August 22, 2026
Disgraceful! Woman Facing Three Years in Prison for Taking her Transitioning Son Away from the Perverts Who were Enabling HIm
Timothy Birdnow
It ain't kidnapping if it's your kid and he's under age. I don't care if he got a court order that said it was wrong for mom to try to stop him from cutting off his schnickle.
The kid was living with foster parents, apparently, while attempting to transition and had a court order against the mother.
Some things are beyond the authority of courts and this is one of them; a mother to an underage child has rights that supersede the courts. It is one thing is she is physically or psychologically abusive but trying to stop a child from permanently damaging their bodies or minds does not qualify. But that's what they have done; they made sex changes into a sacred cow, and it is considered abuse for parents to try to stop it. But it is abuse BY THE SYSTEM to encourage this in the first place.
If the kid wants to be a woman he should wait until he's a legal man.
Actually he has; he is now 21 and never did transition, thank goodness.
Somebody ought to bust this woman out of prison. We cannot have the law abusing people like this.
The infuriating part of this is that it was the Department of Justice who brought the charges - you know, Todd Blanche's office. With Trump in office and his hand-picked guy running the DOJ, one must wonder why these kinds of cases are still in motion. Yes, the charges were brought under Biden, but why hasn't Hegseth and company not gone back to court to get this dismissed? And why hasn't Trump offered a pardon?
This is morally wrong and it must not be allowed. President Trump needs to intervene personally in this case. Since these were Federal charges he can issue a pardon.
The people involved in this should be sacked by Hegseth. Hopefully they already have been.
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Victory for Free Speech and Press
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. D.C. Circuit just declared undercover journalism is
protected speech under the First Amendment.
The appellate court found in favor of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas over an undercover sting operation that they were sued for and which a lower court awarded damages to the stung party.
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Democracy Partners vs. O’Keefe - VERDICT OVERTURNED
VICTORY IN D.C. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, PANEL RULES 2-1
Appeal Court Rules Undercover Journalism Protected as 1st Amendment Activity setting precedent for all undercover journalism.
Democratic-appointed appellate Judge
This is interesting as the state of California just passed it's
Stop Nick Shirley Act, which outlawed this very kind of journalism.
No doubt this ruling will be appealed and may make it to the Supreme Court. If the Court rules with any logic at all this will put an end to the California law, not right away but after a while. I have little doubt Mr. Shirley and others are filing lawsuits against the Golden Shower State for this.
For a political movement that claims to believe in democracy they sure do hate free speech, don't they. And they hate being exposed.
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Uncle Zohran's Merry Markets
Timothy Birdnow
If Whole Foods has trouble keeping salmonella out of their produce imagine how it's going to be in Mamdani's government-run stores.
If I were a shopper in New York I'd make sure everything I bought from there was pre-packaged.
Meat is susceptible to problems if the butchers are unsanitary in their practices. For instance, you don't cut chicken with your beef saw or vice versa (vice versa more as chicken is especially infectious.) You don't throw old meat into your hamburger grinder. But all of that will probably happen and Happy Zohran's Merry Market.
And who knows what you will get in the produce department.
Good thing most dairy is dated; at least the customer will know how old the stuff he's buying is, although he won't have a guarantee about how fresh it is since the milk or eggs might have been left in a hot stock room rather than refrigerated right after delivery.
These are all problems that are likely to happen in a store run by people undoubtedly hired by the city from the unemployment office.
I was a grocery store manager (well, co-manager, but I ran the store with the top guy) when I was younger and our company got bought out. The new owners hired a bunch of people through the unemployment office, and they were worse than useless. We kept them out of the departments where they could make people sick - like produce or dairy (meat cutters were outside of all this by union rules) but they still were terrible. The cashiers all stole. The stockers did little work and complained and had to be constantly supervised. We weeded them out over the course of months.
As I say, we dared not let them near any department with fresh food. (My store thankfully didn't have a deli.)
These Mamdani stores are going to be run by people who do not care, and the staff won't care. This is a poisoning waiting to happen.
