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The American Dream

• If The Trucks Stop Running, It Won’t Just Be A Gasoline Shortage That We Are Facing…

  Our enemies now understand that you can completely paralyze America by taking out just a handful of pipelines.  Even though all of us knew that any gasoline shortages were just going to be temporary, the shut down of the Colonial Pipeline caused...

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• Could The Wildly Out Of Control Violence In Jerusalem Spark A Major Regional War In The Middle East?

  Things have been getting more tense in Jerusalem for weeks, and Monday was the day when tensions really started to boil over.  The violence that we witnessed in the streets of Jerusalem shocked the entire globe, and it threatens to spark a major...

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• Welcome To The Socialist Paradise Of California

  If you like extremely high taxes, a ridiculously inflated cost of living, horrifying bureaucratic nightmares, rising crime rates, endless homeless encampments and “health restrictions” that make it nearly impossible to operate...

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CNET

• There are already deals on Amazon's new Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 8 - CNET

  Save $25 when you preorder one of the new smart displays along with a Blink Mini camera.

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• CDC says vaccinated people don't need masks in most cases - CNET

  The agency updates its guidance for fully vaccinated Americans, saying they can safely go maskless both indoors and outdoors. There are still some restrictions though.

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• PS5 available right now at Best Buy - CNET

  Hurry up, they're going to go quick.

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Dandelion Salad

• The Revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat, by Birrion Sondahl

  by Birrion Sondahl Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad May 13, 2021 “Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and...

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• Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan

  by Kenn Orphan Writer, Dandelion Salad Halifax, Nova Scotia May 12, 2021 I have anxiety in my heart tonight. I have friends in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, and I am truly fearing for them. Several of them have...

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• Attention Feedburner Email Subscribers, by Lo

  by Lo Editor, Dandelion Salad May 11, 2021 Please use the Follow button to sign up for the WordPress email subscription as Feedburner is shutting down its email subscriptions in July, 2021. Another option is to use an RSS Feed Reader to follow...

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The Economic Collapse

• It Took Just A Couple Of Days For Madness To Descend Upon America Once Gas Shortages Began

  Did you react calmly when you learned that a cyberattack against one of our most important pipelines was causing thousands of gas stations to run out of gasoline?  Sadly, lots of Americans didn’t.  There was yelling, there was screaming...

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• Do You Get The Feeling That Events Happening Now Are Leading Us Into An Endless Global Nightmare?

  2021 was supposed to be the year that life went back to normal.  Obviously that is not happening, and so a lot of prominent voices out there are going to be forced to update their narratives.  Global events have really started to accelerate...

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• Yikes! Corn Prices Are Up Roughly 50% In 2021 As Americans Brace For Years Of Horrific Food Inflation

  It sure didn’t take long for the Joe Biden era to start resembling the Jimmy Carter era.  Prices are going up so fast that even the mainstream media can’t stop talking about it.  This has already become a major national crisis, and it should...

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Eurasia Review

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  Turkmenistan: Threats Against Relatives of Dissidents Abroad

  Turkmenistani security officials have questioned and threatened a 14-year-old boy in retaliation for the outspoken views of his uncle, a Turkmen activist and journalist who lives in Turkey, four independent human rights groups said today...

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  Biden Administration Called Upon Join Basel Convention And Promote Global Environmental Justice For Waste

  Over 150 environmental and social justice organizations worldwide on Thursday called upon the Biden Administration to fully ratify the 1989 Basel Convention on global waste management as a matter of urgency in alignment with the Administration's...

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  Croatia: When Victor Tries Hard To Become Loser – OpEd

  Energetically marching to the wrong side of history The first half of May in Croatia is marked by the anniversaries of two events from the end of the Second World War. With one democratic Croatia, which, if we believe its Constitution, is built...

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Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, May 8, 2021, #300

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org George Orwell warned: “Big Brother is Watching You.” What do you think? The societal epidemic of Stockholm syndrome is worsening by the day, governments around the globe are using this to...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, May 1, 2021, #299

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The whole of the human race continues to free-fall into completely uncharted territory, societally and environmentally. Even now a shockingly large percentage of the population is clinging...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 24, 2021, #298

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The president says he has a plan to fix unfolding environmental collapse by ramping up various forms of so called “renewable energy”. How is that going so far? Is the whole renewable energy narrative...

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intelNews.org

• Swiss intelligence chief to step down following dispute over Crypto AG spy scandal

  THE DIRECTOR OF SWITZERLAND’S spy service will step down once his mandate ends in August, allegedly over a dispute with the country’s governing council about the Crypto AG affair, which shook Swiss politics last year...

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• US Homeland Security Department unveils new domestic counter-terrorism branch

  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of Homeland Security has unveiled plans to establish a dedicated counter-terrorism branch within its intelligence wing, as part of a broader push to focus on domestic violent threats...

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• US warship seizes massive cache of illicit weapons in North Arabian Sea

  AN AMERICAN WARSHIP HAS seized a massive cache of illicit Russian- and Chinese-made weapons, which were found hidden inside a small fishing vessel sailing in the North Arabian Sea, according to the United States Navy...

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Joniopolis

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  Could Your Name be an Adjective?

             Certain names sound like they should be part of our vocabulary. Take Kimberly. Kimberly sounds like gingerly and limber. It makes you think of someone graceful yet perky.  He took the stairs kimberly, eager to see his new office...

