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Syria's President Assad flew to Moscow over the weekend.

Worst vacation travel agent EVER!

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Top 5 Most Dangerous Toys in 2024:

Breaking Bad Barbie

Cabbage Nicotine Patch Dolls

Mattel's Home Lasik Kit

My Little Table Saw

Playskool Defibrillator

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Fast-food chain McDonald's has officially surpassed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the number of shooters apprehended in 2024.

Despite having thousands of highly trained agents tasked with stopping violent mass shooters, the entirety of the FBI was bested by a single part-time McDonald's cashier.

"Not again," sighed Director Wray, handing over his resignation. "I don't know how McDonald's does it. How did they beat us at arresting shooters, all while making perfectly crispy fries, a solid breakfast, and surprisingly good coffee? We just can't compete with the golden arches."

In light of this development, Congress has announced all FBI agents will be required to do an apprenticeship at McDonald's to hone their craft. "If you can't beat them, join them," said Congressmen Rand Paul, explaining the new measure. "Every agent will spend time working the drive-through and cashier lines as we work to bring the FBI up to McDonald's level. They will learn how to catch bad guys and cook delicious nuggets. It's a no-brainer."

At publishing time, the DOGE had announced to save costs it is considering replacing all FBI agents with McDonald's cashiers.

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Top 5 Things Overheard at the North Pole Office Party:

"Hey, I can't reach that!"

"Yeah, it's an old toy-making injury."

"Wait-are these venison?"

"We strike at midnight on the 23rd"!

"For Pete's sake, can't we leave the reindeer outside?"

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Traveling to Greenland is about to get easier, as a new airport in the capital city of Nuuk opens.

My guess: they should easily be able to handle the rush.

Quote of the Times;
CEO pay in the US skyrocketed 1,209% since 1978 compared with a 15% rise in the typical worker's pay in that same time. In 1965, CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 20:1, meaning CEOs made 20 times the salary of their workers. In 2022, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 344:1. Globohomo free market global labor pool financialized capitalism has been VERY VERY good for the 1%. Aspirational for the 5%. And utter dog shit for the 95%. - Nillas With Attitude @kingofallnads

Link of the Times;
Cynical Overtakes Sacred, as the West Bares its True Face:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/cynical-overtakes-sacred-as-the-west

Issue of the Times;
Socialism Is a Deal with the Devil by John Green

America was founded on the principles of capitalism. But there are those who think communism is the solution for every problem, from bad weather to old Joe's dementia. In their book, In Their Own Words, Terry Turchie and Donagh Bracken document that organizations such as the Weather Underground, the Black Panther Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and The Democratic Socialists of American have been agitating for communism for decades. We've even got one senator who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union and a whole squad of congresswomen who openly support it now. They don't use the word "communism" very often, but their manifestos and stated goals are 100 percent aligned with that ideology. Instead, they use seductive terms like "social justice," "guaranteed income," and "equality."

Capitalism vests ownership of property (along with the means of production) with the private sector. Members of the community are allowed to operate for their own individual interests — and those individuals get to keep the profits from their work. Hence, hard work is rewarded. With hard work and initiative, anyone can succeed. So people tend to work hard. Domestic product (the total production of the community) is maximized.

But the rewards are unevenly distributed. The portion of the domestic product that each person receives is a function of his contribution, not his membership in the community. The end result is that members of a capitalist community earn unequal portions of a very large pie.

Communism vests ownership of property (and the means of production) with the commune — otherwise known as the state. Members of the commune are expected to work for the benefit of the commune — not themselves. Each is to contribute according to his ability and receive according to his needs. It sounds like perfect harmony — until observed in practice.

When all share equally in the rewards, hard work is irrelevant to the portion of the commune's production that each person receives. Everyone's portion of the domestic product is a result of his membership in the commune, not his contribution to it. Since hard work is not rewarded, people tend to not work hard. Total domestic product rarely exceeds sustainment levels. But equality of outcomes is maximized. Commune members earn equal portions of a small pie.

Conceptually, capitalism and communism are inherently incompatible economic systems — they function at opposite ends of the public/private ownership axis. Attempts to blend them are destined for failure.

Capitalism maximizes productivity but sacrifices equal results. It provides equal opportunity, not equal outcome. The reward achieved by each individual is dependent on his own initiative. To realize capitalism's full potential, community members must have freedom to exercise that initiative. Therefore, personal liberty is a requirement for capitalism.

Communism maximizes equal results (equal distribution of the domestic product) but sacrifices the productivity inherent in capitalism. It also requires that community members surrender their freedom. They are not free to exercise individual initiative. They are expected to serve the needs of the commune — whatever those may be. They are expected to be a contributing member of the hive.

Unfortunately, leftists have created an attractive narrative about communism. If one ignores its downside, communism sounds idyllic to a naïve mind — everyone sharing equally in the bounty of the commune. No class envy, no brutal competition, no "dog eat dog" business jungle — just equality. Never mind that one has to give up personal choice and freedom to live in such a community.

The leftists paint capitalism's unequal distribution of rewards as inherently evil. They prey on class envy, demanding that the "rich pay their fair share." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even declared that capitalism is "not a redeemable system." Of course, she ignores all metrics except equality.

The left then seduces everyone by offering an impossible compromise — which leftists assure us will provide the advantages of both capitalism and communism. They call it socialism. They assure us that socialism will provide the productivity of capitalism and the equal distribution of communism. We'll just allow capitalism to produce the wealth but force producers to redistribute wealth by regulatory or tax-and-spend schemes. They use terms like "ensuring a livable wage"; "protecting our most vulnerable"; "correcting social injustices"; or, as Barack Obama simply said, "spreading the wealth around." It is all a lie. Socialism is a deal with the Devil. Its promises are seductive, but it delivers only misery.

Striking a compromise between two incompatible systems does not achieve the best of both systems; it achieves the worst of both systems. Socialism promises the productivity of capitalism with the equality of communism. But it actually delivers the inequality of capitalism and the low productivity of socialism — just the opposite of its intended goals.

Socialism relies on redistribution (via regulation or taxation) to promote equality. But that redistribution is actually a disincentive to production. Redistributed money is money that could have been spent on more production, which is instead redirected to non-production. In capitalism, you spend money to make money. In socialism, you spend money not to make money — by redirecting it to non-producers. Therefore, the community doesn't produce as much product — or make as much money to redistribute.

As socialism redistributes wealth, less of the wealth is available to reward producers and expand production. Production stagnates, and domestic product declines. Declining domestic product results in less wealth for redistribution. Those who own property begin consolidating their holdings to maintain their own standard of living. As the pie gets smaller, they exert their influence to keep more of it. That causes the standard of living of those receiving the redistribution to decline.

Pressure for increased redistribution builds, with the community demanding more taxation and social spending. The government raises taxes and the regulatory burden on producers, but that only further chokes production. With each cycle of the death spiral, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and inequality proliferates.

The cycle continues until there is inadequate production to meet the redistribution demands. As Margaret Thatcher famously said, "the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." That's when the community has arrived at Venezuela. The rich are obscenely rich, and the poor are breaking into the zoo to eat the displays. The Venezuelan example is not atypical relative to other socialist attempts.

When a socialist community can no longer function, it has reached a fork in the road where there are only two choices:

• Recommit to capitalism and return to rewarding producers for their efforts.
• Commit to communism, seizing the means of production and vesting ownership of all property in the commune.

Socialism is merely a flowery invitation to move gradually toward communism, giving up our liberty in exchange for a life of subsistence. There are those who say it will never happen in America. Yet Obamacare was the first step toward seizing the means of production of health care. Senator Pocahontas Warren has proposed nationalizing every business with revenue over $1B. President Gremlin is reportedly considering seizing the energy sector's means of production — to save the planet. President Obama even proposed nationalizing pension programs, seizing our retirement savings and replacing them with a government stipend — taking the wealth we have earned and replacing it with the wealth we need. It can happen here if we aren't vigilant.

Socialist experiments can end in one of three ways.