BTW the changeover happened when I was called to jury duty and I wound up on a trial that lasted a solid month, so I missed the absolute worst of it. My poor boss had to face the disaster alone. My return probably saved the poor guy's life. It certainly saved a few years on my own by not being there at the very beginning. But it was one messed up operation until we thinned the herd and hired our own people. Within six months almost all of the people the corporation hired were gone - and thankfully so. I spent all my time doing damage control that first six months.
We got the store profitable again then the out-of-town company that bought it sold it to a local chain, and THEY came in and systematically began cleaning us out. I remained but it was clear I was being pushed to leave because the local chain had their own people who wanted our jobs. I quit shortly after my boss Herb was demoted to grocery manager in a store in Illinois - one of the physicall most demanding jobs in the business and herb was a man within a year of retirement - and within a few months my store closed. The entire chain is out of business now - bad management led to their collapse. It warms my heart.
At any rate these government stores are going to be monuments to socialist stupidity and will eventually be closed after losing the city massive amounts of money and making people sick. Mark my words.
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Well, this is gonna be a lot of fun for us non-New-Yorkers to watch, isn't it? We need to recruit our buddy Jack to be an under-cover reporter for Project Veritas on this, don't you think?
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Wind and Water
Timothy Birdnow
In addition to being sea bird blenders offshore wind farms can also
lead to drought in coastal areas as the turbines shift wind patterns and prevent rain clouds from moving over land before disgorging their contents aka it will rain out at sea and not on the land that needs it.
FTA:
"The results show that a large-scale expansion of offshore wind energy could lead to increased precipitation over offshore wind farm areas, while precipitation in adjacent coastal regions could decrease. The underlying mechanism is that wind turbines extract part of the wind's kinetic energy and simultaneously increase atmospheric turbulence.
Downstream of the turbines, strong variations in air movement enhance the exchange between different layers of the atmosphere. As a result, moist air can rise, cool and condense, leading to cloud formation and precipitation over the wind farms.
At the same time, the transport of moisture toward the coast is altered. If air masses release a greater share of their moisture as precipitation over offshore wind farm areas, less moisture remains available for precipitation in coastal regions. For parts of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the simulations indicate potential reductions in coastal precipitation of up to 15%."
So puree'd birds and drought are what you get from those giant ridiculous pinwheels at sea. Oh, and
hearing loss for people near them as well as
migrant birds losing habitat because they screw up their tracking systems when they migrate.
I've long argued we need a radically different approach if we are to make wind power viable. Windmills are 17th century technology and never were viable for much except grinding grain into flour and running pumps to drain Dutch polders.
I envision something that works like a magnetohydrodynamic generator. use magnetized iron filings to blow past a copper coil, inducing current flow. MHD systems do this by blowing plasma past the coil extremely fast, in essentially a rocket jet blast of plasma. High energy stuff. But perhaps a simpler, less energetic system could be created using aerosolized metal and a metal coil inside, say, a giant wind sock? You'd have to figure out a way to get the wind to return the fillings back to their point of origin to start the process over without using any of the energy collected, of course.
While it's doubtful that would produce enough energy, I'm just musing here. There must be a way to avoid the energy loss of mechanical rotating blades. Invent THAT and you will make a not inconsiderable fortune (provided someone doesn't cheat you out of it, which is likely).
Anyway offshore wind farms are a bad idea and aren't worth doing. Why waste so much money on massive infrastructure with so little return? Nuclear is the way to go. In fact, a nuclear MHD system would be REALLY the way to go! But the Environmentalists hate any large energy project that actually produces reliable energy because their ambition is to deindustrialize the world, to restore it to it's native state - and we all live dirt poor and starving. That is what happens to human beings in a state of nature; we starve. There is a reason why we built a civilization and especially an industrial civilization.
Life in a natural state is one of eternal seeking of food and a grumbling belly. Keep just some of our technology and you live in the brutishness of the neolithic, with constant warfare for what is produced because there are always famines and pestilences and someone looks across the border and asks why his luckier neighbor should have food and he doesn't. Then there is just a lack of comfort; hot in summer, cold in winter, light levels too low at night, no proper medicines, few luxury good, few goods in general. Try making your own blanket from raw materials! Most people couldn't live in the 19th century, much less than 6th century B.C.
