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CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE IS KILLING US — NOT A VIRUS

carlson-on-kennedyOne month ago (11/15), Tucker interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding his remarkable new book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.

Kennedy ably diagnoses the creation of a “track and trace” surveillance state, “the systematic demolition of our Bill of Rights,” the obliteration of the middle class by tech elites who have profited mightily from COVID.   It’s revealing that both Fox and YouTube have removed the Carlson-Kennedy interview from their sites – but thanks to Bitchute, you can watch the entire 52 minutes right here – after you finish reading my article… please!

For frankly, up until a few days ago, I thought we were done with Covid.  Surely, I thought, the hysteria is on the wane. Fat chance…

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH PURPOSEFUL IMAGINATION

purposeful-imaginationAristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics called it akrasia – a weakness of will, acting in a way contrary to our consciously held moral values. It’s the quality that most distinguishes criminals from the rest of us; and the quality that most distinguishes less successful people from those who are more successful.

The ability to resist our short term impulses and desires, and to focus instead on our long term values and goals is the most important capacity for living well.

Best news here is we can learn to do this by using “purposeful imagination” – that even four-year-old children with marshmallows can do.

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IT’S TIME FOR A NATIONAL INTERVENTION

greg-gutfeldSo turns out there are only two sexual orientations. Leftists and everyone else.

It's true, according to an Axios poll yesterday (12/08), 71 percent of Democrat college students wouldn't go on a date with someone with opposing views - versus 31 percent of Republicans. That's a difference of like a thousand percent, Kat!

Also: 40 percent of young Dems refuse to be friends with the other side - compared to just five percent of Republicans. So apparently the newly woke prefer to judge you as good or evil based on political affiliation. Which explains how a child-rapist rioter attacking someone in Kenosha suddenly becomes a martyr.

It's time for a national intervention to put an end to these spoiled brats taken over our culture.

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/09/21

carefully-fall-off-cliffWatch out below. But is he talking about just markets or the Democrat Party too?

The Bottom Is Far Lower Than Anyone Believes Possible

Historical perspective for investors - and anyone else who wants to survive the next decade:

Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt

A current warning for investors; insider stock sales at record highs; they know things that you don't know

What Do They Know? Insiders Are Dumping Stocks At The Fastest Pace In History

And be sure to check out the Saudi scandal of botoxed camels….

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EVERYTHING THEY TOLD YOU IS A LIE! EVERY AMERICAN MUST SEE THIS MOVIE!

capitol-punish-videoThe inimitable actor Nick Searcy was present in D.C. on January 6.  You just watched the trailer of his film about what he saw that day, Capitol Punishment.

For all Americans who find it hard to believe that our FBI and DOJ are now dangerous enemies of the people, this film will be a shock.  Those two law enforcement institutions are most assuredly now enemies of all law-abiding citizens.  The phenomenon of January 6 was no insurrection; it was a carefully calculated set-up.

Searcy's film shows just how far toward totalitarianism America has gone since Obama had his way with our federal institutions and just how perverse they have become since Donald Trump threatened to drain their swamp.  You have got to watch this movie.

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BEFORE BIDEN: HOW OBAMA SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN MILITARY

sabo-militiaObama fundamentally transformed the military the way that he did the country.

By the time Barack Obama left office, every branch of the military was smaller than it had been on September 11. But the change in size concealed the true impact of America’s most left-wing president in undermining our national security and weakening us in the face of our enemies.

"I've got a pen, and I've got a phone,” Obama famously boasted. He used the pen to unleash a blizzard of executive orders and memorandums. Some led to outraged protests, but some of his most devastating penned assaults on our nation’s military flew under the radar.

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THE OLD CNN IS DEAD

rip_newsSo, let me give you an advantage in your political discussion group. Here is the headline for January 1, 2022: The old CNN is dead!

The cause of death is not the forced departure of Chris Cuomo or Rachel Maddow’s act becoming so old she is moving to a weekly show. Nor is it that CNN’s jaundiced journalists conspired to be completely wrong about Kyle Rittenhouse, the false Russia collusion claim, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Jessie Smollett, Border Patrol whippings, and countless other “important” news stories.

The real reason is…..

