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A culture-enricher from Afghanistan went on a stabbing rampage in a park in Bavaria today, killing two people, including a 2-year-old boy, and wounding two others, including a 2-year-old girl.

The Bavarian Interior Minister would take issue with my headline, however, since he has ruled out “Islamism”. The suspect is said to have a “psychiatric illness”. Have you ever noticed how many murderous mujahideen are said to be mentally ill? Why is it that violent criminals of the Islamic persuasion tend to be loonies?

As a matter of interest, it appears that the group of pre-schoolers targeted by the mujahid were also culture-enrichers, if the sample of stabbed 2-year-olds is representative.

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

UPDATE: Failed Afghan Asylum Seeker Held for Killing Toddler In Germany

Victor Davis Hanson.

There’s been a whole change of mentality, from the trivial to the existential. We also learn these disclosures. Why now? Why now? Why did we suddenly learn from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that Joe Biden had had cognitive decline all these years, in which to point that out was blasphemy?

And now, all of a sudden, we hear we were right all along. All of you were.

Astral Codex Ten.

Whenever I talk about charity, a type that I’ll call the “based post-Christian vitalist” shows up in the comments to tell me that I’ve got it all wrong. The moral impulse tells us to help our family, friends, and maybe village. It’s a weird misfire, analogous to an auto-immune disease, to waste brain cycles on starving children in a far-off country who you’ll never meet. You’ve been cucked by centuries of Christian propaganda. Instead of the slave morality that yokes you to loser victims who wouldn’t give you the time of day if your situations were reversed, you should cultivate a master morality that lets you love the strong people who push forward human civilization.

Sounds good to me. Think of it as evolution in action.

A younger and more naive person might think the based post-Christian vitalist and I have some irreconcilable moral difference. Moral argument can only determine which conclusions follow from certain premises. If premises are too different (for example, a intuitive feeling of compassion for others, vs. an intuitive feeling of strength and pitilessness), there’s no way to proceed.

So it was revealing to watch some of these people trip over themselves to say we should invade Britain because of its tolerance for Pakistani grooming gangs.

Some of us think of Britain as one of those ‘far-off countries’ whose starving children one will never meet. Don’t know what that does to his argument.

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The United Kingdom has confirmed that one of its Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines surfaced close to the Yantar, a notorious Russian spy ship late last year, to make it clear it was being observed. The revelation came as the Royal Navy was once again closely tracking the Russian ship after it returned to British waters. According to the U.K. defense secretary, the Yantar has, in recent months, been “mapping the U.K.’s critical underwater infrastructure,” at a time when NATO, in general, is increasingly concerned about apparent sabotage to undersea cables.

The Yantar was sailing in British waters in November last year, during which time U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey said it had been “detected loitering over U.K. critical undersea infrastructure.”

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Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began Monday.

Trump joined in the battle immediately upon returning to office, signing an executive order on Monday that rescinded a Biden administration order and signaled the possibility of a push by his new administration to change the 2030 census.

Those efforts may get a boost from the GOP-controlled Congress, where Republican U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards from North Carolina earlier this month re-introduced legislation that would put a citizenship question on the census form.

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In January 2020, the top law enforcement agency in the state of Oregon launched a “Bias Response Hotline” for residents to report “offensive ‘jokes.’”
Staffed by “trauma-informed operators” and overseen by the Oregon Department of Justice, the hotline, which receives thousands of calls a year, doesn’t just solicit reports of hate crimes and hiring discrimination. It also asks for reports of “bias incidents”—cases of “non-criminal” expression that are motivated, “in part,” by prejudice or hate.
Oregonians are encouraged to report their fellow citizens for things like “creating racist images,” “mocking someone with a disability,” and “sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity.” One webpage affiliated with the hotline, which is available in 240 languages, even lists “imitating someone’s cultural norm” as something “we want to hear” about.
It is not entirely clear what the state does with these reports. While the hotline cannot “sanction a bias perpetrator,” according to its website, it does share “de-identified data” with the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, a body that develops “public safety” plans for the state, and connects “survivors” with “resources” like counseling and rent relief.

