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Anti-lockdown states performed better than New York and California, think tank finds

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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Emerged from pandemic better in terms of health, economy and education.

Freedom-loving states like Florida and South Dakota performed significantly better than states like New York and California which imposed harsh lockdown restrictions in terms of health, economy and education, according research by a US think tank.

The working paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, took those three factors and combined them to come up with a composite score and an overall rank.

The paper is called 'A Final Report Card on the States' Response to COVID-19' and was written by Casey B. Mulligan, Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, Phil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, and Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation.

The authors tracked unemployment and GDP by state as well as the percentage of schools that stayed open during 2020-2021.

Comment: Of course the pro-lockdown/mandate crowd will rarely if ever acknowledge this data and re-think their positions on Covid; new and contradictory information simply "does not compute".

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When do governments steal - ahem - NATIONALIZE - retirement accounts?

Aden Tate
The Organic Prepper
Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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As the American debt reaches record levels on a daily basis, currently being in the trillions of dollars and literally impossible for America to ever pay off, there is a very juicy nest egg that politicians are going to begin to eye at some point: retirement accounts.

By nationalizing retirement accounts, a sudden influx of cash would appear in DC's coffers, helping to make the country look better on paper and potentially last just a little bit longer.

You may think that the nationalization of retirement accounts would never happen here in America, but there have been a lot of things that have happened over the last few years that we never believed could happen on American soil.

And besides. It's happened before.

I'm a firm believer that we can learn from the past to gauge how things may work out in the future. Your parents likely taught you cautionary tales with the hopes that you would learn from their mistakes. They taught you the past with the hopes that you would glean lessons of how the future could turn out if a similar path is followed.

Comment: The probability of outright theft of normal deposits is also on the table considering the number of so-called "black swan" financial and economic events that seem now in the offing. What if the government decides to allow or direct banks to have a bail-in - where the banks and Wall Street aren't bailed out by the coffers of money printing - but by the populations' own checking and savings accounts?

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Questions arise about death of Ukrainian politician


RT
Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:56 UTC
Rzhavsky
© Zaire.comAlexander Rzhavsky
New audio recording suggests the Russian military urged Alexander Rzhavsky to evacuate, but he decided to stay in a suburb of Kiev

The murder of a veteran Ukrainian politician, Alexander Rzhavsky, has taken a new twist after an audio recording surfaced on Monday, suggesting the Russian military urged him to evacuate. The ex-MP and presidential candidate, considered to have a "pro-Russian" stance by his political opponents, was found dead in the northwestern Kiev suburb of Bucha shortly after the withdrawal of Russian forces from the area on March 30.

The death of the politician was first publicized last week, with Ukrainian officials and media alike squarely blaming it on Russian forces. The Ukrainian account of events was corroborated by Rzhavsky's family on Monday. In a statement posted on Facebook, the family of the late politician said he was slain by a "Russian serviceman" in Bucha on March 27. The ex-MP was "killed in his own yard before the eyes of his wife and his sister," the statement claimed.

An audio recording obtained by RT, however, paints a different picture. The politician had apparently been in close contact with the Russian military, members of which urged him to evacuate before their withdrawal from the outskirts of Kiev. In the recording, the politician can be heard saying that he was "heading home" to Bucha, prompting objections from another person, presumably a Russian officer.

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"Decolonising math": Durham University asks professors to consider the race of mathematicians before relying on their work

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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Comment: Just when you thought radical left Critical Race Theory-influenced ideas reached its apogee in the absurd and bizarre ...


We previously discussed the view of University of Rhode Island and Director of Graduate Studies of History Erik Loomis that "Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist."

Others have agreed with that view, including denouncing math as racist or a "tool of whiteness."

Now, as part of its "decolonization" efforts, Durham University is calling on professors in the math department to ask themselves if they're citing work from "mostly white or male" mathematicians.

According to the Telegraph and The College Fix a guide instructs faculty that "decolonising the mathematical curriculum means considering the cultural origins of the mathematical concepts, focuses, and notation we most commonly use." It adds:
"[T]he question of whether we have allowed Western mathematicians to dominate in our discipline is no less relevant than whether we have allowed western authors to dominate the field of literature. It may even be more important, if only because mathematics is rather more central to the advancement of science than is literature."

Comment: Its as though there were massive political, social and cultural forces that just don't want people to have an objective understanding of math! Just see the following movements and trends:

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Delivery systems globally will not survive the transition (Are you ready?)


Adapt 2030
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:38 UTC
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Every possible aspect to measure food and food security is flashing that society disrupting food shortages are going to sweep the globe before the end of 2022. Signs today and how you can prepare.

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Canada denies training Ukrainian Neo-Nazis


RT
Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:11 UTC
Azov Battalion
© NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAn Azov Battalion fighter is shown patrolling in the Donbass region of Ukraine in July 2015.
Canada's military has reportedly provided combat training to members of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov regiment, contrary to stated policy and despite previous denials of any official relations between Ottawa and the notorious militia.

