Thought for the Day
17th January 2025
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17th January 2025
One of the legends that developed in the United States, almost as early as the first Romantics began writing about American Indians and the landscape, was that of the noble Indian living in peace and harmony with the land and with other Indians, never killing more than he could use, using every bit of all animals, and having a special knowledge of the place. By the 1960s and ‘70s, this became “Native Peoples left no footprints on Mother Earth,” meaning that they didn’t cause environmental degradation or change, and that prior to the coming of Europeans, all of North America was pristine wilderness.
To which some brave souls said, “Pick one. Was it home to Native Americans, or untouched land?” Because a few environmental historians had gone back to looking at Indians as people, people who managed their landscape and who occasionally fouled up the landscape. The earliest records about the North American landscape described fires gone wild, foul stenches that covered miles because so many bison had been run over a cliff that at best twenty percent of them could be used at all, and so the remaining hundred rotted, polluting the water and land under them.
Not a Romantic mental picture, is it?
Alma Boykin has a number of excellent fantasy series available on Amazon. Check ’em out.
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17th January 2025
ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.
Last year I did a show on the concept of civilizationalism, but I thought it was a good idea to revisit the topic now that Trump is back in town. Many of the things Trump has been saying since the election suggest he is headed in this direction, even if he does not think much about the concept. The tides of history are dragging him along toward this new organizational model.
The short definition of civilizationalism is that instead of humanity organized into countries or empires, it will be organized by civilization. Language, culture, history, tradition, and religion are not immutable, but they are not malleable. They evolve over long periods of time, so they feel permanent to us. These are things that resist the best efforts of the ideologues.
The last time I addressed this topic it was in the historical perspective. The show this time is about the nuts and bolts of it. We are seeing the rough contours in the world and even in the behavior of Trump. His desire to annex Greenland and Canada is not much different from Russia reabsorbing Ukraine into the Russian world. Canada and Greenland are part of the American civilization.
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17th January 2025
By 2022, Yuval Noah Harari would announce its dark fulfillment:
“Humans are now hackable animals. The whole idea of free will… that’s over. Today we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale. Everything is being digitized, everything is being monitored. In this time of crisis, you have to follow science. It’s often said you should never allow a good crisis to go to waste, because a crisis is an opportunity to also do ‘good’ reforms that in normal times people would never agree to. But in a crisis, you have no chance, so you better do what we – the people who understand – tell you to do.”
Like Truman Burbank in ‘The Truman Show,’ we inhabit a world where reality itself is increasingly engineered. And like Truman, most remain unaware of the extent of this engineering until shown the patterns. But unlike Truman’s physical dome with its obvious cameras and artificial sets, our manufactured environment operates through sophisticated technological systems and invisible digital constraints. The mechanics of this reality engineering – from media manipulation to social programming – were explored in detail in our previous analysis. Now we turn to the driving force behind this manufactured world: technocracy, the system of control that makes such reality engineering possible on a global scale.
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17th January 2025
Over the past half-century, tens of millions of Americans have poured into sunny states like Florida and California that are catastrophically unsuited for large populations. Specifically, the former is in hurricane alley and is guaranteed a direct hit from a Cat-5 one of these days, while the latter is a desert prone to droughts and raging wildfires (see today’s news).
While this ill-fated mass migration was happening, the federal government was inflating away the dollar, causing the prices of financial assets like homes — especially in popular coastal cities — to soar to stratospheric highs.
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17th January 2025
The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.
Proglodytes are always looking for ways to stop people they don’t like from doing things they don’t like.
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17th January 2025
“They are going to turn Altadena into one gigantic apartment complex,” X user Bay Area State OF Mind said, referring to local officials who want to change zoning in the Altadena area from single-family to multi-family. In other words, some officials want to usher in the construction of apartment buildings and so-called ‘smart cities.’
Altadena (and other areas in L.A. County) could serve as a proof-of-concept for how the Democratic Party transforms single-family neighborhoods into apartment buildings in a world where citizens own nothing and will be happy.
Illustrating that ‘zoning’ regulations, far from improving a city, merely make its use of real property subject to politics, i.e. corruption and ideological oppression.
Like an HOA on steroids.
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17th January 2025
You can’t make this stuff up.
Residents of Worcester, Massachusetts are spending taxpayer dollars so their “non-binary” town councilor can take a month-long “mental health” leave of absence. Why? Because “they” were “misgendered,” of course!
