Life and Times of Ogn Dulk

What I Learned from 9-11 Conspiracy Theories. Within eight months of taking office, President Bush planned and executed the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil with the full cooperation (and unbroken silence) of the U.S. military, intelligence community, and airline industry. Eight months. This, by a government that traditionally measures achievement and progress in geologic time. The silence of the thousands of military & civilian authorities who must have been involved in order to pull off such a widespread conspiracy and the silence of the true witnesses and recovery/cleanup volunteers can be easily explained by the government buying their silence. Thousands. And it's worked perfectly, since nobody actually part of the conspiracy has stepped forward. Top Pentagon officials suspiciously and abruptly cancelled travel plans on Sept. 10 for the next morning, apparently due to security concerns, so they were obviously part of the plot. They cancelled their travel so they cou...

www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia Tom Greenwood (310) 947-1030 Republicans possess an absolute presumption of moral and intellectual superiority, a grim self-righteousness, a hardened defiance to any challenge that their fascist white supremacist "Christian" ideology is the only truth. Stewart Rhodes said, "Just the same as the founders did, they exhausted all their peaceful means, but they also rallied more people to the cause, won more people over and steeled them up and hardened them, got them ready for the confrontation. That's what we have to do." ☝️👈👇👉 🤷🏼‍♂️ 🚗🚓🚕🛺🚙🚌🚐🚎🚑🚒🚚🚛🚜🚘🚔🚖🚍🦽🦼🛹🚲🛴🛵🏍 🎻The five stages of grief are: denial. anger. bargaining. depression. acceptance. 2016: "You lost, get over it" 🎃 🇺🇸 President Joe Biden 🇺🇸 USA! USA! USA! Biden won by 7 million votes nationwide (81,268,924) Biden won 51 percent of the popular vote, a larger percentage than any Democrat since 1964, save Barack Obama's victo...

5 takeaways from the major new U.N. climate report. The burning of fossil fuels is behind rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels is behind rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Credit...Kacper Pempel/Reuters By Henry Fountain Aug. 9, 2021 Updated 2:54 p.m. ET On Monday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body convened by the United Nations, released a major new report concluding that the world cannot avoid some devastating impacts of climate change, but that there is still a narrow window to keep the devastation from getting even worse. The report, based on the analysis of more than 14,000 studies, is the clearest and most comprehensive summary yet of the physical science of climate change. It lays out what the climate was like in the past, what it’s like now and what it will be like for decades to come. And it shows how humans can affect future climate through actions they take — or don’t take — now to...

NICHOLAS KRISTOF The Biggest Threat to America Is America Itself June 23, 2021, 7:12 p.m. ET Credit...Erin Kirkland for The New York Times 363 Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist “America is back” became President Biden’s refrain on his European trip this month, and in a narrow sense it is. NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Get a behind-the-scenes look at Nick’s gritty journalism as he travels around the United States and the world. Sign Up We no longer have a White House aide desperately searching for a fire alarm to interrupt a president as he humiliates our country at an international news conference, as happened in 2018. And a Pew Research Center survey found that 75 percent of those polled in a dozen countries expressed “confidence in the U.S. president to do the right thing,” compared with 17 percent a year ago. Yet in a larger sense, America is not back. In terms of our well-being at home and competitiveness abroad, the blunt truth is that America is lagging. In some respects...

Here's how the U.S. will cease to have a democratically elected government https://boingboing.net/2021/06/07/heres-how-the-u-s-will-cease-to-have-a-democratically-elected-government.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-how-the-u-s-will-cease-to-have-a-democratically-elected-government Timothy Synder is a Yale University history professor and the author of the excellent short book,  On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century . He's an expert on the history of fascism and totalitarianism and in the  latest issue of his newsletter  he describes how the United State in on a fast track to tyranny. The scenario then goes like this.  The Republicans win back the House and Senate in 2022, in part thanks to voter suppression.  The Republican candidate in 2024 loses the popular vote by several million and the electoral vote by the margin of a few states.  State legislatures, claiming fraud, alter the electoral count vote.  ...

Half a dozen states, including Tennessee, Montana, Iowa, and Texas, have passed legislation allowing gun owners to carry their weapons without a permit. Texas, South Carolina, Idaho, and Oklahoma have passed legislation banning abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, after about six weeks of pregnancy (before women typically even know they are pregnant); Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas also passed virtually complete bans on abortion.   Arizona approved   an extremely restrictive bill that includes barring abortions for certain genetic conditions. Ten states have adopted about two dozen laws in total targeting transgender individuals, including legislation in seven states that bars transgender athletes from competing in school sports. In the U.S., “2021 has officially surpassed 2015 as the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history,” the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ-advocacy group,   recently concluded . “States have now enacted more anti-LGBTQ laws ...

 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-animal-viruses-like-coronavirus-jump-species-20200225/ Zoonotic diseases like influenza and many coronaviruses start out in animals, but their biological machinery often enables them to jump to humans. Where do these viruses come from? MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV appear to originate in animals, and the same is likely true of SARS-CoV-2. This makes them zoonoses, diseases that can jump between humans and other animals. MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV were originally bat viruses that spread to an intermediate animal (camel and civet cat, respectively), which then exposed humans to the viruses. Genetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 sequences shows that their closest genetic relatives appear to be bat coronaviruses, with the role of intermediate species possibly played by the pangolin, an endangered species trafficked in China for its scales and meat. There are four coronaviruses that cause colds in humans — known as HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-HK...