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Why must leftists conquer entire nations? Why do they get so angry at anyone who resists their ideology? Why can’t they just build a new nation filled entirely with fellow leftists?

It really shouldn’t be this difficult for Marxist-socialists, communists, “green energy” fanatics, “diversity, inclusion, and equity” cultists, and bureaucracy-worshiping globalists to build a regulatory paradise based on the “woke” commandments of their secular faith.

There are more than enough power-hungry leftist politicians in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States to construct the all-powerful central government that they desire. Career bureaucrats in the U.S. have filled the administrative state with so many sub-agencies, boards, working groups, and miscellaneous programs that nobody in Congress could create an organizational chart accurately diagramming the bureaucratic blob. The European Union – a supranational shrine to bloated bureaucratic incompetence – has so many committees within its ranks that there are surely a dozen such committees studying why the Union has so many committees!

There are more than enough lefty billionaires – including George Soros, Bill Gates, Neville Roy Singham, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and Howard Schultz – to put up the seed money for their communist utopia. Heck, Western central banks essentially exist to manipulate markets in favor of the left’s pet causes, such as how best to funnel taxpayer dollars into the bank accounts of leftist billionaires who lecture the world about “global warming,” “white supremacy,” mandatory COVID shots, and the need for open borders and online censorship. Wall Street and City of London firms are more interested in companies’ “social credit scores” and ESG bona fides than the traditional metrics of whether a business can generate profit and a return on investment.

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With all these institutional forces at their disposal, it is a wonder why they can’t seem to seal the deal. How can you control the news, the universities, “woke” capital, the NGO network, the permanent government bureaucracy, and all the international agencies and not have already rebranded the United States as the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” or the “People’s Republic of America”? It’s embarrassing, really.

At the end of the day, there are just too many members of society who possess a modicum of common sense and refuse to buy what the commies are selling.

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Almost 24,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges have been released into communities since Jan. 20, 2025, due to California’s refusal to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

“There are more than 81,000 criminal charges or convictions associated with these non-honored detainers,” the DHS said in a Nov. 2 statement.

This includes 3,295 burglaries, 1,097 assaults, 1,088 drug trafficking charges, 169 homicides, and 147 sexual assaults.

The Antiplanner.

Construction is about to begin on 220 “affordable” apartments that average 635 square feet but whose construction will cost $900,000 each. Called Gateway Towers, the project will cost $197.8 million and the apartments will be available to people who earn up to 70 percent of median incomes.

Median income for a four-person household in San Jose is $205,500, so that means that people who earn $144,000 a year will be eligible to apply for housing built with taxpayer subsidies from the rest of the country where median household incomes are less than $88,000. Isn’t it wonderful to live in a country where people cheerfully pay higher taxes to subsidize the housing of others who earn 64 percent more income than they do?

Gateway Tower is so important for San Jose that the city council overrode the recommendations of the city’s Historic Landmark Commission and allowed the builder to demolish parts of historic Herrold College, an early electronics engineering school. Don’t worry: the developer promises to include a “permanent historic display” somewhere in the building.

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A shadowy international group calling itself The Capytistas is preparing to expose the private homes of some of America’s wealthiest individuals in a new campaign, according to a dossier viewed by WIRED.

No doubt to give the Socialist Mobsters a target.

The Capytistas’ strategy is simple: Turn the private residences of the ultrawealthy into public information, potentially exposing properties their owners have gone to considerable lengths to keep out of the spotlight.

The group claims to have secured more than $1.2 million in financial backing and intends to publish over 150 residential addresses, many of which it says have never been publicly disclosed.

Billionaire Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal, and members of Tesla’s board of directors are among the group’s initial targets, and the group’s dossier contains 32 addresses associated with Musk and Tesla leadership.

If I were a billionaire, my house would look like Obama’s Presidential Library, only with machine guns.

New York Post.

All through middle school my son was, at least on paper, a numbers whiz. His report cards consistently showed A’s — his lowest grade was a B plus. But when he slid down to a 78 on his first exam at a top high school in Queens this fall, I pulled up a chair to help him review for his next test.

I’ll never forget seeing tears well up in my son’s eyes as he was only able to answer the first couple of questions on the worksheet.

