that led Biden to end his campaign. Trump’s speeches are interminable and devolve into gibberish, misplaced syllables, ungoverned hate speech and wildly inappropriate vulgarities — all warning signs of mental decline.

There’s a second key difference between concerns about Trump’s age now and questions about Biden’s age a few months ago: If Trump wins and can’t fulfill his term, he would be replaced by Vance — an ambitious newbie senator who is already very well known and has given Americans plenty of reasons to worry.

Since his rise to national attention with his 2017 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," Vance’s TV, radio and podcast interviews have created a voluminous record of ideas and opinions that his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, memorably described as weird.
And yet, the LA Times did not endorse Harris. However...
It’s conceivable that if Trump were in dire shape, he might consider stepping aside and handing the reins to Vance — no doubt with an agreement that President Vance would pardon Trump in the federal cases he faces. But the cases moving through state courts in New York and Georgia — not subject to a presidential pardon — would still hang over Trump, so it’s also conceivable he would refuse to abdicate no matter how incapacitated he became.

That’s unthinkable, and so is a truncated Trump presidency that would give us a President Vance. There is only one certain way to prevent both scenarios: Defeat this pair on election day.

Posted by: Bobby || 10/23/2024 10:03 || Comments || Link || [11156 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Looking forward to it!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/23/2024 11:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump is Hitler x Stalin x Pol Pot (etc.), so Vance is even worse? Hitler squared?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/23/2024 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I had to look twice at the source of this article. Then I understood. The LA Times has been communist propaganda for as long as I can remember.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/23/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The LA Times needs to stay out of the Babylon Bee’s lane.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/23/2024 12:25 Comments || Top||

#5  JD if they manage to get to Trump.
Posted by: KBK || 10/23/2024 12:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Really, something Tim Spaz thinks is weird and doesn't understand is your anchor?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/23/2024 13:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Vance has impressed me.
I dont like his ties to the IC.
But despite his wart, he handles the media flawlessly.

We will need continuity, four years is not enough time.
Posted by: mossomo || 10/23/2024 13:07 Comments || Top||

#8  It is cute of LA Times to not notice Kamala's quite obvious nervous breakdown, backed by Tim Spaz.

Whether she is self-medicating, or prescriptions, or likely both, she is flat slipping gears.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/23/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Oh LA times. You are not even worth the bytes in your bandwidth.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/23/2024 14:30 Comments || Top||

#10  ...and watching her handle the challenge of an abbreviated campaign with skill, humanity and toughness.

And I thought Kamala had the fellatio stuff down to an art form.
Posted by: Raj || 10/23/2024 15:05 Comments || Top||

#11  In time, the First Marine President, but I get their concern-after all, he was a Corporal...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/23/2024 15:06 Comments || Top||

#12  The LA times is trying to one up the Bee...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/23/2024 20:54 Comments || Top||

#13  What #7 said.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/23/2024 21:10 Comments || Top||


Latest Georgia Poll Spells Doom! for the Harris Campaign
[RedState] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's last poll before election day takes Georgia out of the "swing state" category and puts it firmly in Trump's column. Ever since shenanigans in Fulton County in 2020 led to a 0.24-point Biden victory in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the left and the media have insisted on calling Georgia a swing state, a claim that ranks right up there with claiming Texas is going to elect a Democrat senator this year.

The bad news for Kamala is that the gender gap in Georgia is much greater than in national polls. While Harris leads among women by 18 points (55.4 to 37.2), Trump carries men by a whopping 31 points (59.3 to 28.3). Even if women have a higher voting rate than men, it is hard to see how this is overcome.

Age Preference

Trump leads among 18–29-year-olds (52.3 to 44.3), 45–64-year-olds (51.9 to 42.1), and the 65+ crowd (45.6 to 43.6). Kamala leads by 10 points with the 30-44 demographic (47.2 to 37.3).

Race and Ethnicity

Trump carries White voters by a 38-point margin (66.1 to 28.4). Kamala wins Black voters by 66 points (73.8 to 7.6) and "Other" voters by 13 points (52.7 to 39.2). Biden flipped Georgia in 2020 by winning 88% of the Black votes (and a few 18-wheelers of badly needed ballots).

