Jack Smith’s “October Surprise” was so overtly political and unethical that it was too much even for a senior legal analyst from a liberal network, CNN. The disgust by Elie Honig towards the antics of Jack Smith boiled over on Thursday in New York Magazine in an article whose title reflected Honig’s opinion, “Jack Smith’s October Cheap Shot.”
Minnesota lawmakers and officials criticized Gov. Tim Walz for not holding his administration accountable for “massive” fraud schemes related to pandemic-era aid programs, saying the responsibility “falls squarely on his shoulders.”
“When he is not holding any commissioners responsible, then yes, Governor Walz is responsible for the fraud that has been ongoing in the state of Minnesota,” state House GOP leader Lisa Demuth told CNN. “It falls squarely on his shoulders.”
In 2022, Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor launched a series of investigations into allegations of fraud involving the state’s pandemic funding. One audit revealed that bonus checks intended for frontline employees were issued to unqualified recipients, while another highlighted the administration’s failure to oversee Feeding Our Future, a program designed to feed needy children. Prosecutors said this oversight led to a “massive” fraud scheme. The Walz administration repeatedly downplayed or ignored the allegations, the state’s nonpartisan auditor, Judy Randall, told CNN.
A Columbia University student group praised Tuesday’s Tel Aviv terrorist attack that killed seven innocent Israelis, including a mother who died while shielding her 9-month-old baby. That “bold attack,” Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) wrote in an essay, “serves as a reminder that the struggle is not confined to Gaza or Lebanon.”
“On October 1, in a significant act of resistance, a shooting took place in Tel Aviv, targeting Israeli security forces and settlers,” the group wrote Thursday on its Substack.
“This bold attack comes amid the ongoing escalation of violence in the region and highlights the growing resolve of those resisting Israeli occupation. The shooting serves as a reminder that the struggle is not confined to Gaza or Lebanon but has now reached deep into the heart of settler-colonial territory, further destabilizing the Zionist regime’s claims to security and control.”
Imagine how much more peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace did not exist.
One state audit found that bonus checks intended for frontline workers during the pandemic were handed out to undeserving recipients. Another criticized a Minnesota state agency for failing to ensure there were no conflicts of interest in taxpayer-funded mental health and addiction programs. A third detailed lax oversight of a program to feed needy kids which federal prosecutors say resulted in the nation’s largest Covid-era fraud scheme.
But when confronted with these and other troubling examples of waste, fraud and abuse, some state agencies working under the administration of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz repeatedly minimized or dismissed the allegations, the state’s nonpartisan auditor, Judy Randall, told CNN.
A CNN review of audits – and the responses they prompted – as well as interviews with statewide politicians and pundits, found that Walz has been a hands-off leader when it comes to seeking accountability for episodes of fraud and mismanagement on his watch. What’s more, some state agencies headed by his appointees have responded defensively in recent months to the audits – a dynamic that Randall, who has worked in the department for 26 years, has found surprising.
Of course, you can’t trust a far-right misinformation source like CNN.
Google, for four days in a row, engulfed its Search with nine times as many articles from leftist media outlets than outlets without a predominantly leftist bias. This comes a week after the Big Tech platform attempted to dismiss an MRC Free Speech America search study as a mere one-off.
This week, MRC researchers conducted the same searches for “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024” every day for four days starting Sept. 30. Google continued to flood its search results with articles from leftist media outlets and videos above former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign websites. Altogether, Google displayed 45 articles from leftist, U.S.- and U.K.-based media outlets compared to just five without a predominantly leftist bias: NewsNation, Fox News and C-SPAN.
“Google owes the MRC and the American people an apology for its election interference,” said Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell. “Google has been caught misrepresenting the facts.” “”
An academic paper in 2010 popularized $75,000 as the salary threshold beyond which earning more money didn’t make people any happier. More recent research indicates that there is no such plateau.
Indeed there is not. There is no such thing as having too much money, unless maybe you’re Barack Obama (and I don’t see him giving any of it back, or sending it on to the IRS).
Anybody who says (or thinks) money doesn’t buy happiness is a pea-brain.
For the past eight years and across two impeachment trials, the Democratic Party has defined itself in opposition to Donald Trump’s corruption, assailing the ways he abused the presidency for his own financial and political benefit. But with Mayor Eric Adams of New York fighting a federal corruption indictment, former Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey awaiting sentencing for a similar fraud and bribery scheme and numerous California officials sitting in federal prison, it’s hard to deny that corruption is a bipartisan problem.
