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Video footage showed that at least nine vandals smashed display cases, took handbags and left the building before police arrived. They were seen entering a possible getaway car with their hands full of looted merchandise.

The San Francisco Police Department has not arrested anyone yet; however, according to the Washington Examiner, law enforcement is ”analyzing videos and speaking with witnesses” to identify the culprits.

Time to leave.

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Ridouan Taghi is a Moroccan-Dutch mobster who has been in detention in the Netherlands since he was captured in Dubai in 2019. He is considered the most powerful and dangerous figure in Dutch organized crime (see previous posts on Mr. Taghi).

Peter R. de Vries is a Dutch investigative journalist who specializes in organized crime. In the Netherlands, as in most of the rest of Western Europe, organized crime is dominated by culture-enrichers. In the Dutch case, they’re mostly Moroccans, known colloquially as the Mocro Mob, with Ridouan Taghi as their leader. Mr. De Vries’ investigations had reportedly earned him a place on the hit list of the Mocro Mob, and now it appears that the hit against him has been carried out.

NY Times Page One: How Could Anyone Still Vote GOP After Biden’s Amazing Successes?

‘Orwellian’: Facebook faces backlash for ‘harmful extremist content’ alerts

San Francisco DA official says crime surge fears linked to racism

Former Murdoch Exec Apes Stelter: ‘Fox News Is Poison for America’

CNN Says “Tucker Carlson Is The New Alex Jones”

“Extremist” is Not an Insult

1619 Project Creator Rejects Tenure Offer and Calls UNC Racist

CNN’s Stelter Promotes Annual Fossil-Fuel ‘Holocaust’ in Climate Panic Segment

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) (The Guardian)

As climate warms, a rearrangement of world’s plant life looms

The Fever Dreams of the Climatistas

How Civil Rights Made America a Critical Race Theocracy

National Geographic tweet suggests July 4 fireworks are racist

School Board Recall Efforts to Combat Critical Race Theory Teachings Surge: Report

Apple suppliers in Vietnam requiring ‘factory sleepovers’ to prevent COVID-19 cases

CBS Hides Corruption of 1619 Project, Asks ‘Impeccable’ Creator to ‘Clarify’

ABC’s Martha Raddatz and Her Panelists Thump the DNC Tub on ‘Voting Rights’

US Women Soccer Players Protest 98-Year-Old WWII Vet’s Harmonica Anthem

How Corey Johnson and Bill de Blasio spent your money like drunken sailors on their way out

San Francisco Neiman Marcus hit by shoplifters who fled with merchandise

Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend

Twitter Restricts Tweets of Academic Who Mocked China Leader

Love Thy Neighbor… Or Go Burn Down a Retail Store. Your choice.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundations Pledge $100M to Spread Radical Feminist Ideas

Watch: Looters Ransack San Francisco Neiman Marcus In Broad Daylight

Happy July 4th! New Captain America Comic Says American Dream ‘Never Really Existed’

Antifa Attacked Protesters Outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles

More Evidence That Joe Biden Is Corrupt

Hunter Biden Consulted for Oil Man Connected to Notorious Congolese Warlord, Emails Show

To Improve Public Perception, Kamala Harris Taking Likability Lessons From Hillary Clinton  Babylon Bee.

Poll: Majority of Likely Midterm Voters Say Biden Not in Charge of Agenda  Nor ever was.

India Busts Scam Injecting Thousands With Fake Vaccine

The Great Big ‘Delta’ Scariant

Lambda Strain more transmissible than Delta hits Australia

The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?

Covid Protections Kept Other Viruses at Bay. Now They’re Back

Use Fractional Dosing to Speed Vaccination and Save Lives

Immigrant Detention Centers Seeing Major COVID-19 Infection Surges

Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioNTech for delta variant

Military Members Say They’ll “Quit” If Army Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine: Congressman

Biden: With Rise of Variant, Reconsider Vaccine

Covid and Climate: A Tale of Two Hysterias Part 2

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Max Lewis, 20, was commuting home from his summer internship Thursday when a bullet passed into his train and struck his neck. First responders transported Lewis, who was in critical condition, to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he passed away Sunday. Police say the student was not the shooter’s intended target, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Authorities have not provided a description of the suspect.

