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Archaeologists Found an ‘Anomaly’ Near the Pyramids That May Reveal an Ancient Portal

25th May 2024

Popular Mechanics.

  • Ground-penetrating radar has helped archeologists identified buried wonders below the surface.
  • Now, a new study from Japanese and Egyptian researchers reveals the discovery of an L-shaped structure along with an accompanying anomaly right next to the Great Pyramids of Giza.
  • Although its impossible to know for sure what the anomaly is, the researchers guess that the L-shaped discovery could be an entrance to a deeper structure.

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Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Study Reveals

25th May 2024

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Cannabis is a commonly used substance in the United States, with 49 percent of people trying it at least once, Hou and a team of US researchers report in their published paper. Some US states and other countries have made it legal, but we still don’t fully understand its effects on our health.

The researchers studied around 1,000 adults who had participated in a long-term previous study where they had been asked about their cannabis use over a 20-year period. Study participants provided blood samples on two occasions during that time, at the 15- and 20-year points. They were aged between 18 and 30 at baseline, or ‘year 0’.

Using these blood samples from five years apart, Hou and her team looked at the epigenetic changes, specifically DNA methylation levels, of people who had used cannabis recently or for a long time.

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The Case for Japan’s Amazing Clothes-Drying Bathrooms

25th May 2024

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There’s a gulf between Europe and America, and it involves laundry. When it comes to drying clothes, the former relies largely on air-drying, laying their clothes on racks or hanging them on lines outdoors. Households in the US and Canada mostly tumble-dry their laundry in mechanical dryers. The chasm is pretty marked: Europe’s greatest dryer enthusiasts, the Danes, use machine drying for just 28% of their laundry, while an estimated 80% of American households tumble-dry weekly.
It’s a gap that has persisted for decades, much to the puzzlement of international visitors. But in Japan, travelers from either side of the Atlantic are often surprised to discover a third way of drying clothes: Behold the yokushitsu kansouki.

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13th Oregon County Votes to Secede and Join ‘Greater Idaho’

25th May 2024

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How Sovereign Do You Want to Be?

25th May 2024

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Sovereignty is a great word, and it has a nice ring to it. Everyone would like to be sovereign, but being so comes with costs and inconveniences. Therefore, it’s useful to break down the concept to see what we really mean by it and what we’d be prepared to do to be “sovereign”.

Confidentiality is often the first thing that comes to mind. Who can read all our communications and files? And will they sell our data? Or feed it to their AI? The Dutch Senate and House of Representatives recently decided that it’s no problem if Microsoft and the US government have access to their data. The Dutch government cloud policy requires a careful risk analysis for such a decision. Unfortunately, many parts of the government don’t actually fall under this policy, and therefore such a risk assessment is not publicly available for our houses of parliament, or it might not even exist.

It would be nice to read that though, because either it says “we don’t mind the Americans having access” or “we think they could spy on us but won’t”. Both would look pretty weird on paper .

Confidentiality is more exciting for a government than for a shoe store, so it’s not the most important aspect of sovereignty for everyone from a practical perspective.

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Holographic Theory of Learning

25th May 2024

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It’s often said about holograms that each piece of the hologram contains the entire holographic image. Even a tiny fragment will still contain the whole picture. This is not entirely true – while indeed each fragment of the hologram will contain data about the entire holographic image, some data is still lost, and the tinier the fragment the less detailed the final image. But if we ignore these technicalities we can still appreciate the general principle, that each small part contains the information about the whole.

So, I think something similar might be true for studying as well. Pick any non-trivial and not extremely technical subject, and study it thoroughly enough and you’ll learn a lot about everything else as well. There are alternative ways to state it, some more truthful than others. Perhaps we can say: each part (or aspect) of reality reveals information about reality as a whole. Or alternatively, in order to understand one part of reality well enough, you will have to learn a lot about the reality as a whole.

I don’t actually believe this to be a universally applicable principle, as there are lots of exceptions, but I feel that there is “something” about it that deserves our attention.