• Poverty and starvation
• Enslavement to the state
• Return to personal freedom and the inequality that results

Jim Jones once told his followers that "God is socialism, and socialism is God." He said it just as Satan would have when offering a deal too good to be true. Jones offered his followers a socialist paradise but delivered a communist hell, in which he took everything they owned, enslaved them to the commune, and led 918 of them to slaughter. That's how his attempt at socialism ended.

News of the Times;
Biden delivers 39 more pardons, announces commutations for nearly 1,500:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/12/biden-delivers-39-more-pardons-announces-commutations-for-nearly-1500/

Australian Medical Icon Breaks Down in Tears Over COVID-19 Vaccine Catastrophe:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/australian-medical-icon-breaks-down-tears-during-debate/

The EU and the Illusion of Democracy:
https://www.unz.com/article/the-eu-and-the-illusion-of-democracy/

Baby Girl Born at 23 Weeks:
https://www.lifenews.com/2024/12/10/baby-girl-born-at-23-weeks-is-heading-home-for-christmas-with-her-family/

Consumers told to snitch on stores that don't have enough 'gender-neutral' toys:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/12/full-stasi-consumers-told-to-snitch-on-stores-that-dont-have-enough-gender-neutral-toys/

3 Army soldiers arrested on human smuggling:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5024436-army-soldiers-charged-smuggling/

"Young White Girls Are Being Raped by These Grooming Gangs":
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-podcaster-faces-prison-saying-young-white-girls-are-being-raped-these-grooming-gangs

Iraqi migrant kills mother of nine:
https://rmx.news/article/germany-iraqi-migrant-kills-mother-of-nine-in-her-sleep/

Venezuelan Busted For Extorting Illegals In PA:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/06/venezuelan-busted-for-extorting-illegals-in-pa-exposes-evil-side-effect-of-bidens-open-borders/

Alito Calls Out Solicitor General:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/alito-accuses-solicitor-general-of-ignoring-research-that-exposed-risks-of-trans-procedures-for-kids/

Democracy Is Dead:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democracy-dead-coup-against-right-wing-movements-underway-europe

Boise State Forfeits Against Transgender In Stunning Show Of Protest:
https://www.outkick.com/sports/boise-state-forfeit-sjsu-blaire-fleming-mountain-west-tournament

DEI FBI agent convicted of robbing people blind:
https://revolver.news/2024/12/dei-fbi-agent-convicted-of-robbing-people-blind-during-j6-home-raid/

KC will pay $850,000 to firefighter:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kc-pay-850-000-firefighter-042000206.html

China's Dystopian Reality is Spiralling Out of Control:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW8-gYUEaHQ&ab_channel=ChinaFactChasers
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The Oxford University Press has named "brain rot" as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024.

Not to be critical, but isn't that two words?

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Top 5 Great Titles for TV Show Mashups:

Family Guy Feud

Perfect Strangers Things

The Wild Wild West Wing

N.Y.P.D. Blue Planet

It's Always Sunny and Cher in Philadelphia

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A Sunday School teacher of pre-schoolers was concerned that his students might be a little confused about Jesus Christ because of the Christmas season emphasis on His birth. He wanted to make sure they understood that the birth of Jesus occurred for real.
He asked his class, "Where is Jesus today?"

Steven raised his hand and said, "He's in heaven."

Mary was called on and answered, "He's in my heart."

Little Johnny, waving his hand furiously, blurted out, "I know, I know! He's in our bathroom!!!"

The whole class got very quiet, looked at the teacher, and waited for a response. The teacher was completely at a loss for a few very long seconds. Finally, he gathered his wits and asked Little Johnny how he knew this.

Little Johnny said, "Well... every morning, my father gets up, bangs on the bathroom door, and yells, 'Good Lord, are you still in there?!'"

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Democrats are sounding the alarm over Trump's stated plan to shutter the Department of Education, saying such a move would put millions of kids in danger of becoming too smart to vote Democrat.

"Without government, kids no learn good," Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez warned. "You want no learn good?"

"For decades, our Department of Education has been doing the important work of ensuring kids stay economically, civically, and socially handicapped so that they'll be reliable Democrat voters," said Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as he packed his office belongings into a cardboard box. "Now it appears our noble mission to keep children illiterate is being threatened. This could be catastrophic for the Democratic Party."

"He must be stopped," continued Cardona as tears began to well up in his eyes.

At publishing time, Democrats had also warned that abolishing the Fed could lead to citizens being too financially free to depend on the Government.

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Q. How do you know when you're really ugly?

A. Dogs hump your leg with their eyes closed.

Quote of the Times;
“There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front-end safety testing… and there’s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year. What better product could you have? And so there was a gold rush to add all these new vaccines to the schedule… because if you get onto that schedule, it’s a billion dollars a year for your company. So we got all of these new vaccines, 72 shots, 16 vaccines… And that year, 1989, we saw an explosion in chronic disease in American children… ADHD, sleep disorders, language delays, ASD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, ticks, narcolepsy. Autism went from one in 10,000 in my generation… to one in every 34 kids today.” – RFK Jr.

Link of the Times;
They Just Got Handed Fraudulent Books:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/they-just-got-handed-fraudulent-books-ed-dowd-warns-trump-inheriting-turd-economy

Issue of the Times;
How My Views on Government Have Changed by Aaron Hertzberg

I used to regard the government as extremely inept/incompetent, fairly corrupt, and facing incentives that pushed institutions/officials to be generally corrupt and inept.

Now, I regard the government as fundamentally evil on par with other classical evil regimes throughout human history — something made clear by the government’s behavior during the pandemic.

1. The government went out of their way to suppress, sabotage, and destroy every available effective covid treatment, which by itself caused hundreds of thousands of deaths if not millions around the world. This wasn’t merely the government making claims disparaging the safety and efficacy of covid treatments – the government aggressively marshaled a “whole of government approach” to wield every available political lever to ruthlessly crush any and every treatment. The government took a leading role in targeting, harassing, deplatforming, delicensing, and terminating the careers of heroic dissident doctors who chose to treat covid patients in defiance of the nihilistic guidelines promulgated by the NIH and other agencies to ‘do nothing’ and send patients home until they ‘turned blue.’ The government also was an enthusiastic participant in conducting fraudulent trials for the express purpose of conjuring false data showing that popular effective covid treatments had no efficacy treating covid.

2. The other covid policies – lockdowns, facemasks, and the other forms of social restrictions – were some of the most evil and pernicious policies ever implemented by a society that considers itself to be ethical. It is now clear that the death toll from these policies exceeded the genuine death toll from covid disease (which itself was only significant because of the suppression and denial of treatment as stated above).

Moreover, the very policies championed and savagely implemented by Federal and state governments worsened the morbidity and mortality of covid disease. Forcing people to stay indoors, avoid exercising, avoid social contact, and a bevy of other things that dramatically raised the stress levels and obesity of the population at large made people far more susceptible to covid disease (as well as a host of other medical conditions).

Even more shockingly, these society-upending policies lacked any supportive evidence before they were implemented. It is now well-documented that none of the covid mitigations had any epidemiological impact. Lockdowns had no effect on the transmission or epidemiology of covid waves. Cloth/surgical facemasks did not reduce the spread of covid at all, and even the various types of N95 masks proved utterly useless in the hands of the general population.

Key government officials including Fauci actually admitted that they never took into account the myriad harms that such policies would inflict on society, which is not an ‘oversight’ – the least horrible possibility is that they had no regard for carnage caused by their policies, which is genuinely evil.

3. The covid vaccines – funded, marketed, and mandated by the government – were barely effective for maybe a few months at most, but caused a significant amount of death and severe life-altering injuries (I have done research work in this area, including compiling 3,300+ case report studies documenting various covid vaccine injuries/deaths in the formal academic literature). The government is STILL denying that there were any deaths associated with the mRNA vaccines at all – in 2023, with well over 300 cases of vaccine-associated deaths reported in the formal academic literature (!!!).
The toll from the covid vaccines in just the US is probably somewhere between 100,000-300,000 deaths, and maybe more (this is based on analyses of excess mortality, government disability data, insurance data, pharmacovigilance data, and survey study data). There are probably at least half a million people in the US living with significant injuries caused by a covid vaccine, and possibly more than 2 million. Because of the shockingly poor quality of US data and studies, it is very difficult to sort out the various causes of excess morbidity and mortality (covid disease, covid policies, covid vaccines) or to get a firm idea of how much is “excess” in the first place, but one thing is undeniable: the covid vaccines inflicted mass carnage across society.

