Tag: Lebanon

When Will The Bloodletting End…?

Post author By RWR Host
Post date April 21, 2024

Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors. [Source: Brown University, Costs of War project]

While America is otherwise indisposed, pathological opportunists in positions of power make decisions harmful to us all.

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Cato Institute Immigration Data

Post author By RWR Host
Post date January 13, 2020

Don’t let the boring title fool ya! This data screams as loudly as any town crier ever could… So I ask; what ‘story’ do you see emerging from this data…? A sortable, searchable data table from Alex Nowrasteh’s January 26, 2017 Cato ‘immigration ban’ blog post.(Greatest threats in red, ban countries in gray, totals bold […]

Tags Afghanistan, Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute, Egypt, immigration, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Political Islam, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, UAE - United Arab Emirates, Yemen

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RWR
2019-12-11

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 11, 2019

It’s becoming more and more self-evident; the warnings of history, and the watchmen like Alan Watt and Chuck Missler who have sounded the alarm of clear and present danger, were never more prescient, and via the cybernetic technocratic communitarian way, we’ll all become hopelessly enslaved… en route to the the ash heap of history…

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In the Wild

Hidden In Plain Sight

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 5, 2019

Following are a few of the ‘high points’ from our conversation… and maybe an extra nugget or two, but who’s counting… Herd Think Propaganda (1928) by Edward Bernays The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism […]

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