Thursday’s shooting follows the killing of 31-year-old Anat Kimchi, a Jewish University of Maryland doctoral student who was stabbed by a homeless person while visiting the city in June. Kimchi’s assailant, who has been charged with first-degree murder, allegedly attacked two other women over a nine-day span last month.

Both killings come amid a surge in violent crime in Chicago.

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Everyone knows that Gaza remains under the thumb of the genocidal thugs of Hamas. What about the area under the governance of Mahmaoud Abbas on the West Bank?

I met Khaled Abu Toameh in Jerusalem in 2007, when he worked as a reporter for the Jerusalem Post. He must be the bravest journalist I have ever met. For as long as I can remember he has told the truth about the Fatah regime to anyone who would listen, yet for some reason its multifarious supporters in the West don’t give a rip.

Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion with which no co-existence is possible

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Alex Safian is research director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA). BESA Center has published his study of Gaza Palestinians killed by errant Hamas rockets fired in the recent hostilities.

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Cue Eco-Nazi demonstrations.

ZMan turns drama critic.

Politics in a liberal democracy is a drama run by the ruling class. Think of it as a big stage on which politics is acted out for the masses. In America, this means the Left opens the show by demanding action against some threat to “our democracy” or demanding action to defend a victim group. Their fluffers go into the crowd to get the audience excited for the next drama. The actors perform the familiar story, sometimes combining the two into a single story.

At this point, the so-called conservatives waddle onto the stage in their comfort-fit chinos and golf shirts. They dismiss the claims of the Left, either claiming they are exaggerating or that the issue is just not important. The crowd is encouraged to boo and hiss at them, which causes their knees to shake. Before long, some of them break ranks and join the Left in jeering at their old colleagues. The crowd keeps booing and the conservative are eventually run off the stage.

Every once in a while, for reasons science has yet to explain, the conservatives do not start to shiver and quake. They hold their ground. This is when the the spotlight illuminates the right side of the stage and we see the Hitler outfit. Over the sound system comes, “Who in the crowd will perform this vital role?” Sure enough, some idiot from a group fond of weird flags runs up on stage, dons the costume and begins to strut around on stage as the crowd throws rotten vegetables.

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“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” Vance said. “And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open about the fact that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.

“And as you probably appreciate I’ve taken a lot of flak myself over the last few years for standing up for the president’s voters, but for all standing up for the agenda.

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Incorporating nanomaterials into traditional cement improves water and fracture resistance.

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Scientists have invented a product that can encourage tooth enamel to grow back, which means we could finally have a game-changing way to treat dental cavities.

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Site Selection magazine says Texas topped the list of states with the most new projects for 2020, buoyed by business-friendly climate and an accessible talent pool.

Largest teachers union says critical race theory is ‘reasonable and appropriate’ for kids

America’s largest teachers’ union says it supports teaching children critical race theory in schools

Ex—MSNBC Host Slams July 4th: ‘It Wasn’t Independence Day For Black People’ (Newsweek)

How are we supposed to celebrate July 4 after Juneteenth? (Salon)

Fierce Backlash After Rep. Bush Claims Black People ‘Still Aren’t Free’ In US  She’s so oppressed.

72 Shot in Chicago This Weekend

Science in the Passive Voice: “Communities of Color Are Disproportionately Exposed to Air Pollution from Firework Celebrations”  But not, apparently, from gunshots.

NASA Satellites Find Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate Change

Sixty years of climate change warnings

White Supremacists March Unhindered in Front of Philadelphia City Hall (Daily Beast) Unhindered!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Reports Sightings of Jewish Space Lasers Across U.S. (The New Yorker) Uh, no she didn’t.

Why Republicans Condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene, But Not Paul Gosar (New York Magazine)

Trump boat parades slammed for chaos and destruction: “They don’t know what they’re doing” (Salon)(

NY Times Files Snotty 5000-Word Takedown of Joe Rogan: ‘For Better or Worse,’ People Listen

NY Times Claims First US Flag Divides People  The ‘first flag’ was modeled after the flag of the Honorable East India Company, thus establishing the American connection to free trade.