For a party that wraps itself in the mantle of truth and integrity, pointing across the aisle and saying “they’re worse” is not good enough. For the sake of their electoral fortunes, not to mention the country they purport to serve, Democrats must show voters a serious plan to curb corruption and corporate crime — including within their own ranks.
The difference is, the charges against Trump are manufactured political show-trial attacks, whereas the corrupt Democrats are part of a centuries-long tradition in the Donkey Party.
The European Commission is suing Hungary over its so-called Sovereignty Protection Act, a bill that was passed last December to defend the country against undue political interference from foreign entities.
Brussels had already launched an infringement procedure in February, claiming the law violates several European Union rules and principles, but Hungary has cited foreign interference in the 2022 Hungarian election campaign as the main reason for introducing the law.
In its response to Brussels’ infringement procedure, Hungary argued that the law does not violate EU law and that the concerns raised are unfounded. However, the Commission said in a statement on Thursday, October 3rd that “after carefully assessing the reply of the Hungarian authorities, the Commission maintains that most of the grievances identified have still not been addressed.” A ruling by the European Court of Justice is expected in the coming years.
András László, a Member of the European Parliament for the ruling conservative Hungarian Fidesz party reacted by tweeting: “The national law on the Defence of Sovereignty was not adopted for fun. It was a response to the valid outrage of Hungarians when they learned about the illegal foreign funding.”
The incompetence of Biden-Harris cabinet secretaries have brought us: an invasion of illegal aliens, including murderers, gang members, rapists, and other hardened criminals across the southern border; the enrichment and appeasement of Iran so it could continue to foment terror across the Middle East and in particular threaten the existence of Israel; a massive longshoremen’s union strike across ports along the East and Gulf Coast ports that threatened stores and other retail outlets with massive shortages—a strike that the Secretary of Commerce admitted, in her own words, “…I have not been very focused on that. I would refer you to the White House or the transportation secretary.” Stunning advice to refer the longshoreman’s union dispute to Pete Buttigieg, the most ineffectual, unresponsive and incompetent cabinet secretary to hold that position.
Across Europe, authorities are bracing for a wave of protests and violence as the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel approaches. Ministers and security forces in several countries have warned of heightened unrest in major cities as Islamists and their left-wing allies celebrate the attack and protest Israel’s response.
Demonstrations are planned across various European cities through next week, with the largest gatherings expected from October 5th to 7th. Demonstrators will converge in cities such as London, Berlin, Paris, and Rome, with events peaking on October 7th itself.
In Berlin, a march is scheduled from the Brandenburg Gate to Bebelplatz on October 6th. Die Welt reports that security forces have warned of potential overload due to the scale of protests. The German Police Union (GdP) has issued a stark warning, saying, “We are looking at the coming days with great concern,” said Benjamin Jendro, spokesman for the GdP in Berlin. He pointed to increasing antisemitic and violent incidents in recent days, linked to the pro-Palestinian movement.
Just think how much more peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.
Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s.
The researchers involved in the project say they believe the tree species, which is thought to be extinct today, could have been the source of a healing balm mentioned in the Bible and other ancient texts.
Unearthed during an archaeological dig in the lower Wadi el-Makkuk region north of Jerusalem, the ancient seed was determined to be in pristine condition. But the scientists conducting the new research weren’t able to identify the type of tree from the seed alone. The team, led by Dr. Sarah Sallon, a physician who founded the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, planted the seed to further investigate more than a dozen years ago.
A former militant group leader whose organization was affiliated with the Weathermen terrorists and monitored by the FBI now leads a small but influential group of White House policymakers championed by Vice President Kamala Harris.
The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council was created in the first week of the Biden-Harris administration as part of the White House’s effort to, according to an executive order, “increase the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice.” The group is composed of individuals appointed by the president who, the White House states, “have knowledge about or experience in environmental justice, climate change, disaster preparedness, or racial inequity, among other areas of expertise.”
Leading those individuals is a man named Richard Moore, who co-chairs the council. His brief biography provided by the Environmental Protection Agency describes him as a “widely respected national leader in the area of environmental justice” who “has served on numerous government and nongovernmental committees and panels.”
