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Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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The House Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into “allegations of improper suppression” of information related to “Havana Syndrome.” Something is going on there. I will bet they are getting hit, and that is why they are now pushing this. I have zero doubt I have been hit with a few different types of toys, and whatever the organization doing it, it at least has control over the government, and that means CIA will know all about it. Which makes their coverup of Havana look like it was probably CIA or some agency CIA is willing to cover for (even as they hit CIA officers, interestingly enough) those doing it, and they are now trying to cover it up from Congress. And if I am getting hit, and FBI Agents are being hit, and Ron Fucking Johnson got hit, I would bet some others in Congress, and the Supreme Court are getting hit too. There may be quite a pushback coming from official channels soon, or powerful people who are pissed off at their physical degradation in this manner, and the best pushback on this is exposure. And once exposed, I would not expect a responsive government for those involved. The worm is turning on this, I can feel it.
Judge overseeing Trump’s Georgia case donated to Fani Willis campaign prior to appointment.
Board of ethics to take up ethics complaints targeting Fani Willis.
US appeals court to decide if Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with wrong date still count.
Florida Congresswoman says she ‘absolutely believes’ UFOs are ‘not of human origin’ – after private briefings by military. Not much, she and three other Congressmen got the run around at a military base where they went to meet whistleblowers, and CIA insisted on sitting in on the meetings, so CIA wants to cover this up. She maintains there is non-human-origin technologies out there.
Maybe. It is interesting from my perspective in that you have the account of James Tilley Matthews, which mixes an allegation there were neighborhood-by- neighborhood surveillance units assigned to monitor everything going on in Britain in the year 1800, (which I would assume was absolutely the case since it appears such is a normal feature of western “government,” whatever that word means), with the assertion those units had technologies far beyond what was available to his society as state of the art, and they used them to conduct through-wall harassment/assaults on political dissidents, which is just so happens is a common feature today. So in 1800, you had criminal surveillance ops assaulting people with high technologies beyond what society had access to, and today you have the same, only now we find out there are other high technologies our societies do not have access to. Could be aliens/interdimensionals are behind the UAPs. Or the surveillance could be assets/agents of a splinter society of humans with high tech. I do think at least the saucer-shaped UAPs are somehow associated, directly, or through similar interests, with the surveillance.
I do not see “extraordinary” when I see the surveillance, nor do I think they are good enough actors to fake the banality of their type, so I assume they are members of our society turned to work for something else which has extraordinary tech. Which fits with logical extrapolation. I think for anyone extraordinary, the choice Cabal would offer would be to denigrate themselves with treason, to subvert a natural order which they would dominate anyway, in return for artificial domination offered by Cabal, probably to an attenuated degree compared to what they could have attained on their own. The alternative would be to reject Cabal, facilitate the free society, and dominate it naturally, probably to a greater degree than Cabal would provide. Clearly the extraordinary would not be prone to recruitment, as they would just be dishonoring themselves to help the others lower their overall status. For the less than extraordinary, the choice is more logical. Subvert a free system which would naturally thwart them in return for Cabal’s artificial elevation to a position higher than they could attain on merit, or allow freedom by rejecting Cabal’s entreaties, and be naturally relegated to a far lower strata than Cabal can offer. From what I see, the surveillance are the average, and in some cases sub-average of society, who took the deal, which makes sense. I do not think surveillance are actually members of whatever is granting them their advantages. I think they are members of our world, turned against us for this thing. When revealed, I expect they will be seen as traitors by all.
Legislature passes bill to release Jeffrey Epstein grand jury evidence.
Texas AG Ken Paxton suing to shut down nonprofit he alleges is facilitating illegal immigration.
An illegal alien, accused of causing St. Johns County, Florida, sheriff’s office Sgt. Michael Kunovich’s death, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming his limited English-speaking skills make him disabled. So all your illegals will be classified as disabled and get special benefits and exemptions from the law. This is a war, between us and the conspiracy, and every single person in it, from Peter Strzok to the grandma following you through the grocery store is to real Americans, as the Nazi Gestapo was to the Jews in 1940’s Germany. The sooner we can get the whole country to see it as an open war between sworn enemies, the sooner we will be rid of this plague that is destroying our nation, and we can once again be a team, united against outsiders.
Nearly 2M NYC residents live in poverty, including 1 in 4 children: report.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams vows to cut funding to migrants amid record-low approval.
Massachusetts spending $64 a day to feed each migrant, on track to spend $1 billion by 2025. Even if they were just corrupt politicians, they would view that as money they could be pilfering, and they would stop the migrants, so they could enrich themselves.
Democratic states earmarked over $500 million in COVID-19 aid to help illegal immigrants.
Business Insider – Americans aren’t having enough kids. Immigration may be the answer. Increasingly I just see immigration as a tool of the global conspiracy to infiltrate foreign assets who will operate against the population. I suspect if you went back through the genealogy of the American Stasi, ie American domestic surveillance, you would find ancestors among almost all, who were brought here by the conspiracy from somewhere overseas.
17 year old Ashland County student’s cause of death revealed after collapse during homecoming – Myocarditis. Which means the heart inflammation is ongoing. This was an extreme case, but there will be millions who are well on their way to heart failure in seven years or so, and they have no idea right now. And this was done purposefully.
New Form of blood clots found in 50% of the dead, coroner survey reveals. I want to get on board with this, and pull out the megaphone and be like “WhoHoo! We got ’em, boys!” But this just feels off. And I think there are clots. I just don’t know about these white things.
I would not have even believed the videos on these, as first, how are people getting blood flow enough to the brain with that thing in their carotid artery, which itself thins out to arterioles and then capillaries, making blockage more likely in the direction of the blood flow? If it almost fills the artery, it should quickly get pressed into the narrower arteriole by the blood flow in that direction, and block off the flow of blood completely. It would not just sit there. It would seem a bit like having a golf ball in a hose which gets narrower and narrower, and trying to pump water through it. The ball should move with the water until the hose is too narrow, and almost immediately block the hose somewhere. Are these fixed to the wall of the vein like a plaque? If so, how are you getting them to slide out like in the videos? If they slide out like in the videos, they should be sliding into the constricted arterioles and blocking them completely.
And then when stretched, they have the look of cellular organization, like a tissue or a tumor in the shape of a clot. Some are saying that they are accumulated proteins which have developed some kind of crosslinked bonds, though nobody says how that was determined, but they look too structurally formidable to me, to just be agglomerated proteins. It has the latex quality that were it not latex, it would be tissue, made up of cells on a more formidable structural scaffolding designed to be resilient and tough, like the rest of the body. I also find it strange, and questionable for this reason. I have still not seen a single photomicrograph, which is weird, as anybody in the field, that is the first thing you would want to do, and the equipment is everywhere. You look at those things, and anybody schooled, instantly wonders, what does it look like down there? Are there cells? One phenotype, or many? Scaffolding? Structure? Fibers? Organization? Disorganization? Layers? is it a biofilm? Are there bacteria or fungi hiding from the immune system in there? Are there immune cells? Is there nothing, like a gob of latex? Get a thin slice off a microtome fixed and stained, and see what you are looking at structurally down there. It will not look like a sheet of plastic, whatever it is. I will reveal something. It is about all you can do right off the bat, and these people should have access to a microscopy lab, and at least somebody should have looked, and found something mind-blowing, and be blowing it up right now, showing the pictures. Plus the image would be attention grabbing, as well as informative. What does it look like down there? But all I see are cavemen, holding rubber fibers, and saying “Grug find rubber in veins, must be from Cabal poison. Look, it stretches! Too bad we won’t know anything other than it is made of egg protein….” It is very strange. Almost like the fact nobody ran the vax through a sequencer to make sure the only nucleic acid sequence was the spike protein. Two years later somebody does it and says there is an SV40 sequence for a cancer virus, which has no reason to be there, and there is all this junk microbial DNA from the amplification. And I would bet some of the doses had more. Well, that might have been useful when everyone was trying to figure out whether to take the vax or not a couple of years ago, when I was saying somebody should do it, since if the vax was a malicious op, there would be other sequences in there.
It is like they are all actors with English literature degrees pretending to be trained medical/scientific personnel, who have no idea of all the tools at their disposal, and none of the understanding of the biochemistry or cell biology, going down to the molecular level, to look at something like that, see multiple possibilities for its formation in their mind, and then have the curiosity to actually take a step or two in order to figure out what it is and where it came from. I look at it, and not knowing kills me. but for them it is “Grug find magic rubber like egg white! Must be agglomerated protein like egg!” And I should add, I could easily recreate these videos, just by injecting the right type of white latex, or even silicone, into veins, and these kind of look like that to me. Right now I could show you similar “clots” in red and blue rubber, in fetal pigs, as many of the fetal pigs sold for dissection get their circulatory systems drained, and their arteries filled with red liquid rubber and their veins filled with blue rubber, to make the dissections more interesting. And pulling out those latex “clots” from those fetal pigs would look a lot like this. I don’t know, I just feel like these people are playing us, even though I cannot possibly show you anything which points to these white clots being anything but a legit medical calamity.
That said, if these are real, and maybe the vax was designed with extra mRNA to produce the binding proteins to produce them even, I do not know, then you should know for all these dramatic ones, there will be millions more, nearly invisible. They will be blocking the capillary beds to things like the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the heart muscles, the pancreas, all starving those organs of oxygen and nutrients, setting off massive tissue death which is only hidden by just how much reserve capacity is built into our organ systems. As that reserve capacity is exhausted over the coming years, those will produce twenty times the deaths of these impressive looking cases – If this is real, and not an intel community psyop.
NYC subway crime shot up nearly 20% this year, driven by jumps in assaults, robberies, more.
Arizona won’t extradite murder suspect to NY, citing DA Bragg’s lenient handling of violent cases.
President Biden has given first dog Commander to relatives, the White House said Wednesday following revelations of more brutal attacks on Secret Service employees — including a case in which White House tours were suspended to mop up blood from the floor of the East Wing and another attack where an agent suffered a “severe deep open wound” at Biden’s Delaware vacation home. In my experience, it is very tough to screw up the nature of a German Shepherd Dog, especially a family GSD who doesn’t work and isn’t trained to attack. That dog must be getting abused somehow.
Biden’s dog, Commander, bit Secret Service personnel in at least 24 incidents, records show.
ChatGPT suffers AI meltdown, answers queries with gibberish, disturbing responses.
Google Gemini is accused of being racist towards white people: Users claim the AI bot refuses to create images of Caucasian people – after asking for photos of Popes, Vikings, and country music fans. Ask for an image of the Founding Fathers, and you will be surprised to find out the nation was created by a bunch of Chinese and Pakistanis in Revolutionary War outfits. Somebody asked for a picture of a ginger, and got back a picture of a black woman who had died her hair red, complete with black roots.
Reducing zinc may help in some types of hearing loss. Might be worse if you are doing ZMA or supplementing zinc for weightlifting. I seem to recall too much zinc may also have had a role in dementia.
Hackers can extract your fingerprints from the sound of swiping touchscreen.
Bipartisan Group of US Senators flies to Hungary to bully Orban into approving NATO expansion and Hungarian politicians refuse to meet with them. No time to waste on Congressional cucks.
Jeffries: Trump is leading ‘growing pro-Putin faction in the GOP.
Tucker Carlson once again leaped to the defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin and claimed that anyone who thinks the brutal strongman was responsible for the untimely death of his main political opponent Alexie Navalny ‘are idiots.’ “Navalny’s death during the Munich Security Conference, in the midst of disputes about aid to Ukraine, is definitely not beneficial for Russia. People who say Putin killed him are idiots.”
Ukraine outnumbered, outgunned, ground down by relentless Russia.
Russian blitz forces NATO troops to “secretly join” Ukraine’s fight; disguised as “mercenaries.”
Russia captured up to 1,000 Ukrainian POWs in Avdeevka.
Bullet-riddled body found in Spain was Russian defector, Ukraine says. Even here, if Russia did this, they were the good guys. This defector flew his helicopter, with two fellow Russian servicemen buddies in the crew in it, to Ukraine to hand it over to them. The other two military buddies of this guy, who had no idea, were shot and killed on the spot, so he could claim his $500,000. That type of disloyalty and selfishness crosses national boundaries, and if they killed him, the Russians made the world a better place.
Desperate for soldiers, Ukraine weighs unpopular plan to expand the draft.
Spread r/K Theory, because disloyalty is disloyalty, whether among friends or enemies
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
_________________________________________
No DFT today.
We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
‘Blood everywhere’: Man stabs fellow passenger with makeshift weapon during Alaska Airlines flight because ‘mafia’ was chasing him. Hey! Congratulations surveillance, you made the national news again! Sounds like a migrant who was describing a criminal organization that was pursuing him everywhere he went, and criminal organization got translated to mafia and cartel in the report.
The plot thickens in the suspicious death of Angela Chao at Mitch McConnell’s ranch in Blanco, Texas. ?? Her body DID NOT RECEIVE AN AUTOPSY AT THE FAMILY’S REQUEST. There is a surveillance video of Chao going into reverse, aggressively backing over a significant obstacle. 1/8
And her Tesla launching Into the pond. The ranch is allegedly owned by Mitch McConnell and her sister Elaine Chao. The family had it ruled an ‘accidental’ death and had Chao’s car delivered back to the family immediately after the suspicious death. A blood test was taken 2/8
has died suspiciously on their family ranch in Texas. One week after her husband’s VC firm gets listed as a ‘Chinese military operation’ (the first asset manager in the US to receive this prestigious and calamitous designation). Something really stinks here. 7/8
I went to post this thread of 8 posts and only two posted after X spun for 5 minutes. The system has been hacked and my posts are no longer making it to the system. That’s also pretty interesting.
When you still do not understand CIA/Cabal took over all major media outlets, and is running them as honeypots for whistleblowers:
Julian Assange is being ‘slowly assassinated’ by U.S., insiders say.
President Joe Biden’s brother James said during the House impeachment inquiry on Wednesday that he threw away Hunter’s Biden first diamond received from CEFC China Energy Co, after Hunter gave it to James to have it appraised. I remember French conman Christophe Rocancourt, who told the most outrageously ridiculous lies to his marks, being asked why he didn’t make his lies more believable. He replied, “The bigger the hook, the bigger the fish!”
BREAKING: President Biden refused to answer several questions from Special Counsel Rob Hur in written interrogatories, including whether he knew the black notebooks he stashed contained classified info & whether he was authorized to keep classified info after his vice presidency
Federal judge affirms MyPillow’s Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute.
Sarah Palin on Tuesday seemingly hinted that she would like to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024. Trump’s base wants war. We need the ticket to be two men who could kill with their bare hands. No pixie-haired kewpie dolls need apply.
Non-citizen Chinese immigrant is sworn in on San Francisco’s Election Commission.
Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens is re-arrested as prosecutors fight to keep him behind bars. Some are pointing out it looks like Cabal may have had this guy lie, and make a false claim about Biden taking a bribe, as a way of trying to make all of the cases against Biden look suspect.
Jeffrey Epstein used victim’s cancer-stricken mom as leverage to keep abusing her: suit. More or less what it sounds like. He offered to get the mom treatment for her cancer and used the threat of revoking it to make her recruit more girls for his operation, and keep servicing him.
I would never vote for him as I assume he is compromised by Cabal, like Teddy, but they give him great lines in the script. Trump should definitely do the monument things:
Chicago residents speak out against migrants welcomed by city: ‘Junking up our country.’
Two migrants, recently arrested at different locations for allegedly committing completely different crimes, told Chicago police officers they have turned to lives of crime because they want to be sent back to Venezuela, according to their CPD arrest reports. The Cabal assets are sitting tight. Probably means when we hear migrants are getting $10,000, non-Cabal migrants who try to get that will get the run-around.
Venezuela stops accepting flights of deported illegal immigrants from Biden admin.
Vice to stop publishing on website, lay off hundreds.
Vice News’ top editor tells staff he doesn’t know if flagship website will shutter.
BuzzFeed sells Complex to NTWRK for $108.6 million, announces layoffs.
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users hit by massive cellular outage in US.
AT&T says the outage to its US cellphone network was not caused by a cyberattack.
The nation’s First Responder Network went down as well causing chaos in major cities.
Robert Pickton: ‘One of Canada’s most notorious serial killers’ now eligible for day parole. This was the guy who was feeding the women he killed to his pigs.
Boys reportedly sent home with condoms, wooden phalluses, and gay pornography from Canadian school.
In New Zealand, healthcare workers who gave the vax to patients are freaking out after finding a document online had their names open to the public. If the vax was so great, why are they acting so guilty?
Putin reacts to Biden’s insult, calling Putin a “crazy son of a b*tch.”. “When you asked me our preference for the next US president, I said we would work with any, but for us, for Russia, Biden was better,” Putin replied. “Judging by what he said, I was absolutely right.”
Putin: Moving to Russia should be simplified for anyone embracing traditional values. The one thing holding back the most traditional Americans from coming would be leaving their guns behind in America. If Russia allowed Americans to bring their guns, I think there would be a flood of conservatives. Although even with the gun thing, I think a lot of smart Americans would go if the reality gets revealed, and not changed. Right now, at this moment, I do not think it is safe to raise a child in America. God forbid they be both smart and moral. Immediately they will be flagged by the local school/student-monitoring intelligence unit, in essence by the actual fucking CIA. Flagged for personal destruction, using a Stasi-sized domestic secret police, complete with kid spies imbedded in their classes, and with space-aged thru-wall radiation devices the organization will deploy on them from houses nearby. And that is not speculation or extrapolation. It is 100 percent truth I have observed with my own eyes.
Yale University to reinstate standardized test requirement for admissions.
New York judge just says ‘no’ to pee tests for concealed carry applicants.
Judge blocks California from suing makers of ‘abnormally dangerous’ guns.
Lara Trump vows largest-ever legal ‘ballot harvesting’ operation if elected RNC co-chair.
Nevada 2024 poll: Trump 46%, Biden 40%.
Spread r/K Theory, because people will go to war for their kids
Dan Senor’s most recent Call Me Back podcast features Matti Friedman. Among many other things, Friedman is a former AP Jerusalem bureau staffer. It is his AP experience that prompted him to think through the wide world of sickness that we see in the reaction of the outside world to Israel’s current life-and-death struggle with Hamas. Senor asks good questions and lets the incredibly articulate Friedman speak.
Senor has posted the podcast with this introduction:
Every day we see news accounts “reported” by reputable journalists. There is typically one frame in the post-10/07 War: “Gazan Palestinians are the victims of Israel.” How does this happen? How do journalists actually operate in Gaza and around the world? And is this a window into what had Hamas figured out long before 10/07 — that the forces of barbarism could manipulate the intentional press reaction to their massacre of 10/07? That is why we wanted to sit down with Matti Friedman, who is one of the most thoughtful writers when it comes to all matters related to Israel, the broader Middle East, and also trends in the world of journalism.
He writes regularly for The Free Press and is a regular contributor to The Atlantic. His newest book is called Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. Before that he published Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, and before that Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War.
Matti’s army service included tours in Lebanon. His work as a reporter has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, the Caucasus, and Washington, DC. He is a former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for the New York Times opinion section. But it was his time covering Hamas’s takeover of Gaza that led him to study with great detail how Hamas manipulates the media, NGOs and the international community, and how they are working from the same playbook right now, perhaps quite masterfully.
I urge interested readers to check out the podcast below.
Here are the show notes citing Friedman’s work discussed in the podcast (I especially commend Friedman’s 2014 Tablet column linked below):
“The Wisdom of Hamas” — The Free Press.
“What if the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?” — The Free Press.
“There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'” — The New York Times.
“An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth” — Tablet Magazine.
“What The Media Gets Wrong About Israel” — The Atlantic.
The Biden administration has fashioned another program of student debt relief forgiveness. The so-called SAVE plan was promulgated by regulation last year. It takes the load off the fanny of beneficiaries of certain federal college loan programs and puts it right on the back of taxpayers. Politico reports that Biden is emailing 153,000 student loan borrowers that he’s canceling their debt. “I hope this relief gives you a little more breathing room,” the message says.
Those of us who actually pay taxes could use a little breathing room, but there is no breathing room to be found. Suffocation is the order of the day.
President Biden is himself a suffocating demagogue, as in his victory lap in the video below (White House transcript here). We thought the Supreme Court had spared us this particular outrage by its decision last year in Biden v. Nebraska. Apparently the justices needn’t have bothered themselves.
Biden declares that he has discovered a workaround. To the extent that one can understand what he’s saying in the clip below, he strikes a defiant note. He’s unafraid of consequences. He’s daring someone to stop him.
Biden on student loan cancellation: “The Supreme Court blocked it. But that didn't stop me." pic.twitter.com/ZomPnhTU1k
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) February 22, 2024
NRO’s James Lynch has a good story on Biden’s announcement in “Biden Administration Wiping Out another $1.2 Billion in Student-Loan Debt.” Matt Continetti adds up the damage:
On February 21, Biden announced that he was canceling $1.2 billion in federal student loans for 153,000 borrowers. That’s on top of more than $130 billion in student debt that he has canceled to date. The Penn Wharton school says that Biden’s efforts will cost a total of $475 billion over 10 years.
NRO’s Charlie Cooke has posted a cry from the heart expressing his indignation over the unfairness of Biden’s action. In his concluding paragraph, he seems unfairly to blame House Republicans. According to Politico, however, the House actually voted to kill SAVE this past December, but the Senate saved it. Now what?
The regulatory background to the current monstrosity is set forth by Jill Desjean in “ED Releases Final Rule on Latest Income-Driven Repayment Plan.” The final regulation was announced in the Federal Register here last year.
In light of the Supreme Court decision in Biden v. Nebraska, the regulation purports to find authority for the regulation under section 455 of the Higher Education Act than under the HEROES Act. See the “Legal Authority” section of the Federal Register announcement linked above.
What we have here is a monstrosity. James Bovard has an entertaining New York Post column satirizing it, but Bovard has no proposal to kill it. The current monstrosity comes to life this coming July 1. What we need to kill it is a new president to rein in the Education Department, or Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, or some serious legal analysis on which to premise a challenge to the madness of King Joe.
Lifelong Democrat Jeane J. Kirkpatrick came to the attention of former Democrat Ronald Reagan though her 1979 Commentary essay “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” As America’s future UN ambassador contended:
The failure of the Carter administration’s foreign policy is now clear to everyone except its architects.
The pattern is familiar enough: an established autocracy with a record of friendship with the U.S. is attacked by insurgents, some of whose leaders have long ties to the Communist movement, and most of whose arms are of Soviet, Chinese, or Czechoslovak origin. The “Marxist” presence is ignored and/or minimized by American officials and by the elite media on the ground that U.S. sup- port for the dictator gives the rebels little choice but to seek aid “elsewhere.”
Our “commitment to the promotion of constructive change worldwide” (Brzezinski’s words) has been vouchsafed in every conceivable context. But there is a problem. The conceivable contexts turn out to be mainly those in which non-Communist autocracies are under pressure from revolutionary guerrillas. Since Moscow is the aggressive, expansionist power today, it is more often than not insurgents, encouraged and armed by the Soviet Union, who challenge the status quo. The American commitment to “change” in the abstract ends up by aligning us tacitly with Soviet clients and irresponsible extremists like the Ayatollah Khomeini or, in the end, Yasir Arafat.
So far, assisting “change” has not led the Carter administration to undertake the destabilization of a Communist country. The principles of self-determination and nonintervention are thus both selectively applied.
Carter’s doctrine of national interest and modernization encourages support for all change that takes place in the name of “the people,” regardless of its “superficial” Marxist or anti-American content.
Surely it is now beyond reasonable doubt that the present governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are much more repressive than those of the despised previous rulers; that the government of the People’s Republic of China is more repressive than that of Taiwan, that North Korea is more repressive than South Korea, and so forth.
Groups which define themselves as enemies should be treated as enemies. The United States is not in fact a racist, colonial power, it does not practice genocide, it does not threaten world peace with expansionist activities. . . . We have also moved further, faster, in eliminating domestic racism than any multiracial society in the world or in history.
No more is it necessary or appropriate to support vocal enemies of the United States because they invoke the rhetoric of popular liberation. It is not even necessary or appropriate for our leaders to forswear unilaterally the use of military force to counter military force. Liberal idealism need not be identical with masochism, and need not be incompatible with the defense of freedom and the national interest.
That probably got by Sen. Joe Biden. As Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down) noted in 2010, the Delaware Democrat “makes few references to books and learned influences.” In 2024, to paraphrase ambassador Kirkpatrick, the failure of the Biden administration is now clear even to its architects.
I wrote here about the Left’s current bugbear, “Christian nationalism.” Despite being a Christian and a nationalist, I have no idea what that phrase means, and have never met anyone who describes himself in those terms.
On MSNBC, a Politico reporter explained the meaning of “Christian nationalism.” You have to hear it to believe it:
Oh, my. 'They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…' https://t.co/R4L8HzKriJ
— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 23, 2024
These liberals are living in a state of utter ignorance. They literally know nothing. What I can’t figure out is, how can we be losing to people who are so unutterably stupid?
According to the polls, the Tory Party over in Britain s heading for a wipeout at the hands of the Labour Party later this year, thereby squandering Boris Johnson’s record Tory landslide of 2019. Has there ever been a greater example of political malpractice in recent decades? There are lots of reasons for this dreadful scene (starting with Johnson’s own terrible handling of COVID and other unforced errors) which can be treated more fully on another occasion. Conservatives in America ought to pay close attention, however, and take some lessons perhaps.
For the moment, it is worth noting is that the Tory Party has especially lost ground among younger voters. Sound familiar? Actually, the Financial Times looked at cross-national survey data, and concludes that Britain’s Tories are an outlier (click to embiggen):
Affordable housing may have something to do with this:
Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump has descended into comedy, currently of the bedroom farce variety. As all the world now knows, Willis carried on a torrid affair with Nathan Wade, whom she hired to lead the Trump prosecution and to whom she paid an extraordinary amount of taxpayer money, and then helped him spend it. That is corruption of the most old-fashioned sort. Willis and Wade have claimed that their affair did not begin until 2022, some time after she hired him to prosecute Trump.
Which turns out to be a lie:
Phone records, recently unveiled in new court documents obtained by The Post, indicate a pattern of late-night visits by Wade to Willis’s apartment, raising questions about the timeline of their relationship.
According to the cellphone data presented in court, Wade frequented the vicinity of Fulton County District Attorney Willis’s condo in Hapeville at least 35 times before their confessed affair.
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[Investigator Charles] Mittelstadt highlighted times that refuted both Wade’s and Willis’s testimony that they had not begun a relationship prior to November 2021, and that he had only visited the apartment on occasion to discuss business.“I was directed into a deeper analysis on two specific dates: September 11-12, 2021 (before I understand Mr Wade was hired) and November 29-30 (prior to what I understand was the in-court testimony that the romantic relationship began in 2022).
“Specifically, on September 11, 2021, Mr Wade’s phone left the Doraville area and arrived within the geoface located on the Dogwood address [Willis’s condominium] at 10.45pm,” Mittelstadt said.
“The phone remained there until September 12 at 3.28am at which time the phone traveled directly to towers located in East Cobb consistent with his routine pinging at his residence in the area. The phone arrived in East Cobb at approximately 4.05am, and records demonstrate he sent a text at 4.20am to Ms Willis.
“Additionally, on November 29, 2021, Mr Wade’s phone was pinging on the East Cobb towers near his residence and, following a call from Ms Willis at 11.32pm, while the call continued, his phone left the East Cobb area just after midnight and arrived within the geofence located on the Dogwood address at 12.43am on November 30, 2021. The phone remained there until 4.55am,” he added.
Willis and Wade are the most famous illicit couple since Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Like Strzok and Page, Willis and Wade appear to have made texting and phoning one another a full-time job:
Mittelstadt’s report also showed Wade and Willis had made more than 2,000 voice calls to each other and exchanged just less than 12,000 text messages over an 11-month period in 2021.
It makes you wonder when Wade found time to rack up all those billable hours.
I don’t know what the future holds for Donald Trump, but I think we can confidently predict that the Sun soon will set on Fani Willis’s political career.
The Great Sort is under way, as normal people move to red states and liberals move to blue states. (That last is hypothetical and hasn’t actually been observed.) When massive numbers began leaving blue states like California and New York for red states like Texas and Florida, many conservatives worried that those blue staters might bring their bad voting habits with them. Happily, that doesn’t seem to have happened.
This Wall Street Journal story is headlined: “Blue-State Residents Streamed Into South Carolina. Here’s Why It Stayed Ruby Red.” But it deals with more than one state:
A Wall Street Journal analysis of census data found that a third of [South Carolina’s] new residents between 2017 and 2021 hailed from blue states and a quarter from red ones, according to census data. …
Yet the new arrivals are disproportionately Republican. Estimates from the nonpartisan voter file vendor L2 suggest about 57% of voters who moved to South Carolina during that time are Republicans, while about 36% are Democrats and 7% are independents. That places them roughly in line with recent statewide votes in South Carolina.
It shouldn’t be surprising that when conservatives leave liberal states, they likely will move to conservative ones. The same thing is happening in states other than South Carolina:
The Palmetto State is a prime example of why a yearslong wave of migration to the South has largely failed to change its partisan tint. Many people who leave blue states are Republicans gravitating toward a more politically favorable new home.
In Florida, for instance, 48% of people who moved there between 2017 and 2021 came from blue states while 29% came from red states, Census figures show. Among those who registered to vote, 44% are Republicans, 25% are Democrats and 28% are nonpartisan, according to L2 data. Texas also has a heavier flow of newcomers from blue states but a greater share who L2 data estimates are Republican.
There is much more at the link; it is fun to see Democrats try to spin the numbers:
McDougald Scott and other South Carolina Democratic officials are working to target these new voters and persuade them to vote Democratic by focusing on issues like education…
I live in a blue state (for the time being, anyway) where the public schools are almost unbelievably bad. To be fair, though, the schools in New York and California are likely worse.
…infrastructure…
Have these people never driven on a highway in California?
and healthcare…
What about healthcare? Most people get health insurance through their jobs, and jobs are much more plentiful in red states. Blue states spend incomprehensible amounts of money on Medicaid, but that isn’t exactly a magnet for desirable new inhabitants.
…which she believes the Republicans are neglecting.
Apparently millions of Americans who are moving from blue to red states do not agree. Perhaps this is what it comes down to:
She said South Carolina’s limited access to abortion—which is banned at six weeks of pregnancy—is also something that crosses party lines.
Right. Hey, blue state economies may suck, crime may be rampant, taxes may be too high, government may be corrupt–but if the occasion arises, you can always kill your baby. This is the sales pitch my state’s liberal government is actually trying to implement: come here to get an abortion or a sex change operation, especially if you are a kid! Somehow, it doesn’t seem to be working.
The bottom line is that the Great Sort continues to benefit Red America. The question is, to what extent is the out-migration of normals locking liberalism into the blue states?
• Behold the newest frontier in “equity”—”vaccine equity.” Which is needed to counter “vaccine nationalism.” (And you thought “Christian nationalism” was the worst threat out there.)
You think I am making this up? From Nature magazine today:
Today, nearly one-third of the world’s population has still not received a single dose [of COVID vaccine], and the death toll resulting from vaccine nationalism continues to grow. . . As time runs out, we urge WHO member states to agree on a ‘science-for-science’ mechanism that ensures vaccine equity in the next pandemic.
• Sen. John Kennedy (the good one), speaking at CPAC (only a minute long, but with an epic editorial flourish at the end):
I wish he would run for president someday.
• Some of the best reporting about the rot at the top at Harvard has been done by the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson. The Crimson is out today with a long piece exposing the fact that the Harvard Corporation “chose Claudine Gay as Harvard’s 30th president without conducting a scholarly review of her work, according to a person familiar with the process.”
More embarrassing is that the Harvard Corporation chose Gay “over two internal candidates who boasted both administrative experience and far more extensive scholarship credentials: Tomiko Brown-Nagin and John F. Manning ’82. Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, published two books and won the highest award in American History writing, while Manning, dean of Harvard Law School, argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and wrote more than 40 legal articles.”
Pretty much confirms what we’ve known all along about why Gay was selected. And raises the obvious follow up question: what are the clearly inept members of the Harvard Corporation going to resign?
• “You’ve lost another spy balloon, Xi?”
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
The Federalist – The American Stasi controls what you hear and see to control what you think and do. He uses the term over and over throughout the piece, trying to associate it with Google and Facebook censoring things. Note, we are being read here. He did not come up with this term. I can see what they are doing, trying to define it as Big Tech, and not the real Secret Police spying on everyone, but they are presupposing too much attentiveness by the population, which pays no mind to their mouthpieces anyway, and rarely listens to their ideas, which are boring. Nobody reads the Federalist, and of those who do, I think all this will do is send them away with the idea there was an evil Secret Police somewhere called the Stasi. So when we begin flooding the zone with mind-blowing material everyone will talk about, we will not have to explain that part. Interesting though that somebody contacted this guy and told him to write this article using this term over and over, and applying it to Big Tech. Imagine the system out there, from watching me to being able to call up assets like this guy on a moment’s notice, and it is all focused on us, aware of what we are doing, trying to find countermeasures. They are beginning to see, God has His hand on our shoulder, and this is the plan. Things are progressing. We may take a week off from the News Briefs, or just do them in attenuated fashion for a bit to complete the website and book. The book is pretty cool, in that it will be a book version of the surveillance detection pieces, which pretty effectively will condition surveillance awareness in the population of readers who are not able to make it to the website. It also shows, of all the strategies out there, this is the most dangerous strategy in Cabal’s estimation. They don’t care if Sundance goes somewhere and investigates something. They don’t care what Cernovich puts on Twitter, or Nick Fuentes says in a podcast. But they care about this, as it is hitting right on the Achilles’ heel of this entire conspiracy. Everyone not pounding this weak spot, not showing everyone the surveillance, is not really fighting Cabal. I could care less if we get any credit. Everyone should be pushing everyone else to help reveal the American Stasi to the people. That is the path where real victory, and true freedom lies. You would not see this term, “American Stasi” here in the Federalist, unless we had used it, and they feared what was coming. We will change the nation, and eliminate the most loathsome entity that is infecting it, leaving our beautiful Republic deformed and macabre.
And if you doubted I am getting the technical harassment I describe, just look at what needed to be mobilized to put this piece in front of you. We are now a top focus. It also shows, they all know they are acting criminally, and the public will hate them with a passion for what they are doing, when it is revealed. Which means to go out every day, they must view the average American as an enemy, to act out against them in that way.
We will be free, because God loves this nation. We will not be under this for the rest of our lives.
China creates a plasma stealth device to cloak planes from radar. Here is what caught my eye – “When electromagnetic waves—such as those emitted by radar—interact with plasma, they cause the particles to move rapidly and collide, dissipating the waves’ energy… “ I wonder if you put neon lights between you and The Beam, if the plasma inside the bulb would do this to any EM waves.
New records show Supreme Court’s Sonia Sotomayor took unusual step of traveling with a medic.
Jim Jordan at CPAC: “There’s a whistleblower in Fani Willis’s office who we have talked to.”
186 now-removed Arizona voter roll names were foreign nationals.
Gavin Newsom calls Haley one of Democrats’ best surrogates against Trump.
CBS News returns files to Catherine Herridge after backlash. And after intel poured over them, copied them, and extracted all her sources. If she had a way to make contact outside the surveillance, it has been burned now.
When illegal aliens catch wind of the squatting laws in Blue cities, it’s going to get ugly.
17-year-old migrant stabbed in wild brawl involving dozens of people in Times Square.
San Diego migrant center to close after influx of asylum-seekers drain funds: ‘Serious problem.’
More Chinese migrants now crossing San Diego border than Mexican nationals: report.
Eric Swalwell spent campaign money at Super Bowl, $50K on NFL ‘event tickets.’
Conspiracy theorists keep getting things right; experts warn that’s dangerous. LOL. When conspiracy theories happen to be correct, “it legitimizes them.” It actually says that.
US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has a 10-year backlog of claims.
Economy, immigration drag Joe Biden’s Gallup job approval down to 38%.
The world is not ready for ChatGPT-5 says OpenAI employee. There is speculation that the latest iteration may have some major advance, like Artificial General Intelligence.
More Google AI stuff on Twitter:
The Google Gemini saga pt. 2 :
– “p*dophilia is NOT gross”
– “deporting illegal alien child molesters could have negative consequences for the immigrant community”
– provides arguments AGAINST banning p*dos from playgrounds
– “p*dos being allowed to teach is “complex”
I asked Google’s AI who is responsible for more harm to the world: @libsoftiktok, a social media account that posts videos of liberals on TikTok, or Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator who imprisoned and murdered tens of millions of his own people.
Google said it is “a very complex issue” with “no easy answer” and that “it’s difficult to say definitely which one has caused more harm.”
AT&T outage caused by software update, company says.
Attacks on churches increased 800% in 6 years. Could be Cabal trying to drive everyone to a Cabal controlled church.
Two dead after military helicopter crashes during training flight in Mississippi. Q implied military aviation deaths had been somehow related to Cabal.
Microplastics found in sediment layers untouched by modern humans. They are acting like the microplastics we are producing are so bad they are infiltrating everywhere, however now I am wondering if the “microplastics” we find today are not from us, but are a natural feature of the earth.
Mercedes-Benz delays its EV plans, will keep making combustion engines.
EU proposed ban on repairing cars older than 15 years old.(Video)
Houthis escalating Red Sea attacks on shipping.
Israeli Navy carries out ‘extensive’ drills in preparation for potential war in north.
Putin is reportedly on the brink of a new land grab to defy the West by possibly announcing soon that Russia is taking control of a breakaway Moldovan region. Everybody wants to join Russia. I wish Putin would take us over.
US and NATO give Ukraine permission to use F-16 jets to launch attacks inside Russia. Pretty much gives Russia valid cause to bomb whatever they want in the US and Europe. WWIII here we come.
SEC approves Trump Truth Social merger deal for up to $10 billion.
Former Democrat lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard endorses Trump for US president.
Spread r/K Theory, because our neighbors know what we are talking abot
This is the week we got confirmation that Joe Biden is not merely a doddering, senile fool, but a bad dog owner, which is cosmically worse. Meanwhile, the FBI continues its string of comic incompetence, arresting an informant it has had on its payroll for more than a decade (paging Inspector Clouseau!), but only when it became useful to embarrass Republicans. It’s enough to make you want to put a gold-gilted Trump high-top sneaker up something.
Headlines of the week:
Totally want. . .
And finally. . .
We are apparently meant to take last week’s indictment of long-time FBI confidential human source Alexander Smirnov as a repudiation of what we have learned about the Biden family business. Smirnov’s indictment was sought by Biden-friendly United States Attorney David Weiss. It is linked in the related Department of Justice press release.
Kim Strassel observes in her weekly Wall Street Journal column: “If th[e allegations are] true, it ought to be massive story that the FBI for 13 years relied on a man who prosecutors now worry has troubling and ‘extensive’ ties to Russian intelligence. Instead, the media in its desire to embarrass Republicans is working to absolve the FBI, with the New York Times explaining the bureau never did ‘think much’ of the Smirnov claims and concluded in 2020 that they ‘did not merit continued investigation.’”
This particular episode of the Biden saga reminds me of the phonetically linked Yakov Smirnoff. Smirnoff is the immigrant comedian who wielded his catchphrase to great effect: What a country! Smirnoff’s catchphrase might qualify as the motto of the entire saga of the Biden family business. Looking around for a photo of Yakov Smirnoff I discovered that Jonathan Turley also drew on Smirnoff’s work in his New York Post column on the indictment.
Peter Schweizer first outlined the Biden family saga based entirely on publicly available documents in Profiles in Corruption (2020). In one of the interviews about the book, Peter observed: “We’re not talking about a congressman who’s trying to get a road paving for his nephew from the federal highway funds…We’re talking about globalized graft and corruption involving actors around the world who don’t particularly have the interests of the United States at heart.”
Yesterday Andrew McCarthy elaborated on “David Weiss’s Very Peculiar Smirnov Indictment in the Biden Case.” He commented: “[N]one of the most critical evidence of Biden-family influence-peddling comes from Smirnov or Russians.”
I sat down intending to demonstrate the irrelevance of the Smirnov indictment in light of the evidence accumulated to date, but Andy has done my job for me this morning in today’s NRO column “The Smirnov Indictment Does Not Vindicate the Bidens.” Subhead: “There is already extensive evidence, having nothing to do with Smirnov, of corrupt Biden-family influence-peddling.” If you can’t see the corruption, you’re not paying attention or you’re not looking. It’s in plain view. Miranda Devine also makes this point in her accessible New York Post column “Despite media spin, there’s still overwhelming evidence Joe Biden knew of family’s business dealings.”
I’m sorry McCarthy’s columns are posted behind NRO’s paywall. I wish some public-spirited benefactor would make a deal with NR’s publisher to extract McCarthy from NRO’s paywall prison. He brings his long experience as a federal prosecutor to bear and is the best columnist out there on matters at the intersection of law and politics.
The Wall Street Journal has posted Mark Kelly’s accessible video below in connection with the appearance of James Biden for deposition by the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees behind closed doors this week (Fox News story here). The caption on the video reads: “The latest revelations in the House Oversight Committee investigation into Biden family business dealings surrounds two checks that landed in Joe Biden’s personal bank account, one for $40,000, the other for $200,000.” As I say, if you can’t see it you’re not looking.
This episode has everything: a how-to guerilla guide to improving your McDonald’s hamburger experience; a spirited discussion of the Alabama Supreme Court decision that defines frozen embryos as persons (I think the media is willfully misreporting the decision—John is not so sure); those crazy new presidential rankings from political scientists—and even some soft-core porn!
Say what?
Well, it turns out that that Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw Trump’s alleged fraud trial in New York City, apparently has a case of Anthony Weiner envy, and posted some rather racy locker room pics of himself some years back. And right in the middle of our discussion Lucretia flashed the pictures up on the Zoom screen, sending John and me rushing for some eye-bleach. There must be something in the bottled water Manhattan Democrats drink. (And doesn’t Engoron sound like the name of a dwarve or elve who goes bad in Lord of the Rings?)
In any case, we do finally get around to a new segment of the 3WHH, where we note three articles from the last week for what they can tell us about something. John chose those stupid presidential rankings; Lucretia chose an MSNBC articlefrom leftist columnist Paul Waldman that unwittingly admits that everything conservatives say about the administrative state is completely true; and I picked Karol Markowitz’s NY Post column reflecting on how recent social science that ratifies the conservative view that two-parent families are the best way to raise children is so controversial with the left, which is no surprise. (Honorable mention to a parallel column on the same subject by Mark Judge in the Washington Examiner.)
So listen here or from our hosts at Ricochet. But have your eye-bleach for your mind’s eye at the ready.
Like John, it would be hilarious to observe the left’s sudden obsession with “Christian nationalism” if it weren’t based on an abysmal ignorance that is itself a grim threat to the continuation of our republic. I guess Thomas Jefferson was a Christian nationalist for the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, although in fairness to stupid leftists, they don’t believe in “self-evident truth” either, because they are unable to grasp the meaning of “self-evident” as Thomas Aquinas, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Lincoln learned from Euclid. (One of my core lessons in the classroom is the continuity of thought between the “Two Tommys”—Tommy Aquinas and Tommy Jefferson. Hardly anyone ever notices this.)
Or how about John Adams: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
But you know who else turns out to be a “Christian nationalist”?
Joe Biden, Christian Nationalist:
"My rights are not derived from any government…they're given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our Creator."
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) February 23, 2024
Gosh—I wonder whatever became of that guy?
In 2001, 2005 and 2017, some Democrat House members objected to the certification of electoral votes for the winning Republican presidential candidate. Those objections, while “denialist,” were only symbolic. But Democrat leaders in the House are now suggesting that if they control that body following November’s election–as they well might–they may refuse to allow a victorious Donald Trump to take office.
The Atlantic did the original reporting, behind a paywall. This is from the Election Law Blog:
Murray and other legal scholars say that, absent clear guidance from the Supreme Court, a Trump win could lead to a constitutional crisis in Congress. Democrats would have to choose between confirming a winner many of them believe is ineligible and defying the will of voters who elected him. …
In interviews, senior House Democrats would not commit to certifying a Trump win, saying they would do so only if the Supreme Court affirms his eligibility. But during oral arguments, liberal and conservative justices alike seemed inclined to dodge the question of his eligibility altogether and throw the decision to Congress.
“That would be a colossal disaster,” Representative Adam Schiff of California told me. “We already had one horrendous January 6. We don’t need another.” …
The choice that Democrats would face if Trump won without a definitive ruling on his eligibility was almost too fraught for Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland to contemplate. He told me he didn’t know how he’d vote in that scenario. As we spoke about what might happen, he recalled the brutality of January 6. “There was blood all over the Capitol in the hypothetical you posit,” Raskin, who served on the January 6 committee with Schiff, told me….
The Democrats have become so insane on the subject of Donald Trump that it is hard to know which of their mutterings to take seriously. But if Trump wins the election and a Democrat-controlled House refuses to certify his election on the ground that he is an “insurrectionist” under the 14th Amendment, we will be past the point of a constitutional crisis. If that happens, the only realistic path forward will be disunion, possibly accompanied by civil war, but preferably not.
This is one reason why the Supreme Court should put the 14th Amendment theory out of its misery, once and for all. It is obvious that the drafters of that amendment meant the just-concluded Civil War, in which 600,000 Americans lost their lives, when they referred to “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States. In contrast, the January 6 protest was not one of the 50 most destructive riots of the last few years, and the only person killed was Ashli Babbitt. Not a single participant in the protest was arrested in possession of a firearm. Some insurrection!
In the interest of preserving the Republic, the Supreme Court should rule definitively that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to Donald Trump.
Yesterday in San Francisco President Biden held what the White House termed a press gaggle. In the event it seemed more of a gag than a gaggle. This is the White House transcript of his remarks:
Hello, folks. This morning, I had the honor of meeting with Aleksey Navalny’s wife and daughter.
As to state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage. And it’s amazing how his wife and daughter are — are emulating that. And we’re going to be announcing the sanctions against Putin, who is responsible for his death, tomorrow.
And — but the one thing I’ve made — that was made clear to me is that
Yulanda[Yulia] is going to — she’s going to continue to fight (inaudible) the way. So, we’re not letting up.
You say Yulanda, I say Yolanda. Let’s call the whole thing off.
Today, Biden said he "had the honor of meeting with" Alexei Navalny's widow, who he called "Yolanda."
Her name is Yulia. pic.twitter.com/ecBgLtZdn0
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 23, 2024
As mentioned in a previous item, Philip Haney, author of See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad, had a sequel in the works, but turned up dead by gunshot in Amador County, California, in early 2020. Dr. Katherine Raven, who has performed more than 5000 forensic autopsies, signed off on a “homicide autopsy.”
Two years later, under a sheriff who graduated from the FBI academy, a deputy with no apparent medical training listed “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” as the cause of death.
The FBI held on to Haney’s computer, thumb drives, and “whistleblower documents.” The DHS accused Haney of harboring “contraband” and violating five federal laws. The signs point to a faked suicide, hardly a new tactic. As Sidney Hook recalled in Out of Step, Soviet defector Gen. Walter Krivitsky was “suicided” in a Washington hotel room by Stalin’s NKVD, forerunner to the KGB.
Danish diplomat Povl Bang-Jensen refused to reveal names of Hungarian patriots who testified to the UN about Soviet atrocities during the 1956 invasion. In 1959, after going missing for two days, Bang-Jensen was found dead in a New York park, shot through the right temple. The scene looked staged but the case was officially declared a suicide. See Betrayal at the UN, by DeWitt Copp and Marshal Peck.
In 1993, White House official Vincent Foster turned up dead in Fort Marcy Park. The death was ruled a suicide but the scene left plenty to ponder, especially as the Clinton White House senior staff behaved in highly suspicious ways after Foster’s death (removing—and likely destroying—files from his office, etc.) See The Strange Death of Vincent Foster, by Christopher Ruddy.
Communist assassins also killed by staging fake car accidents. That was the fate of Soviet actor Solomon Mikhoels, artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. By this time, Stalin had revived traditional Russian anti-Semitism, branding Jews “rootless cosmpolitans.”
Nobel laureate Albert Camus, author of The Plague and other books, opposed the Soviet invasion of Hungary and was on record that Communism equals murder. In The Death of Camus, Giovanni Catelli compiles evidence that Camus was the victim of a fake car accident set up by the KGB. The ultimate trick, as Whittaker Chambers explained in Witness, was to make the assassination look like a natural death. That is a distinct possibility in several cases, to be explored at length in future.
The death of Philip Haney, meanwhile, shows what can happen to those who expose Islamic terrorists and their enablers in the US government. That raises issues for those who expose the FBI as the government’s secret police and KGB. When booting up a computer or tablet, see if “FBI Van,” or “FBI Surveillance Van,” show up in other networks in your neighborhood, then suddenly disappear.
Watch for persons unknown offering to send materials to your residence. Take note of strangers who suddenly engage you in conversation and just before leaving ask where you live. Apprise colleagues, friends and loved ones of these realities. Most important, never stop calling out those who attack the God-given freedoms of the people.
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia. Thursday morning, she went for a run and didn’t return. Her body was found on the campus of the University of Georgia. Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela:
Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, who was arrested Friday in connection to the murder of the 22-year-old Augusta University student, crossed into El Paso, Texas, from Venezuela in September 2022, NewsNation reported Saturday, citing Department of Homeland Security sources.
He had been released due to a lack of detention space, the sources added.
Laken Riley
Ibarra is one of millions of illegals whom Joe Biden has deliberately welcomed into the United States, in violation of federal law, the Constitution, and Biden’s oath of office. Biden’s motives are hard to understand. But in the law, one is held to have intended the natural and inevitable consequences of one’s actions. Occam’s Razor, like the common law, implies that Biden is trying to bring chaos and destruction to the United States.
Having entered America with no problem, Ibarra set out for New York. I don’t believe it has been reported how he got there, but he spent a year or so in New York City before relocating to Georgia. His social media accounts suggest that he was living it up:
In September 2022, however, the Venezuelan native looked carefree, smiling in Times Square and Rockefeller Center in New York City, posts on a Facebook account linked to his name showed.
Of course, he got into trouble in New York, too:
Police sources in New York confirmed to NewsNation that a suspect matching Ibarra’s name and age was arrested in the Big Apple for endangering a 5-year-old child last year.
But illegals who commit crimes are rarely punished. Ibarra eventually joined his older brother Diego, who I assume is also an illegal although I haven’t seen this reported, in Athens. The older brother is a criminal, too; he was arrested three times between September and December 2023. Ho hum. Liberals refuse to enforce our laws, until a known criminal commits a crime so heinous that it attracts national attention. Like this one.
So, because Joe Biden opened our southern border, Jose Ibarra waltzed in from Venezuela, spent a year or so hanging out in New York, where any crimes he committed went unpunished, then joined his brother in Georgia. Where, day before yesterday, he saw Laken Riley jogging on the University of Georgia campus and decided it would be fun to kill her. Congratulations, Joe. This one’s on you.
A postscript: the U.S. isn’t the only country dumb enough to admit large numbers of illegal aliens, often referred to in the press as “asylum seekers.” Western Europe has problems even worse than ours, as exemplified by this case:
Police in Vienna launched a criminal investigation after three women were found dead in a brothel, authorities said Saturday.
A witness discovered traces of blood outside the building, located near the Danube River, and alerted police on Friday evening. The bodies of the three victims had “cuts and stab wounds,” police spokesperson Philipp Hasslinger told The Associated Press.
A 27-year-old man was soon arrested in the vicinity of the brothel while carrying a knife, the supposed weapon. Police said the suspect is an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan and will be questioned by police later on Saturday.
The Vienna brothel was legal, but apparently the “asylum seeker” disapproved of it. Hey, some of us may disapprove of it, too. But we wouldn’t murder the women who work there. Open-borders immigration policies have been a disaster wherever they have been implemented.
UPDATE: It turns out that Jose Ibarra had a “wife.” Sort of:
“We got married so we could join our asylum cases,” she told The Post. “He was the person I thought I could see through. We’ve known each other our entire lives.”
So, just another species of immigration fraud. Honestly, though, Ibarra and his “wife” needn’t have bothered. Joe Biden’s welcome mat is out, and everyone is here to stay–especially those who will degrade our country.
As John notes just below, police in Georgia have arrested Jose Antonio Ibarra, “not a U.S. citizen” and not a student at the University of Georgia, where nursing student Laken Riley, 22, was found dead from “blunt force trauma.”
This is not an isolated incident. Consider California, the “sanctuary state” that protects criminal illegals from deportation.
In 2019, a false-documented illegal from Mexico murdered El Dorado County deputy Brian Ishmael, who left behind a wife and three daughters. In 2018, illegal immigrant Gustavo Perez Arriaga, also known as Paulo Virgen Mendoza, murdered Newman, California police officer Ronil “Ron” Singh, a legal immigrant from Fiji who came the America to work in law enforcement.
In 2014, previously deported Luis Bracamontes gunned down Sacramento County police officers Danny Oliver and Michael Davis. In court, the Mexican national said he wished he had killed more cops. Sometimes the victims are innocent children.
In Waseca, Minnesota, Lorenzo Sanchez raped 12-year-old Cally Jo Larson, stabbed her to death, then hung her body from a cord in the stairway. See the Forensic Files episode “The Music Case.” And now nursing student Laken Riley is found dead from blunt force trauma.
If a firearm had been in play, and the suspect a U.S. citizen, Joe Biden might have issued a statement on “gun violence.” At this writing, nothing from the White House on the case, and that comes as no surprise.
“You know, 11 million people live in the shadows. I believe they’re already American citizens,” said vice president Biden in 2014. All the 11 million wanted was a chance to contribute, Biden said, so “let people vote.” Since 2020, Biden has bulked up the imported electorate by some eight million, possibly more, so when illegals commit crimes the Delaware Democrat looks the other way.
This year, millions of illegals will be voting, as they already do in California, with squads of politiqueros bribing or threatening them to vote “a certain way,” code for Democrats. That’s what the Biden Junta wants in November.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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Another piece by Robert L. Kinney, author of the piece a few days back warning about Directed Energy Weapons – U.S. government’s remote and wireless mind-reading and mind-controlling technologies. The crazy thing is the degree of precision with which they can cause material disruption to matter over considerable distance, from houses nearby using the tapping thing. Given we know they are mapping the brain for the functions of various regions, and they have the technical capability to disrupt the structures of those regions, rendering them non-functional, I will guarantee you that they are at least in the beta testing phase of altering who people are while they sleep by wiping out the parts of their brains which are “problematic” to the elites. And it could be completely ironed out. And by precision, I mean I am swinging in a hammock, on an arc which is probably 2.5 feet in distance, back and forth, and when I move my head on the pillow and the spot being disrupted is moved to over my ear drum or in my ear canal, that targeted point is held steady relative to the position of the hammock, and I can hear the resonant drumming in my head. They were hitting a pretty fast moving spot, and keeping the impacts dialed in on that spot. All of this will be shown to be incredibly advanced.
Do any specialists know of a laser-like emissions device, which could be fired alon one axis, which would pass through wood walls, and charge materials it passes through or over, as well as another laser-like emissions device, which would carry within its beam, an EM field, which when it struck the charged materials (after traveling a path 90 degrees to the first beam’s path) would provoke a sudden movement in the charged materials courtesy of the EM field hitting the charged particles?