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH THE QUIET POWER OF KINDNESS

kind-elephantFor some, happiness is a word that conjures up visions of selfish people concerned only with their own pleasure; but this sort of hedonistic approach to happiness is a recipe for serial bursts of pleasure at the expense of long-term happiness.

When I speak of happiness, I am describing a much richer concept; more akin to what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia or "success at being human."

One of the central elements for living well is how we relate to other people. In this regard, happiness is literally the opposite of self-centeredness or self-absorption. In fact, contrary to many Las Vegas advertisements or Hollywood-lifestyle fantasies, self-absorption is a key ingredient for depression, and single-minded focus on personal pleasure is a recipe for long-term misery.

So here's the single most effective thing we can do to get an immediate and significant boost to our genuine happiness - and to set the stage for a deeper, long-term happiness as well. It's simple. It's not mysterious. But it is substantial:

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IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE ROE V WADE IS DOOMED

hands-off-roe[Note by Jack Wheeler: We are republishing this article appearing today (12/02) in the pro-abortion woke left website Vox.com for your enjoyment. It is marvelously Schadenfreudelicious.]

Republican presidents have said for years that they would appoint justices who will overrule Roe. They’ve probably succeeded.

Midway through arguments in a case that could end with the Supreme Court abolishing the constitutional right to an abortion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked a pointed question about the Court’s future: “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception, that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?

There are early signs Sotomayor is correct that the public is turning against the Court as the Court turns against Roe v. Wade. But during Wednesday’s (12/01) oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, all six of the Court’s Republican appointees appeared eager to push ahead anyway and overrule at least some key parts of the Court’s prior decisions protecting abortion.

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/02/21

avoid-vax-rulesOroville CA declares itself to be a sanctuary city for a constitutional republic. If you live in a blue state, should the town you live in do the same?

California Town Declares Independence From "Dictatorship Powers" Of State, Federal COVID Mandates

Uncle Sam, organized crime mastermind:

Forbes Magazine: FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes

An inside look at the greatest crime of the 21st century (to date):

A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats: Scott Atlas Exposes The Real COVID Disaster

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SHOULD’VE TAKEN MY ADVICE TO DRILL, BABY, DRILL, JOE!

Sarah Palin & Joe Biden, VP Debate, Oct. 2, 2008

Sarah Palin & Joe Biden, VP Debate, Oct. 2, 2008

It’s curious how certain phrases catch on.

When I took on Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2008, they used “Hope and Change.” Now, Biden is the inspiration for “Let’s Go, Brandon!”

My slogan was “Drill, baby, drill.” It was true and necessary in 2008, and it’s needed now more than ever. Because “Drill, baby, drill” isn’t just a desire for more oil. It is a call for more of America.

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A TALE OF TWO WISCONSIN CITIES

Kenosha vs Waukesha

Kenosha vs Waukesha

Both Wisconsin towns, Kenosha, and Waukesha, about 50 miles apart by car, were the recent sites of multiple deaths. The violence in both made national news. Yet in contradictory ways both reflected the common themes of America’s current legal, media, and societal corruption.

The relevant public prosecutors in both were in the news for alleged ideological bias. Specifically, they habitually calibrated the charging, indicting, and trying (or not) of defendants through ideological lenses and community pressure rather than on the basis of the facts and the law.

And in both, the mainstream media has laid bare their complete lack of journalistic integrity and of moral decency.

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ANTIFA WANTS GUNS AFTER RITTENHOUSE VERDICT — I SAY LET THEM

antifarmsAntifa and BLM typically throw their tantrums in liberal hellholes, or where guns aren’t easily allowed, like Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and New York City.

Kenosha, Wisconsin was a different story. When Antifa and BLM went to Kenosha to riot against the police shooting of an armed black sexual predator named Jacob Blake, they were probably thinking they could play by their usual rules: burn and loot with near impunity, and attack whomever they want.

Kyle Rittenhouse changed those rules. Now that the Antifa creatures know the game has changed, they are wetting their non-binary underoos. They want to arm up, but being pinko leftists, they don’t know which end to point the gun.  This is going to be fun.