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Covid-19 Inquiry they were forced to form their own support systems after being ignored by the authorities and made to feel like “an uncomfortable truth” of the rollout.

Kate Scott, speaking on behalf of the group Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK (VIBUK), said they felt they were “almost being pushed into the shadows” as the overwhelming official message continued to be that the jabs were ”safe and effective” in spite of their experience.

Last week’s hearing also heard from a victims’ group in Scotland which raised concerns that the vaccine had been rolled out at such speed that public safety had been sacrifice

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On Friday’s Erin Burnett OutFront, the show played a report by correspondent Natasha Chen in which she informed viewers of the difficulties caused by electric cars during the Los Angeles wildfires.

It turns out that the batteries used by electric cars have their own environmental consequences when they catch fire, creating hazardous pollution and a blaze that is much more difficult to extinguish than in gas-powered cars.

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Anti-Israel student activists unleashed mayhem at Columbia University on Tuesday afternoon, which marked the beginning of the spring semester. Several keffiyeh-clad student activists stormed an Israeli history class and passed out anti-Semitic flyers glorifying Hamas, depicting the Star of David being crushed, and promising violence. Others vandalized the campus and called on their followers to shut down the university.
Four student activists, donning keffiyehs, marched into the class, “History of Modern Israel,” filming themselves as they recited a script, passed out propaganda, and harassed students, most of whom are Jewish, according to a student in the class.
“THE ENEMY WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW,” read one flyer, which used an upside-down triangle symbol that Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets to spell “TOMORROW.” The flyer depicts a truck full of Hamas terrorists brandishing heavy artillery, including two RPGs and machine guns.
Another flyer, with the caption “CRUSH ZIONISM,” depicted the Star of David underneath a boot. A third depicted an Israeli flag in flames with the threat to “BURN ZIONISM TO THE GROUND.”

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

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Of course. Grifters gotta grift.

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Follow The Science! Until it changes….

Gothamist.

A man died in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening after police say he was beaten and robbed in the back of a ride-hail car by two men who got into the car at an intersection.

Michael Shelonchik, 53, was sitting in the back of the vehicle around 6:15 p.m. at the intersection of West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue in Coney Island when the men opened the door, began assaulting him and snatched a chain off his neck, NYPD officials said on Wednesday.

The driver tried to drive away from the perpetrators but only made it a few blocks before Shelonchik lost consciousness, police said. First responders were called and took him to Maimonides Medical Center, where he died.

NYPD officials said it was still unclear whether Shelonchik knew the suspects, and police made no immediate arrests. The NYPD was investigating the case early Wednesday as a potentially suspicious death, while Shelonchik’s cause of death was being determined.

Time to leave.

ZMan does a deep dive.

The concept of racism is a novelty of the twentieth century that in recent times has been treated as a timeless truth. In the last century, the best people decided that their fellow white people had been living in sin because they had not welcomed the descendants of former slaves into their lives, so they set about correcting it. What started as a project to better the material condition of black people and include them into general society, slowly transformed into a cult of leukophobia.

It is a good example of how a negative identity can both spread and slowly destroy the people who embrace it. The first “antiracists” were sober minded compared to the modern version, in that they simply wanted to address the practical problem of incorporating the black population into the American legal system. As a practical matter, the United States had two legal frameworks into the twentieth century, one for the white population and one for the black population.

The fact that this dual legal system existed in America is a great example of how practical necessity must always come before the ideal. America was born, in part, in the notion of equality before the law. It nearly tore itself apart in a civil war over this very same issue, but into the twentieth century the majority of Americans, of both races, were comfortable with a two-tier legal system. It was this gap between the ideal and reality through which antiracism entered.

Quillette.

