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AMERICANTHINKER - Dealing with Democrat refugees

By J.R. Dunn It looks as if the Democrat Party has begun its long-overdue disintegration.

AI:The Democratic Party is undergoing a period of structural collapse and rapid disintegration as the radical leftist establishment loses its ability to maintain control and cohesion over its membership.Open

NPR (The Associated Press) - Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's coast, killing at least 20

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings as well as causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes.

AI:A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday morning, resulting in at least 20 fatalities and widespread structural collapse across the region. The massive tectonic event triggered panic among local populations and caused significant damage to buildings as the tremor rolled through areas already prone to seismic activity.Open

AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Colombia earthquake death toll passes 224 as rescuers race to find survivors

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake has killed more than 224 people in western Colombia, and rescue crews are still pulling survivors from collapsed buildings as the death toll climbs. The quake struck Tuesday, August 11, with an epicenter roughly three miles east of the small town of San José del Palmar, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. […] The post Colombia earthquake death toll passes 224 as rescuers race to find survivors appeared first on American Almanac .

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake has killed more than 224 people in western Colombia, and rescue crews are still pulling survivors from collapsed buildings as the death toll climbs. The quake struck Tuesday, August 11, with an epicenter roughly three miles east of the small town of San José del Palmar, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Colombian authorities in Bogota reported the overall death toll by Wednesday morning. The Colombian Geological Survey called it the strongest earthquake recorded in the country in a decade, powerful enough to be felt across neighboring Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. Cali, a city of more than 2.2 million in the Valle del Cauca region, bore the worst of it. Mayor Alejandro Eder reported on social media…Open

NPR (The Associated Press) - Rescuers search for the missing after Japan earthquake as death toll rises to 13

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 13 people.

AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapses mall in southern Japan, leaves at least nine missing and feared dead

A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Monday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall, trapping workers at a paper factory, and leaving police reporting "a lot of deaths" as rescue crews worked into the night. The quake hit at 4:27 p.m. local time, 2:27 a.m. Eastern, and registered magnitude 7.1 […] The post Magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapses mall in southern Japan, leaves at least nine missing and feared dead appeared first on American Almanac .

A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Monday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall, trapping workers at a paper factory, and leaving police reporting "a lot of deaths" as rescue crews worked into the night. The quake hit at 4:27 p.m. local time, 2:27 a.m. Eastern, and registered magnitude 7.1 on the Japan Meteorological Agency's scale, the agency's highest possible intensity rating of 7 on the Shindo scale. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it slightly lower, at 6.8. Either reading placed it among the strongest to strike the country this year, and the damage on the ground bore that out within minutes. In Kashima, a city in Kumamoto prefecture, the second floor of an Aeon Mall shopping center…Open

AMERICANTHINKER - The left’s latest tactic: ‘nostalgia’ blinds conservatives to the Constitution’s defects

By Susan Quinn It’s the political equivalent of “Okay, Boomer,” for it implies that only stupid old people would value the document that gives us our liberties.

AMERICANTHINKER - The Apparent Paradox Of GDR Nostalgia

Photo Credit:Franz Krüger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller The Myth of Carefree Communism: Why some long for the imagined “freedom from worry” of the defunct GDR.

THEFEDERALIST (Samuel Kimzey) - At This Point, It Will Take A Political Revolution To Save Britain

Despite voters consistently expressing concerns about cultural replacement, Britain's leaders dismiss grassroots opposition as bigotry.

THEFEDERALIST (Adam Johnston) - Leftists Replaced The Constitution With These Four Texts To Enable Mass Migration

If America is to ever experience a renewal, it must first understand not only what was taken from it, but the mechanisms, etched in American mythos, that allowed it to happen.

AMERICANGREATNESS (Stephen Soukup) - The Progressive Senate and Its Discontents

For most Americans—or at least most Americans with even a remedial education in civics—the phrase “separation of powers” usually explains the tripartite nature of the […] Source