Landlords Try to Stop Rent Control Initiative in Florida  Proglodytes love rent control, which distorts the real-estate market in favor of the politically connected while buying votes among the underclass.

Fargo School Board Reinstates Pledge Of Allegiance After National Public Outcry

Dan Cox says he will oppose step to count mail-in ballots earlier (Baltimore Sun) The sooner you count the ballots, the sooner you know how many you need to ‘find’.

World Economic Forum Pushing For Digital ID Systems Around The World

Time Magazine Compares Liz Cheney Defeat to Stalinist ‘Disappearing’

Texas migrant buses overwhelm New York, Washington D.C. (Axios) Welcome to our world.

The crisis of crime in Minneapolis and beyond

Move over Abe! ABC’s Karl Compares Liz Cheney to Teddy Roosevelt  A progressive in the guise of a Republican? I believe it.

“If You Gonna Be A Ho, Be A Real Ho”: CPS Worker Fired After Telling 14-Year-Old To Become Prostitute

Bronx sucker punch suspect back in jail on parole violation

Court Rules Man Who Identifies as Woman Must Be Allowed in Women’s Jail

Professors of Politics

Non-Approved Websites Profiting From Online Abortion Pills Surge

San Francisco Cops Catch Catalytic Converter Thief Red Handed – Then Let Him Go

Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Destroying Evidence

Biden Misled Public On Afghanistan; New GOP Report Finds

As the FBI comes under threat, its leader tries to stay out of fray (Washington Post)

Report: Nearly 5M Migrants Have Crossed Southern Border During Biden Tenure  And New York and Chicago are losing their shit because Texas shipped them 8,000.

Dan Crenshaw: ‘I Support’ Abbott’s Busing of Migrants to NYC

Sen. Blackburn: FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid Has Americans Worrying ‘They Can Do it to Me’ Yup, they sure can.

The Return Of Peter Strzok: How A Fired FBI Official Is Making The Case Against Himself

Biden Inflation Act Provides the EPA New Weapons to Pursue their Climate Change Jihad

Climate Change Weekly #444: China Scraps (Already Scant) Climate Cooperation Over Pelosi Taiwan Visit

Aussie Triumph? Solar Briefly Overtook Coal, then Failed at Sunset

The New World Energy Order: A Battle Of Attrition

Democrats’ $369 Billion Green New Virtue Signal Barely Scratches Global Warming

Daughter Of Putin Ally Killed In Car Bombing Outside Moscow

Chang: China Is Preparing To Go To War

Post-Covid excess deaths in Britain

German Electricity Prices Spiraling Out Of Control…Tripling Since 2000… Blackouts, Unrest Loom

Russia’s War at 6 Months: A Global Economy in Growing Danger

As Attacks Mount in Crimea, Kremlin Faces Rising Domestic Pressures (N.Y. Times)

Europe’s Latest Natural Gas Pipeline Plan Won’t Solve Its Current Crisis

China’s drills to change US military assumptions (Asia Times)

Trump in ‘Really Dangerous Territory,’ Maybe Committed ‘Treason’: Kirschner (Newsweek) Walls are closing in etc. etc…..

Trump’s throw-everything-against-the-wall response to the Mar-a-Lago search (Politico) Not to be confused with the Narrative Media’s throw-everything-against-the-wall response to Trump.

Trump pushes for un-redacted affidavit’s release, despite the risks (The Hill) What risks? Trump obviously has nothing to hide–what does the DOJ (and it’s propaganda arm, the Narrative Media) have to hide?

HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes

There Is No Happy Ending to America’s Trump Problem (N.Y. Times) Except maybe a witch-hunt!

UC Berkeley Student Housing Co-Op Bans White People From Common Areas  Orval Faubus is giggling uncontrollably in his grave.

Why It’s Time to Repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act After the Brunswick Three Atrocity

Baltimore On Pace For Possible Record Murders As Local NAACP Asks Governor To Deploy National Guard

Killadelphia Update: Nearly 100 Shots Fired in Rec Center Drive-By Shooting

Is Your Government Ready For Another Pandemic?