“Mr. Chairman, under your leadership, I have felt unsafe around this council body,” announced Thu Ngyuen, a Keffiyeh-wearing council member over a Zoom call on Tuesday.
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17th January 2025
Texas A&M University is in legal and political trouble.
It faces threats of civil rights liability, the loss of federal funding, and the firing of its president, Mark Welsh III, all because its general counsel, Ray Bonilla, gave the university legal advice that he should have known was unsound.
Journalist-activist Chris Rufo revealed on X that Texas A&M University is sponsoring employees’ travel to a racially segregated diversity, equity, and inclusion conference on March 20 and 21 in Chicago. The conference lists Texas A&M among its “university partners” and excludes Asian and white people from attending.
Even in red states, the rot is everywhere.
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17th January 2025
Progressive staffers on Capitol Hill penned a letter to congressional leadership on Thursday asking for a 32-hour week, claiming it would increase staff retention, prevent burnout, and serve as a national model.
The Congressional Progressive Staff Association said the role of a congressional staffer can be “demanding and intensive,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Examiner and sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and “all members” of the 119th Congress.
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17th January 2025
It’s time to make Washington, D.C., safe again. Washington is one of the most dangerous capital cities in the civilized world. Tourists, diplomats, members of Congress and their staffs, and residents—especially in minority neighborhoods—have all been victims of crime.
If Washington, D.C., was a state, it would have the highest per capita homicide rate of any state in the United States.
It’s a disgrace.
As are all other Democrat-ruled urban areas.
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17th January 2025
Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was sanctioned for her controversial remarks about racial issues, sued the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday for breach of contract and race discrimination, putting a dispute over tenure and academic freedom that has dragged on for almost three years into the hands of a federal court. The complaint comes after Wax was suspended for a year at half-pay and stripped of her named chair, penalties the lawsuit says are “illegal multiple times over.”
“The imposition of academic discipline violates the University’s contractual promise to Professor Wax to abide by the principles of the First Amendment,” the lawsuit reads. And “the University’s Speech Policy, which is the basis of that discipline, unlawfully discriminates based on the race … of both speakers and targets of speech.”
The complaint advances a novel legal theory that could have major implications for universities as they brace for the incoming Trump administration. Wax argues that Penn engaged in race discrimination by punishing speech that offended racial minorities but not speech that offended Jews, citing a litany of cases in which the school declined to discipline professors who deployed anti-Semitic tropes and called for the destruction of Israel.
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17th January 2025
A high-ranking military appointee of California Gov. Gavin Newsom diminished the state’s emergency response volunteer firefighting units, according to Maj. Gen. Jay Coggan, retired commanding general of the California State Guard.
California is now struggling to contain destructive wildfires, which have killed 25 people and displaced more than 80,000 in the Los Angeles area.
Newsom appointed Matthew Beevers to serve as adjutant general of the California Military Department in May 2023. Beevers has a history of marching in LGBTQ pride parades and was investigated for alleged antisemitism against a subordinate, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Beevers denied making the antisemitic comment.
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17th January 2025
AlterNet, a Voice of the Fringe.
If ‘democracy’ is what Democrats do, then I’m not surprised–or disappointed.
I think we’ve seen enough ‘democracy’ in the last fifty years to be wary of it.As Jonah Goldberg once said, democracy means that 51% of the people are entitled to pee in the soup of the other 49% and the latter have no recourse. I’m not on board with that.
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17th January 2025
The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.
don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The “ending in shit” kind. The issues are complicated, the reasons diverse, but there are a few culprits who have been making themselves extremely visible.
Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to invent a new number) like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things lie ahead. But I’m here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the sprinkling of salt in the wound.
Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are billionaires, and became such by working hard and accomplishing much. To have some random proglodyte scribbler call them ‘losers’ says more about her than about them. Feel free to cringe, girl. It’s all you’ll ever have.
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16th January 2025
Denmark’s prime minister summons business leaders following Trump’s Greenland threat (Reuters)
Ramaswamy Has a High-Profile Perch and a Raft of Potential Conflicts (New York Times) The swine!
The questions Pete Hegseth wouldn’t answer (Aaron Blake/Washington Post) “Have you stopped beating your wife?” and equivalent.
