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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
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As I reported last month, a 13-year-old Austrian girl was doped, raped, and strangled by four Afghan “youths” in what seems to be a classic instance of what is commonly called “grooming”.
Since then a third suspect has been arrested, and the fourth is still on the run, probably outside the country. The case has caused an uproar in the country, with native Austrians divided into two groups: on the one hand, politically correct people who vehemently deny any correlation between ethnicity and criminality, and on the other, more traditional Austrians who are outraged by the atrocity and demand changes in the country’s asylum laws.
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12th July 2021
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The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.
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12th July 2021
ZMan gets his hands dirty.
Arguably, the first casualty of the antiestablishment uprising that began toward the end of the Obama administration was David French. Unlike most of Conservative Inc., French was too dumb to avoid mixing it up on-line with the smart kids who create clever memes and troll establishment media figures. He became the poster boy for what came to be known as the cuckservatives. As Tucker Carlson noted, French is the sort of person who can only exist in the world of non-profit Conservatism.
What makes a dullard like David French stand out in the bland nothingness that is the conservative intelligentsia is his unbridled narcissism. Most of Conservative Inc. knows they are just overly paid time-servers lucky to have comfortable lives. That is why they make sure to never say a discouraging word. David French, on the other hand, imagines himself to be a world historical figure. He does not believe in much, but he firmly believes in the importance of David French.
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12th July 2021
Freeberg nails it.
Yesterday I hung up on our first “schedule your free vaccine appointment” telemarketer. Yay, my tax dollars at work.
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12th July 2021
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Apple might leave the UK market if it is forced to pay too much money to a patent troll, after losing a case last month, says the company’s lawyer. The case relates to a claim by Optis Wireless, which initially won a $506M award against Apple in the US, before the judgment was overturned on appeal.
Optis – which bought some standards-essential LTE patents in order to make claims like this – then won a separate case against Apple in the UK, this time claiming billions rather than millions …
A poster child for the potential damage that can be done under the current ‘intellectual property’ government-enforced monopoly
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12th July 2021
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The air-fryer method produces a beautifully cooked potato with crispy skin and a fluffy interior.
We have the technology.
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12th July 2021
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The problem with being rural is that government and a major part of the population aren’t rural and in some cases haven’t got a clue what is going on. To put this in perspective somebody mentioned to me four issues those in authority hold against rural dwellers. They feel that these things are standing in the way of us reaching net zero. We are, ‘car dependent, have low density housing and are hooked on oil burning, and then there is intensive agriculture.’ To be fair it isn’t merely government, the entire political class and a lot of quangos and pressure groups are trapped in the same mindset.
We have the same problem in America. The Crust on the Left Coasts consider Flyover Country (when they think about us at all) as an impediment to whatever Grand Scheme they’ve just come up with rather than a constituency that they’re there to serve.
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11th July 2021
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I reported last week on the shooting of the Dutch investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries, who specialized in investigations of organized crime in the Netherlands.
The dominant criminal mob in the Netherlands is run by Ridouan Taghi, a Moroccan-Dutch criminal who has been in detention in the Netherlands since he was captured in Dubai in 2019. It seemed the “Mocro Mob” was probably behind the hit on Mr. De Vries.
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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“The main rate-limiting factor holding back global demining efforts is not the actual removal of buried landmines,” researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in Microbial Biotechnology last October, “but rather pinpointing their exact locations.”
Current landmine detection methods mostly require people to be put in harm’s way, the authors say, but they have a possible solution: glowing bacteria.
In the presence of a telltale explosive chemical, these genetically modified E. coli become like “a miniature firefly,” Hebrew University microbiologist Shimshon Belkin told the New York Times’ Elizabeth Landau.
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11th July 2021
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At least seven Afghan pilots, including Zamaray, have been assassinated off base in recent months, according to two senior Afghan government officials. This series of targeted killings, which haven’t been previously reported, illustrate what U.S. and Afghan officials believe is a deliberate Taliban effort to destroy one of Afghanistan’s most valuable military assets: its corps of U.S.- and NATO-trained military pilots.
In so doing, the Taliban — who have no air force — are looking to level the playing field as they press major ground offensives. The militants are quickly seizing territory once controlled by the U.S.-backed government of President Ashraf Ghani, raising fears they could eventually try to topple Kabul.
Oh, ya think?
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11th July 2021
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10th July 2021
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10th July 2021
WH Press Secretary Psaki: Hunter Biden’s Art Buyers to Remain Anonymous That way nobody but the Bidens will know who’s paying the bribe.
White House Outlaws Arrest Of Pregnant And Postpartum Illegal Immigrants After all, we can’t interfere with their having anchor babies.
Biden Announces Partnership With Skynet To Create Army Of Door-To-Door Vaccine Enforcement Robots Babylon Bee.
The art of the con
Biden Inc.: Hunter, Joe, & The Mexican Oligarchs
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10th July 2021
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10th July 2021
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10th July 2021
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In a certain view, billionaires are not merely wealthy, they are nearly god-like in their influence. As the New York Times op-ed Abolish Billionaires reads:
Billionaires should not exist — at least not in their present numbers, with their current globe-swallowing power.
