31st August 2023
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31st August 2023
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31st August 2023
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31st August 2023
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31st August 2023
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A few years ago, my daughter-in-law, an RN who left nursing for a better-paying administrative job in an expanding hospital conglomerate, almost quit when she was assigned to call doctors listed on a computer printout to tell them that they were spending too much time per patient and that was deemed unacceptably inefficient. Several told her that they were going to quit anyway because it was an intolerable setup.
My first legal job as a law student paralegal was doing document searches at NIH and the Library of Congress for medical malpractice litigators. (The world would not be online for another decade or so). I was hired in part because I had been a clinical lab tech in the Army and had worked nights at a local large hospital lab so I could navigate the material. Aside from a few cases involving really bad docs, it was surprising how much of a liability problem there was in information management and flow: Important things missed with disastrous results.
It seemed (seems?) as if MDs had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a far more integrated team approach in an increasingly complex environment. How do we encourage, liberate, and reward the best performers at every level and yet still make the quality of delivery uniformly better? I have seen firsthand that a change of shift from one set of nurses to a less gifted or less motivated crew is like night and day for service quality (and malpractice risk). The personal touch matters. A lot of medicine appears to remain a matter of intuition, empathy, art, and virtue, not just science. Are mega-corporate environments by nature hostile to that reality?
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31st August 2023
The American Mind.
Apparently, prescribing Ivermectin for people with Covid was fine all along. Sure, nearly every public authority vehemently denounced Ivermectin, calling it “horse dewormer,” and social media platforms censored people who dared mention it. And sure, they slandered medical experts like Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone and even placed jaundiced filters on pictures of Joe Rogan, who credited Ivermectin for his quick recovery from Covid. But now, after some doctors are suing the FDA for all but banning an effective treatment for the coronavirus, FDA officials have claimed that their aggressive criticisms of the drug were “merely quips.”
When it comes to acknowledging the many blunders of the Covid response, none of this is surprising. Whether they were wrong about social distancing, lockdowns, masking, taking the jab, natural immunity, or finding the origins of the virus, the experts are oddly forgetful now of just how confident and belligerent they were at the time. In other cases, as with “public intellectual” Sam Harris, many leftists still maintain that imposing Covid vaccine mandates was justified because the virus could have been much worse—even though it wasn’t.
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31st August 2023
John Stossel.
COVID-19 cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24% last week.
But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline “Up 24%!” comes after dramatic lows in COVID-19 cases. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, “The pandemic is over.”
Yet the shallow media keep pounding away: “It may be time to break out the masks,” headlined CNN.
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31st August 2023
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30th August 2023
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30th August 2023
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30th August 2023
Christian official faces second ‘hate speech’ trial over Twitter post quoting the Bible (Fox)
AP Scum Falsely Blame on DeSantis for Inspiring Racist Murders in Jacksonville (NewsBusters)
Ramaswamy’s Likability Drops in Post-Debate Poll (Washington Free Beacon) Not surprising, with the Narrative media hammering him like a tent peg.
Anti-abortion activists who blockaded DC clinic found guilty on all counts
Thomas More Society Vows Appeal in Lauren Handy Conviction
Jordan Peterson Hits Back After Canada Forces Him Into “Coaching Program” Over Controversial Statements
Here They Go Again! Twitter Election Interference Policy Revs Back Up (NewsBusters)
Soros-Funded Group Pressures Big Tech to Silence So-Called ‘Election Disinformation’
WATCH: Hannity Gets Anti-War Vivek to Sound Like a Neocon
‘No Resemblance to Reality’: Former Clarence Thomas Clerks Defend Him After Attacks
Over 100 former clerks of Justice Thomas sign open letter defending his integrity, independence
When I Tell You Nikki Haley Is Pathetic, That’s an Understatement (N.Y. Times) When I tell you Frank Bruni is pathetic, that’s an understatement.
California AG Sues SoCal School District For ‘Outing’ Trans, Pronoun Students To Parents
Recently indicted John Eastman is among those vouching for Clarence Thomas’ integrity (NBC News) The subtle smear.
Twitter allows US political candidates and parties to advertise in policy switch (The Guardian)
ICK: PBS Pundit Says ‘DeSantis at Least Partly Responsible’ For Racist Florida Murders (News Busters) The not-so-subtle smear.
Meta Drops University-Based Fact-Checking Group After Bias Exposed
“The Story Is Always About Guns”: Jacksonville Tragedy Becomes Flashpoint For Anti-Gunners Never about perpetrators. Gotta focus.
