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Nexus X HumectressFauci Floats MANDATES For Travel, Zoo Animals VACCINATED For Covid
Team Rising reacts to reporting that The Maryland Zoo is vaccinating some animals against COVID-19, plus Dr. Fauci’s latest comments on expanding vaccine mandates.
CBS BACK To The Drawing Board For ‘The Activist’ After Critics Call It TONE DEAF
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the fallout from CBS’s new project, ‘The Activist.’
1 In 5 Nursing Home Residents Given Antipsychotics, UNDERSTAFFED Facilities To Blame
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to reporting that the nursing home industry concealed the amount of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs.
Facebook Has Learned NOTHING, New Report Details SPECIAL TREATMENT For VIP Users
Team Rising discusses President Biden’s decision to nominate privacy advocate Alvaro Bedoya for FTC commissioner.
Tucker Carlson ADMITS To LYING On Air, Says It’s Different Than When CNN Does It
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Rachel Bovard discuss Tucker Carlson’s comments about lying in mainstream media.
Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Failure in Afghanistan
Telos Zoom Discussion September 18, 2021 4 pm to 6 pm U.S. Eastern time Join Telos editors Mark Kelly, Tim Luke, Adrian Pabst, Marcia Pally, David Pan, and David Westbrook for a discussion of the causes of the U.S. failure in Afghanistan and the long-term consequences. To attend, […]
Does America Hate the “Poorly Educated”?
By Matt Taibbi Michael Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” doesn’t say so, but the pandemic has become the ultimate expression of upper-class America’s obsession with meritocracy. It was impossible to mistake the tone of Joe Biden’s announcement of a vaccine mandate last week. It was an angry speech, […]
‘California Secessionist’ campaigner Louis Marinelli set for Calexit comeback
Make it happen. By Greg Russell The National HE is a controversial figure in some parts of the US, choosing to spend most of his time at his home in Russia, however Louis Marinelli is set to return to California as the voice of its independence movement Calexit […]
Texas Nationalists See Secession Looming. Does Anyone Else?
Secessionist sympathy has nearly doubled in the last decade. Micro-level and intermediate-level secessionist actions have taken place. But macro-level secession is still on the margins in terms of on-the-ground action. That is what needs to change. How do we get this ball rolling? By Patrick Strickland Dallas Observer […]
Who Are the Trumpists?
Does not this Wikipedia description of France’s National Rally not sound like a perfect description of the transformation of the Republicans from Reaganism to Trumpism? “At the end of the 1970s, Le Pen refurbished his party’s appeal by breaking away from the anti-capitalist heritage of Poujadism. He instead […]
Who Are the Progressive Democrats?
Does not this Wikipedia description of Ted Kennedy sound like a perfect description of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party today? The only difference between the Ted Kennedy liberals and today’s progressives is that the identity politics/political correctness of today’s liberals have become more extreme and visceral. […]
Who Are the Neoliberal Democrats?
Does not this Wikipedia description of the Rockefeller Republicans sound like a perfect description of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party today? These were driving out of the Republicans by the Reaganites so they moved over to the Democrats, and that’s how we got the Clintons, Obama, […]
How Tucker Carlson Lost It
By Alex Shephard New Republic In February 2009, when he took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Tucker Carlson was in the midst of an identity crisis. Five years earlier, he had been a victim of what was arguably the first viral takedown of the internet […]
Biden Approval Continues To SLIP After ROCKY Month In WH, Attempts To Reclaim The Narrative
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 47 percent of voters approve of President Biden in the White House. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss.
Nicki Minaj HITS BACK At MSM Over Vaccine Comments, CALLS OUT White House For LYING About Invitation
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Nicki Minaj’s recent tweets sharing her hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Scathing Testimony: Gymnasts BLAME FBI For 70 More Assaults By Larry Nassar, BOTCHED Investigation
Katie Halper reacts to shocking testimony on Capitol Hill from USA gymnasts. The women accused the FBI of grossly mishandling its investigation into convicted sex offender, Larry Nassar.