One practical upshot of this view is that we ought to increase the marginal tax rate, break up tech monopolies, sharpen the pitchforks and so forth.
Yet an equally valid interpretation is this: if you truly see billionaires as all-powerful oligarchs who exert enormous control over world affairs, you should try very hard to become one of them.
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10th July 2021
Ross Douthat.
But among Catholic writers there has been substantial fracture, experimentation, realignment, and division. The older categories certainly persist. There remain conservative Catholics who believe in the fusionist project of American conservatism, the Catholic reading of the American founding advanced by John Courtney Murray, and the virtues of the pre-Trump Republican party. Meanwhile, the Biden presidency has given a boost to liberal Catholics who believe that the Democratic party is their natural home and meliorist, welfare-state liberalism the obvious way Catholic social teaching cashes out.
But there are also new categories, revived and reinvented movements and tendencies, which matter more to intellectual debate than they did in years past and may eventually matter to Catholic politics as well.
My personal view is that what has happened to the Roman Church since Vatican II is a tragedy – which is why I am no longer Roman Catholic. It could all be summed up in a phrase I heard when I was a student, ‘Catholic is the new Eposcopalian’. But of course both sides of that equation have degenerated since then. The election of Pope Benedict gave me new hope, but his abdication and the election of Francis indicated that things were starting to circle the toilet bowl once more. Sad, but there it is.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst, as we used to say in the Navy.
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10th July 2021
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Three men — who were probably white supremacists, but with darker skin — did some bad things to a woman last Tuesday in the German city of Leipzig. But at least they wore their masks during their actions, thereby doing their part to help stop the spread of Corona and keep their victim safe.
Actually, this report is unusual for Germany in that it mentions the fact that the alleged perpetrators looked like Arabs, rather than the more customary “of Southern appearance.”
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10th July 2021
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Dua Lipa is being sued after allegedly putting a paparazzi photo of herself on Instagram.
According to US court documents, the star was snapped queuing at an airport in February 2019 and later shared the shot with her fans “without permission or authorisation”.
Integral Images says Lipa profited from the photo, as her Instagram feed acts as a marketing tool for her music.
It is seeking $150,000 (£108,000) damages and has asked for a jury trial.
This demonstrates the Kafkaesque quality of current ‘intellectual property’ laws. Somebody takes a picture of YOU in a public place WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION and then sues YOU for using the photo.
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10th July 2021
Victor Davis Hanson.
The grandchildren of the hippies and the children of the Yuppies? They are a different, a hybrid bunch altogether.
They combine all the worst traits of both leftist eras: selfishness, performance art, the I/me/my/mine self-infatuation (“my story,” “my truth,” “my narrative”), crudity, vulgarity and rudeness of the 1960s, along with the fixation on class, snobbery, elitism, money, careerism of the 1980s and beyond. And like both Hippies and Yuppies, their prolonged adolescence and child-like self-centeredness are signature traits.
Yet in this most recent manifestation of Leftist identity-searching, hyper-sensitive, fragile, and whimpering puppydom lacks even the small reservoir of good from both prior cultures: Puppies do not like 1960s unfettered expression, at least if it stands in the way of implementing Maoist-like woke correctness. And they want to scrutinize and audit all Yuppie pleasures, or rather ensure that the grasping middle classes never enjoy these carbon-spewing, planet-heating entitlements.
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10th July 2021
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Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the FDA, published a letter Friday asking the federal government’s top inspector to investigate if FDA staff worked inappropriately with biotech company Biogen to approve the new drug.
“To the extent these concerns could undermine the public’s confidence in FDA’s decision, I believe that it is critical that the events at issue be reviewed by an independent body such as the Office of the Inspector General, in order to determine whether any interactions that occurred between Biogen and FDA review staff were inconsistent with FDA policies and procedures,” she wrote in the open letter.
The drug in question, Aduhelm, was approved by the agency last month and has caused an uproar in the scientific community. Three of the agency’s scientific advisors resigned following the decision.
Deep state, anyone?
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10th July 2021
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Forget this year’s punchy headlines pitching Tim Cook against Mark Zuckerberg—it’s arguably now Google as much as Facebook that’s in Apple’s sights. This has serious implications for 1-billion-plus iPhone users as the fight for your data and your loyalty has suddenly intensified. This is the context behind recent updates from Apple and Google. And this is why it’s time to start deleting apps—including Google Maps.
While Google continues to play privacy catch-up with Apple, as seen in Android 12’s likely enhancements, Android Messages and Workspace client-side encryption, and the PR-friendly “privacy sandbox,” the reality is that Google is the world’s largest data-driven advertising company. Apple is not. Ultimately, who do you trust?
Location data has been central to the privacy debate for years now. First iOS and then Android have given us options to deny, restrict and approximate such data from the dozens of apps that would guzzle our data should we let them. Why exactly do all those trivial games and apps require my precise location, and all that.
But even as we have clicked to deny all these apps access under “Location Services” in our iPhone’s settings, we clearly cannot do the same with mapping apps. But while many iPhone users are tied to Google Maps, the alarming privacy label comparison between it and Apple’s alternative should give serious reason for concern.
