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The American Dream

• Never Underestimate The Power Of The Federal Government To Mess Things Up

  Just when you think that it can’t get any worse, the clown show in Washington somehow finds a way to make it happen.  Our politicians like to tell everyone else in the world how they should be running things, but meanwhile the Biden administration...

  a day ago

• China Just Held A “Rehearsal” For The Coming Invasion Of Taiwan And Congress Just Greatly Escalated The Conflict In Ukraine

  Will the U.S. soon be involved in two major wars at the same time?  The U.S. House of Representatives just escalated the proxy war in Europe by approving a 40 billion dollar “aid package” for Ukraine, and I will have much more to say about...

  2 days ago

• American Mothers Don’t Have Enough Formula For Their Babies, But Biden Wants To Give 40 Billion More Dollars To Ukraine

  Our economy is literally coming apart at the seams, but the Biden administration just wants to keep shoveling billions upon billions of our tax dollars into a war on the other side of the world that is already hopelessly lost.  Despite what...

  3 days ago

CNET

• Best Workout Headphones for 2022: Apple, Beats, Sony, Bose and More Compared - CNET

  An assortment of the best earbuds and headphones for working out and running.

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• 2023 Toyota BZ4X Is a Smooth, Comfortable Electric SUV - CNET

  Behind that wacky face and wackier name lies something as practical as any other Toyota.

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• Ozark Season 4's Surprising Ending Explained - CNET

  Ozark ended in a way that few would have predicted -- and fans are split over whether they like it or not.

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Dandelion Salad

• The Chris Hedges Report: The Proxy War in Ukraine and the Danger of American Militarism, with Andrew Bacevich

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges TheRealNews on May 13, 2022 In this episode Chris Hedges speaks with historian, retired Army Colonel and Vietnam veteran Andrew Bacevich about the proxy war in Ukraine and the danger of American militarism...

  17 hours ago

• Paul Jay: The Lies of 9/11

  Dandelion Salad theAnalysis-news on May 6, 2022 Paul Jay was a guest on Law and Disorder hosted by Michael Smith, where he was asked about his research into the events of 9/11. The events of 9/11 were a crushing blow to democracy and the rule of...

  2 days ago

• 8 Myths about Socialism

  “The dictionary definition of socialism is “a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.””...

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The Economic Collapse

• That Giant Sound You Just Heard Was The Housing Market Starting To Crack

  It is happening again.  More than a decade ago, we witnessed an absolutely unprecedented “housing bubble” in the United States followed by a horrific crash that resulted in millions of Americans losing their homes and a financial catastrophe...

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• Is “Meltdown” The Correct Term To Describe The Current State Of The U.S. Economy?

  I have really been struggling to come up with an accurate way of describing the current state of the U.S. economy, because none of the traditional labels seem to apply.  Inflation is out of control, and that normally happens when an economy...

  3 days ago

• Welcome To The Greatest Energy Crisis In History – Things Will Only Get Much More Painful From Here

  Just as the western world was accelerating the transition away from traditional forms of energy, the COVID pandemic caused the most epic supply chain crisis in history, and now the largest land war in Europe since World War II has thrown global...

  3 days ago

Eurasia Review

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  Thank Protectionists And FDA For Baby Formula Shortage – OpEd

  By Ryan McMaken* For parents who rely on baby formula—whether by choice or due to medical necessity—the nationwide baby formula shortage has become increasingly difficult to ignore. According to the Wall Street Journal, Walgreens...

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  Ukraine War A Windfall For Swiss Arms Industry

  Production lines can barely keep up, stock prices are soaring, and requests keep pouring in from across Europe. The global rearmament effort in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is grist to the mill for Swiss arms companies. By Samuel...

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  No Victory Day – OpEd

  Imagine an Olympic final in basketball, not unlike the one last summer between the United States and France. The score is tied in the final minutes, and tension is mounting among the flag-waving partisans in the stands. France is in possession...

  10 hours ago

Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, May 7, 2022, #352

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Are the weather makers altering their script as flaws in their narratives come to light? A newly released science study has completely overturned the stated foundational premise for climate engineering...

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  Is It Game Over? New NASA Report

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Global climate engineering operations have been pushed and propagated on the premise of cooling the planet by saturating Earth's skies with sun blocking aerosols. The jet sprayed aerosols are...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 30, 2022, #351

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org New reports on global air quality paint an increasingly dire picture for humanity. The ongoing climate engineering atmospheric aerosol spraying goes unmentioned even though it is mathematically...

  13 days ago

intelNews.org

• In rare speech, Australian intelligence chief stresses urgent need to recruit more spies

  AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE MUST recruit foreign spies with more urgency than at any time since the opening years of the Cold War, according to the head of Australia’s main foreign intelligence agency. Paul Symon, director of the Australian...

  4 days ago

• Mystery blasts, fires, prompt rumors of sabotage campaign inside Russia (updated)

  A SERIES OF LARGE-scale incidents of destruction, which have been occurring across Russia in recent days, are prompting speculation that the county may be experiencing a wave of attacks against its strategic infrastructure...

  8 days ago

• Mystery blasts, fires, prompt speculation of sabotage against Russian infrastructure

  A SERIES OF LARGE-scale incidents of destruction, which have been occurring across Russia in recent days, are prompting speculation that the county may be experiencing a wave of attacks against its strategic infrastructure...

  8 days ago

Joniopolis

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  How to Beat Murphy's Law

           You know about Murphy. He’s he one with The Law. Or maybe it’s a she. Maybe she came up with the law, and then, fittingly, was never acknowledged as a woman, her own law in force again.           Murphy’s Law comes into...

