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I write about politics, education, economics, morality and philosophy.

Biden Admin Officials Simply Walking Away When Asked About Those Left Behind in Afghanistan (video)

But when they can’t walk away they just lie about it. 

White House, Congress Staff, Illegal Border Crossers – EXEMPT from Biden Shot Mandate – Even your Doctor Cannot Exempt You (video)

Not even those who doctors have declared medically exempt are exempt. Say you got the first shot and you had a bad reaction to it, sorry you are not exempt. Biden knows better than your own doctor. 

Biden has also instructed OSHA to hide the reporting of bad side effects form the shots. 

160 retired Generals and Admirals call for Gen. Milley and Lloyd Austin to resign

A group called “Flag Officers for America” has called for top Pentagon leadership to resign over the Afghan withdrawal debacle and leaving Americans and allies behind. This letter and list below how now expanding to 160 retired military flag officers. 

“As principal military advisors to the CINC/President, the SECDEF and CJCS should have recommended against this dangerous withdrawal in the strongest possible terms. If they did not do everything within their authority to stop the hasty withdrawal, they should resign. Conversely, if they did do everything within their ability to persuade the CINC/President to not hastily exit the country without ensuring the safety of our citizens and Afghans loyal to America, then they should have resigned in protest as a matter of conscience and public statement.”

Click to access DOD%20Resignation%20Letter%20083021.pdf

Dan Crenshaw: Why didn’t they resign in protest?

Leaked State Dept. Emails Show Biden Admin Trying to Keep Americans from Escaping Afghanistan

Because after all, if Americans don’t get out and it is not reported than we either got them all out or they didn’t want to leave, which is the talking point being put out by Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki. With the Biden pull out, and Biden bailing on our allies, these flights are all that is left.

Fox News

The State Department refused to grant official approval for private evacuation flights from Afghanistan to land in third countries, even though the department conceded that official authorization would likely be needed for planes to land in those nations, an email reviewed by Fox News shows. 

Furthermore, the State Department explicitly stated that charter flights, even those containing American citizens, would not be allowed to land at Defense Department (DOD) airbases. U.S. officials have pointed to possible security threats from landing charter planes at military bases, saying that they lack the resources on the ground to fully verify flight manifests.

The Biden administration’s delaying of private evacuation efforts has been a widespread source of frustration, infuriating rescue organizers and even a prominent Democratic senator. 

Glenn Beck, who has been chartering flights and professionals to get Americans and Christians out of Afghanistan explains why State Department’s reasoning is just another lie: 

UPDATE

Rep. Mullin blasts Biden after covert rescue mission into Afghanistan was thwarted. 

Biden Kept NATO Allies In the Dark on Sudden Withdrawal. Refused to Cooperate /w Allies After. UK Parliament Passes Contempt Resolution Against Biden

Not only did Biden not tell our allies he was abandoning our most fortified and capable  positions including Bagram Air Base, he didn’t even tell the Afghans. After Biden started all of this chaos he simply refused to coordinate with out NATO allies. Biden even refused to take calls from the British Prime Minister. Allies asked for more time to get their people out, Biden refused.

Allies are looking to reform NATO so they have “strategic autonomy” from the United States. 

This is the same Joe Biden who said “Diplomacy is back”, the “adults are back in the room” and who told us that our allies were on board with his plan. 

For the first time in world history the UK Parliament has voted to hold President Biden in contempt. 

Tennessee Star

UK’s Parliament Holds Biden in Contempt as France and Britain Forced to Rescue Citizens Trapped in Kabul.

The Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the desperate situation in Kabul has angered U.S. allies, leaving them scrambling to evacuate their citizens and the Afghans who supported them during the 20 year war.

The United Kingdom’s Parliament on Wednesday held Joe Biden in contempt for Afghan debacle, with one veteran MP saying the U.S. abandoned its Afghan allies and disregarded their sacrifices.