Farah Griffin Labels Hegseth ‘Least Qualified’ SECDEF Nominee In History Less qualified than Robert McNamara? What happened to the Woke Narrative?
Overhaul national intelligence without Tulsi Gabbard at the helm (Kenneth C. Brill/The Hill)
Trump transition puts up guardrails around RFK Jr. (Politico) Keeps all the yappy little dogs away.
Tackling Trump’s Policy in the Americas, Rubio Would Confront New Tensions (New York Times) Oh, ya think?
No More Mr. Tough Guy on China (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic) And no more threatened invasion of Taiwan, I suspect.
Clemency Request ‘Pending’ For Leaker Of Trump’s And Others’ Taxes Because, after all, Orange Man Bad.
The Israeli Right May Soon Be Disenchanted With Trump (Bret Stephens/New York Times) Because, as we all surely know, Orange Man Bad.
Biden on if Trump will get credit over him for ceasefire deal: ‘Is that a joke?’ (Alex Gangitano/The Hill) No, Joe, you’re the joke.
Trump Effect Continues As Florida Vice Mayor Switches To Republican Party
Professors Say Trump’s Policies Could Exacerbate Wildfires Yeah, all those ‘journalits’ with flamethrowers.
Trump encourages Vivek Ramaswamy to seek Ohio’s open Senate seat (Washington Post)
The First Domino – Democratic women lead the fight, all Republicans fail us (Mary L. Trump/The Good in Us) The Bad Trump is back in action.
PBS’s Barron-Lopez Uses Hegseth Hearings to Repeat Smears of Trump, Musk, RFK Jr.
Why This Lifelong Democrat Voted For Trump
RFK Jr. Effect: Cancer-Linked Red Dye Banned From US Foods
White House Reporters Fear a Return of Fire and Fury (Paul Farhi/Vanity Fair) We’ve had enough of Smear and Innuendo.
Senate Dems Praise Bondi’s ‘Competence,’ Pivot to Attacking Trump During Contentious Confirmation Hearing Because, whatever else may happen, Orange Man Bad.
Trump Is Walking Back His Biggest Campaign Promises Before Taking Office (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
NIH director to step down ahead of Trump inauguration (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
‘We Have a New Sheriff in Town’: Israel and Hamas Agree To Hostage-Ceasefire Deal Imposed by Trump
A Euphoric Tech Industry Is Ready to Celebrate Trump and Itself (New York Times) Gee, they loved the tech bros when they were censoring conservatives and giving big bucks to Democrats.
Trump Unveils His White House Blacklist (Yasmeen Hamadeh/The Daily Beast)
In Effort To Improve Senate Confirmation Hearings, Democrat Women Replaced By Rabid Hyenas (Babylon Bee)
UK Says a Deal on the Chagos Islands Won’t Be Finalized until Trump Is Consulted
The Purge Has Begun – As Biden exits stage left, Trump enters stage right–and promptly clears the stage. (The Bulwark) Well, that’s what he was elected to do.
Unrepentant: Google Continues Campaign Against Trump Nominees
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16th January 2025
he Wyoming Industrial Siting Council has granted a construction permit to TerraPower for its Natrium nuclear power plant near Kemmerer — a milestone achievement both in Wyoming and nationwide for commercial-scale “advanced nuclear” energy, the company says.
“This is the first state permit ever awarded to a commercial-scale advanced nuclear project and is a testament to the groundbreaking work of our TerraPower team,” TerraPower President and CEO Chris Levesque said in a prepared statement Tuesday.
The permit allows for construction of all non-nuclear portions of the Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 plant. TerraPower has a permit application pending before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for all of the nuclear-related facilities. “That application was submitted in March 2024 and is on track for approval in December 2026,” according to a TerraPower press statement. “The unique Natrium design enables the company to start non-nuclear construction onsite during the NRC review.”
The fly in the ointment is, of course, burdensome government regulations.
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16th January 2025
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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16th January 2025
The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.
In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters.
Fossil-fuel industry lobbying in California spiked to record levels during the 2023-24 legislative session, and the polluter pay bill was among the most targeted pieces of legislation, a Guardian review of state lobby filings found.
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The measure would have required the state’s largest carbon polluters to pay into a fund that would be used to prevent disasters or help cover cleanup efforts. The effort to thwart it leaves taxpayers for now shouldering much of the cost of catastrophes in part fueled by big oil’s pollution.
