The New Yorker, a Voice of the Crust.

Specifically, doctors who provide abortions, a highly profitable area of practice (like plastic surgery).

Newsbusters.

Marc Tracy, arts and culture reporter for the New York Times, for some reason wrote a 2,100-word “news analysis,” posted Sunday, on why Jews shouldn’t use the word “pogrom” to describe assaults like the one in Amsterdam against people suspected of being Jews, after a soccer match by an Israeli team there: “The Amsterdam Attacks and the Long Shadow of ‘Pogroms’ — Many have used an old word to refer to recent events. Is it accurate?” The Times doesn’t seem to think so, given it put the word in quotation marks.

Tracy worked to underplay the dangers Jews face around the world, and offered some potential mitigating circumstances to explain the latest violent anti-Semitic rampage, with marauding Jew-haters on mopeds going on an actual jodenjacht — “Jew Hunt.” All inspired by the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.

In a populist moment, the Democratic Party had the extremely rich and the very famous, some great music, and Mark Ruffalo. And they got shellacked.

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The hosts of “The View” were forced to eat a little crow and correct the record after they casually smeared three of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and former Rep. George Santos.

ABC’s legal team thought that the anti-Trump harridans were exposing the network to several potential libel suits and hurriedly told the hosts to read the “legal notes” on air.

During a segment discussing the 23 charges against former Rep. Santos, including wire fraud, Joy Behar “forgot” to mention that Santos pled guilty to wire fraud and identity theft. Behar left the impression that Santos’s case had yet to be adjudicated.

That brought a quick legal disclaimer from ABC legal.

“One minute, I just got a note,” Behar said. “We have to clarify that Santos eventually reached a plea deal after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.”

It went downhill from there.

 

Daily Signal.

In June, illegal alien Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted.

Police say Martinez-Hernandez came to the U.S. illegally to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022.

“That should never have been allowed to happen,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, referring to the numerous missed red flags the case presented. His office apprehended Hernandez in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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The District of Columbia’s attorney general is suing a “Defund the Police” activist for misappropriating $75,000 in charity funds for mansion rentals, a Cancún trip, and designer clothes.

Brandon Anderson, the leader of an anti-police D.C. nonprofit called Raheem AI, “misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI board of directors let him get away with it,” Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D.), whose office regulates nonprofits in the district, said in a Monday statement.

Schwalb also sued Raheem AI, seeking to shut down the nonprofit entirely. The attorney general called for Anderson to be barred from leading any other D.C. nonprofit and demanded that Anderson or Raheem AI repay the $75,000, according to the New York Times.

New York Post.

So now we know that the cop who fatally shot unarmed Donald Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus.

There were no ill consequences for his rash actions that day. Instead, Capt. Michael Byrd, 56, was held up as a hero of democracy, despite the fact that he had a lengthy disciplinary record that includes leaving his loaded handgun in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, “improperly” firing his gun at a car near his home while off duty and abusing a Maryland cop who tried to stop him entering a high school football field as a “racist a–hole,” again while off duty, according to a letter released last week by the GOP-led House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight.

Three entries in Byrd’s internal affairs record are missing, wrote subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) in a letter to Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger.

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Former military Commander-in-Chief and Ukraine’s current ambassador to the UK, Valery Zaluzhny, has warned that World War Three is already underway in a recent interview published by Politico.

“I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun,” he said. He referenced the greater internationalization of the war with the presence of North Korean troops, and Iranian technology on the battlefield, as well as Chinese support to Moscow.

The National Interest.

The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine program is facing critical challenges, delaying its intended operational debut. These include significant cost overruns, manufacturing delays, and systemic inefficiencies in America’s shipyards. The late delivery of essential components, such as the bow dome and turbine generators, highlights the program’s struggles.

“Disaster In The Making”. A shorthand description of every government program everywhere.

Washington Poop.