UK-based anti-Israel organization Palestine Action sent several of its far-left radical members to attack the Teledyne CML Composites factory in Bromborough, UK, which it claims supplies critical parts for F-35 stealth fighters.
Palestine Action’s X account posted a viral video on Tuesday showing its ‘Actionists’ – or ‘agents of change’ – conducting a rooftop entry into the factory, breaking through the ceiling panels, and comprising what the group claims is a ‘clean room’ for F-35 jet part production.
“According to a senior Teledyne manager, contamination of their clean rooms could stop production for up to 12 months. Actionists just got through to the clean room for Israel’s F-35 fighter jet parts,” Palestine Action said.
The number of people who are illiterate in Sweden is expected to exceed 800,000 in winter of this year, with researchers expecting the number to soon reach 1 million, in large part due to mass immigration.
The most recent survey by Statistics Sweden shows there are currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring.
“Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or write, it’s hard for them to find a place, pay their bills, or even book a doctor’s appointment.
But I’ll bet they can all recited the Koran from memory.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas set off outrage Wednesday when he told reporters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to see Americans through the rest of this Atlantic hurricane season — after the agency spent more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas said during a press gaggle on Air Force One en route to tour damage from Hurricane Helene in South and North Carolina.
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” he added. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what — what is imminent.”
“If that’s what you want us to do, we’ll leave, no issue,” he told WJZY. “And I explained to him that I left my son on the side of the mountain, and I left another victim. I was going to go back and bring them. It was already set up for the landing spot and then I would get out of his area. He told me I wasn’t going to go back up the mountain to get them; I was going to leave them there.”
When he asked the official for a specific reason why he was ordering him to stop his rescue efforts, Seidhom said the man said, “You’re interfering with my operation.”
Seidhom said he told the official he was going back to get his copilot.
“He said, ‘If you turn around and go back up the mountain, you’re going to be arrested,'” Seidhom said. “I said, ‘Well, sir, I’m going back to get my copilot, I don’t know what to tell you.'”
U.S. dock workers and port operators have reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) said on Thursday.
The tentative agreement is for a wage hike of around 62 percent over six years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The workers union had been seeking a 77 percent raise while the employer group previously raised its offer to a nearly 50 percent hike.
Thereby strongly increasing the incentive for companies to automate their processes and get rid of actual live workers. Smooth move, guys. Let me know how that works out for you.
Meanwhile, back in flyover country, what is this settlement going to do to prices for imported goods (almost everything these days)?
On August 5, Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was forced to resign and flee to India after student-led protests turned into a violent demand for change in the country. The political and social upheaval that has followed has devastated Christians, Hindus, and other religious minorities. Islamists are exploiting the unrest to attack them with impunity.
According to reports and social media posts from the region, many houses and farms belonging to religious minorities have been destroyed, with their possessions and livestock looted as well. Both Christians and Hindus have been beaten, raped, murdered, and pressured to abandon their homes. Many of those not driven from their homes remain in hiding out of a fear of persecution, according to Open Doors, which monitors Christian persecution globally.
Millions of people get arrested every year—about 7.36 million in 2022 alone. For most of us, that seems pretty abstract, because most of us aren’t criminals, and we assume that if we haven’t done anything wrong we have nothing to worry about.
But there are at least two things wrong with that assumption. First, almost everyone does something illegal in their lives that they view as a victimless crime or simply don’t realize is illegal, so your chances of being arrested someday may be higher than you suppose. And second, law enforcement and corporations are increasingly cutting out human beings and relying on technologies like automation, facial recognition, and artificial intelligence (often in combination), and those technologies are flawed—like, really flawed. And interacting with them can lead to false accusations and even arrests, even if you did absolutely nothing wrong. Here are seven ways you could be arrested today without even thinking about a crime.
Fifteen years ago, an Apple ad campaign issued a paean to the triumph of the smartphone: There’s an app for that, it said. Today, that message sounds less like a promise than a threat. There’s an app for that? If only there weren’t.
Apps are all around us now. McDonald’s has an app. Dunkin’ has an app. Every chain restaurant has an app. Every food-delivery service too: Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Chowbus. Every supermarket and big-box store. I currently have 139 apps on my phone. These include: Menards, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Joann Fabric, Dierbergs, Target, IKEA, Walmart, Whole Foods. I recently re-downloaded the Michaels app while I was in the Michaels checkout line just so I could apply a $5 coupon that the register failed to read from the app anyway.