“Terms like ‘undocumented’ and ‘unauthorized’ can make a person’s illegal presence in the country appear to be a matter of minor paperwork,” wrote Tom Kent, the Associated Press (AP)’s deputy editor for standards and production in 2012. Kent was responding to a policy proposal to eliminate the adjective “illegal” due to its perceived pejorative nature. Six months later, Kent’s guidance was overruled. The New York Times followed suit within a month. Ten years on, after a historic surge in illegal immigration that overwhelmed federal agencies and major cities, many publishers don’t even mention legal status when discussing immigration. So, how did we get here?

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Western values are those features vital for identifying nations as Western. Islam, with its very different laws and teachings, not only opposes them, it forbids them.

Under the name “British Values”, the UK government lists five:

Democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

These are required to be promoted in schools. Opposition to them is what, according to the Prevent programme, constitutes “extremism”.

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

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As you may recall, just before Christmas a Saudi psychiatrist drove his vehicle at speed through a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, killing six people and wounding hundreds more.

Now comes word that the federal Prosecutor General does not identify the incident as an act of terrorism, because… Well, just because. Maybe it’s because the perpetrator wasn’t a “neo-Nazi”.

James Lileks:

It is not a usual debate on the site these days, where subreddit after subreddit is banning links to X, because Elon Musk is a Nazi. From a gesture they deduce that he favors gun confiscation, state control of the media, state direction of all industrial output, support for black-clad masked mobs that besiege government buildings and beat their opposition, and the genocide of the Jews. Eventually they will tire of the subject and go back to their favorite causes, which include gun confiscation, state control of the media, state direction of all industrial output, siupport for black-clad masked mobs that besiege government buildings and beat their opposition and support for an organization that desires the genocide of the Jews.

X, of course, is a rightwing hellsite! There’s no debate at all!

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Let me think, I seem to remember that there’s a term for that sort of thing … I believe it starts with an “R”….

Let’s see … looks like the Left Coast, the Other Left Coast, and the Marxist Midwest sweep the rankings.

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The EV world has gotten more and more competitive over the last few years. It’s become saturated with competition and demand is starting to hit its limits, all while at the same time major Chinese names are dominating the industry.

That’s why it’s not surprising to see another name in the space, Canoo, file for bankruptcy.

The seven-year-old electric vehicle startup has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware, announcing it will “cease operations immediately.” The company is liquidating its assets, citing failed attempts to secure foreign capital and funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office, according to TechCrunch.

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Well, that didn’t take long.

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President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.”

In the days before Biden offered the pardon to Fauci, along with other critics of Donald Trump, some experts who have followed Fauci’s career and handling of the pandemic, as well as members of the Trump transition team, reiterated their assertion that Fauci perjured himself on several occasions during the pandemic – especially regarding his agency’s links to the lab in Wuhan, China, that might have created the virus that causes COVID-19.

The pardon addresses any COVID-related offenses, and is backdated to 2014—the year a U.S. ban on so-called “gain of function” virus research took effect — research Fauci is accused of outsourcing to China.

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Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and three other defendants were charged by federal prosecutors in an eight-count indictment unsealed on Jan. 17 alleging the group participated in a bribery and corruption scheme that sought to benefit a company with nearly $90 million in city contracts.

And Democrats are crooked every age….

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The side in control of the air tends to win. At a minimum, dominant air power is a massive force multiplier that allows the side wielding it to take significantly less casualties than its opponent. Aircraft can uniquely disrupt supply lines, command and control, and troop concentrations. The forces on the losing side must drastically alter their tactics to survive, limiting their ability to attack or defend.

Another feature is that air-to-air battles tend to be lopsided. It is more common to see 20:1 or 10:1 kill/loss ratios than even matches. For example, the F-15 has 104 kills and zero losses since entering service in 1976. The defining factors have been pilot quality, aircraft performance, weapon performance, and sensor capability (radar, airborne early warning aircraft, etc.).

US airpower was so dominant in the 20th century that most opponents focused on building ground-based anti-aircraft defenses. An arms race developed between these anti-aircraft missile batteries and ever more sophisticated aircraft, weapons, and tactics on the US side. Stealth to avoid detection, cruise missiles to avoid risking aircraft, and highly specialized tactics and weapons to defeat anti-aircraft batteries are an outgrowth of this competition.