“The Woke Left Has Inherited The Stalinists’ Hatred Of Freedom”, Warns British Columnist
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio’s sentencing delayed in seditious conspiracy case
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Gushes Over Donald Trump’s Mug Shot On Jesse Watters’ Show (Huffington Post) Trump cooties–check it and see….
PBS Welcomes Dyson to Slam DeSantis for Leading a ‘United States of Amnesia’ on Race
MSNBC Runs Sob Story On Student Kicked Out For Spitting On Chris Rufo
Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules (Politico)
McConnell Malfunctions: Senate Minority Leader Glitches Hard In Shocking Second Incident
Library That Kicked Out Moms for Liberty Group Suffers Third Bomb Threat (Advocate) They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
Emulating Trump, Ramaswamy Shows a Penchant for Dispensing With the Facts (N.Y. Times)
Project 2025: that vast right-wing conspiracy (The New Neo)
Rudy Giuliani Is Going to Have to Pay Damages to the Election Workers He Defamed (Rolling Stone) I wouldn’t count the money yet.
AOC Considers Leaving Social Media Platform X Don’t let the door hit you in the butt….
Cornel West calls Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez ‘window dressing, at worst’ for Democrats (The Hill)
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30th August 2023
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30th August 2023
The salary a single person needs to get by in every U.S. state (CNBC) Four of the top five are blue states, and the fifth is Alaska.
America’s most expensive states revealed: From splashing out $500 a month for groceries to spending $10,000 on a funeral – here is where US citizens pay the most (UK Daily Mail)
Massachusetts ranked as one of most costly U.S. states to live (Boston 25 News)
Most and Least Expensive States for Homeowners (GOBankingRates)
Vanguard joins BlackRock in rejecting more ESG proposals from shareholders (Fox)
NYC migrant shelter neighbor says he’s ‘a prisoner in my own neighborhood,’ after cops install surveillance cameras outside his house (N.Y. Post)
NYC migrant crisis: ‘They’re coming at a rate of 3,000 a week’ (Fox 5 New York)
Furious Staten Island resident vows community will stop migrant shelter in its tracks: ‘This is ground zero’ (Fox)
Lying Gender Ideologues Mutilate Young and Vulnerable (The Foundry)
Grandmother of Sex-Trafficked Teen Files Lawsuit Against School Who Helped it Happen
Facebook Suspends Election Interfering Fact Checker… For Now
News Emmy Numbskulls Honor Dan Rather with ‘Gold Circle’ Award for ‘Persistent Excellence’ (NewsBusters)
Beware the woke therapists – and many of them are woke, especially the young ones (The New Neo)
Why Founding Fathers ‘Deliberately Made Congress Weak,’ Professor Explains (The Foundry)
Whitmer Administration Used ‘Calculated’ Scheme To Hide Sensitive Email From the Public, Lawsuit Says
Canada, citing potential dangers, warns LGBTQ travelers of US risks (Reuters) Perhaps the U.S. ought to warn heterosexual travelers about Canada risks.
After MRC Pressure, NBC Covers Gold Star Hearing, ABC & CBS Ignore (NewsBusters)
Mystery Swirls Over Batch Of Thousands Of 2020 Voter Registration Forms In Michigan
10 Signs That US Culture Is Being Turned Completely Upside Down
‘Catch And Release’: Suspect in Viral LA Flash Mob Robbery Was Released on Cashless Bail One Day Before Heist
Special session ends in chaos on TN House floor (WKRN Nashville)
Settlement Reached in Mom’s School Trans Case
Virginia School District Launches Transgender ‘Student Rights’ Portal Violating Youngkin’s Parental Rights Policy
Behind the Euphemism of ‘Gender-Affirming Surgery’
Most Church of England priests back gay marriage, survey finds (The Guardian)
Rep. Malliotakis Urges Staten Island Secede Over Migrants
The Newsom Shadow Campaign Emerges from the Shadows?
Not in this backyard (Politico)
Chicago TV Crew Mugged While Reporting on Robberies
Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Horny Trans Woman in Sorority
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30th August 2023
The American Mind.
Last month, the Supreme Court declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that would grant certain protections to persons suffering from gender dysphoria under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The decision itself will further entrench “gender identity” as the newest protected category under civil rights law, laying the table for numerous infringements of religious and civil liberties for Americans on the other side of this divide. But there is an even more unsettling and revealing aspect of this case: simply by discussing “transgender persons” as if the term had a stable and meaningful referent, conservative and liberal justices alike revealed that they had accepted a fundamental error in reasoning that threatens to undermine the very heart of American justice and America itself.