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10th July 2021
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10th July 2021
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Superior Court Judge Kenneth Medel said Wednesday that victims and families in the Poway, California, synagogue shooting have adequately alleged that Smith & Wesson, the nation’s largest gunmaker, knew its AR-15-style rifle could be easily modified into a machine-gun-like or an assault weapon in violation of state law.
A 2005 federal law shields gunmakers from damages in most cases for crimes committed with their weapons. But it allows lawsuits if the manufacturer was negligent or knowingly violated a state or federal law, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.
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10th July 2021
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Before chemicals replaced them, workers pulled weeds from the farm. Greenfield Robotics puts the “workers” back in the field with a new kind of worker — a mechanized one.
“We want to control weeds with labor and make it robot labor,” Brauer said. “Robotics is our way of putting (mechanized) labor back into the farm.”
No migrant farm workers need apply.
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10th July 2021
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Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of Augusta, in Sicily, after Rome-based maritime authorities agreed to give their ship a port.
The Ocean Viking vessel, operated by SOS Mediterranee, carried 572 people, including around 180 minors, after picking them up in six separate operations in Maltese and Libyan search and rescue areas, the European NGO said.
The way this ‘rescue’ scam works is as follows: Migrants set out from North Africa in some wretched excuse for a boat (often having notified one of these ‘charity’ NGOs beforehnd). As soon as they are outside of the original country’s territorial waters, an NGO ‘charity boat’ swoop in and ‘rescues’ them, then takes them the rest of the way to whichever EU country is the easiest target that day. Once they land as ‘refugees’, they get all sorts of assistance and benefits, eventually disappearing into mainland Europe where they can huddle together in ethnic ghettos and cause problems for local police and citizenry.
Many Mediterranean coastal municipalities are getting wise to this racket and refusing to let them land, triggering massive hand-wringing on the part of the Usual Suspects.
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10th July 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has developed a micro-fiber based metafabric that provides wearers with daytime radiative cooling. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes making their fabric and their test results.
Arabs and Texans will be glad.
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10th July 2021
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University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to simplify the removal of toxic metals. like mercury and boron. during desalination to produce clean water, while at the same time potentially capturing valuable metals, such as gold.
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10th July 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees.
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10th July 2021
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It will not do to conceal the identity of police officers who kill people. Nor, as far as I know, has the identity of such officers been withheld for long in cases involving police shootings of Blacks. In fact, most police departments are required to release an officer’s name within days of a fatal shooting regardless of the race of those involved.
Furthermore, it will not do to withhold from the public the stated reasons for police killings or the circumstances that caused the officers in question to resort to lethal violence. Again, this information was not withheld in any case I followed where an officer killed an African-American.
Yet, it’s been half a year since a member of the Capitol Police Force shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6. And still, the name of the officer who shot her has not been disclosed.
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9th July 2021
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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
I figure that’s how we got Evan Wolfson.
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9th July 2021
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I still say he looks like Biff Tannen from Back to the Future.
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9th July 2021
Gush Overload! Maddow Delights Over ‘Perfect,’ ‘Talented’ Dem: So ‘Much Promise’
Baltimore City Police Bust “Ghost Gun” Manufacturing Operation
Naming The Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt
Thousands Of Convicts Freed During Pandemic Will Soon Be Sent Back To Prison
Convicted Murderer Wins Election To Office In DC From Behind Bars
Xuberance
Naomi Osaka: Kneeling to protest racism, wearing mask in pandemic ‘so obvious’
Massachusetts school district pushes grade schoolers to read books about ‘White privilege,’ ‘Whiteness’
Private Manhattan school teaches children from book that features ‘whiteness’ contract with devil
CNN’s ‘Hero’ Voter Is a Felon
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9th July 2021
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9th July 2021
Fauci Defends Vaccines As Research Shows Antibodies Don’t Protect Against Delta
Large UK Study: Very Few Kids Need to Shield From COVID
COVID-19 Death Toll In California County Drops 22% After Revision COVID deaths have repeatedly been over-reported by those attempting to keep the Pandemic Panic perking along.
Ending Lockdown
100 More Cops Dispatched To Sydney To Help Enforce Lockdown As Cases Climb Not a good time to be in Australia.
FDA, CDC Condradict Pfizer, Claim There’s No Need For “Booster” Vaccines… Yet Pfizer’s check to the DNC must have bounced.
Vaccinated Teachers and Students Can Ditch Masks: CDC How generous!
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9th July 2021
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9th July 2021
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Palestinian terror groups recruit and train children to serve as soldiers through summer camps established in the Gaza Strip, prompting outrage from an international legal group that has documented the camps and accuses the militant groups of war crimes.
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9th July 2021
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We have the technology.
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9th July 2021
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Former news anchor Kari Lake announced her candidacy in June, positioning herself as the “only conservative, America First Trump Republican in the race.” But instead of spending the opening weeks of the campaign touting her conservative bona fides, Lake has sparred with local media over her donations to liberal politicians.
Gee, I guess she lied. How unexpected….
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