He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions.

Not the Bee.

Nick Shirley is looking to earn his commission with this one.

The online influencer who exposed the “Learing Centers” and other major fraud rings is now investigating the supply chain of human trafficking into the United States.

It’s worth the whole 44 minutes.

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It is a truth, universally understood, that Europe does not want, nor does it need, another totalitarian dictatorship that uses terror and murder to subjugate its captive population. This was the sentiment behind the creation of the European Convention on Human Rights, and also the Court to administer its clauses and sections. This document has constitutional strength, such that it is regularly used to overrule constitutional settlements. It is highly likely that the reason the UK voted for Brexit in 2016 was not necessarily because of a desire to discard the directives and agencies of the EU, but actually to stop activist judges on the European Court of Human Rights from interfering in British legal affairs. The Convention and the Court are the primary reasons why the UK is unable to deport the man of combat age with base or zero sexual morality from invading our shores with a large degree of complicity from the EU.

The ECHR has also seen its scope creep, such that not just its signatories, but also the entire world is subject to its rule. If a country to which the UK wants to deport an illegal migrant does not adhere to the ECHR, then the UK cannot deport that illegal migrant, no matter what heinous crimes that migrant has committed in the UK. While these tinpot third world countries are indirectly subject to the ECHR through their breaches of the convention, there is no method to impose the ECHR on them so they will adhere to it. While the USSR did for several decades its level best to export its toxic and murderous ideology of Marxism-Leninism onto vulnerable former European colonies, Europe has been quite reluctant, but perhaps with good reason, to impose the benevolence of a full raft of human rights onto countries that rely on their breaches of these conventions to export successfully those elements of their populations for which they neither want nor care.

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Apparently they have no faith in the ‘blue wave’ currently being touted in the Narrative Media.

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It isn’t the climate crisis that needs to be fixed, or the fossil fuel industry that needs to be investigated; it’s the epic level journalism malfeasance which must to be investigated after the ‘industry disinformation campaigns’ accusation is properly labeled as the hoax that it is.

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No problem—they’ll just sneak over the border into a Blue state, like all of the other illegals.

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Over 50 years of communist anti-colonialism in the third world, aided by some liberal governments in the west, has provided uncomfortable truths about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to human civilization. The first and most controversial truth is that, in many cases, third world societies are self destructive and incapable of maintaining the most basic of necessities.

The second controversial truth is that these same societies run by western interests function far better. All vital infrastructure is maintained and the people have upward mobility. In other words, western colonialism works. No matter what leftists and anti-colonial activists claim, time has proven them wrong.

Case in point: South Africa.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it identified roughly $29.1 million in government benefits fraud in Minnesota over a one-month period.

Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 30, the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and the District of Minnesota charged, convicted, or sentenced 13 individuals for proven or alleged schemes that caused nearly $83 million in intended losses to the federal government.

The DOJ said in an Oct. 30 statement that it uncovered $29.1 million in fraud in newly charged cases, which is part of the total $83 million.

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Police in Dallas say four people are dead and 15 are injured following separate shootings in a Dallas neighborhood.

Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said police are still trying to determine if the shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were related. It was among several violent incidents nationwide on Halloween weekend.

Comeaux said three separate shootings occurred and it wasn’t immediately known why they started. He added that some arrests were made but he didn’t specify how many or what charges were involved.

“This is a really big scene. It’s spread out,” Comeaux said. “We are interviewing some individuals right now that we have arrested, still trying to figure out exactly how it ties into all the shootings out here.”

Deep Ellum is the Greenwich Village of Dallas. Because of the large ration of wounded per dead, I predict that the perps will be discovered to be Children of Color. Dallas is, of course, a Blue pustule in Red Texas.

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It was in the mall’s dining area, adorned with the Somali, Palestinian and American flags flying at the same height, that Omar dined among friends in the Somali community for lunch on Friday. State Attorney General Keith Ellison was also present. The ceiling of the food vendor area is painted light blue and emblazoned with a white star resembling the Somali flag.

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Philadelphia has once again been named the poorest major city in the United States, reclaiming an unwanted title after briefly losing last year.

A whopping 20.4% of Philadelphia residents lived below the poverty line in 2025, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, marking the city’s first increase in poverty since 2011.

