I read "A Clockwork Orange" when I was about 12 or 13 years old. That book dug a place in my mind and subconscious. So often over the years I would find myself thinking that we were actually living it.

The book was made into a movie in the early sixties, but I did not see it until many years later. I found this video and thought that it did a good job of breaking it down.

A "Clockwork Orange" resonates even more today, much stronger than ever. Especially around 25:21 mark in the video. See anything that rings a bell?

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Q.How do you keep your car from being stolen?

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Q..How do you send a message in code?

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Janie DuVall and Craig Bong reveals something terrifying coming from the Middle East in 2023. For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.

https://www.goalshouse.com/impact-report-2022

Quote:Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Obvious... they don't even care about even faking the appearance of "objective news" any longer. Want to know how we know we live in a Banana Republic? The Media is an arm of the DNC cabal government.

CBS host cuts off the feed by faking audio issues as Rep. Nancy Mace reveals the FBI had access to Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence and the files there since before the infamous raid took place, which contradicts recent claims by the media that Trump was obstructing access to the files.

Video is less than a minute long and speaks volumes:

Ya'll know Alexandra Daddario from True Detective season 1 (and many other shows/movies), but did you know about her war hero warrior grandfather? He was OSS, military intelligence AND a democrat Congressman for Connecticut - Emilio Quincy Daddario (September 24, 1918 – July 7, 2010).

Quote:The months of January and February of 1945 saw Allied aerial resupply reach its maximum point in preparation for the spring campaign, and the large cities of northern Italy were impatient for liberation. In order to better coordinate the clandestine movement in northern Italy, Lt. Emilio Daddario, assistant operations officer of SI Italy, was sent to Lugano, Switzerland, to help Allen Dulles to coordinate activities on the Italian frontier. Daddario established radio contact with Company D so his activities could better be coordinated with 15th Army Group plans.

To closely collaborate with other branches of the OSS, SI planned a series of joint operations with the Morale Operations Branch (MO), which was engaged in carrying out a psychological warfare program of disinformation among the German troops in Italy, and the reported results of this collaboration were excellent. A program of close collaboration between X-2 and SI was worked out with Jim Angleton, whose Counter Intelligence (CI) intelligence files benefited from the intelligence gleaned from our CLNAI sources and through a playback transmitter that had fallen into the hands of the Abwehr and which we had code-named MARIA GIOVANNA.*

Daddario moved into Italy and captured Marshall Graziani and a number of outstanding Fascist personalities.

The Secrets War The Office of Strategic Services in World War II by George C. Chalou; Pages 191-92.

Quote:Emilio Q. Daddario's career has spanned the fields of politics, law, and science. After obtaining his B.A. from Wesleyan University, he graduated from the University of Connecticut Law School and practiced law. He put his career on hold to fight in World War II, but upon returning home he became mayor and, then, judge in Middleton, Connecticut. He returned to active duty during the Korean conflict, resumed the practice of law, and served five consecutive terms in Congress. He has been director of the Office of Technology Assessment, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-chair of the American Bar Association.
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Quote:In Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of OSS (Random House, New York, 1946) Corey Ford and Alistair MacBain describe his exploit. "[T]his one man task-force, Captain Emilio Q. Daddario of Boston, Mass., maneuvered single-handed the surrender of the Nazi S.S. Headquarters . . . arranged with the German General in command at Como to confine his troops to the barracks . . .[and] made a prisoner of Marshal Graziani, Chief of the Italian Facist Army.

Captain Daddario had orders from Allied Headquarters to bring Graziani back alive. Somehow he managed to spirit his prized prisoner out of Milan. Several times the OSS party was under fire from excited Italian partisans; the car which was assigned to the Marshal was dynamited and an OSS lieutenant badly wounded, but Graziani was delivered intact." Captain Daddario was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit and the Italian Medaglio d'Argento.

Emilio Q. Daddario, President-Elect (Science Journal, April 16, 1976)

Quote:The Daddarios: From Intelligence to Hollywood

Today the names of Alexandra and Matthew Daddario appear in the titles of Hollywood's greatest cinematic successes. Few, however, associate their name with a story that has united Abruzzo to America since the end of the 19th century. That of the Daddarios is in fact an important name in American history even if it has lost its originality of roots, and was born in the mountains of Abruzzo.

On Ellis Island the D'Addarios lost, despite themselves, the apostrophe becoming Daddario for the Americans, and settled in Newton, Massachusetts. On September 24, 1918, the fourth of their six children was born there, Emilio Quincy Daddario, who after attending public schools in Boston and the Tilton Academy in Newton, graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) in 1939.