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/26/21

lucky-charms-cerealFood prices to rise further:

Report: General Mills Will Raise Prices up to 20 Percent in January

Food inflation is hitting the entire planet hard.  A major factor is the big increase in the price of natural gas causing a similar price increase in ammonia and ammonium nitrate fertilizers, which are made from natural gas.  The largest fertilizer plants in both Britain and the EU have shut down due to high natgas prices.  Food prices will be a lot higher by November 2022, and not just in the US:

Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains

More deaths despite vaccines:

New York Times Admits More Coronavirus Deaths Under Biden 'Despite Vaccines'

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THE DEMOCRATS ARE A COMMUNIST PARTY NOW

no-thanksgivingSaule Omarova -- who attended Moscow State University on the Lenin Academic Scholarship, compared America unfavorably to the USSR, and called for nationalizing finance -- isn’t Biden’s first Communist nominee. Omarova is only Biden’s first openly Communist nominee.

Omarova isn’t saying anything that her new party hasn’t already advocated. Biden’s whole Build Back Better program is just another interim step in nationalizing the economy.

Biden’s pick for comptroller of the currency has been taken to task for her calls to "end banking as we know it”, bankrupt oil and gas companies, and seize control of the entire economy.

Those used to be Communist articles of faith. Now they’re Democrat “solutions.”

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AMERICANS ARE ENDURING A BIDEN REIGN OF TERROR

reign-of-terrorThe Biden administration has taken advantage of our already weaponized law enforcement institutions and made them into his version of East Germany's Stasi.  The Stasi's main job was spying on the population, exactly what Merrick Garland has authorized of American citizens.

Political dissent is a crime to this administration.  Such spying is built into Biden's absurd Build Back Better bill.  If it passes, all bets are off.  Our overlords will have access to our bank accounts, our medical records, our children's school psychometric records (part of Garland's son-in-law's intrusive educational program he sells to schools).

We will be communist East Germany, Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany. Watch the 2006 Academy Award-winning filmThe Lives of Others, set in 1984 East Germany.  That is the direction Biden is taking us.

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IF THE VACCINES WORK, WHY AREN’T THEY WORKING?

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In the movie Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) queries his team of scouts when discussing a prospective player, “If he's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good?” [first 60 seconds of clip above]. The scouts all have solid explanations, at least in their minds, of why a prospect might be a good hitter, from the sound of the crack of the bat when they hit the ball to the player’s good looks.

These explain why the player should be a good hitter, but what if the numbers, from batting average to on-base percentage, tell a different story? What if we ask the same question about COVID vaccines, rephrased as “If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?”

The CDC website states, “COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and free.” Those three words are all relative. Let’s quickly unpack them.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH SELF-INTERESTED WORK

frontlinersGiving and helping others are wonderful things. What’s often overlooked though is how much consciousness, caring, time, money, and energy each one of us already puts into significantly helping other people every day – through the work we do.

It’s popular these days to dismiss all this because we’re doing it for the money – as though earning money cheapens our efforts, makes our efforts base, selfish, or materialistic.

When demagogues lecture young college graduates to forego making money, and instead to do something else that helps people, they are telling them that what we do to make money does not help people.

This, of course, is exactly the opposite of the truth.

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/18/21

woke-religion G.K. Chesterton — 'When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.'  Why Wokeism is a religion:

Why Wokeism Is A Religion

Why have an “unusually large number of professional and amateur soccer players collapsed recently”?  Something to do with getting vaxxed perhaps?

German Newspaper Highlights “Unusually Large” Number of Soccer Players Who Have Collapsed Recently

The wheels are coming off the publics' trust in Xiden, too.  Note this is a poll by left-wing Politico:

Poll: Majority of Voters Believe Joe Biden Is Untrustworthy, Dishonest, Incapable

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KAMALA HARRIS IS A VERY WEIRD PERSON

clueless-kamalaWhen Kamala Harris considers movie titles that make people think of her, she probably goes straight to “Wonder Woman.” I have news for her: Every time she opens her mouth, people are wondering, “What Planet Are You From?”

It’s pretty clear everyone in the White House hates her and is blame-leaking to every reporter around in hopes of emerging from this explosion in the stink-bomb factory without carrying any failure fragrance.

