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- The next characters to enter the public domain. Look for Disney to make a "special" re-release of the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the next couple of years as a complete money grab before the copyright runs out.

- Conversation between Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald. Very interesting but be warned it is over 2 hours long.

- Some of the lies the government told about Covid-19. People should be held accountable for this misinformation.

- The story behind the College World Series Jell-O-shot competition. If you were there what team would you choose?

The Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Sabotage?

As far as conspiracy theories go - this one that the US torpedoed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is pretty convincing. Backed up with some questionable verifiable actions on the part of the Biden Administration and the military (HT to American Digest for the link). 

To me the Occam's Razor explanation still remains that Russian "maintenance" and what happens to pipelines not properly maintained sounds like the correct explanation but...

Given Joe Biden's track record this new conspiracy theory gives me pause. Take for example Joe blocking Trump's plan to refill the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) at $24 a barrel only to now have to empty the SPR because OPEC+ has given him the middle finger and oil is now hovering around $100 a barrel. And more importantly Biden's actions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline itself where one of the first things he did as President was remove the sanctions Trump had put in place that was preventing the completion of the pipeline in the first place. 

From a Glenn Greenwald article from May 2021:

Trump - even as he was shrilly depicted as an agent of the Kremlin - was obsessed with stopping the Russian pipeline and thus sabotaging Putin's key geopolitical project.

Greenwald's choice of the word "sabotaging" is certainly ironic given the circumstances. It would be par for the course for Joe Biden to remove the hurdles to Putin to get the pipeline completed only to later have to risk an act of war with Russia to destroy it.

As Barack Obama once said, "Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up." 

Glenn Greenwald on the Pressure on Spotify

Steve Rodgers, "I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from."

Glenn Greenwald on the pressure on Spotify to "silence" Joe Rogan. Misinformation is the new "hate speech" tool being used to censor those who disagree with the preferred progressive narrative. Ironic when you recall that when Donald Trump spoke about "Fake News" people accused him of making things up.

How many airheads with a platform like Sean Penn and Danny Glover advocating for Hugo Chavez before Chavez destroyed Venezuela do we need to listen to before we tell these people to fuck off? Everything can't be hate speech and everyone can't be racists and every opinion that differs from yours isn't misinformation. Enough!

Fuck off! I stand with Joe Rogan and with free speech.

Congress' 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power

Glenn Greenwald is correct as he lays out how the Congressional 1/6 Committee is trampling civil liberties. He is also right to compare them to to Joe McCarthy and to HUAC. Problem is, due to the poor education these past few decades, how many people understand what HUAC was and why it was such a threat to civil liberties? 

I also couldn't help but wonder if after the 2022 elections if such a committee could be turned on its head and be used to investigate Antifa and any who gave support or comfort to Antifa (like donating to bail funds). Of course this would require finding a Judas goat or two from the Democrats to give the veneer of bipartisanship - the way Liz Cheney has done for the 1/6 committee. If that was to happen can you imagine the outrage in the media about how such an investigation was blatantly un-Constitutional? 

Evil - pure evil.

Anthony Fauci - Liar and Puppy Murderer

Glenn Greenwald on how to protect Fauci, the Washington Post is preparing a hit piece on the group denouncing gruesome dog experimentations. 

Fauci should be facing perjury charges for lying to Congress under oath about funding "gain of function" at the Wuhan lab. He should also be made to answer publicly why he thought spending taxpayer money on torturing puppies was a "good" idea. The man disgusts me. 

And remember if you subscribe to the Washington Post you are supporting those who defend torturing Beagle puppies. 

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- Steven Pressfield: Just write the damn thing! "Resistance takes many forms."

- Glenn Greenwald: An NBA Star and New York's Governor Show that Liberal COVID Discourse is Devoid of Science.

- Elon Musk - not a fan of the Biden Administration

- Thomas Sowell's 3 Questions. Compared to what? At what cost? And - what hard evidence do you have? These questions are not just for questions of politics but should be asked for many issues you may face in your life.

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- Glenn Greenwald: The Indictment of Hillary Clinton's Lawyer is an Indictment of the Russiagate Wing of the US Media. Once can only hope that this is the first of many indictments.

- Milley's Mutiny?  Execupundit makes an excellent point - why hasn't General Milley issued an immediate blanket denial of these charges?

- Got to love Elon Musk

- Heh Heh - very true

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- SpaceX will be launching their first space tourists and they seem like a nice group of people.

- Heh Heh 

- Heh Heh II

- Glenn Greenwald: The Masking of the Servant Class. The "elites" of this country are pretty shitty people. On a related note.

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- This should be his official Presidential Portrait

- Niall Ferguson: 50 Years After Going Off Gold, the Dollar Must Go for Crypto.

- Glenn Greewald: The US Government Lied for Two Decades about Afghanistan

- Remember. Some powerful writing.