4. The government tried to dehumanize unvaccinated people, and largely succeeded according to polling showing that a significant percentage of people if not outright majorities held a variety of shocking views about unvaccinated people including that they are selfish; stupid; a danger to society; should be forcibly confined to their homes; have their children taken away; and be relocated to “quarantine facilities.” A considerable plurality of vaccinated people, in a word, overtly despised the unvaccinated.

This sort of evil abhorrent demagoguery is historically exactly how a society is groomed to accept genocide of a minority group or faction within society.

5. The government prosecuted the most significant and consequential censorship regime in the history of any Western country, which besides for the widespread carnage it caused also demonstrates that the government has no regard for the rule of law or legal norms whatsoever and believes in a radical “ends justify the means” with no clear limitation.

It is worth underscoring that the carnage wreaked by censorship isn’t just the destruction of the social compact of society or the lethal effects of censoring knowledge of effective treatments from people who bereft of them died, but encompasses all sorts of second-order minutiae that you wouldn’t think of, such as suicides by people suffering from various conditions who were disconnected from their support groups when Facebook deleted the group and the personal accounts of its members.

6. The government is now acting like a dictatorial regime to label and categorize the positions of its political opposition as a “terrorist threat” (e.g. parents protesting school boards, religious Catholics, Latin mass adherents, advocates for gun rights, parental rights, etc., opponents of covid and other governmental policies, people who are skeptical of the official “man-made climate change” orthodoxy, et al).

7. The government is persecuting political dissent. The most obvious examples of this are the indictments of President Trump. However, this stretches far beyond the Trump indictments. The political prosecutions of thousands of January 6 protesters – if you pay attention to the actual Jan 6 criminal prosecutions – are a moral abomination. The vast majority of defendants did not do anything remotely violent or even illegal, but were held without bail for years in ‘unique’ prison conditions; denied proper legal representation (their public defenders were on the side of the government); denied a fair trial (a trial by jury of rabid political activists who hate you is a farce); and are being charged for crimes using novel concocted legal theories that have never been enforced for any other type of protester, including the far more violent and societally disruptive BLM/Antifa riots over the summer of 2020. The government also attempted to jail a pro-life activist for a decade on clearly spurious charges for shoving someone threatening his ten-year old child that was (surprisingly) rejected by a jury who found the defendant not guilty.

8. The US government is not only endorsing, marketing, and using its considerable power to impose the barbaric ideology of a litany of sexual deviancies that are nihilistic and depraved even beyond anything ever attributed to Sodom. This includes the federal government’s currently ongoing efforts to force institutions to implement demented wicked barbarism like the psychological, physical, and hormonal mutilation of children as “gender-affirming” care by withholding some types of federal funding for even schools or hospitals that refuse to allow men in the women’s bathrooms (or provide said ‘medical care’ if relevant). The sacrificing of children on the altar of demented gender ideology is quite literally a modern-day incarnation of Moloch.

9. The government is deliberately and willfully trying to impoverish its own citizens, and deprive them of many products that have become staple amenities in society (such as air conditioning, gas stoves, cars, etc etc etc etc). To properly flesh this out and demonstrate the ‘willful/deliberate’ nature of this would require a lengthy analysis of numerous decisions, statements, and actions of the relevant people/agencies that is beyond the scope of this “comment.” I mention this here only because it is one of the standout egregious dimensions of the cold-blooded wickedness that is the weltanschauung of the government today.

10. The government is encouraging and implementing a systematic regime of apartheid, particularly against straight white men. DEI seminars and workshops portraying white people, straight people, and religious people as invertebrate incorrigible evil racists are a ubiquitous feature across government agencies and public sector corporations. This evil and racist ideology is implemented through hiring/admission policies, spending priorities, conditions attached to receiving government grants, and pretty much anything that the government exerts any influence over.

11. The government as a general entity is a pathological liar so much so that if it were an actual person it would make Pinocchio a paragon of honesty by comparison. It is hard to distinguish between the US government and the USSR government at this point – practically everything they say now is a calculated lie.

In a general sense, the government is a diabolical, evil institution that is primarily concerned with pushing twisted ideologies, mutilating children, and persecuting political dissent, while willing to kill millions in pursuit of whatever political or other objectives they are trying to achieve.

News of the Times;
Countries by IQ - Average IQ by Country 2024:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country

Fauci admitted to RFK Jr. that none of 72 mandatory vaccines for children has ever been safety tested:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fauci-admitted-rfk-jr-that-none-of-72-mandatory-vaccines-for-children-has-ever-been-safety-tested/

Democrat Official Busted After Crashing Into Car While Driving Drunk:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/dems-gone-wild-chicago-area-democrat-official-busted/

These Four Democratic Firms Raked in $600 Million:
https://freebeacon.com/elections/these-four-democratic-firms-raked-in-600-million-running-ads-for-kamalas-failed-campaign/

Police raid pensioner’s house and drag him to court after he retweets meme:
https://rmx.news/article/germany-police-raid-pensioners-house-and-drag-him-to-court-after-he-retweets-meme-calling-green-minister-an-idiot/

ETSU Defends Art Display Depicting Christians as Nazis:
https://www.toddstarnes.com/campus/etsu-defends-anti-christian-artwork/

Great Britain Cracks Down on “Non-Crime Hate” Speech:
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/11/22/great-britain-cracks-down-on-non-crime-hate-speech-including-playground-taunts/

Berlin teachers sound alarm over educational crisis caused by multiculturalism:
https://rmx.news/education/berlin-teachers-sound-alarm-over-educational-crisis-caused-by-multiculturalism/

Three more staffers from Oregon school under investigation:
https://thepostmillennial.com/three-other-st-helens-school-staff-being-investigated-after-two-teachers-charged-with-sex-abuse-in-oregon

Huge migration surge added almost a million people to UK population in a year:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14136253/Net-migration-year-June-Tories-numbers-working-visas.html

Rapper NBA YoungBoy pleads guilty:
https://archive.is/MlDO3

Total Grid Collapse Strikes Cuba (Again):
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/total-grid-collapse-strikes-cuba-again

Scott Jennings Schools CNN:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/11/26/scott-jennings-schools-cnn-by-pointing-out-news-reported-by-cnn-n3797369

Woman who performed Nazi salute at protest is unmasked as owner of two kosher cafés:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14123417/Woman-Nazi-salute-protest-owner-kosher-cafe-Jewish-hospital.html

Muhammad Is The Most Popular Name For Boys In England & Wales:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/muhammad-most-popular-name-boys-england-wales
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What's one major difference between Elon Musk and P. Diddy?

Elon wants to colonize Mars; Diddy wants Uranus.

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Why do French people have only one egg for breakfast?

Because one egg is un oeuf.

That's painful.

I mean breadful.

I mean dreadful.

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As operations at the North Pole ramped up in preparation for Christmas, Santa Claus confirmed that Hunter Biden was still on the "naughty" list despite receiving a full presidential pardon.

Though President Joe Biden officially pardoned his son of any crime committed or prosecuted in the last decade, Santa's team revealed that it would have no bearing on how Hunter Biden would be classified for all Christmas gift purposes this year.

"Yeah, he's been a permanent fixture on the bad list for a long time," said Dave, a spokeself for Santa's Workshop. "We were made aware of the pardon he received from his father late last night, but our policy is to keep really awful degenerates on the ‘naughty' list regardless of any official act on the part of the government. This is Santa Claus we're talking about here. He's not subject to the laws of the United States. Once the big man says someone's on the ‘naughty' list, they're on the ‘naughty' list."

Sources within the workshop revealed that even a late-night phone call from President Biden was not enough to sway Santa. "He wasn't having it," one high-ranking elf said under the condition of anonymity. "Santa saw those pictures from Hunter's laptop. Those were not the type of ‘ho, ho, hos' we wanted anything to do with. Trust me, once you get on Santa's bad side, he's not so jolly anymore."

