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The Bear, The Park Ranger and The Comic An allegory of the U.S.-Russia Farce playing out in Ukraine. Good Citizen CNN Headline: June 22, 2027 Former U.S. President and Distinguished Elder Statesman Joseph R. Biden Passes Away Age 85 He was surrounded by family and friends at his beach home in Delaware. It’s being reported his last words were, ‘Get Zelensky on the phone, I need to warn him Putin will bomb Baghdad at any moment.’ Find The Lady The information warfare on both sides of the U.S.-Russia conflict over Ukraine is reaching a comical fever pitch. It has become so difficult to keep up with the lies, hypocrisy, propaganda, official narratives, and false flag accusations to preempt and set up a different false flag that the entire misdirection farce is an exercise in keeping an eye on the cards in foreign policy’s version of find the lady. This is not geopolitical chess but false flag musical chairs. One day the music will stop and there will be one party left alone standing, embar

telling the truth in the age of sponsored science why so many scientific studies refute their own conclusions el gato malo the map is not the terrain. the abstract is not the study. in the age of government sponsored science driven by grants, sinecure, and sponsorship, scientists face a difficult set of choices. they must, if they wish to continue receiving the largess of the gold-givers toe the party line of state or commercially sponsored science. he who has paid the piper demands to call the tune and producing work that does not suit “the narrative” is career suicide. your funding will dry up. so may your position, your prospects for advancement, and even your tenure. you will not be asked to join committees, interviewed for articles, citied, or supported. you may be outright attacked. i discuss this in more depth  HERE . but scientists also face another constraint: they need to be accurate. they need to run good experiments, collect good data, and relay it faithfully. if they do no

William Hartung, Mission (Im)possible -- and You're Paying for It POSTED ON  FEBRUARY 3, 2022 (image by VOZ. Not a "waste"... just an investment without a positive return!) 2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record  $778 billion  in spending for the Pentagon and related work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy. That was  $25 billion  more than the Pentagon had even asked for. It can’t be emphasized enough just how many taxpayer dollars are now being  showered  on the Pentagon. That department’s astronomical budget adds up, for instance, to more than four times the  cost  of the most recent version of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which sparked such horrified opposition from Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and other alleged fiscal conservatives. Naturally, they didn’t blink when it came to lavishing ever more taxpayer dollars on the military-industrial complex. Opposing Build Back Better whi