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30th August 2023
Steve Sailer.
Can Republican voters ever stop playing Charlie Brown to the Democrats’ Lucy van Pelt?
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30th August 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
We are observing the second anniversary of one of America’s worst foreign policy fiascos, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. It was on August 26, 2021, when 13 American Marines and at least 170 Afghan civilians were murdered by a Taliban bomber at the Kabul airport. To say that the anniversary has passed quietly is an understatement.
A writer for the Atlantic, Franklin Foer, has an upcoming book on the withdrawal called The Last Politician. An excerpt was made public today, and several media outlets covered it.
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30th August 2023
Richard Epstein.
The United States military position is of increasing vulnerability as the Army, Navy, and Air Force all fail to meet their annual recruitment goals. It is no accident, for the situation dates back to the botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan in August 2021. It is hard for young men and women to want to join a service that was humiliated by an operation that left thousands of Afghans in the lurch—only to be executed after receiving the Taliban’s worthless promise of amnesty. Acts of this sort have long-term consequences, including precipitating what is now widely acknowledged to be an ongoing recruitment crisis for the military that could jeopardize the status of the all-volunteer force that has been a staple of American policy for fifty years. The shortage is fed by a general loss of confidence in the military by the American public—the number stands at 60 percent, the lowest in over two decades.
There are, as ever, multiple innocent explanations for the shifts in supply and demand, so the now-chronic shortages can be attributed in part to other socioeconomic factors beyond the ability of the military to recruit. The low unemployment rate offers potential recruits an enlarged set of nonmilitary options. A second factor is the apparent increase in parental pressure to attend college before settling on a career, which reduces the supply for military positions. There are additional difficulties on the supply side. High on this list are the declining fitness of potential recruits, who grapple in increasing numbers with obesity, drugs, and criminal records. This effect is then compounded by a reduced willingness to serve. It is possible of course to increase the number of recruits by lowering the standards for enlistment, as is being done, but only at the cost of a likely reduction in the performance levels of the military services. And it is also possible to sweeten the pot for potential recruits by offering them signing bonuses of up to $50,000, which, however necessary, counts as an open admission that all is not well within the system.
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30th August 2023
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30th August 2023
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The Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has a profound interest in American politics. Over the years, he has pumped $475 million he has earned manufacturing medical devices into left-wing advocacy groups – $72 million in 2021 alone, according to a new report from the conservative watchdog group, Americans for Public Trust.
According to a biography of Wyss written by a sister, Wyss’ goal is not to bend laws to his business’s advantage but to “[re]interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics.”
Although foreigners are prohibited from donating money directly to political causes, Wyss has donated lavishly to progressive political organizations. The New York Times reported in 2021 that these include the “Center for American Progress and Priorities USA, as well as organizations that ran voter registration and mobilization campaigns to increase Democratic turnout, built media outlets?accused of slanting the news?to favor Democrats, and sought to block Mr. Trump’s nominees, prove he colluded with Russia and push for his impeachment.” Since 2016, some $245 million of his spending on American politics has gone to Arabella Advisors, which controls a vast network of progressive nonprofits which, among other activities, has financed hundreds of smaller groups that campaign for specific issues and candidates. Arabella, which raised $1.6 billion in 2021, was dubbed by The Atlantic “The Massive Progressive Dark-Money Group You’ve Never Heard Of.”
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30th August 2023
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Police recruits join the force to help others and fight crime. Research confirms it. But priorities changed when sheriff’s deputies detained Eh Wah in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and found more than $53,000 in his car.
Law enforcement training kicked in, and the purpose of the traffic stop switched from public safety to raising revenue. The deputies seized the cash and spent the next six hours interrogating Eh Wah, looking for any excuse to justify civil forfeiture, a process that allows the government to take and keep cash, cars and other assets without a criminal conviction.
Oklahoma agencies normally keep quiet about civil forfeiture, which is why the state ranks among the worst in the nation for civil forfeiture transparency. Oklahoma publishes no statewide reports, conducts no regular audits, and tracks only limited metrics.
The silence is strategic. The more people learn about civil forfeiture, the less they like it. But Oklahoma police and prosecutors have voiced opposition in recent weeks to H.R. 1525, the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act (FAIR), a bill that would reform federal civil forfeiture.
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30th August 2023
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Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.
They said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.
The electoral commission said Mr Bongo had won just under two-thirds of the votes in an election the opposition argued was fraudulent.
His overthrow would end his family’s 53-year hold on power in Gabon.
