Voting Will be a Real Challenge in North Carolina

 From Leo's Newsletter:

Elections officials in North Carolina are now openly warning that voting in some parts of this key battleground state might be impacted due to Hurricane Helene’s devastation. And the impact, according to the numbers, is going to be strongest in overwhelmingly Republican counties where voters are likely going to struggle to get ballots mailed in on time due to their lives being upended by the hurricane.

The Epoch Times reports that during Helene, critical infrastructure in large swaths of western North Carolina and especially parts of the Appalachian Mountain areas were damaged or totally wiped out. Without power, voting machines don’t work. And the U.S. Postal Service may not be able to pick up or deliver mail from the hardest hit areas where mailing in a ballot might be the only option. Walking or driving to a polling place on Election Day may also be a no go. (Read more.)

 

The storm is here! From Tierney's Real News:

By now, most of America knows that Hurricane Helene was devastating, has killed many Americans in the SE United States (and more bodies are still missing) and that the Obama-Biden-Harris regime, and FEMA, took several days to respond to the disaster and are slow-walking any help. What most people don’t know is there is a HUGE back story to this storm that is not being reported. How did this happen? How were people caught so off guard? (Read more.)

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The Last Neanderthal

 From Live Science:

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago across most of Europe, presumably along with its Neanderthal creators. But archaeologists have found Mousterian tools at southern Iberian Neanderthal sites that were made after that time. These objects may be evidence that Neanderthals clung to the region, possibly taking refuge from climate changes affecting other parts of Europe.

To show that Neanderthals were alive where such tools were found, however, archaeologists ideally need undisturbed, uncontaminated layers in which they find materials clearly tied to Neanderthals' activities — such as bones with cut marks, bone tools, and charcoal that was purposefully burned. That's where things get complicated — especially because many Neanderthal sites were excavated or dated before people knew how to avoid contaminating ancient samples. (Read more.)

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James II, Last Catholic King of England, Scotland, and Ireland with Justine Brown

 

My novel of James' mother, HERE. Share

Did The CIA Lie About Covid?

 From The Rand Paul Review:

The CIA was paid to lie to you about Covid. From the House Oversight Committee, we learn in a bombshell report that “The CIA was paid to change its assessment on the origins of Covid-19.” If this whistleblower testimony is validated, the U.S. government has deliberately violated the Covid Origins Act. The government also refused to provide a list of names of scientists who fell ill while working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab, even though they were aware of who these scientists were. As Senator Josh Hawley states, “I am not happy that this administration [Biden-Harris] continues to flaunt, flout, and completely ignore laws passed unanimously and in a bipartisan vote.” Hawley can’t figure out why they want to lie to the American people, but when you realize the government is complicit in mass murder, of course, the Deep State is going to cover their tracks. (Read more.)

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What Was the Reign of Terror?

 From Live Science:

The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. Between Sept. 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794, France's revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people. French lawyer and statesman Maximilien Robespierre led the Terror, which was caused in part by a rivalry between France's two leading political parties: the Jacobins and the Girondins.  

At the end of the French Revolution, a revolutionary government called the National Convention came into power and formed the first French Republic. The Convention found King Louis XVI guilty of treason in 1792 and beheaded him by guillotine in January 1793. Many areas of France — including Normandy and the city of Lyon — opposed the revolution and rebelled against the new government. 

In March 1793, an armed revolt in the Vendée resulted in first several towns and eventually the entire region being captured by a counterrevolutionary army. After a bloody campaign, republic forces defeated the rebellion, resulting in around 200,000 deaths, New Republic reported. (Read more.)

 

Did climate change ignite the French Revolution? From Time:

Starting in the mid-13th century, the northern hemisphere entered a period of prolonged cooling known as the Little Ice Age. This extended chill was not smooth and uniform, however, but marked by intervals of plummeting temperatures in the midst of otherwise stable warmth. Around 1770, one such interval of abrupt freezing began in the Northern Atlantic, wreaking immediate havoc on shipping, transportation and agriculture. In 1775, severe grain shortages in France caused by successive years of poor harvests resulted in bread riots throughout the kingdom. Later dubbed the Flour War, it was a harbinger of things to come.