“The latest fire shows exactly how Californians are paying for climate destruction, not just with budget dollars, but with their lives, and it shows exactly why we need … to put the cost back on polluters” said Kassie Siegel, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, which has lobbied in support of the bill.
So there’s no real attempt to show that ‘Big Oil’ (does it have a membership card) was responsible for the wildfires, except the bogus Narrative about ‘climate change’ and the proglodyte dogma that anyone who (a) has lots of money and (b) is in a line of business which (though legal) proglodytes don’t like, is ripe for government-enforced plucking.
I have a thought: Democrat-supported proposals have to be paid for by those who vote for Democrats, and Republican-supported proposals have to be paid for by those who vote for Republicans. Put your money where your mouth is.
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16th January 2025
America’s first gender-deluded congressman apparently believes it’s his job as a public representative to make his sexual dysphoria the problem of impressionable young children.
A viral video shows “transgender” Rep. Tim “Sarah” McBride (D-Del.) telling elementary school kids it’s “society’s” fault that people considered him a boy when he “knew” he was “really a girl.”
The problem ain’t what you know, it’s what you ‘know’ that ain’t so. Biology picks whether you are a boy or a girl. If you want to be something else, well, why not wish for a pony while you’re at it?
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16th January 2025
How about that government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?
Well, it’s coming….
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16th January 2025
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16th January 2025
revoke Swedish citizenship for dual nationals involved in gang-related crimes. The move comes in response to rising organised crime and security concerns, which Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer has described as threats to democracy.
The reforms will enable parliament to strip dual citizens of their Swedish nationality if they are found guilty of crimes threatening state security or linked to organised criminal networks. This aligns with similar policies in Denmark, where citizenship can already be revoked for actions harmful to state interests. By targeting gang leaders orchestrating violent crimes from abroad, the government aims to disrupt networks responsible for a dramatic rise in shootings and bombings.
The centre-right government, supported by the right-wing Sweden Democrats, points to alarming statistics of 363 shootings and numerous bombings in 2024 as evidence of the need for reform. Migration Minister Johan Forssell said it was “far too easy” to become Swedish.
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16th January 2025
Police are searching for an unidentified man accused of setting multiple fires across the city last week, including inside two subway stations and a police car.
The NYPD said the man set a police car on fire shortly after 2 a.m. Friday before igniting a second fire that damaged a vehicle in front of 14 Murray St., near City Hall. The suspect then reportedly traveled to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall subway station, where he set a paper cup on fire and tossed it into a garbage can around 2:55 a.m., police said. The spree concluded around 3:40 a.m. when the man set fire to a pile of garbage next to a sleeping passenger aboard a northbound J train at the Woodhaven Avenue station in Queens, according to officials.
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16th January 2025
ZMan looks behind the curtain.
Over the last week a dispute has erupted on Twitter about the relative difficulties faced by young people. One camp, current young people, claim they are entering a world that is much more difficult for them than youth of prior generations. They do not think they have the same opportunities as their parents and grandparents. Another camp thinks that young people are entering relatively good times economically but may have unrealistic expectations regarding adulthood.
To be accurate, there is at least one other camp in this debate. That camp thinks the youth face a demographic reality for which they have not been properly prepared and a prevailing culture that works to prevent that preparation. The relative state of the economy for young people does not matter if they are entering a society that is about to come apart along demographic lines. Young white people have been poorly trained up for a world that should not exist.
As is often the case, the two camps squaring off over economics are on the main stage while the camp looking at upstream issues is marginalized. While economics is downstream from demographics and culture, it still matters. We see this with the oldest demographic who remain stubbornly committed to the system. Baby boomers, overall, have it pretty good, so they still believe in the system, even it means they must endure an emergency room that looks like a Tijuana bus stop.
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16th January 2025
Before we discuss Jen Rubin and her “exciting new online platform,” let’s first take time to examine the problem of stereotypes. Being a member of the Appalachian-American community (we consider “hillbilly” to be an offensive slur), I know a few things about belonging to an ethnic group with reputational issues. This is why, despite my noted musical abilities, I never learned to play the banjo. Also, I’ve never lived in a mobile home, I don’t drink moonshine and my wife is not my cousin.