Target To Close Stores Early In San Francisco Due To Chronic Shoplifting

The “Deprogramming” Begins: Public Defender Representing January 6th Defendants “Re-Educates” Them

Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer Trails In New Poll  Gee, I wonder why.

Target, Walgreens make drastic changes due to increase in San Francisco thefts

Apple defeats attempt by TikTok and others to bypass App Tracking Transparency in China

Corporate Climate Claims in Australia Now Subject to Hard Regulatory Review

Leftists Blame Capitalism, Global Warming For Mexican State-Owned Oil Company’s Gulf Fire  State-owned oil production in Mexico has exactly zero to do with ‘capitalism’.

At Least 118 Shot in Chicago, NY Over July 4 Weekend

Calls to Defund NPR Over Its Talk of ‘Flawed’ Declaration of Independence

China State Media on July 4: America ‘Selfish,’ ‘Racist’  Although not as selfish and racist as the Chinese. You can look it up.

Potential Path Discovered to a Broadly Protective COVID-19 Vaccine Using T Cells

Michigan boy dies 3 days after getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, CDC is investigating

Long Covid: How It Keeps Us Sick  And that’s not counting government fear-mongering.

Fauci-Funded EcoHealth Refuses To Give Wuhan Documents To Congress

Dr. Fauci: Unvaccinated Account for 99.2 Percent of June COVID Deaths  What happened with the other .8%? I thought these vaccines were supposed to be effective.

Biden’s illegal immigration mess

Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party

Biden Tells Americans Getting Vaccinated Is “The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do”  Democrats have very limited imaginations.

Treasury Announces Minting Of New Biden Coin Worth Sixteen Cents  Babylon Bee.
Ya save sixteen cents, whaddaya get?
A lot more government, and deeper in debt….

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It won’t do anything about Biden, because he’s a pain in the ass, not the back.

Pity.

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Liberals get very testy when you suggest they lack patriotism, or worse, that they are ashamed of or actually hate the country deep down inside. But even the New York Times can’t conceal this any longer.

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CNN’s New Day team was thrilled Monday morning by a new law proposed by a Democrat mayor that would make gun owners in one California city literally pay for the actions of criminals.

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Pope Francis plans to restrict priests from celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass, according to the Italian website MessainLatino.

In a story about French priests facing expulsion from an archdiocese due to their refusal to concelebrate Mass, National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin reported Pope Francis aimed to limit the celebration of Mass in the Extraordinary Form, aka the Traditional Latin Mass.

The problem with having one guy at the top making all the decisions is that when he stumbles, everybody falls.

The Vatican ought to read a little history, such as that of the Old Believers in Russia.

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It would be an understatement to say that the pendulum of public discussion has swung in favour of the so-called lab leak hypothesis of the origin of Covid-19. In the latest poll, a majority of the United States public said they believed SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory. Alongside this, ‘fact-checks’ that claimed the virus couldn’t have originated from a lab were quickly archived, retracted, or substantially reframed, while several press articles were edited months after publication without warning.

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At a Los Angeles spa, a “trans woman” used the women’s locker room and waved his unit around in front of a group that included small girls. The women were understandably unhappy.

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The Times of Israel draws on an AP report to home in on the attack on Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, stabbed 8 times outside a Jewish day school in Boston by one Khaled Awad. Of course, “Police said the motive for the stabbing was unclear as the investigation is underway.”

We wish the Boston police working the case Godspeed. Until they unravel the mystery, readers may draw their inferences from the facts of the story.

