[FE] The last song the public ever saw Warren Zevon play came on October 30, 2002. It was at the request of his host, David Letterman. The song chosen wasn’t the overplayed staple of classic rock stations everywhere, "Werewolves of London," nor the Russian Mafia and Honduran exile tale of "Lawyers, Guns, and Money." Instead, it was a third song off Zevon’s seminal 1978 album, Excitable Boy, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."
Look at the liner notes for "Roland" and you’ll see Zevon sharing credits with David Lindell. Lindell wasn’t your typical Zevon collaborator, whose partners included Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and the Everly Brothers.
Lindell and Zevon met in a chance encounter in Spain, 1974, where one gig after another had led the musical expat to a bar (where else?) somewhere North of Barcelona. "The Dubliner" was then being run by what Zevon described as "a piratical ex-merc." Lindell, another American ex-pat, presented himself with a business card listing his occupations as guerrilla and mercenary soldier. They became quick friends over any number of drinks and used Mike’s gun-for-hire exploits to provide the inspiration, if not the alcohol-soaked details for the song.
For those not familiar with the work, the song tells of the eponymous mercenary from Norway signing on for his next hitch to fight in the "Congo War" where he would carve his submachine gun way across Africa before running afoul of the CIA. The Agency was jealous of his skill with a Thompson—or was it that the CIA flipped to supporting the opposing side? Ultimately, the Agency convinced one of Roland’s fellow mercs to blow his head off in betrayal.
The macabre nature common to Zevon’s work comes through in the remaining refrains as Roland’s headless apparition searches the Dark Continent for his killer before finding him in a Mombasa bar and returning the favor, taking out his Brutus in a hail of ghostly gunfire. The song gives the headless Roland no rest though and sends him on to haunt the world’s conflicts "Sympathy for the Devil"-style from Ireland to Palestine to Patty Hearst and the then current SLA terrorism.
Simply because Zevon was working with someone claiming to have firsthand experience in such matters, didn’t mean he was shy in taking a little poetic license. The .45 caliber Thompson had been widely used by the US in WWII and it became as commonly distributed as any other effective fighting tool, seeing use by both sides in the Arab-Israeli war of ’48, by the Chinese in Korea, Castro’s revolutionaries, the Khmer Rouge, and some African Nationalists such as the Patriotic Front of the Rhodesian Bush War and of course by "colonial" powers like the French in Algeria. With the OSS and SOE arming European resistance efforts with Thompsons during WWII, this combination of circumstances makes a derring-do Norwegian expertly wielding a Thompson in the heart of Africa not totally unbelievable, but not completely corroborated either.
The rest of the song also presents some fuzzy details as well. Roland sets out for Biafra, a short lived independent state carved out of and then reunited with Nigeria during a bloody civil war from 1967-1970. So perhaps the soon-to-be-headless hero got in some mercenary shenanigans there first, but it’s in the "Congo War" where Roland is sung to have spent these same years "knee deep in gore." Those dates and the location tie nicely to the first and second Mercenaries’ Mutinies led by Jean Schramme, among others. Historical accuracy gets a bit fuzzy here with Roland both battling the Bantu (the largest ethnic group in the Congo) and killing to help the Congolese.
Maybe Lindell had a bigger hand in writing the lyrics than is normally credited...Jean "Black Jack" Schramme was not just another restless gun, but a true citizen of the Congo who viewed himself as a "white African" and having lived and worked there for the 20 years of his life prior to taking up arms. Any mercenary fighting alongside Schramme, who saw Congo independence and the UN backed expulsion of settlers as antithetical to what was best, might certainly take the view that they were on the side of the "true" Congolese—which appears may be the case with Lindell and his fictional creation.
Whether Roland was a complete fiction, or some closely held amalgamation of Lindell’s experiences and Zevon’s prodigious imagination may not be answerable.