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Thought for the Day

25th May 2024

Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for May 21, 2024

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Amazon Cuts Grocery Prices

25th May 2024

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There is a quickly growing trend among some of the largest grocery sellers in the US. Target (NYSE: TGT) cuts prices on thousands of items sold at its stores, including groceries. At the same time, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) said it would slash prices on nearly 7,000 items, many of which are in the grocery category. Walmart is the largest grocery retailer in America. Not to be outdone, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) also cuts grocery prices. It has far fewer stores than its bricks and mortar competitors. People who thought Amazon would crush Walmart were wrong.

According to CNN, Amazon’s grocery cuts include thousands of products. The decision is likely meant to hang onto market share. However, another incentive for the huge e-commerce company is that grocery prices are so high that Americans have cut back on shopping altogether. Prices are up over 20% since the start of the pandemic, based on data collected by the Federal Bank of St Louis.

Americans will likely cheer the cuts at these huge retailers. Research firm DriveServe polled people who shop for groceries regularly. Over half said they expect to pay more for groceries in 2024 than in 2023.

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And the Cancer Keeps Rolling In

25th May 2024

OffGuardian.

Kate Middleton has cancer. The King of England has cancer. Every day we hear of more and more people diagnosed with cancer—many of them quite young. And not a single report we hear, unless coming from alt media, will suggest that the Covid vaccines are a possible cause.

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Red States Ask Supreme Court to Stop Blue States From Forcing Climate Agenda on Rest of Country

25th May 2024

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Nineteen Republican state attorneys general hit five Democrat-controlled states with a legal challenge alleging that the blue states are illegally attempting to impose aggressive climate policies on the rest of the country.

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Houston Storm Reveals Downside of Forced Electrification

25th May 2024

The Foundry.

We live in a world with more and more devices that require charging. Nothing shows the downside of that better than the recent storm that hit Houston, where thousands of residents still lack power.

Houstonians with electric stoves can’t cook, those with electric water heaters lack hot water—and those with electric cars can’t charge them.

The range of an electric vehicle without electricity is zero.

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Palestinians Stranded in Gaza After Paying Egypt $5,000 Each to Flee

25th May 2024

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The Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has been closed indefinitely since the Israeli military seized the crossing on 7 May, a closure which has left thousands of Palestinians in limbo. Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza in October, and the subsequent closure of all other crossings, the Rafah crossing with Egypt has been the only passageway for civilians fleeing the conflict.

An Egyptian company with exclusive control on exits and transfers via the terminal had been charging Palestinians at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child to cross to the Egyptian side. In April, Hala Consulting and Tourism Services, a firm owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, made at least $2m per day from Palestinians, Middle East Eye has revealed.

 

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USA Today Newspapers Quietly Delete GOP Senator’s Op-Ed on Trans Athletes Without Telling Him

25th May 2024

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‘Sen. John Kennedy’s submitted opinion column did not meet our ethical guidelines,’ Gannett opinion editor says

What, it wasn’t slanted to the left enough?

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Google Criticized as AI Overview Makes Obvious Errors, Such as Saying former President Obama Is Muslim

25th May 2024

CNBC.

Maybe it knows something that CNBC doesn’t … or won’t admit.

 

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Chicago Officials Concerned About Violence at DNC Convention

25th May 2024

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Officials in Chicago are concerned about potential violence at the upcoming Democratic National Convention despite spending $75 million in taxpayer-funded money for security, reports the Daily Caller.

The party of mob rule is apparently nervous about mob rule.

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Lula’s Brazil: A Cautionary Tale for Free Speech in the West

25th May 2024

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In a recent hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski warned of an escalating trend of censorship in countries once considered bastions of free speech. He cited examples such as France, where the government has cracked down on so-called “hate speech,” and Germany, where social media companies face hefty fines for failing to remove “illegal content” within 24 hours. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have also introduced controversial laws that could stifle free expression.

But perhaps the most egregious example of this troubling trend is Brazil. According to Elon Musk, no country where X (formerly Twitter) operates experiences a worse state of censorship than Brazil, a nation until recently regarded as the largest liberal democracy in the Southern Hemisphere. Since 2019, the powerful Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, now infamous, has been conducting his investigation dubbed the “Fake News Probe.” This probe has targeted hundreds of individuals, most recently including Elon Musk himself, for allegedly spreading “disinformation.”

