[The Federalist] In the absence of any religious sense of meaning in life, substitutes rush in to fill the void.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at Villanova professor Vincent Lloyd’s tale of being canceled by his summer seminar students. There would have been an element of tragedy if he had suffered real loss, but as he endured nothing worse than a few unpleasant weeks of teaching, the story is a comedic masterpiece.
The seminar was an intense and selective program for high school students; the curriculum was largely devoted to studying anti-black racism. The course ended with a majority of Lloyd’s students declaring, among other accusations, that "the seminar perpetuated anti-black violence" and that Lloyd, who is a black academic with a CV filled with anti-racist bona fides, "was guilty of countless microaggressions."
A left-wing black professor teaching an anti-racism seminar being denounced by his own radicalized students is an invitation to schadenfreude, especially because, as he put it, "Like others on the left, I had been dismissive of criticisms of the current discourse on race in the United States." Mugged by reality indeed — though by the standards of social justice mobs, he got off easy, with his job and reputation still intact. Now he describes the sort of anti-racism that took over his class as a "cult" and argues that "Pushing anti-racism to its limits, what we reach isn’t just hollow doctrine, but abuse."
Lloyd blames the radicalization of his students primarily on one of his teaching assistants, a young black woman who is a "recent graduate of an Ivy League university, mentored by a television-celebrity black intellectual." His analysis of how her influence, combined with the program’s intensity, in which the students were constantly together and largely isolated from the rest of the world, encouraged radicalization, is convincing — but only to a point. It’s not just the force of personality, or peer pressure, that resulted in his students expelling peers as racists and turning on the professor.
But Lloyd does not address the deeper appeal of the radicalism he encountered. Why is this cult, as he calls it, winning converts, especially among the privileged? After all, wokeness is the language of the elites, not the streets.
An answer to this question may be unexpectedly discerned in a recent piece by Caitlin Moscatello, which discusses the travails of wealthy New York women who have found that climbing to the top is exhausting, and trying to stay there is expensive and exhausting. Moscatello reports that the FX show "Fleishman is in Trouble" has resonated with "the women in Manhattan and Brooklyn anxiously holding on to whatever rung of the success ladder they’ve managed to grasp," as well as those who feel like they lost their identity by leaving the city for the suburbs.
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I belong to the cult of common sense. There are many followers, actually, but we are invisible and understand all too well that all the other cults want to suppress us most of all.
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I will happily remain the cult of "GET OFF MY LAWN."
#9
^ I just finished reading Guinn's book. I like his stuff and was curious to see how he would do with this event. I think he mostly got it. Undertrained, gung-ho feds looking to defend their budgets and turf. Some of Koresh's followers seemed frightfully deluded. Tinder and a match.
Recommended.
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I started this post and diverted to research Khrushchev. Because he said we would destroy ourselves from within. Take out religion and that opens the door for anarchy. Putin of all leaders sees this and promotes religion, family so as to provide social order. Visiting that Khrushchev site for review I was attacked and directed to site to recover my stolen information. This is our world today. One con game after another. Political or hackers. I have watched this for nearly three years and I only see attacks on the rise. Digital currency- terrible exposure.
#3
Top down move example; "A panel of Canadian lawmakers has called for the country’s assisted suicide program to be extended to minors, even in cases where their parents object to the decision to end their lives."
[substack] One of the most troubling consequences of the COVID-19 vaccines are the implications for airline safety-- there have been numerous harrowing cases recently involving airline pilots having heart attacks or dying, which, almost resulted in a catastrophe .
A strong case can be made that much of what we have seen with the COVID-19 vaccine policies and mandates were beta-tested by the Department of Defense (DoD) with the remarkably dangerous anthrax vaccines 20 to 30 years ago.
Although maintaining the health of pilots is critically important for the military, continuing the anthrax vaccine program took priority over the pilots’ welfare.
Observing how the military handled these issues is thus quite instructive for comprehending the gross malfeasance that can be seen in the U.S. government’s current actions.