With Zevon lost to us some 20 years ago and David Eric Lindell taking one more queue from Roland, possessing a wraith-like footprint and leaving his status and whereabouts unknown, maybe any tale of mercenaries, guns, bars, murder, revenge, Africa, and ghosts, deserves a bit of mystery to remain and I bet both would agree.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vivek Ramaswamy spoke Monday night about his departure from the Department of Government Efficiency, leaving it in the hands of Elon Musk before it even gets off the ground.
Ramaswamy, 39, sat down with Fox News' Jesse Watters and teased a future run for state office - as he's widely expected to announce an Ohio gubernatorial bid.
Watters joked that Ramaswamy was leaving DOGE 'after like three Scaramuccis' and asked him what happened, as it was previously reported that Musk wanted him out. 'Scaramuccis' are a unit of measurement based on the extremely short, 11-day tenure of Trump White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.
'Well, the reality is, I'm pursuing an elected office very shortly. We will have an announcement soon,' Ramaswamy answered.
Watters then asked Ramaswamy about the rumors that he and Musk weren't getting along.
'I think that's incorrect,' Ramaswamy replied. 'But what I would say is, we had different and complementary approaches.'
Watters also asked Ramaswamy straight up if Musk had fired him.
'It's - no, we had a mutual discussion,' the 2024 Republican hopeful answered. 'And I think I wish him well.'
Ramaswamy further explained their 'different' approaches.
'I focused more on a constitutional law, legislative-based approach,' he said. 'They focused more on a technology approach, which is the future approach.'
'No better person to lead that technology, digital approach than Elon Musk,' he offered.
'But when you're talking about a constitutional revival, it's not just done through the federal government, it's done through federalism, where states also lead the way,' he continued. 'So I will have to be saying more on that very shortly Jesse, But that's going to be my next stop.'
He also claimed that he and Musk were 'on the same page.'
'Divide and conquer,' he explained. 'In saving the country, it's not a one-man show from the top down or the bottom up. It's all of the above. And that's what I'm for.'
Ramaswamy further teased an Ohio governor's bid by saying he was flying back to the Buckeye State later Monday night.
'We look at the country over the last 20 years, Silicon Valley was at the bleeding edge of the American economy. I think the Ohio River Valley can be at the bleeding edge of the American economy for the next 20 years,' he said, readying his pitch to voters.
'People leaving this state from New York or California, right now, they go to Florida or Texas,' he said. 'I think places like Ohio should be where they're headed in the next couple of decades.'
Watters said the weather in Ohio might even improve over the next few years.
'All right, if global warming keeps happening, it's going to get really nice and sunny in Ohio,' the Fox News anchor said.
Ramaswamy, if he announces, will follow Ohio's Attorney General Dave Yost into the Republican primary.
They will be vying to replace the term-limited GOP Gov. Mike DeWine.
Ramaswamy ran in the 2024 GOP primary against Trump but when he fell short in the Iowa caucuses last January he quickly endorsed and campaigned for the now-president.
Without him, Musk's DOGE has hit the ground running much like the rest of the Trump administration in the first week on the job.
DOGE has set to work removing the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council website from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Novikov
[REGNUM] January 27 is the anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad. The date is not a round one: Russia and the world celebrated the 80th anniversary of the final liberation of the city last year, in 2024. But for the descendants of those who survived the siege, the "beauty" of the date is of no importance.
Every year on the anniversary of the beginning of the blockade, September 8, and on the day of liberation, January 27, residents of St. Petersburg and Leningrad remember those who did not survive the 872 days of the continuously ongoing catastrophe, and those who defended the city on the Pulkovo line and the Nevsky patch, worked and shared with their loved ones the crumbs of the rations they received from their work cards.
IA Regnum assessed those who condemned the city of almost three million to starvation, and told in detail about the feat of the soldiers of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts. Today the author will share the story of his family, in order to show the everyday life of blockaded Leningrad using its example.