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Inside the Fringe Worldview of RFK Jr.’s VP Pick

24th May 2024

NBC News.

Once a Democratic donor, Shanahan and her politics have changed drastically in the last few years, a journey she attributes to the pandemic and her 5-year-old daughter’s autism diagnosis.Shanahan has embraced new influences, including a doctor guru who believes, wrongly, that vaccines cause widespread injury and sunshine cures almost everything. Her fringe ideas are now central to a presidential platform that rejects experts and institutions, and elevates influencers and entrepreneurs with conspiratorial views and dubious solutions to national problems.

Shanahan is emblematic of a certain “left to right crossover” that Derek Beres, an author and co-host of the podcast Conspirituality, documented during the pandemic: a coalescence of MAGA patriots, New Agers, wellness influencers and conspiracy theorists, united by their opposition to COVID protective measures and vaccines.

Stray from the Party Line, and they’re on you like a pack of dogs.

 

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These Nine States Will Phase Out Gas Car Sales by 2035

24th May 2024

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So far, eight states have officially adopted the ACCII rules for light-duty vehicles: Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Virginia, plus Washington D.C. Three additional states—Connecticut, Maine, and New Mexico—are also considering adoption of the ACCII standards.

All blue states.

Time to leave.

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Cities That Will Empty Out by End of Century

24th May 2024

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Nearly half of the over 31,000 cities in the United States will face some sort of population decline by the end of the century, according to a recently published study in Nature. An estimated 12% to 23% of the population will leave between 27% to 44% of the cities.

While this may sound far off, it does show possible trajectories to consider for Americans considering a move and for governments that need to adjust. To estimate future trends, the study considered projections under five scenarios, from environmentally friendly development to fossil-fueled development.

24/7 Wall St. reviewed the study, Depopulation and associated challenges for US cities by 2100, listing here the 26 cities with 2020 population above 10,000 that are projected to shrink by at least 50% by 2100 — under the middle of the road scenario, which includes intermediate challenges. We also added socioeconomic data — median household income, poverty rate, unemployment rate, bachelor’s degree attainment rate — from the Census Bureau’s 5-year estimates 2022 American Community Survey.

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Exposing the CIA’s Secret Effort to Seize Control of Social Media

24th May 2024

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While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new “Twitter Files” report reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of InQtel – the CIA’s mission-driving venture capital firm, along with “former” intelligence community (IC) and CIA analysts, were involved in a massive effort in 2021-2022 to take over Twitter’s content management system, as Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag report over at Shellenberger’s Public (subscribers can check out the extensive 6,800 word report here).

According to “thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents,” these efforts were part of a broader strategy to manage how information is disseminated and consumed on social media under the guise of combating ‘misinformation’ and foreign propaganda efforts – as this complex of government-linked individuals and organizations has gone to great lengths to suggest that narrative control is a national security issue.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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Promethium Discovery Set to Rewrite Chemistry Textbooks

24th May 2024

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Researchers have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same laboratory. Their discoveries open a new pathway for the exploration of elements critical in modern technology, from medicine to space travel.

Promethium was discovered in 1945 at Clinton Laboratories, now the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and continues to be produced at ORNL in minute quantities. Some of its properties have remained elusive despite the rare earth element’s use in medical studies and long-lived nuclear batteries. It is named after the mythological Titan who delivered fire to humans and whose name symbolizes human striving.

 

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Palm Beach Housekeepers Are Making $150,000 a Year Due to Massive Demand From the Wealthy

24th May 2024

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The mass wealth migration to Florida from New York and other high-tax states has created record demand for household staff in elite Florida enclaves — especially Palm Beach. Demand for butlers (now called “hospitality managers” or “estate managers”) as well as nannies, chefs, drivers and personal security has surged, according to staffing agencies.

