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“Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty.”
Posted by M. C. on April 5, 2024
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The U.S. Attempt To Rule The World Needs To Be Abandoned Before It’s Too Late
Posted by M. C. on April 4, 2024
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Refusing To Stop War In Ukraine! — Even If A Re-Elected President Trump Wants To Stop It
Posted by M. C. on April 4, 2024
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Biden Halts Attempts To Refill SPR As Oil Price Soars
Posted by M. C. on April 4, 2024
“We will not award the current solicitations for the Bayou Choctaw SPR site and will solicit available capacity as market conditions allow,” the department said. “We will continue to monitor market dynamics.”
The capitulation follows a surge in crude prices, with WTI on Tuesday rising above $86 a barrel for the first time since October.
How many hundreds of billion$ to Ukraine, $A and I$rael? What about US?
by Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-halts-attempts-refill-spr-oil-price-soar
More than a year ago, we laughed at the thought that the Biden admin would actually follow through with its promise to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when oil fell below $80, which in turn prompted area idiots to really rub it in our face when WTI tumbled as low as $73.
WTI is $73 now https://t.co/lqzYBr9S9Q — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) November 16, 2023
In retrospect we were, of course, right (and area idiots will continue failing upward until finally someone gives them the old rugpull) because even though WTI did indeed spend a few months below $80 before exploding back up again, this is how much oil the Biden admin purchased to refill the SPR after it intentionally drained it in 2022 to limit the surge in gas prices. Can’t see it? It’s highlighted in the yellow circle (yeah, no wonder you can’t see it).
And now that WTI is back to $86 and the Biden admin has completely missed its window to add some more oil to the SPR besides the token several hundred barrels here and there, the Biden administration has capitulated and today announced it won’t move forward with its latest plans to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid rising prices.
According to Bloomberg, Biden’s Energy Department said it was “keeping the taxpayer’s interest at the forefront” in its decision not to purchase as many as 3 million barrels of oil for a Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Louisiana. The plan for the barrels to be delivered in August and September had been announced in mid-March. It has now been canceled meaning that the already dismal rate of SPR refill will now flatline for the foreseeable future, at least until the NBER admits the US is in a recession.
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The Great Escape from Government Schools?
Posted by M. C. on April 4, 2024
John Taylor Gatto, New York’s Teacher of the Year of 1991 (according to the New York State Education Department), observed, “Government schooling…kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.”
by Jim Bovard
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-great-escape-from-government-schools
After enduring bullshit school shutdowns during the COVID pandemic, many students concluded that school itself must be bullshit and have skipped attending classes. Government bureaucrats are panicking since subsidies are tied to the number of students’ butts in chairs each day. Duke University Professor Katie Rosanbalm lamented that, thanks to the pandemic, “Our relationship with school became optional.”
School absences have “exploded” almost everywhere, according to a New York Times report last week. Chronic absenteeism has almost doubled amongst public school students, rising from 15% pre-pandemic to 26% currently. Compulsory attendance laws are getting trampled far and wide.
The New York Times suggested that “something fundamental has shifted in American childhood and the culture of school, in ways that may be long lasting.” Connecticut Education Commissioner Charlene M. Russell-Tucker commented, “There is a sense of: ‘If I don’t show up, would people even miss the fact that I’m not there?’” The arbitrary, counterproductive school shutdowns destroyed the trust that many families had in the government education system.
The New York Times reflected the tizzy afflicting education bureaucrats across the land: “Students can’t learn if they aren’t in school.”
Like hell.
So kids are not enduring daily indoctrination to doubt their own genders? So kids’ heads are not being dunked into the latest social justice buckets of fear, loathing, and guilt? So kids are not being drilled with faulty methods of learning mathematics to satisfy the latest Common Core catechism and vainly try to close the “achievement gap”? A shortage of indoctrination is not the same as a shortfall of education.
More than seventy years ago, University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins aptly observed, “The tremendous waste of time in the American education system must result from the fact that there is so much time to waste.” John Taylor Gatto, New York’s Teacher of the Year of 1991 (according to the New York State Education Department), observed, “Government schooling…kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.”
My view on school absenteeism is shaped by my dissident tendencies. Government schooling was the most brain deadening experience in my life. Early in elementary school, I relished reading even more than peanut butter. But I was obliged to put down books and listen to teachers, slowing my mental intake by 80% or 90%. By the time I reached fourth grade, my curiosity was fading.
Between my junior and senior years in high school, I lazed away a summer on the payroll of the Virginia Highway Department. I came to recognize that public schools were permeated by the same “Highway Department ethos.” Teachers leaned on badly-written textbooks instead of shovels. Going through the motions and staying awake until quitting time was all that mattered. Learning became equated with drudgery and submission to bored taskmasters with chalk and erasers.
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Do Americans Actually Want To Fight In A Global Conflict? — Very (Very) Few Say They Would
Posted by M. C. on April 3, 2024
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Federal court orders FDA to remove its propaganda against Ivermectin
Posted by M. C. on April 3, 2024
Courageous doctors fought back.
I wonder how many were from Erie County PA.
Federal court orders FDA to remove its propaganda against Ivermectin
The FDA is nothing but a punk two-bit shill for Big Pharma
Not an ounce of integrity in the organization
James O’Keefe reports:
Starting 2021, the FDA mounted a campaign against ivermectin – an inexpensive, Nobel Prize-winning medication that showed promising signs in the early treatment of COVID-19.