Self Care for Psychopaths: The Anthony Fauci Children’s Book

Post-Covid excess deaths in Britain

Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg

The World’s Second Largest Cinema Chain Is Preparing For Bankruptcy

Polio in US, UK and Israel Reveals Rare Risk of Oral Vaccine

Chinese City Testing Fish For COVID

The Real Wuhan Virus Vaccine

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We’ve become obsessed over the past few years with the problem of misinformation. And for good reason. “Flood the zone with shit” is now standard operating procedure for a variety of interests and factions. Groups who pretend to be above that kind of thing let confirmation bias do the same work, elevating conjectures they find convenient to believe far beyond the evidentiary basis for believing them, and transmuting concurrence among prestigious groups whose biases are aligned into “authority” to which they demand deferrence. Casual information consumers become divided into two camps, the “do you own research” types who imagine, mistakenly, that they are capable of seeing through all this (and so succumb to their own confirmation bias), and those who more accurately understand that they cannot reliably distinguish truth from bullshit (and so opt out of democratic deliberation with a shrug, other than perhaps to vote for the candidates whose political party they distrust less).

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Last week, a man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and stabbed British author Salman Rushdie in the neck as he was being introduced. The topic under discussion was “the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.” Chances are exceptionally high that this was the work of a jihadi.

The story attracted shamefully fleeting attention. For those too young to remember, “The Satanic Verses” was published back in September 1988. And because of the book’s purportedly impertinent treatment of the prophet Muhammad, it was banned in Rushdie’s native India and dozens of other nations—including virtually every Muslim-majority country in the world. Though Rushdie would later become a powerful advocate of free expression, he initially turned on his own book, apologizing numerous times for its contents. “I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam,” he said in one statement, asking his publisher to hold back release of the paperback edition of the book. As a matter of self-preservation, his position was understandable.

And, still, it was all to no avail. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie, contending that even if the author “became the most pious man of all time” it was the duty of every Muslim to “employ everything he has got” to murder the writer.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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A bizarre string of events is unfolding at the American Historical Association (AHA). Last week, AHA president James H. Sweet published a column in the organization’s magazine on the problem of “presentism” in academic historical writing. According to Sweet, an unsettling number of academic historians have allowed their political views in the present to shape and distort their interpretations of the past.

Sweet offered a gentle criticism of the New York Times’s 1619 Project as evidence of this pattern. Many historians embraced the 1619 Project for its political messages despite substantive flaws of fact and interpretation in its content. Sweet thus asked: “As journalism, the project is powerful and effective, but is it history?”

Within moments of his column appearing online, all hell broke loose on Twitter.

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The recent indictment of a member of the IRGC regime terror network for soliciting the assassination of former National Security Advisor John Bolton provided a window into how Iran has targeted former Trump administration members.

The IRGC operative struck up a relationship with an Iranian-American on social media by initially offering $10,000 for photos of Bolton. This is a familiar form of espionage tradecraft in which a foreign spy solicits an American to perform a seemingly harmless and legal act, often involving photography, such as taking photos of individuals or cars, that is then revealed to be espionage committed at the behest of a foreign power. The patsy is then told that he has a choice between committing more serious crimes or being turned in to the FBI as a spy.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In recent years, many liberals have become openly hostile to the Constitution. The present moment in history, with the Democrats controlling the House by the barest of majorities, a 50/50 Senate with a Democratic vice president, and a Democratic president, has heightened liberal frustration with the Constitution. With their hands, for a brief moment at least, on all of the levers of power, why can’t the Democratic Party effect a total transformation of American society?

To a normal person, that question perhaps answers itself. But check out this op-ed in the New York Times, which is literally one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Its authors are Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, professors at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School respectively. The op-ed advocates doing away entirely with the Constitution. Why? The authors don’t quite put it this way, but the reason is that the Constitution fails to establish a pure democracy by plebiscite, and makes it difficult to use a transient majority to effect radical change. Those who had a high school civics class understand that this is more or less the point.