It’s the shortage of housekeepers, however, that has created the biggest mess for wealthy homeowners. Many of the wealthy emigres to Florida bought big homes and now need people to clean them. Hotels, resorts and businesses are also vying for cleaning staff. The result: Typical pay for housekeepers has rocketed from about $25 an hour in 2020 to $45 or $50 an hour today, according to some agencies.

Amazing how that works. You might even think that there’s some sort of invisible hand behind it. (Of course, if Florida were New York, there would quickly be government mandates in place to make sure that a set percentage of the help thus hired were formerly UnHoused.)

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Why Technology Has Not Transformed Building

24th May 2024

BBC.

If you took a worker from a 1920s construction site and transported them to a present day project, they would not be that surprised by what they saw, according to Sam O’Gorman.

“Overall, across Europe and the US, stuff is still built in a pretty manual fashion – not very different to the way it would have been built 100 years ago,” says Mr Gorman, an associate partner in the property practice of consultancy firm McKinsey.

Key point that I think has more importance than the Voice of the Crust gives it:

“But at the moment in this country, because of the government’s approach to planning policy, projects are beset with delays. And that just doesn’t work, you need a more flexible approach.”

Every political jurisdiction in North America and Europe (and, for all I know, in Africa and Asia as well) feels free to stick its nose in the housing, how it’s built and how it’s maintained, to the point that progress is strangled every time it rears its ‘flexible’ head. Every time someone gets a clever idea, there’s a building inspector right on the spot to write them up.

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A Theoretical “Case Against Education”

24th May 2024

Astral Codex Ten.

Education isn’t just about facts. But it’s partly about facts. Facts are easy to measure, and they’re a useful signpost for deeper understanding. If someone has never heard of Chaucer, Dickens, Melville, Twain, or Joyce, they probably haven’t learned to appreciate great literature. If someone can’t identify Washington, Lincoln, or either Roosevelt, they probably don’t understand the ebb and flow of American history. So what facts does the average American know?

In a 1999 poll, only 66% of Americans age 18-29 knew that the US won independence from Britain (as opposed to some other country). About 47% of Americans can name all three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial). 37% know the closest planet to the sun (Mercury). 58% know which gas causes most global warming (carbon dioxide). 44% know Auschwitz was the site of a concentration camp. Fewer than 50% (ie worse than chance) can correctly answer a true-false question about whether electrons are bigger than atoms.

Far too many people fail to make the necessary distinction between education and training. The reason that college educations aren’t doing what people want them to is that the academic tradition is all about education, which does indeed make you a better person but is less successful in procuring gainful employment, and what most people going to college these days want is training (of which STEM is the poster child) that will get them a well-paying job.

The greatest illustration of this distinction is the famous Dr. Watson’s evaluation of Sherlock Holmes in the original Conan Doyle story A Study in Scarlet, which I urge you to read because it’s well worth reading.

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Ancient Viral DNA in the Human Genome Linked to Major Psychiatric Disorders

24th May 2024

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“Linked to” in news stories means “there is a strong correlation but we can’t really say that there’s a causal link without being called out for it, but we’re going to write as if there actually was a causal link because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to stir people up and get more clicks”.

New research led by King’s College London has found that thousands of DNA sequences originating from ancient viral infections are expressed in the brain, with some contributing to susceptibility for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.

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VCs Have Mostly Shut the Door on Smart Homes

24th May 2024

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Over the years, a growing number of well-funded companies have folded or failed to thrive betting on adoption of connected-home technologies such as smart windows, lighting, security systems and kitchens.

And the misses continue. Earlier this month, smart-home upstart Brilliant disclosed that it laid off its entire staff while it seeks a buyer. Founded in 2015, the San Mateo, California-based company had raised $64 million in venture funding to scale an in-wall control system for lighting, doorbells, locks, cameras and other home systems.

A month earlier, View, a maker of smart glass for buildings, announced that it’s going private and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Prior to going public in 2021, View had raised more than $1.8 billion in venture funding.

And around the end of last year, Veev, a heavily funded former unicorn that incorporated home automation systems in its panelized building model, shuttered and sold its assets to homebuilder and long-time investor Lennar.