Drones add a layer of complexity and prompt questions about how they fit into the traditional airpower paradigm.

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In contemporary political discourse, the term “deep state” frequently arises as a catch-all phrase to describe the entrenched bureaucracy and unseen forces that shape U.S. governance. Washington, D.C., is often portrayed as the epicenter of this so-called deep state, where power dynamics operate independently of electoral outcomes. Some also refer to it as the “blob.”

While it is true that U.S. governance is steered by unelected and unaccountable entities, such as the military and intelligence complexes, the concept of the “deep state” can oversimplify the complexities of governance in Washington, D.C. It can also serve to deflect accountability from those most responsible for the damage inflicted on our country.

The deep state may appear to be a monolithic entity. However, it is, in reality, a complex web of human actors with genuine agency. Among these individuals, Barack Obama stands out as a pivotal figure whose influence and legacy have significantly shaped the political landscape over the past 17 years.

In this concluding piece of our series on Barack Obama, we explore his instrumental role in shaping U.S. policy, not just during his own presidency but also during Trump’s first term and the Biden presidency – sometimes referred to as Obama’s third and fourth terms – and how this unfortunate era may now be approaching its end.

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With good reason.

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Avoid the whole problem. Don’t send your kid to a government school.

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Good intentions are not enough. Competence is a necessary component.

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Heavily armed Hamas terrorists and their Gazan allies paraded through the streets on Sunday, surrounding an ambulance carrying the first round of Israeli hostages released under a tenuous ceasefire deal. The public show of force served as a stark reminder that, even after a year of war, Hamas still controls the embattled Gaza Strip.

Photos showed throngs of armed Hamas fighters riding through the streets as Gazans celebrated around them. The terrorist motorcade drove all the way to the meeting point where an ambulance was set to transfer the three Israel hostages, creating a tense and unpredictable moment as the three captives were set free. Other footage posted on social media depicted Hamas supporters rallying behind the group, including a small child holding what appeared to be a handgun and sporting a Hamas headband. Though Hamas terrorists spent much of the past year hiding in tunnels and fighting in civilian clothes, they wore uniforms as the hostages were released.

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

Curtis Yarvin:

What makes history hard is that you never know where you are. History is like pitch. Even most musicians only have relative pitch, not absolute (“perfect”) pitch. They can hear the distance between notes, but not the frequency of the notes.

Imagine if the political phenomenon we call “left” versus “right” worked like this. You would have no way to sense where you are absolutely on the leftright spectrum. You would only be able to position yourself relative to the local period around you.

No need to imagine—this is indeed how it works. Moreover, humans can hear only a narrow range of the frequency spectrum. Outside 20 to 20000 hertz, there is no sound per se. There is vibration, explosion, etc. When reading the past, our normal reflex is to process events inside the local spectrum as news, and those outside the spectrum as history. This is also a subjective distinction.

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The Department of Energy, in one of its final actions under President Joe Biden, earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies based in Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s home state of Michigan—defying the agency’s inspector general, who called on the Biden administration to suspend the loan program amid conflict-of-interest concerns.
Some of Granholm’s largest campaign benefactors during her Michigan gubernatorial campaign were among the companies receiving the hefty last-minute loans.
The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office announced Thursday that it awarded a staggering $22.9 billion in loan guarantees for utility companies to develop green energy projects across 12 states. More than $14 billion of that total was awarded to DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, the two companies with ties to Granholm, solely for projects in Michigan.
In addition, on Friday afternoon, the office announced a $1.3 billion loan for Michigan Potash Company to help fund a sustainable fertilizer plant in Osceola County, Michigan.
DTE Energy’s political action committee contributed more than $34,000 to Granholm’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, according to state records. Then-DTE Energy CEO Stephen Ewing, whom Granholm appointed to serve on the state’s Early Childhood Investment Corporation Executive Committee, personally donated another $3,400 to Granholm’s campaign in 2004.

