From this article:

Longstanding concerns that President Trump plans to purge the government of anyone deemed less than perfectly loyal to him surfaced anew this week, with reports that the White House is installing a fierce political loyalist at the Pentagon to vet non-military officials. It’s a move some current Defense Department officials reportedly fear will lead to hirings and firings based on political calculations, rather than job qualifications. (more…)

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Apparently, some of my readers have bought into the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory that posits that COVID-19 is the result of the doctors and experts having silenced dissenting voices and misled the public for sinister reasons.  For anyone who might be helped to understand the truth here, I offer the following piece from Kat Montgomery, MD (pictured):
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Here’s a stunner.  A would-be dictator objects to the presence of high-quality, well-respected news organizations that may be critical of him and his activities.

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As we recall, Donald Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon was hellbent on “dismantling the administrative state.” “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon told a writer for The Daily Beast, in late 2013. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” (more…)

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Ex-secretary of Labor Robert Reich says it better than I could: Corrupting the legal system is how dictatorships are built.

He’s referring, of course, to U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s dropping the criminal charges against confessed felon Michael Flynn, close Trump friend and ally.  (more…)

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This article in Barrons actually provides many more than three reasons why the stock market is rising despite the fact 33 million Americans are finding themselves jobless.

The real reason is that there is at most a tenuous connection between the two.  People say, “Well, the stock market isn’t the economy.”  That’s for sure. (more…)

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As you watch the video below, made by late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel, ask yourself this:

Don’t at least some of Trump’s supporters think it’s a bad idea of the President of the United States to be calling his critics nasty names in the middle of the night when he could be spending his time at least trying to help solve the incredibly numerous and profound difficulties we face as a nation?  (more…)

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Here’s a fascinating graphic that shows the adoption of consumer technology in the typical American home over the last 120 years. If one were to add business and especially medical technology onto this, one would have a complete picture of why, IMO, better gadgetry is really the only thing that makes living in the 21st Century superior to anytime in the past. (more…)

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The graphic here provides the reason that responsible people source their food as close to their backyards as possible.

There are over 700 Certified Farmers’ Markets in California alone.  It’s a great industry to support, and the people (both the vendors and the customers) tend to be very cool people.

As much as I like Trader Joe’s, I never buy anything there that I can get locally, as each TJ’s SKU comes from one source, which can be anywhere around the world.

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Last month, Austria and then Sweden closed down their last coal-fired power stations. They are the second and third countries to go coal-free in Europe; Belgium did so in 2016. (more…)

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