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A blonde walks into an office to set up her new email account. The IT technician asks her to create a password, so she types in “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyPeterGriffinWashington.”

The technician looks confused and says, “Why such a long password?”

The blonde replies, “Well, it said the password had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one special character and capital!

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Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar.

You can’t tell me that’s just a coincidence.

Do your own research!

Quote of the Times;
“Above all else, the devil cannot stand to be mocked.” - C.S. Lewis

Link of the Times;
Why Was This Groundbreaking Study on DEI Silenced?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-bloomberg-bury-rutgers-study-showing-dei-makes-people-hostile

Issue of the Times;
What Happens After Major Cuts In Government Spending? The Latest From Argentina by Francis Menton

If you believe the messaging of the Trump transition, big cuts in U.S. government spending are coming. Announced cabinet appointments include several who are opponents of the mission of the agencies they will soon be heading. A new Department of Government Efficiency is to be created, headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, with instructions to take an ax to wasteful programs.

But, assuming that some big cuts actually get implemented, you know what inevitably comes next: Because all government spending is (foolishly) counted as a 100% addition to GDP, the cuts first get recorded as a decline in GDP. Economists on the left (e.g., Krugman) then immediately scream that the cuts have failed, the country has gone into recession, and the people are suffering. In recent U.S. experience, the Republicans have never had the political fortitude to stay the course.

But let’s look at the latest news from Argentina.

Argentine President Javier Milei was elected just over a year ago, on October 22, 2023. He then took office on December 10. The main thrust of his program was major cuts to government spending, and he immediately set to work to accomplish that. While I find it difficult to get comprehensive statistics in English, here are some notable data points:

• An April 23, 2024 article in the Buenos Aires Times reported that, according to the Argentine Institute of Fiscal Analysis (IARAF), for the first quarter of 2024, “primary [government] expenses fell by 28.6 percent year-to-year in real terms (deducting inflation).”

• From the same piece: “IARAF indicated that in the first three months of the year, 15 of 16 categories of spending were found to have declined in real terms, with the exception of universal social protection allowances (10.6 percent).”

• From a piece in Reason magazine, June 6, 2024: In March Milei had announced a cut of 70,000 employees from Argentina’s public sector workforce; and by June, 25,000 of those job cuts had been accomplished. Then, in early June, “Argentine President Javier Milei on Wednesday [June 5] announced the layoff of an additional 50,000 state employees, advancing his effort to "reduce the state in half."

• The result of the large spending cuts was that Argentina’s fiscal balance had swung from large deficit to surplus in the course of mere months. From IARAF via the Buenos Aires Times: “[For the first quarter of 2024] the primary deficit became a primary surplus of 625 billion pesos,” wrote the IARAF. “Interest expenses dropped by 31 percent in real terms from the same month last year. Consequently, a fiscal deficit turned into a 276-billion-peso fiscal surplus.”

• The inevitable immediate result of the large cuts to government spending was an official recession, as the government spending was removed from the official GDP accounts. From BBVA Research, October 2, 2024:

[Argentine] GDP contracted by 3.4% in the first half of 2024.

Trading Economics shows similar figures for Argentine GDP: -2.49% for 4Q 2023, -2.57% for 1Q 2024, and -1.7% for 2Q 2024. Actually, those declines were remarkably small given the very large cuts to government spending. Perhaps unnoticed to the statisticians, some entrepreneurial spirits were beginning to awaken among the Argentine people.

And now, what’s the latest from Argentina? It looks like the economy is starting to take off. From Mario Nawfal on X, November 16:

ARGENTINA’S ECONOMIC SURGE: JP MORGAN HIKES GDP GROWTH FORECAST TO 8.5% UNDER MILEI’S POLICIES JP Morgan has raised Argentina’s GDP growth forecast to 8.5%, citing optimism around recent reforms by President Milei. Milei, known for his bold free-market agenda, is pushing plans to dollarize Argentina’s economy, slash public spending, and reduce government intervention — aiming to curb inflation and boost economic stability. This updated forecast signals rising confidence in Argentina’s potential for a turnaround. Source: Buenos Aires Times.

As of this writing it’s still just a forecast. However, all indications are positive. Milei has stayed the course through a first year of strenuous opposition from entrenched interests. The dead hand of government overspending, over-regulation, crony capitalism and handouts has been dramatically loosened.

Now it’s up to Trump, Musk, Ramaswamy, et al., to follow the same course. May they have every success.

News of the Times;
The Vampire Fiat Money System:
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/vampire-fiat-money-system-how-it-works-and-what-it-means-your-wealth

Democrat consultants who joined Team Kamala turned out to be CROOKS:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-08-democrat-consultants-kamala-crooks-deceived-donors-stole-cash.html

Fired FEMA Worker Accuses Agency of Lying:
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/11/12/fired-fema-worker-accuses-agency-of-lying-bypassing-trump-homes-not-an-isolated-incident-n4934220

‘West Virginia Boys’ move a literal mountain:
https://nypost.com/2024/10/27/us-news/west-va-boys-build-road-so-helene-victims-can-go-home/

‘Failed In Every Particular’:
https://ijr.com/exclusive-failed-in-every-particular-obamacare-caused-millions-to-lose-insurance-plans-premiums-to-skyrocket/

EV Fire Truck Burns Down Fire Station:
https://www.thepiratescove.us/2024/10/23/whoops-ev-fire-truck-burns-down-fire-station-in-germany/

Seattle EV Drivers Panic For Charging Stations:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/seattle-ev-drivers-panic-charging-station-after-bomb-cyclone

Illegal migrant arrested for allegedly raping 5-year-old girl:
https://nypost.com/2024/11/01/us-news/illegal-migrant-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-5-year-old-girl-on-long-island-cops/

Two out of three murders are committed by people with an immigrant background:
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/11/sweden-two-out-of-three-murders-are-committed-by-people-with-an-immigrant-background

Uh, Oh, Again:
https://www.racket.news/p/uh-oh-again-homeland-security-role

Mattel apologizes for link to porn site:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mattel-apologizes-link-porn-site-wicked-movie-doll/story?id=115733575

CIA Official Arrested Abroad For Leaking Secret Documents:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-govt-employee-arrested-abroad-leaking-secret-documents-israeli-military-plans

Kamala Harris’ campaign paid Oprah Winfrey’s production company nearly $2.5 million:
https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/harris-campaign-paid-oprah-winfreys-production-company-nearly-2-5-million/

News outlets push pro-union stories while taking undisclosed cash:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3240789/news-outlets-pro-union-stories-take-cash-organized-labor/

Canadian Massacre Is Unfolding:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/bombshell-report-canadian-massacre-is-unfolding-as-hundreds/
Few?
Save time.

See it my way.

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Christian leaders have called an emergency meeting to discuss the possibility that the rapture has already occurred as 15 million democrat voters disappeared without a trace overnight.

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Oneliners:

Tuna are probably pretty annoyed with how much we worry about catching dolphins in our tuna nets.

When porn stars get up to speak in front of a large group, do they picture people with their clothes on?

75% of men in open relationships don't actually know it yet.

You know it's a classy establishment when they quietly ask you to leave.

A good example of mixed emotions would be finding a hundred dollar bill nailed to your tire.

It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do!

"Latte" is Latin for: You paid too much for that coffee.

Never trust an acupuncturist, they'll just stab you in the back!

Just woke up next to my bed; not sure if I fell out or didn't quite make it in.

A good way to mess with a jogger is to run up alongside him and say, "It's okay, I think we lost him."

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Top 5 Great Things about the Arrival of Fall:

I've already got a huge start on my fall body.

Almost time to start blowing our leaves into our neighbor's yard.

It's finally Sweatshirts and Sweatpants season!

I no longer need to whisper, "I'd like a Pumpkin Spice Latte, please."

Suddenly, having my Christmas lights still up doesn't seem as wrong.

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Instead of tiny houses, we should set up the homeless with bounce houses.

It still doesn't address the problem, but it would be more fun.