CLIMATE PROPAGANDA: Telemundo Forces Green Agenda On To Viewers

Global Warming Spawned the Age of Reptiles

Green Energy Nightmare: German Politician Labels Poor People “Enemies of the State”

Emails, Wayback Machine Gem Confirms: DiCaprio, Other Private Funders of Governmental Climate Litigation Paid Millions to “Climate” Lawyers Via Pass-through Charity

Failed Climate Predictions – Willie Soon, PhD

Study Finds 0% Of Leftists Who Are Warning About Overpopulation Have Volunteered To Die First (Babylon Bee) Selfish swine.

DEBUNKED: Europe’s claimed ‘worst drought in 500 years’ – Peer-reviewed studies, data & IPCC reveal ‘drought has not increased’ & ‘cannot be attributed to human-caused climate change’

Watch: Border Patrol Unlocking Gates For Illegals; Rand Paul Says Time For “Zero Tolerance Policy”

CNN Spins Decline in Sky High Gas Prices as “$100-a-Month Raise” for Americans

And let’s not forget the Iran deal

NeverTrump Helping Democrats in Missouri Senate Race

Republicans Appear to be Realizing All Their Candidates Are Dangerous Weirdos (Vanity Fair) In contrast to Democrats, all of whose candidates are corrupt sociopaths.

MSNBC Accuses GOP Of Pushing ‘Christian Nationalism’ In Schools  I have no problem with that.

Kari Lake endorsed an antisemitic Oklahoma Republican who says ‘the Jews’ are evil  (AZMirror)

“Debunked” this and “false” that – and “deniers”

The drumming-up of hatred against Republicans is escalating

DOJ must make public memo analyzing whether to charge Trump in Russia investigation, federal appeals court rules (CNN)

Tribe: The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Another “Slam Dunk”

Canadian MTO grounds trucking businesses involved in ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

CNN’s John Avlon Decries Flood of GOP ‘Hyperpartisan Cowards and Cranks’

Mayor Adams Mandates Bike Helmets To Protect New Yorkers From Getting Sucker-Punched  (Babylon Bee)

Oversight Democrats Demand Federal Intervention Against ‘Election Misinformation’

For many neurodiverse people, ‘The Sims’ has been a lifelong comfort  Proglodytes love having a world in which their dreams of total control will actually come true.

Texas School District Pushes Teachers To Take ‘LGBTQIA+’ Training on Taxpayers’ Dime

Illinois Dem Touts ‘Historic’ Green Energy Spending That Will Likely Pad His Pocket  Doing well by doing good.

A Constellation of Anti-Voting Groups Threaten Democracy (Democracy Docket)

NY Times Mocks ‘Right-Wing Fury at I.R.S. Overhaul,’ ‘Unfounded Conspiracy Theories’

MSNBC Calls GOP Fascist Six Times In 15 Minutes, Alleges Roe’s Demise Proves It

Sources: Andrew Cuomo ‘Plotting’ His Political Return  What else has he got?

Julie Jaman, Mayor David Faber and the Transgender War Against Women

Restaurants In Lockdown-Loving, High-Crime Cities Still Reeling While Others Thrive

Greg Strange: The Transgender Transmogrification of Everything, Including the Past

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Cries ‘Civil War’ After Mar-a-Lago Raid Outrage on the Right

ABC Touts Racist Minneapolis Policy to Lay Off White Teachers; Union Attacks ‘MAGA Media’

Race is a delusion  David Mamet.

President of American Historical Association Dares Doubt the 1619 Project, Quickly Apologizes

New Yorker: “Glaring Whiteness”

Berkeley Back to Segregation, Bans Whites in Person of Color House  Orval Faubus is giggling uncontrollably in his grave.

