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Thanks to James for contributing this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady 18 July 2021 “We now kill people without ever seeing them. Now you push a button thousands of miles away ... Since it’s all done by remote control, there’s no remorse ... and then we come home in triumph.” —US Navy Admiral Gene LaRocque, speaking to a reporter in 1995. Dear Judge O’Grady, It is not a secret that I struggle to live with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Both stem from my childhood experience growing up in a rural mountain community and were compounded by exposure to combat during military service. Depression is a constant. Though stress, particularly stress caused by war, can manifest itself at different times and in different ways. The tell-tale signs of a person afflicted by PTSD and depression can often be outwardly observed and are practically universally recognizable. Hard lines about the face and j

The problem with ‘preferred pronouns’ by Meghan Murphy 0 As more and more journalists, authors, comedians, researchers, scientists, media makers, [what were once/recently known as] Intellectual Dark Web-types, and Twitter users begin to speak critically and publicly about the troubling implications of trans ideology, one issue remains relatively untouched: the issue of “preferred pronouns.” There was a very brief period of time, when I began to attempt to write on the issue of transgenderism, wherein I used what are now commonly known as “preferred pronouns.” That didn’t last long, as I engaged with gender identity ideology more deeply, as well as with other feminists who refused to accommodate the supposedly “polite” demand to refer to trans-identified people, not by their sex-based pronoun (i.e. “he” for males and “she” for females), but by the pronoun attached to the “gender” they identify as. It seemed to me that this conces

RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice By Louise Lerner Jul 22, 2021 UChicago-led research could yield increased food production, boost drought tolerance Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, announced a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Peking University and Guizhou University. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice and potato plants increased their yield by 50% in field

The CDC's Hysterical Delta Flip-Flop Might Be Its Final Undoing By  Jeffrey Tucker The crazy, convoluted, mixed up messaging from the CDC – it's been this way from the beginning of the pandemic until now – has taken yet another turn. Now the CDC is recommending masks not just for the unvaccinated but for the vaccinated too. This is supposedly because of the discovery that the variant known as Delta is making an end-run around the vaccines, causing not only infections but infectious spread.  So we have an odd situation developing. The layperson’s understanding of a vaccine is that it protects a person against infection, like measles or smallpox. In other words, you won’t get Covid, exactly as President Biden accidentally and apparently inaccurately said in a press conference last week. That is apparently untrue in this case. That realization seemed to dawn on people only a few weeks ago, as reports from Israel  revealed  that half the new infections listed were with people who h

Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals The Chloroquine Wars Part XLVIII Mathew Crawford " We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. " -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy What if it turns out that vaccines are killing and crippling millions of people around the world, but that those harmed are just well enough spread out that almost nobody saw sufficient signals to build an intuition about the problem? And what if the agency most responsible for examining safety signals defines their algorithm using a nonsensical mathematical formula that hides nearly all serious problems? Last night I tried to go to sleep early in order to shift my exercise routine to a morning schedule. But I'd received a late phone call from a friend whom I work with researching vaccine safety/danger, just as I was brushing my teeth. He remains anonymous for now due to fear of job loss or reprisal. I let the phone call go, but I couldn't just let it go. I needed to