Associated Press.

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general.

The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments created holidays more than a century ago to honor Lee and later combined the day with the federal holiday established in the 1980s to honor King.

The strange juxtaposition of honoring men from vastly different legacies has persisted for decades.

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The mayors of Philadelphia and New York City have positioned their cities into a posture of willingness to help the incoming Trump administration with its plan to deport illegal immigrants, a marked departure from President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office, NBC News reported Sunday.

New York Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has voiced a willingness to work with the Trump administration in the aftermath of his election victory, meeting with border czar Tom Homan last month and visiting with Trump on Friday in Florida.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and District Attorney Larry Krasner, both Democrats, have also softened their stance on the city’s status as a sanctuary city.

A Red Rebound

This map shows the percentage point change in 2024 results from 2020 in counties where votes are nearly all counted. At least 2,630 shifted more Republican and 301 turned more Democratic.

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It’s a familiar situation in culturally enriched areas of Western Europe, especially the banlieues of French cities: “youths” fleeing the police on foot or in vehicles meet an untimely end, and massive violent riots ensue, spreading to multiple cities. The most famous example occurred in 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris, when two youngsters fleeing the police climbed over a wall and hid in an electrical substation, and were subsequently electrocuted. Rioting began immediately afterwards and spread to cities all over France. More than 8,000 cars were torched by the rioters. A state of emergency was declared, and lasted for more than three months.

Twenty years later we have a similar situation in Italy, albeit on a smaller scale. In this case, an Egyptian youth named Ramy Elgaml was a passenger on a scooter that failed to stop at a police roadblock last November in Milan. The Carabinieri pursued the youngsters in a vehicle, and the scooter eventually ran into a light pole, killing Ramy Elgaml instantly.

In this case, the Carabinieri may well be at fault. A judicial investigation is underway into possible unjustified pursuit, and the officers may be held liable. However, justice is not proceeding fast enough to suit those who would avenge the death of Ramy, and violent riots have broken out in various Italian cities.

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

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A clandestine tunnel discovered on the US-Mexico border allowing entry from Ciudad Juarez into the Texan city of El Paso will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official said Saturday, adding that its construction was under investigation.

Discovered on January 10 by US and Mexican security agencies, the tunnel measures approximately 300 meters (1,000 feet) in length on the Mexican side and is equipped with lighting, ventilation and is reinforced to prevent collapses.

Hidden in a storm sewer system operating between both cities, its access is about 1.8 meters high and 1.2 meters wide (6 feet high and 4 feet wide), making for easy passage of people or contraband, said General Jose Lemus, commander of Ciudad Juarez’s military garrison, which is guarding the tunnel.

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Cue ‘Sheep Will Safely Graze’ from Handel’s Messiah.

Sheepherder JR Howard accidentally found himself in the middle of Texas’ burgeoning clean energy transition. In 2021, he and his family began contracting with solar farms — sites with hundreds of thousands of solar modules — to use his sheep to eat the grass.

What was once a small business has turned into a full-scale operation with more than 8,000 sheep and 26 employees.

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.

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Time to leave.

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“We assure the great nation of Iran that their young people are capable of coming out honorable and victorious from a battle on the seas against enemies big and small,” Salami said.

State television said the base was built at a depth of 500 meters (yards) somewhere in the Gulf and it showed tunnels with long rows of what it said were a new version of Taregh-class radar-evading speedboats which can launch cruise missiles.

Earlier this month, Iran started military exercises that are due to last two months and have already included war games in which the Revolutionary Guards defended nuclear installations in Natanz against mock attacks by missiles and drones.

Iran, which says its ballistic missiles are an important deterrent and retaliatory force against the U.S. and Israel, has in the past unveiled several underground “missiles cities.”

Naval Gazing.

2024 is behind us, which means it is time for that most prestigious of awards given out by Naval Gazing, the William D Brown Memorial Award for the biggest naval screwup that didn’t kill anybody.