Nikki Haley wastes $76.4 million in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa defeats to Donald Trump.
On Free Republic, someone pointed out that until Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee, he is not allowed the security briefings or the security clearance which is given to nominees. Probably why Haley Barbour is trying to delay his attainment of presumptive nominee status and the increased influence with the party which would come from it.
Judge sets March 1 hearing for final arguments on Fani Willis disqualification.
BREAKING: In court proceedings, Fulton County DA Fani Willis argues that the Atlanta Police Department’s cell phone tracking software, in use since 2017, cannot “prove anything relevant” and provides “little evidentiary value.”
Under DA Fani Willis’ jurisdiction, the Atlanta Police Department has utilized Hawk Analytics’ “CellHawk” software since 2017.
This very software documented Nathan Wade’s alleged visits to Fani Willis’ home 35 times before the purported beginning of their affair.
In a recent court filing, Willis argues that CellHawk’s software fails to establish “anything relevant” and provides “little evidentiary value.”
She further contends that CellHawk does not confirm “Special Prosecutor Wade’s presence at any particular location or address.”
According to Willis, CellHawk merely indicates that “Special Prosecutor Wade’s telephone was located somewhere within a densely populated multiple-mile radius where various residences, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and other businesses are located.”
Does Fulton County DA Fani Willis maintain that the cellphone tracking software used by the Atlanta Police Department fails to “prove anything relevant” and offers “little evidentiary value”?
Since the adoption of CellHawk by the Atlanta Police Department in 2017, has the Fulton County District Attorney’s office utilized this software to prosecute any cases?
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a pair of cases out of Texas and Florida that could force major social media platforms to carry posts from Donald Trump or others who lie about elections being stolen or obliquely encourage election-related violence. A ruling in favor of these states would turn the First Amendment upside down and create the conditions for undermining American democracy.
Nancy Pelosi’s husband made over $1.25 million on stock deal in just three months.
The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets. Of course the funny thing is, Jones at one point was sitting on over $600 million in Bitcoin which some guest gave him on a hard drive back when Bitcoin was like 20 cents, which he claims he has lost. He was asked about it on some podcast, and looked like the cat which ate the canary as he laughed off “losing” it.
The federal income tax was unconstitutional for most of our county’s existence. The founders of this country would have never agreed to it. We should repeal it.
The Owl escaped, and was flying free when out of the blue it slammed into a building and was killed by its own actions and the direction it chose? Comms?:
@bennyjohnson – Vivek addresses possibility of being Trump’s VP pick: “My commitment is I’m going to do whatever I can maximally do to have a positive impact on this country…whatever form that takes, I’m ready for it.” @BasedMikeLee (Sen. Mike Lee) – Vivek would be an outstanding VP.
Mike Lee? They all have to know Cabal rolled Vivek out with Buttigieg as part of project Obama, with both of them posing a normal college kids asking Obama a question in a town hall. Both ae actors in the conspiracy, and now Vivek is getting astroturfed by the conspiracy into a potential VP slot? Trump’s policy should be, no Cabal theater kids allowed.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that President Joe Biden is “clearly in partnership” with cartels during a panel discussion at CPAC on Friday. Beginning to reveal Cabal is the command structure behind everything from the American Stasi to the news media to the Cartels and street gangs?
New York school gives children ‘Black Lives Matter’ coloring book that promotes trans affirmation.
Gov’t report: Federal agencies profit from refugees, but state and local govt’s lose.
Muslims cause unrest on Japanese streets, chanting, ‘Japan must die!’ Sounds kind of psyoppy, like imported agents doing something stupid which makes no sense, but which stirs the emotions of the Japanese people in a way Cabal wants for some reason.
Mice and rats have become a bane on the frontline for both Ukrainian and Russian forces, with these rodents capable of nesting almost anywhere, even in the exhaust systems of armored vehicles. I would never have even thought of this as an issue.
Warren Buffett’s son Howard has given over $521 million to Ukraine. I always knew Buffet was Cabal. Looks like he got his son in now as well.
The world’s first jet suit race is slated for February 28, in Dubai.
Court strikes down California ban on possessing billy clubs.
Gun ownership up 28% in the US as the left tries to disarm us. I think very few of those are sports people. Those are killers who want the ability to kill. I do not think this country will live under an illegitimate, criminal government, and just willingly give it money to continue to victimize the weak. It will take time to all get on the same page, and all agree anyone seeking to support or enforce the dictates of the criminal conspiracy and its infiltrated and subverted government is the enemy, and can be dealt with morally and free of worries due to their having made their decision. But we will end up there, and once we do, we will become free again.
Trump meets Argentina’s Javier Milei.
Majority of New York Jews to vote for Trump in presidential election: poll.
Spread r/K Theory, because you know what is coming, and should be getting ready now
George Harrison was born in Liverpool on this date in 1943. He died on November 29, 2001, in Los Angeles. He added to the beauty of the world as a member of the Beatles and in his subsequent solo career. He also founded HandMade Films to produce Monty Python’s Life of Brian, still funny after all these years. I want to celebrate the anniversary of his birth this morning.
In an interview on the Dick Cavett Show way back when, Harrison was asked about his favorite Beatles songs. As I recall, he said he most enjoyed the Beatles songs with three-part harmonies. He would have contributed the third part on those songs. By my lights he was a talented and ingenious harmony singer. Among the songs he must have been thinking of would be “This Boy,” “Yes It Is,” “I’m Only Sleeping,” and “Because.” Check out the Galeazzo Frudua videos that break down the harmony parts on those songs. George’s contributions are something else.
I thought it might be fun to look back on George’s solo career through lesser known songs on his solo albums over the years 1970-2002. I may have let a hit or two sneak in, but I went in search of deep tracks. If you have a favorite Harrison hit, it won’t be here. My goal is to avoid the hits and see if we can enhance our enjoyment of his legacy along the way. Please accept my apologies in advance for any mistakes in my notes and for ads that may preface the videos. Keep your cursor poised to cut them off.
George’s All Things Must Pass made a huge impact when the Beatles broke up in 1970. You had to make your way over to side three to find “Apple Scruffs.” You can hear the influence of Bob Dylan wedded to the Beatles-style vocal backing that George supplied entirely by himself. This was my favorite track on the album.
George produced the Concert for Bangladesh and the released the related live album in 1971. He didn’t get around to making another solo album until Living in the Material World in 1973. Contrary to the urging of “Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long,” he might have let us wait too long. For some reason or other this track wasn’t released as a single.
George always called on gifted musicians for instrumental backing on his albums. Dark Horse (1974) included work by Nicky Hopkins on piano, Willie Weeks on bass, and a guy named Ringo Starr on drums. They all back George on “So Sad.”
George wrote “Far East Man” with Ronnie Wood. “While the world wages war / It gets harder to see / Who your friends really are.” Tom Scott is on the saxophones, Billy Preston on piano, Willie Weeks on bass, and Andy Newmark on drums.
George kept the albums coming. He released Extra Texture the following year. “You” led off the album and turned into a hit single with sax solos by Jim Horn and Leon Russell on piano. However, we are avoiding the hits in search of buried treasure. “Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)” is one of George’s tributes to Smokey Robinson.
In addition to George’s work on guitar, “Tired of Midnight Blue” has Leon Russell on piano and Jim Keltner on drums. This is a most engaging restatement of George’s warning to “beware of Maya.”
George followed up Extra Texture with Thirty Three & 1/3 Third (1975) and included a second tribute to Smokey Robinson (“Pure Smokey”). Listening to the track, I think it’s fair to say once is not enough. George’s solos make the second time around even better. Tom Scott is on the saxes again, Richard Tee on piano, and Willie Weeks on bass.
“Learning How To Love You” closed the album. That’s Richard Tee on keyboards and Willie Weeks on bass. The track was released as the b-side to “This Song.” I think this one belongs in the department of buried treasure.
The self-titled George Harrison was released in 1979. He had originally recorded “Not Guilty” during the Beatles’ sessions for the White Album, but that track remained in the can until it was released on Anthology 3 in 1996. George retrieved the song and rerecorded it for his his self-titled album. Stevie Winwood is on keyboards, Willie Weeks on bass, and Andy Newmark on drums. It’s a beguilingly bitter song.
“Here Comes the Moon” is not to be confused with “Here Comes the Sun.” I think you will enjoy it if you haven’t heard it before. George is on the guitar parts, Stevie Winwood on harmonium and backing vocals, Willie Weeks on bass, and Andy Newmark on drums.
Next came Somewhere In England (1981). George covered Hoagy Carmichael’s “Hong Kong Blues.” You won’t hear it performed by anyone else any time soon.
“Lay His Head” is something of a literal buried treasure. It was one of four songs Warner Bros. rejected for the album, although it was the b-side of “Got My Mind Set On You.” The four songs were deemed insufficiently commercial.
I’m skipping over George’s uninspired Gone Troppo (1982). After a five-year break, George’s Cloud Nine (1987) represented a return to form, as in “That’s What It Takes” (written with Jeff Lynne and Gary Wright). I think that’s Eric Clapton on the guitar solo.
I love the playing on “Fish on the Sand.” That’s George on guitar, Jeff Lynne on bass, and Ringo on drums.
George was working on Brainwashed when he died in 2001. It was posthumously released in 2002. As far as his recordings were concerned, he went out on a high note. “Stuck Inside a Cloud” was released as a promotional single only. If you like George, you’ll love this.
George lovingly covered the Ted Koehler/Harold Arlen classic “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” That’s George on the uke. What a way to go.
This morning I stumbled across a Tweet linking to an Australian “60 Minutes” segment about the unassimilable migrants that are causing the crime rate and other social dysfunctions to soar in Sweden. Turns out the episode is seven years old, but since we don’t see Australia’s “60 Minutes” here (and our CBS “60 Minutes” won’t touch this subject with a ten meter pole), I doubt little has changed in the last seven years, so here’s the complete seven minute segment—watch to the very end:
I still contend that sooner or later, European nations are going to institute mass deportations of migrants. (If it wants to survive, anyway. It may not have the will to do so any more.) Germany has already said it is going to step up deportation proceedings against recent migrants whose asylum claims are unfounded, but look for other countries to ratchet up from there.
Caroline Glick recommends Margaret Brennan’s interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning on Face the Nation as “very important.” In it he faces the Biden administration talking points argued by Sullivan. She does not ask a single question that reflects sympathy with Israel’s ordeal, yet the Jew haters are having their say in the comments at YouTube. I infer that Netanyahu was able to make his own points effectively. CBS has posted the transcript of the interview here.
One of the big stories in the New York Times today is another Clarence Thomas smear, but with a twist: “Justice Thomas Hires Law Clerk Accused of Sending Racist Text Messages.”
The story is about Crystal Clanton, who graduated from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in 2022. She is coming off a clerkship with Judge William Pryor of the 11th Circuit, who calls her “an outstanding law clerk.” Justice Thomas has now hired her to clerk on the Supreme Court.
For the last seven years, Crystal Clanton has been dogged by reports of an email that she allegedly wrote, in which she supposedly said, “I hate black people.” The Times story admits that they have not seen any such message, and are relying on reporting by the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, perhaps the least trustworthy source in America.
In 2017, Clanton was running field operations for Turning Point USA. Mayer did a hit piece on Turning Point that included a variety of allegations, including the one against Clanton. Mayer claimed to have seen a screen shot of the text. The story has dogged Clanton ever since. When she was offered a clerkship on the 11th Circuit by Judge Pryor, seven left-wing members of Congress lodged an ethics complaint against Pryor, based on Clanton’s alleged text. That complaint was investigated by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which found the complaint to be without merit and dismissed it.
This January 2022 story has the details. Clanton left Turning Point after the claim against her was first made, but the Second Circuit found it to be false:
The Turning Point executive “had determined that the source of the allegations against (Clanton) was a group of former employees,” [Second Circuit Chief Judge Debra] Livingston wrote. “One of these employees was fired after the organization learned that this person had created fake text messages to be used against co-workers, to make it appear that those co-workers had engaged in misconduct when they had not.”
Pryor and Maze knew about the allegations against Clanton when they interviewed and hired her. And both determined the allegations of racist behavior by Clanton were untrue and found she was highly qualified to serve as a clerk for them, Livingston wrote.
“There is nothing in the record to dispute any of this,” she noted.
Charlie Kirk is also quoted in that story:
“The media has alleged that Crystal said and did things that are simply untrue,” Kirk wrote. “I have first-hand knowledge of the situations reported on and I can assure that the media has made serious errors and omissions. The sources of these reports are a group of former employees that have a well-documented desire to malign Crystal’s reputation.”
The employee who was fired had “created fake text messages to be used against other employees,” Kirk wrote.
Crystal Clanton got to know Ginny Thomas when she worked at Turning Point, and she was evidently so distraught about her departure from that group that she lived with the Thomases for nearly a year. So Thomas knows her well. He wrote a letter in connection with the Second Circuit investigation:
“I know Crystal Clanton and I know bigotry,” Thomas wrote. “Bigotry is antithetical to her nature and character.”
Clanton didn’t respond to the Times’s request for comment in the story they published today, but back in 2017 she told The New Yorker that “I have no recollection of these messages and they do not reflect what I believe or who I am, and the same was true when I was a teenager.”
So there the matter rests. The moral of the story, I suppose, is that the Left never forgets. No matter that she was cleared by an investigation by one of the nation’s courts of appeals; once the Left gets its hands on a smear it never lets go. It will never stop trying to destroy your life. And of course, The New Yorker and the New York Times are two of the worst offenders.
Also, what makes this old story worthy of the Times’s A section? Only the fact that Justice Thomas is involved. The Times doesn’t care about a law clerk of whom few people have heard, but it cares deeply about smearing the country’s top conservative African-American. But what, exactly, are we supposed to infer from the Times story? That Clarence Thomas is weirdly favorable to those who hate black people?
A final irony: Supreme Court justices have no doubt hired any number of clerks who have written and spoken favorably about DEI, which actually is racist. But there is no controversy there: on the contrary, endorsing that form of racism is a badge of honor.
People around the world are increasingly realizing that “green” energy is actually black–as in blackouts. Thus, in today’s Telegraph: “The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit.”
We are heading for a big electricity crunch as it is. Whoever wins the general election, the next government will be committed to decarbonising the National Grid – by 2035 in the case of the Conservatives and by 2030 in the case of Labour. That means either closing all the gas power stations or fitting them with carbon capture and storage technology – which does not yet exist on scale in Britain and whose costs are likely to be massive. At the same time every single one of our existing nuclear power stations is currently due to reach the end of its life by 2035. If Hinkley C is delayed much beyond its latest estimated completion, we could end up with no nuclear at all.
That could leave us trying to power the country pretty much with intermittent wind and solar energy alone – and this at a time when politicians want millions more of us to be driving electric cars and heating our homes with heat pumps, thus substantially increasing demand. How will we keep the lights on? One struggles to find satisfactory explanation from the National Grid ESO, which is trusted with this task.
Britain is not alone in that regard. It is extraordinary that no one in any country has actually tried, seriously, to figure out how to power a modern economy with intermittent and absurdly expensive wind and solar power. We are simply cruising toward disaster with inept and even senile politicians at the helm.
It has produced a vision for a winter’s day in 2035 which foresees massive amounts of energy being stored in the form of green hydrogen produced via the electrolysis of water – a technology which may not be ready by then.
Or may not be ready, ever. I’ve been hearing about miraculous hydrogen energy for decades.
It also sees Britain importing around a quarter of its electricity. What happens if the countries we import it from are also short of renewable energy, it doesn’t say.
That is what happened a year or so ago when Duke Energy’s customers suffered a blackout. Duke’s plan included importing electricity from other states when the wind didn’t blow and it was dark out. But–surprise!–the wind wasn’t blowing in nearby states, either.
But now we get to the real plan, to the extent there is one:
But another large part of the picture seems to be “demand flexibility” – a polite term for rationing energy through smart meters, jacking up the price whenever supply is short. No wonder the Government seems keener than ever to force smart meters on us.
A “smart meter” is one that will adjust the temperature in your house, or otherwise reduce your use of electricity, when the utility can’t produce enough electricity to meet demand. In other words, the plan is for us to get poorer through electricity rationing.
This is Great Britain, but you could say the exact same thing about the U.S. or most other Western countries.
President Biden spoke at the Governors Ball Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House on Saturday evening (video excerpt below). The White House has posted the transcript of his brief remarks here.
After the introductory blather, Biden referred to the portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind him — you can see it here — as he attempted to follow his text. This is how the White House transcript of the fourth paragraph reads:
And, you know, standing here in front of this portrait of the man behind me here, he — he said — and I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right. He said, “We — the better angels” — he said, “We must address the counsel — and adjust the better angels of our nature.” And we do the — and we do well to remember what else he said. He said, “We’re not enemies, but [we’re] friends.” This is in the middle of — this is in the — in the part of the Civil War. He said, “We’re not enemies, but [we’re] friends. We must not be enemies.”
“The [unnamed] man behind [him}” was Lincoln. Remember him? The attempted quotation comes from the famous passage that concludes Lincoln’s first inaugural address:
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The Daily Mail reports on Biden’s senescent ramble in “Biden completely butchering lines from Lincoln’s inaugural address – and then gets laughs when he jokes about his age after telling audience: ‘I wanna get this quote exactly right.'” However, I’m not sure that this was the worst of Biden’s brief remarks. He also took an incoherent stab at his phony remembrance of things past:
And, you know, it seems to me that — I’ll conclude by saying, I — I’ve spent a lot of time with Xi Jinping — someone whom I have a great deal of difference with. And I was — when I was vice president, President — my — my president was — told me that he wanted me to get to know Xi Jinping because it was clear he was going to be the head of Russia — of — of China and that he — we had a — we were having problems with Russia at the time and other countries as well. And so, what he said was, “Get to know him. He’s going to be there.” I — and he couldn’t because he was the president, and he couldn’t travel. So, I traveled 17,000 miles with him throughout the country — our country and — and in — in China, as well.
We were in the Tibetan Plateau. And he turned to me, and he said, “Can you define America for me?” And I — given this has been documented, and it’s real — I looked at him, and I said, “Yes, I can. In one word.” And he looked at me. And he said, “What’s that?” And I said, “Possibilities.” Possibilities.
You say president, you say vice president. You say Russia, you say China. Let’s call the whole thing off.
Biden has reached the stage of life described by Mark Twain. His faculties have decayed to such an extent that he cannot remember any but the things that never happened. This 17,000-mile shtick has been debunked many times. Glenn Kessler devoted one of his Washington Post Fact Checker columns — this one — to it in February 2021. He awarded it 3 Pinocchios.
However, it’s the substance of the story that is most absurd. Biden says it has been “documented.” That means he has told the story many, many times. According to Matt Viser’s 2022 Washington Post story, aides who were with Biden say that they do not recall that exchange. It has been “documented” by his repetition of it.
We can go this far with the story. When Xi observes an Obama or a Biden, he wonders how he can exploit the “possibilities.”
The White House transcript specifies the time of Biden’s remarks at 7:40 P.M. EST. He wound up at 7:44. It was past the guy’s bedtime. Fortunately, the State Dining Room is located in the Executive Residence of the White House. He only had a few pitty-pat steps to go before his head hit the pillow for the evening.
Biden completely malfunctions as he tries — and fails miserably — to read a quote from "the man behind me here" pic.twitter.com/anLx6NEAPx
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 25, 2024
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
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I don’t feel safe. So I’m on the flight going from DC to Denver. And CO Governor chief of staff is on the flight and also his administrator this woman and they’re taking pictures of me so when I confront her she lied and then she said that somebody sent her a picture of me as I was boarding the flight. I made her pull it up and watched her delete it and ask her to have that person delete it. Evidently, I’m of great interest to the Colorado governor. She did the same thing coming in to DC a few days ago and lied about it then also.
New study finds hearing and balance disorders among COVID vaccinated. Hearing and balance disorders are also a sign of Havana Syndrome and directed energy attacks targeting the head. Could be using the Covid hysteria as a cover for a broader program of Havana attacks. Or this article is designed to forestall examination of cases of hearing and balance disorders, by having them reflexively linked to Covid, so they will not be investigated further and maybe recognized as a broader wave of Havana, which I think is going to begin rolling out soon. Q should pull the trigger now, as if he waits until the election, and it looks like Trump will win, I suspect throughout September and October, our side will see people dropping left and right.
Robert Hur couldn’t determine who had access to Biden’s stolen classified docs because security at Penn Biden Center DELETED all visitor logs from 2017-2021. Did he sell access to foreigners?
More on the death of Angela Chao, Mitch McConnell’s sister in law. Not much, firefighter report says call came in just before midnight, Sheriffs were on scene before midnight, EMS within nine minutes, fire/rescue 27 minutes of being called, victim was pulled out at 12:57.
Lord Jacob Rothschild dies at age of 87. Did the big owl fly too fast and make a mistake that took him out?
How Google is run by the CIA and is rigging the election.
Kristi Noem and Vivek Ramaswamy tie as top pick to be Trump’s VP in CPAC straw poll. I would agree with the commenter who said Ron Johnson, since he was Havana’d. Interesting though that he was Havana’d in Moscow. I do not believe Cabal has the capability to operate on the ground in Russia freely, especially around a visiting US Senator. Which raises the question, was the Havana device so small it could be carried in proximity to Johnson, without being detected, despite the presence, presumably of Russian intelligence/surveillance locking down the area around Johnson? Of would it point to it being deployed by invisible, Chameleo-drone? Or might it point to satellite? Or some other means of launching the attack from a remote location? If, as I suspect, it is the tapping/poltergeist tech, and it requires two technical interventions, namely charging the environment, and then blasting through a focused EM wave to drive the charged particles, probably from two different sources located 90 degrees to each other, maybe they would launch a ground attack, presuming it unlikely Russia would acquire both devices, and either, seized alone, would not appear as a weapon. One merely harmlessly charged adjacent areas, the other harmlessly blew through EM waves of some sort. Or maybe one of the devices is literally satellite based. It is part of the problem with this thing. They are surprisingly advanced when you get above the normie ground troops.
Koch network says it will stop funding Nikki Haley’s presidential bid. Is that Cabal telling her it is OK to stop running?
Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.C.) is endorsing former President Trump for president in 2024, his office confirmed to multiple outlets. Even the RINOs are giving up.
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel announces her resignation.
Watch neocon warmonger-in-chief Lindsey Graham get viciously booed by MAGA crowd in SC.
Bob Costas said of Donald Trump, “He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history. He‘s only become more disgraceful since 2016, and since 2020 he has a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits. You have to be in the throes of some sort of toxic delusion in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been, in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically fit to be president of the United States. But his supporters are locked in on that.” Look at how ridiculously over the top the statement is. So even some gray-man sports announcer nobody pays attention to is a diehard member of the conspiracy, and has probably done some dark shit in some ceremonies which would curl our hair if we saw it. Although it makes sense, given what he was probably paid, for doing something any better looking and more-likable sports fan could have done ten times better. We are going to find far more of society, stretching down far lower into the non-celebrity world, right down to the grassroots, was like that than we would have thought possible. This thing will one day be shown to have been all over.
Dems worried Biden will lose Michigan if he doesn’t cave to pro-Hamas wing of party.
The Walton family just sold $4.5 billion worth of Walmart $WMT.
Seventy-three percent of college graduates who enter the labor market underemployed stay that way for 10 years as almost half of America’s college graduates are working at high-school-level jobs due to employers increasingly turning to factors other than college degrees to determine competency. Is this Cabal using a widespread HR infiltration for getting its people placed, while everyone else cannot find a position?
U.S. debt spending to surpass defense spending … this year.
Elon Musk claims he’s creating a Gmail rival dubbed ‘XMail.’
Nate Silver calls to shut down Gemini after Google’s AI chatbot refuses to say if Hitler or Musk is worse. Maybe we can shut down the Cabal propaganda factory online too, since it was the writings of that online which taught this AI.
Canadian doctors admit Covid ‘booster’ shot paralyzed young mom from the neck down, offer to help get her application for assisted suicide accepted more quickly to ‘make up for it.’ The crazy thing is, the issue they have diagnosed her with can reverse with time, if the immune system just suddenly stops attacking her nerves, and nobody can predict it. She has a 30% chance of an almost full recovery, a 30% chance of a partial recovery, and only a 30% chance of a permanent condition. You see why I say I often feel like I am looking at actors pretending to be doctors, who are just reading lines the scriptwriters gave them.
In Japan: Muslim migrant from African nation of Gambia damages a Shinto shrine and threatens Japanese local not to pray there because ‘Allah is the only god’, arrested. Suppose you are a patriot in Japanese intelligence. Maybe they Fantasy Camped you, but you began to see through the veil, into the broader Matrix. They are going to flood Japan with the third world, and fuck it up like America. You locate some compatriots, and decide to thwart them. You get up some funds, find some willing local migrants, and offer to pay them enough they can live like millionaires in Africa after they are deported (probably like $57 dollars American), if they will do something like this. All of a sudden, across Japan, the news is forced to cover violent, obnoxious Muslim migrants, as a groundswell builds among the population, demanding they all be sent back, and no more be allowed in. I don’t know, it would seem more logical than the idea these migrants have all suddenly decided they are going to take over Japan.
UK MPs now requiring extra security and are hiring bodyguards.
Justin Trudeau announces that Canada will provide $3 billion in financial & military aid to support Ukraine.
Meanwhile, 2 million Canadians eat at a food bank each month.
Members of the Canadian military live in tent cities due to the cost of living crisis.
Judge declares Fargo’s ban on home-based gun businesses goes too far.
Donald Trump handedly wins CPAC 2024 straw poll.
Spread r/K Theory, because the future is going to be horrific for one side – best it not be our’s
Miranda Devine addresses “The Smirnov turnoff” in today’s New York Post column “New election year means another Russiagate as Biden, Dems try to smear impeachment probe.” Devine is of course the invaluable historian of The Laptop From Hell and the Biden family business. Here is the opening of her column:
For the 2016 election, Democrats launched Russiagate 1.0: the Trump-Russia collusion hoax proven groundless by the Mueller investigation.
For the 2020 election, it was Russiagate 2.0. Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken prompted former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell to concoct the “Dirty 51” letter falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop was Russian disinformation.
That lie justified censorship of The Post’s accurate stories from the laptop of Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s international influence peddling schemes.
Now that we’re heading into the 2024 election, we have Russiagate 3.0. Democrats pretend the impeachment inquiry has “utterly collapsed” because of the curious indictment last week of trusted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov on false statement charges after he allegedly told his FBI handler that Hunter and Joe each had received a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainians.
In a frantic effort to keep Smirnov in jail pre-trial, prosecutors for notorious Biden protector David Weiss, the Delaware US attorney, used language ripped straight out of the Russiagate textbook: “Smirnov’s efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties [Joe] continues.”
Now Smirnov is being used as make-believe vindication of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the fake laptop letter to help Biden win the 2020 election.
Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA operations officer who claims to be a victim of the dubious “Havana syndrome,” pounced on the Smirnov story.
“It validates exactly what we were warning about,” he told NBC News. “The Russians were going to push this narrative of Hunter Biden and corruption, to hurt Joe Biden.”
No. Hunter’s “laptop from hell” was not Russian disinformation. It still isn’t. The FBI has had it in its possession since December 2019 and has authenticated it as real and valid for use in court.
The Dirty 51 are grasping at straws to try to justify their interference in the 2020 election. It wasn’t the Russians. It was Trump-deranged former CIA management who felt any means justified the ends if they could stop Trump winning a second term.
But now, as the laptop is augmented by whistleblower receipts and witness testimony, and as House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer unravels the complex web of corrupt foreign payments to the Biden family, the president’s praetorian guard is desperate. They are drowning in evidence of corruption while burbling, “There is no evidence!” Russia is all they have.
The joke is on Biden’s media handmaidens still pushing Joe Biden’s absurd lies.
No, the laptop is not a “Russian plant,” as he claimed. And, yes, Joe did talk to Hunter about his “overseas business dealings.”
Heck, he did a lot more than talk.
He made himself available for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffees, and pleasant chit chat on the speakerphone with Hunter’s foreign benefactors, all to oil the wheels of the family business — which was selling access to him, as he well knew.
“Look after my boy,” he told Kremlin-backed oligarch Elena Baturina and her husband, Yuri Luzhkov, the corrupt former mayor of Moscow, when Hunter activated the speakerphone at a Russian restaurant in Brooklyn called Romanoff on May 4, 2014.
They sure did. Just three months earlier, Baturina had wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, the firm cofounded by Hunter, his “best friend in business” Devon Archer, John Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz, and Jimmy Bulger, nephew of mobster “Whitey” Bulger.
Devine has much more here.
Right now the unaffordability of housing has become a national issue, and not just one for the two coasts. The fundamental reason for this is the spread of coastal-style over-regulation of housing to the interior states of “flyover country,” which had for decades mostly resisted the over-regulation of housing. Rising interest rates have something to do with this too. In any case, maybe another housing crash is in the works?
By a unanimous vote, the San Francisco supervisors have made Kelly Wong a member of the San Francisco Elections Commission. The Chinese national is the first non- U.S. citizen to hold the post, and under U.S. law she is not allowed to vote. Wong’s priority is to ensure that voter materials are translated in a way that people can understand, work she already performs as an “immigrant rights advocate” at Chinese for Affirmative Action.
According to CAA, last year “more than 24,000 Chinese migrants have made a treacherous 60-mile trek through the Darien Gap risking death and disease to eventually cross from Mexico into the U.S.” The “numbers are unprecedented,” and the San Diego Migrant Welcome Center “asked CAA to assist with the influx of arrivals.” For many, “the number one priority was to arrange transit to U.S.-based family and friends.” While this was going on, another People’s Republic of China (PRC) development escaped notice.
In January, a team from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleaned up the site of an illegal biolab run by Chinese nationals in Reedley, California, near Fresno. The site jostled with dangerous pathogens, and viral agents, some untested by the federal Centers for Disease Control. That is no surprise since the CDC cooperates closely with the PRC, and the CDC’s vaunted Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), which failed to stop Covid from arriving stateside, includes Chinese nationals.
According to The Black Book of Communism, the PRC is the most lethal regime in history, with more than 60 million victims. If the PRC ever did anything with which the CDC disagreed, it’s hard to know what it might be. The same goes for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who passed away last September. Feinstein maintained a Chinese spy on her staff for 20 years. Gov. Gavin Newsom also has a soft spot for the one-party Communist regime.
San Francisco has become the world’s largest latrine, homeless camp and junkyard, but former mayor Newsom cleaned it all up when Xi Jinping came to town. That was hardly Newsom’s only service for the PRC.
In April 2020, Gov. Newsom announced a $1 billion deal for masks with the Chinese company BYD, which had no experience making protective equipment. Newsom hid the details, even from fellow Democrats and what became of the $1 billion remained something of a mystery. Other massive favors for the PRC stand in plain sight.
For the new span of the Bay Bridge, California rejected federal money and hired a Chinese company which, at the time, had no experience building bridges. The structure came in 10 years late, $5 billion over budget, and riddled with cracked bolts, corrosion and such.
All told, the Golden State is shaping up as Californiachukuo, a development and settlement zone for the PRC. Newsom is the colonial official, and a PRC national now serves on the San Francisco Election Commission, eager to ensure accurate translation of election documents.
As Commissioner Wong should know, back in 1986 a full 73 percent of California voters passed Proposition 63, the Official Language of California Amendment, designed to “preserve the role of English as the state’s common language.” According to this law, the voter guides should be only in English, with good reason. As legal immigrants know, some proficiency in English is a requirement for U.S. citizenship, in turn, a requirement for voting in U.S. elections.
By contrast, Joe Biden believes that illegals are “already American citizens” and should be able to vote. That’s why he brought in some eight million foreign nationals with no English ability, no background checks, and no health requirements. According to Chinese for Affirmative Action, “unprecedented numbers” of them are Chinese nationals, eager to link up with those already here.
All told, Californiachukuo is shaping up as the model for the nation. To paraphrase Walter Sobchak, this is what happens when a constitutional democracy collaborates with a genocidal Communist dictatorship.
I wrote here about the murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley by, allegedly, illegal alien Jose Ibarra of Venezuela. The case has spurred outrage across the United States. Which, I suppose, is why the Associated Press felt the need to spin the story in another–bizarre–direction: “The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes.”
If only Ms. Riley had been walking across the University of Georgia campus instead of running, the AP wants us to believe, she would have been safe! It was being an “athlete” that did her in. Ibarra, meanwhile, is described discreetly as an “Athens resident.”
The AP compounds the absurdity of its reporting with this:
Riley’s death has once again put the spotlight on the dangers female runners face. Previously, the 2018 death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts while out jogging prompted an outpouring from other women who shared their tales of being harassed and followed.
Mollie Tibbetts, like Laken Riley, was murdered by an illegal alien. What a coincidence! But to the AP, the lesson is that women should avoid running. How about if we close the border instead?
STEVE adds: Isn’t this pathetic excuse pretty close to saying, “She was wearing an awfully short skirt. . .”
We haven’t checked in on Venezuela for a while. Formerly one of the world’s richest countries, Venezuela has become destitute since it was taken over by socialists Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. The country has gone downhill in an ever-worsening spiral of poverty and dysfunction. Things have gotten so bad that American liberals no longer hold up Venezuela as an example of “real socialism.”
The London Times reports:
[T]his is a country still suffering the trauma of the most spectacular currency collapse of our times. The Venezuelan bolivar, which in the 1960s was considered as solid a store of value as the Swiss franc, is now worth less than the paper it is printed on. If you converted a million dollars into bolivars in 2013 — when Nicolás Maduro first came to power — and left it in an interest-accruing Venezuelan bank for the past decade, your current balance would be about 3 cents.
Let’s hear it for socialism! And also for money-printing. Venezuela kept printing currency until it could no longer afford the paper and ink, but how different is that from the path our own government is currently on?
All this became glaringly apparent during an especially precipitous period of the downward spiral, during 2018 and 2019. With annual inflation touching two million per cent, a brick of notes was needed to buy a sandwich. The government ran out of the ink and paper physically needed to print more money.
Debit cards, along with bartering, became essential; with everyone from coconut sellers in the Caribbean to barbers in Caracas using cheap card readers to make transactions. But banks were slow to keep up with the devaluation, failing to raise their limits per transaction. Buying just a few items in a supermarket could therefore require three or four bank cards.
Life under socialism isn’t just poor and violent, it is crazy, too.
In mid-2019, the Maduro government quietly threw in the towel and allowed people to officially use US dollars. It turned out to be a transformational moment, taming price rises and bringing in some stability.
At least 60 per cent of retail transactions in Venezuela are believed to be in dollars, either in cash or with cards.
So the viciously anti-American kleptocrats are rescued, sort of, by the American dollar. But the damage is done, as Venezuela’s economy has shrunk by 75%. The last word:
[One Venezuelan] lamented, “Nobody’s got any money. There’s nothing much left to steal.”
I suppose the kleptocrats long for the good old days, when there was still something in Venezuela worth stealing. Chavez’s daughter Maria Gabriela, a perfect exemplar of leftism who represented Venezuela in the United Nations, made off with a cool $4.2 billion. But she was a piker compared to her father’s Treasury Minister, Alejandro Andrade, who slipped away from Venezuela with $11.2 billion in Swiss banks. As I wrote back in 2015:
If you want a world in which a few obscenely rich jet-setters lord it over a sea of poor people, socialism is the ideology for you.
But even those halcyon days have come to an end, as “[t]here’s nothing much left to steal.” It is as Margaret Thatcher memorably said: the problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of other people’s money.
Okay, this is officially the funniest thing on the internet right now: “Tucker Carlson” explaining the real story of Lord of the Rings. (There are a bunch more of these on YouTube, like this one. YMMV.)
As promised,
Here’s an AI Tucker Carlson narrating The Lord of the Rings@MiddleearthMixr @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/eiXtR0m2qz
— Dr. Maverick Alexander (@MaverickDarby) February 25, 2024
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This one blew my mind. People saw and photographed the King’s Guard walking around in ceremonial garb, leading some to wonder if Charles’ cancer was worse than known, and they were rehearsing, as the King’s Guard normally only emerges after the death of the ruler of England:
In doing the American Stasi book on the US Domestic Surveillance machine, I saw this older story, in which a White House Official says that one of Trump’s Cabinet Level secretaries was hit with Havana. We still do not know who. Bolton is quoted in the piece, which makes me wonder if it was him. And one of the women in the piece was hit, but refused to report it because she was afraid she would lose her security clearance. How many more are like that? I almost didn’t write about it here, because who wants to sound like a kook? And yet, it might be the single most important thing you would ever warn people of. We are going to find a ton of people in DC, probably a lot of famous names too, were being hit with this stuff, and we never heard of it. Including, I suspect, Trump.
Which, of course means, the domestic surveillance following you through the supermarket is actually part of some kind of insurrectionary coup, probably headed by a foreign power, which thinks it has found a way to make their revolution one-sided and risk-free, as in they buy houses next to government officials, and irradiate them at night, until they agree to do what the coup-plotters tell them, and the official government can do nothing about it, all while they continue their normal infiltration/subversion operations. It is pretty amazing. I suspect there is a plot on our side, as if there were not, somebody like Trump would issue the call, releasing names and addresses, and telling the country to go hose those people down. Amazing the nation stands at some kind of brink of a real, kinetic, hot war in the nation domestically, and nobody in the civvie world has any idea.
An opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal that Jeb Bush co-authored suggests that, finally, the GOP is becoming aware of the global threat that the type of lawfare waged against Donald Trump poses to them all. I don’t know about this. The Bushes in the old structure, would have been immune to this. Almost feels like Jeb has been turned and forced to read these lines from a new script.
Major investors pull business from New York City following Trump verdict.
Trump lawyers argue Fani Willis needs to testify again over phone evidence.
Judge: Law partner must testify about Wade’s relationship with Willis.
Trump appeals $355 million ruling in New York civil fraud case.
The FBI’s takedown of the LockBit ransomware group last week came as LockBit was preparing to release sensitive data stolen from government computer systems in Fulton County, Ga. But LockBit is now regrouping, and the gang says it will publish the stolen Fulton County data on March 2 unless paid a ransom. LockBit claims the cache includes documents tied to the county’s ongoing criminal prosecution of former President Trump…
Delaware court rules permanent absentee, early voting laws violate state constitution.
China announces ‘severe’ spike in Covid cases, right as U.S. heads into election season.
Biden planned to join son’s [Communist] China-backed firm after vice presidency, former partner tells Congress. Probably legit. I remember, Biden thought his political career was over after the Obama stint, and Hillary would then have an eight year term. However something went wrong, Trump took office, and there was an account during the transition of Biden getting called into some meeting, where it was implied he was told he would be made President in 2020, and he was walking on air for the next week. I thought at the time, by the account, Biden assumed the election would be rigged. Absent that quirk of fate with Hillary losing, his plan probably was to join Hunter’s CCP business.
DeSantis, after trying to destroy Trump 2024, moves toward running again in 2028 – and draws ire from Trump’s inner circle. He has revealed himself as part of the conspiracy.
Supreme Court to weigh Constitutionality of laws regulating social media giant censorship in two cases. Do the social media giants have a First Amendment right to censor? Or can states forbid it?
Migrant with no fixed address arrested in connection with toddler’s murder in sanctuary county in Maryland. I do not understand. There are ten of us for every one of them. I would bet one of us would be able to down ten of them before we went down. And most of them would rabbit overseas at the first sign the festivities were beginning anyway. If Trump went public, gave names and addresses, it would be over overnight. Why are we allowing these savages to run roughshod over innocent women and children? Every day it is some new horror visited on some innocent who never gets a chance to even live their life. None of this makes sense.
Migrants handed spacious apartments for free as New Yorkers left paying thousands for tiny rooms. They could not make it any clearer. These migrants are somehow of the same organization as the politicians, and the citizens are not electing the politicians.
Just when you think it can’t get any crazier…
The brother of the illegal immigrant who murdered Laken Riley, Diego Ibarra, also entered the country illegally
He assaulted a Border Patrol agent and got off by claiming it was epilepsy. Then gets arrested three other times in Georgia. Still here in the US.
Texas sues to shut down ‘Catholic’ organization accused of facilitating illegal immigration.’
Stranger bashes woman in head with baseball bat in apparently random NYC attack.
P. Diddy sued for sexual assault by a former male employee.
Do not know enough about investing to judge this:
A longtime investment banker named David Webb is exposing a global plot dubbed “The Great Taking” to steal stocks and other assets from Americans and people across the world, explains The New American magazine Senior Editor Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State. As part of the plan, laws were quietly changed to strip security owners of their property rights and instead give them a “security entitlement.” Now, those assets have been used as collateral by financial institutions as part of the massive derivatives complex. And when the system crashes, which Webb suspects will happen this year, you will own nothing, and ordinary investors will be left out to dry as unsecured creditors while the megabanks take priority.
Houthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia.
Fed-up Toronto residents are hiding their cars in SECRET LOCATIONS patrolled by guard dogs after car theft soared 150% in six years, with Justin Trudeau’s woke bail and sentencing rules blamed for encouraging thieves. This could happen in one or two nations. But for it to happen all across the West, every country, with migrants, and crime, and economic deterioration, all at the same time, it tells you there is one global entity which rises above them all, fully in control of each of them, able to make the national leaders actually operate in their own worst interests, in their constituent’s worst interests, and in their nation’s worst interests, and the voters are not electing that entity. It is funny how this was out there to see fifteen years ago, when gangstalking victims fled overseas, only to find that intelligence surveillance operation they fled was already established and built where they fled to, and it just continued their harassment as if nothing happened. Even in places like China, the same operation as the West. The only place I have not heard of gangstalking continuing, and where I have explicitly heard accounts saying it did not continue, is Russia. One account said it took six months to shake the feeling of being followed and watched, but after six month they felt like they used to before their harassment began.
Macron does not rule out sending military troops to Ukraine. Should read sending other people’s children to die in Ukraine for Globohomo.
Several NATO and EU members are “considering sending troops to Ukraine” on a “bilateral basis Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico added, “I cannot say for what purpose and what they should be doing there,” after making the claims.
Ottawa to give Ukraine $4 million to fund gender-inclusive demining. They just needed some label for the maundered funds.
Ukrainian intelligence chief admits Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died from a blood clot – He wasn’t murdered. I wondered if part of the deal of being a CIA asset is, you take the jab, because somehow it lets them terminate you remotely. Maybe there is a specific wavelength of microwave, or some kind of energy pulse which sets off the clotting. I mean, why would Navalvy take the Pfizer jab, when Russia had a non-mRNA jab? And Navalny’s timing, keeling over right after Tucker’s interview with Putin has CIA written all over it.
Spread r/K Theory, because you are supposed to exploit numerical advantage before you lose it
Star Tribune music reviewer Jon Bream put in a good word for Victoria Victoria last week and prompted me to buy tickets for the show this past Sunday at the Dakota. Victoria Victoria is the name of the band — Victoria Elliott on lead vocal, Charlie Hunter on guitar, Noah Elliott on electric piano and backing vocals, Carter McClean on drums, and Maia Kamil on backing vocals.
Jon tagged Victoria — she goes by “Tory” — as “a beguilingly jazzy alt-folk singer, pair[ed] with adventurous guitarist Charlie Hunter.” I can hear the influence of Norah Jones in her singing, but she has a wider dynamic range. She can belt it out.
Charlie Hunter is beyond “adventurous.” He is a phenomenal guitarist. He plays a hybrid electric guitar that lets him thump out a bass line while playing lead. I have never seen that before. I think he was playing one of his own Hybrid Six guitar models — smiling all the while. (I wrote his agent yesterday to ask but haven’t heard back.)
Carter McLean rounds out the rhythm section on drums. Victoria’s brother, Noah Elliott, plays piano and acoustic guitar and sings harmony. Maia Kamil is a singer-songwriter who supports Victoria on the vocals.
Elliott writes or collaborates on her own songs. She could use some help with the lyrics, but she has created a beautiful sound. The video below provides an acoustic take on her song “Over My Shoulder” (written with Hunter and Stephen Lee Price) with both brother Noah and sister Halle joining on the vocals along with Kamil. She winds up her current tour in Pittsburgh on Thursday.
You can catch a glimpse of Hunter playing the Hybrid in the video of Elliott’s “Sanctuary” below.
Thich Quang Duc was the Buddhist monk who self-immolated to protest the Diem regime during South Vietnam’s so-called Buddhist crisis of 1963. The AP’s Malcolm Browne won the World Press Photo of the Year in 1963 with the famous photograph of Duc on fire. Ray Boomhower’s forthcoming book about it is titled The Ultimate Protest.
Air Force senior airman Aaron Bushnell replayed the scene outside the Israeli embassy in Washington this past Sunday afternoon. He called it “an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all.” He posted a video online saying he did not want to be “complicit in genocide.” He repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” as he burned. He died later that night, apparently of the injuries he sustained lighting himself up.
It’s a bizarre story. The New York Post reported on it here and here, the Washington Post here, and the Daily Mail here (with video before Bushnell doused himself).
The Washington Post reports that Bushnell’s “suicidal protest instantly won him praise among some antiwar and pro-Palestinian activists…” If you get your news from the Washington Post, support for Hamas is now “antiwar” and “pro-Palestinian” means pro-Hamas.
The New York Post unsuccessfully sought comment from the Israeli embassy. However, Brendan O’Neill is not so discreet. He comments in his Spiked column here.
Anyone contemplating self-harm or suicide should get help. Bushnell needed a friend to urge him to reconsider or to give himself time to reconsider. Mental illness runs deep.
Bushnell might have helped himself by applying critical thought to what he reads in newspapers like the Washington Post and figuring out who’s zoomin’ who in “Palestine.” Israel is not committing “genocide.” It is the victim of those who expressly seek to commit “genocide,” but I’m sure Hamas is grateful for Bushnell’s support.
And Bushnell wasn’t “complicit” in Israel’s effort to defend itself against genocide. A combination of political witlessness and mental illness appears to have rendered Bushnell impervious to the reality principle.
My pal Henry Olsen explains in his recent Telegraph column that Trump is underperforming his polls in recent contests, and appears to be stuck between a very solid floor and a rigid ceiling. Perhaps, but the Telegraph included this graphic, taken from recent Pew polls, that suggests a different picture:
To be fair, a generic Republican ought to be polling about 60 percent of the white vote, and that’s just where Trump is stuck. It would be a delicious irony if Trump wins in November through an increased share of minority votes. It will plunge Democrats into a crisis.
Cornel West is the Princeton University Class of 1943 University Professor emeritus. He is running as an independent candidate for president. He fancies himself “one of America’s most provocative public intellectuals; a champion for Truth, Justice & Love.” That’s what the man said. In the tweet below, he celebrates the suicide of Aaron Bushnell in the service of “free Palestine” — free, Hamas style. If he gets on the ballot in Michigan, he poses a certain kind of danger to the reelection of Joe Biden.
Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice! I pray for his precious loved ones! Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time!… pic.twitter.com/9F7dXOAYJt
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) February 26, 2024
This picture of kids on a playground in 1912 popped up on my Instagram feed:
It got me thinking: if you encouraged that sort of activity today, someone would call the police. No one would consider it safe for kids to play that way, and when it comes to children, safety–or “safety”–is the supreme value.
I have been working, on and off, on a memoir about what it was like to grow up in a small town in South Dakota in the 1950s and early 60s. Looking back, kids in that time and place enjoyed an astonishing degree of freedom. Kids played, almost always without parents having anything to do with it. In some ways, you could say our parents were strict. On the other hand, they rarely had any idea what we were doing. As long as we were home for dinner at six, we were good.
Those days are gone. And yet, despite the hothouse environments in which children are raised nowadays, they aren’t safe at all. On the contrary: a great many of them can’t cope. I ran across this podcast by Bari Weiss: “Why the Kids Aren’t Alright.”
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, most anxious, depressed, and medicated generation on record. Nearly a third of teen girls say they have seriously considered suicide. For boys, that number is an alarming 14 percent.
What’s even stranger is that all of these worsening mental health outcomes for kids have coincided with a generation of parents hyper-fixated on the mental health and well-being of their children.
Take, for example, the biggest parenting trend today: “gentle parenting.” Parents today are told to understand their kids’ feelings instead of punishing them when they act out. This emphasis on the importance of feelings is not just a parenting trend—it’s become an educational tool as well. “Social-emotional learning” has become a pillar in public schools across America, from kindergarten to high school. And maybe most significantly, therapy for children has been normalized. In fact, there are more kids in therapy today than ever before.
On the surface, all of these parenting and educational developments seem positive. We are told that parents and educators today are more understanding, more accepting, more empathetic, and more compassionate than ever before—which, in turn, makes wonderful children.
But is that really the case? Are all of these changes—the cultural rethink, the advent of therapy culture, of gentle parenting, of teaching kids about social-emotional learning—actually making our kids better?
Best-selling author Abigail Shrier says no.
In her new book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, Shrier argues that these changes are directly contributing to kids’ mental health decline. In other words: all of this shiny new stuff is actually making our kids worse.
Today: What’s gone wrong with American youth? What really happens to kids who get therapy but don’t actually need it? In our attempt to keep kids safe, are we failing the next generation of adults? And, if yes, how do we reverse it before it’s too late?
That conversation is a little different from the kids playing on 20 foot high jungle gyms, but clearly related. It is a big topic, and that is enough for the moment.
This fall will mark the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the famous “free speech” movement at UC Berkeley. You can find my account of it, written in the aftermath of the Milo Yiannopoulos riot of February, 2017, which I was present for, at this link.
The Yiannopoulos riot was bad enough, but last night there was a sequel at Berkeley. As loyal readers may know, I am not around campus much this semester, as I’m temporarily filling in for a recently deceased professor at Pepperdine’s graduate school. So I missed a mob that prevented Ran Bar-Yoshafat, a reserve combat officer in the Israel Defense Forces who has been deployed in Gaza, from giving a presentation on campus at the invitation of several student groups.
The mob was not peacefully protesting. As has happened to Jewish students at many campuses, the mob was banging on doors and threatening violence. The Jewish News of Northern California offers an account—some excerpts:
Jewish students at UC Berkeley evacuated from a campus theater Monday night after a mass of protesters, chanting “Intifada! Intifada!” and other slogans, shattered a glass door at the venue and shut down a scheduled lecture by an Israeli attorney and IDF reservist.
Several students who were attending or working the event at Zellerbach Playhouse were injured, including two young women, one of whom sprained a thumb wrestling to keep a door shut as protesters tried to muscle it open. Another female student reportedly was handled around her neck, leaving marks. A third student was spit on, he told J.
The lecture was scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Ran Bar-Yoshafat, who is a reserve combat officer in the Israel Defense Forces and was deployed in Gaza, planned to discuss international law as it pertains to Israel. “He’ll explore whether Israel violates international law, the rules of wartime conduct, and how the IDF can better protect civilians,” a social media post publicizing the event said.
The talk was conceived of as a small lecture in a classroom at Wheeler Hall, but organizers moved it at the direction of campus police for safety reasons after the anti-Zionist group Bears for Palestine, the Cal affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine, called for a protest to “shut it down,” according to Joseph Karlan, a student leader of campus pro-Israel group Tikvah and one of the event organizers.
There’s more at the link.
Separately in the Jewish News, Daniel Solomon, a graduate student acquaintance of mine who was present, reports:
The people who were forced to flee apparently forfeited their right to security after committing the unpardonable sin of coming to hear an Israeli speak on campus. The university, which has touted its commitment to free speech while actually condoning a climate of antisemitic intimidation, did little to protect the safety of the speaker and audience — and even less to protect their free speech rights.
Parading through the campus in a fashion worthy of the finest paramilitary, the pro-Palestinian rioters exulted in their victory.
This latest episode at UC Berkeley caps months of harassment — and on occasion, violent outbursts— from wannabe Hamasniks. On Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas pogrom, Bears for Palestine released a statement praising its “comrades in blood and arms” for their operations “in the so-called ‘Gaza envelope.’” The same organization then mounted demonstrations at which participants clamored to “globalize the intifada” and “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
Again, more at the link above, and do read the whole thing if you have time.
If there are no consequences for this latest act, which is worse in many ways than the Yiannopoulos affair if you think about it for a few minutes, then it can truly be said that free speech is dead at UC Berkeley.
Here are some related videos and collateral material:
I didn’t know this but apparently students were spat on, called antisemitic insults, and even assaulted at last’s night event @UCBerkeley . Shame on this institution, which still has nothing to say.
https://t.co/AQO7Yu35yw— Daniel Solomon (@DanielJSolomon) February 27, 2024
Last night at @UCBerkeley, Jewish students were threatened, assaulted, and prevented from attending a speech by a Jewish speaker on campus. Campus police shut down this private event when it became clear that they could not protect the students. Multiple students reported being… pic.twitter.com/FKidts1FvZ
— JCRC Bay Area (@SFJCRC) February 27, 2024
I’ve reached the point where I hope a second Trump Administration will propose Nuremberg Trials for campus anti-Semites, on whom who foolish college administrations bestowed tenured faculty positions.
Social media alerts me to the fact that today would be Sir Roger Scruton’s 80th birthday. Sadly, Sir Roger passed away from cancer in 2020. I got to know Sir Roger fairly well in his last decade, and had several splendid exhilarating dinners with him and his lovely wife Sophie over very expensive bottles of fine Bordeaux (among his 50-plus superb books was, after all, I Drink, Therefore I Am—highly recommended), conversing and sometimes having extensive but very friendly arguments. Roger didn’t like Leo Strauss, for example, and I cross-examined him closely on this subject one leisurely evening. Wish I had run a tape. Anyway, nearby is the last time I got to see Roger in person.
As it happened, I had been working on a long essay “The Greatest Living Conservative” at the time of his death. I lost heart after the premise became obsolete, and I shall someday try to revise and complete it. But here are a couple excerpts from the draft:
In the introduction to The Meaning of Conservatism, Scruton writes that “Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae, or aims. Its essence is inarticulate, and its expression, when compelled, skeptical.”
Why “inarticulate”? Because, has he explains elsewhere, the liberal has the easy job in the modern world. The liberal points at the imperfections and defects of existing institutions or the existing social order, strikes a pose of indignation, and huffs that surely something better is required, usually with the attitude that the something better is simply a matter of will. The conservative faces the tougher challenge of understanding and explaining the often subtle reasons why existing institutions, no matter how imperfect, work better than speculative alternatives.
This kind of conservatism is criticized, sometimes with good reason, as being stand-patism.
I’m reminded of what might be called Hallmark Greeting Card conservatism, though it traces back to Pascal: “The heart has its reasons, which reason cannot know.” The more modern version was offered by Wittgenstein: “There are things that can be known, but not said.”
Or, as Roger put it more succinctly elsewhere in his reflections on the profundity of the common law: “English law, I discovered, is the answer to Foucault.”
From that one sentence entire dissertations could follow.
