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Compass

What happened to integrity and honor in the age of Technocracy?

Charles Hugh Smith
oftwominds.com
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
integrity compass
The hope here is that facing the reality of moral collapse frees us of the delusion that fiddling with technocratic financial abstractions and policy tweaks can reverse moral collapse.

Ours is a technocratic culture with a short attention span, and so problems and solutions are understood to be 1) technocratic and 2) instant. The problem is something that can be distilled down to a spreadsheet, formula, algorithm or legalistic policy, and the solution is some modification of spreadsheet, formula, algorithm or legalistic policy: all our problems will go away if we just end the Fed, switch to cryptocurrency, tweak some laws, get rid of the bankers, eliminate an agency, and so on.

These solutions will offer immediate relief. The problems will start melting away the minute we modify the spreadsheet, algorithm, financial settings or legal code.

But what if the problem is the collapse of integrity and honor, a moral rot that has consumed the foundations of our social order? If this is the root problem, then technocratic-financial solutions are the equivalent of excising a wart from the big toe and declaring that as a result of this procedure, the brain cancer has been cured.
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Windsock

It's time to get real about climate change in Europe

Liz Heflin
Remix
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:53 UTC
climate change discussion
© AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, PoolEuropean Commission Executive VP for the European Green Deal Frans Timmermans speaks during a media conference on "Building a Climate-Resilient Future - A new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change" at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021

Commentary taken from Robert Bogdansky's podcast "Coistotne" via Salon24.

The climate around climate change is changing. Just a few months ago, stating that achieving so-called climate neutrality by European countries is not only utopian but also devoid of economic sense would place the speaker in the group of dangerous populists Just a few months ago, this speaker would be considered not all that far [from] fascism and someone who could only be reasoned with while on trial in a court of law.

And today? Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said at the last climate conference in Baku that "climate goals" are contrary to the development of the European economy and threaten the prosperity of the inhabitants of the continent. One of the most famous German economists, Hans-Werner Sinn, stated in a recent interview that achieving zero emissions by Germany is a "utopian" goal that can only be achieved at the cost of deindustrialization. He called the regulations issued to achieve this utopia "trash." And what? And nothing. Sinn is still an authority for Germans. The Greens will probably attack him, but their time is running out.
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Pills

Take two puberty blockers and call me in the morning? Justice Sotomayor under fire for aspirin analogy in oral argument


jonathanturley.org
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
bayer asprin
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is under fire today for seemingly dismissing medical concerns over the risks of puberty blockers and gender surgeries for minors with a comparison to taking Aspirin. In the oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, Sotomayor pointed out that there are risks to any medical procedure or drug. However, the analogy belittled the concerns of many parents and groups over the research on the dangers of these treatments. It also highlighted how the Biden Administration and liberal justices were discarding countervailing research inconveniently at odds with their preferred legal conclusion.

The Biden administration is challenging Tennessee's law banning gender-changing drugs and procedures for minors. That state cites studies that indicate serious complications or risks associated with the treatments for children.

While the conservative justices acknowledged studies on both sides of the debate over risks, the liberal justices seemed to dismiss studies that were inconsistent with striking down the law as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. That issue produced a difficult moment for Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar when Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confronted her about statements made in her filing with the Court.
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No Entry

There will be no Federal solution to the economic crisis that's coming

Stefan Gleason
Money Metals
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
economic crisis
As President-elect Donald Trump assembles a cabinet that will be tasked with implementing policy change at the federal level, individual state governments are plotting their own policy responses.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is organizing a coalition of blue states to resist the "Make America Great Again" agenda.

Democrat governors aim to, for example, defend sanctuary cities against immigration enforcement efforts, impose their own "clean" energy mandates, and retain funding for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs that could be targeted for elimination by the Trump administration.

Meanwhile, red state governors are largely vowing to work with President Trump to help him implement his agenda.

But however hopeful Trump backers may be for sweeping reforms, the incoming administration will face roadblocks from Congress, the courts, and the entrenched bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Potato

Why the American Psychiatric Association should consider 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' (TDS) a legitimate mental disorder

Timothy Alexander Guzman
Silent Crow News
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00 UTC
Trump derangement
Trump Derangment Syndrome is back in full-force. Since Donald J. Trump defeated the Democratic Party after years of indictments, harassment, an FBI raid on his Mar‑a‑Lago home and threats on his life with two assassination attempts and he still managed to embarrass the Democrats in a convincing landslide victory. The Democratic Party is in panic mode, they obviously destroyed themselves with their "lawfare warriors" with their obsession of "Getting Trump." They hate Trump with a passion. They hate him so much that they became somewhat mentally ill, there is no other way to describe it.

