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    World War III: America’s Decaying Hegemony, Losing Ground to the Axis of Autocracies: Russia, China, North Korea & Iran

    Has World War III Already Begun? An axis of autocracies led by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is challenging the democratic world order As Syrian rebels approached Damascus last weekend, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s main Arab ally...
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    Biden is considering preemptive pardons for officials and allies before Trump takes office

    Biden is considering preemptive pardons for officials and allies before Trump takes office WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is weighing whether to issue sweeping pardons for officials and allies who the White House fears could be unjustly targeted by President-elect Donald Trump’s...
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    Milestones of Cultural Innovation

    China helps supply fentanyl, a lethal poison found in the U.S. illegal drug trade. People are dying from it. New York State responds - Worth noting, fentanyl tainted drugs include marijuana, partially decriminalized in New York. So New York takes this action without federal help. The...
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    Russia is a member of the U.N. Security Council. Why?

    The U.S. based United Nations is western-friendly. During the Cold War the Soviets needed coaxing to join the U.N. Permanent Security Council membership may have helped. The following article was written over a year ago. The Security Council was established by the 1945 UN Charter and...
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    Russian Reparations In Ukraine

    U.S. wants to use Russia's frozen assets to rebuild Ukraine Olha Hlushchenko — Friday, 14 April 2023, 02:30 The United States is considering using frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine's destroyed infrastructure. Source: Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for...
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    Wealth Distribution - Systemic Dysfunction With Prospects Only For Band-Aid Remedies

    Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor March 21, 202312:45 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air An unhoused individual sleeps under an American flag blanket...
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    Refuge From Irrational Horde Media Bombardment? try Freedom From Religion Foundation

    If the irrational jabber from Speaker McCarthy, Leader McConnell, and Trump, weighs heavily on you, try a simple refuge for simple rational thought, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, https://ffrf.org/ Ron Reagan, son of the president, promotes FFRF. This site won't change the world. But it...
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    No joke: Supreme Court case could take a big bite out of the First Amendment

    The court system often is where humor goes to die. For those seeking to use satire or parody of corporations, jokes often run into trademark or other lawsuits and result in a little more than “ha, ha, thump.” The same bad audience could await the defendant in Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. v...
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    Is it too late to prevent North Korea from being a persistent if not permanent WMD threat ?

    N Korea warns of ‘all-out’ nuclear response to US ‘aggression’ North Korea has promised to ‘resolutely react’ to US threat of nuclear weapons use with its own nuclear capabilities. 19 Nov 2022 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has promised to use nuclear weapons to counter threats from the...
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    Gerrymandering: a partisan political weapon with both State and federal Consequences

    The Supreme Court case that could threaten US democracy https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article268880707.html SCOTUS is scheduled to hear Moore v. Harper this term. A slim Republican majority in North Carolina's legislature has gerrymandered Republican control of 10 of North Carolina's 13...
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    Abortion: Dobbs v. Jackson - A wooden stake through the heart of Trump's "red wave"?

    The 1973 United States Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling recognized women's right of choice. The 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson revoked this right, leaving it to prevailing jurisdictions to acknowledge or usurp this right. The power to impose, renew this abortion restriction was obtained by...
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    Global Warming to reform World Bank & the IMF ?

    By David Gelles and Max Bearak Nov. 9, 2022Updated Nov. 10, 2022 SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were created 80 years ago to rebuild countries devastated by World War II and to stabilize the global economy. But an expanding group of world leaders now...
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    Supreme Court of The United States (SCOTUS) declines to hear fetal personhood case

    Supreme Court declines to hear fetal personhood case By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN Published 11:02 AM EDT, Tue October 11, 2022 (CNN)- The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to wade into the so-called fetal personhood debate, deciding not to take up a case out of...
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    H E A D L I N E S : 2 0 2 2 & 2 0 2 3

    Coolio, 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper, dead at 59 CNN Coolio Dead at 59 TMZ "When you have no fear of god, that makes you godless. If you are godless, you can become heartless. And if you can become heartless, you can become ruthless. If you can become ruthless, you can become a killer."...
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    For Fun: Exercise For The Mind, Concepts, Insights, ...

    As an object's velocity approaches the speed of light (sol) it shrinks in length, and grows more massive (like getting heavier). * In the following scenario, when both ladder & garage are at equal rest, the ladder is too long to fit in the garage. Approaching sol an object's dimension along the...
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    Digital Dollar: White House punts on 'digital dollar' but announces interagency research group

    White House punts on 'digital dollar' but announces interagency research group The White House punted on whether it was ready to support the creation of a digital dollar, which would have allowed the United States to further adapt to the evolving crypto industry and help strengthen the dollar's...
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    September Eleven

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    Texas Judge Says HIV Drug Mandate Violates Religious Freedom

    Texas Judge Says HIV Drug Mandate Violates Religious Freedom Bloomberg It's not practical for a civilized country to function properly if individuals acquire a legal right to discriminate, even if premised on their own religious freedom. The Liberty right is a reciprocal right. Neither party's...
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    National student test scores plummet, pandemic blamed. - Topic question: why?

    National student test scores plummet, pandemic blamed. Thursday September 1, 2022 11:00 am EdSource staff National test results released on Thursday showed the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with 9-year-olds’ math...
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