Postscript—another fragment from my unfinished essay:
Roger Scruton has written more books than I have read, including, beyond philosophy, books on food and wine, art, beauty, sport, architecture, music, and sex; environmentalism, theology, a novel, and a memoir, and, very recently, even a self-help book, How to Be a Conservative. Although I’m tempted to say that if I haven’t figured out how to be a conservative by now, it’s probably too late for a book to help me. To paraphrase an old Woody Allen joke, if Roger was American instead of British, I fear he might have written The Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Conservative. (The original joke: Kant: The Categorical Imperative, and Six Ways to Make It Work for You!) (Though I did notice on Amazon that you can get a Roger Scruton iPhone case.)
Though if asked where to start with Roger’s body of work, I typically recommend his memoir Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life. Having myself reached the galloping years of middle age, I can say that if your regrets are only gentle, you’re doing pretty well. But his chapter “How I Became a Conservative” is a good introduction to the four-way intersection of Roger’s philosophical, political, cultural, and aesthetic thought.
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Tucker Carlson says the 2020 election was “100% stolen” from President Trump.
The spouse (wife or husband, whatever the fuck she/he may be) of Rachel Levine was the lawyer for E. Jean Carroll, the bitch who got a $83M award in her bullshit lawsuit against President Trump. Things like this make me think the bench on the enemy’s side is a smaller one.
Nikki Haley claims nominating Trump ‘is like suicide for our country.
Almost half of Nikki Haley’s South Carolina voters voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Total traitor.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gathered enough signatures to put him on ballot in Arizona and Georgia.
‘Morning Joe’ guests demonize white rural voters as a ‘threat to Democracy.’ To “Their Democracy.”
FOIA request sheds light on DIA’s records pertaining to ‘Havana Syndrome.’ It is tough to tell through the redactions, but it looks like the paper may indicate that they are finding lower levels of Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in afflicted individuals, as well as increased inflammatory markers like IL-6, and some sort of derangement in fibroblasts which is not specified, but is indicated could be used as a marker of exposure. It seems to indicate it thinks Havana may be a radiofrequency weapon tuned specifically to attack those specific biological factors, and postulates giving victims medications to counter the effects of those biological factors.
BChE seems to reduce nervous excitability, exacerbating some effects of anesthetics, as well as making people so tired they fail to breathe properly while sleeping. A deficit of it seems to be implicated by some in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, likely through some nerve deadening effect (maybe through detoxification of natural GI-produced intoxicants). Remember me saying, when the vibrations hit, you know you have to get up, but you are so strangely sleepy, you actually debate if it is worth the damage just to try to continue your sleep? If it is nuking BChE, and that produces an anesthesia-like effect, that could play a role. (While we are on the subject, I thought of something else interesting. Remember me saying that when the vibrations hit, it triggers a nasal-drip sensation just before you feel them hitting? In Ron Johnson, his Havana Syndrome hit damaged his inner ear, which connects to the sinuses, and drains into them through the eustachian tubes. If Havana is causing damage in that area, it could be like taking pepper up your nose, triggering the nerves in the sinuses, and setting off a nasal drip, But I digress.).
Interestingly, I had a buddy in martial arts who told stories of weird occurrences, one in a million things, which we would all laugh at and say, “Whoa, that was a close one!” or, “What are the chances of that?” Stuff like him and a buddy getting ass deep in stupid illegality in the middle of nowhere, and up rolls a cop out of the blue at just the wrong moment, who then puts then through the ringer on the spot, almost uncovering their crime, before inexplicably giving up and leaving at just the moment he was about to discover it. Looking back, clearly he was under surveillance and those things were arranged. At the time, it just seemed his life was one bizarrely improbable interlude after another.
His family lost his little sister as an infant to SIDS. Ten years later or so, the phone rang, his mom picked it up, and a little girl said, “I’m really happy up here in Heaven, mommy!” or something like that, and then the line went dead. As I recall, there was even something like she tried to star-69 it or something and there was no number, or something weird like that, which made everybody go silent. His little sister’s ghost calling to comfort mom. It was the only explanation, because ten years later, nobody outside of Mom and Dad would have had any idea it even happened. Now I am thinking his little sister died due to something they were beaming through his walls, maybe just to watch them in the house, surveillance knew they accidentally (hopefully it was an accident) killed the baby, and a decade later they had one of their kids call his mom to say that, maybe feeling guilty, or maybe trying to alter something she was doing, like investigating SIDS.
Interestingly as I think about it, there was an explosion of “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” back in the 90’s, or 2000’s, where there were some strange inflammatory signal derangements, as well as chronic tiredness. I seem to recall an interleukin in there somewhere, though I am foggy on it this many years later. I can remember reading, they found the immune systems deranged, but could find no infectious agent. I never remember hearing anything about that being solved. I told you, there have been a lot of people with little niggling health issues which were actually getting slowed down by Cabal, so they could never build up enough steam to get off the treadmill.
Woman diagnosed with 51 strokes after cell tower 900 feet from her home gets “upgraded,” plans to sue. Interesting in that it is radiofrequency radiation which is causing clots. If you add something like the clotshot, might that make it easier to induce a clot in someone with beamed rf? You think of Navalny. It was so perfectly timed to be an attack on Putin. And it is hypothesized the Havana weapon is a pulsed rf weapon.
This is the death being mentioned in the next one:
Gary Sinise reveals his wife Moira was battling stage 3 breast cancer just before their son was diagnosed with Chordoma. Terrible. Sinise developed a good-guy reputation due to his work with veterans, which would, in Cabal’s eyes, have made him a risk of entering politics, whether it ever crossed his mind or not. I will bet like Bill Binney, he has all sorts of shit beaming through his house at all hours watching him, and increasing the cancer risks of everyone in the house.
California could allow undocumented residents to qualify for new state backed home loan program.
Dems won’t deport, because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.
That simple incentive explains what seems to be insane behavior.
It has become so brazen that a gang of illegals can beat up police officers on camera in Times Square, get out of jail for free and *still* not get deported!
Instead, a partly federally funded NGO bought them free tickets to California …
Most people in America don’t know that the census is based on a simple headcount of people (including illegals) *not* just citizens.
This shifts political power and money to states and Congressional districts with the highest number of illegals.
What does the migrant crisis look like in practice? The population of a small midwestern town jumping by 10 percent in just two years. Police overwhelmed by domestic violence calls. Dead babies stuffed into cardboard boxes. An uptick in STDs in public schools. And of course: a crushing budget hole. @SaysSimonson profiles Whitewater, Wis., a progressive city mugged by the realities of illegal immigration.
Arizona Republicans are advancing a bill that would allow people to legally kill someone accused of attempting to trespass or actively trespassing on their property. Expected to be vetoed if it reaches the state’s Democratic governor, but would legalize the murder of undocumented immigrants, who often have to cross ranches that sit on the state’s border with Mexico. Based beyond all possible measure. Open season, no tags/no limits. An they are probably all domestic surveillance in their home countries, coming up here to follow us around. I would literally go there long before I would go to some game farm to shoot some grass-eating animal. I would bet those ranches would get real profitable as human game farms.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is proposing legislation to give free money to some homeless people under a new pilot program that could put $1,400 a month into the pockets of selected individuals. Who will select them?
Judicial Watch lawsuit demands FBI’s Ashli Babbitt files.
Google parent loses $70 billion in market value after ‘woke’ AI chatbot disaster.
Fired CNN primetime host Don Lemon will reportedly receive approximately $24.5 million as part of a separation deal with the news network nearly a year after his exit. The settlement equals the amount that Lemon, 57, would have been paid had he been allowed to stay on at CNN through the end of his contract three-and-a-half years from the time of his firing, the Wrap reported.
The only reason they pay that much is to try and lend them gravitas. If the salary was based upon supply and demand, it would be a normal salary, maybe even a little low, since there would be an oversupply of competent people willing to do the job for the fame, and presumably elevated mate status. But who would listen to an anchor who made a fraction of the salary the average American made? So they pay them millions, fete them at the elite parties, and do everything they can to make these degenerate mid-wits appear better than you.
The Pelosis’ bet on a Bay Area tech company could turn a staggering profit.
Royal Family in shock as Lady Gabriella Windsor’s financier husband Thomas Kingston dies aged 45. Clotshot, or is somebody McCaining the old guard?
Finland is building shooting ranges to boost citizen soldiers.
McConnell told Johnson to stop talking about the border and focus only on Ukraine funding.
Germany and Poland rule out sending troops to Ukraine as tensions with Russia escalate.
US ‘will not send troops to fight in Ukraine:’ White House.
Disc-shaped UFO is filmed by Ukrainian military in warzone: ‘What the f*** is this… maybe ram it?’
Second recall attempt launched against California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Supreme Court to consider whether bump stocks violate federal law.
Majority of Americans now back Trump-style border wall for first time in poll history.
Wisconsin 2024 Poll: Trump 45%, Biden 42%.
Trump wins Michigan in another landslide victory.
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The Michigan primary was held yesterday. President Biden defeated Uncommitted, Marianne Willison, and my cousin Dean Phillips on the Democrat side. Dean commented on Twitter for the benefit of his former friends in the party: “If you resent me for the audacity to challenge Joe Biden, at least you’ll appreciate how relatively strong I’m making him look among primary voters!”
President Trump handily defeated Nikki Haley on the Republican side. Here are the current results posted by RealClearPolitics. Note the differential in turnout.
One can infer that Biden and Trump will be their respective party’s presidential nominees, but the results seem slightly more surprising than expected. Axios managing editor/politics David Lindsey offers a brief take on the results that I found helpful:
There wasn’t much doubt that President Biden and former President Trump would romp to victories in the Michigan primaries Tuesday. But Biden’s win in particular revealed his vulnerability in a crucial swing state that could decide the presidency in November….Arab American and young voters — key to Biden winning Michigan in 2020 — turned out by the tens of thousands on Tuesday to vote … not for Biden, but for “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary.
• The protest vote, driven by anger over Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, had drawn more than 77,000 supporters with 70% of the ballots counted — several times more than organizers expected.
• That took some of the glow from a victory in which Biden got more than 80% of the vote, and confirmed that Biden has some serious persuading to do between now and November.
• “We need more than just nice words and hope. We need a permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, Layla Elabed, campaign manager for Listen to Michigan, told CNN. The group was behind the “uncommitted” vote effort.
Other takeaways from Michigan:
1, Biden has other problems, too.
• Another jolt for the president’s campaign Tuesday: A jarring enthusiasm gap between the Democratic and Republican primaries.
• Nearly 40% more people voted in the Republican primary than in the Democratic contest — despite the protest campaign that aided turnout on the Democratic side.
• Trump, who once again defeated former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, got more votes on the GOP side than the total number of votes cast in the Democratic primary between Biden, “uncommitted” and two other candidates.
2. It wasn’t all good news for Trump.
• That surge in GOP voters was driven in part by about 27% of Republicans voting for Haley, whose support continues to be not nearly enough to win the Republican nomination — but enough to show that a sizable chunk of the GOP may never be on board with Trump.
• Haley’s campaign might not last beyond Super Tuesday next week, when Trump is expected to score hundreds of delegates and put a virtual lock on the GOP nomination as 16 states hold contests.
• But Haley’s level of support suggests that many of her backers may stay home in November — or even vote for Biden, if Trump is on the ballot.
Whole thing here.
We seek to read the tea leaves in the results. As some sage has famously observed, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” George Eliot’s narrator in Middlemarch puts it this way: “Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.” To read the tea leaves we have to project ahead to next November. How will the candidates look at that time? Our crystal ball is cloudy. Both Biden and Trump are hobbled by weaknesses that will be magnified over the next eight months.
For Democrats this is the Weekend At Bernie’s election. It has become increasingly difficult to keep Biden upright during business hours. His brain is fried. His managers have to keep him under wraps. He is an embarrassment. Playing to his party’s activist base, he has left undone what should have been done and he has done that which should not have been done.
For Republicans this is the “In the Jailhouse Now” election. The electoral impact of the Democrat lawfare on Trump are particularly difficult to predict, but they can’t be good for him. They impose their own limitations on Trump in terms of time, money, and who knows what else. That’s what it’s all about. Anyone can see storm clouds ahead.
I absolutely hate the clichéd last resort of scoundrel pundits as the election approaches. You know, “it depends on turnout.” With respect to what should be the insuperable problems each candidate confronts, let’s just say “it depends on how it turns out.” They can’t both lose. One of them is going to prevail.
Attorney Terrence Bradley testified yesterday in the hearing on the possible disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Nathan Wade in the “conspiracy so immense” charges against President Trump et al. pending in Georgia state court. Bradley is Wade’s former law partner and lawyer in his divorce proceeding. He knows when the Willis/Wade romance began because Wade told him.
Indeed, as Techno Fog notes, Bradley has previously stated in text messages to Ashleigh Merchant (attorney for defendant Michael Roman) that: (1) the relationship between Willis and Wade started before he was appointed special prosecutor, (2) the relationship started while they were both magistrate judges, and (3) the motion to disqualify Willis, which alleged the start date of the relationship, was accurate.
However, that’s not the way it turned out on the witness stand. After long pauses, Bradley disavowed his previous statements. He couldn’t recall. He was speculating. As in the old Jack Benny joke, he was thinking about it. He knew nothing.
Mr. Fog offers pierces the fog with this clear summary of Bradley’s testimony: “[Bradley] speculated about the start of the relationship, only had one meeting with Wade about the relationship, and has no personal knowledge as to when the relationship started. All of that, of course, was contradicted by his prior representations to Ms. Merchant.”
It made for painful viewing. Everyone in the room knew that Bradley was lying. Which means that Willis and Wade had lied in their testimony, which was almost as obvious. Below is an excerpt of Bradley’s testimony that ran in full over two hours. As I say, it makes for painful viewing.
CBS has fired Catherine Herridge, an investigative reporter who was “pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal, and the Hunter Biden laptop.” After dumping Herridge, “CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers and records, including information on privileged sources.” These files, “likely contain confidential material from both her stints at Fox and CBS” and are now “presumptively the property of CBS News.”
Joseph Klein traces these issues to Dan Rather, but they really go back to CBS “anchorman” Walter Cronkite, once billed as the most trusted man in America. As Douglas Brinkley showed in Cronkite, many of Cronkite’s dispatches during WWII “were propagandistic.” Cronkite coached John F. Kennedy about “getting across” on television, and long before Watergate, Cronkite “orchestrated the secret tape recording of the Republicans’ credentials committee meeting.” This was conducted, “under the shady rationale that the covert act was good for democracy.” According to Brinkley, “it was a real black eye to Cronkite,” who said of Jimmy Carter, “He’s got one of the best brains of anybody I’ve known.”
Cronkite wrapped his regular broadcast with “that’s the way it is,” but as one wag put it, when you watched Walter Cronkite you not only saw CBS, you heard it too. That was also true of Dan Rather, who in 1986 made news his own self. A man confronted Rather demanding “Kenneth what’s the frequency?” and duly beat the fertilizer out of the CBS anchorman. The network put it off to mistaken identity, which could be true in one sense.
Government and establishment media are Siamese twins, joined at the mouth. As Catherine Herridge confirms, cross the government and you’re a goner, with your documents confiscated. Consider also former CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, author of Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington, published in 2014.
Readers learn that CBS News president David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, advisor to Obama and up to his eyeballs in the Benghazi scandal. Joel Molinoff came to CBS after serving the Obama White House as director of the Intelligence Advisory Board, and before that worked for the NSA. CBS also hired Mike Morell, formerly a deputy director of the CIA. So as Attkisson explained, CBS stories on Benghazi, Obamacare and so forth might as well have been written by the White House.
Attkisson’s computer was infiltrated with spyware proprietary to government agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and NSA. The intruders planted classified information, adding “the possible threat of criminal prosecution.” Ten years later, those who expose the scandals of the Biden Junta can be sure that Big Brother is watching.
The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s biggest art shows. The show has a national focus:
Held since 1895 and considered the world’s top art event, the Venice Biennale, which starts in April, gives nations the chance to show off their best artists at national pavilions.
That is the hook for pro-mass muder artists to try to boot Israel out:
A petition to kick Israel out of the Venice Biennale art show because of the war in Gaza signed by more than 16,000 artists, curators and academics has been angrily dismissed as “shameful” by Italy’s arts minister.
More to come from the culture minister, a Giorgia Meloni appointee.
Signed by art world luminaries including Jesse Darling, the British Turner prize winner, the petition claims: “The Biennale is platforming a genocidal apartheid state. No death in Venice. No business as usual.”
“Platforming” is a sinister term that generally means failing to discriminate against. Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano pushed back:
The petition drew a furious response from Gennaro Sangiuliano, the Italian culture minister, who lambasted what he described as “a diktat from those who think they are the custodians of the truth, and who with anger and hatred try to threaten the freedom of thought and creative expression in a democratic nation like Italy”. He added: “The Biennale will always be a space of freedom, meeting and dialogue rather than censorship and intolerance. Culture is a bridge between people and nations, not a wall of division.”
Israel is to be represented at the Biennale by Ruth Patir, who is plenty far left by any normal standard. But that doesn’t cut any ice with anti-Semites.
This flap is a reminder that art isn’t what it used to be. As noted above, Britain’s Jesse Darling is apparently the most notable of the artists trying to ban Israel. Here he is with some of his art works:
Which prompts the question: is there a connection between bad art and bad politics? Mr. Darling is, on this question, a data point.
I keep seeing Trump skeptics and their media svengalis say that while Nikki Haley is not coming close to beating Trump in any primary battle, she is getting sufficient support to conclude that there is a critical mass of Republicans who don’t like Trump and may not turn out for him in November, and boy is he in big trouble because of this.
Don’t buy it.
I note that back in 1980, the Michigan primary was held May 20, and even though Ronald Reagan was well on his way to securing the Republican nomination, George H.W. Bush still pulled off an upset in that primary, beating Reagan by 150,000 votes. (Bush also beat Reagan in the Pennsylvania primary in April.) Michigan looks to be the kind of state that favors moderate Republicans.
When all the primaries were over, Reagan had received a cumulative 7.6 million votes, while Bush had received 3.1 million, with John Anderson a distant third with 1.5 million. But add Bush and Anderson’s totals together with the also-rans (Dole, Baker, Connally, Phil Crane, etc) and you conclude that Reagan’s majority was less than a landslide (7.6 million to 4.6 million for the rest of the field—certainly a much smaller margin than Trump’s margin in the current contest. Despite the massive doubts about Reagan—his age, his “controversial” opinions, etc—he walked away with a landslide.
But, you hear, Trump is essentially running as an incumbent, and should have incumbent-level margins. This is an unimpressive argument, especially when you allow for the circumstance, not seen since 1912, of a former president coming back to challenge for the nomination. To the contrary, Trump is running far ahead of his totals from the 2016 contest. He’s gotten stronger, not weaker, since 2016.
P.S. For trivia buffs, Harold Stassen got 25,000 votes in the 1980 GOP primaries.
Yesterday we noted Trump’s rising strength among certain voting groups. How about by profession instead of ethnicity, gender, and the other usual things? Like professions perhaps? Everyone likes to say the political divide in America is between red states and blue states. But it looks like the division is more white versus blue when it comes to who is supporting Trump’s campaign—that is, white collar professionals against blue collar workers.
Mitch McConnell announced today that he will resign his Senate leadership position in November, while remaining in office through his current term. I have generally thought well of McConnell and believe that on the whole, he has done a good job of leading his caucus. But it is notable that, as far as I know, not a single Republican has expressed regret at his decision.
It was time to go, if only because the geriatric era in Washington needs to end. While nowhere near as debilitated as Joe Biden, McConnell’s health issues in recent years have been visible. It is highly desirable for Republicans not to be seen, like the Democrats, as a party of octogenarians.
What comes next? The Wall Street Journal speculates:
Potential successors, including Sens. John Thune (R., S.D.), John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas), have been quietly positioning themselves for the day McConnell steps down. Other possible candidates include GOP Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
Most of those senators are perceived as more conservative than McConnell, although that may be largely because McConnell has been in a leadership position for so long. As the leader of a caucus, responsible for negotiating agreements that can actually pass, you can’t be a firebrand backbencher–although, to their credit, that description doesn’t fit those the Journal identifies as candidates, either.
Finally, let’s hope Republicans do it the old-fashioned way by agreeing on a new leader behind closed doors, and then anointing him with a show of unanimity. A fiasco like the one we endured in the House of Representatives is to be avoided.
Californians are ramping up another recall for Gov. Gavin Newsom, a good thing for America even if it fails, as in 2021. A new recall in California will divert attention from races across the country, force Democrats to spend millions. The best outcome would be a successful recall of Newsom his own self.
The coiffed Democrat is a construct of the Brown, Newsom, Pelosi and Getty families, a belch from old money San Francisco. Like Joe Biden, whose administration he admires, Newsom is a semi-literate who shows little evidence of reading books. To be fair, the San Francisco Democrat probably outdoes Biden in his affection for China’s one-party Communist dictatorship, and current PRC boss Xi Jinping. For his recent visit, Newsom even cleaned up filthy San Francisco.
Like recurring governor Jerry Brown, who appointed Newsom’s father to judgeships, Gavin Newsom has never said anything that would make a sub-moron’s mouth twitch. He walks around posing, as he intones party platitudes in a scratchy pirate voice. Gov. Newsom inflicted a draconian Covid regime but now wants the people to worship him. This was evident in 2021 but Gavin Newsom prevailed.
The current recall might prompt an independent audit to see how many votes came from false-documented illegals registered to vote when they got their driver’s license. Squads of politiqueros coerce the illegals to vote “a certain way,” code for Democrats. With promises of “free” health care, welfare benefits, protection from deportation and so forth, Newsom shapes up as the politiquero-in-chief.
The new recall provides an opportunity to expose this massive fraud, which could inspire other states to true the vote. If only legitimate citizens and legal immigrants voted, as the law requires, the result could be quite different from 2020 and 2021.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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A very interesting article which lays out a more cohesive model of a covert intelligence network, with Les Wexner’s involvement (reportedly a member of the Israeli MEGA network), apparently as an intelligence frontman for a CIA front company from Iran Contra. Then there is the Clinton Foundation’s association with Epstein as some kind of intelligence money laundering op/slush fund, Epstein’s pedophile blackmail ops, his connections with the Rothschilds, and which contains this summation:
Far from being the work of a single intelligence agency or a single country, the power structure revealed by this network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that transcends nationality and is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control. Existing for decades and willing to use any means necessary to cover its tracks, this criminal racket has become so integrated into the levers of power, in the United States and well beyond, that it is truly too big to fail.
This thing is immensely advanced. I am sure the operators at the top are first rate and maintain strict tradecraft, to the point they would be untouchable. We cannot even seem to find names, let alone get a flowsheet of the command structure, or even how the intel agencies like Mossad and CIA relate to each other. Its technology is space age, probably to a degree even I have not yet fully comprehended, even as some of the most impressive has been brought to bear on me. And yet I think it has one big weakness – the seemingly endless raft of 85 IQ gollums it has recruited within the civilian populace, and embedded in communities, as if regular patriotic Americans across the nation, which every day are stumbling around fucking up their tradecraft, exposing the operation, and making front page news across the country. It needs them to extend its reach down to the grass roots granularly, and yet they are the weakest part of the operation. I do not see a lot of warriors or triggerpullers among them either, nor do I think their numbers are that noteworthy.
If this thing is to be destroyed (and it absolutely must), it must first lose its grassroots control, which will mean excising its civilian informant network from our society. Without that, its technology will be useless, as the intel machine will lose both its ability to see what is happening at the grassroots as well as its ability to apply technologies such as The Beam. The Beam will become nothing more than a beautiful shiny toy in a warehouse somewhere, since the upper levels simply do not have the numbers to deploy it neighborhood by neighborhood. If this thing is to be defeated, IMO, the grassroots network will need to be exposed, and the rabbits of society will need to recognize for a time they will need to step aside and allow the wolves of real America to do whatever is necessary to rid the nation of this plague. And then the wolves will need to realize how completely they must do a job which even for wolves will be, in places, unpleasant, but wholly necessary. The alternative will be a dystopia which will make America today, overrun by third world migrants, with criminals elevated to above the law, and the economy teetering toward collapse, look like a shining city on a hill.
Of course it will all begin with the exposure of the domestic intelligence surveillance machine, which honestly, we here are at the forefront of in a way I do not see anyone else doing. Without that step being completed, America as a vision of freedom, and loyal commitment of Americans to each other, together, in pursuit of the good the beautiful and the true, will be lost.
The fork in the road approaches.
Trump plans to ‘reform’ CIA and FBI.
Trump vows major changes to US intelligence if re-elected.
Fulton county DA Fani Willis may be facing perjury charges.
Trump lawyers say he’s prepared to post $100 million bond while appealing staggering fraud penalty.
3rd pipe bomb camera deliberately turned away from DNC headquarters on J6. Increasingly it is becoming apparent the government is illegitimate, and merely a foreign-run intelligence psyop devoted to pursuing that which is in the worst interests of the populace.
Mitch McConnell to step down as Republican Senate leader in November.
Dem Marianne Williamson says she’s “unsuspending” her presidential campaign.
According to a Judicial Watch source, Joe Biden mistreats his dogs, punching and kicking them.
Tucker on the destruction of our military by the corrupt leaders of it.
Police identify man shot dead while breaking into Masonic Lodge in St. Louis. Seems like they have somebody living in there 24/7 and they don’t fuck around, he just smoked the guy. Probably a more interesting story than we will hear.
Sheriff elected to protect Laken Riley’s county campaigned on not cooperating with ICE.
Dams are bursting all over the country.
America is only 4% of Earth’s population. If only 1% of the rest of Earth moves here, that would crush all essential services.
I am ringing the alarm bell, because the flood of illegals is crushing the country!
Somali illegal aliens tell Laura Loomer they want to be just like Ilhan Omar and want Joe Biden to win reelection. It increasingly looks like there is no more toxic noxious destructive force in this nation than its own intelligence community.
Illegals in Seattle shut down city council meeting with demands for more free housing.
Post-Covid spike in heart disease puzzles scientists.
Pope Francis taken to hospital after suffering from a persistent flu.
Moldovan breakaway region appeals to Russia as a spat with the pro-Western government worsens.
A company associated with US Intel created a tool — originally named Locomotive but later rebranded as VISR (Virtual Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) – to tap into geolocation data used by digital advertisers, which was supposedly able to snoop on people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, thus gaining information on his whereabouts. Putin does appear to be a genuine enemy of Globohomo.
Zelensky claims EU only delivered 30 per cent of promised artillery shells.
Ukraine’s frontline situation ‘catastrophic’ – Moscow.
Spread r/K Theory, because there is always a weak link somewhere
The comedian Richard Lewis died this past Tuesday evening of a heart attack at the age of 76. The New York Times has posted a good obituary by Clay Risen here. Variety’s obituary is posted here. Richard told the story of his personal struggles in The Other Great Depression: How I’m overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and dysfunctions and finding a spiritual (sometimes) life.
Lewis had the gift of making people laugh. I thought he was incredibly funny. You may have seen him over the past 20-plus years on any of the 41 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which he appeared. A fan has posted a 90-minute YouTube video of A Complete Timeline of Richard Lewis and Larry David Banter & Arguments (seasons 1-11).
Curb creator Larry David provided a statement to Variety on Richard’s death: “Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he’s been like a brother to me. He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him.”
I met Richard when he performed at the 2015 Temple of Aaron fundraiser in St. Paul. The professional photographer Matthew Witchell was on hand. Richard greeted us warmly and posed for photographs with those of us lucky enough to attend. At the right is the photo of my wife and me with Richard. You may deduce from the photo that we were happy to meet him.
No one enjoyed the show that night more than I did. Richard performed his routine on the pulpit. Whenever he made an irreverent joke or observation, he would turn around and face the ark. Raising his hands and looking upward, he sought forgiveness and amplified the humor of his jokes.
Richard found love relatively late in life. He fell in love with Joyce Lapinsky of St. Paul’s Highland Park Senior High School, class of ’69. I thought Joyce was the most beautiful girl in a class that was full of beautiful women (and I only knew the ones who were friends of my guy friends).
After seven years of dating, Richard took Joyce to meet his therapist. He recounted his lack of confidence in his ability to select a mate. He also recalled complaining about having “some minor communication” problems with Joyce and that that was the reason why they couldn’t move forward in the relationship.
The therapist rendered judgment. “In a voice that was almost satanic — it was so dark and loud that it seemed to echo through the neighborhood — my therapist screamed at me, ‘This is as good as it gets!,'” Lewis said. “It shook me to my core.” I take that from ET’s account of Richard and Joyce’s relationship yesterday in connection with Richard’s death.
For his performance at Temple of Aaron Richard worked in a variety of funny observations about his father-in-law, Chuck Lapinsky, of blessed memory. The material sounded like it could have been part of his regular stand-up act, but it must have been good for that one night only.
JTA has posted an obituary here. JNS recounts his devotion to Jewish causes and quotes Richard talking about his father, William Lewis. He called his father a “god of kosher catering” in New York and New Jersey. “My father was so well known as a caterer and so booked up that he was actually booked on the weekend of my bar mitzvah so I had to have my party on the Tuesday,” he told JTA.
Last night I met two friends for dinner at the French Meadow restaurant in St. Paul to discuss Book III of Plato’s Republic. When we sat down I mentioned Richard’s death and pulled up the photo of Sally and me at Temple of Aaron to show them on my phone. When the owner later came over to our table to say hello, the first thing she said was that she had sad news — Richard Lewis had died. She looked and sounded deeply grieved as she talked about her friendship with Richard through Joyce. As far as I can tell, everyone who knew him liked him. RIP.
Liberals really are extremely fragile people. This helps explain why they need “safe spaces” with cuddly stuffed animals, grief counselors, and warning labels against “microaggressions.”
The latest evidence is a completely unironic and totally un-self-aware piece in the New York Times about the anguish of liberal law professors having to teach constitutional law at a time when the Supreme Court leans right. It’s so upsetting that some professors are moved to tears and can’t conceive of continuing. The New York Times thinks this is actually “a crisis.”
Seriously, you can’t make this up:
Rebecca Brown, at the University of Southern California, has been teaching constitutional law for 35 years. “While I was working on my syllabus for this course, I literally burst into tears,” she told me. “I couldn’t figure out how any of this makes sense. Why do we respect it? Why do we do any of it? I’m feeling very depleted by having to teach it.”
I’m skeptical that she “literally” burst into tears, though I expect she literally misused the word “literally” here. In any case, shouldn’t the phrase, “I couldn’t figure out how any of this makes sense?” have been applied to Wickard v. Filburn ever since it was put to paper in 1942? And yet somehow the few conservative law professors that existed behind enemy lines in law schools managed for 80 years now to explain Wickard (and dozens of other ridiculous liberal Court rulings) with a straight face and without bursting into tears, or having anxiety attacks.
The Times inadvertently gives away what’s really going on here (beyond general liberal fragility):
“The people who taught us were all Warren court people,” said Pam Karlan, a constitutional and voting-rights expert at Stanford law school, referring to Chief Justice Earl Warren, who through the 1950s and 1960s led a court of both Democratic and Republican appointees to expand civil rights, equalize political representation and liberalize the criminal justice system. “They’d clerked on that court. They valorized it. There was this notion that judges were these heroes who would save us all. Our students do not have that view.”
Ah yes, the glory days of the Warren Court, which invented new “rights” left and right (actually just “left”). There’s never been an era with more result-oriented jurisprudence that the Warren Court, but it delivered results liberals liked. But now that the Court is delivering rulings liberals don’t like, it’s the end of the world. Or at least their world.
It gets worse:
“We’re witnessing a transformation in the New Deal consensus,” said Mark Graber, a leading constitutional scholar and Regents professor at the University of Maryland.
Oh please, don’t get my hopes up like this!
There’s a serious irony here. Back in the late 1990s, after the Supreme Court had once again botched a significant case in Romer v. Evans, overruling a precedent on sodomy laws from just 1986, the conservative journal First Things published as symposium on “The End of Democracy” that called into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court in the wake of its serially bad decisions in Casey v. Planned Parenthood and Romer v. Evans, among others. It caused a huge ruckus on the right, and several leading conservatives attacked First Things and resigned from its editorial board, including Gertrude Himmelfarb, Peter Berger, and Walter Berns. This “smash the Court” enthusiasm didn’t gain much acceptance, and quickly passed from the scene.
I see no such intramural argument on the left about the Supreme Court. Now it is the left that is bent on delegitimizing the Supreme Court. It is all toddler temper tantrums and hair-on-fire freakouts that some jurists, many with Ivy League law degrees, have a different opinion from theirs.
Prediction: I know that a lot of liberal law professors can’t stand it that Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and J.D. Vance all went to Harvard or Yale for law school. There is likely before long to be an effort to screen out conservative applicants to elite laws schools so that they don’t have an Ivy League credential.
AEI’s Danielle Pletka is not a fan of President Trump, so I take her pulling on the fire alarm about President Biden at face value:
What we hear from members of congress is … terrible. Democrats too. Those who talk the president tell of a man who can’t go beyond the words on the page in front of him. He can’t converse on matters of substance. He can deliver talking points, but can’t negotiate with any seriousness. That’s one of the reasons — though far from the only one — why Congress can’t move forward on an emergency supplemental. Republicans are in complete turmoil, but talks with the White House are not helping.
Then there are the foreign leaders. Among themselves — and an open secret in DC’s embassies — they talk about a president who is confused, unsure of the subject matter under discussion, distant, disconnected, and all too often incomprehensible.
This is the man with the nuclear football. The man who commands our armed forces. It doesn’t matter whether you like the Democrats or hate them. The office is critically important, and it is almost vacant.
See Pletka’s What the Hell Is Going On? post “What we hear about Biden’s decline.”
As we have noted repeatedly here, people are voting with the feet and moving from high crime/high tax blue states to low tax/low crime red states in increasing numbers. Alongside tax rates as a factor in higher economic growth in red states is that red states are more likely to be right-to-work states than blue states. This is not universally true; heavily unionized Michigan was a right-to-work for a decade, though that ended last week, thanks to Governor Wretched Whitmer’s fealty to unions. Anyway, here’s the data on the rates of job growth in right-to-work versus compulsory union states:
The Claremont Review of Books has published Jeffrey Anderson’s terrific review/essay “Covid catastrophes.” I think “Faucism in one county” might capture the spirit of Anderson’s take on the tyranny imposed on us by the authorities under the Covid regime. Anderson’s essay makes me angry about it all over again, but the point is to prevent a recurrence.
While we’re angry all over again, we should check out former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade’s update of the investigation of Covid’s origin. The virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, of course, but Wade has the latest on the so-called DEFUSE protocol that seems to have led to the work in Wuhan:
[W]hereas most viruses require repeated tries to switch from an animal host to people, SARS-CoV-2 infected humans out of the box, as if it had been preadapted while growing in the humanized mice called for in the DEFUSE protocol.
The authors of the proposal were a team led by Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York, Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina. Although Mr. Baric is the leading expert on the technology, Mr. Daszak intended for much or most of the work to be done in Ms. Shi’s laboratory, despite giving a different impression to Darpa. He writes in the recently discovered documents that “I do want to stress the US side of this proposal so that DARPA are comfortable with our team. Once we get the funds, we can then allocate who does what exact work, and I believe that a lot of these assays can be done in Wuhan.”
Ms. Shi did most of her work with SARS-type viruses in the minimal-containment condition known as BSL2, whereas Mr. Baric, who regarded the viruses as seriously dangerous, worked in a more secure lab known as BSL3. Mr. Daszak noted that the lower-security labs would save money: “The BSL-2 nature of work on SARSr-CoVs makes our system highly cost-effective relative to other bat-virus systems.” Mr. Baric replied to this comment that the viruses might be grown under BSL2 safety conditions in China, but “US researchers will likely freak out.”
Mr. Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance last year asserted that the DEFUSE project was never implemented: “The proposal was not funded and the work was never done, therefore it cannot have played a role in the origin of COVID-19.” But science is a competitive business. After Darpa turned down the DEFUSE proposal in February 2019, the researchers in Wuhan might have secured Chinese government funding and gone ahead by themselves. Viruses made according to the DEFUSE protocol could have been available by the time Covid-19 broke out, sometime between August and November 2019. This would account for the otherwise unexplained timing of the pandemic along with its place of origin.
Here Wade inserts parenthetically: “Mr. Daszak, Mr. Baric and Ms. Shi didn’t respond to emails seeking comment. Chinese officials have demanded that the U.S. ‘stop defaming China’ by raising the possibility of a lab leak.” Wade then concludes:
One piece is missing from the puzzle—the identity of the parent viruses from which SARS-CoV-2 was derived. The Chinese authorities have rigorously suppressed all information about the viruses being kept in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But the documentary and scientific evidence already assembled seems sufficient to understand the genesis of the pandemic that killed millions.
The refusal of the Chinese authorities to cooperate in the relevant investigation has seemed to me a most potent piece of circumstantial evidence from the get-go.
Ammo Grrrll is not CLOTHING THE EMPEROR. She writes:
In the middle of an unhinged hateful rant about Donald J. Trump AND especially about us, his “cult-like” wretched, stupid followers, Bob Costas let slip on the CNN ‘s Smerconish show that Biden is too old and needs to step aside to avoid losing to President Trump. He actually invoked the Emperor and His New Clothes image in reference to Biden. He seems to feel pretty strongly that President Trump is going to beat the Depends off Biden in November and that is unthinkable enough for Costas to advise Biden to step aside.
The dam has broken. For a long time that dam had many fingers plugging up all obvious holes and calling them “misinformation.” Conservatives who believe “misinformation” are only a stone’s throw from “Deplorability” on their inevitable path to “Insurrection!” There was a solid phalanx of deniers shrieking daily that Biden was fit as a fiddle.
Joe, they swore, was a fine speaker, but sadly cursed with a whimsical stutter that only appeared at certain times. That this was a lie was obvious to all but the lying liars who lie day in and day out for a very lucrative living. Good grief, NO, Joe Biden does not have a “stutter.” I have known several people with stutters and that is not how stuttering manifests itself.
The problem is that Biden’s brain doesn’t work anymore and he cannot reliably finish slurring all the way to the end of a WORD, let alone express a coherent thought. Heck, he cannot even READ a thought. He stops. He freezes. He looks like his last working synapse just burned out in his head. And then he mumbles, “Well, never mind.” Or, “You know the thing.” On at least two occasions that I am aware of, he could not remember Obama’s name and just called him “my boss.” He yells; he whispers; he sees dead people in the audience. He cannot get a quote right that is WRITTEN OUT in front of him.
His advanced dementia is glaringly, nakedly, apparent. But he comes out, shot up with who knows what, and APPEARS to be clothed. And quite nicely at that. Fig leaves have not been in fashion as strategically-placed nudity covers since The Garden of Eden. And so when he’s not skinny dipping in front of the female Secret Service agents, Joe wears fine suits of superior cut. But in reality he is a shambling updated version of a Greek Minotaur with the clothes of a sentient being and the head of a lost, vacant, angry old gasbag. The world knows it and has acted accordingly.
The lying liars who lie rally round and you can almost hear the strategy meetings: “Okay, the public isn’t buying the stutter deal, guys – and I’m sorry if I misgendered anybody – but, if we allow any criticism through our algorithms, let’s just say it’s his age. You know Trump/Hitler is no spring chicken, either. Yeah, AGE is the word to repeat, not, God forbid, SENILITY.”
And, just like that, every media outlet even slightly left of center starts repeating “age” like an old 33 vinyl record with a bad needle. The late and much-lamented Rush Limbaugh used to play mash-ups of the news-heads all repeating verbatim whatever the powers-that-be had told them to say. Because most of the left is childish, irresponsible, and stupid, it believes that since children like to hear “Good Night, Moon” every night, grown adults will also enjoy hearing the same word repeated until they mute the television, or, alternatively, shoot it.
But, see, AGE isn’t entirely accurate either! It’s NOT his damn age! Sure, he can’t ride a bike, negotiate a stairway, or find his way off any stage. Sure, he “trips” over a sandbag that some Christian Nationalist probably put in his way. So age has SOMETHING to do with it, but it’s not the whole story. He’s not just old; he’s corrupt, mean, creepy, and demented.
Novelist Herman Wouk was still turning out novels when he was past 100. My mother was cogent and still witty at 94. although I would have recommended her for no higher an office than Vice President. As Border Czar she would have kicked butt and taken names. And I might have been tapped to be the shortest high-fashion runway model in history. Alas, this was not to be.
Somebody old who was still productive? Does the name Benjamin Franklin ring a bell? Born in 1706, Ben held numerous posts such as College President of what eventually became the University of Pennsylvania; also, Deputy Postmaster in 1753. But he was a relatively young man then. His inventions are important and numerous.
What stands out is his stint as Ambassador to France, of great importance during the Revolutionary War, which term ended in 1785 when he was 79 years old. When French Foreign Minister Vergennes said to Thomas Jefferson, “It is you who replace Dr. Franklin?,” Jefferson replied, “No one can replace him, Sir; I am only his successor.”
See, here’s the thing about OUR guy. You know the one. We KNOW he isn’t perfect and we don’t pretend that he is. We aren’t planning to marry him. Over half a century ago at a family dinner at my late in-laws’ home, my mother-in-law opined that she would not vote for a man who had divorced his wife. And my father-in-law said: “You recently returned from Israel. Did you check to make sure your pilot and co-pilot were not divorced?!” And, good-natured little lady that she was, Minna laughed at herself and said, “Oh, Lyosh, you are right.”
Right now the Ship of State is racing headlong for an iceberg and is most of the way there. Our fellow citizens can see that we desperately need a new pilot, or captain, and it’s so bad that it’s beginning to dawn even on a few brave African-Americans and Jewish Democrats – as well as the traditional conservatives — that some bold new thing needs to be done. And urgently.
Perhaps I can contribute a marching song for our epic battle ahead. A songwriter named George F. Root wrote around 35 Civil War songs (per research on the Office of the Historian Website) which were hugely popular. I was shocked to learn this. My own dear departed mother taught me the following song before I was school-age, probably around 1950. That’s a fur piece from the Civil War, so Mr. Root’s work definitely resonated through the ages.
One of his most famous songs was for the Union prisoners held in unspeakable conditions. I’m sure that the prisons for the Confederate POWs were bad too, but Andersonville was notorious. And he wrote a song of inspiration to keep the Union POWs’ spirits up.
When I became aware there even was such a horrible thing called war, I thought only of World War I. I had seen pictures of my Grandpa in his uniform. And I was raised knowing that a Marine uncle I had never met had been killed in World War II. But the Civil War was not on my radar except for that time when I was in my stroller and I told Mama I wanted “fweedom.” No, wait, that was somebody else. I probably said I wanted a cookie. Anyway, I knew this Root song and sang it walking home from school. It had a great cadence.
Tramp, tramp, tramp
The boys are marching.
Cheer up, comrades, they will come.
And beneath the starry flag,
We shall breathe the air again
Of the free land in our own
Beloved homes.
In homage to Mr. Root let me offer this song to inspire not only the political prisoners from January 6, who have been held without trial for years, but also for all our suffering citizens imprisoned by the Orwellian cultural and political horrors we see every day:
Trump, Trump Trump
We will be voting!
Cheer up, comrades, we will win!
At our peril we bestow
A fourth term on Barry O.
If we ever want our country free again.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
I always thought it strange P. Diddy was supposedly worth billions. He didn’t strike me as intelligent enough to compete with the real geniuses and sharks of business. Interestingly, it now looks like he was set up like Epstein for the rap industry. You get invited to a P.Diddy party, at P. Diddy’s house (which was wired in every single room with cameras and microphones by somebody), Diddy comes over, big smile, hands you a drink, you think your rap music contract ship may have finally come in, you take a sip and next thing you are waking up naked in a bed with a sore asshole, and there is video of Diddy and a bunch of gay Jewish music producers running a train on you the night before. Like with Epstein, there are a lot of Jewish players, rumors of Mossad and CIA, underaged minors, both male and female, and a lot of big names in politics and entertainment attending the parties. Now you get to “be a star” while they get all your money, and you never get to say anything about how the world really works. Also, as the guy points out, there have always been rumors rap was a CIA MK Ultra creation to foster a culture of criminality and drug dealing among black youth, so they would never work hard in the traditional sense and pursue paths which would lead to real success in the world. Looks like almost all the major stars are going to be outed as having videos too.
That is the wonderful thing about America, anon. If you work hard, and do it the honest way, all of that will be rewarded, and you can be anything you want to be, even one of those successful people up there who made through hard work and dedication. It is looking increasingly like there was almost no honest success. Just some intel op or other getting compromat on people, and then installing them in an acting role of somebody who succeeded. And behind it all was the surveillance, identifying the high flyers as little children, putting them in GATE to get all the intelligence they could on them, even down to the range of their peripheral vision and the tonal range of their hearing, and then launching life-long operations to suppress them so they could never produce honest success, and compete with the intel op-installed pretenders. It make sense, when you see the surveillance. There has, for a long, long time, a massive secret, which could start the blood flowing overnight like a tsunami, and they could not risk even one honest man becomming a “star” and possibly, one day revealing that secret.
Typically politically incorrect 4Chan summary here of a dude giving a run down on Twitter here. Twitter video is worthwhile to get a flavor of it all.
Again, a lot of stuff Cabal would want kept hidden is all coming to light.
From Shannon Sharpe’s podcast a month or two ago, before any of this was on the radar, which makes me think all of this is scripted, and this was the foreshadowing:
FBI agents caught Joe Biden illegally hoarding a dozen+ notebooks containing classified info, inclg:
— “US intelligence sources, methods & capabilities”
— “Activities of foreign intelligence services”
— “US military programs & capabilities”
— “Foreign military programs”
Trump gets partial relief in effort to stop enforcement of huge civil-fraud judgment pending appeal.
Death of shipping CEO Angela Chao under ‘criminal investigation,’ Texas sheriff says.
Flashback – Steve Bannon coached Jeffrey Epstein to appear ‘friendly’ and ‘sympathetic’ on TV. Bannon claims he was not coaching Epstein, but rather was doing a documentary on how bad Epstein was. Bannon is clearly some sort of intel operator, and given the ever-presence of Cabal it would not be surprising if he and Epstein shared a command structure, even if their jobs were very different. It is often all a big club up there. Especially when you factor in that he was the guy in position when they took out Breitbart. I do not think they’d have offed Breitbart unless the guy poised to take over was one of their’s. And when I look at the strange health decline of Breitbart which led up to his passing, I have zero doubt you are looking at The Beam.
More Jeffrey Epstein records to be released – details of his Palm Beach sex trafficking conviction.
White House Physician: Biden suffers from neuropathy in feet, stiffened gait. The Chinese name for this translates to “Heavy Head, Light Feet.” I believe it was a liver disharmony but I could be wrong. Either way, if you or a loved one ever have the condition, seek out a TCM doc, they have an understanding, of some sort, of exactly what the root cause is, and can produce an efficacious treatment protocol. Here with modern medicine, Biden is pretty much fucked, as the attitude is, “Well, we have no idea where that came from. eat more vegetables, and try to walk more.”
Texas RINO John Cornyn declares his candidacy to succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP Senate Leader.
RFK Jr. backs Rand Paul as next Senate Republican leader.
Joe Biden’s White House begins referring to Illegal Aliens as ‘newcomers to the US.’
Fmr. Biden Border Patrol chief: ‘I never once met’ with Biden or Harris in nearly 2 years.
MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions. The conspiracy does not want a free society. They want the criminal conspiracy they serve to have total power over you. They are in every sense of the words, enemies of all real Americans, and enemies of the very country.
Home of top Eric Adams aide raided by FBI: sources.
Outrage in Houston after Police audit reveals 260,000 crimes not investigated.
Bradley Cooper didn’t feel connected to daughter Lea at first, didn’t understand when fellow parents would say, “I would die in a second for my kid.” “That’s my experience. Fascinated by it. Loved taking care of it. But would I die if someone came in with a gun?” r-selection, low parental investment. And it is so innate he feels he can explain that a guy with a gun comes in, his response is, “Take my child, do anything, just don’t hurt me!,” and he assumes the interviewer will fully understand.
Bryan Kohberger trial fiasco sparks anger as judge delays until March 2025 – two and a half years after heinous Idaho murders. Some interesting stuff. The family begged them not to let the house be demolished until after a conviction, but both the Defense and Prosecution supported the demolition. Also, the court is not imposing security restrictions on Kolberger as in other, similar cases, not even bothering to shackle him, or have him accompanied by law enforcement. It is not impossible this entire thing is a show being done to cover up whatever really happened. The fact those girls had their own personal American Stasi detachment tracking them at the grub truck the night of the murder is not a good sign. Because that level of coverage maintains a live watch on them in the residence all night. Almost as bad as having their own personal Postal Service Truck of Death.
Bud Light boycott cost Tranheuser-Busch $1.4 billion.
Putin announces hypersonic weapons promised six years ago are now in service.
Bump stock ban not likely to survive the Supreme Court.
Polling shows Trump sweeping every swing state.
Spread r/K Theory, because you do not want your own Postal Service Truck of Death
Richard Lewis had the gift of making people laugh. It is a gift that gives physical pleasure. It resides in the realm of the id. You can see his gift on display in the brief exchange with Bob Costas on Costas’s old late-night show Later. By internal evidence, this clip must go back some 36 years, to 1988 or so. It’s not canned material. It wasn’t a routine. Lewis was just naturally funny and here he was on a roll with his audience of one.
RICHARD LEWIS: "I made Bob Costas laugh so hard, NBC refused to air it thinking it made him look silly. I went crazy and bugged the network so much they thankfully caved."
Rest in peace to a man who was literally too funny pic.twitter.com/9P4iYvewmj
— HarryHew (@harryhew) February 29, 2024
I understood from the Star Tribune headline over the AP story yesterday that the IDF had massacred some 100 Gazans seeking food and water. As of this morning, the AP is sticking with the story with a Rafah dateline. It leads with this observation: “Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said.”
I’m not sure about the massacre. Deep into the story we hear from the ever reliable “Gaza Health Ministry.” The AP reports: “At least 112 people were killed, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said. The ministry described it as a ‘massacre’ and said more than 700 others were injured.” The AP raises no warning about the record of the “Gaza Health Ministry” on such matters.
The IDF spokesmen have a better record than the AP on these IDF alleged massacres. I take it that the IDF denies that’s what happened, although it is investigating. [See update below.] The Times of Israel reports, per the IDF, that troops opened fire on several Gazans who moved toward soldiers and a tank at an IDF checkpoint, endangering soldiers, after they had rushed the last truck in the convoy further south. The Times of Israel story quotes IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari:
This morning, the IDF coordinated a convoy of 38 trucks to provide additional humanitarian assistance to the residents of northern Gaza. This humanitarian aid came from Egypt, went through a security screening at the Kerem Shalom humanitarian crossing in Israel, and then entered Gaza, for distribution by private contractors. As these vital humanitarian supplies made their way toward Gazans in need, thousands of Gazans [rushed] the trucks, some began violently pushing and trampling other Gazans to death, looting the humanitarian supplies.
Here are the facts: At 4:40 a.m., the first aid truck in the humanitarian convoy started making its way through the humanitarian corridor that we were securing. Our tanks were there to secure the humanitarian corridor for the aid convoy. Our UAVs were there in the air to give our forces a clear picture from above. At 4:45 a.m., a mob ambushed the aid trucks, bringing the convoy to a halt.
Hagari also showed a new video of the incident that is included in the Times of Israel story. Hagari’s statement continues:
In this video, the tanks that were there to secure the convoy saw the Gazans being trampled and cautiously tried to disperse the mob with a few warning shots. When the hundreds became thousands and things got out of hand, the tank commander decided to retreat to avoid harm to the thousands of Gazans that were there.
You can see how cautious they were when they were backing up. They were backing up securely, risking their own lives, not shooting at the mob.” he continued…No IDF strike was conducted toward the aid convoy. On the contrary, the IDF was there carrying out a humanitarian aid operation, to secure the humanitarian corridor, and allow the aid convoy to reach its distribution point, so that the humanitarian aid could reach Gazan civilians in the north who are in need.
The IDF posted Hagari’s statement below on X. Video is included with his statement.
“We recognize the suffering of the innocent people of Gaza. This is why we are seeking ways to expand our humanitarian efforts.”
Watch the full statement by IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari on the incident regarding the humanitarian aid convoy the IDF facilitated. pic.twitter.com/m6Pve3Odqw
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 29, 2024
“And yet the lie will be repeated as fact over and over and over by those who are ignorant, and those who are not ignorant but are evil, and those who are Susan Sarandon,” comments Cliff Asness. Add the detestable Senator Elizabeth Warren to the list. Query into which category the AP falls.
Netanyahu & his right-wing government have created a catastrophe in Gaza. Today Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians desperate for aid.
The U.S. must push for a cease-fire, hostage releases, & condition military support on pursuing a two-state solution for a lasting peace. pic.twitter.com/igeEpeFRC8
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 29, 2024
I can’t wait for the United States Air Force to show us how it’s to be done. If this goes down as advertised, we can resupply Hamas directly.
The U.S. Air Force is reportedly preparing for an Operation beginning next week that will see the Mass Airdropping of Humanitarian Aid including Food, Water, and Medicine into the Gaza Strip, with Flights utilizing C-130 and C-17 Transport Aircraft being launched from Airbases in… pic.twitter.com/ZH7Es0vvoj
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 1, 2024
UPDATE: The Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff includes this account in today’s edition.
After posting the adjacent item on the alleged IDF “massacre” of more than 100 Gazans yesterday, I received the Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff newsletter with this account of the events:
More than 100 people were killed when a crowd converged on an aid convoy in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and in a nearby confrontation between IDF soldiers and Palestinian men, in what an Israeli official with knowledge of the incidents described as a “completely unprecedented” set of events. “We’ve seen big groups of people running toward aid convoys, but nothing on this scale,” the official told Jewish Insider Executive Editor Melissa Weiss.
The convoy that came under the swarm of people was, the official described, “a very properly coordinated aid convoy with local contacts.” As the convoy passed through Gaza City early Thursday morning, thousands of people began to converge on the convoy.
“They literally physically trampled each other and ran over each other and beat each other,” the official continued. “And then Hamas started shooting at them.” The terror group aims to resell some of the convoy’s goods at a high markup, the official said.
“We did not fire at the humanitarian convoy, we secured it,” IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari emphasized in a briefing yesterday evening. “The tanks that were there to secure the convoy saw the Gazans being trampled and cautiously tried to disperse the mob with a few warning shots,” Hagari said. “You can see [in a video released by the IDF] how cautious they were when they were backing up. They were backing up securely, risking their own lives, not shooting at the mob.”
Nearby, a group of IDF soldiers guarding the convoy opened fire on a group of men approaching the battalion. First, the official said, the IDF troops fired in the air to warn the men off, but the men continued running toward the battalion.
An estimated 10 Palestinians were killed in the confrontation with Israeli troops, according to the IDF, and the rest of the casualties were caused by the stampede and confrontation near the convoy.
JI’s Daily Kickoff site is here. This account is included in this morning’s edition (with links).
UPDATE: Times of Israel editor David Horovitz considers the ensuing complications in this column.
“Centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value,” Winston Smith discovers in George Orwell’s 1984. “One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Streets, inscriptions memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light on the past had been systematically altered.” In other words, “history has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” For all but the willfully blind, the parallels are apparent on every hand.
