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[Townhall] Mauricio Garcia, 33, maintained a profile on the Russian social networking platform OK.RU., which included posts referencing extremist online forums such as 4chan and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic white nationalist provocateur.
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"One Affliction That Is All Too Common With Mass Killers"
Their Therapists need to be interviewed.
What's the commonality btwn the therapists?
Is there a connection btwn therapy provided and the weaponization of those with poor mental health? This vector is not thoroughly understood.
[Daily Reckoning] After extended and painful deliberation... we have arrived upon an unshakeable conclusion:
The most dangerous human being on Earth is the ideological human being.
It is the ideological human being — the human being set aflame by theory and belief — that most menaces our individual and collective happiness.
For the ideological man would wreck the world before he would see his ideology wrecked.
This is the man with theories. This is the man with ideas ricocheting throughout his skull. This is the man married to and devoted to abstractions.
It is the ideological man who is hot to "make the world safe for democracy"... to "save the planet"... to yell that a biological man can in fact be a woman and that a biological woman can in fact be a man... to hug the theory that spending trillions of dollars into existence will not yield an inflation... that the solution to a debt crisis is the creation of debt greater yet.
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I thought it was anybody who stood for the National Anthem at lunchtime.
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I thought it was some old guy that wanted me to drink Mexican beer.
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Hose, he was "interesting". Must be true, I seenit on TV.
(BTW, the Dos Equis Amber is actually pretty good. Not the green bottle light that they were pushing.)
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I think its a mental incompetent in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth, with the economies of other nations depending upon that powerful nation, with the security of other nations depending upon that powerful nation, and he's more concerned with nearly starting a nuclear war as long as it covers up massive corruption.
[Modern War Institute at West Point] As recently as March, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, described a "grinding, attritional war in which neither side has a definitive military advantage." Britain’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, was recently quoted cautioning realism, saying, "There is not going to be a single magic-wand moment when Russia collapses." The Russians believe much of the same, calculating that they can hold off Ukraine defensively and play the waiting game until launching another offensive when Western support has waned.
But what if all of this turns out wrong? What if Ukraine ends up routing Russian occupation positions relatively swiftly and effectively, with the Russian military in a hopeless retreat?
Given recent reporting, it is not altogether clear that the United States and its allies are fully prepared for such a contingency, which, although perhaps less likely than the alternatives, is not as unlikely as many may think; and if leaders are not prepared, they should start preparing now, so as to avoid finding themselves on the back foot in a crisis of significant consequence
------------------- we weren't prepared for the banking crisis
we weren't prepared for the collapse of the Afghan Army
we weren't prepared for deep inflation.
of course we are not prepared
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Given the lack of preparation at all levels of government, mistakes were inevitable and to be expected...
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Yes. All the "intelligence community experts" who missed the fall of the Soviet Union, were positive about "Russian interference" in elections and knew, just knew the Hunter Biden laptop was a "Russian disinformation op." Everyone who was sure Swillary was a "shoe-in."
The "top men" are batting .000
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Not only do they bat .000 but they all seem to play for everyone BUT us....time to downsize.
[Daily Reckoning] These are the days of grasping for excuses. In sector after sector, leaders who gave us lockdowns and all that followed are trying to account for their actions, not apologizing of course but admitting that, in the classic formulation, mistakes were made.
That said, they all agree on the core point. The government had to take big steps to deal with the pandemic.
A book just released from the original lockdown gangsters (about which I will write more later), a book celebrated by the Washington Post as the authoritative account, puts it this way:
"American leaders entering the Covid war plunged ahead with a breathtaking political and social experiment. Facing a dangerous pandemic, they adopted the broadest, most ambitious, and intrusive set of government controls on social behavior in the history of the United States. Given the lack of preparation at all levels of government, mistakes were inevitable and to be expected, perhaps even excusable."
Excusable is the new watchword, and Anthony Fauci has picked it up. In a recent interview, he admits that many things went wrong but adds: "I don’t think anybody would argue with the fact that you had to shut down."
He meant well.
FREEZER TRUCKS AS PROPAGANDA TOOLS
Then he adds what he clearly considers the key talking point. We know because he has said this is in several interviews. He says that the obvious disaster of freezer trucks at hospitals signaled and proved the desperate need for lockdowns.
Notice too how CNN had a terrifying graphic ready to run alongside his comments. This still is particularly evocative with the Statue of Liberty in the background, not that anyone would suggest that this was staged (he said with a nudge).
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
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For a comprehensive 'deep dive' into the topic, I recommend Alex Berenson's 'Pandemia.'
Page 109:
"By early April 2020, Americans said they believed they had a 25 percent chance of dying from the coronavirus if they were infected. That was about one hundred times the actual risk. While they perceived risk fell slightly over time, it remained around 12 percent until the poll ended in 2021. Women, who were less likely to die than men, believed their risk was higher."
"Even more stunning people under forty said they believed their risk of death was about one in five. For most of them, the estimate was off by a factor of at least ten thousand."
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.
[Daily Reckoning] After extended and painful deliberation... we have arrived upon an unshakeable conclusion:
For a comprehensive 'deep dive' into the topic, I recommend Alex Berenson's 'Pandemia.' 