Even when you’re lacking in a store-specific app, your apps will let you pay by app. You just need to figure out (or remember, if you ever knew) whether your gardener or your hair salon takes Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, or one of the new bank-provided services such as Zelle and Paze.
All were convicted of witness tampering related to the cover-up of the beating, but Bean and Smith were acquitted of civil rights charges. Haley was acquitted of violating Nichols’ civil rights causing death, but convicted of the lesser charge of violating his civil rights causing bodily injury. He was also convicted of a conspiracy to witness tamper charge that the others were acquitted of.
Since all three officers are black, we were not subjected to the riotous cries of RACISM! that would otherwise attend such an affair.
But I’m sure there’s some band of proglodytes somewhere who are this very minute taking to social media to explain that, yes, black police officers can be and sometimes are racist, ‘racist’ in this context meaning ‘anti-black’.
Republican governors clean up President Joe Biden’s mess in both disaster recovery and the longshoremen’s port strike; the world still doesn’t care what the unelected wife of the president thinks; and scammers are just as annoying as ever.
Warning: CAIR’s Ongoing Infiltration of Key American Institutions
Hamas-linked CAIR unleashes 50,000-strong Muslim army trained to dismantle America’s institutions. America’s future is at stake! It is not just an ideological war — this is a coordinated, well-funded effort to dismantle American values, destroy our Constitution, and replace it with an Islamic regime. We can no longer afford to overlook the threat posed by CAIR and other Hamas-linked organizations.
Fox News host Jesse Watters warned that an unprecedented favor from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to leftist billionaire George Soros could wreak havoc on the American media landscape.
During the Oct. 2 edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters slammed the FCC decision to waive a mandatory review of Soros’s foreign-backed purchase of Audacy, America’s second-largest radio company. Watters reminded his audience that Soros will soon own hundreds of radio stations that reach countless Americans. “Conservative talk stations” are among those purchased by Soros, Watters affirmed.
After playing a clip of the late radio legend Rush Limbaugh discussing American freedoms, Watters said, “Voices like our good friend Rush, [Sean] Hannity, [Mark] Levin—they’re an oasis of reason in an ocean of liberal bias. But that could change very soon. The company that controls these conservative talk stations, they are falling into the hands of Soros.”
A young hostage kidnapped by ISIS terrorists at age 11 and then held by Hamas for a decade has been rescued by Israeli forces in Gaza after a months-long operation led by the US, officials said Thursday.
Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, was freed earlier this week, with footage showing her being embraced tightly by her emotional family soon after touching back down in her native Iraq.
“Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces,” tweeted David Saranga, the director of the digital diplomacy bureau at Israel’s foreign ministry.
Two weeks ago the Teamsters Union announced that they would not endorse a presidential candidate this year for the first time since 1996, after internal polling revealed that 58% of its members back Trump vs. 31% for Harris.
You’d think that, with 58% of the membership backing Trump, they’d endorse Trump.
No. That’s not how unions work. It’s Democrats, or Shut Up.
When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.
So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023 – and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis – Biden’s national security advisor Jack Sullivan could still brag that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
So, what exactly happened to the inherited calm that led to the current nonstop chaos of the present?
In a word, theocratic Iran—the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict—was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.
The Biden-Harris administration adopted a 5-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator.
And fewer people are more knowledgeable than Elizabeth Warren abouty breaking the law, shoddy tools, and half-baked info.
I wonder how much effort it would take to disassemble a John Deer tractor, reverse-engineer its control systems, and publish CNC milling control files for each of the parts. That would be entertaining.
Nothing useful will result, but they’ll spend the money anyway, rake in donations from the favored firms, and forget it sooner rather than later.
For fun, ask Kemala what happened to all of those electric car charging stations they were going to build.
Note that David Turk, the bureaucrat involved, is a lawyer who has worked for politicians all his life. Who better to accomplish this major feat of engineering and project management?
Do you remember the famous Ramallah lynching in 2000 of two Israeli reservists who’d had the terrible bad luck to wander into Palestinian territory, to be dismembered by the crowd who stormed a police station where they were being held? Remember the terrorist who leaned out the station window to triumphantly wave his hands dipped in their blood?
eams are putting their foot down and saying they will not play against biological men. Finally, women are standing up for themselves after watching their rights and protections be stripped away over the last few years.