INTRODUCTION
Now that the narrative is beginning to shift, those who supported it are grasping for reasons to explain their incorrect decisions to support lockdowns, uphold the denial of early treatment for COVID-19, and advocate for perpetual vaccine mandates. For example:
The first widespread plea for amnesty for past vaccines misconducts, argued that "we didn’t know", and cited the lack of data to justify the nonsensical approach that was taken to handling the pandemic.
The second such plea from Scott Adams essentially said that those who chose to oppose the narrative had won a coin flip and got lucky with the choice they followed.
The most recent plea was a bit more honest, but still shared many of the issues seen in the previous ones, and refused to acknowledge the key mistakes that were made.
I, in turn, have identified two characteristics that kept some people from being pulled into the narrative early on, and in many cases, one without the other was not sufficient to prevent a person from vaccinating (e.g., I know quite a few people who had serious objections to the childhood vaccine program, but nonetheless chose to receive a COVID vaccine).
First, the majority of people utilize the "social proof" heuristic, whereby they typically make decisions based on the experiences of their peers. The social proof heuristic (commonly associated with the Asch experiments) helps to explain why a nonsensical message being widely disseminated throughout the media, rapidly results in many members of the public then adopting it, and why the medical profession can often become incapable of seeing evidence that challenges a prevailing orthodoxy.
Conversely, there is always a minority of the population who do not require social proof to make decisions, and they will typically be the first to adopt a new trend (such as buying a stock before everyone else catches on and its value skyrockets). I have found that virtually every individual I’ve gotten to know who bucked the COVID-19 narrative has shared this personality trait.
Second, the same types of crimes tend to be perpetrated repeatedly on the public, so those who become wise to them are less likely to fall for them in the future. In the case of COVID-19, almost every single misdeed that we saw transpire had played out in the past (e.g., RFK has done a remarkable job bringing attention to what Anthony Fauci did in the early days of HIV, and how he used an almost identical script for COVID-19). Because of this, if you can learn what transpired before, you can prevent it from happening again, and putting a spotlight on these longstanding issues is a key focus of The Forgotten Side of Medicine.
In addition to the early days of AIDS, one of the most important precedents for the COVID-19 response was the largely forgotten anthrax vaccine debacle.
GULF WAR SYNDROME (GWS)
The Gulf War was a rapid and overwhelming victory for the United States that had very few battlefield casualties for our armed forces. However, soon after the war, almost 36% of soldiers (approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 who served) came down with a debilitating illness that eventually came to be known as "Gulf War Syndrome (GWS)." Initially, the military gaslighted the veterans by insisting that the illness was due to stress (which for many reasons was nonsensical), and then introduced a variety of contradictory studies to explain what else could be causing GWS.
Although a case can be made for many of the potential causes of GWS, by far the strongest case exists for the experimental anthrax vaccination campaign that was conducted during the Gulf War. This is because GWS was almost nonexistent in the other nations who participated in the Gulf War but did not vaccinate their troops, and an illness identical to GWS was observed in troops who were vaccinated but never left the United States (including those who were vaccinated a decade after the Gulf War).
In addition to the COVID-19 vaccines, a few other vaccines that were administered to the general population were dangerous enough to provoke widespread resistance to their use. The original smallpox vaccine (which frequently failed to work) had a catastrophic rate of injuries and inspired one of the largest protest movements of the era a century ago to end the vaccine mandates (which ultimately played a critical role in ending smallpox). In recent times, smallpox vaccination has been reserved for the military, where its use was halted due to the significant adverse events it created.
First approved in 2006, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (which, like the COVID-19 vaccine, was approved based on fraudulent clinical trials that concealed many adverse events by gaslighting the trial participants) caused a large number of injuries once it entered the market. This, in turn, required the government to utilize a similar playbook with the COVID-19 vaccines so that they could continue being sold.
