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  • An Overgrown Story

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 13th 2023 4:46am EDT

    Image Source OVER THE PAST year or two, several correspondents, one of whom enclosed a copy of a published newsletter, have enlightened me about the true origin of the famous colossal statue of the goddess Eleutheria, who, most inappropriately wearing the radial crown of Apollo Helios, stands on a monumental pedestal at the entrance to […]

  • A New ‘Brave New World’

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 11:00pm EDT

    Image Source  Raw Egg Nationalist For the past century, it’s been a mainstay of the science-fiction genre: the medicated society—a society in which the majority of the population is given some form of drug to alter their behaviour, ostensibly for the better. The most famous example of the genre is, of course, Aldous Huxley’s novel […]

  • The Importance of Courage

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 10:00pm EDT

    Image Source  I’VE NEVER been a boxing fan, and so normally I wouldn’t feel qualified to say anything about the sport. However, I have been amused by all of the public commentary by media spokesmen, politicians, and boxing officials about the fact that one boxer of the African persuasion saw fit to bite a sizable […]

  • Trapped People In Gaza Beg For Warnings Before They Are Bombed

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 9:00pm EDT

    John Wojcik Palestinians rescue a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed residential building following an Israeli airstrike, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. | Fatima Shbair / AP   Mosques full of people hiding for safety are bombed and collapse on top of the civilians inside. Hospitals in which life support and dialysis machines have […]

  • On Secret Societies

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 8:00pm EDT

    1826 For the perpetual remembrance of the matter. 1. Blessed Peter, Prince of Apostles, and his Successors have been given the Power and Care of Feeding and Ruling the flock of Christ, Our God and Savior. Hence, the more grave the evils threatening the flock, the greater the solicitude the Roman Pontiffs ought to employ […]

  • The Geopolitics of Al-Aqsa Flood

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 6:30pm EDT

    Pepe Escobar Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was meticulously planned. The launch date was conditioned by two triggering factors. First was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flaunting his ‘New Middle East’ map at the UN General Assembly in September, in which he completely erased Palestine and made a mockery of every single UN resolution on the […]

  • Russian Views of the Hamas-Israeli Conflict

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 4:42pm EDT

    Image Source Based on a report from Moscow by John Helmer Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova asked: “How did it happen that in a year; that’s how much time the operation was being prepared for, then carried out now in a few days, the United States as Israel’s closest ally did not warn about this? […]

  • It’s A Trap! The Wave Of Repercussions As The Middle East Fights “The Last War”

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 10:00am EDT

    Image Source Brandon Smith Few people are familiar with a little event around 1200 BC called the Bronze Age Collapse in the region known as the Levant (now known as the Middle East). Most folks are taught that history and progress travel in a straight line and that each generation improves upon the culture and […]

  • Hamas Reportedly Calls for a Global Moslem “Day of Rage”

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 12th 2023 2:38am EDT

    Hamas has reportedly called for a global Moslem “day of rage” this Friday. Hamas Leader Calls For Global Muslim Uprising In ‘Day Of Rage’ On Friday, Report Says  https://t.co/zeupLnWRmg — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 11, 2023   We’ll see if anything comes from this, but we have a situation where the Israelis are on the brink of sending ground […]

  • The US Can’t Afford Peace, Much Less War

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 8:00pm EDT

    Image Source War broke out in the Middle East over the weekend after Hamas attacked Israel. In his podcast, Peter broke down the possible economic ramifications here in the United States. He said the US can’t afford peace, much less war. Market reaction to the events in Israel and the Gaza Strip was muted. Peter […]

  • Neural Reality, the Ultimate VR, Could Answer the Fermi Paradox

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 6:00pm EDT

    Image Source Ross Pomeroy Scientific skepticism is Dr. Steven Novella’s bread and butter. As president of the New England Skeptics’ Society, his mission is to promote science and critical thinking. Novella casts the light of evidence on a range of complicated topics on his blog and his podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. In his latest book, The Skeptics’ […]

  • Indecision

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 5:00pm EDT

    April 9, 1942 That yaller hound Dawg Franklin Roosevelt was complainin’ the other day about “indecision” or people favorin’ indecision. I trust there is nothin’ Undecided about my position. I think Roosevelt ought to be jailed, if a committee of doctors thinks him responsible for his actions, and I think he ought to be in […]

