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		<title>The FBI was right! Texas Synagogue Attack Was NOT an Anti-Semitic act!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The statement by FBI special agent Matthew DeSarno following this weekend’s hostage-taking situation in Texas that the incident “was not specifically related to the Jewish community” was proved to be true! Fakin&#8217;News exclusive! We gathered information from witnesses, and carefully listened to the recordings form the incident. Here is what we found: Malik Faisal Akram, ... <a title="The FBI was right! Texas Synagogue Attack Was NOT an Anti-Semitic act!!!" class="read-more" href="https://opineaway.com/2022/01/17/the-fbi-was-right-texas-synagogue-attack-was-not-an-anti-semitic-act/" aria-label="Read more about The FBI was right! Texas Synagogue Attack Was NOT an Anti-Semitic act!!!">Read more</a></p>
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<p>The statement by FBI special agent Matthew DeSarno following this weekend’s hostage-taking situation in Texas that the incident “was not specifically related to the Jewish community” was proved to be true! Fakin&#8217;News exclusive!</p>



<p>We gathered information from witnesses, and carefully listened to the recordings form the incident. Here is what we found:</p>



<p>Malik Faisal Akram, the terrorist killed after taking hostages in a synagogue in Colleyville, TX, was sure he was walking into a Burger King, our sources confirm. He demanded food, and asked for a burger with extra bacon. Here is the full conversation in that exchange:</p>



<p>Malik: And I DEMAND a burger with EXTRA bacon!!!<br>FBI: You can only get plain pizza.<br>Malik: What the hell?<br>FBI: It has to be kosher. <br>Malik, to Rabbi Charlie: WTF, you guys are Jewish???!!!!</p>



<p>And there you have it. Total coincidence. All he really wanted that day was some bacon on his burger.</p>



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		<title>BIDEN THE UNIFIER</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 03:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>LA Star Maps are out, Equal Distribution Maps are in!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 05:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Get in on the action! Living in LA? Just visiting? Use our maps to find the best locations and schedule to do a little SmashN&#8217;Grab! We have special rates for the holidays! Visit www.LA-Loot-Sched.defund for LA maps, and www.Loot-USA.defund for a list of other great Equal Distribution location all over the US! *Coming soon, global ... <a title="LA Star Maps are out, Equal Distribution Maps are in!" class="read-more" href="https://opineaway.com/2021/12/04/la-star-maps-are-out-equal-distribution-maps-are-in/" aria-label="Read more about LA Star Maps are out, Equal Distribution Maps are in!">Read more</a></p>
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<p>*Coming soon, global maps for your global vacations! </p>
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		<title>Shop For FREE! Smash &#038; Grab Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>They are making it an official annual event! The Friday before Thanksgiving will now be called Smash &#38; Grab Friday. There&#8217;s nothing like free crap to show the holidays spirit. A source in the well established CCA (Criminal Consumer Association) just leaked that as part of Criminal Prime the Friday will be extended and become ... <a title="Shop For FREE! Smash &#38; Grab Friday" class="read-more" href="https://opineaway.com/2021/11/22/shop-for-free-smash-grab-friday/" aria-label="Read more about Shop For FREE! Smash &#38; Grab Friday">Read more</a></p>
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<p>They are making it an official annual event! The Friday before Thanksgiving will now be called Smash &amp; Grab Friday. There&#8217;s nothing like free crap to show the holidays spirit. </p>



<p>A source in the well established CCA (Criminal Consumer Association) just leaked that as part of Criminal Prime the Friday will be extended and become Smash &amp; Grab Friday Week, to give enough time and opportunities to Lowlifes across the nation to take advantage of it. You can sign up to Criminal Prime on the CCA website where you can purchase a weekly extortion subscription for the service. </p>



<p>In a statement to Fakin&#8217;News JJ &#8220;Hotstepper&#8221; Jones, an LLM (Lowlives Matter) official, stated &#8220;Yep, if we can get in who&#8217;s gonna stop us? And if we&#8217;re already there, we can&#8217;t leave empty handed, after all it&#8217;s the holidays and shit&#8221;. </p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I believe that if you&#8217;re not worried about China, you don&#8217;t know enough about it. I know enough to worry, and this is while leaving the pandemic aside. Our dependency on China is huge. As you read this you are probably touching, seeing and hearing dozens of items that are manufactured in China or have ... <a title="Thoughts about China" class="read-more" href="https://opineaway.com/2021/11/20/thoughts-about-china/" aria-label="Read more about Thoughts about China">Read more</a></p>
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<p>I believe that if you&#8217;re not worried about China, you don&#8217;t know enough about it. I know enough to worry, and this is while leaving the pandemic aside.</p>