The figures, first reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer, put Philadelphia ahead of Houston and New York City, which both recorded poverty rates of 17.7%.

The reversal comes after Philadelphia briefly surrendered its unwanted title to Houston in 2024, when its poverty rate dropped to 19.7%, its lowest level since at least 1979.

Houston, one of the Blue pustules on the rosy Red cheek of Texas. Even in Red states, metro areas are run by Blue morons.

The Foundry.

As Americans see chaos and rioting on the streets of Paris, we are not immune to that happening on streets across America.

For decades, France has provided “free” health care, paid family leave, free childcare, free preschool, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. This has bred a culture of entitlement and an insatiable desire for the government to do more, while many demand to work less—if at all.

As the government subsidizes these sectors, the price of goods and services rises. More housing aid and blocked building permits cause rents to rise, which precipitates a demand for the government to impose rent control. That diminishes housing supply and the spiral continues. Education subsidies prompt universities to raise tuition; students then take to the streets to protest the “injustice” of unaffordable housing, education, and other services.

France has one of the world’s highest tax burdens, yet they have an enormous public debt. The International Monetary Fund estimates that France’s gross domestic product in 2026 will be a mere 0.4%, compared to 2.3% in the United States.

What France is doing is unsustainable, and if Americans elect candidates who embrace that kind of socialist agenda, it won’t be long before we reap the whirlwind.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

Masked rioters smashed storefronts and looted goods late Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany amid a protest against the rising cost of living.

The largely peaceful demonstrations were led by a youth initiative called “Gen Z regelt” – roughly translated to “Gen Z’s got this” – rallied in more than 30 cities “for education, health, climate protection and an affordable life,” and against any return of military conscription. Organizers said that tens of thousands participated in the protests across the country, but official figures weren’t immediately available.

Tensions peaked in the evening as some groups of protesters refused to disperse, sparking clashes and violence in major cities including Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.

Socialism + Unrestricted Immigration = Riots and Crime. You’d think they’d be able to connect the dots.

ATQUE: Looting And Chaos Erupt In Germany As Europe Slides Deeper Into Crisis

ATQUE: A Third Weekend of Protests in France as Youth-led Rallies Sweep Europe

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October 14 wasn’t the first time Carolyn Marvin put herself in front of an autonomous delivery robot. It had become, since the wheeled little food vessels were unleashed upon certain parts of Philadelphia, a habit for the 78-year-old: standing in front of one of the robots when she encountered it rolling on the sidewalk, delaying it for a few minutes from delivering its precious lunchtime cargo.

But it was the first time that Marvin, a retired University of Pennsylvania communications professor, was arrested for doing it — in a case that she says raises profound questions about public space and the legal protections extended to robots in our increasingly tech-dominated world.

“I was under the impression that I had more rights than the robot did,” Marvin said, laughing.

Okay, Karen.

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This isn’t your grandfather’s socialism, featuring factory workers waving red flags and professors droning on about dialectical materialism. The new socialists are young, college-educated, and racially diverse. They talk about intersectionality, pronouns, and microaggressions. They may not think the USSR was on the right side of history, but they’re sure America’s on the wrong side of it.

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A top Washington state official said on Oct. 29 that the state has no way to confirm whether people are U.S. citizens when registering them to vote.

“We don’t have a system that can identify whether someone is an actual noncitizen,” Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said during a press conference in King County.

Hobbs also said that “it’s not unusual for noncitizens to actually be on voter rolls” and that “we never said that there are none on there.”

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Before 7 October 2023, the English-language Wikipedia article on Zionism opened by describing a movement that emerged to “espouse support for the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.” Since then, the opening has been reworded to say that this homeland was to be established “through colonization,” immediately followed by a new sweeping claim: “Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.” The sentence is backed by an unusually large bundle of 17 citations, drawn from historians including Benny Morris, Rashid Khalidi, Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappé, and to the casual reader it looks like the settled verdict of scholarship. It is not. The editor who introduced it in August 2024 has since been banned from the entire Palestine-Israel topic area for non-neutral editing. Yet the sentence survives, and for a year Wikipedia formally barred its editors from even discussing whether to remove it.

