Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’ - Daniel Lattier

In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University.

• What he offered to the students and faculty some forty years ago was not your typical graduation speech filled with banal platitudes.

Instead—in a perhaps unsurprising move for a Russian who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile—he offered them one of the most sobering and penetrating diagnoses of the West in recent history.
And what was his diagnosis?
That the West is in decline...

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations.”...

Economist warns of ‘student loan disaster’ when bills come due this fall

There is an “imminent student-loan disaster” on the horizon that is being overlooked, according to a higher education scholar.

• Cooper said there are 7.3 million borrowers, according to the latest data from March, who are delinquent. 
• Millions more are in default or not paying anything due to the latest Biden student loan bailout, currently being challenged in the courts. 
• Through various programs, 20 million total borrowers are not paying on their loans...

'Unretirement': Massive and troubling phenomenon plaguing seniors victimized by Bidenomics * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Unretirement': Massive and troubling phenomenon plaguing seniors victimized by Bidenomics * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

That would be the agendas Biden has pursued that have given Americans inflation of more than 20% since he took office, that have priced food and fuel up by 20%, 30%, even 40% since Biden's reign in the Oval Office began. A study from caring.com reveals the tragic situation facing America's seniors because of Biden's tenure:

Situation in Europe August 2024

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | No, it is not climate change, nor sea level rise | Facebook

The land is sinking.  - Julius Sanks
No, it is not climate change, nor sea level rise. 

The land is sinking. 

• Not my opinion; that's what USGS says. 
• It is rebounding after the glaciers retreated. 
• They never made it this far south, but their weight pushed the bedrock up south of them. 
• Now that weight is gone, and the land is returning to its pre-glacial state.

wtop.com

‘Worse and worse and worse:’ Downtown Annapolis now seeing flooding about every 3 days - WTOP News

Lunch video-----This Is Just Insane

"UK.  The First Nation conquered because they didn’t want to offend the invaders.

Noon-toon

 

EXCLUSIVE: Feds caught MANIPULATING images at Trump shooting | Blaze Media

EXCLUSIVE: Feds caught MANIPULATING images at Trump shooting | Blaze Media: 

Baker pulled screenshots from the videos he obtained, and one of them is incredibly suspicious.

One man is pictured in plain clothes, with a weapon in his hand and a badge around his neck. When Baker zoomed in to see details on the badge, he found it’d been blurred out. Not only that, but the black around the badge had been digitally reshaped.

“Otherwise we would be able to identify what the badge was, just by its shape. Just by the badge,” Baker explains.

The man was also dressed like several other undercover cops — and so was someone else.

“The bottom line is that for some reason, Crooks showed up dressed like undercover cops,” Baker says. “Did he know that he was covered by what he was wearing? I have to ask those questions, right? If I don’t ask those questions, I’m not being honest even with myself.”

Are there better place to spend this money?

 

Instapundit - WELL, YES, AND IT WOULD

Instapundit - Implicit in this argument...

• She could try learning from a successful leader: Newsweek: Javier Milei Got Rid of Rent Control in Argentina. Housing Supply Skyrocketed. - Glenn Reynolds

What part do you disagree with?

 

#1 This day 1960-----elvis presley - its now or never (1960)

Joyously reported by ABC News!-----Harris to propose up to $25K in down-payment support for 1st-time homebuyers - ABC News

...with more generous support for first-generation homeowners.

The campaign is vowing that during its first term, the Harris-Walz administration would provide working families who have paid their rent on time for two years and are buying their first home up to $25,000 in down-payment assistance, with more generous support for first-generation homeowners.
Harris is also proposing two acts, the 

• Preventing the Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Housing Cartels Act and the 
• Stop Predatory Investing Act to help bring down the cost of rent. 

These acts aim to take on "corporate and major landlords" to stop them from "jacking" up prices...

Sounds like what we are seeing today!

 

Wyoming newspaper editor apologizes after reporter caught fabricating quotes, writing stories through AI | Blaze Media

Wyoming newspaper editor apologizes after reporter caught fabricating quotes, writing stories through AI | Blaze Media: 

Baker spoke with Pelczar and Enterprise editor Chris Bacon last Friday after finding that some of Pelczar's articles used unnecessarily lofty words or language that would otherwise be inappropriate in news pieces.

White Riot: Anarchy in the U.K. - Taki's Magazine

White Riot: Anarchy in the U.K. - Taki's Magazine - Steven Tucker

Well, now Britain has numerous white riots of its own, all across the country, following the recent mass stabbing of little girls at a dance class in the seaside town of Southport on 29 July, the named suspect for which is a supposed “Welshman” of black Rwandan parentage...

The specific way schools teach white kids “how to be thick” is by grooming them into supinely obeying the laws set up by their parliamentary overlords to keep them in their place. 