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A couple of years ago on the Arizona Ballot, there was a voter initiative dealing with some school choice matter. As I looked through it, trying to evaluate the pro and con arguments, I noticed something interesting. The con arguments, which were full of dire warnings about the fate of the public education system if this initiative passed, were chiefly authored by a teacher’s union here, a school board there, the employees of a school district somewhere else. In Arizona, tax money for the schools is doled out mostly on the basis of enrollment; so much per student. Ohoh, I thought, if students leave the public schools for some kind of private education, it’s a direct hit to their income. So, without peering into my crystal ball to predict the future, I could at least predict who would oppose the measure and who would support it.

Higher Education? Likewise. Professors and researchers must not only publish or perish, but they must bring in grant money or other funding to the department to finance their research. Although the ideal of dispassionate, disinterested searchers for knowledge who freely exchange views is a wonderful myth, it is often exactly a myth. More often, it’s “he who pays the piper calls the tune” when tenure and reputation are on the line. In scientific disputes, if you can’t follow the science, follow the money. And no, it isn’t the oil companies that generate most of it.

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Los Angeles police are looking for participants in the flash mob that flooded the intersection of Figueroa and El Segundo just past midnight on August 15. First they took over the street to make way for the “donut” action with which we have become familiar in Minneapolis. Then they proceeded to ransack the 7-Eleven at the northwest corner of the intersection (video below).

What is to be said? A good time was had by all except the 7-Eleven employee on duty. It is a national embarrassment.

Time to leave.

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The study of animals in the wild has been a lifelong pursuit. I grew up with tribal people and in 1953-4 commanded a platoon of African soldiers from nine tribes, who taught me to sleep on my side without a pillow so that I could listen out for danger with both ears. I have organised over 14 expeditions all over the world to meet native peoples and study their sleeping and resting postures. They all adopted similar postures and exhibited few musculoskeletal problems. I must emphasise that this is not a comparison of genes or races but of lifestyles. I tried to carry out surveys to collect evidence but they were meaningless, as tribespeople give you the answer they think you want. They often object to having their photographs taken, so I have demonstrated the postures.

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We have the technology.

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“McConnell would rather lose the Senate than win with primary candidates he tried to knife. That’s why he’s having a temper tantrum right now instead of doing his job,” tweeted The Federalist CEO Sean Davis.

“The truth is he wants every GOP nominee to be another Liz Cheney rather than someone responsive to GOP voters,” he added.

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If brighter days are ahead for the U.S. economy, why are so many tent cities popping up all over the nation? At this point things are so bad that even the New York Times is admitting that “America’s homelessness problem has the makings of an acute crisis”. That article goes on to explain that our homeless population is steadily rising. Tonight, hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans will be sleeping in tents, under bridges, in overcrowded shelters or in their vehicles. Of course there are many that are so addicted to drugs or alcohol that they just sleep wherever they end up passing out. This is a tragedy that is growing with each passing day, and it is only going to get worse in the months ahead as the U.S. economy slows down even more.

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Next month will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the kidnapping and massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympics in Munich. The Israelis were taken hostage and murdered by Palestinian terrorists of “Black September”, most of whom were also eventually killed.

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Official recognition of the anniversary has been clouded by two recent issues in Germany. First, remarks by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have caused consternation. Mind you, Mr. Abbas was also one of the masterminds of the Black September massacre, but we’re supposed to forget about that niggling little detail.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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We are entering an unanticipated reality—an era of slow population growth and, increasingly, demographic decline that will shape our future in profound and unpredictable ways. Globally, last year’s total population growth was the smallest in a half-century, and by 2050, some 61 countries are expected to see population declines while the world’s population is due to peak sometime later this century.

This kind of long-term global demographic stagnation has not been seen since the Middle Ages. World population has been growing for centuries, but the last century has dwarfed previous rises. About 75 percent of the world’s population growth has occurred in the last hundred years, more than 50 percent since 1970. But now, population growth rates are dropping, especially in more developed nations, according to the United Nations (all subsequent references to UN research in this essay are drawn from these data).