As the Brown Award’s prestige increases, more and more navies go to greater lengths to take home the trophy:

• Military Sealift Command ran the oiler Big Horn aground off Oman
• The People’s Liberation Army Navy sank a new nuclear submarine pierside.
• The Baltic Navies allowed vital cables to be repeatedly disrupted.
• And the Iranian Navy, seeking a second award, flipped a frigate in drydock, then sank it completely while attempting to salvage it.

But none of these commendable efforts were enough to secure the award, or even runner-up status. The latter falls to the Royal New Zealand Navy, who were willing to follow in the footsteps of America and Iran and set one of their own ships on fire. Unfortunately, while hydrographic ship HMNZS Manawanui was the largest proportion of any navy yet sacrificed this way at 11%, it wasn’t enough to claim the prize.

Because, in the closing days of the year, the USN, seeking an unprecedented third award, shot down one of its own F/A-18F Super Hornets over the Red Sea with a missile from the cruiser Gettysburg. Fortunately, both crew members ejected before the missile hit, preserving their eligibility and earning themselves a special tie. BZ to the USN for winning a second year in a row, and to the crew of Gettysburg for triumphing over such stiff competition. I reached out to Gettysburg’s PAO for comment on their victory, but did not hear back by press time.

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commonplace in major urban areas of Sweden where culture-enrichers dominate. Virtually every day there are stories in the news about explosions of one sort or another.

Early this morning a large explosion shook a residential building in southern Stockholm. Gary Fouse, who translated the material below, notes: “It doesn’t appear that the media is handling this as front-page earth-shattering news.”

They say you can get used to anything, and it seems the Swedes are getting used to explosions.

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Looking forward to different national security policies across the board with the incoming Trump administration, this is our last round-up of Biden-Harris administration policies that did not put America First. We expect newsletters to contain a much different set of headlines as we head into 2025!

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A group of “Swedish” schoolboys came into conflict in the lavatory of their school (middle school or high school; I can’t tell which), and one of them ended up being shot through the head. Apparently all the boys involved, victim and persecutors, were culture-enrichers. They’ve been given Swedish citizenship, so now they’re officially Swedes.

The boy who allegedly pulled the trigger is currently on trial.

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EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit that Dr. Anthony Fauci used to offshore risky gain-of-function research 6 months before the Obama administration banned it, has finally been cut off by the US Government – along with its former president, Peter Daszak, for a period of five years following scrutiny over its work in Wuhan, China ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The carmaker hemorrhaged cash in 2024 amid a widespread slackening in demand for EVs, losing roughly $4 billion in the first three quarters of 2024 alone. Now, lame duck President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) has tossed the struggling company a $6.57 billion loan to finance the construction of a manufacturing plant in Stanton Springs North, Georgia, according to a DOE press release. (RELATED: Biden’s Green Loan Office Offers Up A Staggering $22 Billion In Admin’s Final Hours)

“This loan will help us accelerate the launch of our Georgia plant for R2 [SUV] and R3 [crossover], providing thousands of jobs in the state,” Rivian Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said in a Thursday statement announcing the loan’s finalization. “People are incredibly excited to get behind the wheel of our new models, and this additional capacity for our mass market products is key to U.S. leadership in the electric vehicle industry.”

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In September of 2020, more than five years after the massacre at the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, a young “French” culture-enricher named Zaheer Hassan Mahmood attacked two people with a meat cleaver (shown at right) at the same address, seriously wounding them. Unfortunately for the victims, the attack was a case of mistaken identity: Charlie Hebdo had moved its office to another location. The two victims were employees of a television production company, and were having a cigarette break in the street when the mujahid wounded them with his meat cleaver.

In an added twist, the youngster with the cleaver was 25 years old, but had claimed to be 18 when he entered the country in order to obtain more social benefits.

The mischievous youth is now on trial in Paris. His relatives and acquaintances back home in Pakistan are apparently following the proceedings closely. Interviewed in the video below, they express their pride in Mr. Mahmood’s actions. Even though his attack was based on mistaken identity, they feel that he was defending the honor of the Prophet.

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