In the second week of March 2020, the Trump administration announced “15-days to flatten the curve” based on the misguided notion that shutting the economy down temporarily would reduce hospital admissions and thus lower the Covid death toll over the medium and long term. As you know, in some places the lockdowns of schools and […]
Posts Tagged ‘despair’
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 122: Endless killings and despair in Gaza
Biden urges Congress to “swiftly pass” a $118bn bipartisan deal that includes $14.1bn in military aid to Israel after the ICJ ordered Israel to halt its ongoing attacks on civilians in Gaza. Source Views: 0
‘It’s Just a Nightmare’ Jets Fans Gripped with Heartbreak, Despair After Aaron Rodgers Suffers Injury in Debut
Fans expressed their anguish on social media after Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers got injured in his debut with the team. Source Views: 0
Poll: Majority of Voters Despair at Biden’s ‘Bad’ Economic Policies
As President Joe Biden touts his “Bidenomics” credentials ahead of a run for reelection in 2024, a clear majority of voters believe he is pursuing bad economic policies, a poll released Monday shows. Source Views: 0
Enemy seeks to sow despair and hopelessness in society: Raisi
TEHRAN – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the enemy seeks to induce despair among the Iranian people. Speaking at an inauguration ceremony in Tehran on Saturday, President Raisi said, “Today, the enemy seeks to induce despair and hopelessness in the society, but we, the Iranian nation, believe in culture of ‘we ca’,” according […]
Disbelief, despair and anger reigned in Greece as Station Master Arrested
Disbelief, despair and anger reigned in Greece after dozens of people died in the worst train crash in the country’s history. Greek City Times had published footage from a security camera showing when a passenger and freight train collided. Meanwhile, riots broke out on the streets of Athens. Many demonstrators took to the streets, angry […]
Christ’s hope overcomes despair in Afghanistan
Photo Credit: Geralt/Pixabay Afghanistan (Mission Network News) — Flash flooding sweeps across 10 provinces in 10 days in eastern Afghanistan, killing nearly 100 people and displacing thousands. It’s the latest in a series of disasters ravaging the country. Natural disasters, like the current flooding and June’s deadly 5.9 magnitude earthquake, unite… Source Views: 0
‘Instead Of A Dark Lord, You Will Have A Queen! Not Dark But Beautiful And Terrible As The Dawn! All Shall Love Me And Despair!’ Says Acting President Kamala Harris
‘Instead Of A Dark Lord, You Will Have A Queen! Not Dark But Beautiful And Terrible As The Dawn! All Shall Love Me And Despair!’ Says Acting President Kamala Harris WASHINGTON, D.C.—The White House confirmed that presidential powers will be briefly transferred to Kamala Harris while President Biden undergoes a colonoscopy to find out what’s […]
A (Jewish) way to redirect your pandemic despair into purposeful living
In these difficult times, we would like to propose an alternative to despair and suggest a path forward that offers not just hope for the distant future, but strength and a sense of purpose for today and tomorrow. This plague is hardly the first time we have been challenged as a people. Consider this story […]
Ethiopia: Death and despair as divisions erupt into violent conflict
Image Credit: Refugees International Grandmothers carrying babies, mothers, children, men young and old with nothing but the clothes on their backs are fleeing fighting in northern Ethiopia and making their way to Sudan, where emergency camps await them; according to the UNHCR 5,000 a day are making the journey. Ethiopians are killing one another in […]
Chris Hedges: The Politics Of Cultural Despair
Above photo: It is despair that is killing us, eating into the social fabric, rupturing social bonds, and manifesting in self-destructive pathologies. A Talk by Chris Hedges. The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social […]
This former ‘vivacious & outgoing’ 95 year old died from despair and loneliness imposed by pandemic-imposed isolation
We never of course hear about these cases, or the suicides. They are quietly & conveniently swept under the proverbial rug by those who are sticking with the narrative. EWR ________________________________________________________________________ Rita Thomas was a victim of COVID-19, but she never had the disease. The vivacious and outgoing 95-year-old, who lived independently until last year […]
In COVID-induced despair, Israeli employers no longer trust their government to help
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Chicago Sinks in Despair as Their Cultural Marxist Mayor Demonstrates Gross Incompetence
As Chicago Nears Panic, Lightfoot’s Partisan Blather On National Television Only Hurts – Wirepoints By: Mark Glennon* From Hyde Park to the Gold Coast to Edgewater, residents across the city are adjusting their daily routines out of fear. They’re avoiding neighborhood walks after 6:00 p.m. At night, they don’t stand too close to their windows […]
Latest Visit Leaves UK Ex-Pat in Despair
June 9, 2018 Source Article from https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/06/tawdry-uk.html Views: 0
Look Upon My Works and Despair: The Hubris of Dries Verhoeven
Our indispensable friends at Defend Europa have quite rightly drawn attention to a public art display in the city of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. Entitled “Sic transit gloria mundi” (Thus passes the glory of the world) it depicts the toppled monument of white Western man. Spotted in Utrecht, the Netherlands, advertising a statue of a […]
Landscape of Despair: America’s Opioid Epidemic
By HOWARD KUNSTLER THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN A FEW MONTHS While the news waves groan with stories about “America’s Opioid Epidemic” you may discern that there is little effort to actually understand what’s behind it, namely, the fact that life in the United States has become unspeakably depressing, empty, and purposeless for […]
Palestine will be free, it’s out of despair they want to declare Jerusalem capital of Israel
khamenei.ir- On the auspicious occasion of the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (saw), the heads of government branches, a group of government officials, ambassadors of Islamic countries and participants in the 31st International Conference on Islamic Unity met with the Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, this morning December 6, 2017. The following are the […]
Harvest of Despair: The Forgotten Genocide of Ukrainians by Communists in 1933
This is the story of 7 to 10 million murdered Ukrainians, starved to death and forced into cannibalism on Stalin’s order by his minion in the Ukraine Lazar Kagonovich in the years 1933-34. This is what happened to Eastern Europeans that resisted annexation by the USSR’s “worker’s paradise”. There are no memorials built in foreign […]