One has a duty to try to avoid behaviors that might contribute to negative stereotypes of one’s ethnic group. However, one must acknowledge that stereotypes don’t arise for no reason, but rather have some basis in fact. The stereotype of hillbillies as lazy and stupid arose at a time when the dangers of the hookworm parasite were unknown; a disease that sabotages health cannot be prevented if you don’t know what causes it, and the South suffered as a result. Nowadays, we have hillbillies graduating from Yale Law, thank you very much, and so it’s time to stop the anti-hillbilly hate speech. (Stay off the moonshine, J.D.)
Well, I could continue that rant indefinitely, but the point is that group averages are not predictive for individuals. Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group and yet, there’s the helplessly stupid Jen Rubin who thinks we’re going to believe her when she claims she voluntarily left her job at the Washington Post, rather than getting axed as deadwood at a newspaper that’s lost readership and revenue at a startling pace in recent years. So, in announcing she’s going to launch “The Contrarian” with Democrat apparatchik Norm Eisen, Jen Rubin delivers a sanctimonious lecture about how “billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy.” And she’s going to fight the good fight for the “sacred mission” with . . . a Substack blog? Because that’s what her gushing about an “exciting new online platform” is about, as if there were something unique being offered, rather than a mere $7-a-month newsletter on Substack. John Nolte quips: “The good news is that The Contrarian’s subscription fee will be $7 per month, which means we will all save $7 per month by not reading Jennifer Rubin.”
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16th January 2025
The Surrender to Hamas Deal is a bipartisan betrayal of Israel in which the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration got together to throttle Israel and demand that it accept a Hamas deal, overseen by its state sponsor Qatar, trading thousands of terrorists for hostages, live or dead, abandoning Gaza, and allowing Hamas under a fake ‘technocratic’ government to take it over again. Followed by an extended reconstruction that the United States will be paying for.
UPDATE: They love Donald Trump — and hate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal he demanded
UPDATE: Ceasefire Is No Victory for the Israelis—Or for Us
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16th January 2025
Westminster City council in London has advertised a job opportunity and admitted that while it is open to everyone, white British people will not be favoured over people from a “Global Majority (GM)” background.
The position, which has a starting salary of £54,684, is for an “Executive Assistant.”
The ad states “The council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.”
That’s a lot of words to say ‘A DEI hire is preferable.’
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16th January 2025
Even though the United States is a little further down the list, coming in 9th place, it still yields considerable power, enabling citizens to enter 186 countries without major restrictions.
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16th January 2025
Three doctors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent a California agency from investigating them over their opposition to state-approved COVID-19 policies.
Persecution for non-government-approved views? What persecution?
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16th January 2025
YACBFDP.
UPDATE: Raphael Warnock-Led Charity Admits It Illegally Campaigned for Stacey Abrams, Will Pay $300,000 Fine Crooks of a feather flock together.
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16th January 2025
You know, as they do.
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16th January 2025
Was one of them named Climate Change?
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16th January 2025
What could the difference be, I wonder?
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16th January 2025
I got your climate change … right here.
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16th January 2025
We had an inexpensive life-saving solution both before and during the pandemic…
The inconvenient truth is that even at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a very simple, inexpensive and effective treatment was available that could have saved the majority of lives lost (1-3). All that the WHO and public health bureaucracy had to do was to recommend and support people taking sufficient Vitamin D3.
I took D3 throughout the Pandemic Panic, didn’t wear a mask unless forced to, and still have never had COVID (though my wife, whom I smooch whenever I have an excuse, has had it twice).
This failure to act traces back to the unscientific bias and pro-vaccine obsession of Dr. Anthony Fauci. And once again the legacy media, while being paid by the US government and the pharmaceutical industry to promote vaccination, acted by censoring, defaming and suppressing the ability of physicians to inform people of scientific truth. The disease you suffered, the loss of life among your family and friends, could have been greatly reduced by simply getting enough Vitamin D3. This is another example of what happens when unelected bureaucrats are allowed to control free speech. Crimes against humanity.
Still waiting for some justice-obsessed individual to Do The Right Thing re Fauci. I’d do it myself but it would be Too Much Like Work.
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16th January 2025
Asians are smartest, Africans (and other Turd World countries) are dimmest, and Europeans are in the middle. Who doesn’t know that?
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16th January 2025
Try to get past the clickbait headline.
A woman who switched from a vegan diet to eating only meat and dairy products six years ago has revealed the shocking impact it’s had on her body.
