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Toxic Secrets: The Profound Burden on Physical and Mental Health
When people feel forced to keep dark secrets from people they care about, they carry a painful burden of guilt and shame. This can make them feel cut off and isolated emotionally from loved ones, and often keeps them from … Continue reading
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Swamp Overlords Taking an Orwellian Turn
Guest Posting from Issues & Insights: A New York Times reporter has suggested the president appoint a “reality czar,” who would lead “a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism.” Please tell us, comrade, when the show trials … Continue reading
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Anger is All the Rage: Be Prepared
The modern age of “social justice” is being propelled by anger and rage. Children are groomed for victimhood from kindergarten onward, and by the time they reach college age, they are primed to rumble. The link above suggests that keeping … Continue reading
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Witch Trial Against Citizen Trump Begins 8 Feb. 21
The US Senate has scheduled hearings in the impeachment trial against Citizen Trump beginning February 8th. The Senate does not have the constitutional authority to hold an “impeachment” trial against a private citizen, nor should it have. That simple limitation … Continue reading
Nightmare on Meditation Street
Or, A Meditation on Nightmares… a progress report. It is neither a coincidence nor a sign of senility that this blog has been talking off and on about meditation for the past few weeks. This is precisely a time in … Continue reading
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Straight Out of 1984: China Deletes Viral Research from Data Banks
China is attempting to re-write history — again — by purging global scientific records of hundreds of scientific articles based on research performed at the Wuhan Virology Institute. Apparently global investigators were beginning to get too close to the truth … Continue reading
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Gurus Without a Clue
Three anecdotes showing teachers of meditation in a sorry light: Anecdote One: A successful guru and meditation teacher was hired by the US Army to train its special forces operators to relax and think clearly, even while under the most … Continue reading
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Lockdowns are Destroying a Generation of Children
Social isolation seems to be taking a toll. With most large, urban school districts planning remote-learning only this fall, the isolation is likely to continue for many children—unless parents step in to alleviate this loneliness. An article in The Wall … Continue reading
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Effective Power at the Flip of a Switch
Unlike intermittent energy schemes based on wind and sun, nuclear fusion offers the promise of useful power when you want it. And unlike the cash guzzling “government fusion” project ITER, private fusion is showing actual promise within a meaningful time … Continue reading
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Why Bother Having a Family?
As swamp creatures and their parasitic fellow travelers seize upon their latest US power play triumph, the basic human undertaking of starting and raising families is likely to become far more difficult and expensive. You have to really want it, … Continue reading
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Welcome to a World of Victims and Narcissists
Reason magazine takes a look at a scientific article that tells us something we have all known for a long time: our world is full of self-proclaimed “victims” who have not been the victims of anything significant in the real … Continue reading
When We Die We Say We’ll Catch Some Blackbird’s Wing
Gulf Coast Highway was written by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker, and Danny Flowers. It was made most famous by Emmy Lou Harris and Willie Nelson. It is a short sweet song of a life of hard work, tender love, and … Continue reading
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90% Who Test Positive Cannot Spread the Virus
PCR samples must be run through multiple cycles to amplify the genetic material to sufficient levels for positive detection. But if you run the samples through too many cycles, you are likely to achieve a result which is entirely meaningless. … Continue reading
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Why Election Fraud is So Easy in US Third World Cities
Rigged elections are routine in communist and third world countries. Election fraud has also become routine in US third world enclaves — such as the inner parts of Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Atlanta etc. In such broadly impoverished places the … Continue reading
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Election Fraud in Broad Daylight: There Will be Hell to Pay
There are plenty of people who hate President Trump, just look under any rock or log. Such people deny that election fraud could have happened — or that it could have made any difference in the outcome if it did. … Continue reading
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Witches, Wolves, and Skinny Naked Things Running in the Dark
We are living in a weird time of high level information manipulation. Wealthy power players at the highest level of government, finance, industry, media, law, and academics have an iron grip on public minds, both educated and uneducated. This is … Continue reading
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Without the Fraud, Trump Would Win
Guest Post from Bruce Bawer If All the Fraud Is Uncovered, Trump Will Win How do we know? The people who tried to pull off this election heist are drawn from the same swamp as the conspirators in the Russia … Continue reading
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Nursing Home Dementia Patients Voted Overwhelmingly for Biden!
Whether because “birds of a feather flock together” or for other reasons, dementia sufferers in nursing homes across the United States chose to cast their ballots for Joe Biden in the recent US national elections. It is not a question … Continue reading
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The Intent Was to Inundate the Election With So Much Fraud that it Could Not be Challenged
The US Democratic Party has been rigging elections for over a century and a half. It is a particularly lucrative form of organized criminal behavior which is common in third world and communist countries. All that is needed is control … Continue reading
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Fraud, Fraud… More Fraud: They Are Not Called the Democheats for Nothing!
Sorting out the signs of wrongdoing: If election observers are not allowed to observe the vote-counting process, that is prima facie evidence of election fraud. An automatic recount in all such cases should be mandatory. Other signs: Attorney Sidney Powell … Continue reading
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Joe Rogan Can’t Be Bullied, Can’t Be Bought
In the video below, Joe Rogan has a casual conversation with a former government employee and current security consultant. They talk about a lot of things in an offhanded way, which Twitter, Facebook, or the NYT would kill to keep … Continue reading
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They Don’t Care if the US Explodes into Violence
The people generating the manufactured late votes in “the biggest fraud in US election history,” are willing to risk triggering massive nation-wide violence — if they can only pull it off. Joe Biden himself bragged on video that his campaign … Continue reading
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Where Can You Find an Objective Voice?
Who holds the key to your brain? Media and Journalism: These people filter, shade, and spin most of the information you get about the part of the world involving politics. 95% support Biden Social Media Platforms: These people censor stories … Continue reading
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The Age of Violently Wishful Thinking
What Do We Want? Utopia! When Do We Want it? Right Now! We have never quite outgrown the idea that somewhere, there are people living in perfect harmony with nature and one another, and that we might do the same … Continue reading
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Sweden Once Again Goes Its Own Way on COVID
Sweden’s death rates from COVID are lower than for most of Europe. Like much of the rest of the world the “case count” in Sweden has trended upward with the cooler weather. But so far, Sweden is resisting the mass … Continue reading
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