The research suggests aging isn’t strictly temporal, not solely about minutes and years passing. Once considered a steady, predictable decline, affecting everything in our bodies, everywhere, all at once, aging is much more haphazard than we once thought, starting in different parts of our bodies at different times, possibly long before we’re even thinking about aging.

It’s also personal, occurring at a unique molecular level inside each of us, and the process may be partially within our control. Once we know how our own organs are aging, we may be able to brake or speed that process by how we live.

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The far-left deputies of La France Insoumise have just quietly proposed a bill in the French National Assembly to repeal the offence of apology for terrorism. Today, the end of this legal offence would mainly benefit these same MPs, who give unlimited support to organisations close to Hamas and Hezbollah. To mark the occasion, Le Figaro Magazine has devoted a major investigation to revealing the many links between the French far Left and Islamism—at the crossroads of electoral opportunism and ideological conviction.

The investigation was entrusted to a poet and journalist of Syrian origin, Omar Youssef Souleimane, who has closely followed the activities of pro-Palestinian groups operating on French soil by infiltrating them. Wearing sunglasses, make-up, and a Palestinian flag and keffiyeh, he has taken part in numerous anti-Israeli demonstrations, amply supported by the deputies of La France Insoumise (LFI). He reveals the extent to which the French far Left has fully endorsed the Palestinian cause by forging links with Islamists—a union cemented by antisemitism.

The discourse of the far Left in favour of the Palestinian cause is rooted in classic anti-colonialist rhetoric. This time, the settler is no longer the white French or European, but Israel, with the complicity of the West. Speaking of Israel, the anti-colonial motif is everywhere. They talk about “the genocidal colonial army” and “the tanks of the colonial army.” In the role of the oppressed, the Palestinian—but in his most radical form, i.e., the Hamas militant.

There is no such thing as ‘Islamism’. Islamism is just a term invented to disguise the fact that all Muslims believe the same things but some are more literal about it than others.

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As you might expect, they’re all Blue states.

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TOPLINE: Taxpayers have spent $15 million on security services for Dr. Anthony Fauci in the past two years, after he had already returned to life as a private citizen, according to a new report from OpenTheBooks.com.

KEY FACTS: The security agreement took effect in January 2023, and extended to September 2024. The agreement states that the contract could be extended. OpenTheBooks.com asked the U.S. Marshals Service for clarification, but they didn’t respond.

The price tag includes salaries and benefits for the U.S. marshals guarding Fauci, a private chauffeur, law enforcement equipment, and more.

The Conversation, a Voice of the Crust.

Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the celebration of the first Thanksgiving feast.

In the popular mind, the two groups are synonymous. In the story of the quintessential American holiday, they have become inseparable protagonists in the story of the origins.

But as a scholar of both English and American history, I know there are significant differences between the two groups. Nowhere is this more telling than in their respective religious beliefs and treatment of Native Americans.

As you might expect, ‘treatment of Native Americans’ is far more important than ‘their respective religious beliefs’.

The American Mind.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s crushing victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, social media has been flooded with videos of apartment- or vehicle-bound neurotics screaming, banging pots and pans in sheer disbelief, packing their belongings, or generally convulsing as if Kristallnacht were upon us. The American public has been introduced to the 4B movement, in which liberal women appropriate a South Korean sex strike because justice.

To be sure, social media is at best a caricature of real life. Only the most dramatic individuals will shave their heads for “reproductive rights” (read: for likes), but most people do not express themselves in quite such a hyperbolic register. That said, in this case the memes are imitating real life. Not every ex-Kamala voter is experiencing a full-scale breakdown. But judging based on my own clinical observations as a practicing therapist, I think it may well be true that a significant number of young American leftists are going through a collective mental health crisis.

I speak from some experience, having spent multiple hours per day over the past few weeks hearing from clients about the damage inflicted upon their psyches “by the Trump win.” This is their account of things. My own opinion, however, is that someone has subjected these kids to psychic trauma. But it wasn’t Donald Trump.

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The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry.