Plant-based diets have been on the rise over recent years, with statistics from The Vegan Society and Finder estimating that between 2-3% of the UK population follow a vegan diet.
But not everybody is convinced by the growing trend to axe animal products from their diets, with one woman who has been eating only meat and diary for the past six years after previously being vegan sharing the impact it’s had on her body.
We wait with bated (not baited) breath.
The decision to follow such a drastic diet may come as a shock to most of us, seeing as we’re regularly told it’s important to practice and balanced eating habits.
However, Bella stands by her carnivore decision, claiming that her lifestyle has helped deal with skin issues, regulate her menstrual cycle and improve her mental health.
In one clip showing herself gorging on an entire roast chicken, Bella tells her 421,000 Instagram followers: “I haven’t eaten a single carb, piece of fruit or vegetable in six years and I’m not dying of low energy, nor have I wrecked my hormones.
I imagine a daily vitamin supplement would be a wise move.
“I’ve actually lost 25 pounds, now have painless periods, unbelievably stable energy and moods because my body burns fat for fuel now.”
In another clip she claims that her body odour has improved drastically since switching from being vegan to following a carnivore diet.
“People think that if you only eat meat you will smell terrible,” she says in a voiceover, while eating a steak.
“I used to be vegan for about six years [and] my body odour, farts and sweating just went out of control and now that I’m carnivore I don’t need any soap or body wash. I smell amazing and I no longer fart.”
Of course, some of that could be genetic.
According to guidance from the NHS, a healthy and balanced adult diet should consist of at least five portions of fruit and vegetables, high fibre foods such as potatoes, rice or bread, dairy (or dairy alternatives), a source of protein and unsaturated oils.
When it comes to eating red or processed meats the NHS recommends that to avoid eating no more than 70g of either per day.
Meanwhile, Cancer Research UK has warned that processed and red meats are carcinogens which have been linked to an increased risk of bowel cancer.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE … until it changes; then FOLLOW THE NEW SCIENCE.
Face it, the Government and the Crust don’t want you to be healthy if it means you get to do it without Official Guidance.
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16th January 2025
The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.
Joe Biden’s final address to the nation struck an ominous tone after warning of the growing power of America’s ultra-wealthy, and cautioning that an emerging oligarchy threatens the foundations of US democracy.
The Wednesday prime-time Oval Office speech came as Biden prepares to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump, who he defeated in 2020 only to see return to power after Biden’s own dramatic exit from politics last summer.
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden said.
In WokeSpeak, ‘oligarchy’ means ‘influence of rich people who aren’t proglodytes’. Biden himself is responsible for the advancement of Democrat ‘extreme wealth, power, and influence’, but of course that’s all right.
UPDATE: Biden’s Poignant Farewell Dwells on His Fears for the Country He Loves (CNN) And almost destroyed. Biden Narrative Media Tongue-Bath #1.
UPDATE: President Joe Biden Warns of Big Tech and Social Media Manipulation in Final Address: ‘The Truth Is Smothered by Lies Told for Power and for Profit’ (Variety) The head of the Biden Crime Family is surely an expert in that. Biden Narrative Media Tongue-Bath #2.
UPDATE: Liberal media raves over Biden’s farewell address: ‘Put a chill down my spine’ (Fox News) Mine, too, but for different reasons.
UPDATE: ‘Speech for the History Books’: ABC, CBS, NBC Hail Biden’s ‘Extraordinary’ Farewell Biden Narrative Media Tongue-Bath #3.
UPDATE: MSNBC Fawns Over Biden Farewell, Bolsters Fake ‘Oligarchy’ Narrative Biden Narrative Media Tongue-Bath #4.
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16th January 2025
This is one of the most interesting things that was demonstrated at CES this year. Evidently it doesn’t vent to the outside; it just cleans the air and dumps it back into your kitchen.
It’s unclear how effective it would be — JennAir is the poster child for failed potential in this space — but I love that people are thinking about ways to solve the Kitchen Stink problem.
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16th January 2025
Raw Story, a Voice of the Crust.
And the Woke Witch Hunt contines.
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16th January 2025
For the latest proof that we’re all living in a black comedy about the leftist-led destruction of the West, cast your eyes on a woke theater in “gay Paree.”
In December, the Gaîté Lyrique theater held a conference titled, “Reinventing The Welcome For Refugees In France.” Fittingly, more than 250 African migrants showed up, were welcomed — and then refused to leave. Five weeks later, they’re still there, along with 50 more who’ve piled inside.
