As a Nazi officer pointed out, his other options were to become a Social Democrat or a communist, and the Nazis didn’t care for these people. Social Democrats were sent to camps, and communists were shot.
Matis’ duty was to patrol his small town, unarmed, with other Lithuanian Rifles and report back to the Nazis. He didn’t like Nazis, but he hated communists, and being a Lithuanian Rifle was better than a camp or a bullet.
Besides, Germany was the land of art and science. Germans were civilized, and the communists were animals.
Good riddance to the Stalinists who now found themselves under the gun.
Also, Germany was winning the war. Months after enlisting as a Lithuanian Rifle, Matis, in his mid 30’s, married and father to three children, began to hear insane rumors that the Germans were rounding up Jewish men and teens in nearby towns and shooting them in the forest. It can’t happen here Matis and his friends refused to believe the rumors.
Germans were cultured and sophisticated.
They led Europe in engineering.
Germany was home to some of the world’s best composers, like Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven. Germans built cities. Soviets, not Germans, were feral.
Stalin’s men deported thousands of ethnic Lithuanians out of Vilnius, and they were never seen again...
Facebook took steps to suppress true information or mere opinions about vaccines to avoid a "vaccine negative environment," according to internal company occupations viewed by Fox Business.
On a July 2021 call between Facebook employees and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's Office, a Facebook employee explained they were combating misinformation, but also working to contain information they admitted was "not false."
The Washington Post‘s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, gave President Joe Biden four Pinocchios for lying about his son Hunter Biden not making money in China.
Kessler documented two instances where Biden denied his son had made money in China...
1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."
1790 - TheRevenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.
1958 - Billboard Magazine introduced its "Hot 100" chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number one song was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool."
1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.
1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.
A report from the Financial Times revealed that a company's environmental, social, and governance score has "little to no relation" to its carbon emissions, noting that high-rated firms pollute just as much as low-rated firms.
Felix Goltz, a research director at Scientific Beta, told the Financial Times, "The carbon intensity reduction of green [ie low carbon intensity] portfolios can be effectively cancelled out by adding ESG objectives."
Stopping Looters: We Ain't Gonna Take It, Any More By Ward Clark "It appears some people aren’t going to put up with brazen looters any more. The 1976 film Network had one iconic moment, where Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch, started a social phenomenon by declaring during a live broadcast that his viewers should all shout, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”
Looting of retail establishments has become a far worse pandemic than COVID was.
Thieves boldly walk in, stuff bags and boxes full of merchandise and stroll out, knowing nothing will be done.
Stores are resorting to all sorts of counter-measures, anything except actually apprehending and arresting the looters.
And let’s be clear; this isn’t what Americans usually consider shoplifting...
These people are looters, pure and simple.
They aren’t hungry, their motive is profit, and in lots of places, they’re just allowed to get away with it...
"Coors Light and Miller Lite are now 50% bigger than Bud Light by total industry dollars," Hattersley said. "Last year, Bud Light was bigger than both. Retailers are making space for our brands as demand increases."
The counting room was then cleared of all election observers and local media reporters.
Then several minutes later, after the room was emptied, at least five election workers entered the counting room, dragged a seemingly hidden suitcase of ballots out from under a table, and began counting ballots again and apparently shoving stacks of ballots through the machines numerous times.
"The New York Times casually admitted Monday that "it has long been known" that President Joe Biden "interacted" with Hunter Biden's business associates.
On Monday, Devon Archer, a longtime business associate of Hunter's, told Congress that Hunter put his father on speakerphone about 20 times during meetings with business partners over a decade. Using his father, Archer testified, was Hunter's way of selling "the brand" and closing business deals. Importantly, these alleged 20 instances were those that Archer himself witnessed, which doesn't preclude other instances.
A new report is warning that Joe Biden's demand that huge numbers of Americans be forced to buy electric vehicles, instead of gas-powered cars, will benefit al-Qaida.
It's because al-Qaida, through the Taliban, controls huge lithium resources in Afghanistan.
We lived in our cars back in the Fifties and Sixties. We dined and went to movies in them hoping to get into a little hanky-panky, and some of us even went to drive-in churches...
And when I say driving, I am referring to accelerating, shifting, back-shifting, cornering, and braking—and occasionally, should the opportunity arise, going fast. As Alodus Huxley once said, “Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”..
Cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.
It is interesting to compare Jack Smith's J6 indictment of Trump and see how the charges compare with what Al Gore did in 2000 and what Hillary did in 2016.
If this is the standard, the Al and Hill would be cellies - and they would have plenty of company.
"You know the names -
Clapper, Comey, Strzok, Page, Brennan, the 50 intel officials - Hillary asserting fraud in 2016,
the infamous January 5th meeting in 2017 between Peter Strzok, Susan Rice, Obama, Biden and Susan Yates that detailed the surveillance and leak operation against Michael Flynn.
Based on what Smith has alleged are crimes, every presidential spokesperson since 2000 should be jailed.... If the people let this stand, there will be more.
There were on site at least 20 potentially infectious pathogens including those causing coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis, and herpes...
The lab was supposed to be producing COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, but the facility contained items inconsistent with that explanation. The seizures at the lab strongly suggest China's regime is preparing to spread disease in America, undoubtedly in the months before a war.
In all probability, it is from locations like this one where China will "fire the first shot" in the next war.
General Chi Haotian, when he was China's defense minister two decades ago, reportedly gave a secret speech advocating the extermination of Americans with disease. His plan was to clear out the hills, plains, and valleys of North America so that the Chinese people could settle in the vast spaces left uninhabited...
"WASHINGTON — Yellow, the beleaguered trucking company that received a $700 million pandemic loan from the federal government, notified staff Friday that it is shutting down and laying off employees at all of its locations. The move comes before an expected bankruptcy filing by Yellow in the coming days.
The closure of the company would mean the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs and mark the end of a business that just three years ago was deemed so critical to the nation’s supply chains that it warranted a federal bailout. “The company is shutting down its regular operations on July 28, 2023, closing and/or laying off employees at all of its locations, including yours,” the company said in a memo to staff that was reviewed by The New York Times...
Executive vice president of Safari Club International Ben Cassidy told Fox News Digital, "It is ironic that the U.S. Department of Education is actively denying young Americans the chance to educate themselves on basic firearm and hunting safety so that they can go afield knowing how to keep themselves, their friends, and family safe."
2022 Physics Nobel Laureate John Clauser has found by investigating the current status of climate science that the climate alarmism propagated by IPCC and the new International Panel on Information Environment formed by the Nobel Foundation, is pseudoscience: Now I am not alone in observing the dangerous proliferation of pseudoscience.
Recently, The Nobel Foundation has formed a new panel to address the issue called the International Panel on Information Environment...
In particular, there is no known or even thinkable physics indicating that a minor increase in the level of atmospheric CO2 from use of fossil fuel can cause measurable warming of a global climate subject to major impact from the Sun, clouds and ocean circulation.
1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1750 - Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods. It was titled "A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management."
1777 - During the Siege of Fort Stanwix the first U.S. flag was officially flown during battle.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1981 - U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as U.S. President Reagan had warned.
1984 - Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