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Today, the top Trump administration officials announced new anti-fraud investigative results and ongoing measures to locate and identify more. The announcement comes from Minnesota as the White House steps up its crackdown on fraud involving federal assistance and healthcare programs.

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The violence, looting and burning in France over the weekend of October 24th-25th was somewhat less intense and widespread than it had been on the previous weekend, but it was still significant. Demonstrations comprising an estimated 400,000 people took place across France on the Saturday; in Paris the march was confined to the south-eastern edge of the city, and this was followed by violent clashes with police near Porte de Vincennes, about a 45-minute walk from the Place de la Bastille. Water cannon and tear gas were used. Around 500 rioters were estimated to have broken off from the main protest. There were more clashes, as well as bin fires and looting in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Grenoble, Rennes and several other parts of France. There were around 1,000 arrests nationwide (1,300 by some reports), with 70,000 police having been deployed to the streets, which was a substantial increase on the previous weekend’s deployment. Activists have called for further action on October 31st, and it’s clear that the sentiment behind the unrest hasn’t gone away. The weather on the 31st is forecast to be mild and dry, more similar to that of the 17th than the wetter, colder 24th, so it remains to be seen how much the tensions have been defused, and to what extent the less dedicated were put off by the weather.

Be careful what you wish for….

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If woke businesses can’t survive in Berkeley, California, then they can’t survive anywhere. It’s a lesson learned far too late for many companies over the past few years as American society continues to shift away from progressive ideology. The tolerance for “inclusive capitalism” is stretched thin and revenues are drying up fast, even for businesses that have been openly left-wing for a long time.

American Thinker.

There aren’t enough rich people even in America to cover the spending that politicians do.

For more than sixty years, I have listened to politicians repeat the same familiar promise: tax the rich. Every election cycle, the message returns, wrapped in new slogans and delivered with renewed enthusiasm. Millionaires and billionaires, we are told, have more than their fair share. If only government would tax them more aggressively, America could afford an endless assortment of new programs, benefits, and government services. It is a politically attractive argument. After all, who wouldn’t prefer someone else to pay the bill?

But this promise has a fundamental problem, one that rarely gets the attention it deserves. The wealthy represent a relatively small population, while the middle class represents an enormous tax base. And when politicians promise expansive government programs funded exclusively by taxing the rich, basic arithmetic deserves more attention than political rhetoric.

Consider the numbers. America has approximately 1,000 billionaires and more than 23 million millionaires, measured by net worth. Yet millions of these millionaires are not extraordinarily wealthy individuals living extravagant lifestyles. They are homeowners, retirees, and working professionals who have spent decades accumulating savings, retirement accounts, and home equity.

More importantly, wealth and taxable income are very different. A billionaire may own billions in appreciating stock while reporting comparatively little taxable income. A middle-class worker earning $100,000, by contrast, has income reported directly to the IRS, with taxes withheld from every paycheck. And herein lies the distinction politicians conveniently overlook.

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Two of America’s largest teachers unions spent more than $930 million on political activism, lobbying and progressive advocacy over the past decade, raising questions about how union dues are being used beyond traditional education priorities.

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It turns out that more suffocating regulation in one of the most aggressively regulated cities in the U.S. is not helpful to businesses…go figure…

In fact, rising operating costs, bureaucratic delays and persistent inflation are putting growing pressure on New York City businesses, with restaurant owners warning that operating in the five boroughs is becoming increasingly difficult, according to MSN/NY Post.

The strain is now showing up in employment figures. A new report from City Comptroller Mark Levine found that New York City’s private sector lost approximately 30,000 jobs in August and September, bringing total losses over the past year to roughly 32,000. September accounted for about 23,000 of those cuts, following another 7,400 in August.

The Foundry.

When violence and destruction broke out this month in France and soon spread to other European nations, many looked for a politician or a policy to blame. But they forgot that a very real culprit is what’s taught in the classroom.

Every major crisis today raises a question about education: What kind of people are we raising? We can pass new laws and elect new leaders, but we will keep inheriting the same heartbreak if we neglect the character of rising generations.

The events in France should shake Americans awake. Activists there are upset, but people should be able to face disagreements without resorting to arson, vandalism, and violence to solve them.