Nanofibers made of starch—produced by most green plants to store excess glucose—are especially promising and could be used in bandages to aid wound healing (as the nanofiber mats are highly porous, allowing water and moisture in but keeping bacteria out), as scaffolding for bone regeneration and for drug delivery. However, they rely on starch being extracted from plant cells and purified, a process requiring much energy and water.

A more environmentally friendly method, the researchers say, is to create nanofibers directly from a starch-rich ingredient like flour, which is the basis for pasta.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees.

Washington Free Beacon.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign directed nearly $600 million to just four media consulting firms with deep ties to the Democratic establishment, Federal Election Commission records show.

The latest available FEC data show the Harris campaign exceeded $880 million in total spending as of October 16, though that number is expected to balloon to $1.5 billion after the Harris campaign files its post-election FEC report on December 5. Seventy percent of the campaign’s known total spending flowed through four firms: Media Buying & Analytics, Gambit Strategies, Bully Pulpit Interactive, and Dupont Circle Strategies.

Together, these four Democratic firms were largely responsible for distributing Harris’s campaign messaging across the nation—an effort that ultimately saw Harris lose all seven swing states and the popular vote but directed huge sums of donor money the firms’ way.

New York Post.

A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.

Conservative residents of the rural regions are taking note of their peers fleeing to lower-taxed and less-regulated red states but they are ready to stay put — pining for a divorce with the urban sectors of their state.

A group dubbed the New Illinois State has drafted a new constitution and championed plans to “Leave Illinois Without Moving.” On Election Day, seven rural counties in Illinois voted to contemplate splitting off from the state.

Pam Bondi’s road from Four Seasons Total Landscaping to AG pick should alarm America (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Donald Trump to kick transgender troops out of US military (Alistair Dawber/The Times)

CNN FREAKS OUT Over Elon Musk Potentially Buying MSNBC

Trump reportedly plans to kick trans troops out of the military within days of inauguration (The Independent)

Been there.

Steve Sailer.

Who knew that white women “enslavers” were wandering around in the African jungle, reducing free African natives to slavery?

The Nation, a Voice of the Crust.

A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.

Because, as you know, EVERYTHING is political. Author Zoe, of course, has to mention ‘white bodies’ in the first paragraph, suggesting that she (he? it?) is a Person of Color.

Fox News.

Federal officials declined to provide more information to Fox News Digital about a “humanitarian flight” that Laken Riley’s convicted killer, Jose Ibarra, was granted from New York City to Atlanta in September 2023.

In a Georgia courtroom on Monday, during Ibarra’s trial, prosecutors displayed a photo of a Delta Air Lines ticket from New York to Atlanta, dated Sept. 28, 2023, for Ibarra, the Venezuelan illegal immigrant accused of attacking and killing Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, on the University of Georgia campus in Athens in February.

FBI Special Agent Jamie Hipkiss said a photo of the boarding pass was pulled from a WhatsApp account associated with Ibarra.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender person elected to Congress, said Sunday that House Republicans’ bathroom ban is an “attempt to distract from what they are actually doing.”

In her appearance on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” with anchor Margaret Brennan, McBride said “every single time we hear the incoming administration or Republicans in Congress talk about any vulnerable group in this country, we have to be clear that it is an attempt to distract.”

“It is an attempt to distract from what they are actually doing. Every single time, every single time we hear them say the word ‘trans,’ look what they’re doing with their right hand,” she continued.

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Americans spend over $500 billion per year defending themselves against the IRS.

That’s spitting distance from the $800 billion the Defense Department spends protecting us against foreigners—well, failing to protect, in the case of the border.

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The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a NASA-funded discovery that RNA — a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before DNA emerged — can favor making the building blocks of proteins in either the left-hand or the right-hand orientation. Resolving this mystery could provide clues to the origin of life. The findings appear in research recently published in Nature Communications.

