The American Dream
A Highly Virulent Form Of The Bird Flu Is Starting To Spread Like Wildfire Across Several Eastern States
I know that this isn’t exactly going to be welcome news to a lot of people, but bird flu appears to be spreading rapidly in several U.S. states. Long before COVID ever came along, bird flu was one of the main threats that global health authorities...
( It was the background for lots of scary stories. Jane Bergermeister was scathing about 'inoculation' vaccine contamination from WHO and Baxter : Case Against Bird Flu. )
It’s “Game Time”: Russian Forces Move Into Attack Position As “Negotiations” Fail
How is it possible that we are suddenly on the precipice of global war? During the Cold War days, we could always count on the fact that there were competent foreign policy professionals in the United States and in Europe that could simultaneously...
- How can 'negotiations' fail when none are being attempted ? Russia has a 'red line' - another after many previous complaints were not just ignored - but any NATO reassurance was made in bad faith.
The United States Of Chaos – Crime Rates Spiral Higher And Our Politicians Are Powerless To Stop It
What in the world is happening to our country? Once upon a time, the streets of our major cities were so civilized, but today our politicians seem to have no answers as crime rates spiral out of control. The number of drug overdose deaths in...
- Portugal stopped criminalizing what people might choose to put in their own bodies. Rather drug abuse became a treatable medical problem - which no longer festered like a chronic sore. Don't you hate it when bureaucrats have built-in job security ?
CNET
5 Reasons Why Your Tax Refund Might Be Late This Year - CNET
Even if you file your taxes early, these issues could delay your refund for weeks or even months.
You Can Now Get Girl Scout Cookies Delivered by DoorDash. Here's How - CNET
You no longer have to leave your house to find a local troop selling your favorite Girl Scout cookies.
Windows 11 vs. Windows 10: Major Differences You'll Want to Know - CNET
Native Android apps are one of the many improvements Microsoft made for its new OS.
Dandelion Salad
Fascism is a Fire that Will Burn the Entire House Down, by Kenn Orphan
by Kenn Orphan Writer, Dandelion Salad Halifax, Nova Scotia February 15, 2022 This past weekend, I attended a rally in my home city of Halifax. It was organized to counter the so-called “Freedom Convoy” which continues to hold cities hostage...
Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff: The Precarious State of the US Economy
Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Feb 13, 2022 On the show, Chris Hedges interviews economist Richard Wolff on the precarious state of the US economy and its consequences. A bipartisan group of senators are crafting legislation...
American Overlord Demands Europe Sign Suicide Note, by Finian Cunningham
by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad Ireland Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, Feb. 12, 2022 February 13, 2022 The infernal danger is that Washington and London are pushing Europe and the world towards the abyss of...
The Economic Collapse
5 New Numbers That Prove That America’s Horrifying Inflation Crisis Is Getting Even Worse
If you are less than 40 years old, you have never seen inflation like this in the United States. Despite all the warnings, our politicians in Washington just kept borrowing and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars that we did not have. ...
Walmart Has Started Putting Steaks Inside “Locked Metal Cages” To Keep Shoplifters From Taking Them
Has it really come to this? We all knew that shoplifting was getting really bad all over the nation, but does Walmart really need to start locking up the steaks? I was stunned when I first learned that pharmacies in our core urban areas were...
World War 3 This Week? Now We Are Being Told That Russia Could Invade Ukraine “On Wednesday”
Are you ready for war? After four years of peace with Russia under President Trump, it has taken Joe Biden and his all-star team of warmongers just over a year to get us to the brink of World War 3. Americans have grown accustomed to wars that...
Yes, well, Americans have become accustomed to reports of imminent doom - but not of offensive and scary declarations from 'enemies.' Oh - there are none.
Eurasia Review
European Government Expansion Did Not Expand The Job Markets – OpEd
By Daniel Lacalle* For the past two years, governments in the European Union have engaged in contradictory actions by both suppressing economic growth through lockdowns and other covid-19 restrictions and simultaneously trying to “stimulate”...