Quote of the Times;
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” - Soren Kierkegaard

Link of the Times;
Temu: Website sells forced labour goods:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65990529

Issue of the Times;
A Few Historical Frauds by Larry Romanoff

Einstein, Bell & Edison, Coca-Cola and the Wright Brothers

There are only two nations in the world whose existence seems to be founded primarily on historical myths. In the US, false historical mythology permeates every nook and cranny of the American psyche, the result of more than 100 years of astonishing and unconscionable programming and propaganda, a massive crime against an entire population. This condition pertains not only to past events we think of as history, but to the extent that most items permitting Americans to “feel good by being an American” are fabricated Disney fairytales. This essay is a brief introduction to only a minor aspect of this subject.

In the introduction to my series of books (soon to be published) I wrote that “Perhaps 90%, or even 95%, of everything we know, or think that we know, or that we believe to be true about history, is wrong. To express this another way, if we were to take the history of the entire world for the past 500 years and compress it into a book of 100 pages, a full 50 of those pages would be blank. That is the extent to which our true history has been suppressed, entirely deleted from the record and from our consciousness. Of the remaining 50 pages, 45 are false in whole or in part, photoshopped, sanitized, twisted, and with critical details omitted to deliberately lead the public to the wrong conclusions.”[1]

Einstein, the Mythical Genius

One of the greatest mythical frauds in history is that of Albert Einstein, the famous physicist who invented the Theory of Relativity, E=mc² and so many other esoteric things. But this is all fabrication. The claims about Einstein inventing any theory of relativity, or light and photons, or time, are false. Almost every claim – almost everything – attributed to Einstein is simply a lie. Einstein was an inept who contributed nothing original to the field of quantum mechanics, nor any other science. Far from being a competent physicist, he once even flatly denied that the atom could be split and, much later, admitted that the idea of a chain reaction in fissile material “had never occurred to me”.[2][3]

Einstein was a third-class clerk at the government patent office in Bern, and never progressed beyond this level even with years of experience. By all contemporary reports, Einstein wasn’t even an accomplished mathematician. It has been well documented that much of the mathematical content of Einstein’s so-called theories were well beyond his ability. Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute, stated that Einstein’s first wife Mileva Marić was a “Serbian physicist who had helped him with (his) math . . .”[4] Other prominent scientists have made the claim that his wife did most of his math for him.

Henri Poincaré was the foremost expert on relativity in the late 19th century and the first person to formally present the theories, having published more than 30 books and over 500 papers on the topics. Extensive documentation exists that Einstein and his associates had studied Poincaré’s theories and mathematics for years, yet when Einstein published his almost wholly-plagiarized versions he made no reference whatever to these other works.

In the accepted historical account, Einstein is credited with having written the correct field equations for general relativity, an enormous falsehood. It is an undisputed fact that David Hilbert sent Einstein a draft of his work (which had already been submitted for publication), containing precisely these equations, evidenced by the existence of a letter from Einstein to Hilbert thanking him for doing so. Yet a few weeks later, Einstein delivered a public speech of Hilbert’s work, claiming full credit for the derivation of Hilbert’s equations. Similarly, E=mc², the famous equation relating mass, energy, and the speed of light, had been published several times by Italian physicist Olinto De Pretto, long before Einstein was suddenly given credit for it. In multiple thorough reviews of scientific literature, prominent scientists have unanimously stated that there is “absolutely nothing to connect Einstein to the derivation of this formula.”[5]

Einstein’s papers, theories, mathematics, documentation, were almost 100% plagiarized from others. He combined the prior published works of several people into one paper and claimed ownership of all of it. His so-called theories were nothing more than a composition encompassing the prior work of men like James Maxwell, Hendrik Lorentz, Joseph Larmor, Olinto De Pretto, Robert Brown, Ludwig Boltzmann, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, and many more.

In a paper he wrote in 1907, in part responding to (already-virulent) accusations of plagiarism, Einstein declared that plagiarism was perfectly acceptable as a form of ethical research, stating “… the nature [of physics is] that what follows has already been partly solved by other authors. I am [therefore] entitled to leave out a thoroughly pedantic survey of the literature…”[6][7][8] In other words, scientists all build on each others’ work, so Einstein could freely compile the work of everyone before him and re-present it as his own, with no obligation to even mention them or their work. His view of ethical science was like building a tower where each person adds one stone and, if I add the last stone, I not only take credit for the entire design and construction of the tower, but I own the building.

Perhaps the most damning evidence was when in 1953 Sir Edmund Whittaker published a very detailed account of the origin and development of all these theories and equations of physics, with extensive reference to the primary sources, documenting beyond doubt that Einstein had no priority in any of it, and clearly stating so. Einstein was alive and well when Whittaker published his book, yet he offered no dispute to the conclusions, no refutation of Whittaker’s claim that he (Einstein) had been irrelevant to the entire process. Einstein made no attempts in his own defense but simply hid in the bushes and refused to make any public comment whatever.[9]

Einstein was almost certainly the greatest fraud and plagiarist in modern science, an unashamed intellectual thief but, according to sources like Wikipedia, this is all just a minor “priority dispute” about who said what first in the realm of relativity physics. These sources misleadingly imply that several people made a discovery independently and more or less simultaneously, and we are simply debating who went public first. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Wikipedia is renowned as being virtually useless as an information source due to widespread ideological bias and censorship.

Einstein was Jewish and had the support of the Jewish-controlled media who conspired to create yet another historical myth. His fame and popularity today, his status as a hero of the scientific world, are due only to decades of a well-planned force-feeding of the Einstein myth to the masses by the media. The propaganda machine simply airbrushed out of the history books all the physicists who formulated these theories, and credited everything to Einstein. Without the extravagant generations-long PR and propaganda campaign, Einstein would have remained in the dustbin of obscurity where he belongs.

There are many Einstein apologists who produce reams of heavily-documented irrelevancies masquerading as proof, items such as a schoolmate who claimed “the flight of his mathematical genius was so high that I could no longer follow.” Many scientists and scientific historians know the truth of all this, and the accurate historical record is readily available, but many appear afraid to speak out for fear of damaging their careers. I have put the question to several prominent physicists in different countries, eliciting similar responses, namely that “it will not further one’s career to open a debate which will inevitably produce a tsunami of invective and slander, to say nothing of accusations of anti-Semitism.”

Time Magazine published more than a dozen issues on Einstein, including a special Collector’s Edition, and even ran an issue naming Einstein the “Person of the Century”. As with all other American heroes, the PR machine has worked for decades to embellish the myth with a collection of possibly hundreds of wise sayings attributed to this man where there is absolutely no historical evidence he ever said any of those things. The NYT published an article on a small cleverly-selected scientific dispute, in which it claimed “Findings Back Einstein in a Plagiarism Dispute”.[10] And thus is history spun by those who control the microphone. This is why so many pages in our history book consist of misrepresentations and omitted facts, painting a picture so considerably at odds with the truth. As with Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers and so many others, the false historical myths have been so deeply entwined in American and world history that they cannot be unraveled.

Einstein, the “Man of Peace”

Similarly, there has been a great campaign by Einstein’s revisionist apologists to disavow his strong support for the development of the atomic bomb, claiming him to be “a man of peace”. I have copies of correspondence from Einstein where he stated his conviction that the United States should “demonstrate” the atomic bomb to disfavored foreign countries. In one letter to then-US President Roosevelt, he wrote, “… extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. I am convinced as to the wisdom and the urgency of creating the conditions under which that and related work can be carried out with greater speed and on a larger scale than hitherto”.

That statement is part of one of Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt, suggesting he (Einstein) be “entrusted with the task” of managing the project. Roosevelt refused Einstein’s fervent requests to manage, or even to participate in, the project, because it was an open secret that nobody trusted him and the FBI had conducted extensive investigations against him. One FBI file labeled “Secret”, stated that Einstein was affiliated with 33 organizations which had been cited by the Attorney-General and/or Congress, as being politically suspect.

It is interesting that the respected National Geographic is one of the world’s worst publications for spinning historical fact and truth. In 2017, this magazine ran an article on Einstein claiming that Hoover and the FBI despised Einstein and built a 1,400-page file on him because “the world-famous physicist was outspoken against nuclear bombs”.[12][13]

The second portion of the same letter is rather more disturbing, and has to my knowledge never been publicly referenced anywhere. It clearly reveals that Einstein had had detailed discussions with some wealthy acquaintances in Europe who were eager to personally finance the US development of atomic bombs from their own pockets. Einstein was informing the President he had access to these individuals with whom he had already confirmed available funding, baiting Roosevelt with an offer that, should he be ‘entrusted’ with management of the bomb project, he could bring the necessary financing with him. He states that, as project manager, one of his tasks would be: “providing funds … through his contacts with private persons who are willing to make contributions for this cause.”