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16th January 2025
Amid a busy news day Monday, a familiar figure was named Chief Operating Officer of National Public Radio. Ryan Merkley, who directed the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder and also appeared in the Twitter Files as Wikimedia’s liaison to “Industry Meetings” with federal law enforcement, was elevated to the job by NPR president/Titania McGrath clone Katherine Maher.
“Throughout his career Ryan has demonstrated a commitment to the public trust, leading organizations that prioritize universal access to the common good,” Maher said. Maher, perhaps best-known for describing the First Amendment as the “number one challenge” that makes it “tricky” to remove content.
Merkley’s name figured in several high-profile efforts to control “disinformation” through aggressive content moderation. In 2021, the Aspen Institute created a Commission on Information Disorder, whose big-name participants included Katie Couric, “Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex,” and DHS official Chris Krebs. Merkley was the Commission’s Director.
Your tax dollars at work.
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16th January 2025
NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.
The Minnesota Democratic caucus plans to skip nearly three weeks of the new legislative session in a bid to deny Republicans the ability to conduct business before a special election.
Have you ever noticed how the arrested adolescents in the Democrat party don’t seem all that interested in actual democracy? Somebody ought to sue them for false advertising.
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16th January 2025
A former high energy Democratic fundraiser, failed congressional candidate and social media influencer is now raising money for President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.
Lindy Li made the shocking 180 after an extraordinary journey though a crazy year in Democratic politics culminating in Kamala Harris’ historic loss to Donald Trump.
‘It’s been one of the most painful and rewarding moments of my life,’ Li told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
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15th January 2025
New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.
A nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat, admitted on Wednesday that it had violated state law by concealing the fact that it had campaigned for her during her 2018 run for governor.
At the time of that campaign, the group was led by Raphael Warnock, who was later elected to the Senate as a Democrat from Georgia.
At a meeting of the state’s ethics commission, the nonprofit New Georgia Project conceded that it had paid for fliers and door-to-door canvassers telling voters to support Ms. Abrams and other Democrats.Under federal law, tax-exempt charities like this one are forbidden to campaign for candidates, but this case was about a violation of state law.
YACBFDP.
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15th January 2025
When it comes to honesty and ethics, TV and newspaper reporters rank with the likes of car salespeople, lawyers and advertising professionals, results of a new Gallup survey of U.S. adults reveal – and Americans’ opinion of them may actually be much worse than they say.
In a national survey, conducted December 2-18, 2024, Gallup asked respondents to “rate the honesty and ethical standards” of 23 professions. “TV reporter” was one of just three professions distrusted by a majority of Americans. Only 13%, or about one in eight, rate the trustworthiness of TV reporters as either “high” or “very high,” while more than four times as many (55%) think it’s “low” or “very low” (55%).
Similarly, nearly half (45%) of U.S. adults rate the honesty and ethics of newspaper reporters as either low or very low, while only about one in six (17%) give them a positive score.
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15th January 2025
Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.
Questions surrounding a newly reelected Democratic lawmaker deepened in recent weeks as Florida moved to sue the company she once led in an attempt to recoup a more than $5 million covid overpayment.
The Office of Congressional Ethics, the House’s internal watchdog, referred Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Florida) to the House Ethics Committee for further investigation in September 2023 after finding “substantial reason” to believe that she may have violated campaign finance rules. The office released its report on her alleged misconduct last month.
The House Ethics Committee’s investigative subcommittee is still looking into the matter, the committee acknowledged in a statement on Jan. 2.
Yet Another Crooked Black Female Democrat Politician. (YACBFDP)
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15th January 2025
The now-long-defunct Jan. 6 House select committee’s members are reportedly privately talking potential pardons with President Joe Biden in the final hours of his administration, hoping to protect themselves from legal accountability from the incoming administration under President-elect Donald Trump.
Former Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is among the leading House members fearing accountability from Trump, who has been talking about criminal destruction of evidence, including that which would exonerate Trump against former special counsel Jack Smith’s ceased cases, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday morning.
“I believe Donald Trump when he says he’s going to inflict retribution on this,” Thompson said on Monday night. “I believe when he says my name and Liz Cheney and the others. I believe him.”
Mess with the bull, and you get the horns every time.
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