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Law and Crime: https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/crime-does-not-pay-government-defends-seizure-of-90k-from-capitol-siege-defendant-who-sold-video-to-cnn-nbc/ Federal authorities have seized more than $90,000 from a Utah bank account owned by a defendant charged with playing a role in the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex.  The defendant, John Earle Sullivan, 26, of Sandy, Utah, illegally earned the money, federal authorities say, by licensing video he recorded of the throngs of protesters both insideContinue reading “If You Can’t Do the Time, Don’t Do the Crime”

Karl Marx lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he collaborated with German thinker Friedrich Engels, publish his writings, and researchied in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der KommunistischenContinue reading “Are You a Marxist? We Know the Uniparty Is All-in”

The Maunder Minimum, also known as the “prolonged sunspot minimum”, is the name used for the period around 1645 to 1715 during which sunspots became exceedingly rare, as was then noted by solar observers. The term was introduced after John A. Eddy published a landmark 1976 paper in Science. Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomers Edward WalterContinue reading “Global Cooling: Distinguishing Between Dalton and Maunder Minima”

As reported in The Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/former-professor-sentenced-to-37-months-in-prison-for-using-federal-grants-to-aid-chinas-medical-research_3816589.html Former Professor Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Using Federal Grants to Aid China’s Medical Research BY CATHY HE May 15, 2021 Updated: May 15, 2021 A biomedical professor has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for carrying out a scheme to use millions of dollars in federal grantContinue reading “Laws for Thee But Not for Me”

Russian Military Recruitment Video from NORSKK on Vimeo. The video above is a recruiting advertisement for Spetsnaz (спецназ), the acronym for the Russian Special Operations Forces (Войска́ специа́льного назначе́). The Sock Puppet Administration through their corporate propaganda arm claims Russia is an imminent threat to the US. Perhaps it is, though I suspect Russua seesContinue reading “Compare”

A tangible sign of Republicans’ discontent with the Biden administration’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged with a GOP-led effort to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci. As the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci has served as a White House adviser on COVID-19 under President Joe Biden as well asContinue reading “Just Gets Funnier and Funnier”