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Lies and Violence

The Weekly Sift

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This week’s featured post is my review of what we now know about January 6, “One Year Later“.

This week everybody was talking about the January 6 insurrection

The featured post is my look back at January 6, but everyone else was doing it too. Here’s the Late Show’s musical tribute.

President Biden also spoke out more forcefully than usual.

For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed. They failed. And on this day of remembrance, we must make sure that such attack never, never happens again.

… We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a…

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WE STILL LIKE ANIMALS, THO

NANMYKEL.COM

A wildlife bridge to be built across Highway 101, shown in an artist's rendition.
Do wildlife bridges work?
Over the past few decades, wildlife crossings—which include land bridges and underpasses—have proven effective in connecting migration routes, avoiding collisions and saving animal and human lives.Dec 19, 2019–Google
(P.S. Unsure about turtle underpasses, however)

and…

SAN DIEGO — A sea lion made its way onto a San Diego highway Friday morning, and drivers stopped to help before a SeaWorld rescue crew arrived to bring it to safety. The unusual sighting was reported at 9:40 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of state Route 94, just west of Interstate 805 near the Mount Hope neighborhood, according to a news release from California Highway Patrol.  Fox News [!]

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Winterlandschaften im Schwarzwald — Senioren um die Welt

Als ich die Winterbilder meines Neffen aus dem Schwarzwald sah, wurde ich wieder an meine Kindheit in Oberbayern erinnert. Die Winter waren damals noch „richtige Winter“ mit viel Schnee und beständigem Wetter. Wir waren damals zwar arm und hatten im Winter nur Schuhe, die uns von größeren Kindern geschenkt wurden und die mit Papier ausgestopft […]

Winterlandschaften im Schwarzwald — Senioren um die Welt

January 1945 cont’d — Pacific Paratrooper

11th Airborne, Leyte   As the fighting for the 11th Airborne Division, on Leyte, came to a close, the battalions worked their way back to Bito Beach.  The 674th and 675th Glider Field Artillery and the 457th Parachute Field Artillery remained in strategic positions to cover them. The Luzon Attack Force, commanded by VAdmiral Kinkaid, […]

January 1945 cont’d — Pacific Paratrooper