Tom Tugendhat, a British Army veteran of the Afghanistan war and the Conservative chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, blasted Biden for his criticism of the Afghan National Army and said it was “shameful” to blame Afghanistan’s fighting force for the Taliban’s takeover.

After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Biden said, “American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war, and dying in a war, that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.”

“To see their commander in chief call into question the courage of men I fought with—to claim that they ran—is shameful,” he said.

“Those who have never fought for the colors they fly should be careful about criticizing those who have,” Tugendhat added.

Washington Free Beacon:

The United Kingdom’s Parliament on Wednesday held President Joe Biden in contempt for his withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, calling the move “catastrophic” and “shameful.”

Members of Parliament, including some who served alongside U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, accused Biden of “throwing us and everybody else to the fire” with his decision to withdraw. They also attacked Biden for his “shameful” criticism of the Afghan National Army and said it was “dishonourable” to blame Afghanistan’s fighting force for the Taliban’s takeover.

Even the British public is outraged. 

UK Daily Mail

Britons condemn Joe Biden: New poll makes grim reading for US President as decision to pull his troops out of Afghanistan is considered WRONG by almost two to one.

Pompeo: Americas enemies are watching Biden destroy our alliances: 

Allies “questioning the firmness” of American support: 

U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul

FILE – In this Aug. 16, 2021, file photo, hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard. Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring instability to that backyard – Central Asia – and possibly even spill over the border into China itself in its heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File)

Just The News

President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an “extraordinary success,” while his Pentagon portrayed a prosaic, workaday process to repatriate Americans still stranded in the war-torn country.

But text messages between U.S. military commanders and private citizens mounting last-minute rescues tell a far different story, one in which pleading American citizens were frantically left behind at the Kabul airport gate this past weekend to face an uncertain fate under Taliban rule while U.S. officials sought to spread the blame between high-ranking generals and the State Department

“We are f*cking abandoning American citizens,” an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division wrote Sunday in frustration in a series of encrypted messages that detailed the failed effort to extricate a group of American citizens, hours before the last U.S. soldiers departed Afghanistan.

File
 YonColonleTextAmCitsRedacted.pdf
The text messages and emails were provided to Just the News by Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent who was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans.

Yon told Just the News that a group of Americans were abandoned at the Kabul airport, pleading for help as military officials told them they were finished with evacuations.

“We had them out there waving their passport screaming, ‘I’m American,'” Yon said Tuesday while appearing on the John Solomon Reports podcast. 

The heart-wrenching scenes unfolded this weekend as the U.S. military prepared to exit the capital city on Monday, leaving both the airport and most of the country under Taliban control.

“People were turned away from the gate by our own Army,” Yon said.

After the episode ended and the Americans scattered to safe houses to avoid being captured, Yon wrote a stinging email to an Army major whose team had tried to coordinate the rescue before abandoning it.

“You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport,” Yon wrote Tuesday to the commander. “Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind.”

He added: “Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals.” 

File: YonEmailToMajorRedacted.pdf

Yon’s account, backed by three dozen text and email exchanges with frontline Army officials in Afghanistan, stands in sharp contrast to the claims of the Biden White House that U.S. citizens would not be left behind in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Taliban Holding 6 planes full of Americans and SIV’s Hostage

The photo below is a Maxar image of 6 chartered commercial airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport in northern Afghanistan. They are being held hostage and not allowed to depart by the Taliban, which has once again broken its promises. U.S. citizens and Afghan interpreters have been waiting for days to leave.
No Americans have been flown out of Afghanistan since U.S. troops departed.

SIV’s are special visa holders, most of which are interpreters that helped America and her allies. 

Biden Admin Lying About Trump Afghan Strategy. Video/Transcript Shows Trump Committed to Victory. Warned Hasty Withdrawal Would Lead to Disaster.