Our family keeps the story of our grandmother, Maria Nikolaevna Sapikova. She was born during the Civil War, in 1918, into a peasant family. Her parents, Nikolai Fedorovich and Pelageya Ilyinichna, had a traditionally large family - two sons and four daughters. The memory has been preserved that great-grandfather and great-grandmother "ran a single-handed household" - with a cow, a horse and pigs.
In Leningrad, in the pre-war years, Maria Nikolaevna first worked in the printing house named after Evgenia Sokolova (by the way, before the revolution this printing house was named after Marx, but not Karl, but Adolf Marx, a publisher and teacher), and eight years later - at the Printing Yard, where she typeset school textbooks. Including in Finnish - for the Karelo-Finnish Republic and, who knows, perhaps for Finland that was never Sovietized.
In August 1941, when the Wehrmacht on one side and the Finnish army on the other were approaching Leningrad, Maria Sapikova was sent along with thousands of Leningraders to dig trenches and fortifications near the regional center of Kingisepp.
The first weeks and months of the blockade - autumn and early winter - were spent on "public works": Maria Nikolaevna told how she dismantled wooden houses for firewood, cleared snow, cleaned roads, kept watch on the roofs of houses, and put out incendiary bombs.
Her older sister Elizaveta worked in the city (our family lived on the outskirts, almost in a village) at a defense plant and - fortunately, her health allowed it - donated blood at donor stations.
Then, in the first days of the blockade, the first sad news arrived - the ex-wife of Maria Nikolaevna's older brother died from a shrapnel wound - she went to the market in our outlying area of Novaya Derevnya and came under fire.
Brother, Alexander Nikolaevich, was at the forefront of the Leningrad Front at that time. He still had to go through the Great Patriotic War to Victory and take part in the war with Japan. Their little three-year-old daughter Irina lived with her grandmother, Pelageya Ilyinichna, throughout the blockade.
But the family was facing their first winter of the siege. They hid from the bombings in makeshift shelters, something like trenches (there were no bomb shelters on the outskirts of Leningrad, in the Novaya Derevnya area), and they also had to go to the river for water - in our case, we went to the Bolshaya Nevka with buckets. The windows were covered with blankets, and the rooms were lit by small oil lamps. The meager rations in the family were divided among brothers, the best piece was given to the children.
For "grammiki" - bread rations, we went to the bakery in Serebryakov Lane at six o'clock. Our family was saved by the fact that everyone was actively working, even the dependents: Elizaveta, Maria's older sister, went to babysit the neighbors' children, Elena carried water for people, the boys chopped wood in other people's yards. It was also saved by the fact that the family, living on the outskirts, was not exactly city people - they worked in the vegetable gardens, "on potatoes and vegetables", in the hayfields they prepared fodder for the cattle
Winters were more difficult. At first, during the blockade, the family had to make do with what was left from their own reserves of their subsistence farming; later, they ate bran and "duranda" - pressed bars made from what was left over from flour production. Essentially, cake.
This "duranda" could be steamed in a saucepan, and it turned out to be something like porridge. The cake, from which they baked flat cakes, is mentioned in many blockade memoirs - there were stories that even during the "two famines" - the hungriest winters of the blockade - some managed to save grains from the 10-gram "ration" of sugar, add them to the "duranda", and it turned out to be something like candy for children.
But death from hunger, cold and disease was close by - and it was not a figure of speech. The family remembers the poems from the blockade cycle by Olga Berggolts:
On children's sleds, narrow and funny,
They carry blue water in saucepans,
firewood and belongings, the dead and the sick...
Grandmother Maria also recalled these children's sleds, on which Leningraders carried the bodies of the dead. Often people simply did not have the strength to walk to the cemetery, they could leave the sled with the deceased relative in any yard, so the family always locked the gates closer to evening.
In the second year of the blockade, our "peasant" house on the outskirts was dismantled for the needs of the army, and the large family had to move to the center - to a five-story apartment building No. 90 on Bolshoy Prospekt Petrogradskaya Storona. After the move, the family's situation became more complicated: if earlier they could somehow rely on their own farm, now any additional opportunities were cut off.
