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The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon employ “Indigenous Knowledge” in their research, a document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows.

The document is a proposed revision of scientific integrity guidelines for the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses the FDA, CDC, and the National Institutes of Health. Going forward, agency staff should employ “multiple forms of evidence, such as Indigenous Knowledge,” when analyzing data, the document states.

“Indigenous knowledge” posits that native peoples possess hidden wisdom about the workings of the universe and has been widely dismissed by experts as pseudoscience. The proposed guidelines point to other “non-traditional modes of science,” including “citizen science, community-engaged research, participatory science, and crowdsourcing.” Including these methods is part of the agency’s “support” for “equity, justice, and trust,” the document states.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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As the Biden administration and “shadowy network of secretive nonprofits” facilitate the greatest migration invasion this nation has ever seen on the southern border, new concerns are mounting that illegals are finding alternative routes into the country via the unfenced northern border with Canada.

New US Customs and Border Protection data shows more than 12,000 migrants were apprehended on the northern border last year, more than double the number from the year before of 3,578.

The New York Post first reported that most illegal crossings (about 70%) have occurred along the 295-mile Swanton Sector, including upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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This raises the question … what opportunities are we squandering, right now, that some misguided idiot in the future is going to attempt to claim were not evident right now?
Sticking with military related topics, here’s a few that are glaringly obvious and yet we’re in the process of squandering the opportunities.

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Israel’s government banned a controversial United Nations official Monday after she made statements the Jewish state decried as anti-Semitic.

The Israeli foreign and interior ministries prohibited U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese from entering the country after she said that victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks were killed “in response to Israel’s occupation.” Foreign Minister Israel Katz called on the international body to denounce her “anti-Semitic statements” and fire her if it hopes to return to being “relevant.”

Albanese on Saturday took issue with French president Emmanuel Macron’s description of the attacks as “the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century.”

“The ‘greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century’? No, Mr. @EmmanuelMacron,” Albanese said on X. “The victims of 10/7 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel’s oppression. France & the international community did nothing to prevent it. My respects to the victims.”

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Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center | The Times of Israel

No metaphor here folks. “Uncovered” means dug out from a location that the global media will do it’s best to metaphorically bury.

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Here is a shot of the nice little data center needed so Hamas can continue to work on their “From the river to the sea” genocide of Jews. So much for UNRWA being humanitarian, unless you take the view of Hitler or Islam that Jews are not human.

UPDATE: Hamas Command Center Found Under UN Agency’s Gaza Headquarters

UPDATE: Networks Omit Israel Unearthing Hamas Data Center Under U.N. UNRWA Facility

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Joe Biden’s campaign announced Sunday that he is now on TikTok, despite the fact that Biden signed a bill banning the platform on all devices assigned to federal employees a year ago.

That must have been the Other Biden.

Newsbusters.

The Biden administration and leftist billionaire George Soros are tied at the hip, working in cahoots to undermine Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The U.S. Department of State entrusted Soros-funded Ökotárs Foundation and media watchdog Mérték Media Monitor to hand over $320,000 in taxpayer dollars to 15 media outlets critical of the pro-freedom Hungarian government, according to NGO and government documents. European Parliament elections take place from June 6 to June 9. Similarly, Hungary will hold local elections on June 9. Hungary-based political analyst András László and Rod Dreher spread the news in Jan. 27 posts on X.

László wrote that “left-wing NGOs announce which Hungarian media outlets will receive direct financing from the US Embassy. More than a DOZEN, a total of 15 media will receive US taxpayer money.” Echoing László, Dreher reacted to the news: “US taxpayers are funding anti government media in Hungary, a NATO ally.”

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The Other McCain.

Even though most of the media continue trying to defend Biden, the past three days of coverage — even on CNN (I watch, so you don’t have to) — has been more negative toward Biden than at any time in the past three years. Many of these “Democratic operatives with bylines” have now realized that Biden’s cognitive decline likely makes his reelection impossible. No matter what else happens, no matter what Trump does, Biden can’t win because his brain’s gone soft and everybody can see it now. Sure, he’ll get the 40% or so of voters who would vote for a turnip if the turnip had a (D) beside it on the ballot, but there’s no way he gets to a majority on that basis. Democrats can’t even steal enough votes to overcome the problem of trying to reelect President Dimished Faculties.