The apparent connection came to light in photos posted on social media by the Ukrainian National Guard, according to a report on Monday by Radio-Canada. The pictures show soldiers wearing Azov Battalion patches on their uniforms while participating in training with Canadian forces.

"According to Oleksiy Kuzmenko, a journalist specializing in the Ukrainian far right, the presence of these patches strongly suggests that the Azov regiment had access to Canadian military training," Radio-Canada said in its report. The patches display a crest that is "firmly and exclusively associated with the Azov regiment," Kuzmenko told the media outlet.

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Comment: See also:

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Russia responds to CNN's default claim


RT
Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:20 UTC
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A report by US media company CNN about an alleged Russian Eurobond default announcement is not true, the Russian Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.

CNN reported Monday, citing credit-ratings agency S&P, that Moscow has defaulted on its foreign debt because it offered bondholders payments in rubles and not in dollars.

"Information posted by CNN does not correspond to the facts," the ministry's statement said, adding "Russia did not announce the default on its Eurobond commitments."

"Default means the debtor either has no money to honor his debt liabilities or no desire to honor such liabilities when funds are available. Neither of the two is the case in respect of Russia. The Russian Federation has enough funds to timely service and repay all its debt liabilities," the finance ministry explained.
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The left won't awaken for fear of losing the dream

Doug "Uncola" Lynn
The Burning Platform
Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:43 UTC
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The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

- Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
The task of men...is not to desert historical struggles nor to serve the cruel and inhuman elements in those struggles. It is rather to remain what they are, to help man against what is oppressing him, to favor freedom against the fatalities that close in upon it....Man's greatness...lies in his decision to be greater than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself.

- Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Those familiar with the story of Noah's Ark will know the ancient patriarch, as described in the Bible's Book of Genesis, built a ship to ensure his family's lineage through a great global flood. The mass population of Noah's day would not survive the coming carnage and the people lived without any knowledge of what was about to happen. Perhaps they even ridiculed Noah and his family for building the ark. Regardless, the Walking Dead lived the dream until their world ended, abruptly, in a deluge that swept them to their respective deaths.

Genesis Chapter Six tells of "giants on the earth" that became "heroes" to the wicked Walking Dead of that ancient zeitgeist; and the flood manifested as a result of the God of Creation seeing that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth" (Genesis 6:5).

Noah, however, "found grace in the eyes of the Lord" (Genesis 6:8). In the Bible's original language, the word "grace" may also be translated as "favor".

Therefore, according to the Bible, the God of Creation held Noah in higher regard than the Antediluvian Walking (soon to be swimming) Dead.
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Is your church getting paid by the government to convince the flock to get injected?

Leo Hohmann
leohohmann.com
Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:57 UTC
vaccinations at churches
According to a report in the Epoch Times, the state of Pennsylvania is paying churches to convince their members to get vaccinated.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's administration wants pastors, rabbis and other faith leaders to turn their houses of worship into centers for "vaccination events," using federal grant money as an incentive to lure churches into a partnership with the government.

But this is not just going on in Pennsylvania as reported by the Epoch Times. It's going on across the United States.

The Epoch Times article reports that Pennsylvania's public health leaders want to "harness the power of community trust in statewide faith-based organizations" to convince people to get a COVID-19 gene-therapy injection. That is a quote from the mission statement of an organization called the Faith-based Organization Coalition. This organization, the Epoch Times reports, is being formed under the state's Department of Health and is expected to launch April 11.

The state aims to reduce vaccine hesitancy through the "Local Innovations in Vaccine Equity in Pennsylvania" project (LIVE PA), which is a grant program that pays churches and nonprofits to speak with their people and persuade them to get vaccinated, according to the Epoch Times.
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What are the effects of America's narcissism epidemic?

Ross Pomeroy
RealClear Science
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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There's a strong case to be made that since the end of World War II, Americans have grown increasingly narcissistic on average - more entitled, with an inflated sense of self-importance.

Psychologists Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell are most responsible for collecting data and creating a narrative to support this claim. According to the duo, the rise began with the Baby Boomers, who grew up in an era of relative ease and plenty after their grandparents endured a Great Depression and their parents soldiered and sacrificed through World War II. By the time they were college-aged, Boomers eschewed the collectivist mindset of their elders in favor of individualism.

The trend continued with Boomers' kids. As Dennis Shen wrote for the London School of Economics' Phelan United States Centre, "One study comparing teenagers found that while only 12% of those aged 14-16 in the early 1950s agreed with the statement "I am an important person", 77% of boys and more than 80% of girls of the same cohort by 1989 agreed with it."

And, of course, the rise in narcissism has persisted since. In 2008, Twenge published a study comparing college students' scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory scale to scores from students in 1979, finding that levels of narcissism had risen roughly 30 percent.

Comment: See also:

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