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- Glenn Greenwald: The NSA's Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Allegations of Illegal Spying on Tucker Carlson

- UN "We have 10-Years to Stop the Catastrophe" (1972)

- Interesting $100,000 contest - a censorship-resistant Inflation Dashboard that doesn't rely on government data. Those two components - being censorship-resistant and not relying on government data are so key (sadly just as much for US data as for China's).

 - What's Behind the Conservative Rift on the Supreme Court. "As Republicans have learned, nominating a justice with a conservative track record is no guarantee of what kind of justice he or she will be if they don't take into account the institutional axis." Excellent way of looking at things.

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- Remembering  Anthony Bourdain

- Today's must read is Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) explaining his viral Twitter thread that was read on air by Tucker Carlson and referenced at CPAC by President Trump. Interesting to note that it appeared on Glenn Greenwald's Substack. To quote a lyric, "There's something happening here, what it is is not exactly clear."

- Heh Heh

- Understanding Quantum Mechanics. (Posting this so I can come back until I've watched all the videos.)

- VDH: Trump Winds and Biden Whirlwinds. Karma is a bitch.

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- EB White on "The Meaning of Democracy"

- VDH: The Cruel Progressive Creed Undoing Civilization

- How Roger Federer became the first $1 billion tennis player

- Glenn Greenwald on Biden's bombing of Syria

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- And this is without inflation (HT American Digest) 

- Glenn Greenwald: Valid questions about the FBI's involvement in 1/6 exist. Why aren't they being answered? Not a conspiracy theorist but Occam's Razor says that the FBI was involved.

- This is scary! US nuclear weapon bunker security secrets spill from online flashcards since 2013. (HT Borepatch)

- Mike Lombardi: The Plight of "The Process." I actually feel bad for 76er fans.

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- Glenn Greenwald: FBI's strange anthrax investigation sheds light on COVID lab leak theory and Fauci's emails.

- Heh Heh

- VDH: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies

- Heh Heh

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- Matt Taibbi: Congratulations Elitists - Liberals and Conservatives do have common interests now. Put another way - people with brains on the Left and Right are fed up with the morons. 

- Captain Billy's Wiz Bang. A cool bit of Americana.

- What excuse can you possibly have?

- Glenn Greenwald: The new domestic War on Terror has already begun. Reading this article this song kept playing in my head.

- Visualizing the Snowball of Government Debt. This scares me.

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- Covid-19 Disrupts Years of Health Progress in US. The deaths per 100,000 people in the US were bad last year - made worse by Democratic Governors killing the elderly in nursing homes with their policies.

- Heh Heh - 'Back in the NY Groove': New ad campaign launched. So that's why I'm suddenly hearing that song after decades. (Thanks Stephen!)

- Glenn Greenwald: Biden, Reversing Trump, Permits a Key Putin Goal. As has been pointed out many places the Biden Administration is now on record as being against a pipeline wanted by Canada that would have created thousands of jobs in the US but is in favor of a pipeline that will help Russia and hurt the US geopolitically.

- Bill Gates hoped Jeffrey Epstein could help him win a Nobel Prize according to report. Bill Gates really doesn't seem to have really good personal judgement. BTW Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.   

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- Colleges and Universities have lost 650,000 jobs.  Came for the graphic and explanation stayed for the comments which were not sympathetic to those who lost their jobs or the state of education overall.

- Glenn Greenwald on corporate journalism and how they knowingly spread "fake news."  Of course the "mistakes" are always geared to damage one party. The use of Twitter is further evidence Twitter is a sewer.

- Matt Ridley: We no longer need to fear Covid

- Do You Feel You've Been Rehabilitated? Keep this in mind if you're ever asked woke questions expecting woke answers.

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- Matt Taibbi: Why "Securing Democracy" Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools. Interesting tale of Glenn Greenwald's new book but I think Taibbi gives journalism schools too much credit in his title of the article.  

- NASA'a bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever

- Matt Taibbi with an interesting and honest look at why some Democrats are so eager to repeal the SALT cap and basically give a tax break to the wealthiest 1% in Blue States.

-  Heh Heh

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- Interesting cautionary tale from a start-up software founder.

- Omega-3 supplements offer some significant benefits. I've been taking Omega-3 (Krill Oil) supplements for 2-months now and have no plans to stop.

- Glenn Greenwald: The Media Lied Repeatedly about Officer Brian Sicknick's Death. The media has no shame - and once again the NYT is front and center among the worst offenders. 

- That was quick - proposed Super League collapses. 

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- Gerard Van der Leun: A Sharp Man. "Sharp" is an adjective that could be used to describer Gerard's writing and wit as well.

- You know the tide is turning when even Slate is saying wearing masks outside doesn't make any sense. They never made any sense.

- Glenn Greenwald: Journalists, learning they spread a CIA fraud about Russia, instantly embrace a new one.

- They don't make beer commercials like they used to