John Derbyshire.

A sensible U.S. foreign policy would have been to leave NATO the week after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in February 1991. The Europeans, who far exceeded Russia in population and wealth, and included two—count ’em, two—nuclear powers could then have handled the Eastern Question as they saw fit.

We, meanwhile, could have developed friendly, helpful relations with Russia as they got back on their feet after the Soviet fiasco.

They would be just another big, distant nation we could have commercial relations with, like India or Brazil.

Why didn’t we take that path? Because the architects of our foreign policy are, as David Goldman tells us, terminally stupid.

Exactly right.

Power Line.

The Associated Press refers to GOP fears of “unauthorized migrants” voting in American elections. As readers should understand, “unauthorized” is code for “illegal,” and the latest replacement for “undocumented,” which needs some explanation. At some point, all illegals must use fake or stolen documents, so “false-documented” illegals is the more accurate designation.

“Migrants” are people who come and go, working for a time then returning to place of origin. The millions now being transported into the United States are settlers, with a difference. The Biden Junta is bringing them in with no criminal background checks, vaccination records, English language ability or job skills. In other words, with none of the measures required of legal immigrants.

The Indepeendent (UK).

For 18 months, a teenager allegedly operated a “swatting” service out of his father’s California home where criminals could call in a hoax bomb threat or mass shooting almost as easily as ordering a burger on UberEats.

Alan Winston Filion, 17, is suspected of targeting hundreds of high schools, mosques, historically black churches, US Senators and even the Supreme Court with swatting attacks that placed thousands of people in the crosshairs of heavily-armed police response teams.

Prosecutors say the 6ft 3in teenager advertised his services under the pseudonym Torswats on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, charging as little as $40 to get someone’s gas shut off, $50 for a “major police response” and $75 for a “bomb threat/mass shooting threat”.

Mr Filion would then post chilling audio of the 911 calls on Telegram as a proof of purchase, according to court documents.

Among the hundreds of “swats” that Torswats allegedly claimed credit for were multiple hoax callouts at the home of Patrick S. Tomlinson, a Milwaukee-based science fiction author who says he has been swatted dozens of times in the past four years as part of a targeted harassmentcampaign by a group of “sociopathic” stalkers.

“You can’t fathom the amount of clinical obsession that grips these people,” Mr Tomlinson told The Independent this week. “Trying to destroy my world is their full time lives.”

Norm MacDonald was apparently a Canadian comedian.

Axios.

Day 2 of the White House’s damage-control plan defending President Biden’s fitness for office called for a coordinated attack on special counsel Robert Hur.

Why it matters: Biden’s team scrambled to counter Hur’s report that called the president an “elderly man with a poor memory” — and aides rushed to defend Biden’s performance at a late-night press conference that left even some Democrats thinking Hur had a point.

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In a Congressional hearing last spring, Gil Cisneros, then-Under Secretary for Military Readiness, announced that the Pentagon was closing its newly formed Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within its K-12 school system and reassigning its controversial DEI chief after a ten-month internal investigation.

The Pentagon’s climb-down was a big win for OpenTheBooks.com. We had worked alongside whistleblowers, journalists, other investigative non-profits, and ranking members of Congress to expose alleged conflicts of interest, violations of military ethics policies, and radical ideologies being forced on the kids of servicemen and servicewomen.

Today, we are announcing Cisneros was actually faking. The radical curriculum was not dismantled. Instead, it was stealthily embedded into the lesson plans and classrooms throughout the entire school system.

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The open border has enabled the Left to amass more political power. Democratic-controlled states have gained congressional seats by welcoming and harboring illegal aliens.

As president, Donald Trump tried to halt this wrongdoing by ordering the census to exclude all noncitizens from apportionment. But one of President Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to reverse this policy as he began to open the border to millions of illegal aliens.