A Matter Of Speed? Understanding Hypersonic Missile Systems – Analysis
By Kolja Brockmann and Dr Markus Schiller* Over the past weeks and months, ‘hypersonic missiles’ have again made headlines in global defence news. On 5 and 11 January, North Korea performed test flights of what it claims is a ‘hypersonic...
But How Do You Stop Putin And The Taliban? – OpEd
When I suggest not stealing billions of dollars from Afghanistan, and thereby not causing mass starvation and death, otherwise intelligent and informed people tell me that human rights demands that theft. Starving people to death is a means...
Geoengineering Watch
Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, February 12, 2022, #340
Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The climate engineers have continued whipping up weekly winter storms for the most populated portion of the US, the East Coast. The moisture feed for these storms is commonly coming from the...
Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, February 5, 2022, #339
Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Engineered winter weather continues to be the focus of the global climate intervention cabal for the moment. In order to create the temporary and toxic surface cool-down scenarios, other regions...
Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, January 29, 2022, #338
Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Is engineered winter weather yet again being waged on US East Coast population centers? Are the same highly toxic chemical ice nucleation surface cool-downs also the core cause of the...
intelNews.org
Dutch intelligence service warns public about online recruitment by foreign spies
While not a new phenomenon, the scope and effectiveness of Russian and Chinese online infiltration attempts have now reached a scale that has prompted Dutch intelligence to sound the alarm.
Rather sounds like that U.S. 'intelligence leak', dunnit ?
Mossad targeted cell phones ‘unofficially’ with Pegasus software, report alleges
ISRAEL’S EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, the Mossad, made unofficial use of the Pegasus spyware, whose developer has been sanctioned by the United States government, according to a report from Israel.
Russia gives indirect support to Western far-right groups: US intelligence report
THE KREMLIN IS PROVIDING “indirect and passive support” to Western neo-Nazi, white supremacist and other far-right groups, in an effort to subvert Western security, according to a leaked report produced by United States intelligence... ( Think that's any more reliable than the work of Dick Cheney's minions on Iraqi WMD ? )
Joniopolis
Avalanche!
I was in JoAnn’s Fabrics trying to buy a poster. Easy enough, right? Wrong. See the rack? See all the stacks of paper? Well, they can simultaneously decide to come tumbling out, just like snow on the face...
My Second Childhood
Let’s start with the truth: You can’t have a second childhood if you’re still having your first one. And I have never, truly, grown up. Every week I still play with the absolutely adorable little girl who lives across the street...
Beyond the Pale
Maybe it’s because I’m adopted, but I find genetics fascinating. Someone with brown eyes could have kids with any eye color. Brown is dominant, and it can conceal lots of fun surprises. I, on the other hand...
Niqnaq
electronic intifada
Washington Post cancels Palestine Michael F Brown, Electronic Intifada, Feb 15 2022 We’ve had an instructive few days in how US media look at Israeli apartheid and Palestine. Too often, they suppress. For two weeks, the NYT has failed to...
moon of alabama
Happy ‘Russian Invasion’ Day Moon of Alabama, Feb 16 2022 I woke up early today because the moon is full and I have been promised a ‘Russian invasion.’ The sky was clouded, no moon to see, and the ‘invasion’ is for some reason way less...
caitlin johnstone
“Russian Propaganda” Means Disputing US Propaganda Caitlin Johnstone, Feb 16 2022 The Associated Press has published yet another article based on unevidenced assertions by anonymous government officials about the scary horrifying...
( There's a reason I claim AP should be read as Allied Propaganda - and for a preponderance of 'unidentified government sources' )
Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service
When the Fate of Half Our Planet is being Discussed, it’s too Important to Shut out Civil Society
Over the past two weeks, a petition signed by almost five million people globally was handed in to governments around the world. It called for a Global Ocean Treaty to help rescue our oceans. Yet with governments gathering next month to discuss...
‘Our Common Agenda’: Guterres’ Open Door to Corporate Capture of the UN
On 10 September 2021, UN Secretary-General (SG) Antonio Guterres released the “Our Common Agenda” (OCA) report. This report was in response to a request from UN member states to “report back before the end of the seventy-fifth session...