Trump speech on Afghanistan Strategy shows that the Biden Administration and their allies in the corporate media have been lying about his Afghanistan strategy. Trump, after studying the issue, said he changed his mind from the campaign and recommitted to victory and cutting off Pakistan support of the Taliban. 

Just watch for yourself. The most important part starts at 6:03 into the video and we have set it to start at that time when you hit play::

At the time the media reported this so they know they are lying now:

Tampa Bay Times

‘Weary of war without victory’: Trump says U.S. will fight to win in Afghanistan

Denver Post

Trump renews Afghan war commitment, sees no speedy exit

He hinted that he’d embraced the Pentagon’s proposal to boost troop numbers by nearly 4,000

The New York Times even posted a video and the transcript. Here is a key excerpt:

But all my life I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office, in other words, when you’re president of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle. After many meetings, over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at Camp David with my cabinet and generals to complete our strategy.

I arrived at three fundamental conclusion about America’s core interests in Afghanistan. First, our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made, especially the sacrifices of lives. The men and women who serve our nation in combat deserve a plan for victory. They deserve the tools they need and the trust they have earned to fight and to win.

Second, the consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable. 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in our history, was planned and directed from Afghanistan because that country was ruled by a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists.

A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum for terrorists, including ISIS and Al Qaeda, would instantly fill just as happened before Sept. 11. And as we know, in 2011, America hastily and mistakenly withdrew from Iraq. As a result, our hard-won gains slipped back into the hands of terrorist enemies. Our soldiers watched as cities they had fought for and bled to liberate, and won, were occupied by a terrorist group called ISIS. The vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for ISIS to spread, to grow, recruit and launch attacks. We cannot repeat in Afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in Iraq.

Third, and finally, I concluded that the security threats we face in Afghanistan and the broader region are immense. Today, 20 U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations are active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the highest concentration in any region anywhere in the world.

For its part, Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror. The threat is worse because Pakistan and India are two nuclear-armed states whose tense relations threaten to spiral into conflict. And that could happen.

No one denies that we have inherited a challenging and troubling situation in Afghanistan and South Asia. But we do not have the luxury of going back in time and making different or better decisions. When I became president, I was given a bad and very complex hand. But I fully knew what I was getting into, big and intricate problems.

But one way or another, these problems will be solved. I’m a problem solver. And in the end, we will win.

These are the weapons Biden handed the Taliban that will be sent to terrorists around the world (video)

Newt Gingrich’s analysis about these weapons and the aftermath is straight common sense. Only the most partisan dishonest leftist would deny it. The Taliban is now better armed then most small countries. 

This AC-208 may just look like a large Cessna but it carries four Hellfire missiles and a guided rocket pod on each wing. It has advanced avionics and is designed to work at night.

Biden instructed Afghan President to LIE about the war in phone call. Dems impeached Trump for things in a call he didn’t even say….

Remember when left over Obama appointees in the National Security Council such as Alex Vindman conspired with Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee (Adam Schiff) to leak an inaccurate transcript of a phone call President Trump had with the Ukrainian President promising support for their anti-corruption investigation? 

Democrat’s in the House moved to impeach Trump, even after the real transcript was released showing that Trump said nothing wrong. Democrats didn’t care and went forward with their invented narrative anyway. 

Karma….

UK Daily Mail

The Federalist has the transcript HERE.

As you can see by the transcript President Biden promised to provide close air support. And now we know he yanked that support and pulled out the American techs who were maintaining the Afghan Air Force overnight without telling the Afghans or our allies. 

Afghan President Ghani asked for help in dealing with the flow of personnel and supplies to the Taliban coming form Pakistan, something in which Stare Department and Pentagon careerists have resisted since Obama was in office as we reported earlier.


Brit Hume: Nearly everything President Biden said would not happen in Afghanistan has come to pass… (video)

[Editor’s Note – Our readers might wonder why we have had a lack of updates for the last few days.  We decided to wait until the day after the botched Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan was done so we could look on this major historical debacle with the clearest eyes possible. Over the next few days we are going to give you details you are likely not going to see most anywhere else.] 