Proteins are the workhorse molecules of life, used in everything from structures like hair to enzymes (catalysts that speed up or regulate chemical reactions). Just as the 26 letters of the alphabet are arranged in limitless combinations to make words, life uses 20 different amino acid building blocks in a huge variety of arrangements to make millions of different proteins. Some amino acid molecules can be built in two ways, such that mirror-image versions exist, like your hands, and life uses the left-handed variety of these amino acids. Although life based on right-handed amino acids would presumably work fine, the two mirror images are rarely mixed in biology, a characteristic of life called homochirality. It is a mystery to scientists why life chose the left-handed variety over the right-handed one.

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In the annals of agrarian history, one particular movement has left a profound impact on the collective imagination of food sovereignty advocates. The Diggers in 17th century England were led by the visionary Gerrard Winstanley. This radical group emerged during a period of intense social and political upheaval, offering a revolutionary perspective on land ownership and food production that continues to resonate with modern struggles for (food) justice.

The Diggers, also known as the True Levellers, arose in 1649, a time when England was reeling from the aftermath of civil war. Winstanley and his followers dared to imagine a different world. The group challenged the very foundations of the emerging capitalist system and the enclosure movement that was rapidly privatising previously common lands. But Winstanley’s vision was not merely theoretical.

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With the changing of the guard, it’s time for long-promised accountability over the unprecedented COVID scam. Not only has Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) promised to hold feet to the fire as the head of the Senate’s government oversight panel, we may actually have a shot at a special counsel investigation and more with Trump’s incoming Attorney General pick, Pam Bondi – a loyalist who’s on record supporting the lab-leak hypothesis.

As regular readers vividly recall, ZeroHedge paid a hefty price for our early reporting on the pandemic, after we suggested that a Chinese lab playing weaponized God with bat COVID might have “something to do” with the COVID outbreak across town.

Millions in ad revenue evaporated. Corporate media (brought to you by Pfizer!) penned numerous hit-pieces, and various companies such as PayPal, Amazon and Mailchimp dropped us like a hot rock; other outlets suffered similarly. However brave reporting from journalists like Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Paul Thacker and Lee Fang – armed with factual evidence from Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter (now X) and various FOIA lawsuits, has provided more than just breadcrumbs.

Now, four years later, the entire charade has been exposed piece by piece.

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The agricultural world is witnessing a remarkable transformation, driven by groundbreaking technology. Among the most fascinating innovations is a farming robot equipped with lasers that can destroy hundreds of thousands of weeds in mere hours. This high-tech solution is not just a marvel of engineering but a timely response to persistent challenges in farming, from labor shortages to the environmental impact of chemical herbicides.

By combining artificial intelligence with precision laser technology, companies like Carbon Robotics are reshaping the way farmers tackle one of agriculture’s most labor-intensive tasks. These futuristic machines offer a glimpse into the potential of sustainable farming, where innovation meets efficiency, paving the way for a healthier and more productive future for agriculture.

Trump’s Trade Agenda Could Benefit Friends and Punish Rivals (Ana Swanson/New York Times)  Do tell.

Auchincloss: Senate must reject ‘dangerous’ RFK Jr. as HHS head (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Not A Joke: MSNBC Invites MARC ELIAS To Condemn Pam Bondi as an Election Denier!

This Professor Has Taken on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Opposing Vaccines (Ryan Quinn/Inside Higher Ed)

At Journo Gala, John Oliver Delights In ‘Stupid’ Elon Musk Buying ‘Online Sewer’ Twitter

You’ll Need to Hit the Showers for a ‘Sanewash’ After This Ridiculous RFK Hit Piece (Victoria Taft/PJ Media)

As MSNBC Continues to Swirl Down the Toilet, Its Latest Excuse for Trump’s Win Is Crazy-Train Absurd (Mike Miller/RedState)

Will Trump’s former defense lawyer protect the Justice Department from Trump? (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

Trump’s vow to use US troops for mass deportations could face intense resistance – starting from within the military (Lauren Frias/Business Insider)

‘The View’ hosts forced to issue four ‘legal notes’ in a single episode spent trashing Trump’s cabinet picks (Andrew Court/New York Post)

Trump Refuses to Disclose Who Is Funding His Transition (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Trump’s plan to dismantle DEI on day one is a “colorblind” path to Jim Crow 2.0 (Shari Dunn/Salon)

After Trump’s win, Black women are rethinking their role as America’s reliable political organizers (Kenya Hunter/Associated Press)  The grift is laid bare.

