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Wars and Rumors
Russia tells civilians to check bomb shelters and gas masks as their nuclear forces advance while US prepares cyber strike…
Something about this all feels odd… but it's certainly unsettling.
Threats
The U.S. military detected a failed North Korean test launch of an intermediate ballistic missile, the Pentagon said on Saturday. …no details on what went wrong…
Theory of Education
Meanwhile, back in Africa, there's a movement among back [sic - "black"] students to reject all science as racist and colonialism under the rubic #ScienceMustFall.…
Linked to LDC rather than the article itself, because the comment is funny.
Link fixed Oct 17 1:14pm CDST
Link fixed Oct 17 1:14pm CDST
11:07am CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
Disinformation Propaganda and Spin
Another islamofauxbic hate crime turns out to have been nothing of the kind. … “Investigators find no evidence Muslim child was attacked on school bus,” by T. Keung Hui, Raleigh News & Observer, October 14, 2016…
12:35pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
Banality of Evil
…3. I bet the lobster risotto is better than the food at the Ecuadorian Embassy. pic.twitter.com/zyViu1R4UL
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) October 14, 2016
@johnpodesta Yes, we get it. The elite eat better than the peasants they abuse.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 14, 2016…
10:49am CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
…Seymour Hersh has revealed… that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that Obama was trying to use as an excuse to invade Syria. … the sarin that was used didn’t come from Assad’s stockpiles. …a secret agreement in 2012 was reached between the Obama Administration and the leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, to set up a sarin gas attack and blame it on Assad so that the US could invade and overthrow Assad.…
All too believable.
10:47am CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
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Now *That's* Funny!
Thank goodness! Bluebird has provided something for the "upbeat and interesting" right-hand column today. Blog was looking sadly unbalanced.
8:46pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
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Breitbart is Here
US-led coalition increases airstrikes on militant-held Mosul…
Taliban threatens 5 provincial capitals in Afghanistan…
Stampede kills 24 including 19 women as thousands of guru's followers try to cross Indian bridge at once…
News headline links
8:26pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, will stand trial on a “hate speech” charge. A panel of judges, after considering a motion by Mr. Wilders’ counsel, declined to dismiss the charges against him. His “crime” is to have asked his supporters whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.
In migration news, it has now emerged that a Syrian “refugee” who planned to bomb Berlin airport was not radicalized in Syria, as was originally thought, but after he arrived in Germany.…
News summaries with links
12:36pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
Watch Leftist Students Say Science Is Racist and Should Be Abolished…
Will the Press Ever Ask Hilary Clinton To Explain Her "Dream" Of "Open Borders" Throughout the Whole World?…
What's Putin's big worry?…
News, views, and info headline links
12:26pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
…On this day in 1878 the Edison Electric Light Company began operation. This company, founded by Thomas Edison, eventually became General Electric and it also spun off RCA.
Vic's roundup of the news kills off the weeds (brand name puns are the worst).
10:51am CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
US Election 2016
Congressman Jim Bridenstine, R-OK… [on] Sean Hannity’s radio program… The interview was excellent and I agree with everything Congressman Bridenstine said.…
Bridenstine never disappoints
9:00pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
…former President Bill Clinton recalled going to West Virginia during the primaries and said the miners there blamed climate change for the loss of their jobs.……
Is Bill just BSing again, or is he that stupid to think the miners are that ignorant?
Former Miss Nebraska Teen contest winner Natasha Rickley has slammed the media witch hunt against Donald Trump, revealing that ABC News contacted her trying to get dirt on Trump but that she told them he was “an absolute gentleman”.…
Well, we certainly have no use for that information. Scrub it.
…Trump accuser from a flight 30 years ago allegedly has ties to the Clinton Foundation.…
But, but, still, Trump said bad words over a decade ago!
12:33pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
The New York Times dropped their explosive accusation story about a first-class airline passenger named Jessica Leeds who claimed Donald Trump groped her 30 years ago. The two New York Times reporters for the accusation, Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, have a history of questionable reporting about Donald Trump.… Research discovers two additional Donald Trump connected stories with the exact name “Jessica Leeds” attached, and -adjusted for chronology- the same age as the NYT report…
The New York Times’ Trump accuser Rachel Crooks is lying about Donald Trump allegedly kissing her on the mouth without permission, according to a family friend.…
…“By the way, these teleprompters haven’t been working for the last 20 minutes,” he said. “And I actually like my speech better without teleprompters. And this way, what I like about it—wait a minute, let me see how this…” he trailed off and appeared to pull one off its stand.…
Funny, and telling.
12:16pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW
…The latest woman, Summer Zervos who was a contestant on ‘The Apprentice,’ claimed today that Trump sexually harassed her.
But, as it turns out, it was Zervos who continued to stay in contact with Trump.…
12:12pm CDT Sat 2016 Oct 15 :MW