And the ration was, as is known, only 125 grams of bread (often with the same cake) per day for employees and dependents, and 250 grams for workers. Some of the relatives were evacuated from the city. Olga, one of my grandmother's sisters, was seriously ill and taken to Kazan, but died there in 1943. Her little daughter Tamara remained in Leningrad with her grandmother. Tamara's father, Grigory Sheloukhin, died of starvation in 1942, and is buried at the Serafimovskoye Cemetery.
The head, the "patriarch" of the family - great-grandfather Nikolai Fyodorovich Sapikov - died of hunger, and great-grandmother Pelageya Ilyinichna became the head of the family, she strictly ran the household and always fairly divided the bread. Despite all the horrors of the blockade, she managed to raise both granddaughters and save their lives. And great-grandmother Pelageya also helped the front as much as she could: she sewed underwear and warm clothes for the soldiers.
Just as women now, including in St. Petersburg, are helping the SVO - weaving camouflage nets, making trench candles, collecting the same warm clothes...
As Grandmother Maria recalled, this responsibility for the survival of loved ones helped to preserve oneself as individuals. But on the other hand, this same responsibility itself could become the cause of death, along with hunger, disease, and death from almost daily German shelling.
In the spring of 1943, when the blockade seemed endless, a disease specific to the city was registered in Leningrad, which often resulted in death.
At least every third person dying in Leningrad died because of it. Doctors called this disease "the consequence of slow bombing." It is a special kind of hypertension - "high blood pressure from continuous nervous tension - the result of continuous shelling and bombing. A person may outwardly almost completely not react to shelling and bombing, he may be able to control himself perfectly, but his nerves live independently of his spirit. And what's more: the better a person "controls himself", the more intensely and calmly he works, the greater the chances of his nerves and blood vessels becoming unusable."
Perhaps the family was also supported by the belief that “our people” would return alive from the front and from evacuation, and after the German ring was broken. The family’s “defense” was largely undermined by the news that Maria’s younger brother, Nikolai, who went to the front in 1942 at the age of 18 and served as a signalman, went missing the following year. But they still believed that he would be found and send a message… The fate of the great-uncle is still unknown; only a few letters from the front remain from him.
But the dream of family reunification has largely come true.
My grandmother's twin sister, Elena, completed nursing courses at the beginning of the war and went to the front. She went through the entire Great Patriotic War, the Soviet-Japanese War, saved the lives of hundreds of wounded soldiers, for which she received many awards. In 1946, she returned to Leningrad. She lived to see the 30th anniversary of the lifting of the siege and the 30th anniversary of the Victory. But soon she died suddenly - heart...
Our family chronicle does not claim to be unique: every family in St. Petersburg can share their own story about the Leningrad blockade. The testimony that was heard at the Nuremberg Tribunal: 632,253 blockade survivors who died, 97% of whom were killed by hunger and died of disease - this testimony will never become "just statistics" for us.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Pavel Kiselev
[REGNUM] "In January 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, revealing to humanity the truth about the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices, who exterminated millions of Jews, Russians, Gypsies, and representatives of other peoples. And we will always remember that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this terrible, total evil, and won a Victory, the greatness of which will forever remain in world history."
With these words, President Vladimir Putin addressed the participants and guests of the memorial ceremony on January 27, dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army. Better known by its Polish name, Oswiecim.
On the same day, the Russian Ministry of Defense released documents from its archives— testimonies of prisoners and reports from Red Army soldiers—including those who opened the gates with the inscription Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work sets you free”).
"Each camp (of the five concentration and death camps in the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex) is a huge area surrounded by a fence of several rows of barbed wire, above which run high-voltage electric wires... Endless crowds of people, liberated by the Red Army, are walking from this death camp. Among them are Hungarians, Italians, French, Czechoslovakians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Romanians, Danes, Belgians. They all look extremely exhausted, gray-haired old men and young men, mothers with infants and teenagers... Many are maimed, bearing traces of torture, traces of fascist atrocities."