It would be appropriate for us to ask who were these “private persons” who had the money to finance the development of the world’s first atomic bombs, and why they would want to personally fund such a project. Einstein does not mention these individuals by name, but they would surely have been Jewish and who in Europe (in the 1930s) had the kind of money to offer open-ended funding for a scientific project the cost of which was unknown and unknowable, but clearly massive.[15] This offer was not spurred by patriotism but by the prospect of financial gain and control of both the technology and the application of this ‘science’. We can therefore further question who would have taken ownership of the technology, and who would have been the intended victims of this large personal investment.

I would add here that many of Einstein’s propagandists and apologists have made repeated efforts to pass the blame for the development of the atomic bomb onto Enrico Fermi, another monstrous falsehood. The US government offered Fermi a cash payment of US$100,000[16] to lead the research and development of the atom bomb, but Fermi refused. I have seen a copy of a letter from Fermi to the US President claiming that something so evil had “no right to exist”. In fact, it was Oppenheimer and Szilard who led the development of what was almost in totality a Jewish project, so much so that for many years in scientific circles the atomic bomb was widely known as “The Jewish hell-bomb”.[17] I believe it was Eustace Mullins who first coined the phrase, and I believe it was he who first suggested there was “circumstantial but compelling evidence” that the Jewish motivation for offering to finance the A-bomb’s development was to take control of the technology and use it for Germany’s total destruction.”[18] The theory is more than plausible if you are familiar with the heavily-evidenced proposition that the underlying purpose of both world wars was the total destruction of Germany). You can understand why items like this are restricted to the blank pages in our history book.

Alexander Graham Bell – The Man Who Didn’t Invent the Telephone

History books tell us the famous American, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone. This claim has only two flaws; Bell was Canadian, not American, and he did not invent the telephone.

An Italian named Antonio Meucci patented a working telephone many years before Bell did anything.[19] Bell had obtained copies of Meuci’s drawings and patents and had attempted to obtain US patents on Meuci’s phone. Meucci discovered Bell’s attempted patent of his invention and filed a lawsuit against Bell, in support of which he brought from Italy all his documents, working models, original sketches and his patent, to present to the court as evidence of his prior invention. The delivery company – Western Union – was charged with the responsibility as trustee to hold this evidence for delivery to the court, but all of it “amazingly disappeared without a trace immediately prior to the court hearing, leaving Meucci with no proof of anything and thus losing his lawsuit against Bell.” It is worth noting that at the time Bell was employed at the Western Union lab where Meucci’s evidence was being stored.

The Italians are still angry about this. The Italian Historical Association informed us that their investigation produced evidence of illegal relationships between employees of the patent office and Bell’s company. And later, during a lawsuit between Bell and Western Union, it was revealed Bell had agreed to pay Western Union 20% of all profits from ‘his’ telephone, for 17 years, representing millions of dollars, sufficient temptation for Western Union to justify “losing” Meucci’s invention. US media have fabricated at least dozens of tales excusing Bell, a common one that “due to hardships, Meucci could not renew his patent” and therefore Bell could take it, but in fact the US government filed charges against Bell for fraud because of his telephone patent, but powerful friends had the lawsuit delayed year after year until Meucci died.[20] American history books and sources like Wikipedia omit these critical facts and twist the remaining information, and thus Americans grow up believing yet one more false myth about their country and their innovative ability.

I would make a note here that when doing historical research we sometimes discover that the landscape has been so badly polluted by countless individuals amending details to conform to opinion or ideology (or patriotism) that it becomes nearly impossible to ferret out the actual facts without an extraordinary amount of work. In this case, some have claimed (without evidence) that Meucci lost his patent because he hadn’t the funds to renew it. Others ignore Meucci’s lawsuit against Bell and claim Bell delivered his phone patent and samples to Western Union for evaluation and who later claimed to have lost all of it. And so on. Here are several articles purporting to tell “the real truth”[21][22][23][24]

Thomas Edison – The Man Who Didn’t Invent Anything

Every American child is taught in school that the famous American Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Wikipedia claiming that Edison was “the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the UK, France, and Germany”. Edison is given full credit for inventing the light bulb, electricity transmission, electric power utilities, sound recording and motion pictures. All these claims are completely false.[25] Not only was Edison not one of the most prolific inventors in history, he never invented anything. Edison himself made the statement: “patents 1047 – inventions 0”, in recognition of his situation.

The inventions for which Edison is credited by the Americans were all achieved by others, and his “1,093 US patents” were all either stolen, bullied, extorted or purchased from those same inventors. As another author pointed out, “a man who kidnaps or adopts 1,000 children can hardly be deemed the world’s most prolific father, and a man who steals 1,000 inventions and patents can hardly be deemed the world’s most prolific inventor”. Thomas Edison was unquestionably one of the world’s most prolific thieves, and widely known as a con-man and common thug who often resorted to threats and extortion, but he was no inventor. Edison was mostly just a thieving opportunist who extorted or stole everything that is listed to his credit, but in US history books Edison is revered in totally fabricated myths as the father of the light bulb and America’s most prolific inventor.

The light bulb had been invented by several people in Europe, one of whom, Heinrich Goebel, unsuccessfully tried selling it to Edison who claimed to see no value in it though he was more than happy to purchase the patent from Goebel’s estate when the man died, cheating his widow out of a substantial sum of money. In any case, another man, Joseph Wilson Swan developed and patented a working incandescent light bulb using a carbon filament 20 years before Edison made any such claim.[26][27] Edison first tried to steal Swan’s invention and, when that proved legally dangerous, he made Swan a minor partner in the Ediswan United Company, buying both Swan and his patented light bulb and claiming the invention for himself. Swan also invented sound recording and other items which are today credited to Edison.[28]

Every American is taught from birth that Edison labored for years, trying at least 1,000 different substances (some say 2,000) before he discovered that twisted carbon would function acceptably as the filament in a light bulb. The story is entirely false, a myth fabricated after the fact, a little religious morality play to support faith in the American Dream – that persistence and hard work will lead to unlimited fame and riches in the end. Edison did indeed try – and repeatedly failed – to create a light bulb, and he may well have attempted some of those filament trials. But all that is irrelevant because Swan had already proven the effectiveness of a carbon filament when Edison took ownership of his invention and patent.

Edison is given credit for the device which made x-rays possible, but the actual inventor was German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen who publicly displayed x-rays of his wife’s hand years prior to Edison’s fluoroscope. Similarly, Edison is given credit for inventing electrical transmission in various forms, but Nicola Tesla brought this invention to the US and offered it to Edison who took ownership of the process and patents under a promise of $50,000, then refused to pay Tesla and spent years in attempts to destroy his name and reputation.

The US-based Science website dismisses the entire truth about Edison in one cute sentence: “Even though many of his “inventions” were not unique – and he engaged in some well-publicized court battles with other inventors whose ideas he “borrowed” – Edison’s skill at marketing and using his [political] influence often got him the credit.”[29] And that means Edison patented items that already existed, created by others, and that had sometimes already been patented. Plus, he had a habit of stealing and patenting any ideas brought to him by other inventors. Hence, the lawsuits. But his marketing ability and some powerful political and judicial contacts kept him out of jail. Nevertheless, the myth has been so thoroughly weaved into American history, it could never be recalled.

