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..the chief problem in historical honesty isn’t outright lying, but rather the omission or de-emphasis of important data.
Howard Zinn

Beat reporters are now panicked because they read the IPCC report released yesterday. Never mind that the IPCC reports are distillations of previously-conducted research and that they could have bothered to read that research. The IPCC has spoken!

The Afghan army, an army that we've armed and trained for 20 years, at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, is collapsing before an army that is only a fraction of its size.
Maybe the problem isn't the amount of guns, bombs, and men.

King Cuomo II has resigned! Effective in 14 days. August 24, 2021 will be the last day of the Reign of Terror that has lasted 11 years.

Kathy Hochul, the NY State Lt. Governor will serve out the rest of Cuomo's term which ends January 1 2023.

Sooner than my Labor Day Friday news dump but sooner is definitely great.

Hey, y'all.

Many thanks to JtC for keeping the home fires burning while I was out of internet for a solid week (!).

From defend.wikileaks.org, August 6, 2021:

“The United States government has been given limited permission to appeal the District Court’s decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange from the UK to the U.S. Britain’s High Court ruled that the U.S. government could appeal on some but not all of their requested points. Now a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for August 11th, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London (photo above), to argue the scope of that appeal, and whether the U.S. government will be allowed to appeal on its other two proposed lines of argument. Assange is expected to attend in person.

Bramhall’s World for Monday, Aug. 9, 2021.
Bill Bramhall | New York Daily News

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Potato potahto---let's call the whole thing off.

Fed Up With the Fed

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” — FDR letter to Colonel Edward House, Nov. 21, 1933

The federal reserve system was created by bankers for bankers. The Federal Reserve Act, then known as the Currency Bill, was signed into law after passing the House and Senate in late December 1913. The name, the Fed, is a carefully constructed lie, designed to make the bank appear to be a government entity, but it is not. It is a private bank owned by private shareholders for their private profit with a charter that allows them to print the public’s money out of thin air. The Fed is a privately controlled central bank lending money to the government at interest, money that it prints out of nothing.