Barring the census from including noncitizens in apportionment is critical in making sure that American citizens—the only population who can and should vote in U.S. elections—are picking America’s leaders.

Dan Greenberg.

The Biden economy is booming. And if you don’t believe that, just ask the media which responded to the latest job reports with headlines worthy of a North Korean newspaper editor being asked to describe Kim Jong-Un’s birthday party while a gun is pointed at his head.

“Another shockingly good jobs report shows America’s economy is booming,” CNN cheered. “New report points to blockbuster U.S. job growth as 2024 begins,” MSNBC claimed. And Politico found faith in a semi-senile president with its headline, “Biden’s ‘holy grail’ economy.”

The media all agreed that this “booming economy” could turn around the presidential election. But there was a problem.. Why, the media wondered, didn’t the public believe in Bidenomics?

Power Line.

About the immigration bill that is apparently dead on arrival in both houses of Congress, some observations.

Some conservatives are saying this is the best immigration control bill proposed in the last 30 years, with features that, if proposed in the past, most sensible people would have jumped to embrace and vote for. This is correct.

It is still a no good rotten bill that should be scorned with extreme prejudice.

How to reconcile these seemingly contradictory propositions? Easy. By this point conservatives can recognize a Lucy-and-the-football ruse when they see it.

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Some of the wealthiest liberal enclaves in the country are being classified by the Biden administration as “low-income” in order to qualify for an electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy program contained within the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Daily Caller reports.

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A new report reveals more details about how the Biden administration is plowing millions of dollars of taxpayer funds into woke universities and private firms to fund the “Censorship Industrial Complex.”

During the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Tuesday morning, Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) reporter Katelynn Richardson detailed how the federal government used taxpayer dollars to fund numerous projects that censored anyone with a non-government-approved view.

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Liberals love to talk about books being “banned,” when what they really mean is that someone decided the book–gay porn, for example–shouldn’t be one of the few selected, out of the vast number of books available, for a junior high school or high school library. Those “banned” books are freely available via Amazon, book stores and so on.

But it turns out that some books have actually been banned, or at least suppressed, and as you would expect, book banning has been done by the Left, not the Right.

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Members of the notorious MS-13 gang, as well as several terrorists, including one linked to al-Qaeda and another to Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s largest criminal organization, have recently been arrested by immigration officials in U.S. cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Chicago.

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What used to be considered “hotspots” for workers on those apps, feel a little colder since Jan. 13, according to several drivers we heard from. That includes Gary Lardizabal, a longtime, app-based, food delivery driver in Seattle.
“Sundays before the ordinance,” Lardizabal. “You know, we’d be thinking breakfast. Today, I didn’t even touch it. They’re not going to order. It is definitely backfiring.”
Since the ordinance went into effect last month, Mia Shagen said her delivery opportunities have been slashed.
“I’ve got nothin,” Shagen said. “I’m not gonna sit here for hours for one frickin’ order.”
Even on typically busy delivery days, groups of drivers can be seen waiting around together in groups in high-density restaurant areas.
“Instead of it stopping at 2:30 or 3:00, it’s stopping at like one o’clock, sometimes even a little bit before,” Shagen said. “So literally at like one o’clock, suddenly, there are no orders anymore.”

Gee, you’d think that raising the price would cut the demand or something! What’s up with that?

Pass a law, fix a problem! That’s all it takes, right? “Think it through!” said no politician, ever.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know they were allowed to do that.

Police interrogators have no more respect for prisoners than the Gestapo had.

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Last week, the American journalist Tucker Carlson interviewed Bret Weinstein, a professional biologist who became a public intellectual after he and his scientist wife were driven out of their woke university for refusing to cooperate with a diversity program they regarded as racist. Though he has been a lifelong leftist and atheist, Weinstein’s iconoclastic observations and commentaries have been embraced by conservatives who are more interested in truth than ideological conformity. It turns out that people like him, who find themselves thrust outside the bubble of epistemic closure, often see things that the rest of us do not.