Polls: FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago Has Amped Up GOP Voters for Midterms

ABC & CBS Rediscover Biden Border Crisis, NBC Ignores

Mexican Authorities Stop Tractor-Trailer Carrying 150 People

‘Biden’s Gestapo’? Trump Raid Hurts Voter Trust in FBI

Revolving Door: Jill Biden Reportedly Looking to Hire NBC Exec, Partner of State Dept Spox  In Britain, this is called ‘Jobs For The Boys’.

How The US Made Inflation Worse

The Tragic Betrayal of Afghan Women a Year After Biden’s Botched Troop Withdrawal

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 7

Rep. Arrington to Newsmax: Biden Ceding Southern Border to ‘Narco-Terrorist Cartels’

The Border Goes North, and Blue City Mayors Melt Down

BLM activist leader of shuttered Boston charity requests unemployment benefits amid federal fraud case

Monica Cannon-Grant wants unemployment assistance as she fights federal fraud charges (Boston Herald)

Black Nationalism

NYC thug, 55, who put on gloves to knock out diner in unprovoked attack is FREED after being arrested for attempted murder as DA charges him with misdemeanor (Daily Mail)

White Men Are Stupid in Commercials

R. Kelly’s Lawyer Gets Chance to Question Government Witness

Backlash Against Bad Actors! NFL, Browns Vilified Over Watson Punishment

Discrimination Is Now Legal at Ontario Universities

NBC News: Monkeypox chiefly transmitted through sex between men, suggests CDC update communications strategy

Monkeypox Is a Sexually Transmitted Infection, and Knowing That Can Help Protect People (‘Scientific’ American)

Current COVID Symptoms: Common Symptoms Now Compared to Earlier in Pandemic (NBC News Chicago)

Fauci: It’s a ‘Problem’ That Americans Don’t Want the COVID-19 Vaccine

CDC Misunderstands Why People Hate It, Attempts to Reorganize Anyway

Examining How COVID-19 Lockdowns So Easily Curbed American Freedoms

Long Covid: A Parallel Pandemic

Antibody fragment discovered that neutralizes all major Covid-19 variants

Unsealed document in Mar-a-Lago search sharpens focus on Trump as possible subject of criminal probe (CNN) Trump has been under a ‘criminal probe’ ever since Biden took office.

IRS becomes GOP boogeyman ahead of midterms (The Hill) Becomes?

Hill report claims Republicans are making the IRS a ‘boogeyman,’ ‘hyping danger to voters’

Ken Bensinger Joins Politics Reporting Team (N.Y. Times) Specifically to report on ‘right-wing media’.

Vance’s anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma (Associated Press)

Trump supporter who flew on private jet to Jan. 6 riot and threw media equipment outside the Capitol pleads guilty (NBC News) The witch-hunt continues.

The Latest in Renaming Mania

Hogan calls GOP gubernatorial nominee mentally unstable (Washington Post)

MSNBC: Cheney’s Loss Proves 2022 is Choice Between Democracy & Fascism

NYT Airs the Shaq’s Shoe Theory of Mar-a-Lago Documents: They’re Memorabilia

What Biden could gain from pardoning Trump (Washington Post) They actually pay people money to write this stuff.

Morning Joe: Despite Defense of FBI, Mike Pence Is ‘Not Completely Clean’

CNN Accuses ‘Anti-Intellectual’ DeSantis Of Wanting To ‘Make Us Dumber’

That’s rich: How stroke-hit Fetterman sponged off his tony parents ‘til he was 49 but now attacks Dr. Oz’s wealth in bitter Pa. Senate race Who would vote for somebody who looks like a caricature of a Satanist?

Newly unsealed documents from the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago put Trump in even worse legal peril, experts say (Business Insider) Walls are closing in etc. etc….

Even Trump Thinks Dr. Oz Will ‘F–king Lose,’ Sources Say (Rolling Stone) Rolling Stone is the weed-head’s Daily Beast.

FBI Raid Targeted Docs Trump Collected To “Exonerate” Himself From Russiagate Hoax; Report

MSNBC Blames GOP Education Laws For Teacher Shortage

But Trump! Whining Baldwin Cries Victim

NY Governor Was Mum on Pro-Abortion Firebombing. Now She’s Calling Pro-Life Activists ‘Extremists.’