The US government even issued a special silver dollar coin to commemorate Edison’s non-achievements. And we have an Edison museum complete with the requisite US flag, providing Americans with the unique opportunity to experience delusion and patriotism simultaneously. But the man did invent one thing the history books seem to have quietly deleted. Edison was a believer in spirits and regularly attended séances where mediums would receive and transmit messages from the dead. To more easily conduct these affairs, Edison invented a telephone that he claimed could talk to people in the spirit world, though he didn’t specify what numbers to dial. In a conversation with B.C. Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine, Edison claimed, “I have been at work for some time building an apparatus … for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us”. No idea what the spirits said to him, and no idea why his promoters deleted this important item from the history of the world’s greatest inventor.[30]

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, originally called Kola Coca, was invented more than 140 years ago in a small town in Spain, the creators of the formula for the world’s best-selling soft drink having been cheated of its ownership and billions of dollars. The process was a well-kept secret at the time and quickly became a world-famous product, winning dozens of international gold medals and other awards. Unfortunately, Bautista Aparici, one of the company’s founders, attended a trade fair in Philadelphia and made the mistake of giving a sample and a brief description of the process to an American he happened to meet, and a short time later US pharmacist John Pemberton changed the name to Coca-Cola and patented the product and process, the US government refusing to recognize the original Spanish patent.[31][32][33]

The official story is that this drink was “invented by Dr. John Smith Pemberton on May 8, 1886, at Atlanta, Georgia”, in the USA, and was named Coca-Cola because at that time it contained extracts of Coca leaves and Kola nuts, and that the company’s book-keeper renamed the drink because he thought the two ‘C’s’ would look better in advertising. None of that is true. The drink was indeed made from kola nuts and coca leaves, but the new name was a cheap attempt to differentiate itself after Pemberton stole and patented the original formula. All the stories about Pemberton inventing Coke’s secret formula in his laboratory are fabricated nonsense, with the company’s website cleverly designed to airbrush out the drink’s early history and avoid the truth becoming known. Beverage World magazine produced a special issue to commemorate the one-hundredth (American) anniversary of Coca-Cola, claiming Coke was:

“A totally American product born of a solid idea, nurtured throughout the past century with creative thinking and bold decision-making, and always plenty of good old-fashioned hard work. That is as it should be; it is the American way”.

Not by a long shot. Coca-Cola is just one of hundreds of products the Americans have stolen and patented with the full protection of their courts operating under the peculiarly American definition of ‘rule of law’. It isn’t widely-known, though well-documented, that for decades surrounding the turn of the last century, the US government offered between $20,000 and $50,000 to anyone who could steal a foreign patent or product, that amount representing a lifetime’s earnings for an average person.

To add insult to injury, Coca-Cola moved into Spain in 1953, sued the original Spanish owners, then bullied, extorted and bought the rights for a pittance, permitting the firm to continue producing only a single alcoholic beverage under their name. USA Today reported on this without even a hint of regret or shame about the rule of law or fair play or the evils of IP theft. Their only comment: “The Spanish factory has just four employees left and probably won’t last another generation.” Even more insultingly, ABC News dismisses this story as “The Spanish firm that inspired Coke”, although they do state correctly the claim: “Locals believe that the Spanish town of Aielo de Malferit is where Coca-Cola originated — and that the factory which developed the formula that inspired the world’s best-selling soda has been cheated of its rightful place in history. Not to mention profits.”[34]

The Wright Brothers

For more than 100 years, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington has had on display an aircraft that was piloted by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in man’s first powered, manned aircraft flight, Americans therefore having created “The Age of Flight”.

But that was never true, and the Smithsonian was in on the fraud from the very beginning. In an agreement with the Wright family to donate the aircraft to the Institution, its officials signed a pledge to perpetuate the story that the Wrights had made the first flight, when all present were fully aware the claim was false. And for more than 100 years the Smithsonian Institution of Historical Mythology, with the full support of the US government and the media, has done everything in its power to dismiss, contradict, and just ignore, extensive documentation of other prior flights in an effort to prevent the dethroning of America in the public mind.[35][36]

Several people have thoroughly researched the matter and have written authoritative books on other prior flights but these have been “denounced by leading aeronautic agencies” (like the Smithsonian Institution), with the authors dismissed as “unqualified” and their books “unreliable”. In fact, there were many prior flights, some in Europe, Canada, South America, and others in the US itself, and the Smithsonian was fully aware of this. Recently, the editors of the authoritative Jane’s Aircraft firmly declared that Gustave Whitehead had flown years before the Wright Brothers. Alberto Santos-Dumont had done the same in Paris, as had another group in Alberta, Canada.

Moreover, there exists sufficient evidence the Wrights had access to all that prior knowledge in building their own aircraft, then claimed it as their own. In addition to other design features, the Wright brothers claimed ownership of the curved airfoil – without which no aircraft would ever have gotten off the ground anywhere, but, as one historian noted, “the Wrights stole both the concept and the actual design from an Australian who had recorded it years before, and who had himself deduced the concept from the boomerang of the Australian aboriginals.” The Wright Brothers stole the idea to build their aircraft, then patented it and sued others for using it.

Rumors had been circulating for decades that the Smithsonian had signed what was essentially a contract of fraud with the Wright family, agreeing to perpetuate the myth of the first manned flight, in exchange for having the aircraft on permanent display. But the Directors of the Smithsonian repeatedly denied the existence of such an agreement, stating that would be “tampering with history” and that they “would never agree to such a thing.” But then one day a US Senator collected a few lawyers and descended on the Smithsonian in a kind of political raid. And they did indeed locate the document, which reads in part: “Neither the Smithsonian Institution nor its successors nor any museum or other agency, bureau or facilities administered by the United States of America, shall publish or permit to be displayed a statement … in respect of any aircraft model … of earlier date than the Wright Aeroplane of 1903, claiming … that such aircraft was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight …”[37]

And now you know how the Wright Brothers became famous as the first men to fly. One historian wrote that the Smithsonian had no authority “to engage in political engineering of this sort”, noting that this “compromises history”. But compromising history is an American specialty. And this children’s’ tale will never end. Scientific American wrote a long, biased, and foolish article, claiming the other stories as myths and their myth as the truth.[38] Other eminent publications have done the same. This is how history is spun.

To give you an idea of the enormous influence of the US media and book publishers in maintaining these myths, in 2015 David McCullough ignored the judgment by Janes (and the world outside the US), and wrote a new book for Americans that not only perpetuates the myth but enhances it, with the major US media immediately writing glowing book reviews to help push sales and get the propaganda back into the public mind. The Washington Post modestly tells us how “two [American] boys taught the world to fly.” The publishers, Simon and Schuster, tell us the Wright brothers had “exceptional courage and determination”, and “ceaseless curiosity”.[39]

Daniel Okrent, in a review of McCullough’s book in the NYT,[40] adds that their progress was achieved through “excruciating patience and obsessive attention to detail” and with “an elegant demonstration of the creativity of their thinking”. They were “possessed by genius”. Their discovery of the necessity of a curved airfoil was not copied from Australia, but was the result of “endless calculation, application and recalculation”, every concoction being “a dazzling piece of reasoning” pursued with a “grandness of vision”, with the end result being “the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished”. Yes. Except that it wasn’t.

News of the Times;
Pro-Biden German Government COLLAPSES the Day After:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/that-was-quick-pro-biden-german-government-collapses/

Lesbian captain runs aground, catches fire, and sinks:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-zealand-ship-lesbian-sinks

About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year:
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/about-51000-ukrainians-have-deserted-armed-forces-this-year/

China and Russia caught paying American scientists royalties:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/10/china-and-russia-caught-paying-american-scientists-royalties/

Human sacrifices in 2024:
https://www.rt.com/india/605517-human-sacrifices-india-black-magic/

Muslim doctor charged with taping himself molesting 6-year-old:
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/10/michigan-muslim-doctor-charged-with-taping-himself-molesting-6-year-old

Academia is Women’s Work:
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/academia-is-womens-work

Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism:
https://www.science.org/content/article/embattled-harvard-honesty-professor-accused-plagiarism

The New Green Self-Sabotage:
https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-new-green-self-sabotage

How Al Sharpton Inflamed The Crown Heights Riot:
https://lidblog.com/inflamed-crown-heights-riot/

Male college enrollment is dropping:
https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college

“Yacht Killer” received taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-21-california-murderer-received-gender-care-while-prison.html

CEO Mike Jeffries arrested on sex trafficking charges:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-abercrombie-fitch-ceo-mike-jeffries-arrested-on-sex-trafficking-charges/ar-AA1sIwrL

LGBTQ+ Activist Indicted For Grand Larceny:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lgbtq-activist-once-featured-apple-pr-indicted-grand-larceny-after-looting-nonprofit

When Did Google Search Become Totally Useless?
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/22/when-did-google-search-become-totally-useless/
Waking?
A piñata is NOT a good idea for a Halloween costume.