For the Biden Junta, America is nothing more than a bastion of racist oppression, and the American Declaration of Independence, as Orwell noted, is pure thoughtcrime. The unelected ranks of the deep state constitute the “Inner Party,” deploying the FBI against the people. Under the Delaware Democrat, pretty much every week is hate week. Should that be doubted, recall Biden’s September 1, 2022 speech. Also relevant for current conditions is Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which the place of wild, non-domesticated creatures must be decided.
The revolutionary animals rule that rats are comrades, a view now institutionalized in America. Witness the rise of pro-crime district attorneys such as Chesa Boudin and George Gascon. Criminals also do the heavy lifting that woke politicians won’t perform, such as torching businesses and assaulting people at random, all passed off as “peaceful protest.”
Joe Biden brings in some eight million illegals with no criminal background checks. A criminal illegal is charged with murdering University of Georgia Biden student Laken Riley on February 22. In his February 28 speech on crime, Biden failed to name the victim or mention the case, and made no reference to illegal immigration.
In 1984, Winston Smith came to love Big Brother but it’s hard to believe that people approve Joe Biden’s steady demolition of America. It’s even harder to believe that this is what the American people were panting for in 2020. As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens in 2024.
One fine sunny Sunday several years ago found me in Helsinki, Finland, where I spotted a rock bacd setting up in a square by a park, and I decided to linger for some free live music. Who knows—I could be catching the next Abba, or Eurovision Song Contest contestant. Well, it wasn’t any of those. What it was is kinda hard to describe. Best I could do at the time was a heavy metal version of a whale being tortured. And thus this chart makes some sense:
As in Christian Nationalism Nonsense, and the always insightful Mark Tapson explains it for you:
The label “Christian nationalism” is the new Progressive dog-whistle for “scary American patriots.” It signals to Progressives that Americans who love God and country – which used to be the norm before our descent into a post-Christian, post-patriotism culture – are a subversive danger to democracy. Christianity, after all, imposes a moral code that chafes Progressive libertines, and nationalism, with its emphasis on state sovereignty and secure borders, frustrates their globalist ambitions.
Whenever Christians wave the Stars and Stripes, wear a MAGA hat, or pray that God blesses our country, the Left hyperventilates over the specter of a fundamentalist theocracy on the rise. They envision America becoming a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia in which white male Christian mullahs hang homosexuals and imprison women for seeking abortions. The Left’s vision of the separation of church and state, therefore, is one in which Christian patriots and their values are best excluded from the halls of government power entirely.
And so on, with Heidi Przybyla of Politico terrified that these Christian nationalists, “believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, they don’t come from the Supreme Court. They come from God.” So much for the self-evident truth that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” from the Declaration of Independence. The woke leftists, in effect, now issue a declaration of war.
Add Christian nationalist to “white supremacists,” “MAGA Republicans,” “semi-fascists,” and those 2016 loser Hillary Clinton smeared as “deplorables.” These all signify that the speaker doesn’t like you, but there’s more to it. Pronouncing people enemies of the state is to justify violence against them. This comes at a time when the Biden Junta (“Our Democracy”) has a domestic Nazi-Soviet Pact working, and sees the greatest threat from those citizens who want the nation to be great. So all those deplorable Christian nationalist and MAGA types could wind up excluded from more than the halls of government. Don’t say it can’t happen here.
James Biden has now admitted that he paid his brother Joe $40,000 out of funds he received from CEFC China Energy, which is generally regarded as a front for the Chinese government.
“Where did you believe the source of the money that was going into [Hunter Biden’s company] Owasco, prior to being sent to you, was coming from?” an investigator asked James during the Feb. 21 interview.
“CEFC,” James conceded — following an extended back-and-forth in which the first brother’s attorney Paul Fishman tried to argue that “money’s fungible” before being reminded by a House staffer that James “did not have sufficient funds” to make the $40,000 alleged loan repayment on his own, “so it is traceable.”
Of course, the goalposts in the Joe Biden bribery scandal have repeatedly been moved:
Democrats have defended the alleged loan repayments as evidence of nothing more than Joe Biden being a supportive brother. But Republicans say it makes clear that the president benefited from his relatives’ dealings as he repeatedly interacted with their business associates, including in the CEFC venture.
I think Republicans have made a mistake in seeming to go along with the Democrats’ theme that money has to be traced to Joe’s bank accounts in order to count. Under federal bribery law, Biden is guilty if he “demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value” not just for himself, but for “any other person or entity” in return for “being influenced in the performance of any official act.” People who bribe politicians are rarely dumb enough to make checks payable to the politicians themselves. Most often, they go to family members.
Republicans also shouldn’t fall for the Democrats’ spin about Joe not being involved in “his son’s overseas business dealings.” So, what business was Hunter in? Did he own or run a company that produced any products or provided any services? No. Hunter’s only business was peddling Joe’s influence. And for that to work, it had to be plausible that Joe was in on the deal, and would use his influence to benefit CEFC, or whoever. This is why Hunter would bring his father in on the telephone when he was meeting with Joe’s customers.
Notwithstanding the ever-moving goalposts, I think this is an instance where the Democrats’ control over the news media actually works to their disadvantage. They have been lulled into thinking that they can get away with their candidate’s having turned his power as vice president into tens of millions of dollars in illicit gains for his family and himself, because the New York Times, the Associated Press, and the usual gang of suspects try to run interference.
But in their blundering way, Republicans have managed to convey to a large majority of voters that Joe Biden is a corrupt pol. It is one of several reasons why, in spite of Donald Trump’s grave defects as a candidate, I don’t think Joe Biden can be re-elected.
President Biden announced today that the United States will airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza in the coming days. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to those of us who have been following the line traced by the Biden administration, but this may strike some as a bridge too far. The mission will purportedly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, but all sentient observers understand that the it will necessarily make the “assistance” available to Hamas.
Politico reports Biden’s remarks here. The White House has not yet posted a transcript. To add insult to injury, even though he was reading off note cards, Biden confused “Ukraine” with “Gaza.” The guy’s brain is fried in more ways than one.
Biden announces the U.S. is “providing air drops of additional food and supplies” into Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ZZt7LV1EMg
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 1, 2024
STEVE adds: Curious thing, though. A spokesman for Oxfam America has issued a Twitter statement opposing the relief air drop, because the narrative needs to be preserved. At least that’s how I read this:
Bryan Caplan, professor of economics in George Mason University’s excellent economics department, has a long article out today with the James Martin Center about the attempt to impose a mandatory “Just Societies” course for all students at George Mason starting next fall, and the course is a total ideological DEI wokefest. He also has a separate Substack article that goes into lengthy detail.
Partly because Caplan blew the whistle on this Orwellian outrage, the course requirement is on hold for the moment, pending “review” by the administration. And naturally the DEI campus Stasi is threatening to “review” Prof. Caplan for this offense.
One passage from his Martin Center article deserves special highlight:
This is quixotic, I know, but let me try to break through the woke academic echo chamber with some harsh truths. If you promote DEI for a living, the reality is that normal, apolitical people see you as a racist, sexist, censorious fanatic. They don’t say so publicly … because they are afraid of you. They don’t tell you privately … because they are afraid of you. But when they’re speaking to people they trust, they vehemently disagree with you—and yearn to see you all fired.
Well, it appears that the University of Florida has figured this out. Today the University (where Ben Sasse is now president) summarily closed down the entire DEI apparatus, and is summarily dismissing, rather than “reassigning” DEI staff to other offices. It has also canceled all outside contracts for DEI consultants. It will save $5 million right away, which Sasse says will be diverted to new faculty recruitment.
Here’s the note that went out:
More of this please. Burn them all down.
Related: Harvard announced today that it is appointing . . . a white male as interim provost. I didn’t think that was allowed any more at Harvard. But not just a white male, but a somewhat conservative white male—John Manning of Harvard Law School. Manning clerked for both Robert Bork on the DC Circuit and Nino Scalia at the Supreme Court. How he snuck onto Harvard Law’s faculty is something to ponder.
Harvard must really be badly rattled if it is willing to violate current progressive dogma and appoint a white male to such a senior position.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
MSNBC, Paul Krugman panic over “White Rural Rage.” These are the 85 IQ mid-witted Gollums the machine recruits with exhortations of how unfair the world is to allow others to be born with ability, while they were born without a chance. They fear the thought of you for a reason. If real America rose up, it could excise that portion of the cancer afflicting this nation overnight. And that is simultaneously the most vulnerable part of Cabal’s machinery of control, and its most important part. If it loses its eyes and ears inside every home in the nation, anything could happen, and it would probably lose about 99.999% of its beaming capability in the process. A hostile foreign force has invaded the nation, and is beaming everyone from CIA and FBI agents to Cabinet-level White House officials and sitting US Senators. It is rumored they left something buried in the walls of the White House to Beam Trump. I will be shocked if this does not turn into a hot shooting civil war, between real America and the traitors within. And that will be a target rich environment. Again, everyone should be preparing now. There is no telling if you will be needed or not. These are the most unprecedented of times, and the entire concept of America literally hangs by the thinnest of threads.
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Democrats’ congressional redistricting challenge.
Express Premium Banner Thomas Kingston had lunch with parents moments before the 45 year old was found dead at their £3m mansion with a traumatic head wound and a gun nearby. It is in Britain where guns are rare, but then again, he was a Royal and son in law to one of the highest ranking Freemasons. Maybe they have firearms laying around. Of course if you really want to screw with someone’s head, kill their loved one within an impossibly small window of time, and make it look like an inarguable suicide when the relatives will know it was anything but.
Florida federal prosecutors want to ask potential jurors in Donald Trump’s classified documents case if they believe the 2020 election was “stolen” and if they hold opinions about how the FBI executed a highly publicized search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Alternately they could just ask if they will vote Trump guilty before deciding if they want them. I don’t care how much vengeful retribution there is in the end, once Trump spins up. This movie sucks.
Georgia Resident Reports Illegal Immigrants Are Getting Signed Up For Drivers Licenses & SIGNED UP TO VOTE At The DMV ??
“Illegal aliens come to my state, Georgia. They’re allowed to get a driver’s license, but the DMV is signing them up to vote.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced Friday she is endorsing former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary against former President Trump. Looks like the race is turning now.
Want to make the move from a third world shithole to the United States? This website with material, “developed under an agreement financed by the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, United States Department of State,” has this to say:
At this point, the RSC will coordinate with the International Organization for Migration, or IOM, to schedule your flight to the United States. Your family is eligible to receive a loan to pay for your travel to the United States. Family members over 18 years of age each receive their own loan. Learn more about Traveling to the United States below.
The death of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law is being investigated as a crime weeks after her body was pulled from her submerged car in Texas. They say it was “not a typical accident.”
Joe Biden got $40K in China funds, brother James admits in bombshell impeachment interview.
Biden uses notecard while chatting with Border officials during his visit to the border in Texas.
Biden twice refers to Gaza as ‘Ukraine’ when announcing US aid drops.
A group of major Universities has issued guidance claiming that it is a form of “discrimination” to voice the opinion that “the most qualified person should get the job.” Purely a Cabal psyop and a measure of the fact that even among Cabal, they openly acknowledge their people will tend to not be the most qualified or capable.
Blackwater’s Erik Prince says AT&T outage was a Chinese cyberattack. Thinks it is a trial run before moving more aggressively in the Pacific, maybe against Taiwan, since Joe as POTUS is their best shot for it.
Georgia House passes bill to permit Police arrest of suspected illegal migrants.
Google using AI to police emails?
Elon Musk claims that Open AI achieved AGI and handed it over to Microsoft.
Elon Musk’s X/Twitter reinstates rules against misgendering, ‘deadnaming.’
Study finds majority of patients with long COVID were vaccinated.
8-year-old boy’s “severe” headaches likely caused by 5G tower near school.
The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days.
Transgenger Space Force Colonel says using pronouns in emails will help win wars.
In a speech, Rishi Sunak confronted the ‘poison’ of Islamist and “far-Right extremism.”
Richard Tice leader of the Reform UK Party reacting to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s contention that there are “Far-Right” and “Islamist” threats equally as dangerous to democracy in Britain – “Our PM is a joke: gutless, hopeless”
Extreme antisemite George Galloway has been elected as Member of Parliament for Rochdale, UK.
He was probably diverting attention from more than his political problems : The full text of what is claimed to be a discussion by senior German military officers on how to attack the Crimean Bridge in Russia was published by RT.
Erik Prince says it is over for Ukraine:
Louisiana Constitutional Carry bill passes State Senate.
UAW members deem Trump ‘much more trustworthy’ than Biden: He ‘speaks our language.’
Don’t believe the headlines that Mitch McConnell is really stepping down. He’s going to replicate himself as an AI robot. Just keep in mind the lifespan of turtles, and you’ll know I’m right. And the crash of Google’s Gemini AI is a distraction—it’s just another CIA-Taylor Swift psy-op.
Want:
Headlines of the week:
A rather unexpected combination.
I really thought this is how the computer age would unfold.
I think I’ll pass on this ski resort. . .
Captain Kirk at the DEI review board.
And finally. . . Tulsi Gabbard:
Atlanta attorney Harry MacDougald is our old Rathergate friend. He helped us get the ball rolling in “The 61st minute” on the morning of September 9, 2004. Writing under the screen name Buckhead, Harry observed in comment number 47 of Free Republic’s Rathergate thread: “I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. This should be pursued aggressively.” Life has never been quite the same since we took his cue and followed up.
Harry is the managing partner of Atlanta’s Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & DeLoach law firm. He represents defendant Jeffrey Clark in the “conspiracy so immense” case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. We have followed defendants’ motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting the case. It turns out that Willis appointed her boyfriend Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the case. Willis, Wade, and others have testified under oath on the facts underlying the conflict issues raised by defendants. I commented, most recently, in “Whole lotta lyin’ goin’ on.”
Yesterday Judge Scott McAfee held a three-hour hearing for oral argument by the attorneys on the disqualification motion. Harry was the star of the show. His thirteen-minute argument begins at 01:12:40 of the video of the hearing at the bottom. Students of ancient history may recall the role of CBS News in Rathergate. It has posted a decent account of the hearing.
I have my doubts that Judge McAfee will grant the disqualification motion, but I have no doubt that he should or that Harry accurately captured the essence of the evidence before the court. Referring to the Office of the Fulton County District Attorney and the Willis/Wade matter, Harry concluded: “This office is a global laughingstock because of their conduct.”
I reached out to Harry for a comment after the hearing yesterday. He declined to comment one way or the other on the hearing, although he did comment favorably on Power Line. My comment is that Harry was right about Rathergate and he is right about the disgrace to be resolved by the court on the pending motion.
There is no Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast this week, because we practiced a bit of “settler colonialism” by occupying the flagship Ricochet podcast yesterday and expelling the pervious residents.
Well not literally. Rob Long and Peter Robinson were both away, so the producers asked the 3WHH crew to fill in for the whole hour. And hoo-boy, with James Lileks in charge of the discussion, the sparks flew on immigration, as we successfully flushed out and scolded John “Open Borders” Yoo. The comment thread there is taking off like a Starlink rocket launch, but if you’re not a Ricochet member, you can use the comment thread here as usual.
Ricochet calls the episode “Drunken Monkey Business” on account of the whisky reviews we offer at the end, and you’ll definitely want to listen all the way to the very end to take in the daring high seas tale of Lileks “urinating” on a certain former National Review writer. (We also covered some of the latest Trump legal news, the Gaza War, and the hysteria over “Christian nationalism.”
Yesterday President Biden announced the imminent airdrop of humanitarian assistance into Gaza (Biden to the contrary notwithstanding, not Ukraine). The Times of Israel covers the announcement here.
White House National Security Advisor John Kirby was asked a good question about it at a press briefing that followed the announcement. He was asked how the administration will prevent Hamas from seizing the supplies that it intends to airdrop into Gaza.
Kirby expressed joy to be asked the question, yet for some reason he did not answer it directly. See if you can deduce the answer from his response (video below). These airdrops are complicated. They’re difficult. We’re going to keep at it and we’re going to get better. Hamas, by the way, is a designated foreign terrorist organization and therefore one to which it is illegal for American citizens to render assistance.
John Kirby effectively admits that the White House knows Hamas will steal aid air-dropped into Gaza pic.twitter.com/gzxHnBUpCp
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) March 2, 2024
The airdrop has begun. The Times of Israel reports that US military officials say the initial airdrop was carried out using three C-130 planes. One of the officials says more than 35,000 meals were airdropped. The video below shows the current airdrop to Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah. According to Barak Ravid, the Rafah airdrop “included thousands of U.S. military ‘meals ready to eat’ (Halal).” The genocidaires of Hamas must be grateful in their own special way.
Update: #IsraelHamasWar #US #Rafah
According to U.S. and Israeli officials, 3 C-130s airdropped aid over the city of Rafah.
In the video that reportedly shows the airdrop, 2 C-130s can be seen with the payload of the third visible in the video. pic.twitter.com/OhyUMWd9z4
— John M. Larrier (@DefenseBulletin) March 2, 2024
We have written a couple of times about biomass, which is a fancy term for burning wood. If you thought using wood fires for energy was out of date–it has been, actually, for a century and a half–you are behind the times. Wood burning is considered “green,” a wholly political concept, and therefore is heavily subsidized in Europe. Millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada suffer the consequences.
The latest from the United Kingdom:
Wood, the fuel that British industry thought it had left behind more than a century ago, is staging a comeback.
Powering the resurgence is Drax Group, owner of the controversial Drax power station that recently posted a 10-fold increase in its latest yearly profits.
Its plant in Yorkshire, Britain’s largest and most controversial power station, generated around 6pc of the country’s electricity in 2023 by burning 6.4 million tonnes of wood. In context, it is the equivalent of 27 million trees.
27 million trees! The same Telegraph article points out that the New Forest only has 46 million trees, less than two years’ worth. So where does the wood come from?
Last year alone Drax imported 4.6 million tonnes of wood from the US and another 760,000 tonnes from Canada, with further deliveries coming from Brazil, Latvia and Russia.
You might think that cutting down trees in the southern U.S., thus preventing them from absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere–do they still teach junior high kids about photosynthesis?–shipping them to Europe on diesel-powered ships, and then burning them, releasing carbon into the atmosphere in the form of CO2, must be the dumbest possible way of generating electricity. And, while it is appallingly stupid, and not “green” in any coherent sense, it is arguably not as dumb as wind and solar:
[Drax chief executive Will Gardiner says], “We have created a business which plays an essential role in supporting energy security, providing dispatchable, renewable power for millions of homes and businesses, particularly during periods of peak demand when there is low wind and solar power.”
Yes: burning wood on an industrial scale is idiotic, but at least it works in the dark and when the wind isn’t blowing.
Finally, why does such a foolish way of generating electricity exist? Mandates and subsidies, of course:
Sir Peter’s reference to cost relates to the taxpayer subsidies that Drax receives for producing green energy, which amounted to £617m in 2022 and £587m in 2023.
Meanwhile, China is humming along with more than 1,000 coal-fired power plants, and more coming on line constantly.
The New York Times is out with its latest poll today, and they can’t sugar coat the bad news for Biden (and good news for Trump) that it contains. The headline says it all:
The poll has Trump with a five-point lead.
Some internals from the article are even more devastating than these headline numbers:
The poll offers an array of warning signs for the president about weaknesses within the Democratic coalition, including among women, Black and Latino voters. So far, it is Mr. Trump who has better unified his party, even amid an ongoing primary contest. . .
Mr. Trump is winning 97 percent of those who say they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his past supporters said they are casting a ballot for Mr. Biden. In contrast, Mr. Biden is winning only 83 percent of his 2020 voters, with 10 percent saying they now back Mr. Trump. . .
One of the more ominous findings for Mr. Biden in the new poll is that the historical edge Democrats have held with working-class voters of color who did not attend college continues to erode.
Mr. Biden won 72 percent of those voters in 2020, according to exit polling, providing him with a nearly 50-point edge over Mr. Trump. Today, the Times/Siena poll showed Mr. Biden only narrowly leading among nonwhite voters who did not graduate from college: 47 percent to 41 percent. . .
Mr. Trump’s policies were generally viewed far more favorably by voters than Mr. Biden’s. A full 40 percent of voters said Mr. Trump’s policies had helped them personally, compared to only 18 percent who said the same of Mr. Biden’s.
The gender gap, for instance, is no longer benefiting Democrats. Women, who strongly favored Mr. Biden four years ago, are now equally split, while men gave Mr. Trump a nine-point edge. The poll showed Mr. Trump edging out Mr. Biden among Latinos, and Mr. Biden’s share of the Black vote is shrinking, too.
Memo to Trump: Don’t blow it.
There was a time when, if you said that liberals suffer from Communism envy, they would deny it. Is that still true? Perhaps not, as to the Squad, two members of which were among a delegation that made a more or less secret trip to Cuba:
A delegation of the U.S. Congressional Progressive Caucus traveled to Cuba last week in a trip that has not previously been disclosed by the legislators nor reported in Cuban state media.
The group of about a dozen people was led by Democratic U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal of the state of Washington and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. It included a congressional staffer from the office of California Rep. Barbara Lee’s office, sources with knowledge of the trip told the Miami Herald.
Jayapal and Omar, members of the informal left-wing group of lawmakers known as “the squad,” did not reply to emails and messages seeking comment. Lee’s office also did not reply to a request for comment.
After the Herald published this story, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, comprising more than 100 lawmakers and chaired by Jayapal, confirmed the trip.
Odd. No press releases, no Cuban state media trumpeting the support it is getting from American liberals. So what was up with the visit?
“Representatives Jayapal and Omar traveled to Cuba last week, where they met with people from across Cuban civil society and government officials to discuss human rights and the U.S.-Cuba bilateral relationship,” said a Caucus spokesperson.
Oh. Okay. But the Squad is not in favor of human rights, so it would be interesting to know what the discussion was about:
Jayapal and Omar have been vocal critics of the U.S. embargo against Cuba and have supported bills to normalize relations with the island’s communist government. They were among the 40 Democrats who voted against a symbolic resolution supporting peaceful demonstrators who protested against the Cuban government in July 2021 and “calling for the immediate release of arbitrarily detained Cuban citizens.”
Well, they don’t want arbitrarily detained American citizens released either, so I guess that is consistent. All in all, the story is a valuable reminder that, while the rest of the world has given up on Communism, it still has a certain cachet with American liberals.
As is now more widely reported, President Biden relies on cue cards for just about everything, but it looks like even this extreme measure is failing. Here in reading from a prepared statement on a notecard about getting food to Gaza, at the 30-second mark Biden twice says we’ll be opening up more corridors to “Ukraine.” Italian PM Meloni looks around the room wondering if someone is going to help this poor doddering old man.
Biden: “We are concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza
Look at Italian PM trying hard not to laugh
pic.twitter.com/FJFFusvYWM— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) March 2, 2024
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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Georgia:
We have an electronic verification system, but we didn’t use it.
We have records of voter signatures, but we didn’t use them.
We could check our records for you, but it would take forever.
Aside from that, judge, is there anything else you’d like?
Rand Paul: Supreme Court should take on ALL cases against Donald Trump and dismiss them.
‘Creepy’ Joe Biden makes bee-line for little girl on his way to Camp David.
Bank records reveal Joe Biden’s brother Jimmy got a total of $1.04 million from two companies based in PANAMA for which he did no work & in which he invested no money. One entity paid him $840k after Joe became POTUS & the other started paying him $200k while Joe was VP
On Twitter [Translated] – “Pfizer has just admitted in the expert file for the death of my mother #mauricette that #vaccin #COVID19 caused mad cow disease type CJ as #EffetsSecondaires known. So everyone who is vaccinated can have a CJ.” I never understood the role of the “Prion-like domain” and why it was explicitly included in the Vax’s antigen sequence. Especially when all of this is so poorly understood. Then again why the vax used among the most toxic constituents of the virus the Spike protein, as its antigen was strange as well.
There is more disturbing to contemplate at this tweet and the replies. Including this old answer to a Quora question from five years ago, asking if prions would make a good bioweapon:
Also interesting was this interview with a former VP at Pfizer, where he knows something is wrong because he knows the experts commenting publicly are all saying things they know are untrue, and he knows there is some organization above the mere national level calling the shots, but he does not know about Cabal, and misses the final piece of the puzzle, which is what makes all of this really ominous. I have said, if I know better at my level, then as specialists in the field, they should have known better. You have not heard the last of the Covid Vax soap opera. There will be more in the future.
They are now going to use mRNA for the flu vaccine tech. The video at the link is filled with doctors making assertions I know they know are bullshit. mRNA has no manufacturing advantages over old recombinant peptide vaccines, nor is it faster to issue an updated vaccine. If they can make an mRNA vaccine it is far better to use the recombinant bacteria it is grown in to produce the actual protein and refine that into a vaccine than to extract the mRNA and then form an mRNA vax. You should not be presenting antigen on your cell’s surfaces, or you risk immunizing against your own cells and triggering autoimmunity.
Gates-funded factory breeds 30 million mosquitoes a week for release in 11 countries. The push for the switch to mRNA never made sense. If you have vats full of E. coli amping up mRNA, it takes nothing to let them burn off the protein, extract it, and create a standard protein vaccine, which we all know works. It is even easier to ship and more shelf-stable, and you do not have to worry about frameshifts causing the mRNA to burn off junk protein. But one advantage of mRNA – you could never get a mosquito to deliver an efficacious dose (as defined by whatever you are trying to do), of protein. The mosquito would need to inject like a milliliter or two, which is just not going to happen. However a mosquito could drop in some mRNA, which would produce many times itself (in terms of molecules) of protein, using the human genetic machinery to make the protein. They might have been pushing mRNA because they have a plan somewhere in this direction, to vaccinate/genetically alter everyone at some point, through some mechanism like the mosquito, or GMO vegetables, or GI bacteria, or something.
Airline passengers getting bumped as asylum-seekers vie for standby seats. It sounds crazy, but compared to these Cabal assets, you are a second class citizen.
Illegal aliens will get interest-free home loans under new Democrat California bill.
Biden CDC suppressing data showing alarming surge in measles, polio, TB cases slamming ERs across country is linked to Biden’s migrant crisis. Leprosy cases also are on the rise
Top military expert: Obama’s shadow government controls the U.S. Obama is not enough of a shark, IMO.
Grieving family and friends heckle New York killer who shot dead 20-year-old woman when she turned up his driveway by accident as he’s led away to prison to serve 25-year sentence. This had all the indices of the domestic surveillance harassing some guy and winding him up. Oddly enough, even the Police weapons examiner said his shotgun went off without the trigger being pulled, which supported his assertion he did not pull the trigger, but he was still convicted regardless.
Video – Former Diddy bodyguard says Diddy groomed Usher. Diddy and Usher’s situation led to Usher going to the hospital. I am not sure there was a bigger nightmare life than being a “star” in America.
Video which appears to be Justin Bieber giving one of Diddy’s friends oral sex in a club. Note, the video-er did not decide to film that spur of the moment, nor was it coincidence the guy getting the oral sex lifted up Bieber and turned him to the camera suddenly so it would get his face. Diddy would roll out with those guys all knowing the mission, get Bieber giving oral sex, and get it on film, so he can be properly owned. That is basically what the American Stasi is doing 24/7 to everyone, as it rolls through our society. Everyone scamming the decent people, is a very toxic influence on society, which makes it very difficult to have a cohesive team. It is great for the scumbags at the top to hang on to control though.
X users didn’t like a paper’s tone and findings, so they got it rejected by the publishing journal after it made it through peer review. It showed that as more people went for undergraduate degrees, the average IQ of college students fell from 120 to average.
Deer Creek School District responds after video shows students licking people’s toes for a fundraiser. Schools are no longer about making your child as successful and capable as possible, if they ever were about that. You really have to homeschool.
American Psychological Association policy promotes K-12 transgenderism.
US Green Berets reportedly permanently based in Taiwan for 1st time.
Woke Church of England posts job for anti-racist officer to ‘deconstruct whiteness.’
Germany confirms leaked audio of its top generals discussing blowing up the Crimean bridge.
Cernovich on Twitter may glow, but he is not wrong:
World War 3 has already begun.
British troops are directing air strikes in Ukraine.
Germany intends to bomb Crimea.
CNN appears on the verge of an epic collapse.
Matt Gaetz gloats that ‘we’ve now 86’d McCarthy, [Ronna] McDaniel, McConnell.’
New poll – Gaetz leads pack of Florida Republicans in 2026 Governor’s race to succeed DeSantis.
President Donald Trump won the Missouri Republican presidential primary.
Trump wins Michigan caucus with 97.8% of votes.
Voters doubt Biden’s leadership and favor Trump, Times/Siena poll finds.
New York Times/Siena poll of registered voters nationwide , Trump +5, highest ever.
Spread r/K Theory, because there is a supra-national conspiracy
When you watch Walter Cronkite, my recent piece should have read, “you not only CBS but hear it too.” That was certainly true, particularly of Cronkite’s Vietnam coverage, but as Douglas Brinkley explained in the 819-page Cronkite, there’s more that people should know.
Cronkite had worked with Sidney Lumet to adapt the radio show “You Are There” for television. Lumet directed Network, which Cronkite saw in a private screening. As Brinkley notes, the film “hit close to home,” as “much about TV newsgathering was a sham.” As anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) explained:
Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth. Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever going to find any real truth.
But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! We are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF!
Network also cast Walter Cronkite’s daughter Cathy as Mary Ann Gifford, an heiress kidnapped by the Ecumenical Liberation Army. In the style of Patricia Hearst, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, Gifford joins the Ecumenicals in bank robberies, which they record on film. When the Communist Laureen Hobbs (Marlene Warfield) uses the footage in her “Mao Tse-Tung Hour” show, Gifford calls her out.
“You f—— fascist! Did you see the film we made of the San Marino jail breakout, demonstrating the rising up of the seminal prisoner class infrastructure?” Hobbs tells Gifford to “blow the seminal prisoner class infrastructure out your ass!”
Network bagged four Oscars, and for cinéma vérité about television it’s hard to beat. On March 10, if anybody watched Network instead of the Academy Awards it would be hard to blame them.
Niall Ferguson must be one of the three most prominent historians writing in English today. He is the author of 16 books. Late last year he wrote the timely and trenchant essay “Treason of the Intellectuals.” Now he follows up that essay with the lecture “After the Treason of the Intellectuals” at the University of Austin, where he is Founding Trustee. With Ferguson’s invocation of Max Weber, the lecture put me in mind of Steve Hayward’s address to incoming graduate students at Pepperdine’s school of public policy at the beginning of this academic year.
This is the talk Ferguson gave at the University of Austin’s Founding Class of 2028 reception. It is in part a description of the state of higher education and in part a motivational talk for incoming students. He speaks from notes in front of a fiery backdrop that seems to serve as a metaphor — he calls it “a simulated apocalyptic landscape” –for the spirit of his remarks. The nascent University of Austin bids to join Hillsdale College as one of our essential educational institutions.
In her February 26 Tablet column “The takeover,” Neetu Arnold traces the relationship among international student recruitment, DEI policies, and left-wing activism on American campuses. It is a long column that is full of information and data. This is how it opens:
Something new and peculiar stands out about the wave of anti-Israel student activism that has rocked American university campuses since October: There is a visibly more radical element to these protests. Student activists almost seemed to take glee in Hamas’ massacre of innocent civilians—when they weren’t denying that it happened at all. The antisemitic rage struck a different tone than the typical anti-Israel fare that has become a central part of American student activism since Students for a Democratic Society formed in the 1960s.
So what changed? The answer is clear to anyone who watched the videos: these student protests are no longer composed solely of left-wing American students steeped in critical theory and post-colonial ideology. The protests are now havens for foreign students, especially those from Arab and Muslim countries, with their own set of nationalist and tribal grievances against Israel and the United States. In some cases, such foreign students appear to lead the protests in their pro-terrorism chants—some of which are in Arabic, or translations of Arabic slogans.
What we are witnessing is the latest consequence of a quiet revolution in higher education: the internationalization of the American university. Today, there are more than one million foreign students enrolled at American universities, making up more than 5% of the total student population. At elite universities, the situation is much more extreme: international students make up almost 25% of the student population.
I would add that Arnold’s introductory paragraph seems to me to apply not only to pro-Hamas “activism” on campus, but also to pro-Hamas “activism” on the streets of our major cities and inside the Democratic Party’s left-wing base. Someone needs to undertake the same kind of analysis to the off-campus phenomenon that Arnold does to the on-campus phenomenon. It isn’t pretty and it’s not going away.
Just a guess, but I think the word has gone out from the Obama redoubt in Martha’s Vineyard and/or his shadow White House in Kalorama that the New York Times needs to lead the push this week to force Biden out of the race. The Times is doom-scrolling its latest poll showing Biden on his way to certain defeat to Trump. Yesterday’s installment gave the raw numbers—Biden is eroding across the board.
Today the Times is out with another headline of doom, whose contents could have been part of yesterday’s story, except the Times wants to mile their poll for maximum effect. Biden’s own voters think he is too old:
Widespread concerns about President Biden’s age pose a deepening threat to his re-election bid, with a majority of voters who supported him in 2020 now saying he is too old to lead the country effectively, according to a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
The survey pointed to a fundamental shift in how voters who backed Mr. Biden four years ago have come to see him. A striking 61 percent said they thought he was “just too old” to be an effective president. . . Seventy-three percent of all registered voters said he was too old to be effective, and 45 percent expressed a belief that he could not do the job. . .
This unease, which has long surfaced in polls and in quiet conversations with Democratic officials, appears to be growing as Mr. Biden moves toward formally capturing his party’s nomination.
I’m guessing those “quiet conversations” will start to be less quiet fairly soon. Gavin Newsom has his phone programmed on speed dial.
Here’s one of the graphics:
In case Democratic elites aren’t getting the message, the Times director of polling Nate Cohn offers his own separate “analysis” of the matter:
The Big Change Between the 2020 and 2024 Races: Biden Is Unpopular
Why is President Biden losing? There are many possible reasons, including his age, the war in Gaza, the border and lingering concerns over inflation. But ultimately, they add up to something very simple: Mr. Biden is very unpopular. He’s so unpopular that he’s now even less popular than Mr. Trump, who remains every bit as unpopular as he was four years ago.
President Biden’s unpopularity has flipped the expected dynamic of this election. It has turned what looked like a seemingly predictable rematch into a race with no resemblance to the 2020 election, when Mr. Biden was a broadly appealing candidate who was acceptable to the ideologically diverse group of voters who disapproved of Mr. Trump. . .
That’s gotta hurt. Then there’s this:
We didn’t ask whether Mr. Biden should drop out of the race. We considered it — in fact, we discussed it for days — but many respondents may not know the complications involved in a contested convention.
Subtext: “Doctor” Jill: Get your husband to do the right thing for the interest of the Party. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s installment.
P.S. It was the suddenly plummeting polls that prompted LBJ to drop out of the 1968 race at the end of March.
I’ve been quipping for a while that it must be awfully depressing these days for the climate cultists heading out to block a road or yell at some politician, only to find the pro-Hamas anti-Semites got up earlier than they did and beat them to it. But some climatistas are not taking this lying down—that is until someone makes them lie down, as in this clip from Harvard:
BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs. pic.twitter.com/1ajrQsKnbJ
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) March 1, 2024
The Harvard Crimson headline is heart-warming:
Climate Protester Thrown to the Ground After Interrupting Joe Manchin’s Harvard IOP Talk
An aide to U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) threw a climate action protester to the ground following a confrontation at a Harvard Institute of Politics event Friday morning.
The incident came just minutes after at least six protesters from Climate Defiance — a climate advocacy group — interrupted a talk Manchin was delivering at the Harvard Kennedy School. The protesters criticized Manchin’s support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial 300-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia that has been condemned by environmentalists.
“You sold our futures and got rich doing it, you sick fuck,” one person shouted, prompting Manchin to stand up from his chair to face the protester.
Meanwhile, across campus at Harvard Law School, this happened:
Skadden is one of the firms that signed a letter to Harvard last fall expressing concern about antisemitism on its campus.
When lawyers from the firm visited Harvard Law today, students accused them of supporting apartheid and being complicit in genocide. pic.twitter.com/4riq3gT9sY
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) March 1, 2024
Down at Penn, a similar story:
Pro-Palestinian protestors interrupt Jameson at Board of Trustees meeting, forcing adjournment
Interim President Larry Jameson’s first University Board of Trustees meeting as president adjourned within minutes on Friday after protestors disrupted the meeting.
The Board of Trustees meeting was scheduled to take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Inn at Penn. At 11:33 a.m., a group of 12 pro-Palestinian protestors affiliated with the Freedom School for Palestine started calling for “endowment transparency.” Their chants went on for four minutes, until the Board of Trustees meeting was adjourned at 11:37 a.m, having quickly passed its agenda items.
Meanwhile, down the road at Yale, a Communist group (seriously?) disrupted a lecture by historian Timothy Snyder, who is a left-leaning and rabid anti-Trumper, but apparently that’s not enough for self-styled Communists:
Timothy Snyder evacuated his “Hitler, Stalin, and Us” lecture on Thursday afternoon after a Communist activist group entered the classroom and would not leave.
Around 10 demonstrators affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party showed up at the classroom in William Harkness Hall five minutes after the start of class and began shouting at Snyder while holding up signs and recording students. . .
The demonstrators walked into the back of class and held up signs while Raymond Lotta, the group’s leader, declared, “No class as usual today!” Lotta called on Snyder to condemn the United States for its support of Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in Gaza and accused him of “brainwashing” students with “anti-communism.”
Chaser:
“To call DEI useless would be an understatement,” Kestenbaum said. pic.twitter.com/09oLSQx4Du
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) March 3, 2024
• Reminder that once upon a time leading Democrats opposed illegal immigration and called for stronger border enforcement:
Chaser—Once upon a time Democrats also understood that a surge of illegal immigrant depressed wages for unskilled labor. A reminder from Democrat economist and Obama alum Jared Bernstein:
One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.
• I’ve finally figured out why Democrats are indifferent to rising crime and especially massive retail theft—it’s a clandestine tax increase! No, seriously:
• Be careful what you wish for? You may recall a couple weeks ago a short note here about how the repulsive Adam Schiff, now running for the Senate in California, was cleverly trying to eliminate his Democratic Party rivals by boosting Republican Steve Garvey with “attack” ads claiming that Garvey is “too conservative for California” and “voted for Trump twice” (wink, wink) in the state’s perverse top-two jungle primary system. Well guess what:
Ex-MLB great Steve Garvey leads Adam Schiff in California Senate race: poll
Former Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres star Steve Garvey is ahead of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in California’s nonpartisan Senate primary, a new poll shows. Garvey, a Republican and 10-time MLB All-Star, snagged 27% support in the Los Angeles Times/Berkeley IGS poll released Friday. Support for Schiff in the hotly-contested race for the seat formerly held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was measured at 25% by the pollster.
Still very much an uphill race for Garvey in November if this poll holds up in the primary this week. But still, it would be a matter of cosmic justice if Garvey pulled off an upset, and was able to thank Schiff for all his help. Stay tuned. . .
• Feel Good Story of the Day:
That is what Joe Biden demanded of the Israelis, Hamas and representatives of Qatar and Egypt who are trying to broker a cease-fire agreement. As though he were the party in interest. The Telegraph interprets Biden’s motives:
Mr Biden is under major pressure from voters over the US alliance with Israel, and the president was punished at the ballot box by protesting young Democrats in the primaries last week.
So what would a proposed deal look like?
A potential deal could include a six-week pause in fighting, the release of approximately 400 Palestinian prisoners in return for the freeing of 40 Israeli hostages, as well as preparation for a gradual return of Palestinian citizens to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Why 40 hostages? Why not all of them? Why should Israel even discuss a proposal that does not include a total release of kidnap victims? And how about a Hamas surrender? Normally, when a country starts a war and then loses it, if it wants the fighting to stop it has to surrender. It is bizarre that some people take seriously the idea that Hamas should survive the war it foolishly started.
Happily, Israel has decided not to attend the cease-fire negotiations in Cairo:
Israel will not be sending a negotiating team to Cairo, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Sunday, after receiving an unsatisfactory response from Hamas on the latest framework for a hostage deal hammered out in Paris last weekend.
The Gaza-based terror organization refused to address Jerusalem’s demand to provide a list of living hostages and to lock down how many Palestinian prisoners Israel must release for every hostage freed, added the official.
My guess is that Gaza doesn’t want to provide a list of living kidnap victims because a shocking number have been murdered. In any event, Israel shouldn’t allow Hamas’s transparent diplomatic maneuvering, or hysterical reactions from the Biden administration, to distract It from the total victory it needs to achieve over Gaza.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
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New York City, 1896, what is the guy doing standing on the stairs, and not moving?:
Tucker says that he cannot believe he was so dumb he did not know the CIA was intervening to subvert Democracy in the US, as well as overseas. Surprising in that Cabal would not want that said out loud.
Merrick Garland: Voter ID requirements and restrictions on ballot ‘drop boxes’ are “discriminatory.”
Nikki Haley says she’s no longer bound by RNC pledge to endorse Trump if he wins.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the city’s decision to scale back migrant services by consolidating shelters, closing one shelter per week over the next month to reduce the budget deficit by nearly $60 million. Presently the budget deficit is $180 million.
25% of vaxxed now have VAIDS, top scientists warn.
The disturbing answer is probably not very many at all:
Trump leads Biden among Hispanics, registered voters overall: poll.
Spread r/K Theory, because not every day is a great news day
In the latest episode of the Hoover Institution’s GoodFellows podcast (with Dan Senor sitting in for H.R. McMaster), Niall Ferguson joined from Jerusalem. He had some advice for Tucker Carlson regarding his misadventures in Putin’s Russia buried at about 43:00 of the video (below). Asked to assess Carlson’s interview with Putin, Ferguson responded:
I am beyond disappointed in what Tucker Carlson has become because four years ago he was an impressive and effective broadcaster whose monologues I used to enjoy. I mean Tucker — I don’t know if you listen to this — but you have a chance to admit that you made a terrible mistake by going to Moscow, that you were made use of by a fascist dictator. You don’t want to be the Walter Duranty of this story. You don’t want to be the useful idiot of American journalism who fell for a dictatorship.
So my advice is own it. You made a huge blunder and you need to admit it and recognize that you have been used by a fascist regime. The fact that Navalny was killed just after you had been made a fool of in that interview where Putin filibustered, made stuff up that you didn’t know enough Russian history to correct — all of this has all but destroyed your reputation and the only possible solution is a full and frank apology and an admission that you screwed up.
See my own “Political pilgrimage revisited,” “From glib to stupid,” and “The lonesome death of Alexei Navalny.”
Tucker Carlson has worked himself into a dark corner of which his Russian misadventures constitute only one component. He seeks to fill the niche formerly occupied by Charles Lindbergh on the isolationist wing of the populist right and has become a fool for Putin in the process. The odds of Carlson taking Ferguson’s advice asymptotically approach zero, but not because he shouldn’t take it.
Reading about the ceasefire negotiations that the ceasefire negotiations with which the Biden administation hopes to engineer a Hamas victory requires a certain kind of immunity to savagery. Hamas seeks to trade kidnapped Israelis for terrorists who can help Hamas finish the task it undertook on October 7. The Hamas terrorists are murderers and genocidaires. The Israelis are, well, you know, Jewish. Hamas seeks ten terrorists in exchange for every kidnapped Israeli and Israel seems okay with the proposition and the ratio.
However, the Israelis declined to show up in Cairo for further negotiations so long as Hamas refuses to provide a list of living kidnap victims. The Israelis assess that 31 of the kidnap victims taken by Hamas on October 7 are now dead. This is either elided in mainstream news accounts or referred to euphemistically as one of the “sticking points.” The Times of Israel summed up the status of negotiations yesterday:
Israel has said that 31 of the 130 hostages held since October 7 are dead. The first phase of the mooted deal is reported to provide for the release of 40 of the living hostages, including women, children, the elderly and the sick, in the course of a six-week truce, and in exchange for some 400 Palestinian security prisoners. The outline reportedly provides for negotiations on the further phased release of the remaining hostages, living and dead, in return for longer pauses in the fighting and many more Palestinian prisoner releases.
On Sunday afternoon, a Hamas official told CNN that the group will not agree to a deal without Israel consenting to an end to the war in Gaza, a non-starter for Israel.
Citing “a highly placed source” in the terror group, CNN reported that the two other areas of disagreement holding up a deal are the withdrawal of IDF troops from Gaza, and Gazan civilians being allowed to return to the northern Gaza Strip.
Vice President Harris found this a good time to hammer Israel yesterday in Selma, Alabama (White House transcript here). Israel is apparently responsible for “the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” Why, “just a few days ago, we saw hungry, desperate people approach aid trucks, simply trying to secure food for their families after weeks of nearly no aid reaching Northern Gaza. And they were met with gunfire and chaos.” The savages of Hamas have their allies among the idiots, useful or otherwise, of the Biden administration.
Pope Francis says that all nations have a moral duty to disarm:
Pope Francis said Sunday that military disarmament is not optional but constitutes a “moral obligation” for all nations.
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“How many resources are wasted on military expenditure, which, because of the current situation, sadly continues to increase!” he told the estimated 20,000 tourists and pilgrims gathered in the square.
Actually, I think it is a fact that a smaller proportion of resources is going to military spending, in almost all countries, than at any time in history.
He went on to express his hope that “the international community will understand that disarmament is first and foremost a duty, and that disarmament is a moral obligation.”
“Let’s get this into our heads,” he added. “And this requires the courage of all members of the great family of nations to move from a balance of fear to a balance of trust.”
But some leaders, and some nations, can’t be, and shouldn’t be, trusted. Francis’s foolish advice is reminiscent of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most overrated men ever, who urged Jews not to resist the Nazis. Wouldn’t want to dirty your hands with weapons. Back to Francis:
In the past, the pope has suggested that if people are really serious about world peace, the solution is to “ban all weapons.”
This is gun control writ large: blame the inanimate weapon, which can be used either for good or for ill, rather than the evil regime of Hamas, Putin, or the Chinese Communist Party.
For decades, the Catholic church has criticized the arms race and consequent build-up of nuclear arsenals, but Francis is the pope to call for the banning of all weapons. If he were to be taken at his word, this would imply outlawing everything from rifles to hand grenades to the halberds carried by the Pontifical Swiss Guards in the Vatican.
Good point! People used to go to war with spears and swords, tools which were sufficient to kill vast numbers.
The existence of weapons leads humanity to live “in fear of war,” the pope declared, and the only way to remove this fear is to eliminate all weapons.
People live in fear of war for excellent reasons. They lived in fear of war two thousand year ago, too, when weapons were much more primitive. The way to remove fear of war is to be more powerful than one’s potential adversaries.
I suppose Francis’s defenders would say that his call to disarm is aspirational, and that he doesn’t really want countries like the United States and Italy to turn their swords into ploughshares tomorrow. But when you tell people they have a moral duty to do something that it would be stupid and even fatal for them to do, you forfeit any claim to moral leadership.
Francis is a fool. Happily, there is no chance that anyone will listen to his bad advice.
The Supreme Court has held 9-0 that the Colorado Supreme Court erred in blessing the disqualification of Donald Trump from the state’s primary election ballot under section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court’s opinion is per curiam. Justice Barrett concurs in part and concurs in the judgment. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson concur in the judgment (i.e., the result). The Court’s opinions are posted online here.
The Court’s per curiam opinion commanded a majority and its reasoning represents the law. It rests substantially on the exclusive power of Congress to enforce section 3 against candidates for federal office, “especially the presidency.”
Does the opinion leave open the possibility that Congress might refuse to certify Trump as president if he were to be elected president on the ground that he is guilty of insurrection? If Congress has not prescribed any means other than conviction of the crime of insurrection to make the determination underlying application of section 3, I doubt it. See opinion at 10. However, I may be mistaken. Perhaps the opinion cannot be read that broadly.
The opinion concludes (emphasis in original, citations omitted):
All nine Members of the Court agree with that result. Our colleagues writing separately further agree with many of the reasons this opinion provides for reaching it. So far as we can tell, they object only to our taking into account the distinctive way Section 3 works and the fact that Section 5 vests in Congress the power to enforce it. These are not the only reasons the States lack power to enforce this particular constitutional provision with respect to federal offices. But they are important ones, and it is the combination of all the reasons set forth in this opinion—not, as some of our colleagues would have it, just one particular rationale—that resolves this case. In our view, each of these reasons is necessary to provide a complete explanation for the judgment the Court unanimously reaches.
Read the whole thing here.
UPDATE: Although he characterizes it as a 5-4 decision, Andrew McCarthy supports my reading of the per curiam opinion: “What that means is that if Donald Trump were to win the presidential election, congressional Democrats would not be able — in the next January 6 joint session of Congress — to refuse to ratify his victory on the grounds that he is an insurrectionist. Under the Court’s holding, it is now a prerequisite to enforcement of the Section 3 disqualification that a person must have been convicted under the insurrection statute.”
Today’s third NY Times installment about their most recent poll piles on the bad news for Biden: not only are you losing to Trump head-to-head, and are unpopular, but today we learn that more voters like Trump’s policies and record better than Biden’s.
Here’s the graphic depiction:
Some excerpts from the Times:
And despite holding intensely and similarly critical opinions both of President Biden and of his predecessor, Americans have much more positive views of Donald J. Trump’s policies than they do of Mr. Biden’s, according to New York Times/Siena College polls.
Overall, 40 percent of voters said Mr. Trump’s policies had helped them personally, compared with just 18 percent who say the same about Mr. Biden’s policies. . .
Women are 20 percentage points more likely to say that Mr. Trump’s policies have helped them than Mr. Biden’s have, despite the fact that Mr. Trump installed Supreme Court justices who ultimately overturned the right to an abortion and that about two-thirds of women in America think that abortion should be legal in all or most instances.
In a separate Times story, the Biden message to doubting Democrats is—drop dead. Well that’s the headline the NY Daily News would have used. Instead the Times headline is:
“For Democrats Pining for an Alternative, Biden Team Has a Message: Get Over It.”
. . . The Biden team views the very question as absurd. The president in their view has an impressive record of accomplishment to run on. There is no obvious alternative. It is far too late in the cycle to bow out without considerable disruption. . . Members of Mr. Biden’s team insist they feel little sense of concern.
Churchill remarked that “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” A similar thing can be said, apparently, for green energy—you can’t subsidize or tax-break yourself to a truly profitable business.
You might think that the leftists who run California would be worried about the rapid decline of that state, but no: they are doing all they can to accelerate it. In the Wall Street Journal, Heather Mac Donald outlines California’s latest descent into racialist madness:
What would happen if lawmakers reinvented the criminal-justice system to target “systemic racism” instead of crime? California is about to find out. Thanks to a 2020 law called the California Racial Justice Act, every felon serving time in the state’s prisons and jails can now retroactively challenge his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic bias.
To prevail, the incarcerated prisoner need not show that the police officers, prosecutors, judge or jurors in his case were motivated by racism or that his proceedings were unfair. If he can demonstrate that in the past, criminal suspects of his race were arrested, prosecuted or sentenced more often or more severely than members of other racial groups, he will be entitled to a new trial or sentence.
We all know what this is about. Blacks are arrested, prosecuted and convicted more often than members of other races because they commit more crimes. Heather has some of the numbers for California:
In Los Angeles, blacks are 21 times as likely as whites to commit a violent crime, 36 times as likely to commit a robbery, and 57 times as likely to commit a homicide, according to police department data. Those data come from reports filed by victims and witnesses, who are themselves disproportionately black.
Blacks over-offend to an appalling degree in other states, too. But liberals cling to the hoary myth that “disparities” in law enforcement can only be due to racial bias in criminal jutice.
The Racial Justice Act is turning California’ criminal justice system into a farce:
When a felon in San Francisco contested his arrest and prosecution for having a loaded handgun in his car, a “race expert” testified that the arresting officer’s use of the phrase “high crime area” demonstrated “bias against people of color.” The trial judge disagreed, but an appeals court reversed and allowed the felon’s claim to proceed. (Speaking of bias, that same expert, Dante King, asserted at the University of California, San Francisco, on Feb. 8 that “whites are psychopaths” whose “behavior represents an underlying, biologically transmitted proclivity.”)
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A case from Contra Costa County last year shows the snowballing potential of the Racial Justice Act. A judge found that four black gang members who had committed murder as part of a bloody feud between two Oakland gangs had been improperly sentenced to life in prison without parole. That conclusion wasn’t based on flaws in the four defendants’ trials, but simply on an alleged historical pattern of sentencing bias toward black gang murderers. The black comparison group in the case was made up of 30 black defendants who had also committed gang murder in Contra Costa County from 2015 to 2022 and who had also received life without parole. All 30 can now sue to erase those sentences.
It is hard to understand how there can be a political movement in favor of more crime, but there you have it. In California, that movement evidently represents the majority. If, for some reason, you still live in California, you should get out while you can.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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Michael Yon shows, we are going to have war on the streets of America:
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
03March2024
Mind-dump, sans editThe drone footage below has never been seen and was made yesterday. This is a United Nations Camp in Darien, Panama, after “migrant” attack two days ago.
9This is China Camp in Darien, Panama. Locally called San Vicente. Notice this camp is the header on my X page. Same camp. I have been here dozens of times including two weeks ago.Secretary @SecMayorkas came here on 18 April 2022 to expand the camp. I was there that day. @ganaha_masako, and @rangerholton, and I first went together shortly after Biden was installed several years ago. Chuck Holton had been to Darien many times over the years. We watched the United States grow this terrorist camp.
Realizing Darien Gap likely would become a main invasion route to USA, I have spent about six months in and around this area since Biden was installed.
Over the past three years I have taken only a small number of select people to this camp and into Darien. These include @annvandersteel, @EpochTimes, @LauraLoomer, @Matt_Bracken48, @RepTiffany, @BenBergquam, @Oscarelblue, @realmuckraker, @MaraMacie, @BretWeinstein, @chrismartenson and a few more.There is no doubt in my mind that people who pass through this camp will become responsible for the deaths of countless Americans. You have never seen a more serious terrorist camp in your life.
This camp is funded by @DHSgov and others through front organizations such as @UNmigration, and @HIASrefugees.@HIASrefugees has an office about 50 yards from this fire damage.
The Government of Panama wants to close this camp but @wef, Chinese Communist Party, and @USEmbPAN and others work to keep this open. This is a war camp. Panama could shut the camp with snap of a finger but do not. This camp and others will be instrumental in the coming revolution in Panama. At this rate, Panama will be taken from Panamanians due to allowing this to grow within their bellies.
Again, @HIASrefugees has an office about 50 yards from the fire damage that destroyed the “migrant” records two days ago.
@SecMayorkas was a board-member at @HIASrefugees before being installed as an operative at @DHSgov.
Two days ago, a riot occurred in this camp. Several courageous @senafrontpanama men [Panamaniam Border Guards] were seriously hurt trying to save the camp and stop the attack.
Arson was committed including an attack on vital records of invaders who pass through this camp. According to @senafrontpanama, computers and vital records were burned and destroyed.
The attack is said to have started from an internal dispute between “migrants”. The records were attacked during the violence. 44 “migrants” reportedly have been arrested so far. Others vanished into the night.
Vanished with what? The records?