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As soon as President-elect Donald Trump had nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, the legacy media unleashed a torrent of breathless stories about Hegseth’s “extremism” because he displays tattoos of the Jerusalem Cross and “Deus vult,” a Latin phrase associated with the Crusades.

The Associated Press reported that a fellow service member had flagged Hegseth as a possible “Insider Threat” due to “a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups.”

But are the tattoos really associated with white supremacists, or is that just what far-Left activists want you to think?

You know the answer.

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It was twenty years ago this week (November 23, 2004) that CBS News announced Dan Rather would be leaving as anchor of the CBS Evening News after 23 years at the helm of a once top-rated newscast that had tumbled to third place during his tenure.

CBS’s announcement came amid an investigation into his pre-election 60 Minutes attack piece about Republican President George W. Bush’s National Guard service. The story relied on modern-looking documents presented by Rather as 1970s memos created on a typewriter. CBS’s investigation into the scandal, released January 10, 2005, found “fundamental deficiencies in reporting,” but stopped short of finding a political bias against Bush.

Yet anyone watching Rather over the years couldn’t help but notice how he relentlessly twisted the news to help Democrats and liberals, while punishing Republicans and conservatives. In an era when news bias was more subtle than today’s in-your-face cable clamor, Rather’s awkwardly obvious partisanship stuck out like a sore thumb.

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From the outside, Bugatti’s new 1,800 hp Tourbillon looks much the same as the outgoing Chiron. Longer, sure, with a more pronounced nose and aggressive fender flares, but not substantially different. Look closer at the suspension, though, and you’ll notice something radical: The control arms and linkages, rather than appearing like typical automotive parts, have a distinctly organic shape—like the skeletal structure of some otherworldly creature built for speed. These key components in the $4 million model were created using bleeding-edge additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing.

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As COP29 wrapped up in Baku, it left behind a trail of broken promises, hollow platitudes, and a $300 billion-per-year climate finance pledge that’s already being treated like Monopoly money. For the attendees, this summit was supposed to be a turning point—a global kumbaya to double down on the Paris Agreement and guilt developed nations into more climate cash giveaways. Instead, they woke up to a rude reality: President Donald J. Trump is back, and he’s armed with a cabinet determined to shred the green bureaucratic utopia faster than Greta Thunberg can say, “How dare you?”

The $300 billion package to “help” developing nations has been hailed as a win—if you define a win as forcing Western taxpayers to underwrite wind farms in nations where electricity is still considered a luxury. Naturally, the recipients aren’t satisfied. They’re already calling it “woefully insufficient,” which roughly translates to, “Nice start—now double it, and maybe we’ll stop complaining.”

But the real story isn’t the faux climate unity in Baku; it’s the cataclysmic shift coming out of Washington, D.C. With Trump’s return, the U.S. is poised to leave the Paris Agreement (again), freeze out the global climate aristocracy, and make American energy great again.

The Foundry.

People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.

The NRDC claims it uses law “to confront the climate crisis.”

What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things.

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The reelection of Donald Trump has sent ripples across terror-supporting and anti-Israel regimes. In the Middle East, Qatar claimed it would rescind its longtime asylum for Hamas leadership, and Iran is reportedly recalibrating its retaliation for Israel’s recent airstrikes. But the new Trump Administration should also be focusing on Latin America, where complicit nations have enabled Hezbollah to thrive. The U.S. must curtail Hezbollah’s active regional fundraising which not only supports attacks against Israel but transnational criminal activity, including bringing drugs and potential terrorists across America’s southern border.