Good luck with that!
At any rate going back to windmills is like going back to donkey carts, or worse. Maybe we can bring back rickshaws, and get the homeless to pull then as Kramer suggested on Seinfeld. They have nothing to do all day anyway.
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Carbon Dioxide Makes Grass Grow Green
Timothy Birdnow
Isn't this a good thing?
More grass means more food for animals and the whole ecology there flourishes. And it means more carbon taken out of the air.
The article states:
"The paper, published in Nature, shows that higher carbon dioxide levels help wild savanna grasses reduce water loss through their leaves. This allows them to maintain photosynthesis and produce more aboveground growth when water is scarce."
So the grasses become more efficient at holding water and thus growing even during dry spells, thus reducing the dangers of desertification. And at the same time they are taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And feeding animals.
The article continues:
"Dr. Kimberley Simpson, research fellow in the University of Sheffield's School of Biosciences and the study lead, said, "The grasses that dominate savannas have often been considered largely unresponsive to rising carbon dioxide because they already use a highly efficient form of photosynthesis under hot and high-light conditions.
"Our findings challenge that assumption. Under dry conditions, higher carbon dioxide helps these grasses conserve water, reduce drought stress and continue growing."
Savannahs cover one fifth of the Earth's surface, so this is a major find; it means a carbon sink that had been ignored by the geeeniuses at the IPCC.
Yes, grass fires then become more likely but still it's by and large good news.
And remember too that humans graze cattle on many of these Savannah lands (think eastern Colorado or Texas or Nebraska) and more grass means more cattle which means more steaks and chops and hamburgers.
This is an opportunity more than it is a problem. If life gives you lemons make lemonade, they say. The powers that be want to use lemons to make a bad tasting laxative.
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Russia on the Ropes
This from Mike
The next revolution may be coming soon. Russia is reported to have lost 225,000 men in the Ukraine war and recruitment is said to be at 221.000. After this next election Putin is expected to go for total mobilization and those who can are leaving while they can. Putin may win an election and lose power if the Russian people say enough and demand peace with Ukraine. The war with Ukraine is getting worse as the UK just announced it is sending Ukraine 150,000 drones using sanctioned Russian money to pay for them, some of them are rocket powered drones developed by the UK. Russias air defense systems were not designed to intercept drones and Russias size makes it impossible to protect everywhere even though they are taking measures to intercept drone attacks. In July a joint NATO exercise that singled out Kalingrad showed Putin that his stronghold is not as strong as it appears. US, Italy,Poland Germany and the UK took part in the exercise with the Polish ground forces spearheading a simulated attack on the weak land point in Kalingrads defense while US and Italian aerial platforms covered them. The US brought in its high end electronic platform used to jam and detect electronic gear on the ground. Germany and the UK sent in 2 aircraft that reportedly shadowed a Russian sub in the area. The reason for this exercise was the Russians have been jamming GPS signals used by civilian aircraft in the area. Russia keeps compounding its problems by flexing its muscles while actually showing its weakness.
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I do get my info from Western journalists but they back their stories with video evidence. The long lines of people waiting for petro come from Russian social media videos posted by Russians. The empty store shelves are posted on Russias social media. The mile long line of cars waiting entry into Georgia came from Russian social media. The fuel shortage comes at a time when Putin can least afford it. His strongest support comes from rural areas and these areas are being hit by the fuel shortage have wheat ready to harvest but it wont be harvested because there is no fuel for the harvesters.This hit will be felt hardest by the small and medium sized farms. A video showed bread being sold by the slice.Times are getting harder. There are also reports of soldiers not getting paid and these soldiers are getting letters from home of loved ones freezing from the cold because they have no fuel to heat their homes.Russias billionaires are unhappy because Russias economy is flat and if the trends continues will fall off the cliff and they are taking their money elsewheres. China is salivating at Russias plight ready to jump in and buy up Russias natural energy resources. Russias economy is shakier then a 7.5 earthquake.