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  10 Ways You Know You're Getting Old

  1.      You see a tiny old woman shopping in the supermarket, and as you get closer you notice she is humming along to the store’s music, which is “Superstition.”2.     You’re out with your husband and several cashiers say...

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  Quality Not In Control

             We’ve all been on the phone and heard the disclaimer: “This conversation may be recorded for quality control purposes.”           And yet—you have to agree with me—the quality never improves. Right?  The...

  18 days ago

Niqnaq

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  Mariupol Liberated… Western Media Silence Amid Their Big Lie Exposure Editorial, Strategic Culture, May 13, 2022 Photo: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters The Western news media were made to look like laughing stocks this week with the evacuation...

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• moon of alabama

  US Seeks ASEAN Proxy Willing To Poke China Moon of Alabama, May 13 2022 On Wednesday, AP published a piece of the election in Philippine which included some dubious editorial assertions: Marcos presidency complicates US efforts to counter...

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• rick rozoff

  Meeting in Germany: Japan, Ukraine FM pledge to “hold Russia accountable” Rick Rozoff, AntiBellum, May 13 2022 Japan, Ukraine top diplomats agree to keep strong sanctions on Russia Kyodo News, May 13 2022 The foreign ministers of Japan...

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• One Hundred Years On, Argentine State Acknowledges Indigenous Massacre in Trial

  It’s a strange trial, with no defendants. The purpose is not to hand down a conviction, but to bring visibility to an atrocious event that occurred almost a hundred years ago in northern Argentina and was concealed by the State for decades...

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• Massive Deforestation in the Congo Basin Will Lead to Poverty

  Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue is Forest Campaigner with Greenpeace Africa and a 2022 Aspen New Voices Fellow.

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• Inequality Tightens Its Grip on the Most Vulnerable

  Please do not say you were not aware that the world produces enough food to feed all human beings on Earth, while nearly double the combined European Union’s population go to bed hungry… every single night. And please don’t pretend you...

  19 hours ago

The Moderate Voice

• Israeli police beat mourners at funeral of slain Palestinian journalist

  Published by Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli police officers charged at Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday, before thousands led her casket through Jerusalem’s Old City...

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• Editorial: Protesting for Roe at justices’ homes is self-defeating and wrong

  Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch The apparently pending Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is an affront to women’s rights to biological self-determination and to all Americans’ rights to privacy. This is why wide majorities...

  16 hours ago

• Will Bunch: Who is Kathy Barnette, and can Pa. figure it out before she wins the GOP Senate nod?

  Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer For about an hour Wednesday night, the crunchy green artificial turf of the big indoor practice field at Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County offered a kind of a safe space for Kathy Barnette to revel...

  20 hours ago

Mother Jones

• Republicans, the Party of Family Values, Suggest Migrant Babies Should Be Starved

  Until this week, Republicans, like Democrats and the general public, were largely unaware of the nationwide baby formula shortage. But eager to feed the outrage machine, the GOP is now parlaying the shortage into an appalling political attack...

  14 hours ago

• Fox News Is Screaming About “Pallets” of Baby Formula Going to the Border. Too Bad Its “Evidence” Is Flawed.

  Okay, deep breath in…deep breath out. I just watched the videos compiled in this Twitter thread showing how Fox News has taken the baby formula shortage as yet another opportunity to paint migrants and asylum seekers as the enemy who’s...

  14 hours ago

• Why Do Social Media Platforms Keep Removing Posts About Safe and Legal Abortion Pills?

  Not all the 39 patients who asked Christie Pitney for abortion pills last week were pregnant. Some had IUDs or were on birth control, and they wanted to have the pills—an extremely safe, FDA-approved regimen that is now the most common way...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  “Yellow brick road” – Unique formation found on Nootka Seamount

  While diving on the Liliʻuokalani Ridge within Papahānaumokuakea Marine National Monument, the Ocean Exploration Trust expedition aboard the E/V Nautilus found what they described as an 'incredibly unique and fascinating' feature...

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  Highlights of solar and geomagnetic activity: May 2 – 8, 2022

  olar activity ranged from low to high levels from May 2 to 8, 2022. In total, the Sun produced 79 C-class solar flares, 8 M-class and 1 X-class. Over the past 30 days, 35 M-class flares were produced and 4 X-class. Source...

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  Severe dust storm hits Iraq, forcing more than 5 000 people to seek medical assistance

  More than 5 000 people were forced to seek medical assistance and one person has died after severe dust storm swept over large parts of Iraq on May 5, 2022. This is the 7th dust storm to hit the country so far this month. Source...

  8 days ago

WebMD Health

• U.S. ‘Vulnerable’ to COVID Without New Shots, White House Says

  The U.S. will become increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus in the fall and winter if Congress doesn’t approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments, Ashish Jha, MD, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said Thursday...

  11 hours ago

• Are You Fit for Your Age? What Really Counts

  Learn what it means to be fit, how to get there, and what benchmarks you should use to determine if you’re on track for your age.

  14 hours ago

• What Health Care Is Available if You’re Experiencing Homelessness?

  If you currently don’t have reliable housing, you may want to know about health care for people who are experiencing homelessness.

  14 hours ago

WhoWhatWhy

• Rights Groups Urge Social Media Companies to Fight Election Disinformation

  PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please...

  17 hours ago

• How Wars End

  All wars do come to an end. A look at how that happens and how it foreshadows what’s next in Ukraine.

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• Earth Given 50-50 Chance of Hitting Key Warming Mark by 2026

  PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please...

  2 days ago