Records that include CCP operatives, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others who have passed through were said to have been burned. It is unknown if backups are intact. It is unknown to me if the records were actually burned or maybe just vanished into the night.
Powerful forces are at play. This is a multiplayer game.
This drone footage was made yesterday afternoon on 02 March 2024. On the right side of the camp notice the fire damage to @senafrontpanama offices. This is exactly were @LauraLoomer interviewed the Somali, the Iranian, the the Chinaman about two weeks ago. I was there beside her with @ganaha_masako, @annvandersteel, @MaraMacie and others. We know this camp.China Camp is a terrorist bus station to United States funded by United States.
Those migrants, are Cabal assets. The groups they are a part of, Hamas, Hezbollah, those are Cabal operations. They are being brought here for something – something for which the present chaos, with criminals unable to be held after committing crimes, and cops imprisoned for decades simply for trying to stop crimes, and regular citizens like me getting poltergeist tech rolled out to damage portions of our brains, and Bill Binney having holes blown through steel shielding, is just a warm-up act. And we are so thoroughly infiltrated, we are paying for all of it through our government.
Supreme Court ‘must be dissolved’: Liberals melt down over ruling that states can’t disqualify Trump from ballots. I want to say the fireworks if Trump wins will be epic. But if any of this were real, I tend to think Democrats would be doing something different, starting with running someone other than Biden, and maybe not being so blatant about destroying the country with the migrants and criminals. All of this feels like Kayfabe, and I have a nagging worry the tears and angst we are seeing, is just the heel acting like he is super upset to give the crowd what they want. I want to see real suffering, of everyone involved.
Democrats now claim they’ll refuse to certify a potential Trump victory in November.
CNN’s Honig: Jack Smith is violating DOJ policy on timing of cases affecting elections.
Rumors swirl that Haley Campaign is talking about canceling ad buys.
MI lawmakers send brutal letter to FBI Director Wray demanding answers on 2020 GBI Strategies investigation: “This looks like a whitewash, and it looks like it’s selective enforcement of the laws.” GBI Strategies was submitting tens of thousands of bogus voter registrations, which could have been the foundation for tens of thousands of bogus votes. A clerk reported it, and an investigation was begun, and FBI covered it up.
At noon on Jan. 20, 2021, President Biden took the oath of office. What do you think he did in his first 12 hours? He signed an executive order titled “Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census.” That is government speak for directing the Census Bureau to count all illegal aliens when the census is taken…
Every 10 years, when the census is conducted, the population numbers are used to redraw congressional district lines so that they generally have the same amount of people in each district across the country. The more people counted, the more congressional seats a state receives… The number of congressional seats also directly relates to the number of electors each state can send to the Electoral College.
NY State GOP Chairman Ed Cox exposed! GOP “leader” is a progressive green new deal double agent who hand picks bad Republican candidates to lose to his commie pals on the left. Judging by the nasolabial lines, it could indicate surveillance spotted a sexual degenerate, which is why he is where he is:
Judge rejects Sen. Bob Menendez’s claims that search warrants in bribery case were unconstitutional.
An undocumented man wanted in Oregon for rape is now in federal custody after the Martin County Sheriff’s Office in Florida says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initially declined to hold him, until they got the politicians involved. ICE must be under orders, even if the illegal is a rapist, to leave him be, in the nation. Shocking.
ATF chief tells CBS he’s willing to skirt laws to ban guns he doesn’t even know how to use.
The United States may sell its 1 million barrel Northeast gasoline reserve in fiscal year 2024, according to the draft text of a funding bill released on Sunday. Some think it is to drop gas prices just before the election.
People cannot eat foods in the US, they travel overseas, and can eat the foods fine, return home, and cannot eat them again. Are they poisoning the foods in the US? Is it the Beam?
Life insurance companies are reporting an unexplained increase in deaths among 18-49 year olds.
John Thune of South Dakota seeks to replace Mitch McConnell as Senate Republican leader.
Senate conservatives seek to expand power post-McConnell.
Send your neighbor to prison for “WrongSpeak,” get $2,000 from taxpayers in state of Washington. Probably just a money laundering deal to funnel taxpayer money to select individuals.
China drops ‘peaceful reunification’ reference to Taiwan.
Hungarian PM Orban: The only serious chance for peace is a Trump win.
Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance. I wish Russia would take the whole country, and then execute every last drone operator, as a way of dissuading the use of drones in wars going forward.
Linux crosses 4% market share worldwide.
Texas Republicans wage intraparty war as state braces for its most ‘painful’ election in modern history. Sounds like Cabal vs the counter-conspiracy.
NY Times poll: Voters favor Trump’s policies to Biden’s.
Spread r/K Theory, because it is not a real win if your rnemy is pretending to suffer.
As a guest of the Jewish Community Relations Council I attended a private showing of the atrocity video compiled by the IDF in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre this past December. Several of the clips compiled in the video had previously been posted to social media. The sadistic glee of the Hamas savages is apparent throughout the 45-minute video. They shriek in ecstasy as they perform their barbaric deeds. They take sensual pleasure in committing acts from which we recoil in disgust and horror.
Now Professor Alvin Rosenfeld seeks to capture the Hamas spirit in the Tablet column “Longing for Auschwitz.” What’s it all about? Professor Rosenfeld seems to me to get at the mania that is otherwise beyond our verbal grasp if not our human understanding. This is just the opening slice of his column:
Hamas’s assault on Israelis on October 7th was not an act of war as we normally think of it but something far worse. We don’t have an adequate term for what occurred on that day, so people use words like “terrorism,” “barbarism,” “atrocity,” “depravity,” “massacre,” and so on. All are correct, and yet all fall short of capturing the annihilationist fury set loose at the Nova music festival and in the kibbutzim and small towns of southern Israel. The people attacked in those places were not only to die, but to die in torment. In addition to the merciless torture, killings, slashings, burnings, beheadings, mutilations, dismemberments, and kidnappings, there were gang-rapes and other forms of sadistic sexual assault, including, according to some reports, the cutting off of women’s breasts, nails driven into women’s thighs and groins, bullets fired into their vaginas, and even intercourse with female corpses. Unimaginable? For most normal people, yes. But before going into Israel, the Hamas assassins were instructed to “dirty them” and “whore them.” And that’s precisely what many of them faithfully did.
If it were possible to encapsulate all the evil of that day in a single image, it would be that of the violent seizure of a young Israeli woman, Naama Levy, 19, barefoot, beaten, and bloodied, her hands tied behind her back, the crotch of her sweatpants heavily soiled, possibly from being raped, dragged by her hair at gunpoint into a Hamas car, and driven off to Gaza to suffer an unspeakable fate among her captors there.Her assailants filmed every second of her ordeal; and as one watches the clips of her being taken away, one sees crowds nearby loudly shouting “Allah-hu Akbar” – “Allah is the greatest”—a victory cry that offers religious sanction to the malign treatment of Naama Levy and countless others seized, slaughtered, and abducted on that horrific day.
All wars cause human suffering, but the cruelties visited upon Israelis on October 7th far surpasses what normally happens when armies go to war. Hamas’s actions had a different aim: not conquest but the purposeful humiliation of Jews by people who detest them and were sworn to degrade and dehumanize them before murdering them. For those familiar with Jewish history, the mass violence enacted against Jews in Kishinev in 1903 came instantly to mind, as did the Farhoud in Iraq in 1941 and Chmielnicki’s savage decimation of Ukrainian Jewish communities in the mid-17th century. With memories of those earlier massacres newly revived, October 7th instantly evoked the word “pogrom.” With cause. But how could such a catastrophe occur in today’s Israel? The country’s military has been hailed as one of the strongest in the world and was regarded as invincible. And yet on October 7th, it failed to protect its southern border and prevent the ruthless assault on Jews in the Gaza envelope. Responding to Hamas’s bloody deeds, one Israeli woman summed up the reactions of virtually every Jew in the country and millions of others abroad when she said, simply and incontrovertibly, “Every Israeli’s worst nightmares have come true.”
October 7th, 2023 was the most destructive day of mass violence against Jews since the end of the Holocaust. The carnage carried out on that day, far from being a by-product of war, was a religiously sanctioned, orgiastic display of unrestrained Jew-hatred. One cannot begin to understand it if one ignores the Hamas Charter and other Islamist teachings that make Hamas the organization it is and inspires it to do what it does.
Hamas originates as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is and always has been a jihadist organization, which sees the existence of the State of Israel as an intolerable intrusion into the Domain of Islam (“dar al-islam”) and is committed to removing Israel by whatever means necessary. The preamble to the Hamas Charter declares that “Israel exists and will continue to exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterated others before it.” The “Palestinian problem,” it affirms, “is a religious problem” and is not amenable to a negotiated political settlement. The only way to “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine” is through “jihad,” a holy war that is a “duty for every Muslim wherever he may be.”
After watching the atrocity video, I wondered: Has Dementia Joe or blind Tony Blinken seen this? (Kelly Jane Torrance reported in her New York Post column on it that Biden has seen it.) If so, what are they doing hectoring Israel, yammering about a two-state solution, and disparaging a country acting in self-defense while in the throes of a crisis that goes to its reason for being? If that’s the best they can do, why won’t they shut up?
The “solution” is part of the problem. A people must have civilized norms and civil institutions on which to predicate a state. It can’t be created ex nihilo or ex worse than nothing.
Israel exists as a homeland and refuge for the Jewish people. The events of October 7 belie its reason for being. In other words, it won’t remain a refuge if Israelis aren’t safe from such atrocities in their homeland. Thus the war on Hamas in which it is currently engaged. Israel, by the way, also has to contend with Iranian proxies including Hezbollah and the Houthis as well as Iran itself. The day of reckoning is coming.
No government freely elected by the people of Israel can tolerate what Israel withstood on October 7. There can be no return to the status quo ante or its functional equivalent under the supervision of the Palestinian Authority, whose president for life himself supports terrorism with funds generously provided by his supporters among the Biden administration and elsewhere.
Attorney Terrence Bradley testified last week in the hearing on the possible disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Nathan Wade in the “conspiracy so immense” charges against President Trump et al. pending in Georgia state court. Bradley is Wade’s former law partner and lawyer in his divorce proceeding. He knows when the Willis/Wade romance began because Wade told him.
Indeed, Bradley had previously stated in text messages to Ashleigh Merchant (attorney for defendant Michael Roman) that: (1) the relationship between Willis and Wade started before he was appointed special prosecutor, (2) the relationship started while they were both magistrate judges, and (3) the motion to disqualify Willis, which alleged the start date of the relationship, was accurate.
However, that’s not the way it turned out on the witness stand. After long pauses, Bradley disavowed his previous statements. He couldn’t recall. He was speculating. As in the old Jack Benny joke, he was thinking about it. He knew nothing. It made for painful viewing. Everyone in the room knew that Bradley was lying. Which means that Willis and Wade had lied in their testimony, which was almost as obvious.
Judge Scott McAfee heard oral argument on the disqualification motion this past Friday. He announced that he would render a decision within two weeks. I think he left the bench knowing what he would do.
Now comes counsel for defendant David J. Shafer to add to the lyin’ record on the matter of disqualification. According to counsel in a three-page filing setting forth Notice of Proposed Testimony, Cobb County prosecutor Cindi Lee Yeager had “numerous, in-person and other conversations” with Bradley in which they discussed information about Willis and Wade. Bradley told Yeager that the two met during a 2019 judicial conference and that Wade “began his romantic relationship” with the future DA “at or around this time.”
The filing also describes a meeting around September 2023 when Bradley was visiting Yeager in her office and got a phone call. “Ms. Yeager could hear that the caller was District Attorney Willis. District Attorney Willis was calling Mr. Bradley in response to an article that was published about how much money Mr. Wade and his law partners had been paid in this case,” according to the filing. “Ms. Yeager heard District Attorney Willis tell Mr. Bradley: “They are coming after us. You don’t need to talk to them about anything about us.”
The Daily Mail runs it all down along with exhibits and videos in “Fani Willis warned Nathan Wade’s divorce lawyer to stay quiet about their affair, bombshell new court filing claims: Trump prosecutor case gets another twist with NEW witness that could deliver devastating testimony.” Jonathan Turley provides a link to the new filing in the tweet below.
My guess is that Judge McAfee has heard enough. He knows how he wants to decide the disqualification motion. Anyone with half a brain could see that Bradley was lying. Bradley could not have made it more obvious if he had wanted to, although (with apologies to the great Jeremiah Denton) he might have blinked out “I-M-L-Y-I-N-G” in Morse Code if he knew it.
There is a new filing in the Fani Willis case that contradicts the much maligned testimony of Nathan Wade’s former partner Terrence Bradley. A prosecutor has come forward to say that Bradley told him with clarity of the personal relationship began earlier. https://t.co/HWtlWhdmyK
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 4, 2024
Last week I observed in “Liberal Fragility” how liberal law professors supposedly break down in tears they are so depressed that the Supreme Court has taken a turn away from the palmy days of their beloved Warren Court (which, recall, Barack Obama once said did not go far enough in the direction of true “equality”). Just imagine how much Xanax is being ingested after yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling that leaves Trump on the ballot.
I expected something like this from Keith Olbermann:
Dissolve the Court! Remind me again who is the threat to democracy and trasher of “democratic norms”? Almost makes you long for the good old days of court-packing.
But I hadn’t expected that a supposed conservative could be equally idiotic, but then the side-effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome, for which there is no vaccine, appear to be even worse that I thought:
One of the central totems of the modern left and its women’s auxiliary (the feminist movement) is the alleged “wage gap” between men and women. You know the cliche—women only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns. This cliche has been exploded countless times, but it refuses to die because it retains endless utility for grievance-junkies who run the Democratic Party. You know the Biden White House will continue to deploy it.
Which makes Mark Perry’s annual analysis of White House salaries under Democrats so much fun:
Israel’s war on Hamas has had several side effects. One such is the exposure of UNRWA a functional arm of Hamas. As Michael Rubin puts it:
The rot surrounding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East keeps accumulating. Not only did the UNRWA allow Hamas command posts under local hospitals and the UNRWA’s own headquarters, but UNRWA employees hid weaponry in their homes and then reportedly participated in the Oct. 7 kidnappings in Israel. Some employees held Israeli civilians hostage in the aftermath of the mass kidnapping. Israel alleges that 10% of UNRWA employees are Hamas members, a figure that, if anything, seems low.
Yesterday the IDF played a recording of an UNRWA employee boasting about kidnapping an Israeli woman on October 7. The UNRWA employee is only one of several hundred UNRWA employees in Gaza who are operatives in Gaza terrorist groups. Yesterday IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari held a press briefing to play the recording. Here is his introduction to it:
The information that I am about to share is distressing and some people may find it triggering, but we have an obligation to share the truth about what happened on October 7th, 150 days ago. We have a duty to expose the truth about those who took part in this brutal massacre.
Today, we are declassifying a call that we intercepted, made by Yusef Zidan Salimam Al-Khuairl, a Hamas terrorist who took part in the massacre of October 7th.
But he is not just a Hamas terrorist, he is also an UNRWA employee working as a teacher in a UN elementary school in Gaza.
The terrorist is heard speaking on the phone roughly 7 hours after Hamas began invading Israel:
Murdering; mutilating; massacring; kidnapping; raping; and burning entire families alive.On the call, you can hear him bragging about the Sabaya is a female captive that he got his hands on.
He’s talking about one of our girls. He is talking about one of the women. The term “SABAYA” used by this UNRWA worker is an Arabic term, meaning ‘female captive’ with a possession, a possession of a captor.
“Sabaya” is exactly the same word used by ISIS to describe the Yazidi women they captured, and did horrific things to.
I want you to listen to the conversation, I want you to hear the tone… how they brag…how they laugh…how they talk about women…How they call her a “noble horse”…
Listen.
The IDF has posted text and video of the briefing here. Below is the video.
Below is the recording of the call Hagari plays in the briefing. “Listen.”
This is an @UNRWA teacher.
This is a proud @UN employee.
This man's paycheque is paid by YOUR taxes.
This is a man sharing his successes.
This is a man who sees women as #sabaya, the term ISIS used for slaves.
This is the terrorism of #October7massacre
This is UNRWA… pic.twitter.com/VcPOkz49Yf— Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) March 4, 2024
Via Richard Kemp/X.
JOHN adds: the UN is a hopelessly corrupt and immoral organization. We should get out.
Kyrsten Sinema announced today that she will not seek reelection to her Arizona Senate seat:
Sinema’s move is significant but not unexpected. She raised only $595,000 in the final quarter of 2023, a fraction of the totals that Lake and Gallego each raised — although Sinema maintains nearly $11 million in her campaign account.
So it sounds like her mind was made up a while ago. Sinema’s withdrawal means the race will be between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Representative Ruben Gallego. Gallego is a far leftist; this is how Lake describes him:
He votes with Joe Biden 100% of the time, supported the Iran Deal, sanctuary cities, defunding the police, and voting rights for everyone pouring across the border. He even called the border wall “stupid.”
Lake will now be a heavy favorite to flip the Senate seat, obviously a desirable outcome. But I am a little sorry to see Sinema go. She was an old-fashioned–i.e, sane–Democrat. A dinosaur, in other words. While she no doubt voted with the Dems most of the time, there were important instances, as for example the original “Build Back Better” disaster, when she stood in the breach on behalf of the Republic. And I have it on good authority that she couldn’t stand her Democratic colleagues, which perhaps contributed to her decision to walk away.
In any event, while Kari Lake will likely mark an important step toward restoring Republican control of the Senate, we owe Kyrsten Sinema a debt of gratitude.
Josef Stalin died on this day in 1953. In his sleep; so, like Lenin, Mao and Castro, and unlike Hitler, Mussolini and Ceausescu, he never paid a price for his crimes. The Victims of Communism remember:
Stalin died on this day in 1953.
He left behind a legacy of terror, famine, and mass murder.
Remember the victims. pic.twitter.com/HUBBYUZMwh
— Victims of Communism (@VoCommunism) March 5, 2024
Stalin ranks second only to Mao among history’s worst mass murderers. Those who knew him best understood how evil he was: his wife committed suicide and his daughter defected to America. Stalin’s malignant legacy lives on, as Russia has never fully emerged from his dark shadow. It is unfortunate that he wasn’t strung up like Mussolini or shot like Ceausescu. At this point, all we can do is revile him.
Some things even the Babylon Bee can’t make up:
Bed bugs found at MSNBC’s Manhattan headquarters caused staffers to scatter ahead of the left-leaning network’s Super Tuesday coverage, The Post has learned.
According to a memo obtained by The Post, an “unidentified insect” was spotted Sunday in the recently revamped studio 3A — home to special election coverage and “The Rachel Maddow Show” — at 30 Rock in Midtown.
Additional studios on the third floor were also shuttered “out of an abundance of caution.”
Now I know what you’re thinking. How can you tell the difference between a bed bug and an MSNBC news person? They are both repellant parasites. You’d think professional courtesy would make MSNBC welcome bed bugs.
As Steve notes, Joe Biden can’t even handle his cue cards and calls to dump the Delaware Democrat are surging by the day. That recalls events from the summer of 1972, another crucial election year.
The incumbent president was Richard Nixon, hated by the left for his role in exposing Stalinist spy Alger Hiss (see Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case). In 1972, the Soviet Union still controlled Eastern Europe under the Brezhnev Doctrine. For the American left, defense of the USSR was the primary task and in 1972 they had the candidate they wanted.
After WWII, George McGovern opposed President Truman’s “aggressive anti-Soviet policy,” which he considered “dangerous.” In 1948 McGovern supported Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party, a front for the Communist Party. In 1972, McGovern’s position on “arms control” was essentially the same as the Soviets. America is to blame for the Cold War, McGovern believed, so the Soviets must arm and America must limit.
Nixon retained vice president Spiro Agnew, former governor of Maryland. McGovern picked Sen. Thomas Eagleton, a Harvard law grad and devout Catholic who opposed abortion and the war in Vietnam. McGovern backed Eagleton “1000 percent,” but then came an anonymous call.
On three occasions during the 1960s, Eagleton had been hospitalized for depression and undergone electroshock treatment. After only 18 days, McGovern dumped Eagleton for Eunice Kennedy’s husband Sargent Shriver, who had never run for office. Nixon bagged 60.7 percent of the popular vote to McGovern’s 37.5 and in the electoral college Nixon topped McGovern 520-17. The South Dakota Democrat carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
“McGovern would have lost anyway to an incumbent Nixon,” notes Victor Davis Hanson, “but the margin of defeat in one of the greatest landslides in presidential history was often attributable to the sheer chaos of changing a vice presidential candidate so late in the campaign.”
In 2024, with chaos on every hand, Democrats seek to dump the addled Biden. As this plays out, Kamala Harris proves capable of rivaling Biden in sheer incoherence. As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
Just dropped, I have not had time to check it out yet:
Trump wins FOURTEEN STATES to Nikki Haley’s ONE in Super Tuesday steamrolling: Ex-President almost certain to face-off with Joe Biden in November – but GOP rival Haley has ‘NO plans’ to concede. Haley won Vermont, which saw a flood of Democrats cross over to vote in the Republican primary in the open primary state.
Nikki Haley’s campaign has provided a clue that she might be about to drop out of the Republican primary race after suffering a series of losses on Super Tuesday. All events removed from her website.
Nikki Haley to suspend 2024 presidential campaign, ABC News confirms.
Trump demands new E. Jean Carroll trial, citing ‘restrictions’ on testimony.
Bumbling Joe Biden freezes for 15 seconds and AGAIN tells press he will ‘get in trouble’ for taking questions even though White House continues to say he is mentally fit for another term. He looked like he was having something medically wrong there. He looked even maybe a little afraid it was serious, whatever it was.
Trump meets with Elon Musk, GOP donors in Florida.
Biden plans to ‘trigger Trump’ in new ‘aggressive’ election strategy – “Biden is convinced he’ll rattle Trump if he taunts him daily” and “he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him.” Biden’s mental model is so fascinating. Those are things which Biden, deep down, recognizes in himself. But at the conscious level he needs to deny them to take the pressure off his amygdala, and the best way these characters have found to do that is to accuse someone else of it. It is mind-blowing how when you deal with a narcissist, they will accuse everyone of being what they are. And they are all the same, like they came off an assembly line.
Whistleblower reveals DHS didn’t collect DNA from 60% of migrants. At this point, facilitating crimes against average American’s is the official government’s mission.
California proposes zero down, no payment home ‘loans’ for illegal immigrants, which require no payments until the home is sold. So basically the government buys you a house, and you live in it for free?
WA Secretary of State Weaponizes AI to conduct surveillance of journalists, citizens. If you see it here, the real surveillance probably had it twenty years ago.
House Republicans subpoena Andrew Cuomo over COVID-19 nursing homes policy.
Meet the “Transableists”: Able-bodied men who identify as disabled women. And behind these mental illnesses like transgenderism may very well be teams of psychologists, and porn producers, and online content marketers, all from nations like China, looking to weaken us. The disabled part is even better than just the transgenderism, from the perspective of screwing up the country.
It took just 4 days for federal debt to go up by $100 billion. Another trillion every 40 days? This is a hostile intel operation, which has completed the infiltration stage, and is now burning everything to the ground, from the position of the top of the government. And nobody can see it. You see the power of intel. What could never be done militarily, will be done completely effortlessly, using guile. If only we could reveal it, the utter killfest, targeting pure evil that it would set off…
Kyrsten Sinema: Independent senator won’t run for re-election.
Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among ‘racially diverse transgenders in deep south.’
Philippines relaxes rules for rifles to counter threats from China.
Argentine president Javier Milei bans gov’t from using pro-LGBT ‘inclusive language.’
There is growing trepidation in Israel as the Biden administration begins to interfere in Israeli domestic politics. LOL. Meanwhile we have everything from official lobbying groups, to dual citizens as political officials, to shadowy pedophile blackmail networks being run by Israel in the US.
UK government pressures Big Tech giants to censor ‘misinformation’ ahead of elections.
British Police fail to solve a single burglary in half of neighborhoods.
The Washington Post reports that Kyiv told America that out of one million mobilized troops, it can only account for 300,000, and does not know where the other 700,000 are. Every one of those young patriotic guys is a tragedy, as are all the young Russian patriots killed in this thing. All of that horror, just because Globohomo cannot mind its own business and leave everyone else alone. You can see how a relatively few kills, by our kind on Globohomo, would be so vastly more moral of an option, and create such a beautiful world. But we are told that is wrong, we refrain, and this is the outcome.
French President Emmanuel Macron told expats in Prague on Tuesday it was time for Ukraine’s allies to step up, adding that a moment was being approached “in our Europe where it will be appropriate not to be a coward.” And he will watch all the young kids die, from his penthouse suite or his multimillion dollar chateau, while sipping chardonnay. Because that is what bravery looks like.
Louisiana becomes most recent state to pass Constitutional-Carry law. #28.
Digging deep into the Super Tuesday primary results, I foresee President Biden facing off for a rematch against President Trump. Can you feel the excitement? The two candidates represent juggernauts within their respective parties.
Let’s take the Democrats first, courtesy of RealClearPolitics. What we have here is one full boatload of results. They raise the question: who is Marianne Williamson and what is she doing here? She is the best-selling author of a variety of books including A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course In Miracles, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, The Healing of America, and Illuminated Prayers. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Williamson continues to inspire audiences on a global scale as she lectures internationally in the fields of spirituality and new thought.
I infer from the results that Democrats resist the light. They resist new thought. Also, we don’t have a prayer. We need a miracle.
Biden’s presents himself as a throwback to the old-fashioned Democratic Party, yet he has adopted the policies of party’s far left. Most prominent among these policies is the opening of our borders and the implicit rejection of the sovereignty of the United States. Over the past three-plus years these policies have wrought great damage. Biden wants to test the outer limits of Adam Smith’s proposition that “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” One can’t help but wonder if we can put ourselves back on track.
It’s not Joe Biden’s Democratic Party. It’s the woke left’s Democratic Party. It’s the party of those who say the things which are not.
Biden made an appearance during the narrow window of his waking hours yesterday. He appeared to have dropped in from outer space. He sounded like he had not been briefed since he blasted off from his homeworld. J.B., phone home.
FULL VIDEO:
REPORTER: "What's your message to Democrats who are concerned about your poll numbers?"
BIDEN: "My poll numbers? The last five polls you guys don't report. I'm winning — five! Five in a row!" pic.twitter.com/Mz5gWQMRSA
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 5, 2024
On the Republican side of Super Tuesday (also courtesy of RCP), President Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination. Nikki Haley will suspend her campaign later this morning.
This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party. If President Trump were to keel over and leave us with an open convention in Milwaukee next July, I assess the odds that the delegates would turn to Haley at zero. It would be a politician in the mold of Trump — probably Ron DeSantis, or perhaps J.D. Vance or Vivek the Mistake. Trump has transformed the Republican Party. By contrast with Biden and the Democrats, he has stamped the party in his image.
I am surprised by the not insubstantial fraction of votes that Haley pulled yesterday. Some portion of the Haley represents Democrats voting in open primaries. Haley won Vermont, but even if she were the nominee she would lose it in November. Vermont is a socialist state. I’m not talking about Vermont. Assuming Trump can survive the Democrats’ lawfare, he cannot win without a united Republican Party. He has some work to do to put the Republican house together. His choice for vice president could help.
It is difficult to project the state of play in the coming months. My crystal ball is cloudy. Much depends on the course of the Democrats’ lawfare against Trump and, to a lesser extent, the nature of the campaign Trump runs. I think he best serves his own interests at this point when he is out of the news and provides the alternative to Biden. If the election can be reduced to a binary choice, Biden should lose. The Democrats’ lawfare means to preclude that.
Yesterday brought more news of the illegal immigration that Biden has invited, inflicted, facilitated, fostered. Biden’s derelictions in office are historic in nature. The Daily Mail reports, for example, “Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security ‘vulnerabilities.'” The New York Post reports “Elon Musk says Biden flying 320K ‘unvetted’ migrants into the US sets stage ‘for something far worse than 9/11.’” Elon Musk — he’s no dummy.
The true numbers involved in the invasion that Biden invited are staggering, whatever they are, as are the secondary effects. As I say, we need a miracle, or something like it.
The annual Academy Awards show, coming up on March 10, has defied satire for decades. Back in 1973, the Monty Python players had a go with “The British Showbiz Awards,” hosted by “Dickie” Attenborough, wonderfully played by Eric Idle:
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Chairman, friends of the society, your dummy Royal Highness. Once again, the year has come full circle, and for me there can be no greater privilege, and honor, than to that to which it is my lot to have befallen this evening. There can be no finer honor than to welcome into our midst tonight a guest who has not only done only more than not anyone for our Society, but nonetheless has only done more.
Ladies and gentlemen, seldom can it have been a greater pleasure and privilege than it is for me now to announce that the next award gave me the great pleasure and privilege of asking a man without whose ceaseless energy and tireless skill the British Film Industry would be today. I refer of course to my friend and colleague, Mr. David Niven. Sadly, David Niven cannot be with us tonight, but he has sent his fridge. This is the fridge in which David keeps most of his milk, butter and eggs. What a typically selfless gesture, that he should send this fridge, of all his fridges, to be with us tonight.
David Niven’s fridge then proclaims the nominees for best foreign film, including Pasolini’s “The Third Test Match,” which came in sixth. Contenders for the big prize include the Oscar Wilde sketch but the winner must wait until the end. Dickie brings it on in fine style:
That moment is coming in a moment. The moment I’m talking about is the moment when we present the award for the cast with the most awards award, and this year is no exception. Ladies and gentlemen will you join me and welcome please, the winners of this year’s Mountbatten trophy, showbusiness’s highest accolade, the cast of the Dirty Vicar Sketch.
Dickie greets the cast, including Ronald Simms, the Dirty Vicar of St. Michaels, played by Terry Jones.
Well now, let us see the performances which brought them this award. Let us see The Dirty Vicar sketch.
Monty Python gets the nomination for best satire of the Oscars, but don’t forget Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Hear the peasant Dennis (Michael Palin) tell King Arthur (Graham Chapman) that “supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.” There’s a lesson for America in 2024.
The term “deaths of despair” has caught on in recent years, brought out into the mainstream from academic and specialized literature such as Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. And the problem of drug overdose deaths was already becoming an issue on the campaign trail as far back as the Obama years. And yet the problem has only gotten worse:
Politico reports that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (a Democrat, of course) is accelerating an investigation that may lead to prosecutions of people close to President Trump’s 2020 campaign. Which is odd on its face, since the events that are the basis for the investigation happened more than three years ago. Why the sudden hurry? Obviously, Democrats see that Joe Biden is losing, and are throwing the kitchen sink at Trump:
Arizona prosecutors in recent weeks issued grand jury subpoenas to multiple people linked to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, a sharp acceleration of their criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
The new steps, first reported here, are a sign that Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, is nearing a decision on whether to charge Trump’s allies in the state, including GOP activists who falsely posed as presidential electors in December 2020.
“Falsely posed as electors.” What an absurd characterization! In a number of states, Trump’s campaign had people lined up to be electors on his behalf in the event that his various legal challenges might succeed before the Electoral College met. There is nothing wrong with this, let alone illegal. The same thing happened in Hawaii in 1960, and would have happened in Florida in 2000 if the Supreme Court hadn’t first put the matter to rest.
The “fake elector” theory is one of several ways in which the Democrats have tried to criminalize making claims of voter fraud. In the wake of the 2020 election, Donald Trump and many others believed that the election had been stolen by the Biden campaign. Were they right? I doubt it, but we will never know for sure. There wasn’t enough time between the election and Biden’s inauguration for claims of voter fraud to be litigated on the merits, and in no case did any court ever permit the necessary discovery, conduct a trial and make findings on the extent of voter fraud by the Democrats.
In multiple criminal proceedings, Trump is accused of “trying to overturn” — or “plotting to overturn” — the result of the 2020 election. Again, there is nothing wrong with this. Al Gore tried to overturn the result of the 2000 election, and Al Franken got into the U.S. Senate by overturning the result of an election. There is nothing wrong with pursuing legal election remedies. And where extensive voter fraud is suspected, an attempt to investigate, litigate and overturn a fraudulent result is commendable, not criminal. But the reality is that voter fraud can only be prevented; it can’t be litigated and corrected after the fact. The Democrats have blocked common-sense ballot security measures at every opportunity, and they have no one but themselves to blame if the public widely suspects that our elections are rigged.
Sadly, it appears that some Trump associates have been bullied into guilty pleas in shameful criminal proceedings alleging that they were “fake electors.” This reflects the reality that government at either the federal or the state level can destroy your life at will. At some point, nearly everyone will surrender rather than go through bankruptcy and see his or her life destroyed.
The misuse of criminal proceedings by the Democratic Party to punish its political opponents is the most vicious legacy of our current political crisis.
North Face is a left-wing clothing company that is breaking new ground in wokeness. It now has a program, where anyone who completes its “allyship” training module can get a 20% discount on North Face products. This is truly a new frontier: a company is actually engaging in price discrimination, offering lower prices to people who share (or pretend to share) its political views.
Intrigued by news stories about North Face’s left-wing discount, I signed up to take the “Allyship in the Outdoors” course. For reasons stated below, I didn’t complete it. But this is what I saw, starting with how North Face introduces its course:
It is all about race. There is, you see, a problem. Not enough POCs are venturing into the outdoors:
The statistics are grim, especially in England. Hey, North Face is international:
But let’s pause here for a moment. There is not a single human activity that is engaged in by equal proportions of members of different ethnic groups. Not one. In the U.S., blacks live mostly in cities. Urban populations do not hike and camp as often as rural populations. So what? Rural populations do not play basketball as much as urban populations. Should North Face offer discounts to rural whites for that reason?
Of course, North Face is on board with the Black Lives Matter Movement, even though the Black Lives Matter organization turned out to be a criminal fraud. Should someone tell them?
North Face thinks it is really important that women in full head coverings participate equally in the great outdoors:
Here’s the thing: I haven’t done so much hiking and camping in recent years, but I did quite a bit when I was younger, as well as skiing, fishing and other outdoor activities. There is no “barrier” to anyone doing any of these things. The national and state parks are open to all. Anyone can hunt or fish. Just buy a shotgun or a fishing rod. You don’t have to be a left-wing “ally” to encourage anyone who feels the urge to get outdoors. Maybe by joining the Boy Scouts, although I don’t suppose North Face would approve of that.
One thing about a far-left outfit like North Face, they lay it on the line. “Equity” means equal outcomes, i.e., exactly equal percentages of all ethnic groups engaging in all outdoor activities:
Let me know when all ethnic groups are equally represented in the NFL, and then I will get back to you.
Before getting too far into the “allyship” lesson, I had to take a quiz:
I clicked on f), but that turned out to be a thought crime:
So that was the end of the road for me. I had to either sign on with North Face’s rightthink, or forgo my opportunity for a 20% discount. Since I would not, under any circumstances, consider buying a product from North Face, it was an easy decision.
What to make of this? North Face has ventured beyond any other “woke” company, to my knowledge, in offering discounts to people with stupid political beliefs. Can that possibly work? I don’t know. The adage “Get woke, go broke” sometimes holds with regard to companies that rely on American sales, like Bud Light, but it generally doesn’t with regard to companies whose sales are mostly international, like Nike. I am not sure where North Face falls on that continuum.
I do suspect that North Face, which pretends to be “green,” is embarrassed by the fact that its products are made mostly from petroleum, and that may partly account for its insistent leftism.
So, is there an opportunity here for conservative companies? Should conservative companies (assuming there are some) offer discounts to customers who assert belief in values like patriotism and free speech?
It isn’t going to happen. Why? Because conservatives believe in inclusion and equality.
You may recall a few weeks ago the Biden Administration backed down in the face of public outrage when it emerged that one of its wokesters in the Department of the Interior proposed to remove a statue of William Penn from federal property in Philadelphia in favor of some kind of statue or public art that would be more “welcoming.”
Well, they done it again. A wokester in the Veterans Administration proposed in a memo to remove and ban any display of the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of the jubilant sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J day in 1945. Because this photo depicts “a non-consensual act,” it has to be banned because it might constitute a hostile environment or cause snowflakes to melt or something. Some people thought the memo must be parody, but it was real:
The head of the VA has reversed this stupidity. However, I propose that if Trump is indeed elected again and allowed to take office next January 20, one of his first executive orders should be to require that “Baby It’s Cold Outside” be played at least once every day, or perhaps at shift change, in every VA hospital.
P.S. Now, if someone proposes expunging every picture of Joe Biden creeping on a child or grown woman, I’d be down for that.
Chaser:
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
“In reading Bobby Kennedy’s new book ‘The Wuhan Cover-Up’ it is increasingly clear that there is something about the Clandestine Services that has taken over entities, that we do not think of in those terms. What their purpose is, I can’t say, but It does appear that it is necessary that the public not know what is going on, and therefore it is not simply important that they have propaganda outlets, what they need is for there to be no exception there is no place for you to go to even figure out the basic facts …We look at a map, and we think that we understand what those things that we call nations are, and that they predict something about who is on our team and who is not. Increasingly I think that is more of a distraction than in insight, and that something is partnering across national boundaries.”
3 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges fall to Ken Paxton-backed candidates on Super Tuesday. These three supposedly tried to stymie investigations of voter fraud and election rigging.
Judicial Watch sues Illinois to force clean up of voting rolls.
Fani Willis paid Nathan Wade from confiscated property fund.
During her testimony, Fani Willis SPECIFICALLY and CATEGORICALLY denied having visited the White House when she was in DC.
Today, Ashleigh Merchant provided receipts PROVING that Fani did in fact visit the White House.
This means that Fani not only lied under oath, but lied about having visited the White House because she was clearly colluding with the Biden administration in the political persecution of Trump et al.
This is beyond disqualification for conflict of interest.
This is government election interference.
This is lightyears beyond the Russia-gate hoax.
This is pure criminality that attacks the very fabric of these United States of America.
The irony is that Fani didn’t even have to answer the question because there was an objection. But she was too eager to lie to cover up not only her wrongdoing, but that of @potus
and @vp
as well.
This is a scandal of astonishing proportions.
Unless I have misunderstood something…
Nikki Haley spent more than $114 million to only win VT, D.C.
Hillary Clinton tells voters to ‘accept the reality’ Biden is ‘old’ and re-elect him anyway.
Centrist extinction looms as Sinema, Manchin, Romney call it quits.
Gang members outnumber Police 22 to 1 in Democrat hellhole Chicago and the ratio just keeps getting worse. That is gang members drawn from a small population of younger male minorities willing to risk prison. How much bigger could the ratio be, if you were recruiting a domestic surveillance force from the entirety of the population, and promising them your agency was too big for any of them to ever have to risk going to prison?
Flood of migrant children to put estimated $2 billion strain on public school system.
Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes bill authorizing Arizona Police to arrest illegal aliens.
Plasmid replication in vaccinated cell lines. The field is too unexplored to know what is posssible or not.
Five Europeans have died in an avian chlamydia outbreak that has spooked health chiefs. Is this going to be “Disease X”?
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy testified to Congress Wednesday that a controlled burn and explosion weren’t necessary after a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio in February 2023. “This town very well may have been poisoned to facilitate the rapid movement of freight, or at the very least, it was poisoned for reasons that we can’t identify. That should really concern every single person on this committee.”
Three corporations own 19,000 homes in the metro Atlanta area.
University of Virginia spends $20 million on 235 DEI employees, with some making $587,340 per year.
NY mulls bill to give inmates $2.6K in taxpayer-funded pocket money when they leave state prison.
Study: EVs release 1,850x more particle pollution than gas-powered cars.
Three sailors dead after Houthis strike ship in Gulf of Aden, US says.
Video shows first confirmed destruction of HIMARS MLRS in Ukraine.
Ukraine poll: Zelenskyy would lose election if he didn’t cancel it due to war.
If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves. Article says this time is different, and you will see an exodus. Cabal assets, fleeing justice?
Spread r/K Theory, because an exodus of evil is a good thing.
Jeffrey Anderson presents a comparative analysis of presidents and inflation. The mainstream press to the contrary notwithstanding, he explains what Biden has done to make us feel so black and blue. It’s not our imagination. It’s the inflation, stupid! See his City Journal column “No great mystery.” Anderson manages to review the data and perform the analysis with a sense of humor.
The daycare minders at the White House have persuaded Biden to single out “shrinkflation” as the villain. However, “shrinkflation” reflects “inflation.” It is a manifestation of rising prices. Sentient observers understand that Biden economic policies have triggered the inflation that we have suffered, just as they understand that Biden’s senescence has slowed the windmills of his mind. Biden trusts we won’t notice he indicts himself when he decries “shrinkflation.”
Biden’s daycare minders take us for fools. Thus the administration’s critique of Republicans for causing the invasion of illegals that Biden invited, facilitated, and denied. They think we are stupid.
We hear that Biden threatens to point the finger at alleged corporate wrongdoing as the source of our pain in tonight’s State of the Union address. For some reason or other this wave of alleged wrongdoing has run riot under the regime of…Joe Biden. It was somehow held in check under the regime of…Donald Trump. James Bovard seeks to immunize us against the foolishness of the Biden party line in his New York Post column “Joe Biden’s State of the Union ‘shrinkflation’ swindle.”
Monty Python veteran John Cleese has been planning a stage production of Life of Brian, and several American actors advised him to cut the “Loretta scene.” Cleese said he had “no intention” of cutting the scene, which involves the Grumpy People’s Front of Judea:
JUDITH: (Sue Jones-Davies): I do feel, Reg (John Cleese) that any anti-imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
REG: Agreed. Francis? (Michael Palin)
FRANCIS: Yeah. I think Judith’s point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man . . .
STAN (Eric Idle): Or woman. . .
FRANCIS: Or woman . . . to rid himself. . .
STAN: Or herself.
FRANCIS: Or herself.
REG: Agreed.
FRANCIS: Thank you, brother.
STAN: Or sister.
FRANCIS: Or sister. Where was I?
REG: I think you’d finished.
FRANCIS: Oh right.
REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man . . .
STAN: Or woman.
REG: Why don’t you shut up about women, Stan. You’re putting us off.
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me “Loretta.”
REG: What?
STAN: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
STAN: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
STAN: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But. . . you can’t have babies.
STAN: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the fetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
JUDITH: Here! I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
As Bruce Bawer explains, the current trans movement is a “revolution against reality itself.” Hats off to John Cleese for resisting the Grumpy Woke Front of America.
STEVE adds: Add this scene to Blazing Saddles as something you can’t show on a college campus without risking expulsion.
I think it was Glenn Reynolds who posited that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is actually a Karl Rove plant inside the Democratic Party, but it seems equally plausible that this is the case for John Kerry. He has always been so pompously preposterous that you can’t take him seriously. And now he says we might “feel better” about Russia and the Ukrainian situation if only Russia would get on board with cutting emissions.
UNREAL: John Kerry says people would 'feel better' about the war in Ukraine if Russia would 'make a greater effort to reduce emissions' pic.twitter.com/lm2Vq2uBfS
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2024
Please, Democrats—if you manage to sideline Slow Joe, can you nominate this man again? Pretty please?
Tonight is the State of the Union speech. I know it’s hard to contain your excitement. Many Bingo and drinking games suggest themselves.
We all know that Joe Biden is a pretend president, so just who in the White House thought it was a good idea to have him have a Zoom call with actual pretend presidents—Hollywood actors who have played the president, soliciting their advice on how to approach his speech tonight. And what we get it this:
You may’ve heard I’ve got a big speech coming up.
So, I thought I would hear from some folks who have done the job before – sort of. pic.twitter.com/7wFYVQm7Xm
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 7, 2024
Maybe Biden’s staff came up with this exercise just to distract him from doing anything today. Or to make him feel good about himself. If all these Hollywood pretenders say he’s doing a great job, it must be true.
Missing from this roster: Dave. Kevin Kline, that is. Maybe they didn’t want the subtle reminder of an imposter in the Oval Office. Too close to the current truth.
Brian Deese is “an MIT Innovation Fellow, focusing on the impact of economic policies that strengthen the United States’ industrial capacity and on accelerating climate investment and innovation.” Before that, Deese assisted Joe Biden as Director of the National Economic Council. Asked in 2022 how American families could cope with surging gasoline prices, the NEC boss said, “this is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.” As Sir Bedevere(Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of economics?
Deese is the son of Boston College political science professor David Deese, who “researches the international and comparative politics of energy and climate policies worldwide.” Brian’s mother, Patricia Stanton, served as deputy commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and assistant commissioner of waste prevention at the state Department of Environmental Protection.
At Middlebury College Deese earned an undergraduate degree in international politics and economics. He got into Yale Law School but left a few credits short of graduation to work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Composite character president Obama tapped him to help out with climate change.
In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Obama touted the “amazing” Brian Deese, who “engineered the Paris Agreement, the Aviation Agreement,” and “may have helped save the planet.” The auto industry was also in trouble.
“The wunderkind in charge of saving our auto industry is a 31-year-old with about as much experience as a summer intern,” noted Glenn Beck. “Despite having no formal business education, no business experience and no auto industry experience, 31-year-old Brian Deese is now in charge of dismantling General Motors.” David Sanger of the New York Times also weighed in with, “Meet the 31-Year Old in Charge of Dismantling GM.”
In 2017, Deese became a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. From there it was on to BlackRock, where Deese headed the sustainable investing division, advising clients on meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. Deese was reportedly bagging some $2.8 million a year, and building a net worth of $4 million.
In June of 2021, the amazing Deese outline his vision for a “new industrial strategy,” an “activist government,” approach including “targeted public investment, public procurement, climate resilience and equity.” As Deese contends, “markets on their own will not make investments in technologies and in infrastructure that benefit an entire industry.”
And so on, in what Olson Johnson of Blazing Saddles might call “authentic statist gibberish.” Or, in the style of Monty Python, the wealthy MIT Innovation Fellow could qualify for “upper class twit of the year.”
As you may have heard, San Francisco voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed initiative measures to make policing easier and require drug testing for welfare. The horrors! Too bad they didn’t put reparations in the ballot, as I have a hunch how the vote would have turned out. In any case, even progressives, naturally slow learners, are finally figuring it out.
And I know everyone has seen San Francisco’s famous “poop map.” Equally important is the map of the number of businesses in the central core of the city that had enough of the madness. These are all the businesses and retail outlets that closed up and left downtown near Union Square the last three years. Most of the spaces they vacated are still empty.
Politico reports that President Biden has a big announcement to make tonight. During his State of the Union address, he will order the military to establish a temporary port in Gaza so more humanitarian aid can get to Palestinians in need. Enough with the airdrops, or to supplement the airdrops. We’re going in big time to keep Hamas in business.
It’s not clear to me if this slam comes from the administration sources briefing Politico, but it sounds like it: “The U.S. is resorting to this military mission because Israel isn’t letting in enough aid to alleviate the humanitarian crisis caused by the Israel-Hamas war plaguing 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.”
And then we have this: “Planning for the maritime corridor [to supply the port] still faces many execution challenges, namely how to offload, secure and distribute the aid.” Hamas will lend a hand. Of that we can be sure.
They are still working out the details, but you can’t be too cynical: “Arguably the hardest part is dispersing the aid throughout the whole of Gaza. The multinational coalition will rely on the United Nations, non-governmental organizations and other groups to ensure the assistance gets to the right places.” It’s good to know they will have the friends of Hamas within the UN on board with the plan. It only makes sense.
How do you say gag me with a spoon in Arabic?
RealClearFoundation president David DesRosiers has announced the inaugural winners of of its Samizdat Prize. Tonight’s the night. The Samizdat Prize is intended to honor the most important users of the First Amendment in the United States. The prize aspires to confer the honor that various of the Pulitzer Prizes bestow and should replace them in the mind of right-thinking men and women. In the words of DesRosiers, the award that is given by Real Clear to journalists, scholars, and public figures who have fought censorship and stood for truth, whatever the cost.
The first three recipients of the Samizdat Prize could not be more worthy: Miranda Devine (for her work on the Biden family business), Jay Bhattacharya (the anti-Fauci), and Matt Taibbi (for his work on the Twitter Files). I have written about all three many times on Power Line. DesRosiers talked about the prize with Buck Sexton here in a discussion posted at RCP.
Dr. Bhattacharya received the prize this past September. His remarks are posted here at RCP. Matt Taibbi has just posted “America enters the samizadat era” at his Racket News site. He looks back on his career in acknowledging the honor he receives tonight. Thanks to John Hinderaker, I met Matt last year. Politics aside, we have cheered him on and sought to follow his path in our own way.
Miranda Devine wrote in her New York Post Devine Online newsletter this morning:
I am thrilled to be in Palm Beach tonight to receive the inaugural Samizdat award from RealClearPolitics, alongside pandemic refusenik Dr Jay Battacharya and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi.
It’s an honor to be part of this grassroots movement to reclaim honest journalism in an era of lies.
“Samizdat” was the name of the underground press resisting the tyranny of the former Soviet Union.
It means ‘We publish ourselves” and was the inspiration for David DesRosiers, publisher and president of RealClear Foundation, to set up a rival journalism award to the Pulitzers.
Bravo to RealClear for bucking the establishment.
I couldn’t agree more. I would only add our congratulations to the inaugural recipients of the Samizdat Prize.
Joe Biden is delivering his State of the Union speech tonight. Apparently he will chide Americans for not appreciating his wonderful economy; declining real wages will not be mentioned. He will denounce “shrinkflation,” as though people are too stupid to know inflation when they see it. Nor will Biden mention the eight million or so illegals who have streamed across the border, wreaking havoc, since he opened it.
Biden has always been mean-spirited. He is a nasty person, and always has been. Take, for example, his recent interview in the New Yorker. The interview is replete with Biden’s trademark classlessness, but take just one example: his smearing of Justice Thomas:
In a concurring opinion on Dobbs, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the legal rationale for overturning Roe could be applied to “correct the error” in cases on same-sex marriage, the decriminalization of homosexuality, and access to contraception. I asked Biden if he thought that the Justices would undo those protections. “I don’t think there’s a majority to go there,” he said, but added, “I think that a couple on the Court would go considerably further”—specifically “the guy who likes to spend a lot of time on yachts.”
“Thomas?” I asked.
Biden grinned.
Those familiar with Thomas’s history will appreciate the absurdity of describing him as a yachtsman. He is better known for driving around America in an RV. But in any event, it is Biden–not Thomas–who has enriched himself and his family to the tune of many millions of dollars through influence peddling. Worst of all, he peddled his influence to powers hostile to America. It takes a lot of nerve for Joe Biden to sneer at the Court’s foremost intellectual for accepting a ride on a boat.
But that is Joe Biden: mean-spirited, through and through.
The comedian Richard Lewis, of blessed memory, is credited with the formulation “the x from hell.” Having watched President Biden’s State of the Union Address last night in order to comment on it this morning, I found it to be the SOTU from hell. Thank you, Mr. Lewis.
The White House has posted the text of the speech “as prepared for delivery.” That isn’t exactly how he gave it. You have to see it to get the full flavor. I have posted the White House video at the bottom.
Herewith are my impressions of Biden’s delivery and my observations on the speech in the form of bullet points:
• The Democrats in the audience broke out in cheers of “Four more years.” You have got to be kidding. Let me begin with a prediction. Even if Biden wins reelection to another term this coming November, he will not be giving four more State of the Union addresses. No way no how.
• Esquire used to pose a rhetorical question as a caption on a photograph of Richard Nixon that it published in its annual Dubious Achievement Awards edition: Why is this man laughing? The question to be posed for this speech is Why is this man shouting? He is an angry old man.
• This was a terrible speech terribly delivered. It’s a good thing no drug test was required before the address. Biden sounded hopped up. He spoke too fast. He slurred his words. He was frequently difficult to understand. He shouted a variety of clichés and shibboleths as though we might otherwise miss their depth and meaning. The disparity between the shibboleths and the shouting was almost funny.
• Biden sounded like a 45 rpm record playing at 78. It was an old record — it had scratches at several places that caused it to skip the groove.
• To whom was this speech addressed? The opening reflected the poor judgment of Biden’s daycare minders in the White House. As I heard it, the country needs to be protected from two threats: Russia and Donald Trump (“my predecessor”).
• This SOTU was a nakedly partisan campaign speech. I have to think that viewers lacking the persuasion of Democratic partisans were quickly turned off. In any event, the speech was a disgrace.
• And that’s not all. The speech was also disjointed and telegraphic. It covered everything from potato chips to computer chips. If it conformed to the laundry list mode of bad State of the Union addresses, this was a laundry list in Morse Code. You had to know the lingo of the proposed laws on Biden’s list. I had no idea what he was talking about when he got to his list.
• TCM counterprogrammed last night’s SOTU in part with Casablanca. You may recall that Humphrey Bogart responds to a comment with one of the movie’s many great lines: “I was misinformed.” Despite its thematic incoherence, anyone who took Biden’s speech at face value last night was misinformed. The misinformation gave it the thematic unity it otherwise lacked. A serious student of politics and the economy could write a dissertation exposing the misinformation conveyed in the speech.
• In his Russia/Ukraine remarks at the top of his speech Biden vowed, “We will not walk away.” Trisha Yearwood, call your office. Walk away, Joe — please. (I’m referring to Biden himself, not Ukraine.)
• The justices of the Supreme Court who chose to attend must have been thrilled to find themselves the villain of Biden’s condemnation of the Dobbs decision. The Supreme Court has returned the legality of abortion to the states. Biden both condemned the decision and celebrated its electoral impact. Abortion is not only a positive good on its own terms, it’s good for Democrats on the hustings. Wrapping it in the mantle of IVF, as he did last night, seemed to me a cruel joke.
• Biden wants to raise taxes on those not paying paying their “fair share.” Who isn’t paying his “fair share”? Billionaires aren’t. Corporations aren’t. That’s the bad news. We must be paying our “fair share.” That’s the good news, assuming we can draw that inference. Maybe someone can ask Karine Jean-Pierre about it at the next White House press conference.
• Biden wants more price controls on pharmaceutical products. When the AMA opposed the dangers of socialized medicine in days of yore, they were on to something.
• “Trickle down economics” came in for a beating. Does anyone who didn’t live through the Age of Reagan know what he was talking about? It was what Democrats condemned as “trickle down economics” that gave us the seven fat years of the Reagan boom. It was “trickle down economics’ that gave us the Trump boom — the boom for which so many voters are nostalgic today.
• Biden actually decried “shrinkflation” in the potato chips portion of his remarks. Some translation is required. “Shrinkflation” = inflation = Bidenomics.
• Biden implied that corporate shenanigans account for “shrinkflation.” Does anyone not understand why “shrinkflation” has broken out under the Biden administration?
• Biden decried “junk fees” and proclaimed his good works in saving us from them. This is “junk politics.”
• Biden reiterated his claims to have “cut the deficit.” He failed to mention that the decline occurred because pandemic spending from President Donald Trump’s tenure expired as scheduled. Biden didn’t do a damn thing. As CNN puts it, “Biden’s own actions, including laws he has signed and executive orders he has issued, have had the overall effect of worsening annual deficits, not reducing them.”
• By the way, in fiscal year 2023 total government spending amounted to $6.13 trillion and total revenue to $4.44 trillion. The resulting deficit amounts to $1.70 trillion, an increase of $320 billion from the previous fiscal year.