<p>Our dependency on China is huge. As you read this you are probably touching, seeing and hearing dozens of items that are manufactured in China or have parts in them that are. Hypothetically speaking, if we stopped getting parts and products from China, there will be shortage in most everything. Of course that would also hurt China as they relay on the income from the US, though an authoritarian dictatorship has more &#8220;flexibility&#8221; in handling shortages, but that&#8217;s a different discussion. </p>



<p>But China, and you see this with everything they do, do not declare to us what they are and will do, so to squeeze us all they have to do is gradually raise prices, the Chinese government can do that by raising taxes locally, and by that causing manufacturers to raise prices, &#8211; and it seems they already do just that. You can claim that the market will adjust, if prices are too high new solutions will be found. Yes and no. Manufacturing infrastructure and know-how takes time and investment, and prices will have to get over a certain threshold in order for this to even trigger the motivation to do that. But that&#8217;s only part of the problem.</p>



<p>The foundation for manufacturing anything is energy. Not only the US is not increasing energy supply capabilities, under the Biden administration energy capabilities seems to be shrinking and energy price is increasing by the second. Green energy as currently viewed is a pipe dream, it can be done in parallel but can&#8217;t replace other sources fast enough, and probably will never catch up with demand. China on the other hand, is building power plants, traditional and nuclear. The US is not really investing in nuclear energy (very small budget). Nuclear energy is not defined as but actually is the most scalable green energy solution. Without energy, we can&#8217;t have manufacturing. I wrote about energy <a href="https://opineaway.com/2021/10/23/double-whammy-thoughts-about-energy/">here</a> and <a href="https://opineaway.com/2008/06/08/energy/">here</a>.</p>



<p>So what should be done? </p>



<p>Well, first, energy infrastructure investment must be huge. Until we have A LOT of nuclear powerplants, we need to use gas and oil, otherwise everything will slow down. That can be achieved by the government directly investing in building nuclear powerplants, but probably even better would be to give incentives to private investors to do it &#8211; Elon Musk is the first that comes to mind, as he can benefit across the board from low electricity prices (manufacturing and selling more EVs), but many others can as well, even current oil companies, as we used to say, if anyone is going to cannibalize out business, it better be us. Let&#8217;s for a second think that energy in this country was free. We pay a flat fee as part of our taxes, and nuclear energy is scaled up to a level that we can export energy (ignore the how) and make it virtually free in the US. This has impact on everything &#8211; from prices to innovation to every item you can think of. But even we go half way, decrease energy cost by 50%, it is already a huge enabler for everything. </p>



<p>Second, we need to get manufacturing to the US. Since labor in the US is expensive and will never be a bowl of rice a day, we need to invest in automation. Most manufacturing can be automated with minimize labor. The reason it is not done as much as we need in the US, is that we had China as a cheap alternative, it started just because of cheap labor, lack of regulation and them cutting coroners (not just with quality of the products, but you can be sure the material used and the specifications of products are not what they claim &#8211; I know this from first hand experience manufacturing in China). But Chinese factories started gaining automation and manufacturing knowhow that we are now lacking in the US. Again, the government should give huge incentives for that, injecting money specifically to manufacturing automation and infrastructure. And don&#8217;t let anyone say automation will kill jobs &#8211; currently all these jobs are in China and we pay for them dearly. </p>



<p>There is an issue of raw materials. but if the US gets energy and manufacturing right, agreements can be made where needed, giving preferred tariffs on US made products to countries that supply us with raw materials we need. I&#8217;m sure there are other ways to secure raw materials, and find alternatives to anything that is in shortage. </p>