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August 21, 2026
The Bird's the Word
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone remember Newspeak? That was the "updating" of language by the state in Orwell's 1984 to make thinking politically incorrect things, well, unthinkable.
How do you do that? You eliminate words, for one thing. Well, guess what?
We are being stripped down to the bare bones of our language and no doubt at some point the Ruling Class will then rebuild our language in a way far more pleasing to themselves.
The internet has much to do with it. Most people online use limited vocabularies, and this in return makes the viewers less labial, or less verbal anyway (maybe labial isn't the best word, but I want to show people how it's done).
I won't go into methodology; theirs seems adequate and the article I linked goes into that in detail. As they authors mention, the total OUTPUT of words has probably not declined much but the different words used has declined - the vocabulary.
We see this all the time with young people who lack the verbal skills to express themselves. It is hardly surprising; they live in bubbles with limited human contact and control of what they see and hear and learn. One empty mind preaches to another. Everything gets dumbed down, and when they don't know a word they immediately have access to technology that gives them the definition and they can just move on and forget it. In bygone days we used dictionaries, and the chore of having to look something up cemented it in our memories.
Of course this also speaks to our educational system, which is capable of graduating kids with fourth grade vocabularies. The schools and universities no longer make it their mission to teach anything beyond remedial reading.
So a college kid needs to write a paper on Shakespeare. What does he do? He doesn't READ Shakespeare he goes on line and gets a youtube tutorial on the Bard. Basically he doesn't learn anything, he just gets the information he can parrot back in a paper and that's that.
As our populace slides ever deeper into silence and mediocrity we wonder why we have so many kids now all on board with socialism/communism. They haven't a clue about anything to do with it but think it somehow "fair" because their professors or teachers said it was. They can't read The Little Black Book of Communism because they don't understand most words. Their profs speak in baby talk to them.
At a certain point any culture will stop functioning if the thing that holds people together most - their language - deteriorates past a certain point. It is the thread that binds us all. Without it and we become - something else.
The difference between Man and the animals is language. Animals communicate in a basic way, and some even have a sort of language, one they are born to understand (like
chipmonks) but these non-human languages are limited to basics, lie calls about predators or food or water sources; complex concepts elude the minds of most animals and that because they lack the language skils that we possess. While some of that is biological - we have Brocca's Area and wernecke's Area, for instance, in our brains and they do not - we also have a rich language with many different words to describe complex concepts and the memory storage capacity to remember those words.
The fewer words people possess the more likely we are to fall back on the reptilian and limbic systems, the animal portions of our brains. Losing our words literally turns us to savages.
The Neocortex has nothing to work with if it has no words. And of the triune brain the neocortex is the one that makes us higher than the animals. We do not function primarily on fears or pleasures but on reason, logic, long term planning. But it can't engage if it can't speak.
So this dumbing down (literally) of the public is a very bad thing indeed. It's how we lose civilization.
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Dems Singin' the Blues
Timothy Birdnow
How blue can they get?
Act Blue has been one of the Democrats leading sources of laundered money (along with USAID) and it is now being shown to have been breaking the law with impunity.
Slowly but surely justice is catching up with the Democrat machine.
Not fast enough for my tastes though. There is a small window for getting this done. Get it done, stop all the illegal fundraising, and the Democrats won't be able to stop future prosecutions. Act too slowly and the political tide will turn and this stuff will wind up being brushed under the rug again, and the Democrats will return to their empire of blood money.
It's simple really blue sky/red tide.
Anyway, for your musical enjoyment, I give you Guy Mitchell.
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Time to Make Britain the 51st State
Timothy Birdnow
Welcome to America!
Our government in the U.S. has been doing this to us for decades now. The Brits always used to look down their noses at America, calling us racists. Now they are starting to get the problems we've long had to deal with and they are finding the solutions offered by their ruling class to be just as offensive as those shoved down our throats for years.