We usually do not post Sean Hannity as he is a known quantity, but the video shown here is a must see so history does not forget:

Mark Levin: How many Ann Frank’s have been left behind?

Does anyone believe that Biden military leaders could beat China in any way anywhere? Soo many Americans left behind…

Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel: The Intimidation Game – How Far Left Groups Use Well Financed Smear Campaigns to Stop Political Speech (video)

In short, Democrats find out who funds free speech, or free market organizations or anyone who opposes their power grabs in policy and they threaten them with a smear campaign claiming that they are racist etc etc. 

Democrats actively provoke those who are mentally suggestable into acts of violence. 

This is why our libel and defamation laws need to be reformed. the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel has details. This is very much worth your time. 

Who is Jonathan Simpson really?

Jonathan Simpson is the allegedly the man who sat in a truck and said he had a bomb and live streamed his event. 

We watched his live stream and as communications professionals it was fairly obvious that his southern accent was not genuine and his complete lack of vocalized pauses to actually think what he was going to say and keep his thoughts in order was something that is usually seen in actors, on air journalists or other professional communicators. 

And then we saw this – He lost a few pounds as actors are so adept at doing, but it really looks like him. We also found in internet searches that show this same man doing porn acting under the name Jon Sims. 

We don’t know what is going on, but something is going on.

We wondered if this might have been photoshopped so we started using various search techniques and soon discovered that this man has been appearing in politicized and other memes and posts on social media for months. Here are just a few examples:

Some might say that there is a strong resemblance, but is that the same man? In our opinion, the difference is a few years and some weight loss. For example, both of the pictures below are Christian Bale:
Even if this is just a case of the same name and a big resemblance, which is possible, the fact that the same man appears on multiple posts in all sorts of professions still indicates that much of what we see in social media is a manufactured manipulation.

So much for the promised Taliban “Amnesty.” Warning graphic.

The Taliban promised amnesty as we see in the following video…

Warning Graphic – The chief of security for Badghis province was executed by the Taliban last night after he surrendered.

http://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1428345035179839494

Taliban ‘Intensify Search’ For Afghans Who Helped U.S., Have A ‘List Of People’ To ‘Question And Punish’ – LINK

Taliban Going Door To Door Seeking Christians, Searching Through Phones For Bible Apps: Report – LINK

CNN Turns on Biden: “Paper Trail Of Statements…Saying The Opposite” Of What Happened (video)

When it is so bad that your biggest sycophants have done a 180. This gives Democrat’s political cover for using the 25th Amendment or impeaching. 

Lara Logan: The Idea that US Intelligence Did Not See This Outcome (In Afghanistan) is Impossible. They are lying. (video) – UPDATED

No journalist in the world understands US and British intelligence agencies better than Lara Logan. She has sources that make the Washington Post and the New York Times green with envy. Why? Because such sources do not trust WashPo and NYT, they trust her. 

There is someone in US power wanted this outcome Logan says. The idea that we didn’t know how well the Taliban was coordinated is preposterous. They did their planning and communications using Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp. Big tech actively gave aid and comfort to the enemy as if they had permission…. and the only reasonable position to believe so far is that they did. The human cost of all this is yet to be tallied. 

[Editor’s Note: The CCP benefits from this in a big way – think Taiwan. Russia benefits as NATO has had its credibility gutted. Who would throw their hat in the ring with us after we betrayed those who helped us in Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan. Someone wanted this.]

The entire one hour video can be seen below:

The Biden administration moved in June to dismantle a system designed to protect American citizens trapped abroad — just months before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, stranding thousands of Americans in the Central Asian country.

Fox News has obtained the June 11 memo sent around the State Department which gave the green light on the “discontinuation of the establishment, and the termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR).”

The sensitive but unclassified memo was signed by Deputy Secretary of State Brian McKeon, just a couple of months before the Biden administration’s botched troop withdrawal that saw Afghanistan fall under Taliban control….