On the Carlson program, Weinstein reported on his recent visit to the Darién Gap, the densely forested patch of land in Panama, through which all migrants headed north from South America must pass. For most of the millions of migrants who have passed this way headed to the United States in recent years, this is the most perilous part of their journey. Weinstein, who is familiar with the area from his field research there as a biologist, was shocked to see NGOs everywhere in the Darién Gap, and also the United Nations migration office.

“The United States Government is facilitating this economic migration,” he said on the show. “It’s unmistakable.”

Of course they are. Duh.

Even more shocking was a separate refugee transit camp for Chinese migrants. This was the only camp that Weinstein and his companion were not allowed to visit by the Panamanian government. These are all men who made their way from China to Ecuador (where they can be admitted without a visa), and then northward towards the United States. When the Americans approached Chinese men who had left their camp to buy supplies, the Chinese set themselves apart from all other migrants by refusing to talk about their journey.

Weinstein concluded that these Chinese men are not interested in reaching America for the sake of economic opportunity, like most of the migrants. Theirs, he believes, is an “invasion” cloaked within an economic migration—one that the Biden administration has taken no actions to stop. What’s more, he says, this cloaking makes it hard to discuss the Chinese issue.

The scientist was shocked to see no mainstream U.S. journalists on the ground there, reporting on this extraordinary event—the presence of large numbers of fighting-age men from an enemy superpower making their way to the U.S. border. Why is the U.S. government not only letting this happen, but paying for it? Why doesn’t the media care?

Newsbusters.

I recently traveled to give a speech. I stayed in a hotel where a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were also staying. I spoke to several, mostly men, but a couple were female. The average person I spoke to had been with the agency for over seven years.

Many people told me, all off the record, that before the Biden administration, they thoroughly enjoyed their job. Many were retired military members and felt that protecting the border allowed them to continue their service to the country. But now, several said they were “counting down the days until retirement.”

They were livid at being converted, as more than one put it, into “Uber drivers” for illegal aliens. One said, “If the average American had any idea who what’s going on, if they knew who we’ve knowingly allowed into the country, if they knew the kinds of things some of these guys are bringing into the country — and I don’t just mean fentanyl and other drugs — they’d burn down the White House.” One showed me a cellphone video he had “secretly” taken depicting “migrants” coming across the border while flashing middle fingers at the agents.

Unfortunately, the ‘average American’ still relies on the Narrative media to bring up what needs attention,  and the Narrative media isn’t going to bring up anything that is embarrassing to proglodytes unless it would be even more embarrassing not to.

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Doubtful.

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No longer reserved exclusively for deadly situations, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for relatively routine police matters such as serving a search warrant, with some SWAT teams being sent out as much as five times a day.

SWAT teams have been employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of so-called criminal activity or mere community nuisances: angry dogs, domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer, and misdemeanor marijuana possession, to give a brief sampling.

Police have also raided homes on the basis of mistaking the presence or scent of legal substances for drugs. Incredibly, these substances have included tomatoes, sunflowers, fish, elderberry bushes, kenaf plants, hibiscus, and ragweed. In some instances, SWAT teams are even employed, in full armament, to perform routine patrols.

These raids, which might be more aptly referred to as “knock-and-shoot” policing, have become a thinly veiled, court-sanctioned means of giving heavily armed police the green light to crash through doors in the middle of the night.

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There ought to be some way to handle this problem … I dunno … maybe send them back?

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New York is launching a $53 million pilot program to hand out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families living in hotels, the New York Post reports.

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In truth, they won’t ‘cancel’ it (cf the Contracts clause of the Constitution), but just put the load on the taxpayers.

Time to leave,

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The world needs to mobilize at least $2.4 trillion to keep global climate change goals within reach, the United Nations climate chief said in a speech Friday.

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The clothing strewn across the riverbank gives away that Shelby Park on the Rio Grande was a major crossing point for illegal aliens not long ago. But since Texas National Guard assumed control of the park, the crossings have nearly stopped entirely, according to authorities.

Not the Babylon Bee.