Woke Corporations Face Backlash From Conservative States

Nadler senior staffer appears to be providing legal services to congressman, breaking House rules: watchdog

Episcopal Church Endorses Trans Surgeries for Minors

Don’t let politics obscure the horrors of grooming gangs

How Christian fundamentalist homeschooling damages children (Salon) By making them Christians! I mean, what’s up with that?

Bye-Bye Brian! The Worst of CNN’s Stelter

‘Janes Revenge’ Strikes Again, Massachusetts Pregnancy Center ATTACKED

Google Union Wants Co to Join Moloch List, Offer More Abortion Perks

Wisconsin School District Bans Teachers from Showing Pride Materials

The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed (N.Y. Times)

Marvel Star Speaks Out Against LA’s Spiraling Crime After Boxing Trainer Shot Dead

This Iowa Democrat Says She Worked as an Engineer. It Was an Internship.

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Harris, who once found favor amongst some on the right for standing up against identity politics and Islamism, suffered a rather severe bout of Trump derangement syndrome around the 2016 election and hasn’t recovered since.

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Before embarking on a quest, all good Dungeons and Dragons players know they have to check their privilege. After all, isn’t it fun to inject radical identity politics into your fantasy game?

That seems to be the idea behind “Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel,” a set of new Dungeons and Dragons adventures that take place in the titular location. It has a hyper focus on race.

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Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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Craftcloud is your 3D printing service marketplace.

Get the best price on your projects with a real-time price comparison of 3D printing services worldwide. Place your order with us, and we’ll handle the rest.

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We are omnivores, not herbivores. Natural selection has formed us to eat both plant and animal foods and to like doing so. Chimpanzees, the primates that are genetically the closest to us, deliberately hunt, kill, and eat small monkeys, wild pigs, and tortoises, annually consuming 4 to 12 kilograms of meat per capita for the entire population and up to 25 kg per adult male; that is more than in many preindustrial farming societies.

It is well to keep this biological fact in mind when considering outlandish claims about the imminent victory of veganism.

The technical term for vegetarians is ‘prey’.

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Hamas and Fatah both spend a lot of the foreign aid they spend on encouraging terrorism. These payments go to imprisoned terrorists or the families of dead ones. Hamas and Fatah spend over $200 million a year on this and payments on this scale would not be possible without using foreign aid funds. Since 2019, many donor countries have been cutting their aid in a show of opposition to this “Pay For Slay” policy. The donors, embarrassed by published details of how this works. In the United States Palestinian charities are being sued for illegally soliciting money for needy Palestinians and using a lot of the contributions for supporting terrorism, either for Pay for Slay or to finance current and future attacks. The “Pay for Slay” program is very popular among Palestinians because it makes the losses they suffer for carrying out these attacks easier to tolerate. Hamas and Fatah have another problem, growing criticism from Gaza and West Bank Palestinians as well as in Arab countries against the terrorism in Gaza and the West Bank. Another complication is that Iran is providing economic support to Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian governments in Gaza and West Bank. Another criticism is that the Palestinian leaders justify their relationship because of the common goal to destroy Israel. The problem here is that Israel is a key ally in a Middle Eastern coalition that opposes Iranian aggression. Iran also attacks Saudi Arabia and the UAE while threatening Egypt.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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I must admit that I have enjoyed the blow out loss of Liz Cheney much more than I expected to enjoy it. It has been known for a long time that she was going to lose her race, but somehow the Cloud People were not ready for it. They have been carrying on like this is a bolt from the blue. I suspect the midnight miracle of 2020 convinced them that if they wished hard enough, their election dreams will come true.

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A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles,” is to be sentenced in a U.S. court Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.

El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after being convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, in April of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens and supporting a terrorist organization.

The grueling two-week trial of the former British national, which featured emotional testimony from former hostages and parents of the victims, was the most significant prosecution of an IS militant in the United States.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I suppose the answer is, if they could do math they wouldn’t be liberals. No one with a decent respect for numbers could fling around hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars with only the vaguest notion of where those vast sums are going (but secure in the knowledge that they are other people’s money).