Maybe we should think about making Britain the 51st state?
Time to start teaching the Brits our secret handshake and give them our lapel pins...
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The Volunary Socialism of Academia
Timothy Birdnow
Higher education is a peculiar institution. It is perhaps the only industry other than journalism that openly repudiates the values and desires of the customers, for instance. And higher education makes people pay money - lots of money - for the privilege of a piece of paper that says you might, maybe, be a good employee to a company in the future. There is no guarantee of employment, no real prospect of it even if you take the wrong major.
And they grade you, and by grading you determine your future to no small degree. If you refuse to parrot back the values and beliefs of your professor you may well wind up with poor grades and prospective future employers might well decide you aren't a team player...
That is what you are buying with your money.
It is a voluntary form of socialism in many ways. And unless you go to a technical college you very often don't learn anything of practical value. A liberal arts degree is worthless in anything other than academia.
That is why the university system has become increasingly crazy, increasingly Marxist, and at the same time an "education" is increasingly expensive while teaching less and less. It now mostly takes sane, sensible kids and turns them into radicals. Colleges are now little more than Marxism Mills.
Which is why so many young people are going to technical schools. These schools are still about imparting knowledge and thus getting tuition money, not about simply padding their student body list for government grants and fattening the administration.
And that is why, paradoxically, the more government money that pours into these schools the poorer the education. The schools aren't about teaching anymore so much as about inculcating the values of those who sign their paychecks, and those values are decidedly neo-Marxist.
Recently a trend in "higher education" is to not even give out grades for first year students under the
guise of mental health. Mental health does not fall under the purview of higher education.
Which is what these technical schools avoid; treating their students like wayward children. They don't coddle them. Granted, most of these schools are not live-in facilities. But still.
At any rate there has been a problem with "grade inflation" for decades as colleges sought to promote those who did not do so well. This comes from a desire to see minorities do better; many minorities get poor grades because they attended poor high schools. And it also comes because many of these students who attended poor high schools are struggling with basics they should have learned in secondary education.
Be that as it may the point I am making is that universities are structured to give out grades - it's what you are paying them to do. Their jobs is to prove you have mastered course material sufficiently for employment in the workforce. There is little value to a college degree beyond that as things are currently structured.
But they don't want to do their jobs, mostly because they don't want to be shown up as frauds. They say they will EDUCATE kids but in the end they spend most of their time propagandizing them. Then when the kids don't learn anything they give them bogus grades or none at all. Clever, but why are the parents paying for something they aren't getting. If, say, an instant oil change place was found to be putting in just a little oil into your car and the rest water they would be sued into non-existence. If you ordered a ribeye steak at a restaurant and they served you rabbit they would soon be out of business. Heck; I used to go to bars when I was a young man and I tested the value of my liquor by buying a shot of 151 rum. If it lit on fire I knew the place was legit. If it wouldn't I knew I was in a clip joint. The clip joints are almost all gone now; gee - I wonder why?
Colleges are all clip joints these days.
Everyone remembers Eisenhower's Farewell Address and his warning about the "military industrial complex" but he also warned about academia and the rising technocracy and warned they would go the way they have gone - get very fat off taxpayer funding and stop educating kids.
Sadly they still have the prestige and making contacts is the big draw for places like Harvard, where the kids are dumb but they make the contacts to succeed. It's a good-old-boy network with them and if you have a Harvard degree you can be the stupidest guy at the very top of anything.
But that is for the lucy few who get in because they have the cash or the right parents or the best sob story. The rest of the academic kiddom gets a titanic debt from which they will never be free and a mediocre job, probably well below what they expected, and are horribly dissatisfied. How long will academia continue on life support like it is now?
We're already seeing a major move into the trades and technical schools. My friends all went to technical schools and I went to college. Guess who did the poorest? I made just a fraction of what my blue-collar friends made over the years, and it cost me a lot more. No where near as much as college costs now, but enough.