Constant dire predictions have been an attempt to counter effective criticism of polar bears as AGW icon, says outgoing PBSG chair

Global Warming Stalls Again – Back To Levels Seen 20 Years Ago! And: No Warming In Tokyo This Century

AOC says Olympic ban on marijuana is ‘instrument’ of racism following Black track star’s suspension

The panic over critical race theory is an attempt to whitewash U.S. history (Washington Post)

Examining A Racist Passage In The Declaration Of Independence (NPR)

Former Cowboy Russell Maryland is tackling racism in his children’s Texas school district (USA Today)

Equity Requires Equity, Your Home Equity

“Activist Athlete” Gwen Berry Made Rape Jokes And Mocked White People, Mexicans And Asians In Old Tweets

Spread of the Delta variant may make it even harder to reach herd immunity, expert says (CNN)

French Government Considers Making COVID Vaccine Mandatory For Everyone Aged 24-59

70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll  That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Former Police Officer Recounts Witnessing “Industrialized” Organ Harvesting In China

Bezos, Gates back fake meat and dairy made from fungus as next big alt-protein (CNBC) I doubt seriously that either of them eat any of that crap.

Squatters terrorizing NYC neighborhood flee after being outed by The Post

The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’ (The Guardian)

Spain’s Proposed ‘National Security Law’ Would Allow Seizure Of Citizens’ Property During Health “Crisis”

NY Times Mocks Claims of ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Jan. 6, But Floyd Protests ‘Overwhelmingly Peaceful’

Facebook Censors #Revolution Hashtag

‘Harmful Extremist Content’? Why Does Facebook Want You to Be ‘Concerned’?

LA Violence Erupts Between SoCal Antifa, Protesters of Trans-Friendly Spa

Joe Biden, Jill Biden speak to mostly empty hall at teachers’ union convention

Watters: Kamala’s laugh a ‘defense mechanism’ that often works; ‘failed miserably’ with Lester Holt  Hillary employs the same cackle.

As Housing, Gas, & Healthcare Costs Soar; Biden Admin Distracts With Ridiculous Brag About 16c Savings On July 4th BBQ Costs

US Rolls Back More Sanctions On Iranians With Vienna Talks Still Stalled

Chicago Mayor Blames Trump for Crime ‘Surge’; Calls Newsmax ‘Incendiary’  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Plea Deals Are Tearing the Oath Keepers Apart (Daily Beast)

Trump Visits Florida to Whine About Arrests of Jan. 6 Rioters Amid Surfside Recovery Efforts (Daily Beast)

Trump-Hating New Yorker Columnist Admits ‘Weak’ Charges Against Trump Organization

WashPost Art Critic SLAMS Statue of Liberty: ‘Shrinking Appeal,’ A Symbol of Hypocrisy

The Culture War Has A New Target: Independence Day

Ashamed of the USA?! Media’s 20 Worst Anti-American Outbursts

On the Dangers of Big COVID  “Given this increasing build-up of institutional momentum, shifting of goalposts, and the possibility of further mission-creep, we should pause for a moment to ask ourselves, where is this all ultimately heading?”

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It’s been a rough few months for Sci-Hub, the beloved outlaw repository of scientific papers. In January its Twitter account, which had more than 180,000 followers, was permanently suspended. In response to a lawsuit brought by publishers, new papers aren’t being added to its library. The website is blocked in a dozen countries, including Austria, Britain, and France. There are rumors of an FBI investigation.

And yet Alexandra Elbakyan, the 32-year-old graduate student who founded the site in 2011, seems more or less unfazed. I spoke with her recently via Zoom with the assistance of a Russian translator. Elbakyan, who is originally from Kazakhstan, has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and coded Sci-Hub herself. She lives in Moscow now and is studying philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Back when she started the site, which offers access to north of 85 million papers, she didn’t expect to be fending off lawsuits and dodging investigations a decade on.

There is no such thing as ‘intellectual property’. The definition of ‘property’, both in law and in fact, is something that when one entity is using it other entities are necessarily excluded from using it, within which definition neither ideas nor information will fit. ‘Intellectual property’ is an artificial construct created an enforced by government, originally with the best of intentions, but which has been leveraged by rent-seekers (e.g. ‘patent trolls’, Disney Corp.) to squeeze money out of people without needing to work for it. (This is what enables corporations to buy up the rights to ideas that would hurt their profits and bury them — not my definition of progress, although it certainly fits that of the bureaucracy.)