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The light fixtures were what tipped me off. You know the ones I’m talking about — you see them every time you go to Ikea, coolly geometric, and every time, you wonder if they’re worth the effort of getting them installed in your ceiling. (They’re not.)

I was in a non-chain coffee shop in Columbia, South Carolina. I was on a mission to the cities and towns closest to the geographic center of each state, and this was only stop No. 6 of 50, but I remembered seeing the same lights in coffee shops in Bend and Portland in Oregon, and innumerable others I had frequented while living in New York and the Chicago area.

This one small observation opened up the floodgates. I noticed the same kind of person was behind the counter: young and tattooed and bespectacled. The same kind of patrons: young and tattooed and bespectacled, clacking away on MacBooks. (Full disclosure: Your correspondent is young and tattooed and bespectacled, clacking away on a MacBook.) The WiFi passwords were all some cutesy variation on “coffee culture”: !Java!, TheGreatBambeano, that sort of thing.

I couldn’t stop noticing. I’d go on to see the same in Colorado Springs, in Fresno, in Indianapolis, in Oklahoma City, in Nashville.

And it wasn’t just the coffee shops — bars, restaurants, even the architecture of all the new housing going up in these cities looked and felt eerily familiar. Every time I walked into one of these places, my body would give an involuntary shudder. I would read over my notes for a city I’d visited months prior and find that several of my observations could apply easily to the one I was currently in.

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The makeshift labels these people give themselves often have an implicit note of self-satisfaction: “4Runner Environmentalists”, “Green-necks” or “literary Westerners”. The terms denote a mix of cultural and political tendencies that cut across some of America’s great divides. They tend to be pro-gun but pro-environmental regulation, to have deep faith in the American experiment but a deep awareness of its flaws, to be suspicious of both big government and big corporations, and, above all, to hate the twinned power of government and business, which is the force that mostly shapes the West as we know it.

An odd fellow writing an odd article for an odd website. Like most ill-educated people, he doesn’t know what ‘capitalism’ really means, so just uses it for whatever he dislikes about normal economic activity.

China, Russia to Engage in Joint Military Exercise

Ukraine Situation Report: Zelensky Vows Revenge For Kharkiv Missile Strike

Russian Airbase In Crimea Shows No Major Damage After Reported Attack

US must arm Ukraine now, before it’s too late (The Hill)

Russia, China And India To Hold Massive “Vostok” War Games In Two Weeks

Russia Warns UK: Air Force Ordered To Prevent Planned Spy Plane Overflight

‘I don’t see justice in this war’: Russian soldier exposes rot at core of Ukraine invasion (The Guardian)

Crimea attacks point to Ukraine’s newest strategy, official says (Washington Post)

Companies Draw Up Contingency Plans On Chinese Invasion Risk

Europe’s Plan to Wean Itself off Russian Gas Just Might Work

Winter Is Coming For Europe As Stagflation And Energy Crises Are Set To Bite

Ukraine: Fighting ‘Deadlocked’ Ahead of Visit by UN Chief

Top Former Pentagon, National Security Officials Call on Biden to Increase Support for Ukraine

Dozens of Kurdish Civilians Die as Turkish Onslaught Continues

Russia Shows Off Robo-Dog With RPG At Military Convention

Another ‘Mystery’ Ammo Depot Blaze In Russia Near Ukrainian Border

Border Patrol opens gate locked by Texas National Guard to allow illegal immigrants to enter

Texas rancher moves family to Louisiana after migrant incidents, says Biden has ‘destabilized the border’

NPR/IPSOS Poll: Majority Believes Border Invasion Underway

How America’s Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths

Report: Texas Funeral Home Will No Longer Accept Bodies of Migrants

Judge Blocks Texas Restrictions On Using P.O. Boxes For Voter Registration

Cyclists, welcome, you have just become the latest target in the culture wars (The Guardian)

AOC’s ‘defund the police’ report card flunks statistics test as NYC crime spike rattles communities

‘Defund the Police’ Rep. Bowman sees 30% violent crime spike in Northern Bronx

Restaurants in deep-blue cities starved for diners while Florida is feasting

A new student filmmaking grant will focus on reproductive rights (NPR) There’s gold in them thar shills.

Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion (NPR)

Meghan Markle ‘bitter’ about failure to ‘create woke royal family,’ expert claims

‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ Is Marvel Trash at Its Most Offensive (Daily Beast) “Green Karen”

CBS Falsely Equates Abortion Bans with High Maternal Mortality Rates

Media Give Liz Cheney a Participation Trophy

German Official Trashes Cost Of Living Protesters As “Enemies Of The State”

CNN Screams ‘Misinformation’ to Defend Woke Boston Children’s Hospital

Trans Groomers Are Getting Desperate

Guessing C For Every Answer Is Now Enough To Pass The New York State Algebra Exam

Left Pushes Radical Sex Ed Curriculum

Pro-Abortion Vandals Strike Pregnancy Center in Massachusetts

WHO chief: ‘Colour of skin’ may be why Tigray crisis not getting attention (Reuters)

‘Colour of the skin’: WHO chief hits out over Tigray crisis indifference (The Guardian)

California mom’s civil rights lawsuit alleges ‘social justice teacher’ forced students to pick cotton

Black parent accuses L.A. elementary school of traumatizing her daughter with ‘cotton-picking’ project (NBC News)

Analysis: Biden debt relief plan disappoints Black farmers for avoiding race (Reuters)

Black farmers say Inflation Reduction Act reneges on promises for debt relief (CBS News)

UCLA Creates Database To ‘Track Attacks On Critical Race Theory’

RAF Pauses Offers To White Men And Recruiting Chief Quits In Protest

The FBI Wing of BLM

Browns QB Deshaun Watson Settles for 11-Game Suspension

NBC News: Experts Got Monkeypox Wrong: It’s Now a Gay Venereal Disease Spread Sexually

The end of quarantine? What people should know about the CDC’s new Covid-19 guidelines (CNN)

Stanford monkeypox case not sex-related, raising questions about transmission (Mercury News)

The reemergence of polio is a public health emergency. And a tragedy. (Washington Post)

Anti-vaccine activists giddily celebrate as poliovirus spreads in NY (Ars Technica)

Oregon’s first pediatric case of monkeypox confirmed (KOIN)

WHO says monkeypox vaccine ‘not a silver bullet’ as breakthrough cases reported (Politico)

Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive (Newsweek)

COVID in California: Some S.F. school kids masking up even without mandate (S.F. Chronicle)

Rutgers Keeping Mask, Vaccination Mandates for Fall Semester

The flawed reasoning behind the mask “requirement” in healthcare settings

CDC Admits Its Covid Performance Was Lacking  Oh, ya think?

A Deeper Dive Into The CDC Reversal

Discriminatory COVID Fines Dropped for California Church

RFK Jr.’s Anti-vaccine Group Kicked Off Instagram, Facebook

US Offers Extra Monkeypox Vaccine Doses for Gay Pride Events

Appeals court revives Biden pause on federal oil, gas leases

These Striking Nature Ads Call Out Mercedes-Benz for ‘Greenwashing 101’

Scientists warn of dire effects as Mediterranean heats up (Associated Press)

The spending bill will cut emissions, but marginalized groups feel they were sold out (NPR) Women and minorities hardest hit.

Institutional decarbonization scenarios evaluated against the Paris Agreement 1.5?°C goal (Nature)

The evergreen tree that outlasted the dinosaurs is now endangered (CNN)

There Is No Climate Crisis: History Shows Us That The Earth Has Seen Far Worse

Charging Electric Cars Like “Spilling Liters of Petrol”…(Hidden) Losses During Charging Are Huge

Jordan Peterson: Peddlers of Environmental Doom Have Shown Their True Totalitarian Colors