After Trump's election victory, liberals developed a mental disorder that is called 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' (TDS) which has some serious implications for those who hate the former President so much that it made them mentally ill. However, according to Psychologytoday.com, TDS is not considered a mental disorder:
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Bullseye

Israel savagely beaten in fractious Oxford Donnybrook

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
Susan Abulhawa
Susan Abulhawa's blistering speech at the Oxford Union was the most ferocious indictment of Israel in the last decade. Author Abulhawa — who is a long-term human rights activist — summarized the iniquitous history of the Jewish state in a few succinct paragraphs while shedding light on the obscene toxic ideology that has permeated the nation's doctrine from the very beginning. Abulhawa ignored the fictitious claim that Israel was created to provide safety and security for the Jewish people and, instead, showed that the country's founders were maniacally focused on seizing land while expelling or exterminating the indigenous population. Ethnic cleansing and land theft are not an unavoidable response to sporatic Palestinian violence, but the cornerstones of the pernicious dogma that animates the Zionist state. Needless to say, Abulhawa's presentation was met with riotous applause that lasted for more than three minutes as the audience expressed their appreciation for her heartfelt testimony. Here's part of what she said:
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Question

President Biden, where are the children?

Samuel Rodriguez
RealClear Wire
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
Biden
In recent months, a disturbing revelation has emerged from the heart of our nation's immigration system: Over 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the U.S. border during the Biden-Harris administration are unaccounted for. An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report dated Aug. 19, 2024, confirms this alarming statistic, highlighting a profound failure in our duty to protect the most vulnerable.

The DHS report reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lost track of at least 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children, with the whereabouts of up to 323,000 remaining unknown. Without a doubt, we cannot deny the fact that many of these children are now tools and victims of the human sex trafficking industry - a heinous trade that represents the worst of the worst. This staggering number raises urgent questions about the safety and well-being of these children. They are left to fend for themselves in a dangerous world without proper oversight.

Comment: Listen to border control and illegal immigration expert JJ Carroll describe the incredible arrogance and ignorance of congress as he tried to inform them of the missing children tragedy:



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Yellow Vest

British farmers to protest again over increasing burden of government's anti-farming policy on agriculture

Rhoda Wilson
The Exposé
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:11 UTC
british farmers
© The Expose
British farmers are planning to stage protests in the four capital cities of the United Kingdom on 11 December. The protests, organised by campaign groups Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers, aim to highlight the concerns and frustrations of the agricultural community.

In the video below, Matt Cullen, an organiser for Fairness for Farmers, announced the protest on 11 December. "Farmers are going back to London on the 11th of December. But this time with tractors. That's right, with tractors," he said.

Comment: See also: Explained: How UK Farmers' Inheritance Tax is Part of The War on Food

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Hourglass

Open borders have created a terror attack time bomb in the US in 2025

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
US border
If US security was represented as a great dam holding back a historic flood, today it would be a Chinese built Temu dam held together with paper mache and ramen noodles, ready to snap in half and kill a million people downstream. In 2024 there is no security: The public simply operates on blind faith that no one will take advantage of the vast weaknesses built into the system and government officials hide any risks associated with their policies.

But what are the sources of the danger headed our way? Why is 2025 becoming more and more prominent as an inception date for an attack?

Donald Trump's election win, his impending return to the White House and his promise to close the border and deport millions of illegals could be the cleansing tsunami that America needs, but it could also inversely trigger a host of foreign attacks, domestic attacks as well as false flag events. Here are the reasons why the next year is ripe for a large scale event...
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Gavel

Trump prosecutor Fani Willis ordered to turn over all communications with special counsel Jack Smith to Judicial Watch

Anna Young
New York Post
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:38 UTC
Fani Willis and Donald Trump
© Getty ImagesFani Willis and Donald Trump
Embattled Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis must turn over all communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 committee to a conservative watchdog group, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that Willis - the last person still prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump - violated open-records laws when she failed to respond to an August 2023 request filed in Fulton County by Judicial Watch, the group said.

The accountability group had filed a lawsuit in March after it sought the communications between the Democratic prosecutor's office and the special counsel, as well as the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots and was rebuffed.

Comment: And thus, the last of the ludicrous lawfare cases against President-elect Donald Trump goes down in flames.

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