These are quotes from one of the first testimonies about the tragedy of Auschwitz - a report by a member of the military council of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Lieutenant General Konstantin Krainyukov, sent to a member of the State Defense Committee, Georgy Malenkov.
Here, in the “folder” of published documents, is a report from the political directorate commission of the same 1st Ukrainian Front, compiled in the heat of the moment in February 1945:
"During the period of mass arrival of trains, the Germans did not have time to send everyone to the gas chambers and burn them in crematoria. In connection with this, periodically, and in 1944 almost continuously, in parallel with the crematorium, the burning of corpses, and often living people, especially children, on huge fires took place. (…) The smoke and glow from the fires were visible for many kilometers."
"During 1944, up to 200 people were burned weekly. The fascists put all the sick people in cars, sent them all to gas chambers, poisoned them, and then burned them in ovens," the officers of the political department of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian wrote down the words of the prisoners.
We are talking about documents stored in army archives. But let us emphasize that after rescuing 8,000 surviving prisoners, the Soviet Union sought to inform the world as soon as possible about what happened from May 1940 to January 1945 on the half a thousand hectares that the Nazis had turned into a “branch of hell.”
We should remember with kind words the author of “The Tale of a Real Man”, war correspondent Boris Polevoy during the Great Patriotic War, who was among the first journalists to visit liberated Auschwitz.
"Thousands of people in strange striped clothes were running towards us from all sides," Polevoy testified. "They stumbled, fell, jumped to their feet and ran again, gasping for breath, waving their arms, laughing and crying at the same time. And from them, these martyrs of Auschwitz, saved from death by the Red Army, we learned what kind of smoke was spreading over the camp, enveloping the area and filling the chest with a heavy stench."
This is how a Soviet journalist told the world about crematorium ovens disguised as “lice killers” and “showers”.
Polevoy’s reports from 1945 and his article “Smoke of Auschwitz”, prepared by the Soviet Information Bureau for the Nuremberg Trials, were translated into European languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak, French, English.
But the strange thing is that in the West, in Britain and the USA, the Soviet side's reports (including Polevoy's report) were considered "exaggerations" of Soviet propaganda. Prime Minister Winston Churchill called them "fabrications, of which there are many during the war." He did not believe that mass murders and monstrous experiments on people were carried out in the German death camps.
“Only when the Allied forces liberated Buchenwald and other death camps did they understand that everything the Soviet press wrote about Auschwitz was not propaganda, but real atrocities that Nazi executioners committed against people,” Nikolai Parkhitko, a candidate of historical sciences and associate professor at RUDN and the Financial University under the Government of Russia, told Regnum.
Nazi "experiments" in the industrial extermination of prisoners will become public knowledge throughout the world when video evidence of German "death factories" is shown at the Nuremberg Trials. However, the main criminals of Auschwitz itself will not be there: Rudolf Höss, the camp commandant, will be caught by the British military police only in the spring of 1946 and transferred to Warsaw, where he will be sentenced to death at a local tribunal. Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible for transporting prisoners to death camps and implementing the "final solution to the Jewish question", will be caught by Israeli intelligence only in 1960 in Argentina. And Josef Mengele, the main experimenter and fanatic, will die of a stroke only in 1979 in Brazil, remaining uncaught.
But by the time Eichmann and other Nazis who had long evaded justice were exposed, the Red Army's feat would already be glossed over - after all, this was what the logic of the Cold War demanded. The German and American essayist Hannah Arendt, who reported on Eichmann's trial in Israel, never once mentioned that it was the Soviet troops who saved thousands of her compatriots from death.
And the West does not deviate from this general line - to "forget" about the liberators of Auschwitz, not to mention those who made the main contribution to stopping the Holocaust machine - from this line even now. Of course, one can write off Donald Trump's recent phrase that the Soviet Union supposedly "helped" the United States defeat Nazism as the US president's ignorance of history.