• The message is clear: By ignoring these same laws and rioting, non-whites often seem to get exactly what they want these days, with apparent impunity. So wouldn’t it be perfectly rational for native white folk to do the same, as the Clash once advised? Not necessarily…

“It has been obvious such violence has been coming for some time now—obvious to everyone, that is, except the blind men who actually rule us.”

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 16

History for August 16 - On-This-Day.com 

Menachem Begin (Israel) 1913

• 1777 - During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bennington took place. New England's minutemen routed the British regulars.
• 1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812.
• 1937 - Harvard University became the first school to have graduate courses in traffic engineering and administration.
• 1984 - The U.S. Jaycees voted to admit women to full membership in the organization.
• 1995 - Voters in Bermuda rejected independence from Great Britain.
• 1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament.

Major medical association breaks from the herd on the issue of sex-change mutilations for kids | Blaze Media

Major medical association breaks from the herd on the issue of sex-change mutilations for kids | Blaze Media: 

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, several of whose members are currently being sued by detransitioners, has reportedly distanced itself from the practice of providing children with sex-change mutilations, casting doubt on such procedures' value and efficacy.

The organization, which represents roughly 11,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, recently told Manhattan Institute fellow Leor Sapir that it "has not endorsed any organization's practice recommendations for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria" — an apparent reference to the recommendations advanced by the radical and scandal-plagued World Professional Association of Transgender Health.

The way we were-----What Your Teacher Didn’t Tell You About Native Americans

How Did Planned Parenthood Become One of the Country’s Largest Suppliers of Testosterone?

When she was a teenager, Cristina Hineman started testosterone after a 30-minute consult at Planned Parenthood. She’s now suing them. ‘I regretted everything.’ By Jennifer Block

It was testosterone...
It has also, in less than a decade, become the country’s leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, according to insurance claim data. 

• In 2015, around two dozen of their clinics began offering this service. 
• Now it’s available at nearly 450 locations...

Fact-checkers focus on the "important" facts. Right? Nothing on the massive amount of anti-Trump lies spewing from the media-----Video shows performance at Israeli gymnastics school | Fact check - USA TODAY

The claim: Video shows Israeli gymnasts performing at the Paris Olympics

• A July 28 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows gymnasts in white uniforms performing in front of an audience. At the end of the performance, some of the gymnasts hold up signs that spell out, “Bring them home now!”
• “Israel’s Artistic Gymnastics performing at the Paris Olympics with Powerful Message at the End,” reads text above the video
• The post was liked more than 26,000 times in more than two weeks.
• More from the Fact-Check Team: How we pick and research claims | Email newsletter | Facebook page

Our rating: False...

WATCH: Harris spokeswoman forced to lie about Kamala's schedule when CNN asks why she's hiding from media * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit

WATCH: Harris spokeswoman forced to lie about Kamala's schedule when CNN asks why she's hiding from media * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit: 

Kamala Harris' spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod was forced to lie about Harris' schedule after CNN asked why the Vice President is hiding from the media. Harris has not done one interview or press conference since she forced Joe Biden off the 2024 ballot 24 days ago. All she has done is repeat the same teleprompter speech over and over again.

Lawyers Need to Stop Using ChatGPT For Court Filings!

Trump visit to North Carolina yesterday, a woman Secret Service special agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission/warning to the event site agent

The agent and her family members bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed, the sources said. Unpinned means they have not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there.

Lunch video-----It WILL happen here!-----WAKE UP call to the 'blatant distortion' of 'angry people' by the Government...

Neill Oliver speaks out on those in Britain that 'are angry' and 'have been ignored by the Government', claiming that the current unrest has been 'blatantly distorted.' 

Noon-toon

 

Alvin Bragg gets sued for concealing records of his case against President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Alvin Bragg gets sued for concealing records of his case against President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan prosecutor who took years-old misdemeanor business records charges for which the statute of limitations had expired, and made them felonies against President Donald Trump because he claimed they were done in furtherance of some other unspecified crime, now is facing a lawsuit for his actions.

"Funny how these “errors” only seem to go in 1 direction!"

 

Yup, election soon!-----Gonorrhoea could become 'untreatable' as cases of the STI reach record level | UK News | Sky News

More drug-resistant cases of gonorrhoea are described as an "increasingly major public health threat" which "must be addressed with immediate action". 

• Gonorrhoea could become "untreatable", a health expert has warned.
• An increasing number of people catching the sexually transmitted infection are finding it does not respond to antibiotics.
• In addition, the total number of infections is at its highest since records began in 1918, with 85,223 cases diagnosed in England last year.
• Symptoms include a thick green or yellow discharge from the vagina or penis, according to the NHS website.