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GB News has released exclusive analysis of British police data showing a clear spike in reported crime in areas around three hotels used to house illegal migrants.

Between September 2023 and August 2026 there were 673 crime and antisocial behavior reports at map points right by the sites in Bournemouth.

Violence and sexual offenses formed the largest category, with 259 reports. Across the road from one hotel those offenses ran at almost three times the local average.

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The Holodomor (meaning death by hunger) was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933 that killed millions of people, primarily Ukrainian peasants. It was part of a wider Soviet famine (roughly 1930-1934) that also affected parts of Russia and Kazakhstan, but the Ukrainian famine was intensified by specific policies directed at Ukraine.

Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leadership forcibly collectivized agriculture starting in the late 1920s. Peasants were compelled to join collective farms, “kulaks” (better-off farmers). Resisters were deported or repressed. Whole villages were blacklisted and their grain confiscated. An internal passport system and border controls were created that prevented peasants from leaving famine areas.

Mortality was hideous, peaking in the spring and summer of 1933. Today we have all the evidence of widespread starvation, mass deaths, and cases of cannibalism. All told, as many as 5 million died. It was a genocide.

What is especially remarkable about this historical fact is that no one in the West knew anything about it while it was happening. U.S. newspapers had reporters on the ground in Russia but they consistently wrote stories that either ignored or debunked the claims of famine.

Not the Bee.

Remember that cruise line that offered a 4-year escape package after Trump won the 2024 election?

They just dumped all their passengers in autocratic Cambodia and stranded them there.

Best laid plans of ‘they’ and ‘them’….

They did offer the passengers a parting gift to fuel their hatred of POTUS:

The cruise line blames Trump’s war in Iran for their closure.

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In the past five years the institutional discussions surrounding climate change have shifted noticeably from “net zero” goals (zero net carbon emissions from target countries) to a more mercenary debate over carbon taxation. The question on everyone’s mind is this: Who gets the most access to those delicious climate funds?

Who gets access to the cash is less important than who gets to manage the cash, but we’ll get to that issue in a moment.

The recent COP30 event held last week in Brazil was largely focused on wealth redistribution with a lesser emphasis on carbon reductions. Climate “financing” is the name of the game, and COP30 was largely a squabble over which countries will get the most access to the various carbon taxes and donations collected by global intermediaries. In fact, the conference was largely considered a failure.

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Asian-American students make up a record 43.2% of Harvard’s incoming freshman class, more than double their share when Students for Fair Admissions first sued the school alleging racial discrimination in admissions.

Perhaps the day will come when the Harvard student body consists of Asians and Jews rather than Brown People and Blue Haired White People.

I’m certainly looking forward to it.

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Take out a pencil, draw a line down the center of the page and on the left hand-column write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, and advanced the global warming/climate change agenda.

Then, on the right-hand column, write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, advances the interests of, and support for Ukraine.

Notice something in the commonality?

They are a perfect match.

Not the Bee.

The men who wear dresses want to KILL you.

They literally want to KILL you.

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Karlyn Borysenko, a self-described anti-communist analyst who monitors the far left, published an alarming video highlighting what she characterizes as calls for a visions about the Chicago School nurse’s potential overlap between far-left activism and taxpayer-funded educational institutions.

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State legislative races this cycle could determine how elections are run for decades, with the potential for future laws on voter ID, undermining the Electoral College, noncitizen voting, and ranked-choice voting.

States could have enough votes after the elections to trigger the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, according to a report by the conservative group Honest Elections Project Action. Under the compact, a state would give its electoral votes to the national popular vote winner of a presidential election. The compact takes effect only if participating states can contribute a total of 270 electoral votes.

After Virginia entered the compact, the current member states collectively hold 222 electoral votes—just 48 votes away from 270. Five states outside the compact currently have divided government but appear to be leaning Democrat in legislative races: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

“Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are perennial presidential battlegrounds with 61 electoral votes between them,” the report says. “Each has divided government today but could become a Democrat trifecta on November 3rd.”

The report, released just one week before the midterms, contends the state legislative races “will decide what rules will govern the 2028 presidential election.”

The Foundry.

