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Seeing Eye Dog Democracy

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  Seeing Eye Dog Democracy By  Tim Hartnett Ah, ye of little faith. I’m talking about the faithful, of course. Aren’t they the dangerous misfits who keep defying a clergy of experts into whose hands all fate must be placed? Why won’t the miscreants accept that junior is doomed without the options of hormonal therapy, a little black dress and pronouns? Synods of the new religion pass over at 30,000 feet downing Sauterne with their foie gras. More earthly members of the congregation must follow another set of commandments. They include restricted travel, an unpalatable diet and 24/7 contrition for, supposedly, dodging victimhood. The infidel must be de-platformed, unfriended, debanked, dehumanized, excommunicated and demonetized for preaching another gospel. Strangely though, even as we are commanded to heed, the high-priesthood keeps most of what it has to say out of public earshot. It’s a system that works a lot like the higher bar of behavioral standards for the unordained. March 20 t

appointing great thieves

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  appointing great thieves the advanced rot of late stage bureaucratic empire EL GATO MALO the american voter is a weird and fickle beast. show them bankster bailouts and they rage. but show them a grifter garden of NIH royalties, and it’s hard to even elicit notice. i will just never understand hoomans… THIS STORY  has been making the rounds. i actually think the sourcing is a bit lacking and the manner in which is presented is somewhat misleading and so the numbers are suspect and do not really jibe, but it does raise an important issue: the NIH is a thieves forest where the public money they take from your taxes is used to fund research, but when the research proves fruitful the royalty payments therefrom often go not to the agency but to the individual staffers who were involved. not only are they making out like bandits, but they have no obligation to report these royalties or their amounts publicly or even to congress. there is zero oversight and this makes the insider trading ru