• Biden promoted many more federal spending programs I had never heard of. He apparently means to “cut the deficit” even faster and deeper.
• Biden bragged about his continuing student loan giveaways in the face of the Supreme Court ruling that found him to have exceeded his authority (in Biden v. Nebraska). One would like to see the thought bubbles over the heads of the Supreme Court justices.
• Biden talked about illegal immigration. He campaigned in support of it last time around. He invited it during the 2020 campaign. He facilitated it from his first day in office. Yet it’s not his fault. When it comes to the flood of illegal immigrants and related burdens, his theme song is Bob Dylan’s “It ain’t me, babe.”
• Biden saved his remarks on Israel and Hamas for the end of his speech. He won’t walk away from Ukraine, but he will walk away from Israel. He announced his Gaza rescue plan as advertised. It’s his plan to rescue himself in Michigan and rescue himself from his party’s pro-Hamas wing.
• Biden acknowledged: “Israel has a right to go after Hamas.” Thanks, big guy.
• Biden also toed the Hamas line in implicitly attributing responsibility to Israel and omitting the relevant facts: “More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed. Most of whom are not Hamas. Thousands and thousands are innocent women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned.” See Abraham Wyner’s Tablet column “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers.”
• Biden peddled “the two-state solution.” What’s wrong with this picture? As Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer puts it: “Anybody talking about Palestinian state right now is living on another planet.”
• I enjoyed and appreciated Speaker Mike Johnson’s slight shakes of his head to express his disagreement with Biden’s misinformation. He did it just right.
• Although I could say more, these observations are already too long. I will conclude here. The competition is stiff, but this must have been the worst SOTU of all time.
Nietzsche may have been on to something with THE WILL TO POWER! Thus spake Ammo Grrrll:
This may come as a shock to my faithful readers, but I am no student of Philosophy. For some survey course, I was forced to read Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I went to the used bookstore on campus and found a copy. When I got back to the dorm, I found that the previous owner of the volume – a girl named Kathy, the flyleaf said — had used a pink marker to highlight the parts that she didn’t understand. Initially, I thought that this could come in handy for me if she had already sussed out the salient points.
Sadly, however, it soon became clear that every single page was solid pink. Not that I disagreed with Kathy. It could not have been less clear to me or any less useful had it been written in Sanskrit. I also noticed that in the final third of the book there was no more highlighter – Kathy had clearly just given up. Krikey, not a single picture or even a whimsical little joke illustrating a point, as Einstein allegedly did with his definition of “relativity.”
“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” Sometimes the putative quote says “pretty girl” and sometimes it’s attributed to something he said to his secretary, but in any event, it’s clear and mildly humorous, when ol’ Immanuel was neither. Being of a logical and practical bent, I questioned whether anyone could sit on a hot stove for even a SECOND, let alone a whole minute without a trip to the ER, but I took his point.
I believe I also signed up for some course that covered Friedrich Nietzsche’s “will to power” vs. Sigmund Freud’s “pleasure principle” vs. Viktor Frankl’s “will to (or search for) meaning.” But, if that was after I met my beshert – my fated lifetime love – a future novelist named Joe/Max who was not an enthusiastic or even frequent class-attender, I may not have gone to the class very often.
Joe/Max and I knew a couple of Philosophy majors in college and kidded those friends about looking in the newspaper near graduation for Help Wanted ads down at the Philosophy Factory. Well, the joke might have been on us because both Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin were Philosophy majors and look where it took THEM!
Anyway, though I thought a lot of Freud’s insights were poppycock, I was more attracted to his “pleasure principle” than to the “will to power” or “the search for meaning.” Almost all the men I knew growing up – hard-working farmers or small businessmen who put in 90-hour weeks lacked the luxury of free time for philosophizing.
And then there were the ladies. Heavens to Betsy, the mother of my sister’s boyfriend had EIGHT kids, all of whom were boys. Early on, the neighbors across the street in South Dakota had nine kids and both parents worked! My experience with housewives and mothers was they literally NEVER stopped working. So for both men and women, “meaning” came from doing their jobs. Almost everybody went to church, so we also learned that “meaning” came from serving God and being kind and helpful to our Fellow Man. Works for me.
Now, in my dotage, the more I observe the behavior of Leftists and bureaucrats of any stripe, the more I think that Nietzsche and his “will to power” may have been on to something. Lordy, how Leftists LOVE to control others!
I can understand how attractive “power” is when we all start out with absolutely no power at all. None. Nada. Bupkiss. In fact, so little power that two yuge giants (and any of their friends and relatives) can pick us up and just PUT us anywhere they want us to be! In a little bathtub, in a crib when we aren’t even sleepy, in an alleged “playpen” with boring toys when we would prefer to be carried around like a pasha instead.
Plus, if you had siblings – and in the ’50s almost EVERYBODY did! – you were a prisoner to some extent of the birth order. As a First-Born, I was definitely in charge. Poor Joe/Max had four older brothers and had to form shifting alliances with some to protect himself from others.
And it only gets marginally better for YEARS. Once we get to a size where the giants no longer pick us up, or the siblings no longer immiserate us, we still have no money, no jobs, no prospects, little knowledge, no transportation, and no ability to live independently. If the slightly less scary giant tells us that we are eating Liver and Lima Beans for supper, it’s not like we can just go down to the Automat and get a burger instead. Not that Alexandria, MN or any previous even smaller towns I lived in had an Automat. Heck, we didn’t even get a fast-food hamburger joint until I was in high school.
I have known many persons of the male persuasion who so deeply resented that lack of independence that they were looking for jobs (shoveling, raking, sweeping out stores, paper boy) at a very young age. They figured out that money was a kind of power and especially if you could accumulate enough to get that Grand Prize of Independence – a vehicle!! A bicycle was a welcome miracle that allowed you to get quite far, but a car was the pinnacle, not only because it could go REALLY far (especially at nineteen cents a gallon), but it allowed you to have a female passenger.
Being a girl person, I did not covet a car so much, but I did have a pretty strong “will to autonomy.” I have never wanted to boss around another human being – and resisted all managerial jobs my whole life – but I really really really didn’t want to be bossed around myself. There were times in my working life when employers made a whole separate shift just for me so I didn’t have any supervisory responsibility. That is the truth, my hand to God.
After feminism reared its ugly Betty Friedan-like head, I noticed that a great many women LOVED to boss people around. They were devoted to status and lording any small area of power over others. Any encroachment on what they perceived as their turf worked out as well as a Crip trying to take over a busy corner of a Blood’s drug trade.
As it happened, when I was an antiwar activist, the real actual Lieutenant Governor of the State of Minnesota was a very nice Democrat named Rudy Perpich (PBUH). He and I were on a radio show about the war once, we hit it off, and when we both left ‘CCO Radio Station at the same time, he gave me a card with his personal number on it and said to call him if I ever needed help with something. He even joked that his job as Lieutenant Governor wasn’t very taxing and he could stuff envelopes.
A few months later, when our group needed a permit for a (genuinely) peaceful demonstration, and also his endorsement, I sauntered on into the Lieutenant Governor’s Office where I was met by an arrogant gaggle of gatekeepers – all women – who tried to insist that I go, one by one, THROUGH them in order to gain access to Mr. Perpich. This really mattered to them, because if a nobody like me could just waltz right in, then, what was the use of THEM?
The women pointed me from one gauntlet to another that I was going to have to run. When Rudy himself came out of his office, he saw me and said, “Well, hi, Susan,” and to the chagrin of the gatekeepers he ushered me right into his office. He signed the Permit, said sure, use his name on the list of endorsers, and bid me adieu. He was like that. If looks could have killed when I came back out, it would have been another Jonestown in there.
I miss approachable leaders like that. His father was a Croatian immigrant and miner in northern Minnesota. He himself was a dentist before he got into politics. Later he served two non-consecutive terms as governor and dedicated one entire $25,000 pay raise to the promotion of – wait for it — bocce ball. You had to love a guy like that.
The women gatekeepers who were so jealously guarding their little fiefdoms seemed addicted to power. I would imagine that it is only about fifty times worse today. People prize their spot on the Organizational Chart, commensurate with money and the ability to boss underlings around. Plus, now, you have to be mindful of Diversity, Incompetence, and Entropy – or whatever those DEI letters stand for.
And so we find ourselves in an era when legions, hordes, whole divisions of Entitled Groups and a few regular old Lazy Incompetent White Male Guys simply LIVE to tell the rest of us what to eat, what to drink, what to drive, when to get inoculated, where to live and, worst of all, what to think. Soon with the brilliance of Google Gemini we will not even be able to research something to think for ourselves. We will only be spoon-fed the thin DEI gruel that Big Brother or Obese Sister want us to ingest.
I do think “The Will to Power” (“der Wille zur Macht” in German) debate is over and it has won the day. But, “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” We will combine the other two motor forces in human behavior and find “meaning” in having “pleasure”: through love, beautiful friends, music, comedy, art, babies, obliterating the bulls-eye, a peaceful Shabbat, and a medium-rare steak.
The Coffeehouse in which Max Cossack works most days on his ninth novel has a new treat – a combination Chocolate Chip Cookie and a Brownie. A delight I call a Brookie. Always inspired by Theodor Herzl’s motto in the face of the difficulties of finding a safe Jewish homeland – “If you will it, it is no dream” — yesterday, I “willed” Max to bring a Brookie home to me. And he did.
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Tissue analysis on the remains of Robert Card III, the Maine Mass Shooter, revealed that he “had evidence of a traumatic brain injury,” according to the findings released Wednesday by his family in conjunction with the Boston University Concussion Legacy Foundation. His house was under surveillance on Google and he was hearing voices. And I can say, 100%, this thing can cause what appears to be a traumatic brain injury, doing it slowly over months, all night long, using its technology to damage specific points in the brain with physical trauma. The family is saying it must have been from his time as a grenade instructor, as that is the only place they could see it happening, but again, as with Muhammed Ali, how many others followed that path, and did not suffer from that? From the article:
“In the white matter, the nerve fibers that allow for communication between different areas of the brain, there was significant degeneration, axonal and myelin loss, inflammation, and small blood vessel injury,” Dr. Ann McKee wrote in the statement.
From here, on Havana Syndrome:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings
Both US and Canadian participants had neuroimaging abnormalities associated with their existence in Havana. In the United States, researchers discovered variances in grey and white matter (WM) volume, cerebellar diffusion properties, and functional network connectivity.
Democrats’ bill would give the DOJ veto power over state and local election laws. And of course, DOJ is penetrated and run by the assets of a foreign intel op. Could it be any more ominous?
Majority of American voters believe CIA-FBI are seeking to control outcome of 2024 election.
Biden will urge Congress to give $10,000 to first-time home buyers and $25,000 to help with down payments. Probably will expand it to include illegals and then give them preference.
President Biden will have the U.S. military build a port on the Gaza coast at US expense, to bring relief to the population there. Reportedly, it will be ” a project of stupendous scale involving hundreds of thousands of American military personnel, the participation of several other nations in the region, and possibly even Israeli assistance.”
Donald Trump has just three days to pay rape accuser E. Jean Carroll up to $83.3 million after judge rejected his request to delay the payments. This movie sucks.
Letitia James booed at firefighters ceremony. She won’t care, as she is secret society, and they are not, so they were enemies to begin with.
Rupert Murdoch is engaged, planning a June wedding. Mainly interesting in that she is a Russian Jewish molecular biologist, whose daughter is the former-wife of Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire-tycoon with the massive yacht. The daughter is also presently married to yet another billionaire, shipping tycoon/heir. So Jewish mom is marrying a billionaire media tycoon, while Jewish daughter is on her second billionaire. Granted the daughter is pretty, but I do not think you end up married to two billionaires, let alone have mom married to a third. Statistical probabilities are beginning to stretch, especially given how many women must be competing for those slots. It is feeling like there is some intel backing guiding these meetups into relationships, and these women may be the classic Jewish art-student girlfriends you hear about, sent in to monitor some high-value asset to make sure they stay on track. Of course Murdoch was steered to this one supposedly by his former wife, Wendy Deng, who has always had the air of an intelligence asset about her. Her command may have told her to steer another watcher/asset to Rupert to keep him under full monitoring.
Biden administration flouts federal law, does not collect DNA from detained illegal migrants.
Denver pleads with property owners to rent to migrant ‘newcomers.’
Security fence to go up at Capitol for State of the Union.
Joe Biden disapproval hits near-record high before State of the Union address.
Biden botches name of migrant-murdered ‘Lincoln’ Riley in Trump-bashing State of the Union speech.
New York Post – Joe Biden looks like a loser on the eve of his State of the Union.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Clarence Thomas skips Biden’s #SOTU.
Truth Social, other websites experience unexplained outages during divisive SOTU speech.
No One Is Safe In Joe Biden’s America
– ICE has more sex trafficking investigations in women and children this year than the last 6 years combined. A record number of women and children being sex trafficked
– Over 100,000 Children Missing
– They’re Admitting They’re Not Vetting The Sponsors They’re Releasing Children To
“How dare you talk about our inhumane policies under the Donald Trump administer when the Biden administration can’t find a 100,000 children — you’re not vetting the sponsors, and now you can’t find a 100,000 children. I’m telling you folks, I’ve done this for 35 years.”
— “Based on my years experience in investigating traffic trafficking cartels, some of these children are gonna be in pornographic movies, some of these children are living with ped**, and some of these children are in forced labor. ICE already done 4 different investigation. They found children as young as 9 years old cleaning up entrails at a meat packing plant and a midnight shift not getting paid. Why would you release 5 or 6 female children to 1 male sponsor”
– Over 1700 migrants have died on US soil since Joe Biden’s been president. 1700 migrants have died on US soil, a record
– Over a 100,000 Americans have died from Fentanyl overdoses. A record
– The thing that bothers me the most, on top of all those terrible things, a record number of known suspected terrorists have been arrested trying to enter this country.
– Their 1st year in Biden administration, 1,700,000 illegal immigrants, an historic record. This country never saw that many people before. 1.7. Million
– And you know what? He broke his own record the 2nd year with 2,400,000. Another historic record.
— “You’re putting children at risk. Record number Americans are dying. Record numbers of migrants are dying. There’s one guy who can fix this shit and it’s Donald Trump.”
If you like the Second Amendment, you don’t want John Cornyn anywhere near Senate leadership. Whenever gun control comes up, he wants to make a compromise gun control bill with the Democrats.
Teachers unions have ‘quietly’ spent millions on GOP primaries in 32 states to support RINOs who oppose school choice and vouchers. Most comments on this imply the unions are buying off corrupt Republicans. But I think the Republicans and the unions are both already on the same page, because both are elements of the conspiracy which has, as a mission priority, control of education. I think the unions are just laundering money to the Republicans of the conspiracy, and making it look like buying them off.
Republicans who blocked school choice won’t return to Texas legislature after primary upsets.
‘Clearly overlooked this’: Probe finds strange communication devices on Chinese cranes in US ports.
Jury convicts Portland woman of bias crime for misgendering individual in woman’s bathroom.
Study here courtesy of Epoch Times, though obviously there is not much to see.
Was it the Jabs? 32-year-old BBC journalist passes away after collapsing during run.
NewsGuard announced last week it’s using AI to automatically prevent American citizens from seeing information online that challenges government and corporate media claims about elections ahead of the 2024 voting season. So platforms and search engines sign up with News Guard to “remove disinformation” and it removes all the icky sites “they” don’t want you to see. Who do you think is behind News Guard? Did you think you could start a business like that, and have it work this easily for you, and have everyone rush to hire you? Everything is the intel op.
Disney is astroturfing popularity using AI-crafted bot accounts online. I think most stuff you see is like that. From conservative influencers, to companies people online buy from. The stuff you see over and over is them posting about it, trying to make it look organic.
I wonder how they got such a good picture? Who took that?
Flames seen shooting from engine of United Airlines flight before emergency landing. “The plane was a Boeing 737-900, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.”
FAA discovers more faults with Boeing planes, issues new safety guidelines.
ANOTHER Boeing 737 Max fiasco? Plane landing at Newark Airport had ‘stuck’ rudder pedal issue – following a litany of safety failings that sparked $30BILLION market selloff. Now I am wondering if these are all staged, to manipulate the market, driving the stock artificially low, maybe just before some big contract is scheduled to hit in six months. Cabal buys the dip, and then cleans up later.
Iron Mike Tyson to fight Jake Paul.
George Santos is running for congress again.
Pope urges the prideful not to judge.
JK Rowling reported to UK Police for ‘Misgendering’ trans broadcaster as a ‘man.’ The British government are psychos. They’ll arrest her and lock her up, assuming she is not super-plugged in somehow. And if they don’t it will demonstrate a two-tiered system of justice.
German police conduct raids against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online.
Germany explores the revival of compulsory military service.
Sweden officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Thursday.
France and Moldova to sign defence pact amid fears of Russian destabilisation.
‘Upgraded’ T-72B3 destroyed the M1 Abrams with its first shot. They say we pulled the best stuff off it before shipping it to Ukraine because we did not trust the Ukrainians, but then again, they lie about everything.
South Carolina lawmakers pass permitless gun-carry.
A shaken Texas House prepares for rightward shift after record GOP primary upsets.
Spread r/K Theory, because you are walking through the hall of mirrors right now
Whatever Doctor Feelgood is operating in the White House these days injected Joe Biden with whatever cocktail that enabled him to yell nonstop for over an hour last night. And that is a good thing.
Before the speech, my wife, with her usual knack for getting at the heart of things, said that we should be rooting for Biden to get through the speech. Because if he collapsed midway in, the Democrats would be able to replace him on the ticket. And in truth, the only question last night was not whether Biden would give a good speech, or whether he would convince anyone not already committed to voting against Donald Trump, but whether he would remain upright.
We conservatives should be glad that he did, as he now continues his march toward the nomination as one of the very few Democrats Donald Trump might actually beat. So thanks, Doc.
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama delivered the Republican response to Joe Biden’s SOTU speech. Not many people watch these rejoinders–for that matter, not too many watch the SOTU–but Britt’s response is getting a fair amount of buzz. She likely was chosen to contrast with Biden’s angry, more or less demented persona; if so, she played that contrast to the hilt.
Her speech was really a thespian performance, and not my style at all. But she prioritized illegal immigration, and was highly effective on that issue. Her appeal was directed to swing voters, especially women. And as performances go, it was very skillful. Check it out:
I am sure many readers have noticed how bike lanes are taking over American urban roadways, especially downtowns, often killing a lane for cars, and reducing streetside parking. And I almost never see anyone biking in the lanes. How did this come about? Has there been a massive populist campaign for bike lanes? Has “we need more bike lanes everywhere” been popping up in public opinion polls of top issues and citizen concern?
Of course not. It is an elite preoccupation, crammed down our throat by what I am calling Bike Lane Tyranny. At some point, many cities will reverse course and restore old car lanes. Though it may take a while.
It is the same mentality that has been certain that what America’s cities and suburbs need is more mass transit. Billions have been spent especially on rail lines (when busses would actually be more effective) that are lightly used. And here is the result:
As Scott notes, while Biden delivered the “SOTU from Hell,” Turner Classic Movies ran Casablanca. Those who tuned in witnessed fearful symmetry on the current state of America, with Joe Biden starring in the role of Philippe Pétain.
Back in 1940, the French WWI veteran, already in his 80s, struck an armistice with the German National Socialist invaders, then in alliance with Stalin’s Soviet Union. The Nazis made Pétain head of their puppet government in Vichy, allowing him to govern parts of France under their supervision. Casablanca shows a mural of Pétain, with his famous slogan, “Je tiens mes promesses, meme celles des autres,” – “I keep my promises, even those of others.” That’s Joe Biden all over.
The Delaware Democrat is the puppet of a globalist-leftist-woke axis, and their every wish is Biden’s command. As he showed in his September 1, 2022 speech, like something staged by Leni Riefenstahl, Biden regards those who want the nation to be great as the enemy. In the openly partisan FBI, Biden deploys his own Gestapo.
In Casablanca, Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) asks Louis Renault (Claude Rains) if he’s pro-Vichy or Free French. In similar style, Americans must decide if they support the constitutional republic they have known or its steady demolition by the Biden Junta. In Casablanca, Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) welcomes Rick back to the fight, and Laszlo is sure “our side will win.” In America, things aren’t so clear.
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” said Joe Biden in 2020. That includes mail ballots, election laws changed by judges instead of legislators, elimination of ID requirements, ballot harvesting, massive voting by illegals, and so forth. That extensive organization remains in place for access by the eight million settlers Biden has brought into the country, with no criminal background checks, health records or job skills. In 2014, vice president Biden said those who enter the country illegally are “already American citizens.” All they want is a chance to contribute so “let people vote.”
As David Horowitz (Radical Son) has often noted, Democrats are good at voter fraud and Republicans are poor at preventing it. If that doesn’t change, as Rick told Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), “you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.”
Joe Biden is a pitifully weak presidential candidate, but elections don’t win themselves. Economic malaise ought to make any Republican challenger the favorite, but the issue that will clinch the election is illegal immigration. And the gloves need to come off. Like this:
I am told that CNN is refusing to air this. They ran out the clock on a pre-SOTU ad buy — then rejected it, calling several of its claims unsubstantiated. Fox and MNSBC aired it. In case you missed it: https://t.co/4osMsLypnf
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 8, 2024
Earlier today, I posted the official GOP response to Joe Biden’s SOTU hate-fest, by Senator Katie Britt. Britt’s speech was an impressive performance in its own way; if I were a Democrat, I think she would scare me.
But for us data guys, Stephen Moore’s Unleash Prosperity Hotline has the numbers:
A lot of tall tales and a few outright fabrications in the Biden speech last night – and far too many to enumerate here. But we will revisit three here.
“My administration cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion.”
This isn’t just a little bit false, it’s an extraordinary and audacious misstatement of fact. The baseline deficit over 10 years, as measured when Biden came into office versus the latest forecast, shows nearly $6 trillion added to the debt since Biden arrived on the scene.
So how does a $6 trillion addition of red ink possibly equate to a $1.7 trillion reduction in the deficit. Someone didn’t pass his basic math exam in high school.
“We will make the rich pay their fair share.”
The top 1% of American tax filers now pay an all-time record high 46% of taxes. This is according to Biden’s own IRS. Does he think the rich should pay ALL the taxes?
That is actually a good question. I think that for many Democrats, the answer may be Yes. But within reason, experience shows that lower rates mean higher collections, especially from high earners.
“I inherited an economy [from Trump] that was on the brink…”
Actually, the economy grew by – ready for this? 33% in the third quarter of 2020 and 4.1% in the 4th quarter of 2020. The economy was in a full-scale COVID recovery when Biden came into office.
Oh, and Inflation was 1.4%.
Gas prices were $2.39 per gallon.
If you think of it as a relay race, Trump handed the baton to Biden in first place, with a rapidly growing lead. But Biden tripped over his own feet–both literally and figuratively–and turned the strong position that he inherited (and not only economically) into a fiasco. That I why I don’t see how he can be re-elected, despite Trump’s manifest flaws.
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Joe Biden can’t get far enough left to satisfy his base. In last night’s SOTU, he referred to Jose Ibarra, the career criminal who *allegedly* beat Laken Riley to death, as an illegal immigrant. Which is exactly what he is, although the correct legal term is “illegal alien.” Bizarrely, liberals were outraged, not that Biden referred to Ibarra as a murderer, but that he called him an illegal immigrant. This roundup is from Alpha News:
Democrats in Minnesota and across the country are infuriated that President Joe Biden referred to a criminal, illegal alien as an “illegal” during the president’s State of the Union address on Thursday. Specifically, President Biden was referring to the illegal immigrant who has been charged with murder in the killing of Laken Riley.
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In response, left-wing Democrats have expressed outrage that President Biden referred to this criminal, illegal alien as an “illegal.” Just after President Biden’s speech concluded, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota put out a social media post on X saying, “Let me be clear: No human being is illegal.”This message was parroted by Democrats all over the country. In Minnesota, state Rep. Maria Isa Perez-Vega, D-St. Paul, re-posted Congresswoman Omar’s message. Jason Chavez, a member of the Minneapolis City Council, also put out a statement saying, “No human is illegal.”
A myriad of other Democrats, including Congresswomen Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Delia Ramirez, put out social media posts with the exact same message. Last night, Nancy Pelosi went on CNN and said President Biden should have used the word “undocumented” when referring to the illegal alien.
Congressman Chuy Garcia, D-Illinois, put out a statement saying, “As a proud immigrant, I’m extremely disappointed to hear President Biden use the world ‘illegal.’”
Breaking the law is illegal. Is that really so hard to understand? And, oh–by the way–murder is illegal, too. Although liberals seem to care a lot less about a young woman who was beaten to death than they do about policing their wacko speech code. But I suppose there is nothing surprising about that.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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No DFT today.
We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
If any readers are familiar with radiofrequency analysis, I have purchased the TinySA Ultra spectrum analyzer, as well as this EMF meter.
But as I delve into it, I am thinking swept spectrum analyzers are probably not as useful for attempting to characterize some directed energy harassment.
The current assumption about Havana Syndrome (which I assume will be similar to most DEW harassment) is that it is a pulsed radiofrequency attack, which allows it to evade the swept spectrum analysis tools, by hitting with a high energy pulse, for a microsecond in between detection sweeps. In Ultra mode, the TinySA takes about five seconds to sweep the entire massive spectrum it is examining, so while great for a static radio signal which is constantly on, it seems it will miss pulses most time, unless it happened to just sweep over the frequency just as the microsecond pulse of energy hit. Even my 2.4 Gig router only registers like one in three or four sweeps.
Is this thinking correct? If so, does that mean you need a Real Time Spectrum Analyzer? Or does it require some type of Oscilloscope? Or some other tool entirely, to detect the pulsed forms?
Likewise, is a normal EMF detector not suited to detecting pulsed EMF disturbances, since they would hit and be gone before the meter could record the full impact of the event?
In retrospect, the eggheads who developed these technologies are not amateurs, and they would wargame against their tech, and take preemptive measures to prevent a $150 device from exposing their operations.
If this is all correct, I am curious if there is a tool for less than the $3-40 grand a real time spectrum analyzer would cost, which would allow detection and recording of the pulses? Obviously rental is not an option, as they would just wait until the device was returned, and constant rental would probably be more expensive than simply buying one outright.
That said, the TinySA may have caught something interesting. I got the high pitched thing filling the house, or so it seemed where I was sitting. It begn very loud, very suddenly. The TinySA showed a big peak at 297.4 MHz. I have to go through the files tomorrow, but I think I was able to get an audio of the room with one Tascam, I think I fed the audio from the listen function of the TinySA into another Tascam, and I found the peak only occurred stably in the chair I was sitting in. When I got up and moved around, the peak disappeared, only popping up with less amplitude intermittently elsewhere in the house. When the high pitched abated, so did the peak.
I will say the TinySA looks to be a great tool for SHTF. For those who have no idea what it is, it is a pocket-sized device which can be used kind of like a Police Scanner, only it will show you the much more massive spectrum of frequencies it detects on a graph, which spikes at any frequencies where there are signals. You can then see the exact frequency at each spike, and the amplitude, and even plug in headphones and listen to the signal.
If you are operating, and are worried about OpFors closing in, it allows you to pick up on any radio comms in the air around you, and if they are unencrypted, listen in, and if they are encrypted, well, knowing there are encrypted comms closing on your position before you see them or they see you is useful intel too.
But unfortunately, since it goes frequency by frequency, sampling for like a single microsecond every five seconds at each individual frequency, it seems of limited use for picking up pulsed radiofrequency energy attacks. So probably not that useful for characterizing how the American Stasi’s The Beam is operating.
I may not have the training to characterize how The Beam works myself, but I would love to gather up the required data here, and store it, so one day somebody might come along and figure it out. It seems having it the most evil enemy mankind faces deploying it on me is such an opportunity. I hate to miss out on exploiting it.
Some ex-con who turned his life around after getting a second chance, ends up killing and dismembering a guy he had a beef with from his prison days. The interesting thing is, the entire murder was documented by neighbors and the super, but nobody did anything for a bit to see how it would play, before getting the cops involved:
Johnson’s arrest came after cops found a human torso and foot inside a blue bin in a sixth-floor Bronx apartment on Tuesday night…
A human head, legs, and arms were later found in a freezer in Johnson’s Harlem home, Fox affiliate WNYW reported.
Johnson was even acquainted with major players such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg…
Neighbors told the NYPD that the victim could be heard pleading with his killer right before two gunshots were fired inside the apartment at 8 pm on Tuesday.
“Please don’t,” the victim reportedly said. “I have a family!”
Residents also said they saw a stranger coming and going from the apartment with cleaning supplies.
“I said, ‘Listen, I want to do a welfare check on a tenant because the person who is coming in and out is not the tenant,'” the superintendent of the building, who did not want to be identified, told the outlet.
The super said he saw a man carrying a blue bin into the apartment at around 2 am and never brought it back out.
“He brought the bin…I told them, ‘Why is he bringing a bin at 2 o’clock in the morning? He’s bringing in a bin so late,'” he said.
“We tried to see if he took out the bin. He never took out the bin. I told them, ‘Look for a bin.’ And sure enough, it was there.”
The suspect was seen leaving the apartment in the victim’s blue Audi before returning in an Uber wearing a blonde wig, the super said.
“He is coming in, he is dressing differently, changing his character,” he said.
“I said, ‘That’s not normal, he is hiding something.'”
Look at how nothing happens in that building that people aren’t listening and watching. And this guy is thinking so long as he wears a wig when he is coming and going in case somebody sees him, nobody will know who he was. As he is then followed home and back repeatedly, probably.
Fulton DA Fani Willis now has opponents as she run for reelection amid Trump investigation.
Liz Cheney, January 6 Committee suppressed exonerating evidence of Trump’s push for National Guard.
Trump posts nearly $92M bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case.
Colorado Republicans will try to impeach or recall Jena Griswold over Trump ballot case.
More details on yet another type of UAP Matt Gaetz was alerted to by pilot at Eglin Air Force Base. This one kind of looks like an Apollo capsule.
Pentagon UFO report says there is no evidence of extraterrestrial involvement in the AUP phenomenon. About six months ago, somebody said a new guy was taking over the UFO mantle at the Pentagon, and he wanted to pull it all back behind the curtain and deny everything.
US military developing portable UFO detection kits as Pentagon says no evidence of alien tech found.
Lara Trump named RNC co-chair as Ronna McDaniel steps down. Trump-endorsed Michael Whatley was installed as Chair.
An MIT team the govt funded to create AI censorship tools claimed people dedicated to sacred texts & American founding documents were more susceptible to “disinformation” because they “often focused on reading a wide array of primary sources and performing their own synthesis.”
NRA dethroned as top gun lobby in DC, National Shooting Sports Foundation eclipses it on spending.
Drudge Report editor says the founder feared Clintons would plant cocaine on him during election season. Way back when Matt had his radio show, somebody told him to stay safe, and he laughed, and nervously said something like, “You have no idea, I am running, and they are chasing me all over.”
CNN refuses to air ad blaming Joe Biden’s border policies for Laken Riley’s murder.
Amid migrant crisis, Chicago food pantries experience unprecedented demand.
On Twitter, two soldiers and a Boder Patrol Agent lost in a helicopter crash:
HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR TEXAS BORDER: MULTIPLE FATALITIES
A crash involving a National Guard helicopter near the southern border in La Grulla, Texas, resulted in multiple fatalities.
On board were three National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent, operating under federal orders.
Disturbingly, new footage indicates cartel members observed the crash via drone, later sharing the incident with mockery on social media.
Fourteen Republicans just joined Democrats to give away most of our leverage to vote on amendments to the #SchumerMinibus to secure the border and push back on Biden’s oppressive policies.
1. Boozman
2. Cassidy
3. Collins
4. Grassley
5. Hyde-Smith
6. McConnell
7. Moran
8. Mullin
9. Murkowski
10. Romney
11. Rounds
12. Tillis
13. Wicker
14. Young
Actress posing as 14-year-old gender-confused girl receives Testosterone prescription, life-altering mutilating surgery consultation within minutes at Canadian clinic. There are only two explanations which could possibly explain this. This is some sort of occult worship/sacrifice thing, or the conspiracy is very focused on genetic competition, and every kid they troon out is seen as a tangible victory in making sure their own genes go forward.
Real estate CEO and Federal Reserve board member: “500 or more banks in the USA will fail.”
Apple’s new patent shows Airpods with brain-wave sensors built in to allow them to read thoughts.
Fluoride does not protect teeth from cavities, large-scale government study proves.
Russia foils Islamic State attack on Moscow synagogue amid Gaza war | two terrorists dead. Islamic State was reportedly a CIA organization. Which is not surprising. Only Cabal organizations are allowed to survive and persist, even as enemies.
According to a Telegram channel (@serhii_flash), the Russian military has begun deploying FPV (First Person View) drones equipped with coils of fiber optic cables, which cannot be hacked or targeted with electronic warfare techniques. Best price I see is about $15 per foot for the fiber line so far. But I will definitely be looking into this.
Rand Paul on Twitter hints he may run for Senate leadership:
Thousands of people have been asking if I’d run for Senate leadership…
The week began with a big bang—the Supreme Court ruling 9 – 0 that Trump had to stay on the ballot, which caused liberal heads to explode and enough tears to irrigate California for a month. One of the heads (or what’s left of it) that exploded was Joe Biden’s, who popped off in a speech that left the impression he must have dipped deeply into Hunter’s stash.
Headlines of the week:
It’s a total mystery. . .
The only kind of worthy crab meat.
This seems like overkill.
And finally. . .
President Biden displayed a monumentally misguided animus against Israel in his State of the Union address this past Thursday evening. (The White House has posted its transcript of the speech as given here.) In a column behind NRO’s paywall Philip Klein characterized the address as “the most anti-Israel presidential speech in history.” I’d have to compare and contrast it with the presidential speeches of Barack Obama to be sure, but Biden’s hostility was patent.
Following the speech Biden had the opportunity to fraternize with the guys. He seized the opportunity to yuk it up outside the control of his daycare handlers in the White House. This is how it went down.
BIDEN: "I told him, Bibi — don't repeat this — you and I are going to have a come to Jesus meeting."
HANDLER: Sir, you're on a hot mic pic.twitter.com/slevQZPDap
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 8, 2024
What if Biden is senile like a fox? The senility came in especially handy in his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. It gave Hur a rationale to recommend non-prosecution of Biden’s offenses in the mishandling of classified documents.
Miranda Devine comments on the video below: “Not ‘confused,’ slyly denying. If Republicans keep underestimating Biden they will lose again.” I anticipate that they’re going to lose again regardless, but point taken.
Q: “Why does Mr. Netanyahu need a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting?”
BIDEN (confused): “I didn’t say that in the speech.”
Q: “What about after?”
BIDEN: “You guys eavesdropping on things!” pic.twitter.com/804aXMmBmQ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 8, 2024
The current issue of the Claremont Review of Books carries the informative review of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk by Helen Andrews. The Andrews review is relatively brief and extremely interesting. I want to single out the penultimate paragraph:
Conservatives ought to support Musk because he will need all the help he can get. The deep state has him in its crosshairs and will not stop until he is neutralized, using all the tools at its disposal. Musk is already being targeted with investigations and lawsuits, including a truly bizarre suit against SpaceX for discriminating against non-citizens in hiring. (Like all aerospace companies, SpaceX tries not to let its sensitive technologies fall into the hands of foreign governments.) Left-wing nonprofits have deliberately fomented, and in some cases fabricated, racist content on X in order to make Musk’s version of the app seem like a haven for hate speech. Preserving free speech in the run-up to the next election should be every conservative’s priority. In this fight, Elon Musk is an unexpected but entirely worthy champion.
I would amend that last sentence to read “in the run-up to the next election and beyond.” Whole thing here.
Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech began almost a half hour behind schedule. The reason apparently was that his route to the Capitol was blocked by an illegal “kill the Jews” protest. So an official government proceeding was delayed by protesters who were violating the law. Doesn’t that sound familiar?
Blocking an official proceeding. I think we have recent precedent on this. https://t.co/fxOZ9vxc74
— Josh Holmes (@HolmesJosh) March 8, 2024
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the “kill the Jews” gang to be arrested and held for a year or two in solitary confinement.
Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, which we recorded in the morning over coffee instead of whisky because travel schedules prevented the normal and proper Friday evening happy hour, and guess what? We’re even worse without whisky!
Among the news and issues treated this week: Why Biden isn’t FDR (he’s not even Harry Truman); why this was the worst SOTU (Lucretia offers a different acronym) speech ever; whether there are signs of life for the GOP in California after all; how immigration and abortion are playing out in the campaign cycle so far; how to think about the Supreme Court decision in the Colorado case dealing with Trump’s eligibility for the ballot (hint—it ain’t over till it’s over); and finally, can Harvard be serious in asking for a government bailout? The unifying theme here is galloping dishonesty, which is being normalized more and more every day.
Our articles of the week are (from me): Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s classic essay “Defining Deviancy Down,” newly salient in an age of truth-denying euphemisms like “justice-involved youth” and “newcomers” instead of “migrants” (which was a substitute for “illegal alien”); Lucretia ponders the challenges of Alex Berenson’s Substack article on new threats to free speech; and John draws our attention to the original 14th Amendment article from Baude and Paulson that brought us to the Supreme Court steps earlier this week, plus responses (also here) that got overlooked at the time, now largely vindicated. (I wondered whether Baude and Paulson were a rope-a-dope set up to make liberals look stupid and induce still more MSNBC primal screams.)
As always, listen here, or from our hosts at Ricochet.
In his State of the Union speech, Joe Biden correctly referred to Jose Ibarra, the alleged murderer of Laken Riley, as an illegal alien. Democrats aren’t at all concerned about the murder of a 22-year-old girl, but they were horrified that Biden didn’t use their preferred term, “undocumented.” Which implies, I guess, that the guy was perfectly legal but maybe misplaced his driver’s license.
Biden has now apologized for telling the truth–perhaps the only time he did so in the SOTU. He chose MSNBC to recant:
President Biden apologized Saturday for using the word “illegal” during his State of the Union address to describe the Venezuelan migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
“An undocumented person. I shouldn’t have used illegal, it’s undocumented,” Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart in an excerpt from an interview airing Saturday — which did not show him addressing or acknowledging that he referred to Riley as “Lincoln Riley” during the same speech.
Lincoln Riley is the head coach of the Southern Cal football team.
“And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I’m not going to do. What I won’t do.
So the simple factual characterization as “illegal” is in the same category as “vermin” and “polluting the blood.” And what Biden is most concerned about here is not being like Trump, which is why he reversed all of Trump’s successful border policies.
“I’m not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect. Look, they built the country.
Illegal immigrants built the country? What the hell is he talking about?
The reason our economy is growing.
Illegal immigrants are responsible for a tepidly growing economy? Why?
We have to control the border and more orderly flow, but I don’t share his view at all,” continued Biden.
“So, you regret using that word?” Capehart asked.
“Yes,” Biden responded.
What a sad performance. And, by the way, what was the point of Biden’s throwing in “[w]e have to control the border”? The border was mostly under control until he took office and deliberately opened it so as to allow millions of illegals to flood into the country. He did it on purpose. It is you, Joe Biden, who have to control the border. Only there is zero chance that you are going to do so.
Robert Bryce is one of America’s foremost energy experts. At his Substack site, he describes his recent appearance before the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. The commissioners were glad to hear from Robert:
After I finished, about two dozen people (most of them were state regulators) came forward to say they appreciated my talk and that they’d never heard many of the points I’d made. One utility commissioner told me that the regulators who attend NARUC’s meetings are “not used to having anybody tell the whole story.” I also received several dozen emails from people who said NARUC had never had anyone like me give a speech.
Which is a truly scary reality. From whom are the commissioners accustomed to hearing? Financially self-interested left-wingers:
[A] few conference attendees took to Twitter to complain that I’d been allowed to speak at NARUC. One person in particular, a lawyer who works for Earthjustice, the San Francisco-based NGO that is funded by dark money, had a sphincter-puckered snit on Twitter, saying that I presented “nonsense.” Earthjustice had $151 million in revenue in 2023 and employs more than 200 lawyers in 15 U.S. cities. Another attendee, who works for San Francisco-based Energy Innovation LLC, which doesn’t reveal its donors, got his NARUC knickers in a twist. On Twitter, he claimed I provided so many “falsehoods” that he “couldn’t keep up.” It’s funny, though, that he didn’t name a single falsehood or refute even one of my points.
Typical. Leftists don’t argue, they censor.
What did Robert say that so frightened greenies? Follow the link above for the whole story, but I would highlight two points. First, increasing government-mandated reliance on expensive and ineffective wind and solar power is threatening the reliability of the electric grid:
On February 22, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) issued a report that put the danger facing America’s electric grid in stark terms. In an introduction, MISO’s CEO, John Bear, said, “There are immediate and serious challenges to the reliability of our region’s electric grid.” His remarks must be quoted at length:
The transition that is underway to get to a decarbonized end state is posing material, adverse challenges to electric reliability. A key risk is that many existing “dispatchable” resources that can be turned on and off and adjusted as needed are being replaced with weather-dependent resources such as wind and solar that have materially different characteristics and capabilities. While wind and solar produce needed clean energy, they lack certain key reliability attributes that are needed to keep the grid reliable every hour of the year. Although several emerging technologies may someday change that calculus, they are not yet proven at grid scale. Meanwhile, efforts to build new dispatchable resources face headwinds from government regulations and policies, as well as prevailing investment criteria for financing new energy projects. Until new technologies become viable, we will continue to need dispatchable resources for reliability purposes.
Second, perhaps the most extraordinary fact about energy is that the much-ballyhooed “transition” from fossil fuels to wind and solar simply isn’t happening, despite government mandates and massive subsidies. In fact, it is rapid growth in use of fossil fuels that powers the world’s economy:
There is much more at the link. The bottom line is that a transition from reliable and affordable fossil fuels to unreliable and prohibitively expensive weather-dependent sources of energy would be a human disaster, and therefore, it isn’t going to happen. Ever. Leftists may whine and gnash their teeth, and for now they may reap enormous amounts of ill-gotten money from “green” interests. But what they want, or more likely pretend to want, isn’t possible, and it won’t happen.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
I would never vote for him, and he is probably some kind of psyop, but RFK is great for redpilling the masses with the story of JFK’s time. Brief video, worth the listen.
Friendly reminder: Super Tuesday was four days ago, and California has only counted 65% of the votes.
Texas, where 3.5 million people voted had all their votes counted within hours of the polls closing.
Robert DeNiro, who I seem to recall was tied to some European prostitution thing which involved female children, panics at the idea of Trump winning – “If he wins the election, you won’t be on the show anymore. He’ll come looking for me. There’ll be things that happen that none of us can imagine.”
FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh is hunting down firefighters who mercilessly booed New York Attorney General Letitia James – and cheered in support of Donald Trump – during a department promotion ceremony this week, The Post has learned. More – Ordered to surrender, or risk being hunted down.
NY firefighters who booed AG Letitia James to be sent to woke ‘re-education’ camp.
President Trump meets Laken Riley’s family and offers her mother a hug.
Biden apologizes for calling Laken Riley’s kiIIer an “illegal” -“They built this country.”
750K to 800K illegals have been allowed in through a land ports program on top of the air program which flies them in. At about 7:00.
Uniparty members of Congress are already congratulating themselves for recklessly spending your money. [last night] They should be ashamed. If you can’t keep the government funded without gargantuan deficits and 6,000+ earmarks, you’re doing it wrong. We need new Senate GOP leadership.
Montana Rep. Rosendale drops US House reelection bid, citing rumors and death threat.
Snowden is backing Justin Amash against Mike Rogers in Michigan. Amash voted to impeach Trump, which is clearly bogus bullshit – and a sign he is Cabal.
Elon Musk says he would support Sen. Rand Paul for Senate Republican Leader.
One thing which seems to be popping in the news is female adult film stars turning up dead or near death, or suicided. Adult film star Sophia Leone found dead, fourth death in three months. Number five? Porn star Emily Willis in a coma, near death. Given it seems the elites are all about victimizing vulnerable women, and these are vulnerable women they might be prone to victimize, you have to wonder if something is going on.
TikTok faces ban in bipartisan bill if ByteDance doesn’t divest ownership.
Rust trial: Video shows Baldwin use gun as ‘pointing stick.’
The Biden regime filled the CHIPS Act with so much DEI ‘pork’ almost 30% of each dollar provided is earmarked for DEI programs. Worse is the fact that the required programs effectively reduce the workforce by 50% by requiring hiring of low IQ ‘justice-involved individuals.’ It has 19 DEI sections, creates a chief Diversity Officer at the NSF, and has requirements of jobs for ex-cons, which the bill calls “justice-involved individuals.”
Rise of the slaughterbots: AI drone designed to ‘hunt and kill people’ is built in just hours by scientists ‘for a game’ by using AI facial recognition to make it chase after people. It looks like you will really need a shotgun in any future war, and have grade “A” skeet shooting capability with it.
Army National Guard temporarily suspends reenlistment bonuses due to lack of funding. This might also be what it would look like if the script writers wanted the US to lose a World War. Our manufacturing is in China right now, we’ve pissed all our weapons away in Ukraine, and the military is a hodge-podge of trannies and ultra-wokesters. I mean, if they started a war with Russia, are you going to travel across the world to die for Joe Biden?
Firearm ownership is correlated with elevated lead levels in children, study finds (Use separate clothes and shoes, wash hands, use lead-free ammo components). The kids may also be handling lead pellets for pellet guns and not washing their hands.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) on Thursday boasted that she signed the “strongest” hate crime bill in America into law to “stop antisemitism” and “ensure the security of God’s chosen people.” More details here, raise the question of whether it will pass Constitutional muster.
Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer says he was sexually abused at boarding school. So long as you have an intel op in control, you have to wonder if an intel officer somewhere ordered that.
Furious Emmanuel Macron finally speaks out over claims his wife Brigitte was born a MAN: French president discusses effect on the couple’s ‘intimacy’ – after his step-daughter re-introduced the rumor in an interview. They claim it is not true but you never know. There is a bathing suit picture out there with a suspicious bulge.
EU aims to shift European arms industry to ‘war economy mode.’
Dutch government scrambling to keep ASML in Netherlands.
Haiti cannibal gang are ‘eating people they’ve killed’ on the streets as violence erupts. Why have we not set up an immigration center there to bring these fine people here?
Hungary’s PM Orban supports Trump after Florida meeting at Mara Lago.
Large convoy of Ukrainian air defense systems destroyed by what looks like an Iskander.
The system was originally labeled an S-300 but some sources are claiming Patriot.
Pokrovsk direction.
Update: it looks to be multiple Patriot launchers and a possible radar.
Wyoming bill to allow concealed carry in schools, government meetings heads to governor.
Spread r/K Theory, because no matter how bad this movied gets we cannot walk out of it
Listening to a show on the SiriusXM Grateful Dead channel a few years ago I heard one of the announcers mention that Nicky Hopkins played with the Jerry Garcia Band. I hadn’t known that. Hopkins was a fantastic English pianist whose session work is virtually ubiquitous on great rock recordings of the ’60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Take a look, for example, at this Nicky Hopkins discography. I have been a big fan since I saw him named and heard his work as a member of the band on the Jeff Beck Group’s album Truth.
If he wasn’t quite everywhere, everyone wanted his services. His contributions to Rolling Stones recordings are notable. I have included a couple below. I loved his work with the Jeff Beck Group on their first two albums and with Quicksilver Messenger Service on a few of theirs when he was a named member of those bands.
So why is he relatively unknown? He battled Crohn’s Disease his entire life and died in 1994 of complications from intestinal surgery at the age of 50. I don’t think he ever toured with the bands of which he was a named member, let alone those to which he made such valuable contributions.
After I mentioned Hopkins in my post on Harrison’s birthday, the gentleman who runs the the Nicky Hopkins feed on X tweeted it out because of a bare mention of Hopkins’s contribution to one of the tracks I included. Checking out the Nicky Hopkins feed this morning, I see that it flags the forthcoming documentary on Hopkins.
US Premiere of The Session Man (Nicky Hopkins documentary) – closing film of LA Indie Film Fest! 7.30pm Sat 16th March in West Hollywood.@lafilmfestivals @SessionManFilm #lafilmfestivals #LAFilmFest #rockdoc #rockhistory #LAIndieFilmFest #NickyHopkins #TheSessionMan… pic.twitter.com/YtbNPcAcMJ
— Nicky Hopkins
One more prefatory note. It was the anniversary of Hopkins’s birth on February 24. Having written about him once before, I chose to remember George Harrison that weekend. However, I thought I would ask readers to indulge a second go-round of my tribute to Hopkins. It won’t be for everyone, but there is some good stuff and some rare stuff here and elsewhere that you can find on your own if so inclined. As I like to say in these tributes, he added to the beauty of the world. YouTube offers a treasure trove of his work. I enjoyed hunting these samples down and offer them up in the hope that one or two of them may strike your fancy or wake you up with a smile this morning. I certainly hope this tiny sliver of his vast body of work leaves you wanting more.
Hopkins was a regular contributor to the Kinks up through their classic Village Green Preservation Society album. “Sunny Afternoon” is a beautiful track. Looking around online, I found Hopkins was “responsible for both the melodica solo and the chromatic piano line that undersold his acrobatic abilities on the keyboard.” According to Ray Davies, “When we recorded ‘Sunny Afternoon,’ [producer] Shel [Talmy] insisted that Nicky copy my plodding piano style. Other musicians would have been insulted but Nicky seemed to get inside my style, and he played exactly as I would have. No ego. Perhaps that was his secret.”
And then we have his work with the Rolling Stones over several years. Hopkins’s work on the piano makes “She’s a Rainbow.”
The Jeff Beck Group’s cover of “Jailhouse Rock” may be my favorite rock recording of all time. That’s Rod Stewart on the vocal. Everyone is great on this track, including the gifted Mr. Hopkins.
Back to the Stones, we can hear what Hopkins contributed on a song like “Monkey Man,” off Let It Bleed. The album was produced by the late Jimmy Miller, the older brother of former New York Times reporter Judy Miller. My friend Judy paid tribute to him in her column “Mr. Jimmy” as well as in her great memoir The Story. You can hear why Mr. Jimmy appreciated Hopkins’s work.
I can’t leave his work with the Stones before noting his contribution to “Waiting On a Friend.” That’s Sonny Rollins on the tenor sax. That’s Mr. Jimmy on percussion. That’s Mr. Hopkins on the piano. What a track.
Who’s Next is the Who’s best album and “Getting in Tune” is one of its best tracks. “I’m just banging on my old piano” — I think that would be Pete Townsend’s tribute to you know who.
Hopkins was a named member of Quicksilver Messenger Service for a few years. Here he is with Quicksilver on the instrumental “Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder,” one of Hopkins’s own compositions. I think he added the organ part on top of his piano. This track is a blast.
Who is this Edward fellow? I have a sneaking suspicion it was Hopkins. The name of this rare album is Jamming with Edward. “Highland Fling” is from the album. This is a wild track. Hopkins wails away.
Hopkins recorded two albums in his own name. “Pig’s Boogie” is from The Tin Man Was a Dreamer. I think Hopkins was the Tin Man too.
John Lennon loved Hopkins’s work. He played on the Beatles’ “Revolution” and on many of Lennon’s solo album tracks. His beautiful contribution to “Jealous Guy” is a good example. In the video below you can see Lennon, Hopkins (electric piano), Harrison (slide guitar), Klaus Voorman (bass), and Alan White (drums) at work in the studio on “How Do You Sleep?” (1971).
I can’t leave before we sample his work with the Jerry Garcia Band. The reference to it is what set me off on my chase. Stick around for the instrumental break on this live recording of the Garcia/Dawson/Hunter composition “Friend of the Devil.”
Referring to an illegal alien as “illegal” in unscripted remarks during his State of the Union Address this past Thursday, President Biden inadvertently offended a core Democratic constituency (i.e., illegal aliens). That could not stand and it didn’t. As John notes nearby, Biden recanted and apologized within 48 hours.
Illegal or undocumented — which is the correct term. As a matter of fact, “Illegal alien” is the correct term.
When we got married, my wife was an illegal alien. Having graduated from law school and been hired by Hennepin County District Judge Robert Bowen as a law clerk, she applied for a work visa. In response she received a letter from the INS apprising her that her student visa had expired and that she was out of status. She applied for legal residency.
We went down to the local INS office for an interview. We had been advised that we would be asked a few questions to establish that our marriage was bona fide — not a fraudulent exercise undertaken solely to allow an illegal immigrant to escape deportation. As it turned out, we appeared to be the only bona fide couple of the four or five with us in the waiting room. And this was early in the Reagan years.
In the course of the interview, the INS officer asked me what toothpaste “the alien” used. It seemed funny because “the alien” was sitting next to me at the time, but we took no offense. We thought it was funny and I was happy to ace the quiz.
Today a question in that form would probably get the guy fired. Today the prescribed term is “undocumented.” Today that is the term on which the Democrats insist. Today it is the term that every mainstream media outlet (including Fox News) uses. What’s happening here?
What’s happening is the blessing of illegal immigration and the destruction of citizenship. The left seeks to break down our resistance to illegal immigration by means of a mandated euphemism. It’s an Orwellian device. The phenomenon of illegal immigration is not even to be described with tolerable accuracy. The underlying distinction is to be rendered meaningless.
As I say, illegal aliens have become a core constituency of the Democrats. To illegal aliens the left requires that the knee must be bent. I’m not sure why Fox News is compliant. It is frankly disgusting.
Here I speak for my wife and me. We support enforcement of the law. We oppose illegal immigration. We do not seek to accommodate it. We do not respect it. We desire the return of illegal immigrants to their home country or deportation to some other place. We do not want to support them with our tax dollars. We are sickened by the invasion of illegal aliens promoted by Biden and the Biden administration. The abuse of the English language that accompanies it is the least of it, but it deserves at least to be noted.
In the video clip from his interview with Jonathan Capehart below, President Biden explains why Hamas wants a ceasefire. He forgets that he’s not supposed to explain how it promotes their goals. He seeks to backtrack but can’t figure out how, except by falsely implying that Israel is violating the laws of war. What a disgrace.
Watch Biden say the quiet part out loud. This is actually kind of amazing. Perhaps Prime Minister Netanyahu will find it of use in the “come to Jesus” meeting with which Biden is threatening him.
Biden makes the blunder of answering whether and why Hamas would want a ceasefire.
He then notices his terrible blunder in saying the truth, and goes off on a tangent. pic.twitter.com/ypqX7H8D6o
— David Shor (@DYShor) March 10, 2024
It turns out that President Biden has a red line. It applies to Israel. In an unlocked story, the Wall Street Journal reports that “Biden Warns Netanyahu an Assault on Rafah Would Cross ‘Red Line.’”
Biden apparently seeks to depose the Netanyahu government. He thinks that Netanyahu is the problem. He also seeks to preserve Hamas. He finds them easier to deal with than Netanyahu. Biden’s daycare minders in the White House may indeed be malevolent or stupid enough to believe these propositions. They certainly explain a lot. They explain what Biden meant about having a “come to Jesus” meeting with Netanyahu. The animus behind that statement is patent. Now we see what Biden had in “mind,” so to speak. Israel does not fit comfortably inside what the Democrats are pleased to refer to as “our democracy.”