UPDATE – Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe:

Democrats trying to convert “Evacuating our closest allies in Afghanistan” to “open borders mass unlimited immigration…”

Those who were our closes allies in Afghanistan should be evacuated if at all possible. We know who they are as we have a database of most every Afghan citizen complete with biometrics. 

That is a very different thing from converting that to “If you don’t support open mass immigration with open borders then you betrayed the Afghans and you hate brown people”…but that is the game Democrat’s are already playing….even while thousands of Americans have been left to fend for themselves by the incompetent and callous administration. 

Tucker Carlson has the video and details:

Biden’s National Security Advisor: The ‘Plan to Evacuate Americans is Beginning Today’ (not three months ago)

The Biden Administration National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in a stunning admission, said that the plan to evacuate Americans is beginning today (August 17). This is a reversal from President Biden’s statement that every contingency was planned for. 

Senators are reporting that there are at least 12,000 Americans stuck in Afghanistan. The Taliban has surrounded the airport with armed men so there is no way for them to get inside. 

This is something beyond incompetence like the United States has never seen. 

Best Reactions to Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle – UPDATED!

UPDATE – We are about to witness a human catastrophe: 

THE TALIBAN HAVE seized U.S. military biometrics devices that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces, current and former military officials have told The Intercept.

The devices, known as HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, were seized last week during the Taliban’s offensive, according to a Joint Special Operations Command official and three former U.S. military personnel, all of whom worried that sensitive data they contain could be used by the Taliban. HIIDE devices contain identifying biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints, as well as biographical information, and are used to access large centralized databases. 

The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices

The first reaction will be ours. There is plenty of misinformation being peddled about on both sides that need to be addressed. 

While much of the Afghan Army was near impossible to train do to lack of literacy, much of their Army was trained and did fight. The Afghan Army lost more people fighting the Taliban every year than the United States lost in 20. The idea that there was never an Afghan Army is simply false. 

Why did the Afghan Army fall so quickly now when they didn’t before? 

The Afghan Army was trained to fight much as the US Army is trained to fight, to coordinate with air support to avoid exposure to enemy fire. The Afghan Air Force has 169 aircraft which is more than enough to provide close air support to their troops on the ground. The problem is that President Biden pulled all technical teams out of Afghanistan. Without that technical support that Afghans could not maintain their high tech equipment which includes the aircraft. The Afghan Army soon lost air support which crippled their ability to function and served to demoralize them. 

The Taliban receives support from Pakistan, China, Iran, elements in Saudi Arabia, and Russia. 

President Trump had a phased withdrawal plan in place for Afghanistan, which included getting those who threw their hat in the ring with us out. Biden tossed that plan for no other reason than it seems “Orange Man Bad.” As a result up to 86,000 Afghans who helped us expect to get their throats cut if captured by the Taliban. Any women they find who have been educated will likely be executed. 

And then there are the American’s the Biden Administration didn’t think to get out of the country first leaving many stranded. This is why Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, “Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” President Biden and several members of his administration promised that the Taliban was a year or more from taking over the country and that this chaos, like the fall of Saigon, wasn’t going to happen. They were warned.

The Democrat’s friends in big tech actively helped the Taliban fight the Afghan Army and take over. The Taliban used WhatsApp and Facebook to coordinate their military, supply and propaganda efforts. They should be prosecuted but won’t because “Democrats.”

At this point the “impeachment” word is going to be used more and more by people in both parties. 

Lastly, it seems that the Pentagon has been lying to us about the status of the Taliban among other things since Obama was President. Obama purged much of the Pentagon top brass and replaced them with political cronies who have lied to us ever since. The next president needs to clean house.  

The CCP is watching and so are the people of Taiwan.

The best reaction was from Matt Zeller on MSNBC:

Biden’s National Security Advisor is an academic and a former State Department bureaucrat. He lacks the experience to be National Security Advisor and it shows:

By all means, lets take some time out to virtue signal with some SJW rhetoric! China is watching this and laughing….