Losses add up. That’s likely why, in recent months, U.S. venture investors have mostly closed the door on smart-home and smart-building investments.

Who wouldn’t want to have a ‘smart home’? A home in which everything that needed to be done could be done with very little effort on your part, like the Good Old Days when servants did the boring stuff for you? But, as my grandad liked to say, the devil is in the details.

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‘Revolving Doors’ Between EU Commission Staff and Corporations Prompts a New Probe

24th May 2024

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A professional move by one of the European Commission’s top antitrust officials to a New York-based legal firm has precipitated a formal investigation by the EU Ombudsman over potential conflicts of interest.

The European Commission was publicly warned by Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly about a “negative impact on public trust” as well as a potential spike in “Eurosceptic sentiment” after the EU’s antitrust director Henrik Morch opted for a job with the American multinational law firm Paul Weiss after a 33-year career working in EU institutions.

Specialising in mergers and acquisitions, as well as navigating regulatory frameworks for major corporations, legal giant Paul Weiss gloated about Morch’s defection to the company on their webpage, saying that the former Danish Eurocrat would take a role in their Brussels antitrust office.

“This country is planted thick with laws, man’s laws not God’s.”

God’s laws are very simple:

(1) Be nice. (If you have to ask, it’s probably not nice.)

(2) Don’t do stupid shit. (If you have to ask, it’s probably stupid.)

All the rest is commentary (by people who ought instead to be doing something useful).

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Thought for the Day

24th May 2024

Wondermark Comic Strip for May 15, 2024

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Competing Forces on Rent, Where Do We Put 8 Million Illegal Immigrants?

24th May 2024

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Millions of immigrants keep pouring in. New residential construction has stalled and multi-family construction is in decline. Completions are rising, but is that enough housing?

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Why Progressives Want to forget George Floyd

24th May 2024

UnHerd.

If the summer of 2020 was a party that eventually devolved into a chaotic rager, Morning After the Revolution is the album of unflattering photos taken by a guest who left before the police showed up. Look: there’s the moment from the pandemic where Donald Trump said he wanted schools to reopen, so we shut them down until 2023. There’s the time a male spa-goer displayed an erect penis in front of a 14-year-old girl, and media commentators hurried to dismiss the entire thing as a Right-wing hoax. There’s the one where we started recreationally destroying the lives of random white women who looked a little too much like manager-callers; there’s the $3,000 anti-racist dinner party and the “Defund the Police” banner!

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Quotation of the Day

24th May 2024

“If every generation in a family has to start with nothing, it’s a stupid family. Inheritance is supposed to help people not to have to have the same problems their ancestors did.” — Steve Graham

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The 14 Guns American Police Departments Prefer

24th May 2024

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Certain types of guns have made it to the forefront through training, test of time, and preference. 24/7 Wall Street has reviewed the makers and types of firearms used nationwide to determine those used most often. Knowing the factors they consider helps them understand why they choose the ones they do. Capacity, accuracy, and cost are common and important aspects to consider when choosing a weapon, and this is no different for any American police department. Pistols seem the most prevalent, followed by shotguns and handguns used for backups.

Certain manufacturers have found their way to repeated use both for the common person and for officers of the law. Glock, established in the US in 1988, and Sig Sauer, who have been selling weapons since 1976, make the list most often. Most of these manufacturers have reached the top of the list in American sales. Positive feedback on these specific makers includes their magazine capacity, accuracy, weight, trigger pull, and safety features.

Use what the professionals use.

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Crook County Passes Greater Idaho Measure

24th May 2024

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Sec. John Kerry

24th May 2024

Power Line.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry blocked multiple FBI arrest operations against individuals linked to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs to further negotiations on the failed Iran nuclear deal, according to unclassified internal FBI emails obtained by Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson via legally protected whistleblower disclosures.

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For My Enemies, the Law

24th May 2024

The American Mind.

The current condition in the United States has been described as a state of “anarcho-tyranny.” This term, originally coined by paleo-conservative writer Sam Francis, was recently defined by Tucker Carlson as “selective punishment while ignoring the rule of law.”