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The banjo player is, of course, Winston Marshall, recently of the hit band Mumford & Sons. The mob is the usual band of angry twits, the censorious harpies of Twitter and Antifa who can’t stand the thought that someone, somewhere, isn’t prostrating himself before the pile of dung that is their hateful and dishonest political ideology.

Cities ranked by surveillance cameras per kilometer:

1. Seoul

2. Paris

3. Boston (Democrat-run)

4. NYC (Democrat-run)

5. Baltimore (Democrat-run)

6. San Francisco (Democrat-run)

7. Tokyo

8. London

9. Chicago (Democrat-run)

10. Philadelphia (Democrat-run)

11. Bangkok

12. Washington, D.C. (Democrat-run)

13. Milwaukee (Democrat-run)

14. Singapore

15. Seattle (Democrat-run)

16. Los Angeles (Democrat-run)

See whether you can spot the trend.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Armed insurrection—a motley mob riot with no leaders, no firearms, no plans, and resulting in five fatalities, four from natural causes and one shot while unarmed by an unnamed police officer.

Assault—anything but 120 days of rioting, looting and arson, $2 billion in damage, 25 killed, and 14,000 arrested.

Bipartisan—you are if you hate Trump.

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West Virginian lawmakers have eliminated the sales tax on all small firearms and ammunition and are also offering weapon manufacturers tax credits in hopes of sparking an economic boom, according to local news WOWK.

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Already, one bullet manufacturer, Ranger Scientific, recently announced it would be building an ammo plant in the state because of the new law. The new plant will provide 400 jobs to residents in Montgomery.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that cow stomachs can break down plastic.

Nor will you ever hear this news from the Narrative Media.

Reality Check: Professor Pens Letter Explaining Natural Resource Drain Crated By “Net Zero Emission” Targets

Earth’s Cryosphere Shrinking by 87,000 Square Kilometers per Year – “A Major Global Change”

Mouse Lungs After Long-Term Exposure to Atmosphere Predicted by Climate Change  Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees.

Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet  (The Guardian)

The melting of large icebergs is a key stage in the evolution of ice ages

Critical race theory opponents to be targeted, ‘researched’ by NEA teachers’ union

Maryland sheriff outraged after Dem councilman interferes with traffic stop of Black driver

Soul Cap: Afro swim cap Olympic rejection ‘heartbreaking’ for black swimmers (BBC) They’re so oppressed.

Olympic-Level Racism Is Trying to Keep Black Women Out of the Games (Daily Beast)

Andrea Jenkins, Minneapolis official, says she was ‘held hostage’ by BLM protesters

Olympics: AOC Condemns Ban of Sha’Carri Richardson over Cannabis  Question: If Richardson were white, would AOC get involved? I think not.

Of California’s 513 Incremental Murder Victims in 2020, 485 Were Nonwhite

New Emails Raise Fresh Allegations Of Influence Peddling By Hunter Biden, Contradict President Biden

Federal judge rules Biden’s move to limit states’ tax cuts is unconstitutional

“I Want to Talk About Happy Things, Man”: Biden Bristles At Simple Afghan Pullout Questions

Attorney General Garland Replaces Federal Executions With Bus Tickets To Chicago  Babylon Bee.

Biden’s Bloated White House Payroll Is Most Expensive In American History  What does he care? It’s not his money.

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The therapy appears to be astonishingly effective, editing nearly every cell in the liver to stop a disease-causing mutation.

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Amongst the changes that “lockdowns” and “new normality” have brought, there is a revalorization of digital interactions as valuable and meaningful. Ironically, what was once regarded as isolationist or a poor substitute for “real life” (an expression used as an interchangeable semantic proxy for “in-person”) experiences, has become the glue that holds the social fabric together.

Connecting in and through digital spaces has been a staple of 2020: from work or formal education moving to online alternatives, to recreational uses of video platforms. In these virtual spaces, human ingenuity has found new testing grounds to deal with the challenges presented by the pandemic. It can be a thoughtful provocation to say that since lockdowns started, we might have been living in a proto-version of the Metaverse.