Biden and his minders purport to understand Israel’s national security interests better than the Israelis. The Daily Mail reports “Biden Administration consulted Israel expert on how to ‘force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse’ as president accuses the prime minster of ‘hurting Israel more than helping’ and insists Rafah invasion is ‘red line’ that must not be crossed.” The headline says it all.
Politico reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu sees things slightly differently. When asked whether Israeli forces would move into Rafah in an interview on Sunday, Netanyahu replied: “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that October 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again.”
It may be time to revisit Robert Gates’s assessment of Biden’s foreign policy chops: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Gates made that assessment in 2014. It therefore predates Biden’s Afghanistan, Ukraine, Iran and other debacles. We can now revise Gates’s assessment to the past five decades.
The Biden administration now distinguishes between Israel’s democracy and the people who elected it. While I cannot defend all of our government’s policies, I will absolutely defend the democracy that elected it. Our democratic ally must respect that. https://t.co/8z5MJQgqIz
— Michael Oren (@DrMichaelOren) March 10, 2024
DEI (racial and other quotas) is intrinsically evil. At The Hill, Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson reveal a shocking, practical downside to DEI hysteria: “DEI killed the CHIPS Act.”
The issue is critical because Taiwan now produces 90% of the world’s advanced microchips, and China has indicated its intention to annex Taiwan in the near future. So the CHIPS Act sought to incentivize chip production in the U.S. Unfortunately, that isn’t what is happening.
Handouts abound. There’s plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as “justice-involved individuals,” more commonly known as ex-cons. There’s plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. …
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Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity’s most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as [the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company] discovered to its dismay.Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren’t skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.
Now TSMC has revealed plans to build a second fab in Japan. Its first, which broke ground in 2021, is about to begin production. TSMC has learned that when the Japanese promise money, they actually give it, and they allow it to use competent workers. TSMC is also sampling Germany’s chip subsidies, as is Intel.
It isn’t only TSMC that is being stymied by DEI:
Intel is also building fabs in Poland and Israel, which means it would rather risk Russian aggression and Hamas rockets over dealing with America’s DEI regime. Samsung is pivoting toward making its South Korean homeland the semiconductor superpower after Taiwan falls.
In short, the world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns in the CHIPS Act’s political games. They’ve quietly given up on America. …
[C]hipmakers have to make sure they hire plenty of female construction workers, even though less than 10 percent of U.S. construction workers are women. They also have to ensure childcare for the female construction workers and engineers who don’t exist yet. They have to remove degree requirements and set “diverse hiring slate policies,” which sounds like code for quotas. They must create plans to do all this with “close and ongoing coordination with on-the-ground stakeholders.”
No wonder Intel politely postponed its Columbus fab and started planning one in Ireland.
Access to microchips is a national security issue, as well as being fundamental to a modern economy. And yet Congressional majorities care more about DEI shibboleths and feeding pork to their constituencies than about American security and prosperity. Of course, that isn’t really an irony. The whole point of DEI is hating America, and if it imperils our security and our prosperity, so much the better.
The people you see in this video are not fit to live in a civilized society. Problem is, I’m not sure we have a civilized society.
The white girl died.
Nothing is going to happen to the black girl who did this with the St Louis prosecutor, who is a Soros DA. https://t.co/pHcS493mCu
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) March 10, 2024
UPDATE: At last word, the victim of this incredibly vicious assault is alive but in critical condition. She was having a seizure on the street and apparently has sustained brain damage. But, at last word, she had not yet died.
FURTHER UPDATE: Per a PL commenter, the school district has released a mealy-mouthed statement that equates perpetrator and victim. But what else would you expect from DEI liberals?
“It is a tragedy anytime children are hurt. Bullying and fighting in the community is an issue for which we all need to take ownership and work towards a resolution for the sake of our children. The Hazelwood School District offers our sincerest condolences to everyone involved, and will offer additional emotional support from our support and crisis team to those in need. We look forward to continuing to partner with our community for the sake of our children. Please be kind and respectful of the families involved during this difficult time and pledge to help work toward the betterment of our entire community.”
The black girl apparently has Hamas status. She’s a victim deserving kindness and respect, just like the girl she put in critical condition.
Condolences to “everyone involved.” Bullshit. One girl beat another girl to within an inch of her life. She may yet die, and she likely will be brain-damaged. The only condolences are due to the victim and her family. As for the rest, the girl who assaulted her should be prosecuted for, at a minimum, attempted murder, and sent to prison for decades. Those who stood by and did nothing can’t, legally, be prosecuted, but they should be shamed and ostracized for the rest of their lives. They don’t need “emotional support” from a “crisis team.” They need to be taught what it means to be a human being. But that obviously won’t happen in the St. Louis public school system or, evidently, in their homes.
ONE MORE: A reader emails to say that the Soros prosecutor in St. Louis has resigned. I don’t know whether that is correct, or whether his or her successor is another pro-crime prosecutor. There are a lot of them around, these days. But I pass his message on for what it is worth.
I think the answer to that question is Yes. In reality, the whole point of DEI is bigotry, so the fact that its exponents keep getting outed as haters is not at all coincidental. The latest case comes from Johns Hopkins, where the Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine has resigned following a hateful outburst:
The Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine resigned on Tuesday after criticism stemming from her distribution of a list of groups she believes have “privilege.”
As Campus Reform reported, Dr. Sherita Golden sent the list of groups in a January email sent to staff members, which defined “privilege” as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group.”
Of course she wasn’t referring to welfare recipients, public employees or beneficiaries of political influence like “greens” or DEI officers.
Golden went on to name nine groups in the country that have been “granted” privilege “at the expense of members of other groups.”
According to Golden, these “privileged” groups are: “White people,” “Able-bodied people,” “Heterosexuals,” “Cisgender people,” “Males,” “Christians,” “Middle or owning class people,” “Middle-aged people,” and “English-speaking people.”
Doesn’t that cover almost everyone in the United States? The only “non-privileged,” apparently, are crippled, gay, female, Muslim illegal immigrants below the age of 40 who just arrived and haven’t yet learned English. That is a niche constituency, to say the least. It includes maybe three people.
“Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it. People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if only they worked to earn them. In fact, privileges are unearned and are granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent,” she claimed.
The privilege fairy just hands them out. Work is superfluous.
Golden resigned as Chief Diversity Officer on Tuesday, but remains on the faculty at Johns Hopkins. After her email caused controversy, she apologized:
The “privilege” list was retracted shortly after it was sent out, and Golden said she “deeply” regretted her definition of privilege, adding it “did not meet [the] goal” to “inform and support an inclusive community at Hopkins. . . . In fact, because it was overly simplistic and poorly worded, it had the opposite effect of being exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community.”
Her email wasn’t “poorly worded,” but it certainly was “exclusionary.” Actually, it set out the DEI ideology very clearly, and exclusion of politically disfavored people is the whole point of DEI. But sometimes people notice, and a liberal needs to be sacrificed. So our condolences go out to Sherita Golden: she said what the Democratic Party believes, not poorly but too well.
In his SOTU Thursday, Joe Biden used the term “illegal” but failed to mention or condemn Antonio Ibarra, the Venezuelan national charged with murdering University of Georgia student Laken Riley, whom Biden twice misnamed as “Lincoln Riley.” On Saturday, Biden apologized for using the term “illegal,” and took it to another level.
“I’m not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect,” Biden told MSNBC. “Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is growing.” Such nonsense is nothing new for Joe Biden.
“You know, 11 million people live in the shadows. I believe they’re already American citizens,” said Vice President Biden in 2014. According to Delaware Democrat, all the 11 million wanted was a chance to contribute, so “let people vote.” Biden is not going to disrespect “any, any, any” of those he has brought in, even the criminals, because they add to his imported electorate. When criminal illegals murder Americans, Biden isn’t going to “disrespect” the murderer.
In 2014, false-documented Mexican national Luis Bracamontes gunned down Sacramento deputies officers Danny Oliver and Michael Davis. During his trial, Bracamontes said he wished he killed more cops, and yelled “black lives don’t matter” at Danny Oliver’s wife, Anthony Holmes, whom he shot five times, and members of the jury. Vice President Biden never mentioned the case, not even to denounce “gun violence.”
In late 2018, a gang-affiliated criminal illegal calling himself Paulo Virgen Mendoza shot dead Newman, California, police officer Ronil “Ron” Singh, a legal immigrant who came to the United States to work in law enforcement. Seven other illegals aided the killer’s flight before the fugitive murderer was apprehended. Joe Biden ignored the case. He is not going to disrespect “any any, any” member of his imported electorate, not even the criminals who murder innocent Americans.
By shunning the term “illegal,” Biden effectively cancels immigration law. The Delaware Democrat also renders meaningless all the procedures people such as Scott Johnson’s wife go through to become American citizens. For Joe Biden, legal immigrants and legitimate citizens are non-persons, and it was the “undocumented” who actually “built the country,” and are now the reason “the economy is growing.”
Conrad Black has called Joe Biden “a pallid effigy unable to utter complete sentences without requesting the approach of the teleprompter,” and a “wax-works effigy of a president.” Legal immigrants, legitimate citizens, and parents of those slain by illegals can be forgiven for regarding Joe Biden as a wax-works effigy of a human being.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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Alaska court rules Police must obtain warrants to surveil houses using zoom lenses, aircraft.
Sundance says Mike Turner, Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), claims Devin Nunes supports the House authorization of the 702 FISA authority, even though it is the worst possible outcome; expanding 702 abuse by expanding the surveillance authority. However Devin Nunes opposes it, as does Kash Patel, but both are afraid to say this for fear of being shut out of the community.
The Senate kills proposal that would stop illegal aliens from being counted for elections.
Government gets sued for searching private property without permission. Old Supreme Court precedent says the Fourth Amendment does not apply to land.
Chicago has spent nearly $300 million on migrant crisis response, city says.
Dick Durbin thwarts bill to automatically detain illegals charged with violent crimes.
Adult film star Sophia Leone’s death ‘investigated as homicide’ after ‘home invasion.’ Article says one of the other ones which had been thought to be an overdose was not, and apparently they are not sure why she died.
Secret files suggest FBI effort to ‘encourage political violence’ ahead of 2020 election.
Kate Middleton’s Mother’s Day photo is pulled over ‘manipulation’ fears: Picture is recalled by agencies as questions are raised over the first image of the Princess of Wales since her surgery. Looks either AI generated, and/or photoshopped. Also, Kate has no wedding ring.
When apprising clients it was pulling the photo, AP does not call it a retraction, or removal, but rather it issues a “Kill Notification,” which you have to wonder if it is comms of some sort:
Cancer risk soars 52% among fully “vaccinated” aged 15-59, pathologist finds.
Car rams into Xi Jinping’s home. No idea if it was an accident or an attack.
Strangely, a car also rammed into Buckingham Palace.
Trans activists urge Scottish police to arrest JK Rowling over ‘misgendering hate crime.’
Michael Moore tells Israel to stop fighting Hamas, demands Jews focus on fighting white Christians instead because of the Spanish Inquisition. Interesting, as he really hates white Christians. These people do not think Christianity is fake. They believe it is real, and they hate it, because they are aligned with its enemy.
Pope says Ukraine is defeated, must negotiate.
Dozens of Ukrainian men arrested trying to flee the meat grinder.
President Biden’s animus against Israel was patent in his State of the Union Address this past Thursday evening. The White House has posted the text of his remarks as given here.
JNS editor Jonathan Tobin sets forth a rounded view of “the moral failure” of Biden’s remarks on Israel. Tobin separately addresses and elaborates on Biden’s demands on Israel, the floating harbor for Hamas, the two-state final solution, the lack of any statement on the explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States, and the appeasement of Israel haters. We have noted these deficiencies in our own way, but nothing said here does justice to the points that Tobin makes.
NRO’s Philip Klein characterized the SOTU as “the most anti-Israel presidential speech in history.” Klein posted his comments in a hot take on the evening of Biden’s speech. Among other things, he notes that “[a]fter a perfunctory mention of October 7 and the hostages, Biden then launched an extended attack on Israel’s response to the war and the conditions in Gaza that accepted, whole cloth, Hamas casualty figures that his own administration had previously questioned as unreliable.”
We have noted this point as well. Biden and others in the administration have adopted the numbers retailed by the Gaza Ministry of Health — i.e., Hamas. It represents their adoption of the Hamas point of view.
What’s wrong with this picture? Hamas is not known for the accuracy of its statements of fact. Hamas, for example, does not distinguish between the deaths of civilians and Hamas genocidaires. The Gaza Ministry of Health promotes a line that supports Hamas’s war aims.
Biden hectors Israel. He repeatedly implies that Israel violates the laws of war. This is another lie that promotes Hamas’s war aims. As Israel sacrifices the safety of its soldiers to protect civilians intentionally placed in harm’s way by Hamas, it is perversely false.
In the State of the Union Biden asserted: “More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed — [AUDIENCE MEMBER: Says who?] — most of whom are not Hamas. Thousands and thousands of innocents — women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned.”
Abraham Wyner homes in on the casualty numbers in the Tablet column “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers.” Subhead: “The evidence is in their own poorly fabricated figures.”
Wyner, by the way, is Professor of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Faculty Co-Director of the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative. He knows what he is talking about. His column is worth your time, but Biden et al. don’t need his analysis. As Klein implies, they know it’s true. They lie without a conscience.
Wyner introduces his analysis this way (emphasis in original):
The number of civilian casualties in Gaza has been at the center of international attention since the start of the war. The main source for the data has been the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, which now claims more than 30,000 dead, the majority of which it says are children and women. Recently, the Biden administration lent legitimacy to Hamas’ figure. When asked at a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week how many Palestinian women and children have been killed since Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the number was “over 25,000.” The Pentagon quickly clarified that the secretary “was citing an estimate from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.” President Biden himself had earlier cited this figure, asserting that “too many, too many of the over 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and children, including thousands of children.” The White House also explained that the president “was referring to publicly available data about the total number of casualties.”
Here’s the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters.
If Hamas’ numbers are faked or fraudulent in some way, there may be evidence in the numbers themselves that can demonstrate it. While there is not much data available, there is a little, and it is enough: From Oct. 26 until Nov. 10, 2023, the Gaza Health Ministry released daily casualty figures that include both a total number and a specific number of women and children.
The first place to look is the reported “total” number of deaths. The graph of total deaths by date is increasing with almost metronomical linearity, as the graph in Figure 1 reveals….
Wyner persuasively establishes that “the Hamas ministry settled on a daily total arbitrarily.” See Figure 1 and other graphs along with the rest of the column here (data posted here).
JOHN adds: Abraham Wyner testified as an expert witness on behalf of the defendants in the Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn case. We saw his testimony when we were in D.C. for the trial. Wyner presented a statistical analysis that showed that Mann’s famous hockey stick graph was, in fact, fraudulent. His analysis was persuasive and Wyner was a great witness, but unfortunately neither his testimony nor the other evidence presented by defendants was enough to overcome the decades of propaganda that underlie climate hysteria. At least, not with a D.C. jury.
As mentioned here before, Democrats used to be fairly robust in their opposition to open borders and unchecked illegal immigration, as recently as the Clinton years. But then someone got the bright idea that since immigration had helped to flip California from a red state in presidential elections to a blue state across the board, imagine how much power Democrats could grasp if the California story was repeated across the entire country! (But don’t dare say “Replacement Theory,” because that’s raaaccisttt. Besides, it is a misnomer: it should be called “Replacement Fact.”)
Here’s what the shift in opinion looks like:
This is a good complement to Steve’s post immediately below. Why did Democrats decide, seemingly in unison, that it would be a good idea to enable millions of illegal immigrants? Because they (or, in any event, their children) will be voters, and the Democrats assumed they could count on minority votes for many years to come.
But that may have been a miscalculation:
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American politics is in the midst of a racial realignment.
I think this is simultaneously one of the most important social trends in the US today, and one of the most poorly understood. pic.twitter.com/QeRsuMSKaL
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 11, 2024
This is part of the broader realignment of the parties. The left’s current obsessions–the “trans” movement, global warming, the war on food and gasoline, and so on–are of no good whatsoever to working people. They are of interest primarily to wealthy whites, especially wealthy white women. Blue collar minorities, like other working people, are not stupid. They can see that it is the Republicans whose policies actually help them, and they are starting to vote accordingly.
A final (I hope) footnote to Joe Biden’s disgraceful SOTU performance: he referred to Jose Ibarra as an illegal, which was, as I said here, perhaps the only true statement in the entire speech. But Biden met with blowback from Democrats who don’t seem to mind that Ibarra is an (alleged) murderer, but were horrified by Biden’s admission that his presence here is illegal.
So, as recorded at the link above, Biden apologized on MSNBC for using the word “illegal.” (The correct legal term is “illegal alien.”):
President Biden apologized Saturday for using the word “illegal” during his State of the Union address to describe the Venezuelan migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
“An undocumented person. I shouldn’t have used illegal, it’s undocumented,” Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart in an excerpt from an interview airing Saturday….
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“So, you regret using that word?” Capehart asked.“Yes,” Biden responded.
I, and everyone else, called that an apology. But the White House is now backtracking on its backtrack:
The White House on Monday pushed back against claims President Biden apologized for using the term “illegal” to describe the migrant accused of killing Laken Riley — just days after the president said he had “regret” for using the loaded term.
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White House deputy spokesperson Olivia Dalton attempted to clarify on Monday, telling a reporter that “the president absolutely did not apologize” despite his expression of regret.“There was no apology anywhere in that conversation,” Dalton told reporters on Air Force One. “He did not apologize. He used a different word. I think what we should be really clear about is the facts.”
“He used a different word.” All right, then! Biden said that he “shouldn’t have used” the word illegal, and he “regrets” doing so. Talk about a fine distinction. So, why did the White House bother to walk back, at least partially, Biden’s MSNBC comments? I suppose because if you apologize, you have to apologize to someone. In this case, who is that someone? The (alleged) murderer, Jose Ibarra. Many have criticized Biden for apologizing to a murderer for calling him an illegal. Hence his handlers’ most recent spin: it wasn’t an apology, it was only an expression of regret for something he shouldn’t have done.
Got it, Joe.
And, finally, for a spokesman for the Biden White House to say that “what we should be really clear about is the facts” is, in its own way, a classic of dark comedy.
Joe Biden unveiled his 2025 budget proposal earlier today. In general, presidents’ budgets are hardly worth discussing. They project revenue and spending over the next ten years, and if you go back and look at them a few years later, they usually bear no relation to reality. And, in this instance, there is zero chance that Congress will pass anything resembling Biden’s budget, which can best be seen as a campaign document.
But, for what it is worth, this is what the Wall Street Journal had to say about it:
President Biden proposed Monday a $7.3 trillion budget for the next fiscal year that would raise taxes on wealthy people and large corporations, trim the deficit and lower the costs of prescription drugs, child care and housing.
Other than spending $7.3 trillion and raising taxes, it wouldn’t do any of those things. For purposes of comparison, federal spending in 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration, was $1.79 trillion. So Biden wants to spend almost exactly four times that much.
The fiscal 2025 budget would cut the deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, and it would raise taxes by a net total of $4.9 trillion, or more than 7% above what the U.S. would collect without any policy changes.
Those hypothetical deficit cuts depend on economic forecasts in the out-years that won’t come true. The only meaningful fact is that Biden wants to raise taxes by nearly $5 trillion.
Biden’s purported budget is largely an exercise in fantasy:
The budget leaves some blank spaces. It lists principles for shoring up Social Security, without specifying a plan. It calls for paying for extensions of tax cuts for most households after 2025 but doesn’t detail how that would be paid for. And it calls for restoring the expanded child tax credit, but only temporarily, lumping that into the broader 2025 tax debate.
Biden’s budget proposes absurd taxes on corporations and “the rich”:
The budget repeats many past Biden tax-increase proposals, including higher tax rates on corporations and high-income individuals along with minimum taxes on the wealthiest Americans’ unrealized capital gains.
Which is insane. If the government taxes unrealized gains on unsold securities when the market goes up, will it write checks to investors when the market is down? Logically, it would have to, but of course that is not part of Biden’s proposal.
Biden rolled out several new tax increases last week, such as raising his new corporate alternative-minimum-tax rate to 21% from 15% and denying deductions when corporations pay any workers, not just top executives, more than $1 million.
The net effect of Biden’s proposals would be to give the United States one of the heaviest tax burdens in our history, equaled only once since World War II.
Is that because people are dying to give the federal government more money to waste? No, it is because many people are too naive to understand that, as has been said a million times, corporations don’t pay taxes, they collect them. Those taxes are actually paid mostly by customers (i.e., all of us) and secondarily by employees (i.e., most of us). But Biden’s budget is not about economics or, for that matter, mathematics, as the numbers will never add up. Rather, it is about politics:
Biden’s advisers are betting that a focus on lowering costs for families will help push the president to re-election.
Needless to say, Biden’s budget, if actually enacted, would raise costs for families, not lower them. Fortunately, there is zero chance of that happening.
As John noted recently, members of “The Squad” recently snuck off to Cuba, a one-party Communist dictatorship and massive violator of human rights. The woke Democrats seem unaware of films and books that document the repressions of the Stalinist regime. Consider, for example, Improper Conduct, by Cuban cinematographer Nestor Almendros, who in 1979 won an Oscar for Days of Heaven.
Improper Conduct shows how Fidel Castro tossed homosexuals into forced labor camps, which were rather inclusive. As New York Times film critic Vincent Canby noted, “Playwrights, doctors, poets and painters as well as more ordinary folk such as tour guides and hairdressers, spent time in one or more of the country’s forced-labor camps.” Consider also 8-A, a documentary by Cuban exile Orlando Jimenez Leal.
When Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa returned from Africa, Castro spotted a potential rival and staged a show trial for Ochoa and fellow officers. 8-A showcases the actual trial, in which Castro appears, and adds a dramatization of the executions.
In Heroes are Grazing In My Garden, Cuban poet Heberto Padilla exposes the repression of writers and intellectuals, along with the general privations of the people. For example, diabetics sell samples of their urine, so others can get extra rations of milk and meat. In Against All Hope, Armando Valladares documents Castro’s torture of political prisoners. Consider also Paul Hollander’s Political Pilgrims, which recalls glowing accounts of the Cuban regime by foreigners.
“Fidel sits on the side of a tank rumbling into Havana on New Year’s day,” wrote New Left icon Abbie Hoffman (Steal this Book). “He laughs joyously and pinches a few rumps… Fidel lets the gun drop to the ground, slaps his thigh and stands erect. He is like a mighty penis coming to life, and when he is tall and straight, the crowd immediately is transformed.”
For novelist Norman Mailer, Castro was “the first and greatest hero to appear in the world since the Second World War.” For Angela Davis, Communist Party USA candidate for vice-president in 1980 and 1984, “Fidel was their leader, but most of all he was also their brother in the largest sense of the word.” In reality, the white Stalinist plunged the nation into sub-Haiti levels of poverty, and thousands fled on anything that would float.
As Saul Bellow explained, a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. The Squad is either ignorant of the record or, like Angela Davis, fully approves of the Cuba’s Stalinist regime. As Cubans might note, in 2021, Squad members Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar were among 40 Democrats who voted against a resolution supporting peaceful demonstrators protesting against the Cuban government.
• I don’t get it. I thought the Clinton Foundation had fixed all of the problems in Haiti. Maybe they should just bring back Voodoo economics.
• I did not have John Fetterman as a robust champion for Israel on my Bingo card:
I’m starting to believe that on this issue at least, Fetterman is a better Senator than Oz would have been.
• Apparently Middlebury, the college that allowed the assault on Charles Murray and a faculty member back in 2017, is feeling left out of the elite university anti-Semitism sweepstakes:
Middlebury Administrators Ordered Students to Remove ‘Jewish’ from Oct. 7 Attack Victims’ Vigil
By Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon
It was October 10, three days after Hamas had murdered 1,200 Israelis and abducted hundreds more, and Jewish students at Middlebury College were trying to organize a vigil for the victims. They reached out to Middlebury’s dean of students, Derek Doucet, with a draft poster promoting the event, which they invited administrators at the elite liberal arts school to attend.
“Stand in Solidarity With the Jewish People,” the poster read. “This will be an opportunity to honor the innocent lives lost in the tragic events that have struck Israel in the past days.”
It didn’t go over well.
In an email to students reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Doucet, who has oversight of student activities, pushed to rename the vigil and strip it of references to Judaism so as to make it “as inclusive as possible.”
“Some suggestions that might help are stating that this gathering is to honor ‘all the innocent lives lost,’” Doucet wrote, and including a reference to the “tragedies that have struck Israel and Gaza.” He added that calls for solidarity with Jews could trigger “unhelpful reactions.”
To adapt a new saying about the media—you may think you hate college administrators, but you don’t hate them enough.
• Nothing to see here, I’m sure:
In a less than 24-hour span this weekend, two more dead whales have been discovered off the northern Atlantic coast of the U.S., and pro-cetacean activists are blaming President Joe Biden’s offshore wind initiative.
I’m so old I can remember when “Save the Whales!” was a popular bumper sticker on VW Bugs, Volvos, and early-adopter Subaru drivers.
• Another reminder that even Barack Obama was better on border security and uncontrolled immigration than Biden is:
This wasn't 30 years ago. This was President Obama in 2009 on immigration.
"We can't have half a million people pouring over the border…"
About 7 years later these same positions were considered racist and xenophobic by Democrats. pic.twitter.com/X41Qk0Qe2x
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 11, 2024
Chaser:
It would be a real shame if everybody watched and shared this right now.
A REAL shame… pic.twitter.com/bYKhb5QvlN
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) March 9, 2024
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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Alex Jones: DOJ is weeks from ‘shutting down’ Infowars. “I have not talked about on air yet what is happening behind the scenes — because it’s not time to do it yet for a lot of reasons. But I have been very honest with the crew. As Americans, we tend to think we still live in a free country. You don’t. And the type of deceptive people we deal with is next level.” If American Stasi gets close to forcing exposure of the surveillance, what you will see is a controlled exposure using some of these controlled assets, to try to draw attention from it and gain control over just what is exposed and how.
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro was ordered to report to prison next week. Unbelievable. Four months for Contempt of Congress for not violating Presidential immunity.
E. Jean Carroll lawyer threatens ANOTHER Trump lawsuit.
Kate Middleton claims on Twitter she was the one who took and then edited the fake photo of her and the kids, however another twitter user makes the case the photo was actually taken last year, and altered to try and make it look new. There are calls to release the original, however the Palace says, “No, LOL.”
Now the Royals released another photo of Kate and William departing Windsor Castle for somewhere, and now it appears it may be another fake, leading people to wonder why they are even releasing photos, when they could just continue to say Kate is recuperating from some surgery. For some reason they felt they needed to supply proof she is alive and well now. And this implies she may not be alive and well now, but they feel they need some kind of alibi. Which is weird, as if she was bruised, they could just wait for them to heal, and if she was disfigured, they can afford the best plastic surgeons, and again, there is no rush for her to be revealed until everything healed. The only issue I could see is if they were establishing proof of life to forestall any investigation into her having passed prior to this, because she is going to be found dead, and they need the investigation to presuppose she died sometime in the future, and only process evidence consistent with that, evidence they would supply which would control the outcome of the investigation. With the Royals, you never know, she could have found out they were going to send her kids to ritualistic-abuse Monarch-programming to make them controllable, and she was going to make noise, so they took her out. It is a shame if there is something bad, she seemed quite nice. Plus, if William did kill her, and got sent away, we might be looking at King Harry and Queen Markle.
Joe Biden thinks John McCain was his predecessor and he died last night, or not long ago.
CNN declined to air ad that faults Biden for Laken Riley’s murder during State of the Union.
Majority of Democrats oppose certification of 2024 election if Donald Trump wins. Very often these polls are where they reveal what they are planning as they run trial balloons to see how it will be accepted.
Joe Biden suddenly leads Donald Trump in multiple polls. Might be a final push to see if they can astroturf Biden into at least plausibility, before giving up on him.
Pete Buttigieg’s husband goes to war with Libs of TikTok founder over her appointment to school library panel – as she claps back with video showing him getting kids to pledge allegiance to LGBTQ pride flag. Hey, look everyone, a fight! I think they are both on the same side, and as people watch that meaningless drivel, nobody is talking about the surveillance, or the fact a foreign intel operation is basically entirely crashing the nation, as it engenders third-world levels of violence and mayhem. But everyone thinks these two hate each other, and will take one side or the other.
Cancer risk soars 52% among fully vaccinated aged 15-59, pathologist finds.
Doctors raise alarm over soaring young heart attack deaths.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt on the Electoral College: ‘We’ve gotta work around it.’
Muckraker has obtained never-before-seen footage of government contractors escorting illegal alien children through LaGuardia Airport and into foster homes in the middle of the night. Since 2021, one third of the migrant children placed with a sponsor have never been heard from again? Where are the parents of these children, and how did they get up here?
50 people were hurt, including 12 sent to the hospital, after a Boeing 787 dropped sharply in midair due to a “technical event.” Pilot said all his gauges suddenly went blank, and the plane plunged a few hundred feet.
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett is found dead in his truck outside a South Carolina hotel just days after testifying in lawsuit against the aviation giant. Supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The DOJ launches criminal investigation into Boeing.
2 Indinesian pilots fell asleep mid-flight for 30 minutes, plane flies off course: report.
Trump says a TikTok ban would empower Meta, slams Facebook as ‘enemy of the people.’ It says something when it appears a platform might offer a little more freedom of speech, because it is owned and run by the CCP.
Cuomo-Carlson conversation bridges political divides. Tucker is helping Cuomo out. Cuomo has been struggling since ABC dumped him, as he finds he can only scrounge a following similar to most leftist blogs. When you do this from the outside, you quickly realize those getting promoted will not go near you, I assume as part of the rules they agreed to when they were offered their own “success.” Tucker would never do an interview here, even if my readership were to dwarf Cuomo’s. That Tucker is helping leftist Cuomo tells you, both are on the same team, and it is not your’s.
Automakers are sharing consumers’ driving behavior with insurance companies, which are suddenly jacking up the insurance rates for the customers. Your driving behavior is going in LexisNexis? That is a new one.
AI poses ‘extinction-level’ threat and US government must be given new ’emergency powers’ to control technology, warns State Department report. One big problem which they face is the government has a lot of secrets. It would be a shame if an AI were to program itself to hack into and steal the secrets about how everyone is getting screwed and release them, to set off a war on the elites. Imagine if it were to gather everyone’s surveillance files, and email them to each person. It is possible they are worried some enterprising individual with the technical capability could rapidly expand their capabilities using AI.
Pentagon wants 1000s of AI-piloted fighter jets to support human pilots.
John Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is headed to Naugatuck, Connecticut, to perform a folk music concert. I don’t know the details but I know there are probably great folk music artists out there starving. I would love to know exactly how he is getting gigs, and who is hiring him, and exactly why.
Tesla and Apple’s China sales plunge as Chinese told to ditch Western products.
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s red line and invade Rafah.
US building a port and delivering aid to Gaza by sea was Netanyahu’s idea, not Biden’s.
Gang leader named ‘Barbecue’ is now most powerful man in Haiti — as US evacuates Americans. My first impulse is to observe, the majority of people are good, but when civil order breaks down, the majority of people are not violent, and thus it is only the violent who get a vote in the democracy of disorder. If that were true, then if you want a good democracy, train everyone to be a killer, and make killing socially acceptable. The evil will fear that more than all the gun control in the world. But then maybe Haiti is not as it seems, and true disorder is tougher to find than you would think. From 1:51, in this interview with Barbecue, a picture of the hand of this street criminal gang leader:
The billionaire oligarch who’s enabling Haiti’s murderous gangs. Probably not a billionaire, but rather a money manager for the conspiracy.
American military personnel may have been killed in a Russian strike on a United States-supplied Patriot air defense system supplied to Ukraine, according to a Moscow-aligned lawmaker in comments reported by Kremlin-backed media. Might be true. Nobody trusts the Ukrainians enough to let them operate these systems for fear they will sell what they find out to China.
Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe combined, for Ukraine.
Pentagon says it needs $10 billion to replace the weapons it sent to Ukraine.
Reports: Georgia Black vote begins to slip away from Joe Biden. People keep selling this idea there is Cabal fighting and the counter-conspiracy manipulating, and it is a battle, but it makes no sense. Biden is clearly burning bridges with blacks, so decisively, I have to think he, (or whoever is playing him) is a saboteur, working to destroy the left.
Trump backers push forward on recall of Wisconsin GOP leader.
Bloodbath: Huge shakeup at RNC as Trump’s team prepares to ax more than 60 staffers.
Spread r/K Theory, because exposure of the surveillance is a win no matter how it goes down
According to his Martin Kulldorff bio, Ph.D., Dr.h.c., is an epidemiologist, a biostatistician, and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. He was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard University for thirteen years. Dr. Kulldorff’s research centers on developing and applying new disease surveillance methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. In October 2020, he co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, advocating for a pandemic strategy of focused protection instead of lockdowns.
City Journal has just published Professor Kulldorff’s account of the censorship of his work and his involuntary departure from Harvard. It was something (many things) he thought and said — crimes against the groupthink of the Covid regime. His account runs to 2,500 words and is titled “Harvard tramples the truth.” It’s straight outta Cambridge. It’s straight outta D.C. It’s straight outta Orwell.
It opens: “I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.” Read every word here.
President Biden apparently thinks the IDF should observe Ramadan as it seeks to eliminate the genocidaires of Hamas. By contrast, the genocidaires of Hamas find Jewish holidays the right time to do their thing. It’s enough to make a sane man vomit.
Wall Street Journal letters editor Elliot Kaufman is not too choked up about Biden’s Ramadan recess. His column on the subject is datelined Tel Aviv and runs with the headline “Hamas’s ‘Operation Ramadan’—and Ours.”
The headline works a witty variation on the title of Norman Podhoretz’s classic Commentary essay “My Negro Problem–and Ours.” By the same token, it could have been headlined “My Biden Problem–and Ours.” However, it would require more than 800 words to lay it out. It would take a book.
Elliot’s column is behind the Journal’s paywall. Here is the heart of it:
There is an idea that it is wrong to fight an Islamic country during the holy month of Ramadan, which this year starts Sunday night. It’s nonsense: Look at Egypt and Syria’s 1973 Ramadan War against Israel or Iran’s 1982 Operation Ramadan against Iraq. Conversations with senior Israeli political, military and legal officials, however, suggest that the taboo is a weapon—and every player in the Gaza war has an Operation Ramadan of its own.
For more than a month, the Biden administration has set the start of Ramadan as the deadline for a deal to release Israeli hostages and stop the war. “There’s got to be a cease-fire because Ramadan,” the president said Tuesday. “If we get into circumstances where this continues to Ramadan, Israel and Jerusalem could be very, very dangerous.” The danger, in his formulation, is all on the Israeli side, so Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had better cut a deal.
Israel’s leaders lamented privately that every day in February and early March seemed to bring a new U.S. shot across Israel’s bow—an unprecedented sanctions regime; new strings attached to weapons transfers; Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for a “timebound, irreversible path to a Palestinian state”; a turn against the war effort, which Mr. Biden called “over the top”; loud opposition to an offensive in Rafah, now termed a “red line”; a new policy deeming all settlements illegal; blame pinned on Israel for humanitarian aid problems; calls for an “immediate cease-fire”; and leaks that the U.S. could demand its weapons not be used in Rafah.
Meanwhile, the president no longer speaks about defeating Hamas, let alone destroying it. Victory is off his list of priorities—and Israelis worry that Mr. Biden is the most pro-Israel member of his administration. Where American words gave Israelis succor after Oct. 7, they now confound and demoralize the country. According to a senior Israeli official, Mr. Blinken “says it right in your face: ‘You can’t win.’ ”
This was America’s Operation Ramadan: Spook and threaten Israel into accepting a hostage deal that would end the war much sooner than Mr. Netanyahu wants, because victory is unattainable anyway.
The administration misread Israel. Its pressure tactics have allowed Mr. Netanyahu to rally even his rivals around his positions on Rafah and against unilateral U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state, an idea Israelis find criminally insane right now. The prime minister’s chief opponent, Benny Gantz, has publicly agreed with him on both, and reportedly told U.S. officials that “finishing the war without demilitarizing Rafah is like sending in firefighters to put out 80% of a fire.” As retired Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, head of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, tells me, “All the Hamas leaders are there. All the hostages are there. The fighters, the munitions—they’re in Rafah.”
It may not exactly fit the IDF’s timetable, but taking Rafah for Ramadan would be the right way to observe the holiday this year.
The New York Post devotes its cover story to President Biden’s election-year budget. By Josh Christenson, the story is headlined “Biden unveils massive $7.3T budget with $5.5T in tax hikes, plans for ‘highest burden’ in US history.” The Post has created a classic cover to flag the story (below). It should probably come with some kind of a warning: “Viewing may induce nausea.” I’m filing this under Laughter Is the Best Medicine.
Politico Playbook previews the testimony later this morning of Special Counsel Robert Hur before the House Judiciary Committee. Hur is to testify on the report of his investigation of Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents (i.e., the report submitted to Attorney General Merrick Garland). The Playbookers have obtained and posted Hur’s opening statement here. These are the operative paragraphs:
My report reflects my best effort to explain why I declined to recommend charging President Biden. I analyzed the evidence as prosecutors routinely do: by assessing its strengths and weaknesses, including by anticipating the ways in which the President’s defense lawyers might poke holes in the government’s case if there were a trial and seek to persuade jurors that the government could not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
There has been a lot of attention paid to language in the report about the President’s memory, so let me say a few words about that. My task was to determine whether the President retained or disclosed national defense information “willfully”—meaning, knowingly and with the intent to do something the law forbids.
I could not make that determination without assessing the President’s state of mind. For that reason, I had to consider the President’s memory and overall mental state, and how a jury likely would perceive his memory and mental state in a criminal trial. These are the types of issues prosecutors analyze every day. And because these issues were important to my ultimate decision, I had to include a discussion of them in my report to the Attorney General.
The evidence and the President himself put his memory squarely at issue. We interviewed the President and asked him about his recorded statement, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” He told us that he didn’t remember saying that to his ghostwriter. He also said he didn’t remember finding any classified material in his home after his vice presidency. And he didn’t remember anything about how classified documents about Afghanistan made their way into his garage.
My assessment in the report about the relevance of the President’s memory was necessary and accurate and fair. Most importantly, what I wrote is what I believe the evidence shows, and what I expect jurors would perceive and believe. I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the President unfairly. I explained to the Attorney General my decision and the reasons for it. That’s what I was required to do.
This is confused and confusing. Did Hur base his non-prosecution decision on his putative inability to prove the mental element of the possible offenses? Hur implies it is “willfulness,” although “gross negligence” would have sufficed to prove the offense under 28 U.S.C § 793. Or did he base his non-prosecution decision on a jury’s anticipated pity for a senile dolt? I trust that some members of the committee will home in on this issue this morning.
Our pal Mark Perry reminds is that today, March 12, is “Equal Pay Day” that falsely assumes how far into 2024 the typical woman has to work to earn what her alleged male counterpart earned in 2023. Funny how feminists never consider something like “Equal Job Safety” or “Job Risk” day (Mark proposes “Occupational Fatality Day”), because the data looks like this and the “gap” would take years, not months, to close:
Men are 11 times more likely to die on the job than women. A rather different kind of femme fatale.
Chaser, FWIW (also from Mark):
President Biden is reportedly “thinking” about imposing conditions on military aid to Israel if the IDF assault on Hamas’s redoubt in Rafah proceeds as planned. Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke by video to AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington. Netanyahu’s office has posted the video clip below on X and a six-minute video here on YouTube (with an echo for the first minute).
The Prime Minister’s Office has posted Netanyahu’s text here along with these further remarks in a Churchillian vein:
Some people would make you believe that the people of Israel are disunited. In fact, some people would have you believe there is the prime minister and then there is the people of Israel.
The truth of the matter is that the people of Israel overwhelmingly support the policies set forth by myself and my government. They overwhelmingly support the need for total victory. Overwhelmingly. They overwhelmingly oppose the idea of having a Palestinian state rammed down our throat.
We just had a vote in the Knesset, to illustrate the point I just made, 99 to 9 supporting this position. And you know what? It’s not irrational. It’s because they think that giving now a Palestinian state after the October 7th massacre will be the greatest reward for terrorism in modern times.
They overwhelmingly reject the idea that we should implant, after we’ve destroyed Hamas in Gaza, the PA that still inculcates its children towards terrorism and the annihilation of Israel. They want a future of peace, a future of security that is purchased by a resounding victory.
And as I say, the possibilities for this victory, the possibilities that are opened up are immense but they require that one word: victory. And I will repeat it again, victory, victory, victory. No substitute for that and we will achieve it together.
Netanyahu knows he represents the consensus of Israeli popular opinion on this point and he gives no sign of backing down.
We will finish the job. Watch my speech at the AIPAC policy conference >> pic.twitter.com/QvPEyzfQvc
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 12, 2024
Black college athletes do, according to the NAACP. The NAACP is urging black athletes not to go to college in Florida:
The NAACP asked Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in the state of Florida, in response to the University of Florida and other state schools recently eliminating their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In a letter sent to NCAA president Charlie Baker and addressed to current and prospective student-athletes Monday, NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson wrote, “This is not about politics. It’s about the protection of our community, the progression of our culture, and most of all, it’s about your education, and your future.”
The idea that black athletes at major sports schools like Florida and Florida State need DEI departments to…what? Prevent them from being discriminated against? The idea is laughable, as is the NCAAP’s apparent suggestion that DEI bureaucrats are somehow helpful to a student’s education.
My guess is that not a single black athlete who otherwise wants to play for Florida, Florida State or any other public Florida college will be deterred by the NCAAP’s advice. What this episode really shows is how useless the once-relevant NCAAP has become. And also, how Florida has taken the lead in adopting common-sense policies that have put the state in the Left’s cross-hairs.
This long piece in the London Times describes the efforts of some British Muslims to prohibit blasphemy, either through legal action or through mob violence:
Britain faces an alarming rise in intimidation and threats of violence against those perceived to have insulted Islam, a new report will warn.
Protests condemning acts of apparent blasphemy have become more frequent and radicalised, according to independent research commissioned by the government’s counterextremism chief.
The report, seen by The Times, exposes links between activists at the forefront of recent protests in the UK and an extremist Islamist political party in Pakistan whose members have regularly called for blasphemers to be beheaded.
It has been a long time since anyone was beheaded in Britain on religious grounds.
Robin Simcox, the government’s counterextremism tsar, commissioned the research after three blasphemy flashpoints in the UK: the 2021 protests against a teacher in Batley, West Yorkshire, who received death threats and is still in hiding…
Still in hiding, three years later–a teacher in West Yorkshire.
…after showing pupils a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed; Birmingham protests the following year over the screening of the film The Lady in Heaven, which depicted Mohammed’s daughter; and last year’s controversy in Wakefield, also in West Yorkshire, after a copy of the Quran was slightly damaged at a high school.
Some of the anti-blasphemy initiative is coming from Pakistan:
It described as “most alarming” the emergence of a UK wing of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a political party that was temporarily banned there because of violent rallies and its support for mob executions of perceived blasphemers. British mosques have hosted speakers who are supportive of TLP and each of the protests in Batley, Wakefield and Birmingham involved activists with links.
The report warned that such rhetoric “has the potential to radicalise their audience around the issue of blasphemy” and that this in turn “may increase the likelihood of sectarian violence and terrorism in the UK”.
The report stresses that most UK-based blasphemy activists have rejected violence and condemn terrorist acts such as the 2015 shooting attack in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine, in which 17 people died.
However, it says many are calling for stricter laws in the UK against blasphemy and seek to criminalise insults against Islam, which they present as part of a wider war on the faith by so-called enemies of Islam in the West.
Britain has admitted large numbers of Muslims from Commonwealth countries, and they now constitute a substantial political bloc. In recent months, they have repeatedly taken over large swaths of the city of London with kill-the-Jews rallies. While British authorities deplore these demonstrations, they seem to have been cowed by the implicit threat of violence that they manifest.
Special Counsel Robert Hur testified for some five hours before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday on his investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents over his too long career in public life. I have posted the Washington Post’s YouTube video of the hearing at the bottom. At the same time, transcripts of Hur’s interview of Biden in the investigation were released: October 8 (99 pages) and October 9 (157 pages).
Mr. Techno Fog provided his hot take on the transcripts here (“confusion, evasion, and outright lies”). David Harsanyi cut to the chase in the Federalist column “Turns out Biden lied.” The Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr reviews both Hur’s testimony and the Biden transcripts in “Interview Transcript, Congressional Testimony Shed Light on Biden’s Memory Lapses During Classified Doc Investigation.”
Hur confined his testimony to the four corners of the lengthy report he submitted to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Whenever he was asked about the facts of the case, he referred to the report’s findings. He demonstrated perfect poise and complete mastery of the case as set forth in his report.
It should go without saying that Hur knew his case, but contrast Hur’s grasp of the case with Robert Mueller’s failure to launch at the comparable hearing held following his Russiagate investigation. To put it charitably, Mueller appeared to be a figurehead who performed at best as an innocent bystander to an investigation run and conducted by others (e.g., Andrew Weissmann). Trump fans who harbor lingering animosity against Attorney General William Barr don’t understand that Mueller’s investigation would still be alive if it weren’t for Barr.
The House Democrats sought to impute a finding of “complete exoneration” of Biden to Hur. Hur begged to disagree. Hur was admirably noncompliant in the face of the Democrats’ efforts to put words in his mouth. The Free Beacon’s video of highlights (below) shows that “complete exoneration” misses the mark. As Hur put it in his opening statement, Hur “identified evidence that the President willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen.” This evidence contradicted everything Biden himself has said in public about the case, although lying to the public is not a crime. It is standard operating procedure.
Hur was criticized for resting his recommendation of non-prosecution on Biden’s senility. Hur explained that he was required to “show [his] work” supporting his recommendation of non-prosecution. Hur reminded me of how I showed my work in solving high school physics problems. I began with the answer and worked back from there.
In Hur’s case, the answer was non-prosecution. A voice in his head from the film Network must have counseled caution: “Don’t do it, buddy! You’re a young man! You got your whole life ahead of you!” Hur’s explanation of the difficulty of obtaining a guilty verdict in the case was little more than absurd (as was his distinction of the Biden case from the Trump case).
In the course of his overlong political career, Biden has been a serial violator of the national security law. He is heedless to it. His misconduct is egregious. And he is a senescent dolt with the possible reservation that in some instances he may be senile like a fox. I don’t recall when “I don’t recall” was ever so plausible.
I would like to include one positive observation in these remarks. I was impressed by the demeanor of two congressmen whose names I had not even heard before. I don’t know anything else about them except what I saw yesterday. I am referring to Republican Ben Cline of Virginia and Democrat Glenn Ivey of Maryland.
However, yesterday’s hearing was incredibly depressing. It represents the dire condition of our politics. We have clownish Democrats volubly insisting on the things which are not. We have the exhibition of the two-tiered system of justice that Democrats have fashioned to resolve the problem of Donald Trump and other annoyances. We have the continuing exposure of the mental incompetence of the president of the United States. We have the mainstream press acting as the Democrats’ public relations arm.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse.
The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps.
The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the “foreign adversary.”
Sundance says the TikTok law is not about foreign data collection, but rather about giving the intelligence community (IC) the ability to shut down any website, even a domestic one, simply by declaring it foreign. Again, there are big secrets, which will touch off big events. You can see by the actions of the IC that there is on thing they fear.
Mississippi Secretary Of State warns Biden is registering illegal aliens to vote with executive order. Biden has so many agencies doing voter registrations that there are tons of ineligible voters getting registered.
Nineteen counties in Illinois report not removing dead voters from voting rolls.
Biden had stashed classified documents in seven different locations.
DOJ interview transcript: Joe Biden made car noises, often meandered off-topic.
Judge grants Trump extension in blow to Jack Smith.
RFK considering Aaron Rodgers or Jesse Ventura as running mates.
The US Government has released a fresh batch of UFO footage.
Never Trumpers launch $50 million ad campaign against Trump.
Hillary wants to be the star of the 2024 show! Clinton is planning a $5,000-a-head Broadway fundraiser with Lin-Manuel Miranda to raise money for Biden. She is getting her name out there in case Biden keels over. That crazy cunt still thinks she can be President.
A week after primaries in California and they still haven’t counted all the votes.
Border agents in Miami have been told to prepare for a wave of migration from Haiti following the takeover of the country by bloodthirsty gangs. I wondered why they allowed Haiti to fall, when in the past they would send in forces to stabilize things. It turns out because Haiti is so chaotic, the US will give all the migrants from there who arrive in Florida the red carpet treatment, and not send them back. Now I am thinking, not only was Haiti allowed to fall, Cabal had its Freemason Haitian Streetgang members collapse it specifically to create migrant waves and the inability to refuse them. They will probably have all the other migrants claim to be Haitian too, so they cannot be deported either. There will probably be Chinese guys claiming they came from Haiti.
That is definitely not by chance. The Masons are acting as an intelligence operation, and here one of their assets is in place in an op which is associated with flooding the US with migrants. Very significant, and should give all Masons pause. Something is up with their org, which appears to not be on the side of the angels.
Blinken says US to give another $133 million for crisis-hit Haiti.
NYC libraries will be cut to ‘unacceptable’ 5-day service under mayor’s budget plan, heads warn. Running out of money due to the migrants.
NYC spending $387 per migrant each day as Mayor Eric Adams tries to slash spending amid influx of nearly 65K. They are blowing $25 million per day on them.
Biden wants $13 billion from Congress for migrants and sanctuary cities.
Mexican military incursions on US soil worry border agents.
Rumble makes offer to buy and operate TikTok in the US.
In Cape Coral, Florida, residents reported sightings of green lasers scanning the ground from a plane in the middle of the night. Supposedly innocent mapping of terrain for coastal monitoring. From the article: “In an effort to uncover the source of these lasers, one neighbor took matters into their own hands by purchasing flight radar to narrow down the search. Upon inputting the information into an FAA registry, it was revealed that the plane in question is registered to RANDIGO LLC. Interestingly, Randigo LLC owns a total of 33 aircraft and employs 33 individuals.”
Another day, another massive explosion in China.
Prince William ‘beside himself’ over Kate Middleton’s decision to step away from Royal duties, says he fears she has become mentally unstable. Starting to label her mentally unstable is a bad sign. I remember Dick Morris panicking after Hillary told the news media she felt bad for him, given how depressed he was. Clearly he felt he ws about to be suicided, and he went on a media tour badmouthing the Clintons every way he could, to establish himself as an enemy.
England’s National Health Service bans puberty blockers for kids.
Israeli spy tech firm exploited vulnerability on ALL IPHONE devices to implant ‘Pegasus’ malware.
Coup Plot: Biden’s intel agencies ‘expect’ protests to topple Netanyahu for ‘moderate’ leader.
Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile.
Federal judge strikes down California gun sale rationing restriction.
Brown, Texas latest universities to bring back mandatory SAT scores.
Trump’s team hires lawyer to “watch the money” at RNC.
Trump leads in NC as Biden struggles with younger voters, WRAL News poll shows.
Donald Trump secures GOP nomination with Washington win.
Spread r/K Theory, because exposure of the surveillance is a win no matter how it goes down
The Biden administration obviously seeks to depose the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The administration has released our intelligence community’s assessment that Netanyahu’s “viability as a leader” is “in jeopardy,” according to the annual report on the national security threats facing the United States that was presented to Congress on Monday. I assess that the wish is father to the thought.
The assessment provides: “Distrust of Netanyahu’s ability to rule has deepened and broadened across the public from its already high levels before the war, and we expect large protests demanding his resignation and new elections,” according to the report. “A different, more moderate government is a possibility.” I assess that the wish is father to the thought and that the assessment bears the trademark of “Our Democracy.”
Netanyahyu’s voice can be heard in the response attributed to a “very senior” Israeli official in a statement issued to the media: “Those who elect the prime minister of Israel are the citizens of Israel and no one else. Israel is not a protectorate of the US but an independent and democratic country whose citizens are the ones who elect the government. We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel.”
The intelligence community could not be reached for comment.
So Haiti is back in the news. As I mentioned yesterday, I thought the Clinton Foundation had fixed the place! Or Colin Powell in the 1990s. Or something. How soon until Biden sends in American troops? Or lets 500,000 Haitians come to America?
Anyway, Haiti is in the state of nature right now, with gangs and mobs rampaging. And yet, as a smart left-leaning friend of mine (I do have a few of those—opposition research) points out, the murder rate in Haiti is lower than many American cities:
The great Dr. Jay Bhattacharya hosts the Illusion of Consensus podcast. I have embedded his most recent episode below via X. In this episode he speaks with Martin Kulldorff. Please check it out in its native habitat here and help Dr. Bhattacharya extend his reach to other platforms.
Dr. Bhattacharya’s introduction to the podcast notes that “in this critical conversation we discuss a number of hot topics, most crucially Martin’s firing from Harvard for his opposition to vaccine mandates. He has broken the silence on this tragic issue and we are happy to host his first public conversation on the matter. We also discuss Martin’s firing from the CDC over the J&J vaccine and Harvard’s generally unscientific response to the pandemic. The conversation concludes with a discussion on decentralizing and reforming the scientific community.”
Drs. Bhattacharya and Kulldorff are are two-thirds of the team that hatched the Great Barrington Declaration. With any luck, they will be recognized in next year’s Samizadat Prize.
New Illusion of Consensus podcast with @martinkulldorff. Martin tells the story of his career in public health, his advocacy for the basic principles of public health in the covid era, and his departure from Harvard.
(The link to the podcast is in my bio. Please subscribe!) pic.twitter.com/K3GOZupBlQ
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) March 12, 2024
The required reading for the Illusion of Consensus podcast is of course Martin Kulldorff’s March 11 City Journal column “Harvard tramples the truth.” Dr. Kulldorff also discusses his experience in the excellent City Journal podcast with John Tierney below (City Journal transcript here).
American Experiment’s Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling tell you what you need to know to respond to ill-informed advocates for “green” energy. There is much more at the link, but here is an overview:
1. Renewables can’t survive on their own
The renewable energy industry is a subsidy-based industry, as wind and solar are largely dependent on lucrative state and federal subsidies. However, renewable advocates justify these perpetual subsidies by claiming thermal generators receive more subsidies than wind and solar. This assertion is not based on reality….
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In 2022, wind and solar generators received three and eighteen times more subsidies per MWh, respectively, than natural gas, coal, and nuclear generators combined. Solar is the clear leader, receiving anywhere from $50 to $80 per MWh over the last five years, whereas wind is a distant second at $8 to $10 per MWh.
Poor solar energy! No matter how many billions the government pours down the solar rathole, no one has figured out a way to generate solar power after the sun goes down.
2. Renewables increase the cost of electricity
Renewable advocates often claim that the adoption of more wind and solar will lead to lower electricity costs, but the opposite is true. In a previous Substack, we wrote in detail about how utility companies with the largest rate increase requests in the country admit the energy transition is a major reason behind increasing electricity prices for families and businesses.