This condition was exemplified by a recent incident in Oakland, California that was so egregious that it would have been unimaginable until recently. Victor Silva is 102 years old and in a wheelchair. He was notified by the city that he is expected to paint over graffiti on a wall that he owns. Failure to do so would result in an $1,100 fine with an additional charge of $1,277 for each time he failed a reinspection. According to news reports he has been doing this for years.

As if all of this was not bad enough, his family owns a nearby commercial building that has been burglarized three times in the past year. He called 911 after each incident, but this never resulted in any investigation, let alone with anyone actually being arrested and charged. While there has not been any mention of just what the City of Oakland has done to punish the vandals and prevent further occurrences, the news media has shown pictures of him painting the fence while seated in his wheelchair. The Sisyphean image of a centenarian in a wheelchair repeatedly being forced to paint over the scribblings of society’s unpunished miscreants is the perfect illustration of just how bad things have become.

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Enter the CIA

24th May 2024

Power Line.

IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler must be extraordinarily brave men. They blew the whistle on Hunter Biden, the Biden family business, and the Biden Department of Justice’s sham investigation of same.

Yesterday the House Ways and Means Committee the Ways and Means Committee released more than 100 pages of newly obtained evidence provided by Shapley and Ziegler. Chairman Smith’s expository press release is posted here, the documents themselves here. The documents suggest that Hunter Biden lied in his testimony before the committee this past February.

Shapley and Ziegler comment on the related lawsuit brought by Biden in this New York Post column. Miranda Devine characterizes the documents released yesterday as the second prong of a double whammy that includes the possible entrance of the CIA from stage left.

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Media and the Cult

24th May 2024

ZMan is very dyspeptic today.

A mostly unexamined aspect of the ongoing crisis is the role the media plays in keeping the managerial class misinformed. It is always assumed that the firehose of lies that come from regime media is designed to trick the public, but the truth is no one in charge cares about public opinion outside the extremes. Politicians come and go, and the parties take turns pretending to be in charge but the administrative state and the managerial class that runs it are permanent.

One only has to look at the presidential elections over the last thirty years to see that elections have no impact on policy. Bill Clinton was supposed to be a break with the polices of Reagan and Bush, but things changed very little. Bush was supposed to bring decency back to the White House. Instead, he empowered the neocons, who set about making war on the world. Obama was supposed to put an end to all that war making, but instead doubled down in Afghanistan.

If you could map changes in public policy from election to election since the Cold War you would end up with a line that slowly moves upward. The only change we see is slightly more of the same with each change in administration. The same can be said of the changes in the House and Senate. As we have recently seen with the Republicans in the House, they are just a shadow of the Democrats, who shadow the Republicans as they take turns in the majority.

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Laughing at Brian Stelter’s MAGA-Fascist Fiction

24th May 2024

Newsbusters.

Is The New Republic still an opinion journal, or has it turned into a science-fiction magazine? For their June issue, the magazine put Donald Trump on the cover with a Hitler moustache over the headline “American Fascism: What It Would Look Like.” They published eight fever-brained visions of Trumpian fascism in a second term.

Former CNN host Brian Stelter penned a fictional article titled “Revenge and Freedom From Fact: On the media in a fascist America.” It’s unintentionally funny to decry “freedom from fact,” and then write an entire article based on nothing but your own twitterpated potboiler instincts.

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Overreporting COVID-19 as an Underlying Cause of Death Inflated Mortality Numbers During Pandemic: Analysis

24th May 2024

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A new analysis suggests COVID-19 was reported more frequently than it should have been as an underlying cause of death, inflating COVID-19 mortality numbers and attributing deaths from other causes to the virus.

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Biden Border Crisis Is Extortion Tactic to Push Massive Amnesty

24th May 2024

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This is the last in my series on “Three Reasons the Left Wants Open Borders.” I’ve covered ideology and electoral politics; now, let’s turn to extortion.