I believe that a primary mechanism for vaccine injury is their ability to impair circulation (e.g., by causing blood cells to stick together), something most frequently observed in the most dangerous vaccines (e.g., the spike protein made by the COVID-19 vaccines causes this to happen). Once you know how to identify these injuries, you can frequently observe subtle neurological deficits arising from microstrokes in vaccinated individuals. One of the most striking effects attributed to the anthrax vaccine (I do not know of any other vaccine where this was observed) was that children of vaccinated mothers were born without limbs, a birth defect known to arise from significant circulatory impairment to the fetus (and it is now advised to avoid the anthrax vaccine in the first trimester of pregnancy).
Despite those strong contenders for the most dangerous vaccine, as this article will show, a good case can be made that the anthrax vaccines were the most dangerous vaccine ever administered to a large number of people. The scheme used by the military to conceal their adverse events and gaslight the injured is thus quite useful for understanding how the COVID-19 vaccines were orchestrated. Read the rest at the link
#2
The 1976 Swine Flu vaccine disaster was another example of bad experiments on the military. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200918-the-fiasco-of-the-us-swine-flu-affair-of-1976
At least now, we’re experimenting on everyone.
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[Motorious] A new report from Cox Automotive highlights what many of us already know: used car prices continue to fall overall. The company found that while wholesale used vehicle prices increased 2.5% from December to January, the Manheim Used Vehicle Index saw a 12.8% decrease from January 2022 to January 2023. In other words, the market is trending downward.
Learn why lower car prices might not be a relief to everyone here.
Of course, there’s a lag between wholesale and retail price shifts, and not every used model is dropping in value as quickly as others. That said, Cox didn’t find a single market segment that bucked the downward trend on prices for January. While pickup trucks were the least effected segment, they still saw an 8.4% drop. It wasn’t that long ago that used trucks were commanding big bucks, so that might be coming to an end.
Compact cars saw the second-smallest price adjustment at -10.7%, perhaps signaling that people are buckling down for rough economic times by acquiring more affordable transportation. That take is further reinforced by luxury cars taking the biggest hit at -14.9% and SUVs/CUVs right behind at -14.8%. SUVs and crossovers also commanded top dollar during the pandemic, while plenty of people snatched up luxury cars supposedly because they were getting that dream ride to cross off a bucket list item just in case.
On the retail side of things, Cox observed a 16% increase in all vehicle sales for January 2023 and a 5% increase for used cars versus January 2022. As prices come down, it will be interesting to see how sales continue to be affected, but it’s easy to guess they will overall increase. At the same time, the Federal Reserve has signaled it will continue to hike rates, leading banks to follow suit, so anyone borrowing money to purchase a vehicle won’t have as much buying power. In other words, yet again cash is king as the cost of borrowing skyrockets.
The market is volatile, prices continue to fall overall, and there was a bump in sales for January. With plenty of uncertainty in the world these days, it’s difficult to say what the rest of the year will bring.
#7
Shops I have seen are experiencing very poor business activity for repairs. Some say refunds will perk things up. Last year $40000 set aside to keep help didn't last long. Some speak of closing. Parts supplier said his commercial business was 6,000 a day. That is respectable but he has a niche client who does most of that purchasing. Now in some states you cannot renew your registration on an older vehicle.
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Seems in today's world young people don't want a car, just use Enterprise rental. Many cannot afford to maintain cars properly. I remember a young lady driving a truck requested brake fluid because her caliper was bad. She could not afford a repair.
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BUT !!!
Will Auto Insurers also drop and return to Pre-Panic rates?
In our case, the Good Hands, after being with them accident free since 2004, became so greedy (a 12.5+/-% increase) we had to get Flo to now handle it.
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Used Cars was a hilarious movie. Kurt Russell was great.
Agreed. Someone on Barstool Sports noted that this movie came out at the same time as Airplane! and probably doesn't get the credit it deserves because it got muscled out.
#12
Trailing daughter #2 and her adorably tall husband have been working from home in Dallas since early in the pandemic. Once they were confident that was going to be a thing for a while, they gave up their second car. In March they’ll begin working from home in Chicago, in a neighbourhood within walking distance of all sorts of public transportation. She’ll fly to Dallas for the occasional in-person meeting, and may give up the second car if the cost of keeping it is greater than the cost of renting one when needed — neither of them is sentimental about such things, nor worried about possible disasters where private transport is urgently needed.