The next eight videos have a more long form analysis for those more detail oriented. We encourage you to take the time to watch:

Sky News Australia had a devastating analysis:

Is your new Intel X490 or X590 mainboard unstable?

You have put together several computers in your day and never had the kind of instability and random reboots you are seeing now….

You check the message boards about setting the voltages to get a stable setting and it still won’t work…

Even at system defaults it you still face random reboots?

Sound familiar?

There are two reasons why this is, especially on the 10th and 11th generation i5 processors such as the i5-10600k.

1 – Because of the chip shortage processors that Intel normally would never sell are going to retail. Since the quality of the silicone is not as pristine it will take higher voltage settings to make the processor stable.

2 – These new chips, less so with the 11th gen processors, just don’t like memory over 2800 mhz. It doesn’t mean that you can’t make such speedy RAM work, such as the DDR4 PC3600 or faster. It just takes some extra effort.

Some who have bought these new processors that did not win the silicon lottery are having these problems and Intel selling less than pristine silicone is rather recent. Some users noticed  some of the more expensive $500 mainboards with advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) overclocking were setting memory and core voltages higher than expected to gain stability even with a low to moderate overclock.

Instead of the typical .9-1.2 core voltages, these advanced boards AI is setting the core voltages on these chips from 1.3-1.5 volts with a VCCIN of 1.9 or 2.0 volts – which is almost unheard of with older more pristine chips. These boards are also using RAM voltages from 1.38 to 1.45 (or more) volts. Intel considers these voltages safe – Notice we said voltages (plural). New Intel processors have 3 core voltage settings.

Less expensive boards in the $200 range such as the ASUS z590 prime have AI, but it is not nearly as sophisticated so the settings will have to be made manually.

Set your XMP profile for your faster RAM to XMP II. XMP I will cause the mainboard to try to speed up the timings of your RAM automatically and most main boards choose settings that are too optimistic for stability.  The XMP II setting forces the settings that are actually in the default XMP profile programmed into your RAM.

What we are going for here is a mild overclock, and we do mean mild. These settings allow 4.8ghz on multiple cores and not just a single core. The power saving will still adjust down the clock of cores not being used or underutilized, but under load all of the cores will be capable of 4.8ghz instead of just a single core.

Once we realized that we did not win the silicone lottery we set the SVID setting in the photo above. If you are having problems you can actually tell the motherboard you have a lower quality chip and it work to keep it stable.


Notice the voltages here, as they are higher than you will typically see on many enthusiast forums. Some of these newer chips need higher voltage to get them stable. Worry not, so long as you use a decent aftermarket CPU cooler your temps at load will still be acceptable. In our case, playing games such as Cyberpunk 2077 are yielding temps from 45-52c. If you have one of these lesser chips massive overclocks such as 5.1ghz are not likely to happen.

Notice the setting “CPU Cache Ratio” this sets the maximum speed of the CPU cache memory. The default fastest is 4.3ghz. A slight boost to this setting really makes an impact. With a pristine chip 4.6-4.7ghz is possible, but for some of us 4.4-4.5ghz is the best we can hope for and maintain stability.

As as a rule, the faster your RAM the higher your VCCIO and System Agent voltage will need to be, if you did not win the silicon lottery, as is our case, you may need to go slightly higher than the graph below:

The 11th Generation processors such as the i5-11600k are more forgiving with faster RAM than the 10th gen such as the 10600k.

Did you put your older hard drives into your new computer? Lot’s of people do it unfortunately EUFI support in older hard drives is either problematic or non existent and this can cause instability.

There is a setting under the BOOT section of your bios called CSM compatibility. You may wish to enable it as we did. Also, newer boards share an M2 slot with the SATA slot #2. If you use an M2 drive SATA #2 will be disabled. Even though we did not use an M2, we had better stability skipping SATA #2 altogether. If there are not enough slots on your mainboard for all your SATA devices we suggest getting a PCIE SATA add on card.