By turning on the taps of illegal immigration, open-borders proponents hope to create bargaining chips to negotiate amnesties and increased immigration flows. Since he took office, Joe Biden has paroled a million and a half inadmissible aliens under bogus premises, caught and quickly released into the U.S. the better part of 7 million more, and allowed at least 1.8 million more to evade Border Patrol—the “gotaways.”

As Jason Riley wrote in The Wall Street Journal last year, “The White House knows that an overwhelming majority of the people coming aren’t fleeing persecution but are economic migrants gaming our asylum laws. They know that there will be no serious effort to deport people whose claims are denied.”

Democrats are counting on such ‘immigrants’ voting for the Party of Free Stuff.

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What Americans Are Most Worried About

24th May 2024

Infographic: What the U.S. Is Most Worried About | Statista

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The Income a Family Needs to Live Comfortably in Every US State

24th May 2024

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30% of Americans Believe College Isn’t Worth It

24th May 2024

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The value of a college education is spiraling lower as youngsters realize it’s a giant scam. Racking up $100k in college debt for worthless gender degrees in liberal indoctrination camps, only to graduate and land a job that didn’t require a degree—such as a realtor or bartender, as many millennials found out, has been a major wake-up call.

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The Triumph of DEI at UCLA Medical School

24th May 2024

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Everything falls before the almighty DEI deity. It’s more important that doctors fit the proper woke demographics than that they be competent, although I don’t think the public was consulted on the question.

Fortunately, I won’t live to see these particular zombie chickens come home to roost.

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Graduates Walk Out of Harvard Commencement Chanting ‘Free, Free Palestine’

24th May 2024

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As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

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After Musk Sues, Media Matters Lays Off a Dozen Staffers

24th May 2024

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Media Matters for America laid off at least a dozen staffers on Thursday following a defamation lawsuit by X owner Elon Musk and a federal investigation by two Republican attorneys general.

Staffers for the progressive outlet took to Musk’s social media platform to announce their abrupt separation from Media Matters.

“Bad News: I’ve been laid off from @mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues,” Kat Abughazaleh wrote. “There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).”

More to the point, they have seen how effective Demcorat lawfare is, and what is sauce for the goose….

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Baltimore’s Former Top Prosecutor Spared Prison for Mortgage Fraud and Perjury

24th May 2024

Associated Press.

A former Baltimore city prosecutor who achieved a national profile for charging police officers in a Black man’s death was spared prison time in her sentence Thursday for perjury and mortgage fraud.

Democratic former State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s sentence includes 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service and three years of supervised release.

After the sentencing hearing, Mosby hugged her supporters, some of whom applauded when the judge announced the sentence.

“I’m just so incredibly grateful,” Mosby told dozens of supporters outside the courthouse. “This is not over, but God was here today.”

Mosby was convicted of lying about her finances to make early withdrawals from retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic, and fraudulently claiming that her own $5,000 was a gift from her then-husband as she closed on a Florida condominium.

If she had been a Republican, of course, she’d be rotting in jail.

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Democrats See Supreme Court Crisis in Second Alito Flag Controversy

24th May 2024

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To Democrats, every freckle is melanoma. This is only a ‘controversy’ because Democrats think that they can make a mountain out of a molehill.

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Gaza Aid Promptly Looted After Landing at US-Built Floating Pier

23rd May 2024

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The first 10 truckloads of food aid were landed on the floating pier last Friday and were subsequently delivered to a warehouse for the U.N. World Food Programme 8 miles away. On Saturday, 16 more trucks landed with aid.

However, “11 of those trucks never made it to the warehouse,” said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general. “Crowds had stopped the trucks at various points along the way. The Associated Press reported gunfire erupting at the scene, leaving at least one man dead.

Islam has no problem with Muslims stealing from non-Muslims. Mohammed started it all off.

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Up to 2.7 Million Noncitizens Could Vote Illegally in November, Study Warns

23rd May 2024

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A new study has revealed that roughly 10% to 27% of noncitizens living in the U.S. are illicitly registered to vote, which could result in up to 2.7 million illegal votes being cast in the November elections.

Experts say the significant amount of potential illegal votes could be enough to alter election results.

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