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We gave up the second car when I retired. When there are conflicts, we rent - a few times a year. The one car seems to be nicer and traded in more often.
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We gave up the second car when I retired.
Don't come to my place, then. You'd get the vapors by the time you see the 4th 'second car' (which happens to be a relatively rust-free '79 K3500 carbureted 4-speed stick that starts and runs every time) in the shed.
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[WSJ] As many Americans struggle to put food on the table, The Wall Street Journal proposed an idea this week: Instead of Biden taking responsibility for his destructive public policy, you should just skip breakfast.
Titled "To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast," the article analyzed three popular breakfast foods — eggs, juice, and cereal — and offered explanations for why they cost significantly more since last year. According to the Journal, eggs are up a whopping 70 percent, frozen orange juice is up more than 12 percent, and cereal is up 15 percent since just one year ago.
Why the crippling increases? The explanations were as plentiful as they were diverse: avian flu, bad weather, citrus disease, dead chickens, and Vladimir Putin.
Global food supply includes a myriad of liabilities and moving parts, and of course, a drop in supply will play in role in rising prices. But the Journal neglected to mention perhaps the most important contributor to Americans’ economic woes: Biden’s apparently limitless federal spending.
Ukraine aid in 2022 alone totaled $113 billion, and Congress plans to send at least $47 billion more this coming year. Under Biden’s new $1.7 trillion spending spree, he plans to inject more dollars domestically into an economy still recovering from government-imposed Covid lockdowns. Appropriations include increased funding for food stamps, utility bill assistance, childcare, Medicaid, and more.
[ZH] Sometimes things must get worse before they get better. To completely remodel a kitchen, for instance, you must first demo and gut the old one. These initial steps backward can be demoralizing.
But there’s no way around it. And with perseverance and an ample budget, the ultimate result is usually a big improvement.
Similarly, remodeling a tired company requires making short term sacrifices for long term gains. The initial efforts can produce ugliness. And with the lives and livelihoods of employees on the line, the decisions can be emotional. Yet sometimes it must be done.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently told investors that 2023 will be the "year of efficiency." If you recall, the company RIFed 11,000 workers in November 2022. The scuttlebutt is that more layoffs are coming.
Currently, the prospect of imminent layoffs is triggering uncertainty about what projects will go forward, what will be cancelled, and who will be working on them. This has created an interim situation where some Meta employees are getting paid to do zero work. Strangely, for Meta to become more efficient, it must first be less efficient.
Still, Zuckerberg is clear on his objective. In Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings call on February 1, the CEO noted:
"We’re working on flattening our org structure and removing some layers of middle management to make decisions faster, as well as deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive."
And in a recent all-hands meeting, Zuckerberg — again — put middle managers on notice:
"I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work."
Perhaps this is harsh. But it’s true.
Moreover, when you get down to it, Zuckerberg is a real technology geek. And he’s recognized that many of his cohorts, in the company he founded, are something else.
REAL TECHNOLOGY GEEKS
Real technology geeks, if you’ve ever met one, don’t care about days off or benefits or what the latest social justice cause is. They care about programming and coding new applications and platforms that create something cool and elegant.
Real technology geeks, compelled by an idea, are on a mission. With singleness of purpose, they close the blinds, turn off the lights, pull up their hoodies, and get wired in. Then they crunch and code for 72 hours straight, pausing only to chug Red Bull energy drinks.
Real technology geeks are who created Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Samsung, Tesla, Salesforce, Oracle, and others. They’ve left their fingerprints on all aspects of modern life. Good and bad.
But like any growth industry, be it the auto industry of the mid-20th century or the technology industry today, at some point the growth overshoots the future value. The point of overshoot, however, isn’t discernable when it first happens. The momentum and rush for market share obscures it. Sometimes it can be obscured for decades.