Four out of five illegal migrants who were caught on camera attacking two NYPD cops in Times Square were arrested, set free on no bail, and then given free bus tickets to California.

Following their release, a smirking Johan Boada, 22, could be seen giving a double middle finger to media covering the situation.

When asked if he should be deported, Gov. Kathy Hochul said: “I think that’s actually something that should be looked at,” adding “I mean, if someone commits a crime against a police officer in the state of New York and they’re not here legally, it’s definitely worth checking into.”

I suspect they’ll feel right at home in California.

The Foundry.

A damaged pickup truck with no lights sped past me in the opposite direction in the middle of Malone, New York, up on America’s northern border with Canada. It was 5 p.m. on a dark winter evening, and the truck was going about 60, throwing off sparks and burning plastic. At least eight police cars were in pursuit. Seconds later, the 27-year-old driver crossed over the road and hit a stone monument. Amazingly, though he hit many cars on his mad ride, the guy didn’t kill anyone.

Even more amazing: This criminally reckless driver had done the same thing just two days before. On Jan. 19, he stole a Chevy truck and caused “multiple wrecked vehicles” while police chased him at high speed. According to local press, “He was arrested, arraigned, and released” thanks to New York’s lax bail law. Two days later, he came close to killing even more people. Including me.

This story illustrates how elites and anti-law-enforcement voters in far-off big cities determine the fates of rural and small-town Americans. It also shows how enforcing the law—arrests and detentions in particular—is effective in deterring law-breaking, including illegal immigration.

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The suspect in a carjacking incident that left a former Trump administration official with life-threatening injuries this week was previously arrested on multiple felony charges that were later dropped by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia.

Artell Cunningham, 28, was shot and killed by police officers after an alleged string of violent carjacking incidents, including shooting and killing 35-year-old Alberto Vasquez Jr., and shooting former Commodity Futures Trading Commission employee Mike Gill in the head, causing “life-threatening injuries,” according to police.

The Washington Examiner reported that Cunningham was arrested in January 2021 after attempting to enter an apartment where his siblings were inside at the time. He reportedly became “physically aggressive with officers” when they prevented him from entering the unit and was subsequently arrested.

Time to leave….

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Yean, gonna run right out and get me one of those….

L. A. Times

A California law requiring people to submit to a background check every time they want to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled in a decision made public Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez found state laws prohibiting California buyers from purchasing and importing ammunition from out-of-state sellers likewise violate federal law.

Benitez barred the state from enforcing the laws moving forward and denied a request from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s office to put his decision on hold while the state appeals to a higher court.

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Updated COVID-19 vaccines may cause heart inflammation and severe allergic shock, according to a new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Researchers with the FDA, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and companies like CVS looked at health care databases to try to figure out if there were signs the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 vaccines might be linked to any health issues.

They found several safety signals. One signal was for myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, and a related condition called pericarditis following Pfizer vaccination in adults aged 18 to 35. Another was for anaphylaxis, or severe allergic shock, following Moderna and Pfizer vaccination in people aged 18 to 64.

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On Wednesday, Tara Reade, the alleged sexual abuse victim of Joe Biden, took legal action against the Department of Justice, filing a tort complaint through her London-based attorney, Jonathan Levy.

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Washington glitterati assembled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in October to celebrate federal employees making a difference in government. Hosted by CNN anchor Kate Bolduan, the black-tie affair featured in-person appearances by top Biden White House officials including Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack.

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but the billions of dollars we’re spending to convert the country to “clean” energy in order to reduce carbon emissions is being allocated poorly. We know, government spending that isn’t efficient? We were shocked, too.

The latest example comes from the idea that our tax money should be responsible for instituting electric busses nationwide. As Fox News reported this week, the idea has been nothing short of a total disaster, with busses broken down and unused across the nation.

Fox cites several examples, including authorities in Asheville, North Carolina, who have encountered numerous difficulties with their electric bus fleet, leading to the idling of three out of five buses bought in 2018 for “millions”. These challenges stem from an assortment of software glitches, mechanical failures, and the unavailability of necessary spare parts.