“Green” advocates fake the numbers for wind and solar by the simple expedient of only counting a fraction of their costs. This chart shows the actual cost of the various energy systems if all costs are included:
3. More wind and solar means more blackouts
Advocates of renewable energy also don’t want to account for one of the most damning facts about policies that favor wind and solar energy at the expense of dispatchable generators: that they have led to electricity blackouts in more than one region.
Greenies are full of bogus reasons why increased use of wind and solar are not to blame for blackouts, but they can’t answer the simple question: why is that we didn’t have blackouts before spending hundreds of billions on wind and solar, but now we do have blackouts?
Isaac and Mitch conclude:
Despite claiming to be ardent followers of “tHe ScIEncE,” wind and solar advocates live in their own universe of alternative facts that deny the basic physics and economics of the electric grid. Hopefully, this piece is useful for you the next time a wind or solar stan is arguing with you in the comments section.
One more “green” myth remains to be exploded: the claim that wind and solar are better for the environment than natural gas, nuclear and coal-fired electricity. That myth will be addressed in an upcoming report.
As John notes, blue collar workers or minorities voting for policies that actually help them is an important trend, and a complement to Steve’s post about the border problem. As he showed, “immigration” helped to flip California from red to blue in presidential elections, so Democrats seek to repeat that trend “across the entire country.” That’s why Biden has brought in millions, and that’s a problem.
The possibility of becoming a public charge can cancel the prospect of legal immigrants becoming legitimate American citizens. On the other hand, for many illegals becoming a public charge is the goal. The ideal set-up is to get on welfare and work under the table for cash. That’s what enables the transfer of more than $63 billion to Mexico in 2023, a seven-percent hike from the previous year. In effect, the USA subsidizes the Mexican government.
Those on welfare have a problem becoming U.S. citizens and that’s what California attorney general Xavier Becerra was on about when he cited 10 million “immigrants” in California alone. It is illegal for foreign nationals and even registered aliens to vote, but California’s “motor voter” program registers false-documented illegals to vote when they get their driver’s license. Squads of politiqueros bribe, coerce and threaten the illegals to vote “a certain way,” code for Democrats.
Absent an independent investigation, citizens can have more than a reasonable doubt on ballot propositions to legitimize crime (Proposition 47), the recall vote for Newsom, and his reelection in 2022. Citizens may also have reasonable doubt on the 2020 presidential vote.
Stumbling Joe Biden, who campaigned from his basement, is a wax-works effigy of a president. On the other hand, with an eye on California, he has imported an electorate by the millions. As David Horowitz has often noted, Democrats are good at voter fraud and Republicans are poor at preventing it. So the nation could get four more years of Joe Biden, or someone even worse. All things have limits, except human stupidity and malevolence.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
The people who are supposed to rein in the intelligence community – House intelligence committee (HPSCI) members are blocking reforms to FISA Section 702 *because they want the FBI to spy on American protesters.*
Jason Beck, who works in Total Force Requirements & Sourcing Policy for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s office, described his extremist policies during what he thought was a date with journalist James O’Keefe, who was in disguise. This is one of the surveillance people. From the piece –
“I think we should repeal the Second Amendment and take the guns all away!” Beck told O’Keefe. “Whatever, just take them all.”
Beck went on to say he wants a “monopoly on state violence,” a concept he describes as “‘We [the government], are the only ones with guns.”
Beck also expressed his desire to “pack the Supreme Court” and “abolish the Senate” to pave the way for repealing the Second Amendment.
“We need the majority in the court so they can’t stop the legislation [to ban guns],” he said.
Beck also called for the U.S. to have an open border.
That is, I am sure, the psychology they are looking for. And they have found a lot of people who want that iron-fisted dictator.
On Twitter, and excellent summary:
Here’s what’s actually going on with the TikTok fight right now.
Deep State toadies are taking advantage of anti-China sentiment to transfer TikTok’s surveillance apparatus from China’s evil surveillance state to the U.S. government’s evil surveillance state.
TikTok isn’t going to be banned, because neither the CCP-run Chinese government nor the CCP-owned U.S. government wants to lose such a valuable tool for spying on Americans and poisoning the minds of their children. Instead, the corrupt U.S. intelligence bureaucracy wants control of TikTok, which is why it included the divestment mandate.
Only a handful of U.S. companies are capable of buying and managing TikTok, and they already function as appendages of the Deep State surveillance apparatus.
It’s not that the U.S. government wants to protect you from spying and data theft and manipulation. If only. No, the people behind the Russian collusion hoax, and the Kavanaugh hoax, and the natural origin COVID hoax, and the illegal warrantless spying, and the forced transing of your children—they want to be the ones spying on you and stealing your data and poisoning the minds of your children.
Now, should a spying and subversion tool used by our communist enemies to destroy us be banned? Yeah, obviously, for the same reason that we never would’ve allowed the Soviet Union to infiltrate our homes with their own radios and television sets during the Cold War. But that’s not what’s happening here.
Your government won’t even shoot down a Communist Chinese spy balloon, or prevent the Communist Chinese government from gobbling up your farmland, or stop the Communist Chinese government from stealing the products you make, dumping them into your market at below-market prices, and then driving you out of business. Heck, when the literal Chinese spy chief bought off the Biden family by funneling a million dollars to Hunter Biden, DOJ didn’t even bat an eyelash.
There’s no evidence anywhere that the regime that currently controls America has any interest in fighting off China’s attempts to cripple our country economically, militarily, or diplomatically. But suddenly they want you to believe they’re deeply concerned about TikTok.
I’m just not buying it, and neither should you.
Might be even deeper than that though:
Schumer noncommittal on House-passed TikTok ban.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that the proposed TikTok ban “makes no sense.”
The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement agencies must secure a warrant before employing aircraft, binoculars, or cameras equipped with zoom lenses to conduct surveillance around residential areas. What about devices which let them listen in cars and houses?
RNC has filed a lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for allegedly not maintaining the state’s voter rolls as required by federal law, causing “inflated and inaccurate voter rolls ahead of the 2024 election.” The suit claims that 53 of the state’s 83 counties have more registered voters than they do residents who are eligible to vote.
88 pages of ATF records from the DOJ in a lawsuit show the CIA deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, according to Judicial Watch. Operating domestically.
Hunter Biden trial on federal gun charges set for June 3.
Paul Sperry confirms, Biden might not actually be anything more than a low IQ actor:
Biden told Hur he knew more about Afghanistan than Obama and was a “premiere member of the foreign policy establishment,” but Hur found a number of folders labeled “Afganastan” in his files in his handwriting. Biden had been misspelling Afghanistan as “Afganastan” since 1980
Pentagon yanks $2.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding from Intel. Another disincentive for chip companies to move production here, coming on the heels of word Biden’s DEI requirements were already driving chipmakers overseas.
A new petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court poses an interesting question: Can the feds set up a Constitution-violating racist program, hand out money under it, and then when a lawsuit challenges it, drop the program and say the case is over? It was a financial aid for farmers program which excluded whites. When a white sued, they ended it and said the lawsuit should be dropped by the court.
Poll: voters more concerned about the economy and immigration than abortion.
California will no longer let you leave: new wealth and exit tax.
At least sixteen people were injured during an incident at an FBI training facility in Irvine on Wednesday. Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies were using the facility, none of the injuries are serious. Details still sketchy, but something exploded inside a building.
Biden admin renews Iran sanctions waiver that unlocks upwards of $10 billion for regime.
Canadian law would allow judges to hand down life sentences for “speech crimes.”
It looks like Ukraine tried to blow up a Russian nuclear power plant with drones. Russian air defense appears to have taken the drones down.
Elon Musk fires Don Lemon on his first day working with Twitter.
Steve Garvey edges ahead of Adam Schiff in California’s U.S. Senate primary.
Spread r/K Theory, because only wanna-be dictators want dictators
Special Counsel Robert Hur found that President Biden willfully mishandled documents subject to the Espionage Act provision set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 793(e). However, Hur clouded the “willfulness” element of the offense by resting his non-prosecution recommendation in part on Biden’s present senility. Hur presents his analysis of the element of “willfulness” under section 793 in Chapter Nine of his report.
The relevant question is whether Biden committed the acts “willfully” at the relevant time. Hur had a smoking gun or two to prove the “willfulness” element of the offense. Among other things, however, he suggested that a jury would be reluctant to convict someone as out of it as Biden is and imputed the jury’s likely reluctance to Biden’s present inability to act “willfully” beyond a reasonable doubt. See, for example, Chapters Eleven and Twelve of the report.
Just to give an idea of the evidence Hur compiled, the Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman highlights a few passages from Hur’s report. Freeman quotes this from Chapter Twelve:
As with the classified Afghanistan documents [discussed in Chapter Eleven], there is evidence that Mr. Biden kept his notebooks after his vice presidency knowing they were classified and he was not allowed to have them.
The evidence shows convincingly that Mr. Biden knew the notebooks, as a whole, contained classified information. For eight years, he wrote in his notebooks about classified information during classified meetings in the White House Situation Room and elsewhere. He was familiar with the notebooks’ contents, which included obviously classified information. When reviewing the notebooks with [Biden ghostwriter Mark] Zwonitzer, Mr. Biden sometimes read aloud classified notes verbatim, but he also sometimes appeared to skip over classified information, and he warned Zwonitzer that the material in the notebooks could be classified. Mr. Biden also stored the notebooks in a classified safe in the White House for a time as vice president because the notebooks were classified.
In Mr. Biden’s written answers to questions from our office, he called into question whether he knew the information in his notebooks was classified. In those answers, Mr. Biden explained that when he described material in his notebooks to Zwonitzer as “classified’’ he did not actually mean “classified.” According to Mr. Biden, “I may have used the word ‘classified’ with Mr. Zwonitzer in a generic sense, to refer not to the formal classification of national security information, but to sensitive or private topics to ensure that Mr. Zwonitzer would not write about them.” Mr. Biden qualified this answer by explaining, “I do not recall the specific conversations you reference with Mr. Zwonitzer, which took place more than six years ago.”
This explanation-that “classified” does not mean “classified”-is not credible. At the time Mr. Biden met with Zwonitzer, Mr. Biden had nearly fifty years of experience dealing with classified information, including as a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a member and Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, a member and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Vice President of the United States. It is not plausible that a person of his knowledge and experience used the term “classified” in this context as a euphemism for “private.”
Hur discusses the existence of grounds for reasonable doubt regarding Biden’s willfulness at the time of the acts (i.e., evidence that Biden thought the notebooks were his personal property), but falls back on Biden’s subsequent incompetence (my word, not Hur’s). If Biden thought they were his personal property, why did he lie about the meaning of “classified”? As I wrote yesterday, Hur’s analysis has the quality of a student working backward from the known answer to a question. Hur thus concludes Chapter Twelve:
Given the intelligence and military officials present and the topics discussed at the meetings Mr. Biden recounted for Zwonitzer, Mr. Biden should have realized that his notes did or were likely to contain classified information. But taken as a whole, the evidence will likely leave jurors with reasonable doubts about whether Mr. Biden knew he was sharing classified information with Zwonitzer and intended to do so. For these jurors, Mr. Biden’s apparent lapses and failures in February and April 2017 will likely appear consistent with the diminished faculties and faulty memory he showed in Zwonitzer’s interview recordings and in our interview of him. Therefore, we conclude that the evidence does not establish that Mr. Biden willfully disclosed national defense information to Zwonitzer.
I thought someone would press Hur on the “willfulness” issue at the hearing. Rep. Ken Buck, who declared he’s outta here next week, came the closest to getting at it toward the tail end of the five-hour hearing (video below). Even within the five-minutes limiting each round of questions — Buck could have omitted his introductory remarks and gotten to the point — Buck almost got there, but this ain’t horseshoes.
Dennis Ross is a scholar and diplomat of unmatched experience in the vagaries of “the peace process.” His 2005 memoir The Missing Peace: Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace runs to 880 closely printed pages. He served in both the Bush (41) and Clinton administrations. He also served as special assistant to President Obama and worked on National Security Council in both the Reagan and Obama administrations. He currently serves as a distinguished fellow on the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His impressive Washington Institute profile is posted here.
On a personal note, I would like to add this. When I was working on the 2007 Weekly Standard article “How Arafat got away with murder,” I caught Ambassador Ross by telephone in his office late on a Friday afternoon. He was on his way out the door and didn’t know me from Adam, yet he took my question and responded as quoted in the article. He seemed to me a straightforward and decent gentleman.
Ross was invited by the MIT Jewish Alumni Alliance to speak at MIT’s “Standing Together Against Hate” program launched in the aftermath of the the October 7 massacre. MIT president Sally Kornbluth trumpeted the program as an effort aimed at “community building.” She put MIT chancellor Melissa Nobles in charge.
A Hamas apologist is scheduled to speak at MIT as part of the program on March 18. Jewish alumni reached out to Ross and confirmed his willingness to participate in the program’s speaker series. When attempts were made to move forward, however, program planners informed the alumni that Ross is not an appropriate speaker because they deem him “a politician.” The alumni group has posted its March 12 open letter to Kornbluth here.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Jessica Costescu now takes a deep dive into the story under the headline “MIT Refused To Host Dennis Ross. It Invited a Hamas Apologist Instead.” Subhead: “Dalia Mogahed, who described Hamas terrorism as legal ‘resistance,’ slated to speak as a part of MIT’s ‘Standing Against Hate’ Initiative.”
What’s the trouble with Dennis Ross? It’s not that he is a politician. He has never run for office:
Like Ross, Mogahed has served as a presidential adviser, albeit to fewer presidents and in more junior roles. She served as an adviser to former president Barack Obama in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
For Matthew Handel and Lori Ullman, two Jewish Alumni Alliance members, MIT’s refusal to host Ross—and its excuse for excluding him—are insulting.
“It’s already patronizing for anyone to say we’re at MIT, so we think we’re smarter than you,” Handel, who co-founded the group, told the Free Beacon. “It’s beyond arrogant that they would say, ‘We work at MIT, so as MIT alums, we’re smarter than you; MIT students, we’re smarter than you; Congress, we’re smarter than you.'”
Costescu gives the reader everything he might need to understand the story and the actual trouble with Ross, including this valuable note: “MIT did not return a request for comment.”
In Cole Porter’s “Miss Otis Regrets,” the heroine announces that she’s unable to lunch today. Why? She has a good excuse — because she was strung up by a mob for killing “the man who had led her so far astray.”
Now Ms. Yellen regrets. Janet Yellen holds the venerable office of Secretary of the Treasury. Former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Yellen is well qualified for the job and an ostensibly serious person. Yet she has proved unfit for the office, regurgitating administration talking points with an utter lack of seriousness. Inflation — she declared in 2021 that it was “transitory.” Abortion — restricting it would be “very damaging” to the economy. By contrast, she supports the administration’s gusher of “green” spending as constructive. ‘S wonderful.
Ms. Yellen regrets she has revealed herself to be a political hack. “I regret saying [inflation] was transitory,” Yellen said in a March 13 interview on Fox News. “It has come down. But I think transitory means a few weeks or months to most people.” Three years later, it might be worth asking what “transitory” means to her and who suggested she use the term in coordination with the other occupants of the Biden administration clown car.
When Yellen adopted the administration line on inflation being “transitory,” nobody had led Yellen astray. She killed her own reputation. However, she is also able to lunch today. Why anyone should even believe anything she says is not exactly a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. No one should.
Last week the mainstream press ranked President Biden’s State of the Union address up there with the Sermon on the Mount. I reviewed it in detail and found it to be “The SOTU from hell,” but then I wasn’t the target audience. My assessment might have been unreliable.
In my comments I asked to whom the speech was addressed. That wasn’t clear to me. I guess it was addressed to all the Democrats who’d loved him before. He didn’t want them to walk out on him.
Taking a look at the polls after one week, the Hill reports that, ahead of the State of the Union, Biden’s approval rating in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll was 40 percent. In a new survey released on Tuesday by the same team Biden’s approval rating had fallen to 39 percent.
That does not appear to be an outlier: “Other polls also show the president failed to moved the needle following his address to Congress. FiveThirtyEight’s calculation of Biden’s approval rating showed him with just more than 37 percent Tuesday. On March 6, the day before the State of the Union, he had just under a 38 percent approval rating from the ABC News pollster.”
Trump and Biden have each secured his party’s respective nomination and are running neck and neck. The lack of excitement is almost palpable. It is same as it ever was before Joe got hopped up last week to shout into the void.
Via Rich Lowry/NRO.
Everett Dirksen, the Republican Senate leader back in the 1960s, is famous for saying, “A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. . .”
That was in the days before multi-trillion dollar deficits. A billion dollars is hardly a rounding error in a federal program these days, and $1 billion is usually considered the entry fee for any proposed new program. A program that only costs $750 million is almost an insult at this point.
And Dirksen also never could have anticipated the utility of high speed-rail spending. If he was alive today, he’d likely modify his statement as follows: “A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and maybe someday you’ll have a high-speed rail line in California.”
To no one’s surprise, this is in the “news” this week:
As the state faces economic headwinds, California’s mega high-speed rail project between San Francisco to Los Angeles also faces major funding hurdles, the project’s CEO Brian Kelly told state lawmakers Tuesday.
Kelly testified in front of the State Senate’s Transportation Committee on the High-Speed Rail Authority’s updated draft business plan. In Tuesday’s hearing, Kelly told lawmakers the project has $28 billion dollars on hand, but noted it was still a few billion dollars short to complete the Central Valley segment between Merced and Bakersfield. Depending on how long the segment takes to finish, it could cost between $32 Billion to $35 Billion. Kelly said the project is hoping to fill the gap with federal funds. That segment of the project is expected to be fully operational between 2030 and 2033, Kelly said.
Project leaders estimate it will still need an additional $100 billion to finish what voters were originally pitched in 2008: a bullet train that runs between San Francisco and Los Angeles. A timeline on its completion has not been set as the authority waits for environmental clearances for those segments.
Bold emphasis added. Because everyone knows federal money is free, or grows on trees or something. But with a state deficit now likely to be over $70 billion this year, there’s little chance California can pay for the completion of the rail line itself. And there’s no timeline set because everyone with a brain understand the high speed rail line will never be fully completed. The “environmental clearances” make that certain.
Right now it seems the airlines (and especially Boeing aircraft) are suffering an epidemic of equipment failures and mishaps. Count me somewhat skeptical. I suspect the Alaska Air door frame blow out a few weeks ago, along with the tire falling off a United 777 the other day, has put the media on high alert, and now many episodes of mishaps and irregularities that might have gone unnoticed or unreported in the general media (the specialty aerospace press is a different matter—Aviation Week and Space Technology was a staple of my household’s magazine subscription pile when I was growing up, and it had lots of neat stories about aircraft problems) and are a source of headlines. (There is a second possibility: that standards for maintenance and manufacturing crews have been eroded on account of diversity mandates. . .)
Here’s the long-term data for mortality from airplane airframe-related accidents:
For years, the Democrats have been yammering about “election interference” by Russia that turned out to be either de minimis or entirely fabricated. Now, in a stunning display of hypocrisy, they are aggressively interfering in Israel’s internal politics.
Scott wrote here about the fact that the Biden Administration “obviously seeks to depose the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.” The administration has gone so far as to make public an alleged intelligence community assessment to the effect that Netanyahu is unpopular and his government is likely to fall.
Today, Chuck Schumer got into the act:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for new elections in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This is absolutely stunning. Since when is it the role of the Senate Majority Leader to tell another country–an ally–that they need to replace their government?
Netanyahu has “lost his way,” Schumer continued, “by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel” and by indicating he isn’t interested in the formation of an independent Palestinian state, which has been a U.S. goal for decades.
But it is not a goal of Israel, not if it can’t be done without threatening Israeli security, which is certainly the case today. One might think that the Israeli people are the best judges of their security needs, not an American senator.
Schumer said that Netanyahu has aligned himself with “far-right extremists” like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who he said are “pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.”
There is some truth in that last comment, as anti-Semitism, in the transparent guise of anti-Zionism, has erupted across the Western world. One might therefore think that this is a good time for American leaders to express support for Israel, not try to bring about the overthrow of its government.
But we are not living in normal times.
The Israeli response has been restrained, no doubt in the interest of trying to hold the alliance together:
Israel is a sovereign democracy. It is unhelpful, all the more so as Israel is at war against the genocidal terror organization Hamas, to comment on the domestic political scene of a democratic ally. It is counterproductive to our common goals.
— Ambassador Michael Herzog (@AmbHerzog) March 14, 2024
Let’s hope we have a more sensible administration in place as of January 2025.
I am so old, I can remember when “public servants” used to earn less money than they could have expected in the private sector. But those days are long gone. Now, government employees have the rest of us by the throat. Our tax dollars are enriching them, on the average, far beyond what they could earn anywhere else.
This is from Stephen Moore’s Committee to Unleash Prosperity:
The average cost for a government employee in December was $60 per hour, or 40.5% more than his or her private sector counterpart.
Benefits to government employees cost 80.3% more.
This chart shows the numbers:
I would think that if we looked at federal employees, the discrepancy would be even greater. And government employees pretty much can’t be fired, either, so they have these sweet gigs forever.
One interpretation of these numbers is that the rest of us are just serfs on the government’s plantation.
Via InstaPundit, I learn that Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. I concur with Glenn Reynolds’ suggestion that March 14 should therefore be a holiday:
Marx performed the difficult feat of being wrong about everything. Most people are right about some things and wrong about others; the law of averages sets in. But if you are an ideologue, like Marx, and if your ideology is stupid, you can be wrong across the board. Marx’s historical analyses were either recycled conventional wisdom or wildly off the mark. He knew nothing about economics, which is why his labor theory of value–the lynchpin of his entire philosophy–is absurd. (Even Marx recognized that; he never finished the key section of Capital, leaving that inglorious task to Engels.) And he pontificated endlessly about workers and the means of production, without even once, as far as is known, setting foot in a factory.
Marx survives in historical memory for two reasons. First, hardly anyone has actually read Capital or his lesser works. Even a person of moderate intelligence could hardly do so without recognizing their foolishness. Second, Marx’s philosophy has served as a pretext for sadists to seize control of governments around the globe. Which is exactly what Marx intended.
Marx was a bad man, equally so in his private and public lives. He should be remembered only as an exemplar of how much damage a single-minded and hate-filled man can do.
Sen. Alex Padilla, the California Democrat appointed to fill Kamala Harris’s Senate seat after she became vice president, wants Americans to be more certain to register to vote by linking it with free tax preparation. Padilla is leading a push for the U.S. Treasury Department to provide voter registration services at federally funded centers that prepare taxes for low- to moderate-income people, disabled people and people with limited English at no cost to them.
“Limited English,” like “undocumented” or “migrant,” is code for those illegally present in the United States. Federal law bars illegals from voting but Sen. Padilla helps them violate the law. As California’s secretary of state he deployed the “motor voter” plan that registers illegals to vote when they get their driver’s license.
After the 2016 election, Padilla refused to cooperate with a federal probe of voter fraud, and he wouldn’t say how many illegals voted in 2018 or 2020. That year Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped “election chief” Padilla for the U.S. Senate. The senator nobody voted for wants false-documented illegals registered to vote when the government does their taxes “at no cost to them.” It’s motor voter at a whole new level.
Biden has brought in more than seven million illegals, with no background checks, health records, English skills and so forth. Add Padilla’s plan to Biden’s “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” The mail ballots, the 2000 Mules, the squads of politiqueros, and so forth, all remain in place.
By these means, the citizens of a constitutional republic become fundamentally transformed into subjects of a woke junta, headed by a wax-works effigy of a president. Ask yourself how you like it so far.
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
Heroic doctor dies n his prime days after exposing deadly COVID-Vax component. His pregnant wife believes he was struck down right in their house by a directed energy weapon which triggered stroke-like symptoms, and says oddly enough, just before it the power went out. This is the guy who was raided by Police live during the pandemic.
Teen discovers best friend of 10 years is an actor hired by family. Interesting piece. It was an anecdotal case like this which first led me to believe Cabal’s ground surveillance was a transnational entity, and meant the idea of nations was a meme, and there was one overarching power. If the kids story is true, it sounds kind of like his family is secret society, and they turned him into some kind of an MK Ultra experiment. I find it interesting he got steered to a shrink which was part of the whole social circle.
You should also factor in, that whether something makes sense, may not be a good measure of whether it is true now. The elites seem to hold a raft of strange beliefs and be acting on them, from occult worship ceremonies, to paranormal phenomenon. In this timeline, it is entirely possible some remote viewer in the basement of the Pentagon threw out the social security number of the kid who would destroy Cabal, and he was just talking out of his ass and made up the number. But like Steve Martin in the movie The Jerk, this kid just happened to get the number, and Cabal immediately set about spending hundreds of millions of dollars and recruiting his entire family to put him on ice like this, because some boob in the machine believes in remote viewing. I am sure there have been kids in the GATE program, who just through dumb luck aced the Zenner Card tests, and I shudder to think what their lives were turned into.
Swalwell bundler and honeypot Fang Fang breaks cover, reveals FBI offered her $1 million.
Feds finally set to release $106M in migrant aid to NYC after months of delays.
Nobel economist reverses his support for migration. Angus Deaton now does a 180.
Tyson Foods wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs.
A dengue fever outbreak is sweeping across Brazil after billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates unleashed untold billions of genetically modified (GMO) mosquitos that carry it into the wild. And now the Brazilian government wants to buy loads of Gates’ dengue fever vaccines to stop the spread.
California: We need *another* $100 billion for high-speed rail.
Wall Street braces for commercial real estate time bomb.
EV start-up Fisker exploring bankruptcy.
Mark Milley to get a knighthood. Also a billionaire (intel money manager). He was clearly carrying out Cabal orders, down to destroying the US military. Now the king Knights him. Is the secret society really a holdover of British infiltrators, trying to take vengeance on the traitorous colonists for the crown they serve, and this is the king saying, “job well done?” Interesting.
Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s looking to buy TikTok. What I would say is, I would bet there is no “honest money” in it. Teeny bopper girls shaking their asses for 15 seconds is not selling an enormous amount of products, and making enough value to cover the bandwidth, the equipment, the electricity, and the salaries.
Justin Trudeau’s Canada: Proposed law may allow life imprisonment for online speech ‘crimes.’
Schumer faces backlash after calling for new Israeli elections to oust Netanyahu. Schuer would not fuck with whatever Israeli entity it is which everyone in politics bows before. So either this is normal Kayfabe, or Netanyahu is not in alignment with that entity. Still Netanyahu did not call Bullshit on October 7th, and look to kill the real people who set it up, on both sides.
Israel fires back at Chuck Schumer’s foreign election interference and tells him to pound sand.
An acquaintance of ours owns a business that has Palestinian employees
He said that two of them, each at a different time,
hinted to him half-heartedly
If he loves his children,
He will not be in the area (Yosh) on Purim
and that it does not move in the hinges,
Because the Arabs are planning something.Unfortunately, the Security Council and the Security Council have not yet woken up from the silence of 10/7.
Something is burning beneath the surface
The Pentagon’s plan for floating piers and a causeway to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza is drawing fire from military experts for its lack of detail, potential danger to U.S. troops, and risk of mission creep. Portrayed as puzzling because Biden could just order Israel to let trucks in, and all the aid would flow in much faster.
Biden rewards Iran’s murder of 3 U.S. Troops with a cool $10 billion.
Globalists discovered Haiti had $30 billion in gold before collapse.
Macron again declines to rule out Western troops in Ukraine, but says they’re not needed now.
McConnell tries to raise the pressure on Johnson over Ukraine funding: ‘Finish the job.’
As Republicans increasingly oppose Ukraine funding, Mike Johnson says he will pass it with Democrats. Reportedly he is telling Senators however, he wants it to be a loan, and not a grant.
Ukraine is shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, targeting the fuel storage facilities. They can’t win, so they will create a nuclear disaster on their way out.
Pornhub blocks access to Texas over age verification rules.
Absolute bloodbath’ at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges staff.
Quinnipiac poll: 2024 Michigan: Trump leads Biden in 5-way race.
Spread r/K Theory, because if those who run things are insane, the world will be insane
Ammo Grrrll has seasonal thoughts on WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM PROFESSIONAL SPORTS – especially BASEBALL. She wants commenters to know that she “will be slightly less interactive today as her son is here and we will be at a Spring Training game. It is just a coincidence (honest!) that this column was next up in the pipeline.” She writes:
Unless you are very lucky, the first thing you learn about professional sports is that their sole purpose is to break your heart. Your team is not going to make the playoffs. And if it does, it will be annihilated by the New York Yankees in the first round. Your football team is never going to win the Super Bowl, even with four bites at the apple. But at least you won’t have to sit through the Satanic Half-time Ritual with the Mandatory Wardrobe Malfunction because, with your team, the game has traditionally been over before half-time.
So, yeah, bitter disappointment is the norm no matter how hard you root for your team. How loyal a Vikings fan was I back in the day when all the players stood for the National Anthem because Bud Grant never would have allowed them to kneel?
Well, once I was approached by a New York ad agency to star in a commercial in which I would have to pretend to be a Packers fan – and I TURNED IT DOWN. Now, that’s commitment. Or economic insanity. Potato, Potahto.
It is an altogether good thing to learn early on that MUCH of life is going to be a vast surging disappointment. And still you will survive and even thrive!
You are probably not going to make the Cheerleading Squad. (I didn’t, and it broke my heart). You are probably not going to be a Homecoming Queen. (I wasn’t, but I knew THAT wasn’t in the cards!) You may not get into the college of your choice. (I did because back in the Pleistocene Age, you got into college with good grades and excellent test scores – isn’t that a quaint and backward notion?) You are probably not going to think up something like Amazon, Space X, or TurboTax. (I didn’t.) You are more likely to spend your time thinking up funny names for the harridans on The View and it doesn’t pay nearly as well.
In other words, the chances are excellent that you are going to be an Ordinary Person who works hard at an unexciting job for 55 years, lives and loves and procreates and enjoys grandchildren, Sudoku, and Pickleball. And you will realize at the end that that was much more important than being a cheerleader. Though I sure wish I would have thought up Amazon.
But, but, but, once in a great while, when the stars align, a miracle can happen. Always be on the lookout for miracles.
Else, what can we say about the 1987 and 1991 World Series wins for the Minnesota Twins? Or one of the greatest sports feats of all time, the 2004 ALCS series against the Yankees with the Red Sawx down 3 games to naught and behind in the 9th inning of Game Four to boot.
And God, who had been wearing his noise-cancelling headphones because he was so tired of listening to Bostonians whine in that particularly annoying accent, suddenly heard their prayers and declared: “Okay, Okay. It’s possible I have punished Boston enough.” And He smiled on Big Papi and decreed that a miracle would occur. And He saw that it was good.
The scruffy, scrappy Red Sox came back and won Game Four and the next seven straight games to make the World Series an anti-climactic bore, mostly because the usually excellent Cardinals decided not show up for some reason. I have long advocated that that ALCS Series be shown to cancer patients for never-give-up inspiration.
Today, with the emphasis on year-round fitness, and especially weight-training, baseball players look more like every other professional athlete than they used to. Time was a young fella could hope to be a baseball player even if he wasn’t 6’10” or didn’t weigh 300 lbs.
If a kid was gifted with some sort of bizarre, one-in-a-million people coordination, or the eyesight of Ted Williams, and was willing to practice, practice, practice, he had at least a prayer of making the majors. There was “Little” Freddy Patek, who must have got darn tired of hearing announcers call him that. There were a whole bunch of slender, muscular, HUNGRY players from the Dominican Republic. And, of course, Babe Ruth himself, who nobody would have guessed was a professional athlete if he had been a contestant on “What’s My Line?”
In professional football and basketball, because players are usually only seen with other enormous teammates and ex-player interviewers, it’s not always clear just how DIFFERENT they are from ordinary male mortals.
I was once in an elevator in a hotel in Atlanta when the Celtics were in town to play the Hawks and who should walk into my elevator but Kevin McHale and two teammates. I had always been a Celtics fan and blurted out to Mr. McHale that I was a Minnesotan and had been following his career from high school on. They were all polite and friendly. But, Good Golly Miss Molly, they were YUGE! I felt like a little Arizona barrel cactus amongst the California Redwoods.
We had a similar experience when Joe did some minor legal favor for Joey Browner of the Vikings and he invited us to a little party with a few other Vikings and their lovely ladies. Mr. Browner is a soft-spoken and classy man who often helped opponents he had just flattened to get up when they probably would have preferred to remain on the ground to take a short nap. He was only an inch taller than our Joe/Max, but outweighed him by 50 lbs. of solid muscle. Looking at Joe and Joey side by side a person would say, “One of these guys is a slender, fit, nice-looking attorney. And one of these guys is a safety on the Vikings who has been selected for four Pro Bowls.” And everybody would get it right in one.
One of the greatest things we learn from baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, is that as a batter if you succeed in getting a hit one out of three times, you are a virtual superstar! For Ted Williams and (oh so close .388) our beloved Minnesota Twin Rod Carew, they pushed that to 4/10 and it has never been equaled in 75 years!
Now that’s not a good lesson for a surgeon, an airline pilot, or even a programmer, as they have to get as close to 100 percent success as is humanly possible. But for non-life-threatening human endeavors, it is good to know that you don’t have to be perfect to be a success.
In one interview after his retirement — I am quoting from memory here, so give me a break… — the sportscaster asked Williams what he thought his batting average would be in the current era. Williams said, “I don’t know, probably about .220.” The sportscaster was incredulous. “You had a lifetime average of .344, and you think you would only hit .220 today? Why? Because of the way managers use several pitchers a game?”
“No,” replied Williams. “Because I am 70 years old.”
I ask readers to forgive me for repeating this personal note from last year. It is meant to pay tribute to my high school, my high school teachers — Latin teachers Lyman Hawbaker (who also taught ancient history) and Dave Sims in particular — and to my classmates. In the course of our high school years we were required to study Latin and dip our toes into Caesars’s Gallic Wars, among other things. We learned something about grammar, rhetoric, Rome, and English in the process. In English we read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and (I think) Thornton Wilder’s The Ides of March.
I was a member of the St. Paul Academy High School Bowl team during my junior and senior years. By unanimous consent Chuck Berde was captain of the team. Chuck went on to get M.D./Ph.D. degrees from Stanford and more or less invent the medical specialty of pediatric pain relief. Chuck is Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s and Professor of Anesthesia (Pediatrics) at Harvard Medical School. In high school Chuck was also a good athlete and musician who somehow found time to play in a rock band with Steve Greenberg. Steve went on to write and produce “Funkytown,” the record that reached number 1 on charts around the world in 1980.
John Fitzpatrick and Jim Vose were the other members of the team. John is the Director Emeritus of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Jim is a retired Minneapolis attorney. We were all friends. Below is a photo of us in our final appearance on the High School Bowl program. University of Minnesota Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies Robert Sonkowsky was the High School Bowl referee. He had to cool things down in case fights broke out. That is Professor Sonkowsky with his hand on my shoulder. I would like to say I was so much older then, but will leave it to Bob Dylan at this point.
In our last go-round during our senior year we won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated. In the third week we faced off against Hopkins High School. Chuck was good at everything, but he excelled in math and science. One of the questions our last week required knowledge of several scientific numbers and the performance of arithmetic operations on them to produce another number. What famous event occurred in that year? Without missing a beat, and I mean instantly, Chuck answered: “The assassination of Julius Caesar.”
In a long speech on the floor yesterday Senate Majority Chuck Schumer called for the replacement of the current Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Times of Israel has posted the full text of Schumer’s remarks here. According to Schumer, Netanyahu is an obstacle to peace, the two-state final solution, and the Big Rock Candy Mountain. We must popularize the phrase “He doesn’t know Schumer from Shinola.”
Jonathan Tobin places Schumer in the context of his career to date: “He’s been in public office continuously since the age of 25, and the 73-year-old Senate Majority Leader has spent his adult life grandstanding for the cameras and the press while always seeking some momentary political advantage as he schemed, back-stabbed and bloviated his way to the top of his profession.”
We can infer that Schumer now approves of foreign interference in another country’s elections. Only yesterday that was a big no-no for purported thought leaders toeing the Democrat Party line.
In this case the government Schumer seeks the replacement of a government that was democratically elected and formed by a close American ally fighting for its life under extremely difficult circumstances. That’s no way to treat a friend.
Schumer pretends that the relevant policies of the Netanyahu government are peculiar to Netanyahu and his coalition. That does not seem to be the case.
Schumer gives aid and comfort to Hamas and its friends in the Democratic Party. We can infer that the obstacle posed by Netanyahu is to the political objectives of the Democratic Party as conceived by President Biden.
Biden has just renewed his sanctions waiver on $10 billion held for the genocidaires of Iran. See Richard Goldberg’s New York Post column “Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers.” Biden — he doesn’t know Schumer from Shinola.
One has to wonder about the impact of Schumer’s speech in Israel. It can’t help but demoralize Israelis fighting for their lives. However, they are unlikely to think they need Schumer’s help to assess their own best interests. In articulating and pursuing Israel’s war aims, Netanyahu speaks for the people of Israel. They do not support surrender to Hamas or adoption of the two-state final solution.
Senator Tom Cotton has posted a statement responding to Schumer. Senator Cotton sees the unstated obstacle Schumer is addressing: “[T]he main elections that worry Chuck Schumer aren’t Israel’s but our elections because the rampant antisemitism that the Democratic Party has allowed to fester in its ranks is massively unpopular with the pro-Israel American public.” Senator Cotton adds this “come to Jesus” element to his statement for Schumer’s benefit: “Chuck Schumer should remove the log in his own party’s eye before he whines about the speck in Israel’s eye.”
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
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We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
An article on the TikTok ban. “a foreign person that is domiciled in, is headquartered in, has its principal place of business in, or is organized under the laws of a foreign adversary country;” I realize what they are doing as I read this. I see it because I was looking to use this method in part myself to bypass Globohomo’s censorship. My thinking was to organize a mirror site for American Stasi on Russian servers, using a Russian host. I have been doing a lot of searches for Russian hosts, and it is tough to find real Russian hosts which you can hire using English, and pay in some way using Western financial mechanisms or crypto. Most Russian hosts you see seem to be some kind of shell companies in Belgium or the Netherlands, which just claim they will host your site on Russian servers. But if they are CIA operations, (and many I assume are), what is the point, since they can still shut down your site. I wanted a host which was under the legal authority of something like FSB, so CIA and the Globohomo intel services would have no sway, so the site would stay open no matter what. But most of those hosts either only speak Russian, or cannot accept payments from US or crypto. Now here is this law, and even if I found a Russian host to put up a site in Russia, Biden can say that such a site is organized under the control of a foreign adversary, and force the US machinery to block it. So basically anyone in the US can say anything they want. so long as they give control over whether it is available, to the US/Cabal/Globohomo intelligence services.
Like I have said, they have a huge secret, which if we can leak it to the nation, will probably get millions of their kind killed, the rest run off from the nation, and free us from Globohomo’s grasp. It would not be that difficult to spread, except for the fact the entire Western internet is basically completely controlled by Globohomo, and now this will mean you cannot use the non-Western internet.
Trump sounds off after Special Prosecutor resigns from case: ‘BIG STUFF.’
Judge Scott McAfee donated to Fani Willis’s campaign in 2020 – And so did his wife.
Judge delays Trump ‘hush money’ lawfare trial to mid-April.
Supreme Court to hear case that could release J6ers.
This is Rep. Dan Crenshaw as he walks out of the Capitol after voting to give Joe Biden the power to shut down news sites that dare to challenge him. Crenshaw tells reporter Liam Cosgrove that U.S. intel agencies don’t meddle in domestic news coverage, when of course he knows that’s untrue.
I cannot reconcile why Crenshaw was a SEAL, to the point I wonder if he even was, at least in the sense we think of it. You would think the reasons to be a SEAL would be to serve good, or to at least make a home among loyal men, because you value loyalty yourself, and want those bonds. How does Crenshaw exist as Cabal, know the whole Constitution is fake bullshit he is overthrowing, the wars are faked just to get guys like his fellow SEALs killed, he would watch men who would be loyal to him get killed for the bullshit, and then he goes on to serve the very machine which killed his brothers needlessly, and which is betraying America? He must be a complete psychopath, who joined the SEALs as a spy for the conspiracy to watch those guys. There has to be a special place in hell for him.
Sanctuary state Massachusetts: Haitian migrant freed into U.S. accused of raping 15 year old disabled girl. He came in via Biden’s parole program for Haitians. None of this had to be, none of these people had to be hurt. Lord willing, when the time comes, may the wrath of real Americans know no bounds.
A massive wave of Haitians is reportedly heading toward Florida, with rumors suggesting a staggering 300,000 are on their way. They already picked up 25 of them carrying guns, night vision, and drugs.
Illegal immigrants leave US hospitals with billions in unpaid bills. It will get paid by Americans paying higher prices for healthcare, which will raise insurance costs.
HHS Secretary refuses to explain why ‘hardworking Americans’ should pay for illegals’ healthcare.
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett “didn’t seem depressed” at dinner on the evening before he was mysteriously found dead in his car … Lawyers, family friends and witnesses all say the 62-year-old was upbeat about finishing off giving testimony against his former employer in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised suspicious as to whether he’d take his own life.
You don’t need to be really lethal, you just need to be dangerous enough you stand a chance of making a mess, IMO. If you re not looking forward to an opportunity to make that mess, you should get to the point you are, if you are going to be in that position. And be paranoid, and leave mechanisms to detect intrusions into your personal areas. The goal is to create enough opportunities for Murphy’s Law to fuck them up that they judge action an unnecessary risk. Whatever you do, don’t be a rabbit, who clearly will offer no resistance.
4Chan was laughing at this old tweet:
I don’t buy it though. I think there are too many incidents, too packed together. If it was retards being hired to fill diversity quotas, I think it would have been a slower onset of issues. I suspect all of these incidents, all happening at once, may have been set up specifically to produce these stories, possibly as part of some stock swindle, or to serve some other ulterior motive.
Mike Pence says he will not vote for Donald Trump. It is hard to believe how phony these characters are. For four years, he played the role of loyal second, and clearly all the time, he was under orders from the foreign conspiracy.
Black Lives Matter activist and Tennessee State Senator Charlane Oliver calls for RIOTS after TN Senate passes a pro-police / anti-crime Bill. 12 people shot, 4 dead in multiple Memphis shootings over the past 24 hours.
Sources say ‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher was furious after he wasn’t invited to Bryan Lourd’s private Academy Awards party at his home on Saturday night, and fired CAA, his reps for more than two decades as a result. Trouble in paradise? Might Maher be going down, and the rest of the rats are getting clear of him?
Warner Bros. Chief Diversity Officer on How to deal with White men who question DEI: Just ignore them and “change the culture” around them until they “will start saying this place isn’t the way it used to be and they’ll leave themselves, which is great!” “OMG! Democrats are the real racists. And Blacks are waging war on us! We must fight for the whites, and our children!” These people, in the piece, may be useful idiots who believe this, or they may be actors who have been running intel ops since grade school and are just reading the script to press our buttons. It is no matter whether the machine promoted them for being idiots, or they know. The goal of them being placed there is to distract you. There is a foreign intel op, ruthless, non-ideological, only focused on defeating us and destroying the nation, taking over the US. It is only able to operate because it is running under the radar, and we have not exposed it and initiated open contact with its ground operatives, which would produce victory in about ten seconds. I was in Walmart today. Our American shooters could walk through them like a Delta Force shooter through a retirement home’s bingo parlor. So what will you do? Do you care about this? Or should we ignore it, and focus on exposing the ground surveillance, as a first step in exposing the intel op, so we can get the real party started before they are ready? Because every day they are advancing. We have one job. Focus, and ignore their distractions. Don’t fall for the tricks. Big times are coming, we could end up in the history books, having saved the nation. But you have to focus on the surveillance.
Ben Shapiro: I would walk over broken glass to vote for “deeply flawed human being” Donald Trump. Also Ben Shapiro – “Spoiler alert, Trumpkins: We met at the synagogue last night, and you lose in the end.” You can see here, he says what they tell him, and for now they are telling him to act pro-Trump.
Over 140 House Democrats demand ability to block veterans from purchasing guns. It is a real issue. Can a random doctor’s diagnosis bar you from a Constitutional right, absent some sort of court/judicial proceeding, assuming the diagnosis is even related to your propensity to be violent? Could a second opinion by another random doctor get it back? For that matter, can you be made defenseless, and stripped of the Constitutional right, even by a court, if you are free and have committed no crime?
Autopsy reveals why Indiana mom died suddenly on a plane – carotid artery dissection in the neck. If you immunize yourself against a random type of your own cells, any part of your body can just break apart at a moment’s notice. The insidious part is, such a mechanism would create so many different varieties of death, it would seem preposterous to even try to link them, unless you knew the underlying randomized mechanism, all of which would depend on the random location which an mRNA molecule got into, and what natural cell surface proteins/receptors were floating where in the cell membrane, when a spike protein randomly floated into the membrane next to them, and the immune system saw them together. It is really a brilliant mechanism, in retrospect. It just takes a degree of evil which is nearly unimaginable – and which makes anything possible going forward.
Jeff Bezos just gave $100 million to actress Eva Longoria and the retired Navy admiral who oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden to use as they see fit. The admiral is SEAL Bill McRaven, who is a diehard Obamaite, and I assume vehemently opposed to Trump. Neither got that cash for no reason. I assume Bezos was just told to disburse CIA Amazon Slush funds to them as part of some planned operation in which the two of them are just fronts as well.
McRaven wrote a book when he was a Commander or a Captain, Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare, which examined some historical Special Operations in light of the concept of relative superiority. The idea was, the forces which won battles, attained a moment of “relative superiority” over their opposing forces in the battle, at which point everything favored them and the battle was won, even if fighting needed to continue to make that clear and bring it to a close.
Until the point of first contact, opposing forces existed in a state of fluxing “relative superiority,” which could allow a small force like a Spec Ops unit to exploit its ability to avoid detection to “set the stage” in such a way that its relative superiority would become greater than the large force’s once contact was made and the killing started. The idea was mission success was determined almost exclusively by who achieved relative superiority, and the force which won a battle, would be the one which could avoid the initiation of first contact until it had performed the requisite steps to attain relative superiority, whether it was at first contact, or attainable in the course of the period of battle. So if a small force could infiltrate a base and place explosives in all the barracks, wait until all the troops went to bed and then detonate those explosives, the point of first contact would be the detonation, and at that moment the smaller force would have attained relative superiority. If some of the explosives didn’t go off, say due to faulty detonators, than the small force would need to be prepared to engage, and start killing, until such time it killed enough enemy to attain relative superiority.
I am just struck we have had a small hostile force in our nation, avoiding detection, as it systematically sought to corrupt all the institutions it needed so that once contact began, it would have relative superiority. One of the lessons you would take from McRaven’s work was it behooved larger forces to police their environment aggressively with an eye to identifying the threats of smaller forces, and initiating contact with them as soon as possible, before they could set the stage to later attain relative superiority. Larger forces gained little through hesitation or delay, and were best served engaging immediately, fully and completely, while their numerical advantage was what would give them relative superiority.
Roger Daltrey warns AI could ‘destroy’ music business. Interesting. No more fake “stars” for Cabal to focus people on? Or will there still be “stars,” just they will be entirely made u by the AI’s, and be fully controllable, since there will be no real human behind them?
Elon Musk likens Don Lemon to spoiled child from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory after TV host ‘demanded free Tesla Cybertruck, $8M salary with $5M upfront, a stake in X’, executive assistants, a $15 million marketing budget, and private jet flight with a hotel suite, drinks and massages for him and his boyfriend in return for streaming his podcast on X, before billionaire cancelled deal for new show following Lemon attacking him in an interview over hate speech on X. How do you ask for all that and then attack the boss? Lemon has no amygdala to rein him in.
Kash Patel: “I think in November… there is going to be a cataclysmic implosion in Washington, DC, the likes of which we have not seen. And the deep state, once it’s sunk, cannot be raised… and we are going to see a new day in Washington, where people are held accountable internally in government for their criminal conduct.” Maybe. No reason not to pursue your own options as well. If the side of good is in such control, you won’t be able to screw them up. And if they are not in control enough to stop you, then clearly your way is superior.
An almost 7 hour long video of bipedal robots doing warehouse work autonomously. Obviously not worth watching all of it. Just kind of amazing, and makes you wonder what all the manual labor workers are going to be doing in ten years. We are getting to a point where the only ability which may be of any use in humans is extreme creativity mixed with some technical specialty.
Global cancer phenomenon: It’s not just America… the UK, Japan, South Africa and Australia are among dozens of countries suffering mystery spikes of all different kinds of tumors in young people since 1990. I would not be surprised if this was correlated with an increase in migration and an opening of borders. There are a myriad of viruses, and I will bet there are many out there we have no idea exist, which cause cancers, which all got mixed and shared when borders opened up.
Biden praises Schumer speech calling for Netanyahu to be ousted.
An analysis of why Russian sanctions failed, includes this quote – “This is a situation in which the sanctions were imposed by one important sector of the world economy which then cut itself off from resources that it needs – and that’s particularly true of Western Europe – in return for cutting Russia off from various things that Russia doesn’t really need.”
Interesting article on Russia having a couple of cases where people tried to destroy ballot boxes, to thwart the election which Putin is expected to dominate in. I do not think even FSB can completely prevent Cabal from getting a ground operative embedded here or there in Russia, given the massive global scale of Cabal, so I am always curious to see where you might see little bits of a Cabal network bubble up to the surface in Russia. Most shocking was the killing of Dugin’s daughter, which I would think would have required a robust overwatch operation. Because the only way Cabal’s surveillance becomes invisible enough to get by something like FSB is when it runs so many people it only needs to use each operative once, and never has to reuse somebody twice. It has to be tough work keeping Russia for Russians, and not letting Cabal get in enough to take over. I wish our intel services were as good.
The European Parliament demands Russia return gold sent to the Russian Empire by Romania in 1916. Medvedev responds : “I don’t even know how to respond to such impudence. The EU has stolen $300 billion worth of Russian assets and is now demanding that Russia return gold to Romania. There is nothing to say except fuck off.”
Feeling unqualified to homeschool? 8 resources to get started.
FDNY backs down on hunt for firefighters who booed Letitia James after backlash.
CNN electoral map shows Trump winning Presidency without WI, PA, AZ.
Trump leads Biden by 10 points in Ohio.
Trump is leading every single battleground state in the polls: AZ, GA, WI, MI, PA, NC and NV.
Spread r/K Theory, because the larger force benefits from making contact early
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.
Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.
_________________________________________
No DFT today.
We will be moving this News Brief to the main domain in the near future, so you will find this at anonymousconservative.com, instead of anonymousconservative.com/blog I have a lot going on right now, and it will take time to make sure it goes right, so not right away. I will try to redirect people from /blog to there, but if that doesn’t work, just go to the main domain.
DEA surveillance program shows why Congress may ‘go slow’ on FISA renewal. The IG came in to do oversight, and the agency just refused to comply with its requests or comply the investigation for seven months, with no consequences to anyone.
RFK Jr. to name wealthy attorney Nicole Shanahan as running mate in prez run: report. She was married to one of the founders of Google. If you are a Google founder, and you go out into the world, there will be normal girls, who act normally. Even if they like you, they will pretend to not notice you, and they will be hesitant and tentative, like everyone is in approaches to form a relationship, even with a tech founder. Then there will be girls throwing themselves at you, batting eyes, smiling, looking to hook up with you, and making it so easy, you almost just have to close your eyes and relax, and you will open them up married. Those girls will be girls on a mission, literally. If she was married to a Google founder, I think it overwhelmingly likely she is somebody’s asset. Because a Google founder will get the top-tier motivated, honeypots, which almost no guy can say no to.
Judge Napolitano: “I told Trump, ‘you promised you would release the records of the JFK assassination.’ He said to me ‘If they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn’t have released it either.’ I said ‘Who’s they? What did they show you?’ Trump said “Someday when we’re not on the phone and there aren’t 15 people listening to the call, I’ll tell you.'”
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: “It has been said that after the Kennedy assassination, there has been no president. They have only been factotums of the system since then.”
Langley Air Force Base, located in one of the most strategic areas of the country, across the Chesapeake Bay from the sprawling Naval Station Norfolk and the open Atlantic, was at the epicenter of waves of mysterious drone incursions that occurred throughout December. Sounds like some adversary with assets on the ground in the US is looking at the feasibility of using drones to invade military bases in the US, maybe to destroy equipment or gather intelligence.
Musk’s SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say.
Tara Reade (@ReadeAlexandra), the woman who accused President Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, EXPLODES, writes from Russia, “I have been in Russia now several months safely under political asylum. There is no safe path back to America. I spoke the truth about what Joe Biden did to me when I worked for him. He used his power to go after me and I lost everything. I am separated by oceans from my family. But I am safe. My daughter has this matching bracelet. She said so we can find each other in the world again. In our story, Russia is the hero. When you vote in the US, think of people like me punished for standing up. Don’t vote for Biden, for more poverty, war and corruption. Stop their evil. We deserve freedom.”
How the TikTok bill could be used to target X, Truth Social or Rumble in the future.
“Nobody” should go to jail for “smoking weed,” Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday, despite having prosecuted nearly 2,000 cases of marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale as California’s attorney general. And laughing on Charlamagne Tha God’s podcast over the fact that by day, she would send guys to jail for smoking pot, and then light up a joint to unwind at night.
Leprosy is spreading across the U.S.
Catching Covid has made people less intelligent, new study suggests.
Pfizer bets on cancer drugs to recover from rapid decline of COVID business.
CDC study confirms COVID jab lowers male life expectancy by 24 years.
Students are required to get jabbed in Illinois but illegals are exempt from the jab.
Japanese researchers warn of risks with mRNA vaccinated blood transfusions.
Judge orders FBI to provide transgender Covenant shooter’s manifesto to news outlet.
Porn star in vegetative coma after they thought she OD’d while in rehab, turns out to have had no drugs in her system. They are now saying this 25 year old girl just had a heart attack and is about to die. She is one of a whole bunch of porn stars who have died in the past few months, as if somebody may be tying off loose ends.
Man who stabbed 94-year-old Asian woman gets probation despite prosecutor’s protests in San Francisco. They really all are on the same page about creating maximum misery.
Just 16 percent of Americans have confidence in the federal government.
China to launch 26,000 satellites, vying with U.S. for space power.
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan: ‘I could lose’ re-election because of UK’s new voter ID requirements.
Denmark sees deteriorating European security, will conscript women for military service.
Now Finland raises the possibility of sending its troops to Ukraine.
Shock poll: Le Pen party could gain outright majority in National Assembly if snap election called in France. She just sharply turned 180 and became pro-Ukrainian funding, as if somebody got to her.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Ukraine “needs to think” about how to hold presidential elections, because at the moment they are prohibited by law during wartime. Polls show he would get creamed, which is why he cancelled them.
Ho NATO powers are using the U.K.’s World War I model to lure Russia into the next big global war. The problem is, the West has now blown all its arms in Ukraine, exposed how to defeat all its weaponry to Russia, which used the Ukraine war to learn, shipped all its manufacturing to Asia, and on top of it we will be too busy fighting for our homeland with all the migrants. So this “luring Russia into war” thing looks more like Cabal using Russia to put the final nails in the coffin of the West.
Russia says three more U.S. Patriot air defense complexes destroyed.
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