While the death toll from this campaign is difficult to calculate, the impact was far-reaching. The campaign was used as fuel to terminate employment of doctors who understood the science behind ivermectin, as well as justification for pharmacies to cease filling ivermectin prescriptions when people needed the medication most.
Courageous doctors fought back.
In 2022, doctors filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the agencies’ unlawful attempts to block the use of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19.
“We’re suing the FDA for lying to the public about ivermectin,” said Dr. Bowden, a plaintiff in the case.
The complaint directly cites US laws, including the provision that the FDA “may not interfere with the authority of a health care provider to prescribe or administer any legally marked device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship.”
On Thursday last week, the court ruled against the FDA and mandated the removal of all previous social media posts that specifically addressed the use of ivermectin for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. The posts have started to come down, including a popular one titled: “Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? No.”
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You pay rent before, during and after the mortgage.
Posted by M. C. on April 3, 2024
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The Senate Calls Out-of-Control Spending a National Security Threat, Keeps Spending Anyway.
Posted by M. C. on April 2, 2024
Congress should also pass legislation requiring any new spending to be offset by cuts in other federal spending and forbidding the Federal Reserve from purchasing federal debt instruments.
by Ron Paul
Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over 34 trillion dollars (and growing) national debt threatens national security. A few days later, a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted for a 1.2 trillion dollars spending bill. In addition to the usual increases in war and welfare spending, the bill funds gender transitioning for minors without parental consent and red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s firearms without due process.
Before passage of the latest spending bill, the Congressional Budget Orifice (CBO) released a report predicting that the national debt would exceed the prior record of 106.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2028. Interest payments on the national debt are estimated to reach 870 billion dollars this year, more than the government will spend on the military. The CBO estimates that, unless Congress cuts spending (which is highly unlikely), by 2051 interest on the debt will exceed not just military spending but spending on the two biggest items in the federal budget — Social Security and Medicare.
As Eric Boehm of Reason magazine points out, the CBO report understates how much federal spending will grow in the next several decades since it cannot predict what “crises” future congresses and presidents will exploit to ramp up federal spending. As Boehm suggests, someone projecting 30 years ago how much government would spend in the future would not have included the increase in spending due to 9/11, the subsequent creation of a homeland security-industrial complex, the “forever” wars in Afghanistan and Iraqi, the housing meltdown, or the covid lockdown. The hypothetical budget projection would also not have predicted legislation like the Medicare prescription drug benefit or Obamacare.
The large and growing interest on the national debt puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low. The Federal Reserve’s rate increases, though relatively small, are one reason national debt payments rose by 32 percent since last year.
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The Group So Marginalized They Are Forgotten
Posted by M. C. on April 2, 2024
In all the calls to remember the “marginalized,” one group that doesn’t even get mentioned is boys. Yet marginalized they are.
I have been seeing ads put out by a conservative organization urging us to protect girls and women who want to play sports but are devastated to realize that they will never be able to compete against biological males—boys declaring themselves to be girls and barging in on the girls’ teams. When we ignore the basic facts of our biological nature, the voice-over says, “it is always women who suffer the most.” It’s not just that the girls are disappointed or frustrated. One of them points out that it puts college scholarships at risk.
Meanwhile, Catholics have heard of another wolf in the garb of shepherd, this one a Belgian bishop who admitted fourteen years ago that he had gotten into a habit of sex play with one of his nephews and then with a second one for good measure. I wonder whether the only reason why we know the sex of his victims is that English does not have a general word for the child of your sibling. To be sure, the peculiar nature of the harm he did to those boys is not to be discussed, not to be considered, perhaps not to be conceived.
Instead, as the collapse of healthy relations between men and women continues to accelerate, given fresh impetus by the anonymity and unreality of the internet, Catholic attention is to be focused on gay couples presenting themselves for blessings in church. For they are the “marginalized.”
Thirty years ago, Camille Paglia, a lesbian who likes men and an atheist with a sense of the proper power of religious faith, had a good laugh at liberal Presbyterians trying to be hip as they gutted Christian sexual morality but did not want to admit that that was what they were doing. They tried to dress it up with nice, old-ladyish sentiments, stipulating that of course we should be caring and gentle and respectful. Organdy covers a multitude of sins.
They, too, brought up the “marginalized,” a word that Paglia said she detested, reading it always as margarinized. For Paglia was, unlike the Presbyterians, quite aware of the terrible power they had invited into their midst, and she was not going to pretend they could tame it with good feelings. I am reminded of the words of Christopher Marlowe: “Love is not full of pity, as men say, / But deaf and cruel where he means to prey.” You do not make margarine out of blood.
It pains me to see that my Church has adopted the foolish word, and, having adopted it, applied it where everybody else does; misapplied it, rather. Boys, especially the fatherless and aimless and dispirited, get no commercials on their behalf, march in no special parades, have no special flags, are to be inspired by no special heroes, are celebrated by no one in the entertainment industry, have no advocates in the schools, no advocates in political parties, no advocates in Congress, no advocates at national conferences of bishops, no advocates in the Vatican. Marginalized? If only! They don’t even make it to the page. Boys, especially the fatherless and aimless and dispirited, get no commercials on their behalf, march in no special parades, have no special flags.Tweet This
Consider, for example, that advertisement for sanity in girls’ sports. I agree with the girls entirely. They should not be compelled to compete against boys. I feel sorry for them. And a big-boned boy galumphing down the soccer field can put them at risk for serious and wholly unnecessary injury. If we are going to have girls’ soccer, it must be for girls, and that’s it.
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