All politicians blather, but Harrisblather is like an air salad with vapor croutons and nullity dressing. She went all the way to France to offer insights like, “We must together. Work together. To see where we are. Where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be.”

Where did she learn to talk like this? Every time she speaks, it’s like watching Wile E. Coyote’s feet keep spinning madly even after he’s run off the cliff.

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KYLE RITTENHOUSE AND THE FALSE NARRATIVE

kyle-rittenhouseThe Kyle Rittenhouse trial is an important moment in American culture, because this isn’t just about Kyle Rittenhouse. In a sense, Antifa is also on trial. So is the narrative that the media has been peddling for months, not just about Rittenhouse, but also so  many other things it lies about.

For me, the unacknowledged heroes of the Rittenhouse case are the intrepid videographers who were on the scene recording what was taking place on the street. Without them, Rittenhouse would probably be facing a real risk of being convicted for double murder.

Why? Because he’s dealing with a dishonest prosecutor, who doesn’t hesitate to say things he knows are misleading; dishonest detectives, who don’t hesitate to twist the truth; and a dishonest media, which has been brazenly lying about what happened between Rittenhouse and his combatants for a whole year.

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WHY THE LEFT ALWAYS PROJECTS

feel-bad-life-choicesThe Left is addicted to projection—the psycho-political syndrome of attributing all of one’s own sins to one’s opponents.

The Woke apparently do this out of some Freudian effort to square the circle of their own guilt or sense of privilege, by fobbing off their own fearful realities onto others. It is the atheist version of confession or medieval penance.

Here we examine four examples, the Privileged condemning privilege; the Colluders investing collusion; Election Denialists becoming denialist; Racists being racist. How did they get this way?

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THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE – WHICH STAGE ARE WE AT NOW?

skullsAs we wait to see what our commie-fascist ruling class has planned for us next, this might be a good time to pull out Gregory H. Stanton's "Ten Stages of Genocide" as a helpful reminder for keeping track of how things are "progressing" (pun intended).

Stanton, an academic and the founder of Genocide Watch, organized a sobering list of red-flag actions undertaken by governments over the last century on their way to committing mass murder.  See if any of them rings any bells with how supposedly "free" governments are behaving today.

Start counting…

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/11/21

what-am-i-doingThe 'Crats will learn nothing from the latest election.  They will triple down on their bad ideas.  Tighten the strap on your crash helmet; 2022 will be a challenging and hard year for us, but is likely to be catastrophic for them:

Luongo: Expect Democrats To Not Learn The Real Lessons From Virginia's Elections

The supply chain wreck is going to get a lot worse.  My advice?  If you don't already have a few months’ supply of your everyday canned and dried foods, get it while you can.  Pet food, too.  Don't buy survival foods; you don't need expensive ultra light weight portability.  Buy what you eat regularly, and rotate your stock.  Don't forget detergent and toilet paper  - and fuel.  Whatever the government does to "fix" the problem will certainly make a bad situation even worse

Here's Why US Supply Chain Problems Will Only Get Worse

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DO NOT COMPLY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2021

Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2021

Last Thursday (11/04), it was announced that OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is forcing employers with over 100 employees to comply with President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate by January 4th, 2022 or face heavy fines.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is also giving 17 million healthcare workers until January 4th to be fully vaccinated.

In 2022 we will witness the emergence of a parallel society and I hope to help make that happen with the work we are doing here at Gab.

Over the past year we’ve provided tens of millions of people with a variety of resources to fight back against this medical tyranny and infringement of basic human rights.  Here they are

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VAX MANDATES AND TIMESHARE SCAMS

scam-alertFrom the beginning, the Covid “vaccines” have felt like a massive timeshare scam.

Initially, consider the source. Vaxxmania arises from, and is zealously sponsored by, the same “experts” who masterminded the epic Covid overreaction: Fauci, Walensky, the Democrat governors, and the media.  Like a timeshare sales pitch, the folly of lockdowns, closures, masking and mass testing should have been obvious from Day 1.

Viruses are ubiquitous, and respiratory infections are an unavoidable part of community life. Fortunately, such infections tend to be self-limiting. Further, Italian data from March, 2020 should have told everyone that healthy, non-old people were not at serious risk.