WASH Interventions Key to Reaching Africa’s Child Health Milestones
For two days in a row back in 2018, four-year-old Calvin Otieno suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting, and his mother responded by giving him a salt solution. Pearl Otieno tells IPS that diarrhoea among children in Kibera, the largest urban...
The Moderate Voice
5 things to know about why Russia might invade Ukraine – and why the US is involved
Tatsiana Kulakevich, University of South Florida U.S. officials ordered most of the U.S. embassy personnel in Kyiv to evacuate on Feb. 12, as they warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come any day. President Joe Biden cautioned... ( Nuff said. Foggy Bottom has set positions on the danger of Russia for the better part of 100 years. Impartial /informed reportage is nowhere to be found.)
Russia says some troops pull back from near Ukraine, West says no proof yet
Published by Reuters By Dmitry Antonov and Sarah Marsh MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday some of its military units were returning to their bases after exercises near Ukraine and mocked repeated Western warnings about a looming...
How Should White Nationalism Be Addressed?
White nationalism and white supremacy have always been woven into the American fabric, even before the Revolution. Over the last decade however, they have grown in power and adherents. Is it possible to subsume this movement into the maw of...
Mother Jones
Dirty Dozen: The Private Equity Firms Driving Fossil Fuel Expansion
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. American private equity tycoons are profiteering from the global climate crisis by investing in fossil fuels...
States of Denial: A Guide to Some of the GOP’s Most Brazen Attacks on Voting Rights and Elections
Ahead of the midterms, Republicans have launched a full-scale assault on the election system. Fueled by the Big Lie, this attack relies upon a multi-pronged strategy of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the takeover of election positions...
This Republican Wants to Extend a Real Estate Tax Break. He Could Be a Big Beneficiary.
Tracey Mann, a right-wing congressman from Kansas, is backing legislation that could directly benefit his own real estate interests in rapidly gentrifying Austin, Texas—a move that could be, in the words of one expert, “a very serious...
The Watchers - Editor's Picks
Powerful farside eruption creates impressive coronal mass ejection (CME)
A powerful eruption took place on the farside of the Sun at around 22:23 UTC on February 15, 2022, creating an impressive coronal mass ejection (CME). This is one of the largest CMEs of Solar Cycle 25. The source region for this event is beyond...
Multiple landslides hit Gisborne, two large slides in Southern Alps, New Zealand
Heavy rainfall brought by the passage of Ex-Tropical Cyclone "Dovi" caused numerous landslides in New Zealand, some of which were notably large. The southern end of the East Cape Road sustained serious damage in the heavy rain, and it may be...
Starlink satellites falling from the sky caught on videos
Starlink satellites are falling from the sky after a G1 - Minor geomagnetic storm hit Earth just a day after they were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 3, 2022. Preliminary analysis shows that the storm caused significantly...
WebMD Health
Third Person Living With HIV Has Been Cured by Transplant
Before now, only two people, both men, had been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplant. This is the first case of a woman, and someone cured using cord blood instead of bone marrow transplant.
Biden’s FDA Chief Nominee Narrowly Wins Senate Confirmation
Rob Califf returns to lead the FDA as the U.S. continues to cope with the pandemic and opioid epidemic. The agency also is facing questions about its processes for accelerated drug approvals.
Canada Invokes Emergency Powers to Stop Protests
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked federal emergency powers to quell the trucker-led protests against COVID-19 restrictions that have clogged the capital city of Ottawa and other parts of the country...
WhoWhatWhy
In Ukraine, It’s Hard to Know What to Believe
Russian and Ukrainian media outlets compete in Eastern Ukraine, but the propaganda war has many people avoiding the news altogether.
This Week in Pandemic: Variations on a Theme in COVID Major
Are you seeing what I’m seeing? States are dropping mask mandates, COVID-19 therapeutics are getting more political, and long COVID is becoming an even longer haul.
Minorities ‘More at Risk’ of Being Spied on by NYC’s Facial Recognition Machine
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