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Of all the celebrities promising to leave the country if Donald Trump won this month’s election, at least one has already kept that promise and decamped to supposedly greener pastures. The actress and filmmaker Eva Longoria recently told Marie Claire that she, her husband, and her son now split their time between Spain and Mexico.

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Eva Longoria doesn’t know this, but she’s not leaving the United States because of Donald Trump. She’s leaving because of Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, London Breed, and all the rest of the party-machine politicians, who see this nation’s cities and states not as places where people live and desire to live well but as opportunities to ply their ideological biases and fulfill their personal ambitions.

Donald Trump is not the dictator his detractors want us all to believe he is. But even if he were, there is nothing he could do to the people of San Francisco that is worse than what London Breed, Edwin Lee, and Gavin Newsom have done to them. There is nothing he could do to the people of Chicago that is worse than what Brandon Johnson and Lori Lightfoot have done to them. There is nothing he could do to the people of New York that is worse than what Eric Adams and Bill DeBlasio have done to them.

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As the Biden administration winds to a close, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aggressively expanding its influence in South America. On Nov. 14, Xi Jinping and Peruvian President Dina Boluarte inaugurated a $3.6 billion port in Chancay, Peru, marking another major step in China’s economic foothold in the region.

Earlier this year, Boluarte traveled to Beijing to strengthen Sino–Peruvian ties, cementing Peru’s position as the second-largest recipient of Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America. Notably, this includes China Southern Power Grid’s acquisition of Peru’s electricity distribution, placing 100 percent of this critical infrastructure under CCP control.

In stark contrast, the White House failed to engage Boluarte during her 2023 visit to Washington, missing a key opportunity to counter Beijing’s growing influence. The port inauguration coincided with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, where U.S. President Joe Biden and leaders from 21 member economies convened. The timing underscores a stark reality: while the United States watched from the sidelines, the CCP was actively drawing Latin America deeper into its orbit, delivering a clear and humiliating message to the United States about its waning influence in the region.

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Campaign season brought with it a steady stream of accusations that various parties and platforms were spreading misinformation and disinformation.

Most recently, the scandals at FEMA over avoiding homes with Trump signs was quickly slapped with a “misinformation” label…until FEMA itself admitted it had happened. MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki suggested “laws have to change” to combat the scourge.

With the misinformation category being weaponized across the political spectrum, we took a look at how invested government has become in studying and “combatting” it using your tax dollars. That research can provide the intellectual ammunition to censor people online.

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An Israeli man who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found murdered, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday, denouncing his death as a “heinous antisemitic terrorist act.”

Zvi Kogan, a rabbi who worked in the Gulf Arab country for an Orthodox Jewish group called Chabad, vanished in Dubai on Thursday.

“The state of Israel will use all means at its disposal to bring the criminals responsible for his death to justice,” the prime minister’s statement said.

UPDATE: Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’

Washington Free Beacon.

When patients turn to professional societies like the AMA or the American College of Physicians or the American Association of Pediatrics for vital health information, one might expect that the information is based on publications in prestigious medical journals of carefully designed and meticulously interpreted studies. Dr. Marty Makary, in his book Blind Spots, shows how wrong these assumptions can be.

Makary is a frequent commentator on health-related topics. He is a surgeon and surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Blind Spots consists of several examples where the medical establishment has perpetuated a myth often based on a single academic’s opinion that became ingrained in the culture as “truth” despite the flimsiest of evidence. Using examples like avoiding exposure to peanuts in infants, producing an epidemic of peanut allergy, or denying the benefits of hormone replacement therapy in perimenopausal women, resulting in premature deaths and suboptimal health outcomes, Makary proves his case against groupthink in medicine. He goes on to rail against the overuse of antibiotics because of their potential for altering the microbial composition in the GI tract. Recent research shows that this effect of antibiotics may contribute to serious complications, including risks for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Newsbusters.

The progressive perverts of the Left are banking on the idea they can claim the minds of our youth while they’re most impressionable.