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Last Friday a 39-year-old gunman named Kevin T. went on a shooting spree in two suburbs of Paris (Trappes and La Verrière), killing one person and wounding seven others. The murderer reportedly selected persons of color as his targets.

As reported here last night French President Emmanuel Macron said that the attack was the first terrorist act in France committed for reasons of skin color or religion.

The photo at the top of this post shows the aftermath of the massacre that killed 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 13, 2015. The killers were mujahideen for the Islamic State, and targeted their victims for religious reasons, i.e. because the latter were not Muslims.

However, the incident evidently does not count as an attack “for reasons of skin color or religion”. As we all know, Muslims and/or brown people who kill white non-Muslims can never be said to have racist or religious motives.

Those are just the rules of the game, even though they make no sense.

Not the Bee.

You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Brazil’s socialist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won a fourth term after his personal attorney, who was appointed to the country’s supreme court by Lula, ruled that polls in strategic areas could remain open for another two hours past closing.

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That statement from Qiana Johnson is part of reported training material for residents to engage in “jury nullification,” whereby jurors ignore the law and incriminating facts in a given case to nullify any prosecution.

Notably, Johnson is the newly elected clerk of Prince George’s County Circuit Court in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. She is part of a growing left-wing movement gaining traction with voters that calls for radical changes to the U.S. legal system.

The effort is to engineer “Twelve Angry Men” scenarios on real juries – but unlike in the movie, the jurors are actually being trained to ignore evidence and deliberations in favor of political outcomes.

Of course, if Republicans were doing it, it would be 24/7 Threat To Our Democracy.

We already have ‘jury nullification’— from the O.J. trial to the mothers killing their children.

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As reported in Friday’s news feed (see, for example, this New York Post report), a gunman in Trappes, a suburb of Paris, opened fire on a number of people, allegedly targeting immigrants. One person was killed and several others wounded.

Immediately after the incident President Emmanuel Macron said that the attack was the first terrorist act in France committed for reasons of skin color or religion, evidently forgetting all those Jews and white Christians who have been targeted by culture-enrichers in France over the past twenty years or so.

Or maybe Mr. Macron has dutifully absorbed the teachings of Critical Race Theory, which holds that people of color cannot possibly be racist, because they lack the power held by their white oppressors etc blah yak.

In any case, a number of critics (all of them presumably WAYCISTS of various stripes) have taken the president to task for his statement.

The Telegraph (UK).

A second village is to hold a referendum on leaving the UK in protest at plans to create an asylum seekers’ camp nearby.

Residents of Barnham in Suffolk backed the idea of a symbolic ballot at a meeting on Saturday, with 70 in favour of holding a vote and seven against.

Like residents who declared a republic in Piddington, Oxfordshire, villagers in Barnham strongly oppose government plans to house migrants at a former military base.

A day before the vote, the Home Office announced the numbers housed at RAF Barnham would be reduced from 1,250 asylum seekers to 930.

The Telegraph (UK).

A French man accused of a mass shooting with a submachine gun targeted “black people and Arabs” in revenge for looting during last weekend’s riots.

On Friday, one man was killed and five others were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, in a drive-by shooting in the Paris suburb of Trappes. The government has described the incident as a racially motivated terror attack. None of the victims were white.

The main suspect, identified as Kevin T, said he had singled out black and Arab people because he had been “fed up with them” after shops in Paris were ransacked during student and Yellow Vest protests, according to Le Monde.

Well, when the government doesn’t do its primary job of ensuring order and protecting its citizens, those citizens will do what they have to do on their own.

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Oxfam paid its white staff a median of 33% less than colleagues who described themselves as black or a person of colour last year, according to the charity’s own annual report. Cancer Research UK and the British Red Cross reported similar negative ethnicity pay gaps in favour of ethnic minority staff.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

New York Post.

“Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree,” is how a US senator once described ideal tax policy.

In California and elsewhere, the most unpopular taxes are the ones most people see, like the gas tax and property taxes. The only popular taxes are the ones paid by someone else.

So Proposition 40 — the “billionaire tax” — and its first-in-the-country wealth tax should be very popular, since only 200 people would pay it. But the polling has it struggling.

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Another reason California voters should be wary of Proposition 40 is because it will lose in court. Here are six reasons why, and this list isn’t even exhaustive.