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  • The Two Minute Hate in George Orwell's "1984" as Reflection on Trans-Sexuals' Perception of Mainstream Homicidal Intent

    05/14/2024 2:43:26 PM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 3 replies
    self | 05-14-2024 | CharlesOconnell
    Transexuals think we're after them, so they are developing the intention to come after us first. There is a long history of Jussie Smollett type, self-poised persecution-perception among trans-sexual and homosexual activists, devolving down ultimately to the fact that they are unable to force approval for their lifestyle, beyond maintaining the "we're born this way" argument. A year ago, the straw man was Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the Nashville Christian School shooter. There is some disagreement about the reasons for keeping their manifesto confidential: The school, the victims' families and the trans community feel it is an issue of damping down...
  • The Worst Economy to Ever Exist: Zimbabwe

    05/14/2024 1:21:27 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 22 replies
    – Contents of this video -------------------------------- 00:00 - The Broken Economy 03:12 - Company Property 06:40 - Rich but Not For All 09:25 - The Breadbasket of Africa 11:25 - Gukurahundi 13:26 - Buying Support 17:21 - How to Destroy an Economy 22:13 - Hyperinflation 25:50 - The Perpetual Crisis
  • Europe's Secret Third World Country

    05/14/2024 12:44:17 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 7 replies
    Casual Scholar ^ | 31/10/23
    How Moldova Became the poorest country on the wealthiest continent. – Contents of this video ---------------------------- 00:00 - A Kidney for Fuel 04:19 - The Crossroads of Empires 07:39 - The Empire's Orchard 13:52 - Transition to Destitution 25:50 - Grand Theft Moldova
  • Instant karma: Sex attacker tries to grope female train passenger… and then loses his arm when tram hits him during scuffle with crowd who came to the victim's aid in Germany

    05/14/2024 12:30:37 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 35 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | May 14, 2024 | Staff
    A sex attacker who tried to grope a female train passenger ended up losing his arm when a locomotive hit him during a scuffle with a crowd that came to the victim's aid. A 22-year-old man from Tunisia tried to kiss and grope a woman, 25, on a tram in the German city of Stuttgart in the early hours of Sunday, according to the federal police. Other passengers rushed to the victim's aid and left the train with her assailant at the next stop at Oesterfeld station in the city's Vaihingen district. A scuffle between the Tunisian, a second man...
  • Man ordered to hide his boat has vessel painted on new fence

    05/14/2024 11:36:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    UPI ^ | May 14, 2024 | Ben Hooper
    May 13 (UPI) -- A California man ordered by his city to conceal the boat parked in his driveway with a fence hired his artist neighbor to paint a photo-realistic image of the vessel in an act of rebellious compliance. Etienne Constable said the boat he uses for fishing was regularly parked in his Seaside driveway for about four years before he received a letter from the city informing him of a municipal code requiring boats and trailers to be "screened on the side and front by a six-foot-high fence." Constable said his initial reaction to the letter was anger,...
  • Archaeologists Unearth New Clues That Could Help Solve Centuries-Old “LOST COLONY” MYSTERY

    05/14/2024 10:54:18 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 37 replies
    The Debrief ^ | May 14, 2024 | Micah Hanks
    In 1587, John White and a group of approximately 115 English settlers landed on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina. The colony they sought to establish marked the second attempt to create a long-term presence in the New World under the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh, who instructed them to establish a city bearing his name in the vicinity of the Chesapeake Bay. However, much like the earlier failed effort under Governor Ralph Lane in 1585, White and his fellow colonists soon began to face challenges that included strained relations with the region’s Indigenous inhabitants. With hopes...
  • 140 Illegal Immigrants Riot Charges Dismissed While 950 January 6ers Remain In Jail

    05/14/2024 10:43:08 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 17 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | May 14, 2024 | Bradlee Dean
    Today in America, we see where the government, both federal and state, are treasonously alluring illegals to come into this country (Article III, Section 3 U.S. Constitution). In the process, these illegals are bringing with them drug trafficking, human trafficking, murder, rape, attacks on the American military, attacks on America’s police, etc.
  • A “Restaurant Apocalypse” Is Starting to Sweep Across America, and That Is Really Bad News for the U.S. Economy