What do you remember learning when you were in Kindergarten? Was it shapes? Arithmetic? Learning how to read or spell your name?

For New York’s public schools, creepy sex abnormalities are the most important thing your 5 year old must learn during this formative stage of development.

That’s why Hillside Elementary school is forcing their Kindergarteners to endure a new “gender curriculum” that “focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity.”

Lesson: Don’t send your kids to a government school.

New York Times.

Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was a leading architect of “Bidenomics.”

What would you think of a medical doctor whose wrong-headed ideas made people sick?

Calling in from Paris on Friday after serving as chair of an economic meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation at the Château de la Muette, Mr. Bernstein, a longtime Biden confidant, spoke with The New York Times about how he is making sense of the moment.

Just roughing it.

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The left-wing cable news channel MSNBC has reportedly cut the salary of one of its top hosts, Rachel Maddow, by a staggering $5 million as the network suffers from ongoing financial problems and a steep decline in ratings.

As reported by the New York Post, Maddow saw her salary fall from $30 million to $25 million during her contract renegotiations this month. Her show, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” airs weekly on Mondays. Her show has been highlighted as one of the few on the network that is still doing well with viewership in the weeks since the 2024 election.

Associated Press.

Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, a political shift spotlighting one of President-elect Donald Trump’s latest Cabinet picks: a GOP congresswoman, who has drawn labor support, to be his labor secretary.

Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer narrowly lost her bid for a second term this month, despite strong backing from union members, a key part of the Democratic base but gravitating in the Trump era toward a Republican Party traditionally allied with business interests.

“Lori’s strong support from both the Business and Labor communities will ensure that the Labor Department can unite Americans of all backgrounds behind our Agenda for unprecedented National Success – Making America Richer, Wealthier, Stronger and more Prosperous than ever before!” Trump said in a statement announcing his choice Friday night.

UPDATE: Trump’s GOP Making Huge Gains With Union Voters

CNN reporter breaks down Trump’s thinking to select Scott Bessent for treasury (CNN) As if.

Israel kills Hezbollah leader who planned elaborate attack on U.S. soldiers in Iraq (NBC News) Will they even get a Thank You? Don’t bet on it.

How millions of US children would be hurt by Trump’s mass deportation plan: ‘Deep harm is intentional’ (The Guardian)

Supervolcano shows signs of waking up, which would plunge the world into chaos (Earth.com)  WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! No pressure….

Cope Much? Hollywood Reporter Goes Full TDS with Guide on How to ‘Digitally Silence’ Trump

Stale Air! NPR Airs Hour of Leftist Shrieking About Trump’s Revenge on the Press

NY ‘Hush Money’ Judge Grants Trump Request To File For Dismissal, Postpones Sentencing Indefinitely

Trump’s Cabinet picks boast thin resumes. That’s the point (Tal Axelrod/ABC News)

Trump still hasn’t signed agreements to begin transition of power, White House says (Joey Garrison/USA Today)  Why should he need to ‘sign agreements’?

Trump’s transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign (NBC News)  Probably because it gets the right people’s panties in a wad.

Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’ (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)  OH NOES!

MSNBC Deplores ‘Dangerous and Effective’ Bondi Pick As ‘Worse Than’ Gaetz

Trump Is Pissed at True Reports His Victory Wasn’t Exactly a Landslide (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

Daily Show Attacks GOP For Sticking With Capitol’s Sex-Based Restrooms

Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide? (Michael Schaffer/Politico)

Trump: From ‘Fascist’ to ‘Let’s Do Lunch’

Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

Biden admin quietly loosening immigration policies before Trump takes office – including letting migrants skip ICE check-ins in NYC (Jennie Taer/New York Post)

Scarborough Admits: Voters Cared More About Inflation Than My Wailing About ‘Fascism’

Networks Deride Pam Bondi’s Qualifications, Downplay Her as Merely a ‘Trump Loyalist’

Democrats: Trump = Hitler? Never Mind!