And then there is the prospect of being overqualified, as was I for many jobs. I couldn't get any sort of job in the trades and I couldn't get a professional job because who needs an expert in Russian history and translating scientific documents? (It sounded like a good idea at the time; we were in the throes of the Cold War when I started college. Who would believe the Soviet Union would collapse shortly after I got out - after seventy years!)
By the time national security started hiring again I had been out of school for years and it was easier to get new people. And there STILL wasn't a lot of use for a guy who majored in Russian history; we needed guys who studied Islam and the Middle East. I should have majored in Medieval history and Arabic instead.
Oh well, water under the bridge.
The point is that we need to find new ways to educate kids and circumvent the traditional college. The trade schools do that,but only for the trades, plus they often lack the social life that is so appealing to young people. That should not be underemphasized; kids want to have fun and prepare for a better future. But if you want to be a white collar guy you are not likely to have a lot of luck with a trade school. Yes, some teach you to code, but that is a dying skill in itself, and it's only got a limited shelf-life.
We need college without the colleges. More thought needs to be given to that.
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Jill in Wonderland
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So what explains the other multiple cases where Joe was incoherent and had to be led from the stage?
And why would they need to do it in the first place? If Joe was so sharp he wouldn't have needed convincing, now would he.
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Considering the mental condition Sleepy Joe was in during that period of his life, I would hope he was on drugs of some sort. And I'll leave it up to our readers to decide which drugs they should be -- and please, be kind and don't suggest they should be from Hunter's collection.
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I was going to suggest Hemlock but that would just be mean...
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Fentanyl Deaths Down
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More winning.
That number will likely go down as Trump kicks more of the traffickers out of the country.
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Media Extreme Bias
Timothy Birdnow
You can call a conservative a Nazi but don't you dare call a Democrat a Communist.
From the Newsbusters article:
As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such analogies were rebuked.
The media is ridiculously biased and in fact love them some Marxism. This proves it.
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How the Bolsheviks Killed Democracy in Russia
Timothy Birdnow
I studied Russian History in college. I pursued that field of study because I thought maybe I'd work for a national security agency and that was a sensible goal back in the early and mid eighties, at the height of the Cold War. I never expected us to win it before I graduated college.
I have a degree in history and a certificate in Russian Scientific Translation and would have had another degree in Russian as well as a certificate in Eastern Area Studies had the professor who taught the Philosophy of Marxism/Leninism not gone on a year sabbatical when I needed this course. I just needed one class for all of that and I would have gone after that had I not realized where things were heading. I saw no point by 1987 to come back next year.
At any rate I say all this to give everyone an idea of why I'm posting this link up. I have long thought about writing something quite similar to this but chose not to because it would probably be a bit boring to the reader; Russian politics - even during the Revolution - gets a bit confusing. There were socialists everywhere in Russia prior to the Tsar's abdication and they were at odds. And yes, the Russians held an election for a general assembly which the Bolsheviks cancelled when it was going against them.
It should also be pointed out that in the twenties Lenin had to take his foot off the gas and let some peasants keep the fruits of their labors for a time with his New Economic Program. Stalin would not just end that but would take all the food out of the Ukraine and starve the kulaks - the independent faremers there - to death.
At any rate read this excellent rundown on Russia
here.
The Russian Revolution was not just one revolution but a series of them. The Tsar was deposed and a provisional government mainly under Alexanderr Kerensky, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet and Big Wig in the Socialist Revolutionary Part (S.R.'s). Keresnsky served a scant three months but that was pretty much the entire run of the Russian Republic.
Kerensky made several mistakes that cost him. He supported staying in WWI because it was almost over and when it was the winning side would get Constantinople since Turkey had fought with the Central Powers and that would mean Russia would get what she always wanted - control of the Bosporus and access to the Mediterranean. But the public was finished with war.
The other mistake was in arming the Bolsheviks. The Germans were pressing and Kerensky wanted to defend Moscow so he gave weapons to everyone and then asked for them back. Everyone gave them back - except the Bolsheviks. In a short time the Bolsheviks would stage the October Revolution and hold the Supreme Soviet at gunpoint, forcing them to sign over power to Lenin.