<p>Yes, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m oversimplifying things, but I think that the concepts are solid. This should be treated as a war. It is a war. China will crush the US if they could, just because they can. The US became spoiled and by that vulnerable. That&#8217;s how empires collapse. We don&#8217;t want that. We need to set energy and manufacturing as a mission, incentivize innovation and define a very clear goal of not only reducing offshore manufacturing and import, but becoming again energy independent and becoming an exported of manufactured goods and not an importer. It might even unite Americans and push the political BS aside. My two (and a half) cents. </p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I see two phenomena happening now: People can&#8217;t take their mask off People can&#8217;t stand others not wearing a mask I call this Post COVID Mask Fixation or PCMF . It seems that because people, for over a year now, got so used to wear masks and afraid that if they won&#8217;t something terrible will ... <a title="PCMF &#8211; Post COVID Mask Fixation" class="read-more" href="https://opineaway.com/2021/05/26/pcmf-post-covid-mask-fixation/" aria-label="Read more about PCMF &#8211; Post COVID Mask Fixation">Read more</a></p>
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<p>I see two phenomena happening now:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>People can&#8217;t take their mask off</li><li>People can&#8217;t stand others not wearing a mask</li></ul>



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<p>I call this Post COVID Mask Fixation or PCMF . It seems that because people, for over a year now, got so used to wear masks and afraid that if they won&#8217;t something terrible will happen, that they can&#8217;t take it off or shake it off.  </p>



<p>About 40% of the US population is now fully vaccinated. Considering that about a quarter of the population are kids (16 or younger) it means that more than half of the adults you see are fully vaccinated and have COVID immunity, and a good bunch of others had COVID naturally have COVID immunity now. </p>



<p>Let&#8217;s, conservatively, say that 50% of the adults in the US have COVID immunity now. Add to it that chances of getting COVID outdoors proved to be close to zero. Yet&#8230; I see the vast majority of people still wearing masks outside. And they look at you as if you are a criminal if you don&#8217;t wear one. </p>



<p>Don&#8217;t get me started about NJ indoor mask mandate, that, as of today, is still not lifted (supposed to be lifted this Friday). </p>



<p>If you&#8217;re vaccinated it means close to zero chances getting COVID, and if you get it, you either won&#8217;t even know it or won&#8217;t need anything but a little rest. Yet people, even if fully vaccinated, still wear masks. </p>



<p>Media, the administration, all push masks and fear, even after the CDC lifted mask recommendations and declared risk of infection outside is virtually zero.  Not getting into a discussion about what was science based and what wasn&#8217;t, the fact is, the vaccines prove to work amazingly well, and people, even fully vaccinated, are still afraid of getting it, and wear mask. We can all think for ourselves and can decide when to take a risk with anything we do. Enough with that really. Let people be responsible for themselves, or not. <a href="https://darwinawards.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.DarwinAwards.com</a></p>



<p>VP Kamala Harris on May 5th 2021, outside, both fully vaccinated, kissing her husband with masks: </p>



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<p>President Joe Biden, wearing a mask (the only one) during a virtual video call with other world leaders:</p>



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<p>Or should we call him Joke Biden? </p>



<p>UPDATE 5/28/2021 First day of lifted mask mandate in NJ, one of the last states to do so. <br>I&#8217;ve visited 3 store &#8211; Walgreens, Farmers&#8217; Market and a Supermarket. I was THE ONLY ONE without a mask. Really. Even in the parking lot, EVERY SINGLE PERSON WORE A MASK. Now again, AT LEAST half of adults are FULLY VACCINATED. I reset my case, PCMF. But I&#8217;ll keep monitoring.</p>



<p>UPADTE 6/2/2021. It&#8217;s really unbelievable. In the last few days I visited hardware stores, restaurants, grocery stores, malls, cafes, drove in NYC &#8211; pretty much everyone is still wearing a mask in NJ. NY on the street probably 50%-70% still with masks, in stores most everyone. Some people look at me with angry eyes (can&#8217;s see much more under their mask) as I&#8217;m without a mask. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-video aligncenter"><video height="1080" style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080;" width="1920" controls src="https://opineaway.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/06/NYC-near-Times-Square-May-29-2021.m4v"></video><figcaption>Where&#8217;s Waldo? This video was taken in NYC near Times Square on May 29 2021 &#8211; a couple of months after NYC lifted outdoor masks mandate. I randomly took it while driving with my phone in it&#8217;s dashboard holder. As you can see, it&#8217;s very hard to spot anyone without a mask (I found two&#8230;).</figcaption></figure>



<p>For how long PCMF will hold? </p>



<p>UPDATE 06/14/2021 in northern NJ the vast majority of people still wear masks everywhere, even outside and some even in their cars. Really. No joke.</p>
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