Emilio then attended the Boston University Law School from 1939 to 1941, to then obtain his specialization at the University of Connecticut in 1942. In his youth Emilio distinguished himself not only for his excellent results in his studies, but also for his sporting performances, becoming one of the protagonists of university sport. While attending Wesleyan University, he was a star athlete and captained the football team in 1938 to receive the Major Valuable Player Award (better known as the MVP award) for both football and baseball.

emilio daddario at wesleyanThe war did not leave the son of the Ofena immigrants indifferent. Married to Berenice Carbo in 1940, Emilio in fact enlisted, like many others, in February 1943 and was immediately contacted by Max Biagio Corvo, the very young head of operations in Italy of the Oss, originally from Melilli, who already from the end of 1942 planned, with a detailed intelligence plan, the occupation of Sicily in the summer of 1943 and the subsequent total liberation of Italy from the Nazi-fascist yoke.

Corvo, who knew Daddario from having lived in the same city (Middletown) decided he wanted to have the young American football star, acclaimed champion in the Wesleyan University team, on his "intelligence" team. Emilio also knew perfectly different languages and integrated well with the Sicilians, consolidating a lifelong friendship with Corvo himself.

Joined the secret service with the code name of Mim (774 the identification number), Emilio participated in all phases of the Italian campaign. Arrived in Palermo in December 1943, he spent a short time in the offices of the Sicilian OSS before being transferred to the new operational command of Brindisi with the position of Corvo's deputy and the rank of captain. In April 1945, when the fate of the Republic of Salò was now sealed, Captain Daddario was in Switzerland under the direct dependency of Allen Dulles, director of the OSS for Europe and future head of the CIA.

However, he was recalled to Italy by Corvo for a task of the utmost delicacy: the capture of Mussolini and some ministers of the Social Republic of Salò fleeing to the Piedmontese mountains. The Italian-American officer arrived in Italy without revealing his true purpose and tried to guess the moves of the partisans who used the best strategy to divert any clues that could lead the Allies to track down the Duce. In the terrible last days of the Fascist era, Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce. Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce. Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce.

However, Daddario redeemed himself immediately afterwards, subtracting the generals of the RRS Rodolfo Graziani, Ruggero Bonomi and Rosario Sorrentino from the justice of the partisans. Graziani would later be imprisoned in a prison camp in Algiers and testify to Daddario's action, thanking him for saving his life.

Awarded the "Legion of Merit" and the American bronze star and the Italian silver medal, once back home Emilio Daddario resumed his profession as a lawyer and became a member of the Connecticut National Guard; served as mayor of Middletown, Conn., 1946-1948, 1946-1948; and judge of the Municipal Court of the same city until 1950 . In fact, in that year he returned to active duty again in the 43rd Division of the Connecticut National Guard to fight in Korea. Daddario worked as a major and at the end of the conflict was sent to Japan, before returning home definitively in 1952. The Italian-American decided to continue his political commitment and was elected deputy (among the ranks of the Democrats) in 1958, working in that capacity until 1971.


Richard (married to Christina) prosecutor and former head of the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism unit, is the father of Alexandra Anna, Matthew and Catherine, with the first two children destined to become Hollywood stars.


Born in New York on March 16, 1986, Alexandra decided to become an actress after seeing the Broadway musical "Les Miserables". Keeping faith with the family tradition, she successfully practiced various sports, including swimming and she studied the piano for years, attending the prestigious Brearley girls' high school in New York . . It was precisely in the boarding school that she carried out her first theatrical activities, playing the role of Hortensio in "The Taming of the Shrew". In her second year of high school she decided to enroll in the Professional Children's School, designed for students engaged in the world of entertainment, then continuing her studies at Marymount Manhattan College.

After making her television debut at the age of twelve in a Barbie commercial, Alexandra began her film career in 2002 working in Jim Bernfield's short film Best Thanksgiving Ever, presented at the 15th Columbia University Film Festival.

I have family members and friends with children that are autistic. I thought that I was fairly knowledgeable about autism, but I was wrong. When I looked at autism globally, I realized how wrong I was.

I always thought America had the largest population of autistic children. I never thought past America. I am looking at autism with a new set of eyes.

Quote:In recent years, cases of autism have risen. The Center for Disease Control announced in 2021 that the rate of autism in the U.S. during 2018 was 1 child in 44. This is a notable rise from rates given in Scientific American, for 2016 (1 in 68, though other sources claim an even-higher 1 in 54 by age 8), 2008 (1 in 88) and 2000 (1 in 150). Moreover, this trend of rising autism, which dates back to the early 1990s, is a global occurrence not confined to the United States. Prevailing theories suggest that the rise is largely due to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism rather than a massive increase in overall occurrences of autism. However, autism is more likely in babies with older parents, who are more common in today's world, and in babies born prematurely, who survive more often now than in previous eras.

Well, this is awkward for the police officer as it was caught on video.