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  A Visit to the Twilight Zone

                  Have you ever had one of those days when everything goes wacko?  Okay, I suspect this happens to me more often than it does to regular people (people who do not have a craziness magnet implanted in them somehow).                ...

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  Our Latest Catastrophe

            Hey, I know this pandemic is discouraging, but throwing yourself off a roof?  Okay, it wasn’t a person who did this; it was our gigantic vine of Creeping Fig that has grown on the wall over our garage.          Yes, we woke up...

  16 days ago

Niqnaq

• who do you think is attacking the world with bioweapons?

  Russia Is Seriously Concerned About US Biolabs In Former Soviet States Andrew Korybko, One World News, May 13 2021 Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev told Sputnik earlier this week that the US is secretly developing...

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• today’s epic rant

  Digital apartheid: Palestinians being silenced on social media Omar Zahzah, al-Jazeera, May 13 2021 Southern Gaza Strip, May 11 2021. Photo: Ibrahim Abu Mustafa/Reuters In 1984, Palestinian American intellectual and Columbia University...

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• electronic intifada

  France bans rally, arrests Palestine solidarity leader Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, May 13 2021 Scandaleux ! Le président de l'@AFPSOfficiel a été conduit au commissariat du 7ème, puis menotté à 1 banc ! A la sortie de son entretien...

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• Will the UN hold Myanmar’s Military Accountable for Its Crimes against Children?

  In one particularly bloody day in March, Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least ten children, some as young as 6, in violent crackdowns against peaceful protests. Since the military seized control over the country three months...

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• Latin America & the Caribbean Assess Climate Ambition and Action Ahead of COP26

  The Dominican Republic opened the 2021 virtual Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week with a pledge to increase the country’s climate ambition by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 27 percent and maintaining progress towards...

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• Russia’s Sputnik Diplomacy

  The writer is a journalist and managing editor of Armando.info, an investigative journalism site.

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The Moderate Voice

• How America’s partisan divide over pandemic responses played out in the states

  The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have widened the partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans on health care. John M. Lund Photography/Getty Images Julie VanDusky-Allen, Boise State University and Olga Shvetsova, Binghamton University...

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• George W. Bush’s Warm Embrace for Immigrants to U.S. (Book Review)

  Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants by George W. Bush; Crown Publishers 2021; ISBN 9780593-136966; 208 pages including appendices; $38. By Donald H. Harrison TMV Columnist –If this book’s title, Out of the Many, One...

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• McDonald’s-owned U.S. restaurants boost pay to lure new workers

  By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp announced on Thursday a 10% average hourly pay raise at the nearly 660 U.S. restaurants it operates, joining the industry’s scramble to lure workers back into kitchens and dining...

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Mother Jones

• If You Are Vaccinated, You Can Go Without a Mask in Most Situations. The CDC Now Says So!

  (Some) sense of normality is finally, officially here: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated can go most places, both inside and outside, without a mask—and they can stop...

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• Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country

  In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for Republican state legislators...

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• South Carolina Is So Desperate for Executions That Firing Squads Have Become an Option

  For 10 years, South Carolina was unable to execute anyone because the state couldn’t secure the drugs used in lethal injections. Initially undeterred, when the drug supply began running low, lawmakers approved the electric chair as an...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Worst drought in 40 years hits southern Madagascar

  Parts of southern Madagascar are under the worst drought conditions since at least 1981. The region is now in its fifth year of drought which wiped out harvests and hampered access to food. In three months to January 2021, there was less than...

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  Lake Cuitzeo, the second-largest lake in Mexico dries up

  At the end of April 2021, drought conditions were covering 85 percent of Mexico. Numerous lakes and reservoirs have dried up, or are in the process of drying up, including the country's second-largest body of freshwater -- Lake Cuitzeo. Before...

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  Bay Area under extreme drought and wildfire risk as California dry spell worsens, U.S.

  The latest version of the federal United States Drought Monitor map has put much of California's San Francisco Bay area under the extreme drought, as of Thursday, May 6, 2021. The dry conditions also placed almost 3.7 million ha (9.3 million...

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WebMD Health

• Exercise Helps the Heart, But Can Manual Labor Hurt?

  Physical activity is essential to maintain and improve health, but some research has suggested that physical activity required at work may not provide the same benefits and may even increase heart risk...

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• CDC: Vaccinated? You Don't Need a Mask Indoors

  People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are no longer required to wear masks or physically distance, regardless of location or size of the gathering, the CDC announced today.

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• Coronavirus Lingers in Penis and Could Cause Impotence

  Coronavirus infection is already known to damage blood vessels, and vessels that supply blood to the penis appear to be no exception.

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WhoWhatWhy

• How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Retired Brass Spread Election Lie ; Zimbabwe Will Let Trophy Hunters Shoot Elephants ; and More Picks 5/13 The post How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic appeared first...

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• Ron DeSantis: The Sunshine State’s Dark Vision of the GOP’s Future

  Reading Time: 5 minutes The Florida governor is Donald Trump with a Harvard JD. Now he’s riding the wave of COVID denial, voter suppression, and authoritarianism to a White House bid. The post Ron DeSantis: The Sunshine State’s Dark Vision...

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• COVID-19 Raises the Stakes in Vegas

  Reading Time: 4 minutes Opulence and eye-catching neon lights dominate the Las Vegas landscape, but just beneath the glitter lies a much different, dour place. While tourists pack the Strip, people experiencing homelessness crowd the nearby...

  10 hours ago