BATIUSHKA—Last Thursday X saw a bad accident on the road nearby: the traffic lights were not working because of a power cut. That is happening all over. The streets are in darkness, no lights. Many work from home, or used to. That is difficult now, because at best you only have three to four hours of electricity before it goes off for at least the same amount of time. There is no light. And then even the best batteries in a computer mean that you lose power after an hour or two – that is, if you have the internet, which is not all the time.
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Near the end of his administration, Donald Trump issued an executive order that would provide government assistance to reduce the cost of insulin for low-income diabetics. Before the order could be implemented, Joe Biden took office and his administration delayed and eventually reversed the decision. And now, with the Inflation Reduction Act reducing the cost of insulin for diabetics on Medicare, the already sky-high insulin price paid by anyone NOT on Medicare will likely go up. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Big Pharma’s grip on pharmaceutical pricing and why Americans pay so much more for prescription drugs than anyone else in the world.
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STEPHEN GOWANS—The Stone and Kuznick view is, really, rather quite silly. They believe that Mao and Kim decided to become guerrillas, and Stalin, a Bolshevik, because these were routes to the acquisition of personal power, self-aggrandizement, and iron-fisted control. Yet, at the time, guerrilla and underground revolutionary were hardly the most promising career paths for people who lusted for power and self-aggrandizement. If Stalin really lusted after these things, why didn’t he link up with Tsarist forces, rather than the Bolsheviks, which until mid-1917 were a minor political force that no one (including many Bolsheviks) expected to take power?
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Viral video impresario Matt Orfalea has done it again, this time exposing the war propagandists in the news media who take money from weapons manufacturers and then push endless weapons shipments to Ukraine – all without ever revealing their conflict of interest! Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger enjoy Orfalea’s deft editing touch as he hilariously sends up the war profiteering industry.
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Caleb analyses the mainstream media reaction to Nina Jankowicz’s bizarre TikTok video, and DHS’ creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board”, evoking Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
