Archive for June, 2019
13th June 2019
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Screenshot of newly released CENTCOM footage which US officials say shows Iran caught in the act of removing an unexploded mine from one of the tankers attacked on Thursday.
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13th June 2019
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Beyond questions of corruption and abuse is the matter of simple competence. How exactly is the Guard going to stop illegal immigration from Guatemala along a porous 541-mile border that almost entirely lacks the security features of our border with Mexico? As Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies noted in a recent post, the Mexicans shouldn’t expect any help from Guatemalan officials, which they will certainly need to be effective.
“That’s because Guatemala’s leadership, border patrol, and police forces all have been neck-deep in the smuggling industry for years, despite ongoing corruption investigations and a contentious national election campaign,” writes Bensman, adding that the smuggling infrastructure in Guatemala and southern Mexico is “entrenched, dynamic, and politically connected, having grown uninhibited for decades and with citizen populations on both sides depending on it for sustenance.”
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13th June 2019
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13th June 2019
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Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer points out the obvious: Low wages create and sustain poverty, not lousy schools.
Although lousy public schools certainly contribute to the problem.
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13th June 2019
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This is Newsweek, so I’d wait for confirmation from a reliable source.
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13th June 2019
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Pretty bad when you can’t even depend on applause from your own side.
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13th June 2019
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She’s got some doozies here.
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13th June 2019
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All Ponzi schemes eventually bottom out.
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13th June 2019
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We’ll know they’re serious when they come for #BitterBeerFace Maxine Waters and Elijah Cummings.3
BUT it could get very entertaining.
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13th June 2019
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Been wondering when Black Lives Matter would heat up again? Well, wonder no more.
At least 24 police officers have been injured in protests over the lethal shooting of a black man in Tennessee Wednesday night.
Brandon Webber, 21, was shot and killed by U.S. Marshals on Wednesday evening in Memphis after he allegedly crashed his vehicle into officer’s cars, Washington Post reported. Webber had multiple warrants out for his arrest.
Webber left his vehicle in possession of a weapon, according to a statement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). TBI is investigating the shooting.
“At least 24 officers and deputies were injured—6 were taken to the hospital,” said Democratic Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland in a statement. “At least two journalists were injured.”
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13th June 2019
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13th June 2019
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And just like that…war with Iran is now almost assured.
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12th June 2019
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They don’t make it easy for you.
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12th June 2019
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12th June 2019
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12th June 2019
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According to the pro-life group Live Action, Pinterest “permanently suspended” its account on June 11. This was after Pinterest was exposed by Project Veritas for limiting conservative groups on the platform. A Project Veritas secret investigation quoted a Pinterest insider who revealed how the site censors such content.
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12th June 2019
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So why doesn’t she leave? Surely there’s room for her in Venezuela.
Waiting for her to leave….
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12th June 2019
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The science is settled — until they take it back.
Moral: Just because ‘scientists’ say something doesn’t oblige you to believe it.
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12th June 2019
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The author, of course, is not a white person. He confesses that he has servants, so why he’s picking on ‘white people’ is not clear.
There may be an agenda here.
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12th June 2019
Steve Sailer.
Over the past few weeks, two academics working separately, Zach Goldberg and David Rozado, have documented how extremist The New York Times, once known as The Gray Lady for its decorum, became during Obama’s second term.
Quantifying the Times over time offers the single best way to measure increasing media wokeness because of the newspaper’s breadth and its influence on other journalists, who traditionally look to it for guidance on what they are supposed to be worked up over.
I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
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12th June 2019
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Well, Obama promised to Heal The Earth. He didn’t, but it got him elected.
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12th June 2019
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12th June 2019
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A jury has ruled that Oberlin College, one of the nation’s most left-wing institutions of higher learning, must pay the proprietors of Gibson’s Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, $11.2 million in damages for libel, slander, and other disruptions that the college caused in the business by encouraging false charges of racism.
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11th June 2019
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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?
In a private health care system, if somebody screws up, they can be sued.
In a health care system manned by government employees — eh, not so much.
Ever try to sue the Postal Disservice for not delivering the mail? Wonder how far you would get? Not very far.
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11th June 2019
Ace of Spades is on the case.
A doctor named Dominic D’Agostino is the main guy studying the effects of ketosis on divers, working with the Navy SEALs.
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11th June 2019
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11th June 2019
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11th June 2019
Ace of Spades turns over a rock.
The guys at Powerline have been pursuing this for years.
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11th June 2019
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A team of UK scientists have identified the mechanism behind hardening of the arteries, and shown in animal studies that a generic medication normally used to treat acne could be an effective treatment for the condition.
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11th June 2019
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Perhaps God is growing impatient. He sometimes does that.
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11th June 2019
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Seriously – who would drink Budweiser when they could have beer?