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A flight attendant for a major airline, watched one day as a passenger overloaded with bags tried to stuff his belongings in the overhead bin of the plane.

Finally, she informed him that he would have to check the over-sized luggage. "When I fly other airlines," he said irritably, "I don't have this problem."

The flight attendant smiled, "When you fly other airlines, I don't have this problem either."

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My 3 year old daughter asked: “Where does poo come from?”

I decided it was best to explain it at a level she would understand so I said: “You just had breakfast?”

“Yes”, she replied.

“Well, the food goes in your mouth down into your tummy. Our body takes all the good stuff it needs out of the food and then what’s left goes down to your bottom and when you go to the toilet that comes out as poo.”

She looked confused and stared at me in stunned silence for a few seconds. Then asked: “And Tigger?”

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Top 5 Ways Halloween would be Different if we Celebrated in November:

No one would dress up like a turkey

If it was after Thanksgiving, kids would say, "Trick or Leftovers!"

Costco would probably put out Christmas in April

They'd probably figure out a way to work in "Black Licorice Friday"

Skittles would come out with a cranberry flavor

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Krispy Kreme doughnuts are going to be available in 1,000 McDonald's restaurants by the end of 2024 and 12,000 locations by the end of 2026.

Seems like a good time to buy elastic waist pants stock.

Quote of the Times;
“I didn’t get “blacklisted” from Hollywood, I left because they’re all pedos.” - Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) October 1, 2024

Link of the Times;
Over 13,000 Murderers, 15,000 Rapists, and 425,000 Convicted Criminals Allowed Into America:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/treason-ice-report-reveals-13000-murderers-15000-rapists/

Issue of the Times;
Belmont Club: Waking Up by Richard Fernandez

Totalitarianisms work by mass denial. Although living conditions can actually be bad, the public can be brainwashed through hypnotic sloganeering into willing reality away. The result is a kind of mass dishonesty called "preference falsification." But it is fragile. The danger for the hypnotist is if the public snaps out of it. Once the subject wakes up the problem for the hypnotist becomes reality itself. We all know the movie dialogue:

"Say, where am I?"

"Relax. Just look into my eyes. You are sleepy. Sleepy."

"I asked you where am I? Where. Am. I?"

Of course if the public really wakes up in a nice place it soon goes back to sleep reassured that all is well. But if it wakes up in a place where all the furniture is painted cardboard surrounded by strange, depraved, leering faces, the public's anxiety soon increases. That awakening from illusion was what happened to Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceausescu in December, 1989. One moment he was king of the world, issuing orders, making threats. The next he was running for his life after the Romanian public realized how little he truly was. Something like this happened on a smaller scale after the Trump-Biden debate of June, 2024. Once suggested by Nancy Pelosi as a candidate figure for Mount Rushmore, the incumbent's campaign collapsed when the public realized the aged president was senile. NBC opinion writers lamented:

President Joe Biden was supposed to put the nation’s mind at ease over his physical and mental capacity with his debate showing Thursday night. But from the onset of the debate, Biden, 81, seemingly struggled even to talk, mostly summoning a weak, raspy voice. In the opening minutes, he repeatedly tripped over his words, misspoke and lost his train of thought.

In weeks Biden was gone and Kamala Harris ran in his place. A new story took the place of the old one. But pollsters are still worried that their 2024 elections surveys were being thrown off by preference falsification. Respondents may not be picking up the phone or answering questions honestly, giving inaccurate results. "Pollsters say they are employing a range of methodologies to ensure that they are not underestimating Donald Trump amid survey after survey that shows a dead heat in various swing states." How solid was the new narrative?

The pollsters worry about preference cascades only if there is a significant chance the dream may collapse if a candidate's ill-chosen act or word causes the public to wake up again. Recently Chris Rufo accused Kamala Harris of being a plagiarist. But the public really doesn't expect politicians to be original. The NYT says Kamala had a ghostwriter. "Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, wrote the book with another author when she was the district attorney in San Francisco." This is par for the course. Modern politicians are brands. There is an entire campaign apparatus devoted to "projecting" an image, life story, identity etc. onto the public consciousness. They have teleprompters, earpieces, and, all else failing, post-interview editing. As someone said, "Politics is Hollywood for ugly people."

They are dreams who handlers hope will stay in character. But if we return to reality, politicians become just products the public is entitled to judge by their performance, like competing brands of cooking oil or soap. Which product gave the better income, international security and lower crime last time? Which of the "new improved" offerings is likely better? We descend to a workaday place where things are ordinary. Reality is a dangerous place where people must compare actualities instead of illusions.

Perhaps the most subversive political movie of the 2010s was Christopher Nolan's "Inception." It is ostensibly about dreams, but the purpose of manipulating dreams is to bend time, which subjectively passes differently for those dreaming at different levels. Political illusion is like that also. It's about bending time to seize power, which is very real. In politics the great moments seem always just around the corner, a vote away, instead of being decades of hard work distant.

The dreamers expectantly round the bend and see all the promised beautiful buildings glimmer for a mere instant before they collapse into the sea. The point of progressive politics is to ensure that reality never arrives at embarrassing moments, or better yet, never arrives at all. It's always just over the next hill. “You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter..."

Until you wake up.

News of the Times;
An Act of Election Interference?
https://www.diamondandsilkinc.com/tabletalknews/was-the-fbis-failure-to-report-accurate-data-about-the-rise-of-crime-an-act-of-election-interference-bgty6

VIDEO: Bucks County Pennsylvania Election Worker Tears-Up-Trump Mailed-In Ballots:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/video-bucks-county-pennsylvania-election-worker-tears-up-trump-mailed-in-ballots

Video Shows Kamala Fist Pumping & Chanting “Down With Deportation!”:
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/unearthed-2018-video-shows-kamala-fist-pumping-chanting-down-with-deportation-at-la-parade/

Texas troopers arrest large numbers of special interest aliens, including men from Iran:
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/texas-dps-officers-arrest-more-special-interest-aliens-including-men

Greg Gutfeld Scolds Media for Ignoring ‘Biggest Crime Story’ He’s Ever Seen:
https://resistthemainstream.com/greg-gutfeld-scolds-media-for-ignoring-biggest-crime-story-hes-ever-seen-as-elon-musk-drops-huge-ultimatum/

Harris' hubby Emhoff's ‘ugly side’ revealed in new bombshell allegations: ‘Forcefully slapped ex-girlfriend:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/kamala-harris-hubby-emhoffs-ugly-side-revealed-in-new-bombshell-allegations-forcefully-slapped-ex-girlfriend-for-101727876611087.html

FCC Approves Expedited Sale of More Than 200 Radio Stations to George Soros:
https://www.nysun.com/article/fcc-approves-expedited-sale-of-more-than-200-radio-stations-to-george-soross-investment-firm

Are Folks In America That Stupid?:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/folks-america-stupid-dave-ramsey-203020214.html

Biden Gave Transformers and Switching gear to UKRAINE:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/u-s-hurrican-survivors-without-electric-biden-gave-transformers-and-switching-gear-to-ukraine

Atheism Has a Suicide Problem:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atheism-has-a-suicide-problem_b_5a2a902ee4b022ec613b812b

Does Autism Lead to Atheism:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyched/201205/does-autism-lead-to-atheism

Boris Johnson Sets the Record Straight About Donald Trump's Foreign Policy:
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/10/10/boris-johnson-sets-the-record-straight-about-donald-trumps-foreign-policy-n4933218

Sweden could soon have 1 million illiterates:
https://rmx.news/article/sweden-could-soon-have-1-million-illiterates-largely-due-to-mass-immigration/

Operation True Promise 2:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/operation-true-promise-2-iran-strikes

Navy SEALs Rescue Kidnapped Kids:
https://realrawnews.com/2024/10/navy-seals-rescue-kidnapped-kids-from-shipping-container-in-miami/
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