    05/14/2024 8:40:24 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 87 replies
    Discern Report ^ | May 14, 2024 | Michael Snyder
    (The Economic Collapse Blog)—You can get a really good idea how the U.S. economy is doing by watching restaurants in your area. When the economy is booming, restaurant parking lots are full and chains are feverishly establishing new locations. But when the economy is struggling, restaurants get a lot less traffic and poor performing locations get shut down. Sadly, in 2024 it appears that a “restaurant apocalypse” has started to sweep across America. Most people have very little discretionary income to spend as a result of our cost of living crisis, and that is particularly true for our young adults....
  • Texas murder suspect runs victim over twice before kissing, stabbing his limp body: VIDEO

    05/14/2024 7:31:20 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 13, 2024 | ABC TV- 7
    Texas murder suspect Karon Fisher was seen running over victim Steven Anderson twice before kissing and stabbing him on Woodridge Square Drive. https://abc7chicago.com/post/houston-... VIDEO AT LINK...................
  • Teen accused of firing 26 shots from AR-15 at car is released on bail by ‘woke’ judge

    05/14/2024 7:07:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/14/2024 | Emily Crane
    A “woke” Washington, DC, judge is facing backlash after he opted to cut loose an 18-year-old accused of firing more than two dozen rounds from an AR-15 into a car full of people. Lloyd U. Nolan Jr., a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, last week ordered Amonte Moody to be released on house arrest ahead of his trial — despite acknowledging that the teen’s alleged actions could have killed someone. Moody, who was slapped with charges including assault with a dangerous weapon, had allegedly sprayed 26 shots at an SUV carrying four people on Independence...
  • Tuesday War Room, 10AM-Noon & 5-7PM ET

    05/14/2024 6:46:08 AM PDT · by 4Liberty · 5 replies
    America’s Voice News ^ | 05/14/2024 | Stephen K. Bannon
    PM 4Liberty, if you want On/Off this listhttps://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voicehttps://americasvoice.news/Tune in via Roku/AppleTV/AmazonFire with the America’s Voice App https://americasvoice.appLIVE STREAM all Bannon shows & find past episodes here: https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom | https://americasvoice.news/playlists/the-war-room/
  • Biden 2.0 – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    05/14/2024 5:38:05 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 51 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 13 May, 2024 | Stephen Moore
    Could a second Biden term be more injurious to the economy than his first term? It seems unimaginable given the first three years gave us 20% inflation, a $2,000 loss in average real incomes for the middle class, 6 million added illegal immigrants, a war on American energy that has caused gas prices to rise by more than 40% to $3.64 a gallon, the collapse of our many major cities, another $6 trillion added to the national debt, the unaffordability of new homes, and the chaos on college campuses. So what’s the encore to that abysmal performance? What will Bidenomics...
  • The Strange Career Of George Soros

    05/14/2024 4:57:08 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 38 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 13 May, 2024 | David Lewis Schaefer
    The news that billionaire philanthropist George Soros, along with the heads of other munificent nonprofits like the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, has been financing the increasingly violent demonstrations by Hamas supporters on American college campuses appears to confirm, in an ironic way, an oft-repeated myth about the operation of America’s Constitutional order. The myth is that by using their wealth through campaign contributions or the promise of future employment, rich people induce government to adopt policies that favor their economic interests, at the expense of the poor and middle class. Of course, the allegation that the wealthy benefit disproportionately from...
  • Riot Tactics Redux - A veteran officer explains how police should incorporate lessons from 2020 in responding to pro-Hamas campus unrest.