Sure, we have no idea "what happened" prior to the video but we can see the cop appears to have lost it on something our new "millionaire" said and went to town. Our future "millionaire" was smart enough NOT to fight back or resist and took it for the $$$$$.

End Qualified Immunity.

https://twitter.com/nocapfights/status/1...5131873281

Anyone remember Wangari Maathai? Me neither. She was the first African Nobel Peace Prize winner, first woman PhD out of east/central Africa, an outspoken voice against neocapital-colonialism, intellectual and activist, also happened to have choice words regarding a certain immune compromising virus:

Quote:HIV ‘Created by Scientist’ for Biological Warfare, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai -- who on Friday became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize -- on Saturday repeated her previous claims that HIV was "created by a scientist for biological warfare," AFP/Yahoo! News reports. In August, Kenya's East African Standard quoted Maathai as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists "for the purpose of mass extermination," according to AFP/Yahoo! News. "We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to primitive people. They have the resources to do this," the Standard quoted Maathai as saying during a workshop on Aug. 30 in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri, according to AFP/Yahoo! News. "AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did," she added, according to the Standard, AFP/Yahoo! News reports (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/9) Saturday, Maathai repeated her belief that HIV was deliberately "devised to destroy black people," according to Reuters. She added that her comments published in the Standard were "intended to promote an inquiring attitude" toward HIV/AIDS among Africans and "combat the fatalistic notion that it was a curse from God," Reuters reports. "Would you solve the problem if you believed it was a curse from God?" Maathai asked, adding that she was "encouraging people to ask questions." Although Maathai said she never indicated that a specific region or nation was responsible for creating HIV/AIDS, she is "suspicious" about the "secrecy surrounding the origin of the virus," according to Reuters. "Some people say it came from the monkeys, and I doubt it. ... But I say it cannot be that only black people are cursed because we are dying more than any other people on this planet, and that's a fact" (Kanina, Reuters, 10/9).

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Although the United States "congratulated" Maathai on Friday for winning the Nobel Prize, officials also "tempered [their] praise" about her claims that HIV/AIDS was created as a biological weapon, according to South Africa's Star. "She's had many long years of environmental activism," Department of State spokesperson Richard Boucher said, adding, "We're delighted to see that she's the first African woman to have been selected for this unique honor." However, an unnamed State Department senior official said that the department "vehemently" objected to Maathai's comments concerning the origin of HIV, the Star reports. "She said HIV/AIDS was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West," the official said, adding, "We don't agree with that" (Star, 10/9). Maathai -- Kenya's assistant minister of the environment and founder of the country's Green Belt movement that aims to promote biodiversity and gender equity -- was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for standing at the "front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa," according to AFP/Yahoo! News (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/9).

Morning Briefing (Oct 12,2004)

Quote:Maathai and her husband, Mwangi Mathai, separated in 1977. After a lengthy separation, Mwangi filed for divorce in 1979. He was said to have believed that Wangari was "too strong-minded for a woman" and that he was "unable to control her". In addition to naming her as "cruel" in court filings, he publicly accused her of adultery with another Member of Parliament, which in turn was thought to cause his high blood pressure and the judge ruled in Mwangi's favour. Shortly after the trial, in an interview with Viva magazine, Maathai referred to the judge as either incompetent or corrupt. The interview later led the judge to charge Maathai with contempt of court. She was found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail. After three days in Lang'ata Women's Prison in Nairobi, her lawyer formulated a statement that the court found sufficient for her release. Shortly after the divorce, her former husband sent a letter via his lawyer demanding that Maathai drop his surname. She chose to add an extra "a" instead of changing her name.
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Just a public service announcement (more food contamination): 

More strawberries sold at Walmart, Costco, HEB recalled over possible hepatitis A contamination!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/mo...tamination

Quote:Oregon-based Willamette Valley Fruit Co. issued a recall for packages of frozen fruit sold at Walmart, Costco and HEB stores around the nation – the latest company to do so amid an outbreak of hepatitis A infections. 


The select packages Great Value and Radar Farms frozen fruit contain strawberries that were grown in Mexico and have the potential to be contained with hepatitis A, according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

The notice came just after California-based Wawona Frozen Foods issued a recall for year-old bags of frozen fruit that were shipped to Costco stores. 

The FDA has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as with other state public health and regulatory officials, to investigate the multi-state outbreak of infections that started in November 2022 and have been linked to frozen organic strawberries imported from certain farms in Baja California, Mexico. 


To date, nine people have fallen ill in three states, including three people who have been hospitalized. 

The hepatitis A virus strain in this outbreak is genetically identical to the strain that caused the hepatitis A outbreak in 2022 that left over a dozen people hospitalized, according to the CDC.