But historical articles for Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which are now published, for example, by British media, try to do without mentioning the Red Army. At most, the emphasis is on the 1st Ukrainian Front, although everyone understands perfectly well that the word "Ukraine" today is not associated with either the USSR or Soviet soldiers for Western readers.
The “Ukrainian front” in the minds of the average Euro-Atlantic citizen means the “army” of an independent Ukraine that did not exist at that time.
Another direction of revision of history is the understatement of the number of people killed in Auschwitz.
"Modern Western historians, guided by political circumstances, voice the figure of 1.1 million to 1.5 million executed in the camp," emphasizes historian Nikolai Parkhitko. "But I am more inclined to believe the Soviet historian Gennady Danilovich Komkov, who based his conclusions on the data of the camp commandant Rudolf Höss: 3 million physically destroyed and 1 million died for other reasons."
3.5 million is a figure documented by Soviet experts, which is hushed up in Europe. Until 1946, Soviet historians were free to work in the so-called "accounting office" of Auschwitz, where there was a huge volume of documentation. One must also keep in mind the number of unaccounted deaths.
“But after Churchill’s ‘Fulton speech’, access to documents became the object of political confrontation between the USSR and Western countries,” notes Parkhitko.
It is possible that we are talking not about 3.5 million, but 4 million killed and those who died from "natural causes," our interlocutor believes. Parkhitko explains: "A large number of mentally ill people and gypsies were brought to Auschwitz - eight out of ten of them were without documents." These categories of prisoners, according to a number of authors, may account for approximately 500 thousand victims.
The reason for the West's desire to understate the number of dead (including the dead citizens of Western countries) is quite understandable and has long been known - complicity in crimes casts a shadow on some reputable companies.
For example, in the Auschwitz III block of camps, where the large German industrial concern IG Farben, still in operation today, produced extremely dangerous synthetic rubber, they herded everyone who could physically work. First and foremost, these were Soviet captured soldiers, but not only. People died not from crematoria or gas chambers, but from physical exhaustion, as well as industrial waste that killed their health.
Let us also recall that the same IG Farben was a co-owner of Degesch, the company that produced Zyklon B gas, which was first used in the camp on September 3, 1941. On that day, an experiment was conducted in which 600 Soviet prisoners and 250 Polish patriots were poisoned with Zyklon B in a gas chamber. This terrible torture lasted three hours - that's how long the prisoners slowly died from suffocation with the toxic drug. The camp commandants were not satisfied with the result, because the process took so long, and a large order for the product was made - the camp management considered that much more gas was needed.
There is no point in denying this fact, which was recorded at the post-war trials of Nazi criminals. Although almost immediately after the war, attempts began to remove at least some of the responsibility from Germany for the greatest crime of the 20th century. Thus, the first president of the FRG, Theodor Heuss, advocated individual, not collective, responsibility of Germans for the extermination of Jews. Now the guilt of the Third Reich and its accomplices for the catastrophe of the Jewish people is a generally accepted consensus.
Modern leaders of the countries that are the successors of the Hitler coalition, fortunately, are obliged to recognize objective facts and evidence, and cannot manipulate them. Another matter is the role of the peoples of the Soviet Union in the victory over Hitlerism, which can be “forgotten”.
Right now, events are taking place in which meetings of former prisoners with former guards are organized. Representatives from Israel, the United States, Germany and other European countries have been invited. Russia has not been invited, and that is all that needs to be known about their attitude to historical memory, notes Nikolai Parkhitko.
"About five years ago, I felt sorry for European historians who distort facts for political reasons," the interlocutor noted. But, he added, after the start of the SVO, when the revision of history became even more open and brazen, there was nothing left but shame for my colleagues.
[ZERO] Award-winning independent journalist Matt Taibbi revealed in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that communications between FBI officials and scientists related to gain-of-function research and the origins of COVID-19 is expected to one day be made public.