Gabon is one of Africa’s major oil producers, while nearly 90% of the country is covered by forests.
It joined the Commonwealth in June 2022, becoming one of its few members not to have been a British colony.
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29th August 2023
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29th August 2023
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29th August 2023
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29th August 2023
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29th August 2023
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Four members of the Texas National Guard are being disciplined, and their unit is being disbanded, after whistleblowers alleged they were using the WhatsApp communications platform to infiltrate and monitor illegal migrant and smuggler groups in violation of the organization’s rules against spying operations, according to a joint report by the Texas Tribune and Military Times.
According to the report, six military intelligence officials assigned to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star National Guard deployment at the border turned over the names of four officers who were using WhatsApp to join migrant and smuggler chat groups to solicit assistance in investigating “targets” the unit identified to federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security during a February 2022 meeting.
No good deed goes unpunished.
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29th August 2023
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If, of course, drinking from creeks and streams is what you want to do.
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29th August 2023
Zeihan.
Thanks to the right demographics and cheap capital, we’ve been living in a period of extreme technological advancement and innovation. As our environment changes and new problems arise, will innovation be able to keep up?
Innovation requires a fairly specific set of circumstances. You need enough people in their 20s and 30s imagining a future and developing the tech, along with a capital-rich environment (since you won’t see any $$$ until you hit the backend of innovation). Our world is changing, and these conditions are no longer present, so we must temper our expectations.
Anything that hasn’t reached operationalization…probably won’t make it. Below are a few industries where transformative innovations are still getting lots of attention, so let’s look at those on a scale from least likely to happen to most likely: modular nuclear reactors, artificial intelligence hardware, space and satellites, biologic drugs, shale, and agriculture.
These technologies and industries will make some of the most significant impacts on the world, but it will be no small feat. There will be hurdles and obstacles along the path to innovation, and every country will have a different outlook, but I would expect the US to be one of the first through the gate on most of this.
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29th August 2023
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As I explained recently, it matters a great deal how we define ‘socialism.’ Our choice of definition makes a measurable difference in terms of what level of government intrusion into our lives that we are willing to accept.
Yet despite the unmistakable difference in outcomes depending on what definition we choose, the right-of-center political movement is surprisingly resistant to changing its mind when it has adopted the wrong definition. I am not going to speculate as to the origins of this resistance, but if it is a fear of being perceived as an intellectual turncoat, it might be worth remembering the following words of wisdom attributed to British economist John Maynard Keynes. When criticized for changing his mind too often, Keynes is said to have replied:
When someone presents me with a better argument than mine, I change my mind. What do you do?
There is, of course, also the possibility that some pundits, analysts, and scholars to the right of center are not too worried about the policy consequences of their writings and sayings. If so, it is very unfortunate: if we do not understand socialism, we also do not understand the policy that promotes socialism. If we cannot see that policy for what it is, we eventually become useful conduits for an ideology the end goal of which is the very antithesis of what both conservatives and libertarians want.
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29th August 2023
Out of the mouth of babes….
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29th August 2023
Roll Call.
The House Appropriations Committee could consider amendments to the fiscal 2024 Commerce-Justice-Science bill next month stripping federal funding from prosecutors who are pursuing charges against former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., a member of the House Freedom Caucus who also sits on the Appropriations Committee, announced Monday that he is working on two amendments to offer when the panel takes up the bill in early September.
The Commerce-Justice-Science and Labor-HHS-Education measures are the last two appropriations bills for next year that the full committee has not yet considered; no official schedule for September has been released.
Clyde said he plans to introduce an amendment to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to prosecute any major presidential candidate prior to the upcoming presidential election, and a second that would prohibit funding for state prosecutions.
“Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars have no place funding the radical Left’s nefarious election interference efforts,” Clyde said in a statement.
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29th August 2023
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People who are actual professionals are accountable through licensing or malpractice liability. Physicians, architects, dentists, and civil engineers, for example, are accountable for the quality and fitness of the services they deliver. Plumbers, electricians, auto service techs, and roofers are all subject to implied or express warranties and bond requirements.
In stark contrast, the entirety of federal policy and law enforcement is now the product of increasingly unaccountable people. The operant theory, that elected officials controlling funding and appointments will provide accountability and protect the public interest, is no longer the reality. Civil service protection, the cult of experts, the replacement of shared ethical values with partisanship, and the sheer size of the Leviathan has created a new reality.
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29th August 2023
Chilton Williamson.