Compounding the worsening climate, the Laki volcanic fissure in Iceland erupted in June 1783. Over the next eight months, the fissure spewed 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. Across northern Europe, a “blood coloured sun” barely showed through a thick persistent haze. In addition to the excess mortality caused by the foul air, the Laki eruption radically altered the atmosphere, causing the climate of the 1780s to become extremely volatile. After a long spell of cooling, the summer of 1783 was suddenly the hottest on record. The unseasonably hot weather triggered severe thunderstorms with hailstones large enough to kill livestock. The scorching summer gave way to an equally extreme winter of severe freezing, followed by a warm spring that rapidly melted the snow and ice which caused extensive flooding.

These abnormally wild extremes defined weather patterns for years to come: dry and blistering summers interspersed by violent thunderstorms, followed by deep winter freezes, snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures. The fluctuations ravaged the lives of the French population, ruining crops, killing livestock and creating an unbreakable cycle of hunger, poverty, stress, fear and hardship. Touring France in 1785, John Adams wrote, “The country is a heap of ashes. Grass is scarcely to be seen and all sorts of grain is short, thin, pale and feeble while the flax is quite dead….I pity this people from my soul. There is at this moment as little appearance of a change of weather as ever.” (Read more.)

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Trump Vows To Deport Haitian Migrants

 From The Daily Wire:

Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration would “absolutely” revoke the temporary protected status for Haitian migrants living in Springfield, Ohio, and deport them back “to their own country.”

Around 20,000 Haitian migrants have settled in Springfield in recent years, a spike in population that Trump said has caused the town of around 58,000 residents to be “overrun.” The Ohio town, located between Dayton and Columbus, has become the center of national media coverage after both Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), cited unconfirmed reports of Haitian migrants stealing and eating residents’ pets.

“It has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else. You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country,” Trump told NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley.

“Springfield is such a beautiful place. Have you seen what’s happened to it? It’s been overrun. You can’t do that to people. … I’d revoke (the protected status), and I’d bring (the migrants) back to their country,” the former president added. (Read more.)

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Rand Paul Calls out the Military Industrial Complex

 From The Rand Paul Review:

The Military Industrial Complex has become one of the greatest thorns of the American economy in recent years, as it has sent the country’s national debt to record levels. In many cases, some of our newest proposed spending does not include measures that will beef up our military strength. Instead, we are making ourselves weaker by funding other countries’ conflicts, and these conflicts do not even impact our national security.

The safety of Ukraine should not come before the well-being of our population. Local communities are struggling due to failed border policies, which is a national security issue, and middle-class Americans are paying the price of our country’s endless money printing through the new onset of inflation. The US government can’t afford to fund these endless global conflicts, and there are many more important national security issues on domestic soil.

The United States has been crippling itself economically due to all of the foreign aid it has been sending to other countries. Even after funding Ukraine for around two years, we have still made no progress in resolving this conflict, and have only succeeded in boosting our debt and increasing inflation.

In a recent video, Rand Paul noted that the amount of Ukraine aid proposed exceeds the amount that we spend on the Marine Corps. (Read more.)

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Trial at Large

The fascinating blog Culture and Stuff has linked to an old book which contains the entire transcript of Marie-Antoinette's trial in English. (Via Vive la Reine.) Many people have written to me over the years asking for an online account in English and here is one at last. It was compiled in 1793 right after the Queen's death. Read HERE. Share

FEMA is a Fraud

 From Leo's Newsletter:

There is a heart-wrenching story developing in the mountans and hills of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, a story that is not being told in the mainstream corporate media. Stories of starving, dehydrated people being left to die. And bodies, lots of bodies, washing up in rural areas, many of them unrecognizable.

One such story comes from Nate and Katie Kramer, a husband and wife in Parrotsville, Tennessee (Cocke County), just east of Newport, Tennessee, located roughly midway between Knoxville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina. This area was inundated with 20-plus inches of rain pouring over a dammed up river compliments of Hurricane Helene.

Nate Kramer related in a YouTube video his heartbreaking experience of finding a body Tuesday that had washed up near the couple’s small farming homestead. Fast-forward to the 3:33 mark and listen to this emotional and tragic story. (Read more.)

 

From The Federalist:

 The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the “Shelter and Services Program” “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” according to the government’s website.

The program is run in cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “to support CBP in the safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities,” FEMA’s website reads. An anonymous X account highlighted the program after MSNBC pundit Michael Steele sought to portray former President Donald Trump as the commander-in-chief who denied Americans full relief from catastrophic weather events. (Read more.)

JD Vance visits flooded areas, HERE.

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