Kennedy’s ‘MAHA transition team’ includes anti-vax activists (Politico)  OH NOES!

House Democrats prepare to make Mike Johnson’s life hell (Andrew Solender/Axios)  And this differs from their normal behavior how?

Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election (Washington Post)

Trump’s intel pick was placed on government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections (CNN) Watch list! That proves it!

Biden-Harris Admin Races To Dish Out $25 Billion for Green Energy Before Trump Takes Office, Sparking Fraud Fears

The Donald Trump resistance is ready for when Democrats are done grieving (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today)

Trump Picks Key Figure in Project 2025 for Powerful Budget Role (New York Times)  OH NOES!

Team Trump Is Furious Hegseth Hid Sex Assault Claim: ‘This Is the F-king Pentagon!’ (Rolling Stone)

PBS News Airs 10 Minutes of Trans Panic Over Trump’s Win, Including the ‘Two-Spirit Kid’

Sharp elbows and raised voices: Inside Trump’s bumpy transition (Washington Post)

Brooks Fears Trump, Bondi Will Take a ‘Blowtorch to The Neutral Institutions of Justice’

Trump fills out his team of randos (Mike Debonis/Politico)

Behind the Curtain: Trump’s liberal cabinet (Mike Allen/Axios)

Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Just Signed Up For (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Yeah, all the proglodytes in the Narrative media are lining up to shit on her.

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)  And he was in the same country when it happened! BURN THE WITCH!

WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump’s Attack on Rule of Law (emptywheel)

John Bolton Slams Trump Cabinet Pick Seb Gorka as a ‘Con Man’ (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Washington Post editorial warns of potential Ukraine abandonment under Trump (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)  An editorial! That proves it!

American Dreaming.

A recent Pirate Wiresexposé by Ashley Rindsberg about the goings-on at Wikipedia caught my eye the other day, and has held my attention ever since. I was familiar with Rindsberg’s work, notably his incredible historical critique of the New York Times, The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History (2021), so I knew this reporting was something to take seriously. However, I did not realize how much it actually related to the work I’ve been doing with my podcast History Impossiblefor the past six years, namely with regard to Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a historical figure who has, perhaps unfortunately, become something of the show’s mascot.

In his piece, Rindsberg detailed a coordinated effort behind the scenes to engage in deliberate actions that compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia, what the Wikipedia community refers to as “vandalism.” This case involved about 40 editors working on behalf of a group called Tech for Palestine, a Discord group of about 8,000 members. According to the article, they “worked to delegitimize Israel, present radical Islamist groups in a favorable light, and position fringe academic views on the Israel-Palestine conflict as mainstream over past years.” Once their actions started coming to light, the rogue editors immediately tried covering their tracks. This suggests to me that they recognized their actions were not only dishonest, but also completely violated the spirit of a site like Wikipedia.1

Many of the examples reported by Rindsberg are troubling, including changes to omit any mention of Hamas’s 1988 charter — a document that was a little less than, shall we say, “diplomatic” in its wording of their own Jewish Question. Lest we forget, the original charter both explicitly referred to Jews as “Nazis” and glowingly cited the story of the Prophet Muhammad being told by Allah to kill any Jew hiding behind a tree or a rock in order to bring about the Day of Judgment. In 2017, Hamas leadership took a page from the Hitler handbook of never admitting anything on paper and changed their charter to reflect a hatred of Zionists rather than spelling out “Jews.”

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Read it.

Or don’t, as the case may be….

When it comes to cameras, size matters, but not in the way you think.

Any time a new smartphone is released, it is easy to drool over the latest, greatest, and biggest features that allow you to take even more stunning selfies composed of even more megapixels. However, in the world of cameras, smaller cameras could end up having a far greater impact on the world at large—and enable a ton of positive applications in society—than the next iPhone camera. Work from researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington is pointing the way.

A team of researchers from both institutions has published work that uses innovative methods and materials to create a “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a single grain of salt.