  • How Bad Is Inflation? You Won’t Like the Answer…

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 4:00pm EDT

    Image Source From Brandon Smith Historically speaking, inflation or stagflation have always been disastrous affairs. One is hard pressed to find any legitimate examples of a country that experienced an aggressive inflationary episode that came out better for it. A rare scenario would be one in which a nation inflates to fund a war that they then win, […]

  • The United States is “Lurching” Toward China-Style Financial Surveillance

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 2:00pm EDT

    Image Source Didi Rankovic Pretty serious suspicions are being raised regarding the direction the US financial system (and associated tech companies) are taking, this time by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB). This government agency’s head Rohit Chopra went as far as to tell an event, dubbed, Making America’s Payment System Work for a Digital Century […]

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  • How Did the Jungle Come to the West?

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 1:00pm EDT

    Image Source Thomas Cross October 25, 2016 Axl Rose, lead singer of Guns N’ Roses, once famously said that a jungle was a place of violence, brutal sex, and degeneracy. Boy, was he ever right. As the modern-day Camp of the Saints-like “Jungle” in Calais, France, comes down — with the invaders spreading out across France […]

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  • World Solidarity With Palestine

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 12:00pm EDT

    Image Source The Israeli regime’s murders, seizures of territories, illegal settlements and occupation made a response from the Palestinian people and their liberation organizations as inevitable as it was justifiable. Palestinians have once again, under the most difficult circumstances, provided a heroic example for people longing for liberation from imperialism around the world. Palestinians capture […]

  • War And Will Of The People

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 10:00am EDT

    Image Source In matters of state, a constitutional competence to act is in many cases the smallest part of the question. Without disputing (God forbid I should dispute) the sole competence of the king and the parliament, each in its province, to decide on war and peace, I venture to say, no war CAN be […]

  • Sacred Tears

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 8:00am EDT

    Image Source Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself […]

  • Hypnos

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 6:00am EDT

    “Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we did not know that it is the result of ignorance of the danger.” —Baudelaire. May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when […]

  • Mother of Shani Louk Says Her Daughter is Still Alive

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 4:00am EDT

    Chris Menahan German-Israeli festival attendee Shani Louk is alive and receiving treatment in a hospital in Gaza but is in “critical condition” from a head injury, according to her mother Ricarda Louk. WATCH: From News Nation Now, “Mother of Shani Louk, taken by Hamas, says her daughter’s alive”: The mother of a 22-year-old German woman who […]

  • EU Issues Ultimatum To Elon Musk

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 3:00am EDT

    Image Source A top European Union official has demanded a crackdown on “disinformation” on X (formery Twitter), warning that the bloc would take action against site owner Elon Musk if he allowed “terrorist content” to circulate on his platform. In an “urgent letter” addressed to Musk on Tuesday, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton recalled the “very precise obligations” set out under the […]

  • New York City Hospitals, Medical Centers Being Overwhelmed By Illegals

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 2:00am EDT

    Image Source Ethan Huff  The healthcare system of New York City is crumbling under the weight of thousands upon thousands of illegal migrants who continue to pour in from across America’s southern border. According to reports, hospitals and medical centers all across the city are being completely overwhelmed by hordes of human “locusts” in the sense that […]

  • “A Nuclear Superpower and a Dispossessed People”

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 12:35am EDT

    Image Source  An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Escalation in Palestine and Israeli Repression On October 7, Hamas, the ruling party in the Gaza Strip, breached the siege wall surrounding them to carry out a series of attacks. The Israeli government has responded with a full military operation. While both sides have targeted civilians as […]

  • Israel Calls Palestinians ‘Human Animals,’ Denies Gaza Civilians Food And Water Amid Mass Bombing

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 11th 2023 12:14am EDT

    Image Source Sameena Rahman Since the historic launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood uprising by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, the apartheid Israeli government has declared “total war” on Gaza. It has ramped up its military escalation against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, targeting apartment buildings, mosques, a market and other civilian areas, leading to widespread […]

  • Will a New House Speaker Solve Our Problems?

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Oct 9th 2023 8:14pm EDT

    Last week we witnessed a dramatic, historical first: A Speaker of the US House of Representatives was removed from that position by a vote from Members of that body. US Rep. Matt Gaetz was able to gather enough Republicans dissatisfied with the leadership of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to send him packing. What was the last […]