We hope this guide helps. We understand that the voltages mentioned here seem to buck old norms when Intel only sold more pristine chips. Those days are gone for the foreseeable future.

Every processor and mainboard is different, as well are the quality of the power supplies and RAM modules so your mileage will vary.  We were able, with days more testing and tweaking, to bring down the voltage by a tenth or two. For the record we used a Corsair 750 gold series power supply.

Kreia is the greatest character in all of Star Wars (video)

Of all of the characters in Star Wars, none are as well devolved and brilliantly written as Old Republic Jedi Master Kreia who left the Jedi Order and eventually became Sith Lord Darth Traya the Betrayer…only later to reclaim her original name as she realized that both the Sith and Jedi code are fundamentally flawed which lead to a cycle of never ending death and war. So she sought to not just eliminate them both, but to destroy the “Will of the Force” itself. 

In her own way Kreia saved the galaxy. She knew that the Jedi code was flawed, too ideological, and that eventually the Sith would destroy them…which of course they did. Fast-forward to today – now the new and few Jedi, such as Luke, Ahsoka and Ezra, understanding the lessons of history, see the Jedi code as more of a guideline and not a mandate or an ideology. 

The Sith of course fell, as they eat their own and like socialism they consume the civilization they are in as they consume each other  – always leaving a human catastrophe in its wake.

As Kreia says, which is also something the great Roman Senator and philosopher Cicero believed, is that to believe in an idea is to understand when it is morally correct to abandon it or betray it. Ironically, while Kreia could do this with her Jedi self and her Sith self, she did could not understand this when it came to the philosophy she grew into. 

While we admire Kreia’s individualism, even rugged individualists tend to believe in something bigger than themselves. They have a certain faith backed up by a strong ethic…and that is what Kreia lacked. She put herself in the role of God of the Universe and that always fails.

Devin Nunes Scores Major Court Victory in Defamation Lawsuit vs Washington Post “Spygate” Hit Pieces

Devin Nunes is the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee. When he discovered that the Obama Administration and the NSA/FBI/DoJ was illegally spying on the Trump Campaign and continued that illegal spying into his administration Nunes went public. 

Readers know how lies go. First the deny, then they obfuscate, then the move the goalpost and play semantics, then they justify it (all while attacking you personally), and then you win.

In this case not only did the Washington Post lie about the illegal spying, they morphed it into the Russian Collusion hoax in an effort to justify it after it went public that the spying was irrefutable. The effort to manufacture collusion evidence went on for three years and every indication shows that the Washington Post was in on it willingly.

In their effort to smear Nunes for investigating the illegal spying, the Washington Post showed malicious intent not only by contradicting its own previous reporting, but it applied one semantic doublespeak when smearing Nunes and then later using the exact opposite when the tables were turned. 

[Editor’s Note – As any journalism school student can tell you, a cardinal rule in reporting is rereading your own previous reporting on said issue.] 

Defamation lawsuits very rarely get passed a motion to dismiss as the defamation laws in the United States are weighted heavily for free speech, even if that speech is incorrect. Defamation has to be severe on its face to survive a motion to dismiss.

Famed Canadian lawyer Viva Frei has details:

Not Surprised: Co-Founder Of Snopes Plagiarized Dozens of Articles for “Fact-Checking”

Snopes, Politifact, Fact-check, Wikipedia are a joke and most anyone with an IQ higher than 85 is well aware of it. We could publish books about how often they have been demonstrated to be wrong even on substance that is easily verifiable. Even a federal court ruled that no reasonable person takes Fakebook “fact checkers” seriously. 

Buzzfeed

David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site’s tens of millions of readers: A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times.

After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material. The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie.

In this case, they weren’t really fact checking, they were just copy & pasting what other far left media outlets said.