MATT TAIBBI: There are so many different areas where they are going to have to investigate and reinvestigate that. We just went through a period where there was mass stonewalling of Congress when it was trying to investigate what happened with COVID. There were key people like Peter Daszak from the EcoHealth Alliance, who just didn’t answer subpoenas, right? There are documents that we know exist that we’re going to get now with FBI communications between the bureau and a lot of these scientists dating back ten years. And it’s going to tell a crazy story, a really interesting story. There’s a reason why Fauci’s pardon is backdated to 2014, because that’s the time period they are going to have to start looking, which is, when did we start defying the ban on gain of function research. We clearly did. That’s pretty established at this point.
Why were we doing it? What connection did that have to the Wuhan thing? What kind of advanced notice did we get? What kind of lies were told about it? Who were responsible for those lies? What information did we get about the inefficacy of the vaccine and how did that connect to statement by the CDC and the White House? This also connects to the censorship issue in a major way because there was a massive effort to control the public conversation about this that went through the health agencies. We know they’re looking at that. And that’s another executive order, by the way, the free speech order. It directs the Department of Justice to come up with a comprehensive review of all the censorship stuff, so we’re going to find out about that. I just think COVID is a gigantic rat’s nest of stuff. Every direction they look there’s going to find something revelatory.
TUCKER CARLSON: The question is: will that information reach the public? There is these intermediaries like the media. Congressional brand investigators, executive brand investigators like DOJ, inspector generals, they are always constantly releasing reports and no one reads them because no one picks them up in the media. Do we have enough interested reporters to designate what they find?
MATT TAIBBI: I think we do because what we think of as the media is dead. They no longer really matter. The media that matters right now are people like you, Joe Rogan and other independent podcasters out there. There’s this gigantic, thriving independent media out there that turned the last election. It was abundantly clear that the old media no longer had any ability to control the narrative about anything. They’re totally discredited.
[YouTube] Patrick Bet-David reacts to President Trumps record breaking first week in office where he signed more executive orders than any president before in the the first 24 hours.
I was deeply touched by a comment by Dean B. that was made in response to one of my recent columns. https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/peter-breggin-md-offers-psychotherapy Dean described how he was afflicted by tardive dyskinesia (TD), a common adverse effect to any antipsychotic or any dopamine-blocking drugs. It causes abnormal movements that can become disfiguring and disabling, and in some cases causes dementia. It can be chronically exhausting and anxiety-inducing.
For Dean, and many others, the best introductory discussion of this global drug-induce plague can be found on my free "Antipsychotic Drugs and Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Resources Center" on Breggin.com. I have given the resource center a very simple URL for anyone who wants to go directly to it at or to refer other people to it: www.123antipsychotics.com
You may not think you’ve ever been exposed to any antipsychotic drugs, but in fact you may be taking one right now without realizing it. Seroquel is often prescribed as a sleeping aid. Abilify, Latuda, Geodon, and others are described in a misleading fashion as antidepressants or mood stabilizers by prescribers. Each of them can cause TD.
Here is a list of so-called antipsychotic drugs that cause TD: chlorpromazine (Thorazine), loxapine (no trade name), haloperidol (Haldol), aripiprazole (Abilify), asenapine (Saphris), clozapine (Clozaril), lurasidone (Latuda), ziprasidone (Geodon), quetiapine (Seroquel), paliperidone (Invega), risperidone (Risperdal), Zyprexa (olanzapine), iloperidone (Fanapt), cariprazine (Vraylar), brexpiprazole (Rexulti), and lumateperone (Caplyta).
Although sometimes controversial, lithium can also cause TD and overall is among the most dangerous antipsychotic drugs. More of these are coming out but they should have been permanently stopped in 1954 when they first came and were quickly identified as strong neurotoxins that would cause a pandemic of brain disease throughout the world, mimicking another earlier pandemic called lethargic encephalitis. See my groundbreaking scientific article on the comparison between tardive dyskinesia and lethargic encephalitis.
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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.