Washington Times.

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety indicates the “COVID-19 vaccination is strongly associated with a serious adverse safety signal of myocarditis, particularly in children and young adults resulting in hospitalization and death.”

Ruh-roh, Scooby.

There’s a study that Big Pharma, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the “take the shot!” bleaters don’t want read.

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Several San Francisco residents are suing city officials over an allegedly “illegal” program that provides taxpayer funds to black and Latino biological men who “identify as females.”

In November 2022, Democratic Mayor London Breed, who is listed as a defendant, announced the “Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program,” which provides “low-income transgender San Franciscans with $1,200 each month, up to 18 months to help address financial insecurity within trans communities,” according to a press release.

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Here is an interesting philosophical conundrum: what is the point of a border if it is specifically built to be breached?

Surely any pot that is intentionally full of holes is not a pot, but a colander. Likewise, though all walls should surely have at least a few doors in them, a wall made up of nothing but doors isn’t really a wall at all, but a turnstile.

Nowadays, it would increasingly seem as if the external defences of Western Europe and the United States are external defences in name only, purely performative barriers designed to allow anyone access who cares to seek it, no matter how unworthy, undesirable, or unassimilable. Catherine the Great’s Russia once had Potemkin Villages. In today’s West, we have Potemkin Borders.

The Foundry.

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the only such database in existence, now contains over 1,500 proven cases of election fraud. The sampling of cases vary from lone wolves stealing one vote to conspiracies that stole many votes, defrauding citizens and candidates of honest elections and sometimes changing the outcome of an election. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.)

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A Minnesota farmer is suing the state over an agricultural grant program that discriminates on the basis of race and sex.

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According to the department, to be eligible, applicants must be women, veterans, disabled, American Indian or Alaskan Native, 35 or younger, urban, “members of a community of color,” individuals who are “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+),” or “any other emerging farmers as determined by the commissioner.”

I’m sure they exist, but I’ve never seen a black farmer, or even read about one in the news.

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Yet another corruption scandal has rocked Ukraine’s military, with employees from a Ukrainian arms firm and defence ministry officials accused of embezzling $40 million. The revelations come as Volodymyr Zelensky urges Western nations to provide more weapons and U.S. Republicans want more accountability on how American taxpayers’ money is being spent in Ukraine.

Five people have been charged in Ukraine for mass procurement fraud. High-ranking officials of the defence ministry, as well as managers of arms supplier Lviv Arsenal, were involved in the scheme. They signed a contract in August 2022, six months into the war with Russia, for 100,000 artillery shells worth $39.6 million. However, the goods were never delivered and the money was instead sent to various accounts in Ukraine and the Balkans, investigators said on Saturday, January 27th. If found guilty, the accused face up to 12 years in prison. According to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, the stolen funds have been seized and will be returned to the defence budget.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to clamp down on corruption in a bid to speed up his country’s accession to the European Union and NATO. Both blocs have demanded widespread anti-corruption reforms before Kyiv can join them.

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You have undoubtedly heard that crime is down in a lot of places. One trick often employed in places like San Francisco is not to report crimes. Shoplifting is no longer pursued, and employees of businesses can be fired for preventing shoplifting. So property theft crimes drop not because theft is no longer happening but because it is no longer treated as a crime.

Atlanta, Georgia, has seen a 21% drop in year-over-year crime. The Mayor of Atlanta, Andre Dickens, faced with a secession effort in the northern wards of his city due to crime and violent protests from the far left over a police training facility, has deployed a novel trick in The City Too Busy to Hate. He actually pushed law enforcement to enforce the law.

Under Dickens and Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, the city began aggressively cracking down on gun crimes and gang violence. Buckhead, the financial center of the South and Atlanta’s northern ward, began agitating for secession after crime spiked during COVID lockdowns. Random suburbanites were shot while jogging, home break-ins increased, carjackings increased, violence was on the rise after the former Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, decided to side with rioters against the police.

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If you want to know why people are going to vote for Trump….