The Western world, once so firmly grounded in Christianity and its Gospels, dogma and teachings, retains in the twenty-first century virtually nothing of them, the almost sole exception being the notion of sin and thus of guilt — not the Christian concept of them, but rather the modern liberal one.
To begin with, the liberal idea of sin is collective; it is also highly selective, being limited to the West in general and the Caucasian race in particular. And it is obsessive, as much so as was the Christian version among the Calvinists of Geneva, or the neurotic anticommunism prevalent among the more single-minded and hysterical outliers on the American right during the 1940s and 1950s. And, precisely as obsession encouraged the members of the John Birch Society to overestimate the danger — real as it was — that the Soviet Union posed to the soi-disant Free World in the post-war era, so too it prevents the United States and Europe from recognizing and confronting the preeminent danger facing the West today, which is the invasion of its wealthiest and most attractive societies by millions of people, carefully referred to by the Western liberals as “migrants,” from what they call “the developing world.”
The problem, of course, is that they are almost exclusively “people of color” from the Third World, and the populations under invasion predominantly “white,” a situation in which “color” morally disarms Western liberals as much, if not more, as poverty has done for many decades. In these circumstances, Western governments ranging in their political identity from left-liberal to conservative-liberal are, in their obsession with race, incapable of viewing the confrontation — Samuel Huntington’s “ clash of civilizations” — in anything other than racialist terms, thus assuring that the “migrants” are classified unofficially as victims of white colonialism deserving entry to the West and respectful acceptance by it, and the natives imagined as populations burdened by historical guilt, which they must be compelled to atone for by welcoming them.
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29th August 2023
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Townhall published a documentary on X, formerly known as Twitter, titled “David vs. Goliath: Big Government’s War on an Amish Farmer.” The film shows big government raiding the business of a small-town Amish farmer tucked away in Virginia’s heartland.
Samuel B. Fisher and his family farm, Golden Valley Farms, was raided unannounced in June by the Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (VDACS) and Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy for selling meat from his 100-acre farm because the meat was not processed in a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) facility.
“They went through everything, house, every building, in the barn. They just raided through everything, put their nose in everything, and wanted to know every detail of everything. They went out back, trying to find all the failure they can find on a farm, which, of course, some of their stuff, which they think is wrong, is just normal stuff on a farm,” Fisher stated.
“I wasn’t on the farm at the time” of the raid that lasted four hours, Fisher added.
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29th August 2023
The Foundry.
A nonpartisan organization that trains election workers from across the country is now being run by two liberal voting activists—one who previously worked for the nonprofit that distributed hundreds of millions of dollars of Mark Zuckerberg’s election grants during the 2020 elections. The grants were supposedly to “help” local governments run elections, but most of the money went to election offices in Democrat-run localities.
Meanwhile, most board members of the National Association of Election Officials, commonly known as The Election Center, are current or former elections officials from heavily blue counties.
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29th August 2023
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Five months since the epic failure of Silicon Valley Bank – due to “a significant supervisory failure,” according to Dan Tarullo, a former Fed governor who oversaw financial regulation and supervision at the board – the man responsible for that ‘oversight’ at the San Francisco Fed is ‘retiring’.
Azher Abbasi will retire from his role as the head of supervision and credit at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco effective Oct. 31, according to an email from the bank’s spokesperson.
Welcome to the Deep State: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.
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29th August 2023
The New Neo.
And – surprise, surprise – the scheduled date “could have a crucial impact on the 2024 race for the White House.”
Fancy that. What an odd coincidence:
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision sets the trial in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries and the day before Super Tuesday.
The prosecution had wanted the trial to start in January, and Trump’s lawyers said after the election in April 2026. So Judge Chutkan set the date two months later than the prosecution wanted and right smack in the middle of the primaries. Not to mention the fact that Trump is fighting four potential and actual cases, at the very least. The DOJ has unlimited resources paid for by our taxpayer dollars; Trump has to get lawyers and prepare for the cases on his own or with donations from supporters. And of course, his lawyers now know they are subject to prosecution as well.
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29th August 2023
The Foundry.
You may never have heard of the Foro de São Paulo, since Western media tend to ignore it, but it’s the world’s largest and most impactful Marxist international organization.
The latest São Paulo Forum gathering demonstrated how pro-China and pro-Russia this radical body is, and how it retails its winning blueprint throughout the world.
Rubbing elbows at this summer’s gathering in Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, were members of the Chinese Communist Party, Cuba’s Communist Party, and the Democratic Socialists of America—the party of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.; and Cori Bush, D-Mo.
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28th August 2023
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28th August 2023
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