Nonetheless, as with timeshares, many Americans bought the scam. Nineteen months of mass psychosis later, many vaxxers are still fearful, wearing masks—even outside—and demanding universal “vaccination.”  Why?

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY MAKING IT A FAIR FIGHT

sweet-pastriesWe have a wonderful deli/bakery nearby that has great, healthy food -- and in the next display case very yummy, not-so-healthy treats – cookies, éclairs, pastries… very tempting stuff. Every once in awhile I’m seduced by these delicacies, and when I am, I almost always notice something afterwards: I don’t feel as good as I did before.

It’s not a severely bad feeling, and I can easily ignore it if I want to. But if I pay attention to the sensations in my body, there’s a clearly different feeling from my insides; it’s not as pleasant as it was before I had eaten the sugar filled morsel.

This is the key to making our fight against bad habits a fair fight.

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/04/21

aussie-viral-nightmareAustralia’s nightmare is Xiden’s dream for America.  One lesson is that Aussies have no 2nd Amendment and have been forcibly disarmed.

Australia Confiscating Bank Accounts, Property, Licenses, & Businesses For Non-Compliance With COVID Fines

Vaccinations and vaccination mandates are NOT an effective public health measure.  But don't expect any policy changes from corrupt government officials.  Here is the real science: “There appears to be no discernible relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases… the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have HIGHER (emphasis added) COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.”

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

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THE TIDE HAS TURNED

Breitbart News this morning 11/03

Breitbart News this morning 11/03

What an absolutely huge win this was for us yesterday — not just the election in Virginia, which was huge in itself —but the tightness of the race in New Jersey. And then there are other important referendums and races around the country all pointing in the same direction.

This is great news going forward. It shows us in a sense the formula for beating the Democrats and it's just such a huge relief.

I woke up this morning, I was looking in the mirror, and I thought, "I look a year younger." It wasn't just jubilation over the outcome, it's also just the sense that we've been suffering a little bit of PTSD, our side, going back to the 2020 election.

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THE REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF “LETS GO, BRANDON!”

lets-go-bFor very good reason, the media and Democrats feel threatened and terrified by the “Let’s go, Brandon!” chant, which is why we must never stop saying it.

Like the persecuted Christians of old who identified themselves to one another by drawing a fish in the dirt, “Let’s go, Brandon!” is shorthand for I’m with you. You are not alone. We are in this together. Oh, and eff Joe Biden.

It’s good, clean, rebellious fun – and here’s why it’s so terrifying to the Joyless Left.

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THE BUZZ ON QUERCETIN

quercetin[Note by Jack Wheeler:  I have taken quercetin daily for many years, for overall health and life-extension purposes.  That research is emerging of its being protective against the Chicom virus, indeed all viruses as reported here by Dr. Joondeph, should be of interest to us all – although I’ll now have to double my dose to around 1 gram a day (500mg 2xday), the therapeutic dose of the research.  Note that Amazon sells some two dozen quercetin formulas, at a cost of $20-$30 or so for 2 months supply.]

Quercetin has been in the news lately, particularly as one of many potential therapeutics that might have some benefit in the prevention or treatment of COVID infection. Is there anything to this?

Could quercetin be of benefit against COVID, or for that matter, the common cold or the flu? As are always told to “follow the science”, what does science say? Let’s take a look.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH THE PHYSICAL BENEFITS OF HAPPINESS

happy-facesWe are all familiar with the basic guidelines for good health: exercise, eat right - more fruits and veggies, less red meat, more fish, fewer calories, more fiber, less sugar- don't smoke, don't abuse alcohol or drugs.  If people would follow these guidelines and maintain an optimal weight, many health problems would be greatly diminished.

But there is another dimension to our health. How we think and feel, how we interact with others, and the kind of activities we spend our time engaged in can have a huge impact on our physical health.

There have been many conflicting theories of psychology, and each one can lead you to practice very different ways of thinking, behaving, and interacting.

A Freudian would have you spend hours free associating about memories and fantasies, absorbed in your internal process, with an emphasis on your past.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/29/21

man-or-womanThis Halloween has a different feel than years past. My smaller city celebrates Halloween with enthusiasm. Hundreds of children are usually on the prowl and the neighborhoods are decorated with lights and spider webs and all types of creepy things.

