The government has covered-up Havana Syndrome for far too long. Tulsi had the ethics to say we are no longer playing this game. Huge step forward in this fight.
If you still are wondering what the heck Havana Syndrome is, I walked through the issue on an episode of @The_Watch_Floor, here: https://t.co/B2wMtfmX0a
JD Vance as an Elliot Ness-Like fraud cop is a role that suits him, I think. The VP job, performed traditionally, is stuffy and ceremonial and inert. I like the man-of-action version better, issuing warnings, swooping in on raids, briefing the public on the recovered loot.
Since COVID, we have instituted a system of legalized election theft in this country that defies both the conspiracy theories of the right and the protestations of the left. That’s because the “theft” is legal. Here’s a good description of how the system works in California.
@walterkirn Didn't we begin the day with news of special operators conducting full-scale exercises, alongside local law enforcement in greater L.A.?? The audience is listening.
@walterkirn Be that as it may, Walter, I'm nearing the halfway mark of Blood Will Out (tearing through, yet trying to slow down and savor it). It's a remarkable, brutally honest memoir, in addition to serving as witness to a mind-bending friendship-turned-subject of reportage. Brilliant!
@walterkirn@CarlBradley737 That's super elegant if Electoral College still exists on paper. This is a more robust explanation for the organized, app-assisted importation of millions through the Darien Gap for those 4 years. Wow...
@walterkirn L.A. County is still using Smartmatic voting machines, which originated in Venezuela and were deployed in the 2004 Hugo Chavez recall referendum. Smartmatic machines had no track record prior to that. Further to source code. It's a deep rabbit hole.
@walterkirn Succinct & accurate. It's Smoke n' Mirrors Inc. Elections run more efficiently in second world countries. As we say in certain circles, "acceptance is the answer to all of my problems."
Kuralt was the opposite of a "normal guy". He was an aristocratic wearing clothing that would blend into the Midwest, Bible Belt, or Deep South, and exhibiting a depth of curiosity that simply doesn't exist amongst journalists today. He drove around in a motor home and brought humanistic gold to us each week...
@walterkirn The phrase "does successful elections", and citation of source code ownership, is perfectly dystopian. It's no longer an election - it's a month's long stage play with audience participation.
@walterkirn It's heady stuff - remember being in a movie theatre in 1980 watching Ken Russell's "Altered States", which was a jolting intro to alternative visions of consciousness and awareness.
This is Aron Löwi, a 62-year-old Polish Jewish merchant from the small town of Zator. A husband, a neighbor, a man with a name, a family, and a life of his own.
On March 5, 1942, that life was brutally stripped away.
Upon arriving at Auschwitz, Aron was no longer seen as a human being. He became prisoner number 26406.
The haunting mugshots taken that day show a man already bruised, starved, and hollow-eyed, clear evidence of abuse even before he entered the camp. On his striped uniform were the badges of Nazi classification: a yellow star marking him as Jewish, and a red triangle labeling him a political prisoner.
Aron Löwi survived just five days in Auschwitz. He arrived on March 5 and was dead by March 10, 1942. His cause of death was never officially recorded, just one of millions dismissed as “unfit for labor.”
In five short days, the Nazis tried to erase a lifetime.
But they failed.
His face, his photograph, and his prisoner number remain. Every time we speak his name, we push back against the oblivion they sought to impose.
To remember even one is to resist forgetting them all.