During the latent overshoot period, the industry becomes occupied by pretenders. Over the last decade, for example, technology companies were unwittingly filled with fake technology geeks who demanded free lunches and fat paychecks. Rather than driving technology into the next frontier, they occupied their time posting memes and feigning outrage on social media.
These fake technology geeks concentrated into middle management positions. There, they didn’t have to do work of any meaningful value. Instead, they made staffing plans and delivered performance reports up the management chain.
It was a lot of fun while it lasted. Nonetheless, the techno poser era is over. In fact, it has been over since mid-2022.
TECHNO POSERS
Zuckerberg marked the end of the techno poser era during a June 30, 2022, remote meeting. There he announced he wanted to remove Meta employees who are "coasting" or low performers. "Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here," he remarked.
Many of Zuckerberg’s employees — particularly, the techno posers — thought this was a real hoot. New memes soon appeared on Workplace, including: "Coast, Coasters, Me," a play on Meta’s "Meta, Metamates, Me" mantra.
Other enterprising employees created posters for the walls at Meta’s headquarters asking, "Should you be here?" in bold, all-caps red letters. "Look at this dude coasting," wrote one employee above a picture of Zuckerberg hydro-foiling on a lake while holding the American flag.
Apparently, Meta’s vast collection of techno posers had not the faintest inkling of what was going on. This was best characterized during the Q&A part of the meeting. Here, The Verge fills in the details:
"’Hi there,’ the first prerecorded employee question started. ’I’m Gary, and I’m located in Chicago.’ His question: would Meta Days — extra days off introduced during the pandemic — continue in 2023?
"Zuckerberg appeared visibly frustrated. ’Um... all right,’ he stammered. He’d just explained that he thought the economy was headed for one of the ’worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history.’ He’d already frozen hiring in many areas. TikTok was eating their lunch, and it would take over a year and a half before they had ’line of sight’ to overtaking it.
"And Gary from Chicago was asking about extra vacation days?
"’Given my tone in the rest of the Q&A, you can probably imagine what my reaction to this is,’ Zuckerberg said. After this year [2022], Meta Days were canceled."
As for the terminated techno posers, do they have the skills to pay the bills?
One techno poser, Bailey, has started a side hustle flipping real estate. She says she only has to work one to two hours a week to make money. Impressive. Maybe it will work out for her.
But what about the other techno posers? The one’s that like to tell others what to do rather than do real work themselves. What will they do?
Naturally, there’s only one thing they can do. They’ll go into government work. There they can get paid for telling other people — including you — what to do. And they can feel good about doing it.
#2
To completely remodel a kitchen, for instance, you must first demo and gut the old one. These initial steps backward can be demoralizing.
Personally I always found the demolition to be the high point of the process... looking forward to watching Google/Facebook/Apple going thru that cleansing
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With singleness of purpose, they close the blinds, turn off the lights, pull up their hoodies, and get wired in. Then they crunch and code for 72 hours straight, pausing only to chug Red Bull energy drinks.
#6
The age of the coding cowboys is pretty much over. Code is one thing AI will probably do well, as it does not involve lots of "social consciousness" orientation.
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#7
One group that won’t be whacked is the censors, the ones who did it or knew about it. Witnesses have job security.
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For those who prefer listening to reading, this article can be listened to at the link.
[Dawn] Acclaimed author and veteran journalist Ahmed Rashid on Saturday said Pakistain lacked a coherent policy to tackle the resurgence of the banned Death Eater group Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP).
After the TTP called off its ceasefire on November 28, Pakistain has been hit by a wave of terrorism, mostly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, but also in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... town of Mianwali, which borders KP. Terror attacks have also reached as far as Islamabad and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Rashid addressed the issue of rising terrorism in a panel discussion held on day two of the Karachi Literature Festival. The panel was moderated by Amber Rahim Shamsi, director of the Centre of Excellence in Journalism, and also included South Asian scholar Michael Kugelman.
The session was convened in the backdrop of a book by Shahid Javed Burki, ’*Pakistain: Statecraft and Geopolitics in Today’s World*’, but Friday’s Karachi Police Office siege by the TTP overtook the discourse.
