China is building up its nuclear weapons arsenal; January 6 Prisoner Shares Horror Stories of DC ‘Gulag’; The High-tech Lynching of America...more

China is building up its nuclear weapons arsenal faster than previous projections, a US report says The report released Thursday also warns that China may be pursuing a new intercontinental missile system using conventional arms that, if fielded, would allow Beijing “to threaten conventional strikes against targets in the continental United States, Hawaii and Alaska.”

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January 6  Prisoner Passes 1,000 Days Jailed Without Trial, Shares Horror Stories of DC ‘Gulag’...Physical assault. Months of solitary confinement. Filthy cells crawling with cockroaches   He described Jan. 6 prisoners being deprived of family visitation, suffering months of solitary confinement, constant shifting from one facility to another while shackled, spending months with no sun, having lights on all night (thus preventing sleep), and being deliberately denied haircuts and shaves.

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Beyond Orwell: The High-tech Lynching of America  

In many ways social media has taken the place of the town hall, the marketplace, and traditional media. Whatever the cause, whether government agencies who have direct portals to convey one-sided information to social media, or NGOs like the Election Integrity Project, when they block, cancel, or deplatform voices and information, the result is a narrowing of the range of acceptable thought. This censorship is of course a violation of First Amendment free speech. Worse, it is an assault on the Constitution and a betrayal of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Poll: More Americans Than Ever Have Zero Trust In Media 

Media Spread Hamas Hospital Hoax to Create More Violence 

Whatever you think of CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Google, Apple, the BBC… It is so much worse.

Remember the good ole’ days when we lived in a country where no one had the answer to this baffling question: How could something like the Holocaust happen?

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How Stupid Is the White House? They Literally Doxxed a U.S. Special Forces Team 

This is not the first time the White House has been careless and revealed the identities and locations of people they should not have in order to get a compelling photo op of Joe Biden. Of course, the entire botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was done with the goal of getting a 9/11 photo op to boost Biden’s presidency.

Some on social media are questioning whether the doxxing was an accident or deliberate. I don’t know the answer to that, but, sadly, given the kinds of people that serve in the Biden administration, I can’t exactly discount the possibility it was intentional.

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Victor Davis Hanson: “Allow Israel to Defend Itself From Pre-Civilizational Murderers”  In response to the implicit messaging of our “allies” and the Islamic street, we do need to stop the empty rhetoric, but in the Jacksonian ‘don’t tread on me’ sense: vastly increase our defenses, prepare for the worst, return to maximum fossil fuel production, stop importing oil and hatred of America from the Middle East, cease unrestricted immigration and yank visas, enforce our immigration laws—and allow Israel to defend itself from pre-civilizational murderers.

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American Federation of Teachers Affiliate Endorses Violence Against Israel  You know the American Federation of Teachers, right? The execrable Randi Weingarten’s organization worked hard to ensure that American schoolchildren were as harmed by COVID-19 school closures as was humanly possible.

How the educated elites became Hamas apologists  The actions of the anti-Israel left are far more significant than mere culture-war fodder. They are dead canaries in a coal mine. They are a telling sign that rich nations are eating themselves alive. And that the supposedly most enlightened, peace-loving, diversity-celebrating generation in history has adopted values that are totally hostile to reason and tolerance.

We are far more lost as a society than any of us could have imagined.

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German FM announces 50 million euros in aid for Gazan civilians 

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Covid and the Expansion and Abuse of State Power 

The Covid years witnessed the biggest expansion of state power in the history of Western democracies, accompanied by the most serious curtailment of civil liberties, political freedoms, and individual rights. All institutional checks on overreach and abuse of executive power – legislatures, the judiciary, human rights machinery, professional associations, trade unions, the Church, and the media – turned out to be not fit for purpose and folded just when they were most needed.

State governments collect the DNA of nearly every newborn baby in the US. Most parents don't even know  Most new parents have no idea that by the time they leave the hospital with their newborn, a sample of their child’s blood has already been sent to the state government. Depending on the state, the government may store and use their child’s blood for anywhere from months to indefinitely – and not only is it legal, it’s actually mandated by law.

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“It took my breath away.” —Dr. Drew on the new study shows 50% of young men who got myocarditis after the vaccine now have permanent heart damage and he doesn’t understand why this isn’t front page news. And he recommends injured students sue any school that mandated it. pic.twitter.com/rlUgKhCS2l

— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) October 19, 2023