Ballpark Workers To STRIKE Over Working Conditions In SF, Demand RAISES & Covid Safety Precautions
Sports editor for SF Gate, Alex Shultz, explains why Oracle Park concessions workers have voted to strike.
Dems ABANDON Capital Gains Reform, ALLOWING Ultra Rich To SKIRT The System
HuffPost reporter Arthur Delaney breaks down President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ tax reform plan, including the controversial ‘Zombie Tax.’
Biden’s Pick For Title IX Czar Will EVISCERATE Due Process, Senate MUST Reject
Robby Soave breaks down why some Title IX investigations on college campuses erase the rights of the accused.
Newsom’s ‘Virtue Signal’ Mandates, Israel Cases SPIKE As Country REQUIRES 3rd Jab
Kim Iversen reacts to the mandates Governor Gavin Newsom issued immediately after defeating a recall election.
DANGEROUS Dead End Nuclear Energy Subsidies Are A WASTE Of Money
Ryan Grim makes the case against investing more in nuclear energy.
Centrist Dems SINK Rx Drug Pricing Legislation, Cigarette Tax Proposal HURTS Working Class
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the latest roadblock in Democrats’ efforts to lower prescription drug prices.
REFORM AND REVOLUTION, Moderates and Revolutionaries in the CGT
By Larry Gambone Until the outbreak of the First World War the Confederation General du Travail (CGT) was a revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist union federation. Thereafter, the CGT was taken over by reformists and became an ordinary conservative trade union. So goes the accepted viewpoint. Murray Bookchin makes a statement […]
Crater Lake, and Semiconductors
By Peter Zeihan on September 17 2021 So, what does keep my up at night? The current global semiconductor supply chain. Distinct capabilities exist in separate supply chains and manufacturing bases—lower end supply from China, higher-end chips from places like Taiwan and South Korea. And a critical middle-ground from […]
Did Top General Commit TREASON Under Trump?
Saagar provides his analysis on reports showing that top US General Mark Milley might have committed treason under Trump and violated every norm set for military commanders
McKayla Maroney Reveals FBI LIES AND FAILURES In Larry Nassar Case
Krystal and Saagar react to the devastating testimony given by USA gymnasts McKayla Maroney and Simone Biles about how the FBI lied and cover up doctor Larry Nassar’s predatory abuse
Ex-CIA, NSA CAUGHT SPYING On Americans For Foreign Governments
Krystal and Saagar make light of the new reports surrounding the illegal spying on Americans conduced by ex-CIA and NSA employees for foreign governments in exchange for large payments
The Good, Bad and UGLY of AOC’s Dress
Krystal gives her perspective on the highly controversial dress worn by AOC to the lavish Met Gala event in New York City
White Liberals RESCUE Newsom With Latino Warning Signs For Dems
Krystal and Saagar break down the results of the California recall election and what the voting trends among white liberals and latinos could mean for Dems in the 2022 midterms
Will Corrupt Dems SINK Biden Bill For Big Pharma?
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist David Dayen to break down the fight over lowering drug prices taking place within the Democratic party as negotiations for the reconciliation bill heat up
Biden COVID Approval SINKS As He Bets On Mandate To Save Him
Krystal and Saagar look at the newest polling data out on Biden’s approval rating and the public opinion about his covid vaccine mandate
Nicki Minaj GOES TO WAR With Joy Reid, Hasan, Twitter Over Vaccine Claims
Krystal and Saagar try to make sense of Nicki Minaj’s war on twitter with Hasan Piker, Joy Reid, and others about the false claims she made about vaccine side effects
The increase in LGBTQ support for Trump has a silver lining
Those who interpret Trumpism only in terms of “white rage,” xenophobia, or the evangelicals end up missing a lot of important points. If the Democrats are now two parties within one, neo-Rockefeller Republicans and neo-Ted Kennedy liberals, the Republicans seem to be developing a rainbow of their own […]
We should be thankful to him’: why some Muslim voters stood by Trump
It comes down to social conservatism, business conservatism, and objections to Obama’s continuation of the Bush wars, and new wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. By Erum Salam, The Guardian Despite the president’s anti-Muslim policies, the margin between Trump and Biden among Muslim voters was closer than experts […]
When war drums roll: What Hunter S. Thompson wrote a week after 9/11
By Hunter S. Thompson, ESPN Johnny Depp called me from France on Sunday night and asked what I knew about Osama bin Laden. “Nothing,” I said. “Nothing at all. He is a ghost, for all I know. Why do you ask?” “Because I’m terrified of him,” he said. […]
George W. Bush now darling of liberal media: Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald discusses the left went from hating George W. Bush during his presidency to praising him this weekend on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’
Trump Derangement Syndrome So Bad it Has CNN Praising George W Bush
Imagine going back to 2003 and telling liberals and leftists that they’ll be praising George Bush in the future.