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11th June 2019
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Apparently white people were showing up ‘in racist ways’.
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11th June 2019
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Documents leaked to Project Veritas by a Pinterest insider reveal that the San Francisco-based social media company has blocked links from Zero Hedge and several conservative or religious-based websites – adding them to a ‘porn domain block list’ originally intended to keep the platform free of sexually explicit material.
The old Soviet Union used a similar trick, stashing dissidents in mental hospitals.
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11th June 2019
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I used to do the same thing to help support myself in graduate school. It will definitely get you over any fear of needles.
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11th June 2019
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Probably good advice.
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11th June 2019
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Amazon launched a new credit card offering today for individuals with bad/no credit. If disruptive innovation always starts with addressing the low end of a market (and it does…) then this move merits attention. If anyone has the technological horsepower to crack the low end of the financial services marketplace, it’s Amazon.
The problem with that is that the low end is the low end for a reason.
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11th June 2019
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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
Why pollute the ground, where it’s your problem, when you can pollute the air, which makes it everybody’s problem?
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11th June 2019
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Sounds like a self-correcting problem.
Think of it as evolution in action.
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11th June 2019
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After freezing the bank accounts of 26 individuals and entities amid a probe into human trafficking, Mexico has refused to name the account owners – some of which appear to have originated in the US, UK, African nations and Central America, according to Breitbart.
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11th June 2019
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Ever since J. Christian Adams, a career Department of Justice attorney, resigned in 2010 (during Obama’s first term) due to his own unwillingness to turn a blind eye to Eric Holder’s highly charged racialist program within the DOJ, I’ve been wondering when the corruption would be called to account. But it never happened. It never happens in the Democrat Deep State…unless, like Sidney Powell, you know where to look.
I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
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11th June 2019
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Duh. Communist dictatorship.
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11th June 2019
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There have been talks about power outages for over a decade. The California Public Utilities Commission has rejected previous attempts, but following the deadly 2018 fires, allowed shutoffs under the guise of protecting public safety.
Yet this comes as California has taken nuclear power plants offline while increasing mandates for wind and solar. Nuclear power is clean and reliable; wind and solar power, while clean, are unreliable and significantly more expensive.
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11th June 2019
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Entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, and early startup employees are using the Qualified Small Business Stock, or QSBS, provision to partially or totally wipe out their tax bills. “It’s an awesome way to mitigate tax,” says Richard Scarpelli, head of financial planning at First Republic Private Wealth Management. Of all the strategies that investors and business owners use to lower capital-gains taxes, he says, “this is by far the best.”
Shares are eligible for QSBS if they’re issued when a company has gross assets of $50 million or less. If you hold on to the stock for at least five years, you can avoid taxes on $10 million of any gains when you sell. But that $10 million is only a minimum—the law says you can instead shield as much as 10 times your initial investment, or basis, in the corporation. So a venture firm that put $10 million in an early startup could reap $100 million in tax-free gains. And QSBS’s benefit can be multiplied several-fold with clever planning.
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11th June 2019
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Heated gloves, bracelets, and even rings are some of the potential applications of highly conductive MXene, a 2-D material made of alternating atomic layers of titanium and carbon. In a new study, researchers have fabricated MXene flakes, then electrostatically adhered the flakes to threads, and finally sewed the threads into ordinary fabrics that can be safely heated under a low voltage.
We have the technology.
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11th June 2019
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During a sit-down interview, he told The Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill that Mexico is incentivizing Guatemalans and others from Central American countries to leave their homes by offering different kinds of benefits to them like work permits and visas while they migrate north toward the United States.
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10th June 2019
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10th June 2019
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10th June 2019
Ace of Spades is on the case.
A beautiful cure to congenital neuroticism and borderline personality disorder. I applaud their decision to self-exile from the human genetic pool. I think falling human average IQ scores just started falling a little less quickly.
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10th June 2019
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In 2016, the pink hat seen around the world was used by feminists as a symbol of “resistance” to protest the inauguration of the duly elected President Trump. Now, the latest virtue-signaling garb of the feminist movement is a red robe and white hat derived from the popular show, The Handmaid’s Tale. It is difficult to miss the slew of pro-abortion activists donning the trendy ensemble outside of the Supreme Court and state legislatures around the country.
Politics as theater. Or theater as politics. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
UPDATE: Gayle King ‘Worries’ ‘a Lot’ About U.S. Turning Into ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’ Except that that’s a Leftist fairy tale (no pun intended), not reality.
UPDATE: Kylie Jenner’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Party Like ‘Holocaust Theme for Bar Mitzvah’ No meme too sordid for a ‘celebrity’ to make a party theme out of it.
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10th June 2019
Steve Sailer.
Only $20. Be the first on your block.
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