At any rate Democracy in Russia died a silent death. This article goes into detail about how it happened. And it gives us a cautionary tale about the belief in Democracy by socialists; they don't want it at all, just use it as a weapon to seize power. Once in power they say the People "got it right" and there is no need for more elections.
That's what will happen here if we let it.
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And the next revolution may be coming soon. Russia is reported to have lost 225,000 men in the Ukraine war and recruitment is said to be at 221.000. After this next election Putin is expected to go for total mobilization and those who can are leaving while they can. Putin may win an election and lose power if the Russian people say enough and demand peace with Ukraine. The war with Ukraine is getting worse as the UK just announced it is sending Ukraine 150,000 drones using sanctioned Russian money to pay for them, some of them are rocket powered drones developed by the UK. Russias air defense systems were not designed to intercept drones and Russias size makes it impossible to protect everywhere even though they are taking measures to intercept drone attacks. In July a joint NATO exercise that singled out Kalingrad showed Putin that his stronghold is not as strong as it appears. US, Italy,Poland Germany and the UK took part in the exercise with the Polish ground forces spearheading a simulated attack on the weak land point in Kalingrads defense while US and Italian aerial platforms covered them. The US brought in its high end electronic platform used to jam and detect electronic gear on the ground. Germany and the UK sent in 2 aircraft that reportedly shadowed a Russian sub in the area. The reason for this exercise was the Russians have been jamming GPS signals used by civilian aircraft in the area. Russia keeps compounding its problems by flexing its muscles while actually showing its weakness.
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Thanks Mike, although I doubt the numbers because I don't believe a word out of the mouths of the Western "journalists" reporting on this. But it is undoubtedly true Russia has lost a lot of men and more equipment. It's grinding them down, which is exactly what the ruling class in the West wanted in the first place.
I don't know if Putin can be pushed from power or not; he's not Tsar Nicholas or Alexander Kerensky. But it's possible. Sadly the people waiting in the wings there are said to be worse than Putin. Who or what would replace him is rather frightening to contemplate. The Bolsheviks could well come back to power.
Yeah; drone warfare has changed the way wars are fought and the Ukrainians have certainly done a lot of damage to Russia with them, and that is the only reason the war continues. Without drones Ukraine would have fallen some time ago.
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Maximum Chi
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California Passes "Nick Shirley Gets Stitches" Law
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This is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
Of course the only reason to pass such a lie is to help hide something. This should be called the "Snitches Get Stitches" law.
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BBC Lies to Children About Black People in Historical Britain
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Revisionism is the key to any successful leftist takeover. You see that her in spades (no pun intended):
Yes, the BBC is lying to children, claiming black people were always in Britain throughout their history and that they built the United Kingdom. It's a damnable lie; there were almost no blacks in Britain until the late nineteenth century.
But that's how the Left moves people's thinking. By saying black folks were always there then there is nothing "anti-British" about letting in more.
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And Somalis were the key to Minnesota's greatness, as I'm sure you knew. Why, Harold Stassen undoubtedly had a few in his cabinet back when he was governor, and that's why we did so well. And we had no fraud then, either.
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Undoubtedly Dana. Somalis made Minnesota great! Pardon me while I clear my throat of some sort of debris.
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Yes, Illegal Aliens do Vote
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Easily enough to flip any number of elections.
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WHAT HAPPENED: A U.S. Census Bureau report has revealed that more than 24,000 noncitizens cast ballots in the 2020 general election, with more potentially still to be identified.
WHEN & WHERE: The data pertains to the 2020 general election, with California found to have by far the most noncitizen voters, at 4,300, followed by Texas at 2,500.
DETAIL: The report found that of the 24,000 noncitizen voters identified, 3,800 were from Mexico, the most common country of origin. However, nearly 7,000 have no identified country of origin, so the nationality data is far from complete. The Census Bureau analyzed a total of 160 million votes, with "high confidence” that 128 million were cast by citizens, leaving 32 million records still to be reviewed.
But they told us it was the cleanest election in history and that illegal aliens do not vote. Right.
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