Rose McGowan reveals when she knew everybody was in on Weinstein’s crimes
Actress who began the uncovering of Harvey Weinstein tells her story on ‘Tucker Carlson Today’
Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid respond to ‘On the Media’ free speech critiques
pisode that questioned free speech values and challenged so-called “free speech absolutism.” On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid, who provide direct responses to many of the free speech critiques made in On […]
The American One Party State
Tom Woods Show Paul Gottfried joins me to discuss the emerging one-party state in America. This isn’t the kind of conversation we might have had in the old days, lamenting the lack of difference between the two parties. This time the emergence of a one-party state is taking […]
Is This Where Secession Begins?
The earliest polls concerning the popularity of modern secessionist movements began in the late 2000s at the end of the George W. Bush era. At that time, about 1 in 5 Americans expressed a casual sympathy for secession. Now it’s up to almost 2 in 5. However, no […]
Report: 74% of professors targeted for unpopular speech or research end up punished by administrators
By Sarah Imgrund – Liberty University Attempts to sanction scholars for their speech, research or teaching practices has skyrocketed since 2015, with about three in four campaigns leading to some form of professional sanction — including termination — according to a new report by the Foundation for Individual […]
‘Zones of Transition’: Micronationalism in the Work of J. G. Ballard
By Simon Sellars Consider the spatial imagery in Ballard’s work. It is often predicated on a vocabulary of secession, a quasi-revolutionary zeal mediated not so much by hard rhetoric or ideology, but by a concealed network of colonies, anomalous regions and virtual city-states, often metaphoric in nature and analogous […]
Definitions, Pluralism, Anarchy
The discussion that follows this article is interesting. Anarchist News from Libertarian Labyrinth Constructing Anarchisms: Definitions, Pluralism, Anarchy More Notes for a Preface The Difficulty of Defining Terms One of the ideas driving Constructing Anarchisms has been the notion that “anarchy” and “anarchism” mark problems that it is […]
What happened to Anarchism? (A critique of American Antifa)
Rhyd Wildermuth Gods and Radicals I. An Unfortunate Coincidence In August of last year, I received a terrifying email from a journalist: I’m reaching out to you because Mr. Michael Reinoehl, who is a person of interest in the shooting Saturday night, is registered to vote at XXXXXXX […]
Israel’s Alarming Data
Big pharma CEOs are buying a few more Carribean islands…..for their pets
Politico Reports Vaccine Wears Off
As the old saying goes: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” The modern version: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they move the goal posts .”
Iceland’s Chief Epidemiologist Says Herd Immunity Cannot Be Achieved Through Vaccines
“The vaccine should be tested on politicians first. If they survive, the vaccine is safe. If they don’t, then the country is safe.” — Monika Wiśniewska
Laramie, and Rare Earths
Peter Zeihan’s Sinoskepticism is a welcome counter-voice to the present efforts by the US power elite to develop a cold war with China. By Peter Zeihan on September 16, 2021 Concerns are rising over Chinese dominance in the realm of rare earths metals processing. This is a problem that […]
China’s Expanded Economic Zone Eyes More Hong Kong Connectivity
Fine News China’s recently announced the expansion of a special economic zone in Shenzhen as part of plans to further business links with Hong Kong, including its financial sector. The Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone will grow from around 15 square kilometers to over 120 […]
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