Education

Trump wins voters with a high school diploma or less by 20 points (54.8 to 34.8) and those with some college by four points (49.5 to 45.0). Harris takes the college group by 10 points (49.1 to 38.8).

The Dog That Didn't Bother to Get Up

One thing really stood out in the cross tabs of this poll. The demographics that Trump carried, he did so convincingly. Kamala voters were a little more uncertain. For instance, while Kamala leads Black voters by 66 points, 17.6 are "undecided" only two weeks out. She leads 30–44-year-olds by 10, but 14.2 percent remain undecided. Among college graduates, 10.6 percent say they haven't made up their minds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2024 03:57 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  deep in the AJC article it gives DJT a 4 point lead overall vs KHarris in GA
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/23/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||


Three reasons why Trump's plan to indict Harris over illegal immigration is the right call
Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker joins ‘Cavuto Live’:
[FoxNews] It’s two weeks until Election Day and the New York Times thinks former President Trump is making a big mistake by hammering home how he’ll tackle illegal immigration. Polls, after all, show voters care more about the economy and inflation than the millions of people allowed to enter our country illegally while Kamala Harris has been the border czar.

My view: never underestimate Trump’s political instincts. Yes, Americans have been whacked by a 20%-plus increase in prices while Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have occupied the White House, and surveys do show voters anxious about the economy.

But it is the 10 million or 20 million people who have been allowed to cross into and stay in our country illegally that gets crowds riled up; it is the fentanyl deaths and terror threats and the cost of undocumented people disappearing into our society that has animated the Trump candidacy ever since that famous ride down the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015. For good reason: Americans know it is wrong.

A recent Scripps News/Ipsos poll found over half of respondents, including 58% of independents and even 25% of Democrats, say they support mass deportations – an unthinkable response at any other time in our welcoming country – and that for 39%, illegal immigration is their top issue.

Politically, there are three reasons why Trump is right to double down on the issue. First, the Biden-Harris White House opened the border intentionally, ignoring the consequences until polling showed the issue might cost them the election. This was not an accident, and voters are rightly holding them responsible. Second, Vice President Harris is indelibly linked personally with having allowed this offense to the nation. Like it or not, she was popularly dubbed the "border czar" and she failed to meet the challenge. Third, if Harris becomes president, she would doubtless allow tens of millions more migrants to enter the country, increasing the dangers and costs of a swelling illegal population. After all, Harris told the hosts of "The View" that she cannot think of a single thing she would change about the past three-plus years; presumably, that includes our open border.

We cannot afford to let that happen.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  voters care more about the economy and inflation than the millions of people allowed to enter our country illegally

Maybe, just maybe, there is a connection?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/23/2024 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  If Republicans win control of both houses of Congress, they will take office 3 Jan 2025. Plenty of time for them, then, to impeach both Biden and Kamala for "high crimes and misdemeanors". The misconduct of the Biden regime in its failure to administer laws on the border, IMNSHO, easily falls under that category, and applies to both the current President and VP.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 10/23/2024 3:38 Comments || Top||

#3  The invasion has inflated rental prices. Worse yet, Americans are competing with tax payer funded NGOs for limited housing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/23/2024 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  NGOs which receives outrageous amounts of pretend money from Infrastructure Act and then Inflation Reduction Act.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/23/2024 15:12 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
What gunpowder was to the Revolution digits can be today
Key bits:
[ChroniclesMagazine] In early 2022 an undersea volcano in the south Pacific Tonga archipelago began a massive eruption. At its height the volcano disgorged 2.4 cubic miles of rock, ash, and sediment, generating the largest atmospheric explosion recorded by modern instruments and one expected to influence weather for up to five years. While the immediate cause of the eruption was a buildup of magma and gases, that buildup in turn was the result of deep shifts in the Earth’s tectonic plates—shifts that continued to produce earthquakes around the Pacific Rim this summer.

Not all volcanoes erupt so violently, and not all tectonic plate shifts produce ongoing disruptions on this scale. But when there is major resistance to the shifts, things can get a lot more disruptive.

