Why has the federal government been trying so hard to keep
surveillance footage of January 6th under wraps? We may have an answer
to that question if a set of newly released videos are any indication.
A judge ordered the videos be released against the wishes of the
government prosecutors who claimed doing so would undermine national
security. Of course, that makes no sense, and what’s on the videos runs
counter to the chosen narrative.
Behold, the event that has been compared to the Civil War by the President of the United States.
What if all the core images, sounds and smells you know of a place
were intact, but altered, tweaked or reworked the way songs can be? In
some ways, this is what it feels like to gaze at photographs of a place
you know intimately, but taken during a time when you never existed.
Many of the buildings,
roads, landmarks, rivers and activities are the same, but everything is
slightly different. Colors have shifted, architecture re-arranged,
elements added or removed, and styles shaken up. Perhaps you would
prefer this alternate version and wish it was the place you now
occupied, or maybe it would engender a newfound appreciation for what
you've come to consider the "original version."
This set of photographs taken
in Saigon in 1972 includes many sights that we recognize today,
including the Saigon Zoo, the Opera House, and Trần Hưng Đạo Street. But
the visitors to them dress differently, current statues are nowhere to
be seen, and bygone makes of cars fill the streets. The author of the
photo collection, presumably an American serviceman, is only known by
the Flickr user name Kemper14.
Floating markets haven’t completely disappeared from Vietnam’s commercial landscape.
Most tourism trips to Can Tho involve a stop at the floating market
despite its dubious role nowadays as an actual trading hub. As bridges,
roads and general infrastructure improvements are made throughout the
Mekong Delta, trading on waterways has become somewhat less ideal. But
while Can Tho’s plethora of land-based supply routes supported by modern
grocery stores may have relegated its floating market to little more
than an Instagram hotspot, elsewhere in the delta, a great amount of
agricultural trading still takes place on the water.
During a trip to explore poverty relief efforts in Long My, Saigoneer
took a side trip to the Ngã Năm floating market and discovered a
vibrant trading center where farmers bring tubers, ducklings, mangos,
jackfruits, pork, onions and rice to the river to sell. The goods sold
wholesale then travel from the river up smaller estuaries and streams to
be sold at small neighborhood markets, fulfilling the daily nutritional
needs of an entire region.
The activities at Ngã Năm begin early, and by daybreak the water is
filled with traders and shippers hoping to conduct their business before
the menacing midday sun arrives. A woman sells piping hot bowls of
noodles to the sellers who work up an appetite tossing bags of gourds
and transferring jugs of water, while in the small riverfront town,
vendors set up shop preparing breakfast and selling all sorts of
essentials from clothing to condiments.
For a small fee we were able to rent a boat and travel up and down
the river to observe the buying and selling. Nga Nam is not a popular
tourist destination and the morning was spent watching people perform
their routine shopping trips. As long as we didn’t get in the way of
their transactions, people were happy to pose for photos, waving with
mild bemusement that we were interested in their quotidian commercial
activities.
1944, Allies are pushing against Nazi Germany! British Snipers often are on the tip of the spear, leading attacks against Germans. So how did their main Sniper rifle, No.4 MK. I (T) work?
I'm taking on 13 different size targets all the way from 100 to 700 Yards! Let's see what this rifle really can do!
As a counter sniper I'm going to use German BYF High Turret Sniper!
In addition to the barrier provided by law enforcement and Texas military vehicles, the governor also ordered
the building of physical barriers along the river to stop the
unrestricted flow of migrants. On Tuesday, Breitbart Texas observed
several miles of border barrier built by the state where no physical
barrier existed three months ago.
Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety and
National Guard to use vehicles to create a miles-long barrier to stop
the flow of mostly Haitian migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. The
vehicle barrier, along with the recently constructed Texas border
fencing, effectively blocked the illegal crossings and enabled Border
Patrol officials to reduce the population of the Del Rio migrant
encampment.
Perhaps it was after watching yet another film depicting the South as
irredeemably backwards and bigoted. Or perhaps it was after reading yet another round of commentaries
denigrating Robert E. Lee because Lee was a traitor (so were the
American revolutionaries, technically), a defender of a slave owning
society (as most societies were before the nineteenth century), and
ultimately a military failure and “loser” (weren’t Hannibal and
Napoleon?). Whatever the cause, I confess I have recently started to
grow frustrated with Flannery O’Connor.
What, you might ask, do Hollywood and historical revisionism have to
do with one of the most talented and beloved of the South’s writers, who
in 1972 won the National Book Award for fiction? Well, perhaps in a
time less saturated with woke progressivist attempts to vilify most
everything about Southern culture, not much. But in this era of
infuriatingly irrational (and hypocritical) prejudice towards Dixie, one
yearns for portrayals of her that, if unwilling to praise the South, at
least avoid the condescending, unjust caricatures that now serve as
conventional perceptions of her in American popular imagination. Dixie,
I’m afraid, has been demonized.
Nonunion workers make up nearly 90 percent of the US workforce. President Joe Biden is giving them the shaft.
The massive $3.5 trillion budget bill
Biden and Democratic lawmakers are trying to ram through Congress
discriminates against nonunion workers, even forcing some of them to pay
higher taxes than coworkers who joined the union.
Union membership in the United States has been declining for a half-century. Biden is bent on reversing the trend, using the federal government to rig the system in favor of organizers and to twist the arms of nonunion workers and employers.
In nearly 30 years of covering America's corrupted immigration and
entrance policies, I can tell you definitively that every "border
crisis" is a manufactured crisis. Caravans of Latin American illegal
immigrants don't just form out of nowhere. Throngs of Middle Eastern
refugees don't just amass spontaneously. Boatloads of Haitians don't
just wash up on our shores by random circumstance.
All the world's
a stage, and as I exposed in my most recent book, "Open Borders, Inc.,"
the world's migrants are nothing more than expedient tools to globalist
elites, profit-maximizing corporations, self-aggrandizing religious and
nonprofit groups, and criminal smuggling syndicates.
The corporate media narrative that unvaccinated people are filling up
the hospitals and dying from COVID is quickly falling apart, perhaps
faster than they even expected.
WXYZ TV Channel 7 in Detroit asked their viewers on their Facebook Page
last Friday to direct message them if they lost a loved one due to
COVID-19 if they refused to get one of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Skin penetrating nanoparticles made airborne, enhanced with human chimeric spike proteins.
Creating new MERS viruses with fatality rate greater than 30 percent.
Newly leaked documents reveal researchers led by Peter Daszak applied for $14 million in funding.
Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, newly leaked grant proposals show.
The Biden administration is reportedly releasing many migrants into
the United States who illegally entered the country in Del Rio, Texas,
casting doubt on prior reports that the administration was going to conduct “widescale expulsions.”
“Haitians
have been freed on a ‘very, very large scale’ in recent days, according
to one U.S. official who put the figure in the thousands,” The
Associated Press reported.
“The official, who has direct knowledge of operations, was not
authorized to discuss the matter Tuesday and spoke on condition of
anonymity.”