    05/14/2024 4:33:32 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 14 replies
    City Journal ^ | 13 May, 2024 | Christopher F. Rufo
    The City of Seattle has long been a laboratory for the radical Left. Activists experiment with concepts, language, techniques, and policies that eventually appear in other cities. For this reason, Seattle law enforcement often gets early insight into the evolving tactics of left-wing street protesters. The city’s officers have had decades of experience dealing with Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and anarchist movements, which culminated in the George Floyd riots of 2020. To understand the latest chaos at American universities, I spoke with Christopher Young, who served as an officer and detective for the Seattle Police Department, including working undercover for...
  • The Biden Anti-American Legacy

    05/14/2024 3:43:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 14 May, 2024 | Allan J. Feifer
    Biden’s legacy will be unique in American history, for no president will ever have left America in such terrible shape. Never before has an American president been so physically unstable that he needs an accompanying entourage wherever he walks. That shakiness is a visual metaphor of Biden’s presidency. He represents a departure from previous presidents in being the only president who leaves voters doubting whether he is actually in charge and wondering why a frail 81-year-old, broadly despised man is being pushed to run again, even as most don’t believe he’s capable of completing that term if elected. Biden came...
  • Volcanic ash proves cheap and highly effective for solar energy storage

    05/14/2024 2:27:30 AM PDT · by Jonty30 · 34 replies
    www.newatlas.com ^ | May 14, 2024 | Loz Blain
    It's rarely great news when an area gets blanketed in volcanic ash – but University of Barcelona researchers have discovered it has a rare combination of useful properties, which make it remarkably useful as an energy storage medium. We've written a number of times about super-cheap thermal energy storage, and a number of other times about highly efficient heat batteries operating at super-high temperatures. The cheapest of these 'brick toasters' use the most abundant of materials, and the most efficient can handle extraordinarily high temperatures using materials like liquid tin and carbon materials – but volcanic ash, as it turns...
  • Permit controversy sinks planned Pittsburgh Pride festival move to Point State Park

    05/13/2024 7:49:53 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 10 replies
    Triblive ^ | 5/1/24 | Julia Felton
    Controversy is flaring over this year’s Pittsburgh Pride festival after event organizers claimed that state officials prevented them from holding the annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community at Point State Park in the Golden Triangle. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which runs the park, countered that there were problems with the group’s permit application. Pittsburgh Pride had announced in January intentions to host the annual celebration at Point State Park. On Tuesday evening, however, organizers wrote on social media that they were forced to change plans “in response to unforeseen circumstances.”
  • After Miss Teen USA Stepped Down, the Runner-Up Says She Doesn’t Want the Crown Either

    05/13/2024 6:21:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 13, 2024 | Jeanette Settembre
    After Miss Teen USA, UmaSofia Srivastava, stepped down last week, the runner-up — Miss Teen New York, Stephanie Skinner — told The Post that she doesn’t want the crown either. “I ultimately came to the decision to decline it,” Skinner, 19 and from New Hartford, New York, said. “I didn’t feel like it was the right decision considering all the circumstances.” Over the past week both Srivastava, 17, and Miss USA, 24-year-old Noelia Voigt, abdicated their titles, while Miss USA Organization social media manager Claudia Michelle also resigned from her post. Sources told The Post that the women had been...
  • How To Destroy An Economic Giant

    05/13/2024 2:35:15 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 3 replies
    Casual Scholar ^ | 1/3/24 | Casual Scholar
    – Contents of this video ---------------------------- 0:00 A Century of Underachievement 4:11 The Land of Silver 9:29 The Power Vacuum 11:16 The Pampas 14:42 As rich as an Argentine 19:30 The Decline of Liberalism 23:46 The Infamous Decade 27:20 The Rise of Populism 29:49 Isolation & Favoritism 36:31 Dynamic Stagnation 42:25 Fear, Secrecy and Sweet money 49:40 Democracy & Depression 57:33 A Nation Trapped by History
  • Are weight-loss meds the next wonder drugs?

    05/13/2024 12:18:35 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    FreeThink ^ | May 13, 2024 | Kristin Houser
    GLP-1 agonists may be able to treat addiction, prevent Alzheimer’s, and more. This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox by subscribing here. If the COVID-19 vaccines were the most significant FDA approvals of the 2020s so far, GLP-1 agonists to treat obesity are a strong runner up. Though these drugs have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that the FDA approved one of them — Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) — as a treatment...