Volcanic eruptions and plate shifts of either the violent or more gradual kind are a good metaphor for the radical changes of both American Revolution and for our political situation today: social, economic, and political grievances build up and, if not addressed, explode. Geophysical pressures arise from the deep dynamics of the Earth over millions of years. Our social and other pressures arise more locally but are influenced by shifts in technology that can, at times, verge on tectonic impact. Looking back at history, we can see how certain technological changes were essential in laying the groundwork for the ideological changes that followed. Such may be the case today as well.

To see the role of technology in the American Revolution, step back all the way to 1215. After the collapse of the Roman Empire a feudal system slowly emerged in Europe. Kings and aristocrats began to consolidate power that became inherited rather than earned generation to generation. But in England a group of powerful barons sought to place boundaries around royal power. The result was the Magna Carta, a document signed by the unpopular King John at Runnymede at the insistence of those rebel barons. That agreement limited arbitrary imprisonment, established church freedom from royal control, and guaranteed access to swift and impartial justice in the event of disputes. In essence the Magna Carta placed law and legal processes above the desires and power of the kings. At the same time, the English Parliament was established, giving representatives of various regions a formal role in lawmaking.

… It wasn’t easy. The colonial militias were up against a hardened, trained, professional army. By the winter at Valley Forge many had given up, and the situation was dire. But the leadership and, as Thomas Fleming shows in The Strategy of Victory the military strategy, of George Washington finally prevailed. How did that happen?

Two factors were key. First, the Declaration of Independence established a foundational position for the Revolution. This wasn’t simply a political dispute or a power play. What was at stake were the core rights inherent in humans as a result of Nature and Nature’s God: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. These were not things the Crown or Parliament could bestow or withhold, but inherent rights that demanded recognition and respect.

But there was a second factor that is much less well recognized, namely a tectonic shift in military technology that had been underway for two centuries. As Geoffrey Parker notes in The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, the adoption of gunpowder by the West fundamentally changed the nature of combat from what had been the norm for a millennium. Cannons on ships and ashore brought kinetic energy at a distance equivalent to many human attackers. Moreover, cannons could be towed by horses across long distances using only a few troops, positioned as needed, fired, and then moved again.

But even more tectonic was the development of individual firearms. Muskets rapidly gained widespread use among ordinary people. Along with the development of dog breeds such as Poodles, muskets allowed hunting and the retrieval of migratory waterfowl and other birds, thereby enhancing diets greatly—allowing people to grow in strength and independence. By the time of the Revolution many colonials owned firearms and knew how to use them.

The colonials began to employ their muskets using guerilla tactics honed by the Iroquois and other native tribes. Small groups of colonials attacked British troops, then slipped away into the woods and surrounding terrain. The resulting attrition of British forces made Washington’s larger battle encounters possible.

… Just as the colonials experienced a major technological shift when local people and communities acquired the means to present an unexpected challenge to the established power of their day, so, too, do we see a similar pattern emerging today. Now the same technology shift that has empowered an increasingly overt surveillance and control ecosystem has the potential to empower effective resistance to that power mass. Communication and computing technology allow people with shared interests and values to connect at a distance, to engage in commerce with one another without the intermediaries of large companies, to exchange insights and encouragement, and even to bypass centrally controlled currencies and other financial mechanisms.

The battle will not be easy and victory surely is not guaranteed. But there are several factors in our favor. First, a growing number of tech entrepreneurs see the danger and are pushing back—not only Elon Musk via X but also others who now are openly supporting and funding a coalition centered on the Trump-Vance election ticket. Groups like Turning Point USA are actively organizing ordinary citizens to vote. The move by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his running mate and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan, and former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard to endorse a unity ticket around Trump and Vance offers the possibility of setting aside policy differences in order to focus on an existential issue, the preservation of liberty. Principled journalists have left the mainstream media and are reaching viewers and readers via SubStack and other venues. Black leaders are openly aligning with this unity effort, acknowledging that the-powers-that-be have not aided their communities.
If we win this fight, we will see that rebuilding with new tech and new tools will open major possibilities in education, finance and more. To get there, however, we absolutely must set aside all tangential policy differences and focus instead on what is key for flushing out and cutting back the Beltway ecosystem. Be very clear: That ecosystem will not go down without a fight to the finish. We are very close to a Valley Forge winter of our own. But the means are there for potential victory if we keep our eyes on the key.
Posted by: Omoluger Ulising2352 || 10/23/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:



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