Well almost all, you see the millennials now buying into the area turn their porch lights off and hover around their computer screens. They don’t want to be bothered and they don’t see the kid’s costumes as anything out of the ordinary.

To these folks, everyday is Halloween.

Welcome to the Halloween HFR, Come on over.

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SKYE’S LINKS 10/28/21

back-in-the-ussrBack in the USSR:

$250 Billion Fund CIO Blasts Washington's 'Soviet-Style' Central Planning: "Disassociating Demand From Supply In Fundamental Ways"

Xiden's nominee to regulate banking is a Soviet Communist (yes, for real: her graduating thesis at the Soviet Union’s Moscow University in 1989 was Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in Das Kapital) who wants to require that all bank deposits be transferred to the Federal Reserve - really!:

Biden's Bank Regulator Nominee Would End Community Banking

What if the supply chain collapse isn't due to incompetence, but is purposely driven by lockdowns, vaccine mandates, paying people more not to work than to work, zero interest rates, and so very much more?

Planned Supply Line Demolition – A Feature Not A Bug

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THE FRIGHTENED CLASS

peeping-throughThey’re all around us, especially those of us who live in relatively prosperous metropolitan neighborhoods in the US or Western Europe. Despite being—at least in material terms—among the most fortunate people who have ever walked the earth, they are very scared.

And they want you to be very frightened too.

Indeed, many of them see your refusal to be as frightened as they are about life’s inevitable risks as a grave problem which entitles them and their often powerful and influential fellow travelers to recur to all manner of authoritarian practices to ensure that you adhere to their increasingly neurotic view of reality.

Why?

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HEALTH CARE WORKERS EXPLAIN WHY THEY WOULD RATHER LOSE THEIR JOBS THAN GET VAXXED

vaccine-doseDespite the COVID-19 vaccines having been promoted as safe and effective by legacy media, many health care workers are refusing to take them, and those who openly speak out about their concerns get censored by Big Tech companies or kicked off their platforms.

Some nurses and doctors are refusing vaccine mandates even if their refusal will cost them their jobs.  I recently interviewed a number of them to learn why.  I believe they are representative of many thousands of health care professionals all over America who refuse to bow down to vax mandates.  This is what they told me in their own words.

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RUSSIA GOING SOUR ON CHINA?

putin-and-liProfessor Alexander Lukin’s bookChina and Russia: The New Rapprochement” discussed the promise of Sino-Russian cooperation.  That was in 2018.

In contrast, Lukin now frankly admits that “any possible changes in U.S. policy will probably prove less of a deterrent to further Russian-Chinese rapprochement than will Russian concerns over China’s growing assertiveness.” He argues that “the peak of Russian-Chinese rapprochement has probably passed.”

There’s an old saying that best friends can make the worst enemies.  Is that happening between Russia and China?

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SHAKING OFF LEFTIST PHILOSOPHY

lenin-philosophyThe whole Progressive, Leftist enterprise can be characterized as the astonishing practice of trying to improve things by making them worse. It has always been so.

Today, Lenin’s heirs insistently promote equity and anti-racism, even as the results of their policies look like chaos. Border control is non-existent, vagrancy is explained away, crimes have been de-criminalized, and everyone must be injected with substances that are not entirely safe or effective. But rejoice brothers and sisters in the struggle, for we’re eradicating inequalities and disparities.

How is it, though, that despite the wretched examples of Soviet Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and other experiments in political and social ruin, up to and including the Biden administration, we can’t shake this ever-failing philosophy?

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DEFUND THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE

education-deep-stateDon’t want this to happen to your state’s schools?  Here’s a suggestion or two to prevent that.

Until quite recently, American parents thought of public schools as democratically accountable local institutions. But the pandemic revealed how much of K-12 education is controlled by teachers’ unions, unelected bureaucrats, and non-governmental organizations.

This reality, considered alongside the apparent collusion between the Biden White House and the National School Boards Association to create a pretext for a federal law enforcement intervention to chill parental opposition to critical race theory (CRT), will raise the specter in many parents’ minds of a public education “deep state.”  This has to be stopped.

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