Addressing the Karachi attack, Rashid said repelling terrorism was the army and special forces’ job and not the police’s. He also pointed out that the state was without a "coherent policy" on the matter.
"We’re using the wrong forces to combat terrorism and we are not really explaining what our policy is — are we talking to the Taliban or are we attacking and bombing them?"
He blamed former army chief and president Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ...former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date. They'll hang him if they can catch him... for the "chronic situation" of simultaneously talking with and attacking the Taliban.
"We still don’t have a counter-terrorism policy or what it entails. We are not prepared to mobilise the public in support of a policy because there is none," he said, adding that Pakistain needed to go a long way for the struggle against terrorism to turn out in its favour.
"What has happened to the hundred coppers killed in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... attack?" Rashid asked, recalling the attack in a mosque in the city’s Police Lines area. "They have gotten lost in newspaper pages."
KUGELMAN SAYS TTP RESURGENCE NOT A RECENT PHENOMENON Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... Kugelman said the TTP’s resurgence in Pakistain was not a recent phenomenon, even as he agreed that the group gained momentum in August 2021 after the Afghan Taliban took over Afghanistan post-US withdrawal.
"It’s true the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has ensured Pak terror group strength, but they have been actively operating as various factions and splinter cells," he said.
Speaking on Pakistain-US relations, he said that the former needed to understand that it was not as strategically important for the latter "as people in Islamabad think it is".
"Often the country also feels left out but that’s because it places itself with China," he said, adding that the US was not going to say it publicly, "but that’s what’s going on in Washington at the moment."
"Pakistain has not been at the foremost in the US mind after we pulled out of Afghanistan," said Kugelman in response to a question posed by Rashid. "However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the floods have made Pakistain relevant again globally," he added.
LIKENING IMRAN’S PTI TO MODI’S BJP AN ’OVERSTATEMENT’
The panel also discussed the parallels drawn in Burki’s book between former prime minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... ’s PTI and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... both Kugelman and Rashid termed it an overstatement.
There were a few similarities between their ways of leading their supporters and "cashing in on popular support", Kugelman said, but he added that to liken the two is a bit of an "overstatement".
"Is Imran Khan the new Bhutto?" Shamsi asked Rashid, drawing from the book where Burki writes he was with Imran when, during a power show, the latter claimed he would "sweep the polls like Bhutto did with his support".
Rashid said Imran was "famous for his u-turns", adding that even if he enjoys popular support, "nothing is there for the people".
Responding to another question, he said Pakistain had "narcissistic leaders" in place who feel the masses owe them favours, but "really they don’t do anything for the people in terms of peace restoration or economically".
"Nobody even wants to talk to the next person while the country suffers," he rued.
[Gateway] Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano sent The Gateway Pundit, Tucker Carlson, and America a message regarding the secular state and the church of the environment, that have served to destroy the presence of the Catholic Religion in society, replacing it with the Luciferian paganism of the New World Order (NWO).
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganon shared with us all a video and a text, in which he comments on the recent Tucker Carlson monologue regarding the Church of the environment.
He says that Tucker’s point of view is very interesting and deserves to be used to demonstrate how the secular state has served to destroy the presence of the Catholic Religion in society, replacing it with the Luciferian paganism of the NWO. He says:
We must continue our common efforts to publicly denounce with determination the coup of the globalist sect, because our very survival is at stake."
#3
Most retired bishops don’t say much. I think Archbishop Chaput has made one significant statement. I bet they wish they had kept Vigano on the payroll doing coordination of liturgical calendars for the Solomon Islands.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Motorious] A new report from Cox Automotive highlights what many of us already know: used car prices continue to fall overall. The company found that while wholesale used vehicle prices increased 2.5% from December to January, the Manheim Used Vehicle Index saw a 12.8% decrease from January 2022 to January 2023. In other words, the market is trending downward.
Automobiles are expensive and bad for the environment. Use government funded public transportation and save ! 
...former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date. They'll hang him if they can catch him...
