DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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This week, the US Supreme court announced that it will consider throwing out the Mexican government’s suit in the case of Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. The Mexican government alleges that Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Witmer Public Safety Group Inc. are intentionally conspiring with middle-men to supply Mexican cartels with guns.

Let’s close the border — totally. Nobody gets across either way. No thing gets across either way. Violators will be shot on sight, like the old Iron Curtain. Mine fields are not out of the question.

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“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” mobs of college students chant at terror rallies.

What is there to ‘revolt’ against in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago? The Hamas rallies like the BLM, environmentalist and other radical rallies take place in cities run by mayors and city councils who support their efforts and sometimes even show up to their events.

Even before New York City and other municipalities paid out millions in voluntary settlements to the BLM rioters who had assaulted police officers, the dirty secret of the radical mobs was that the authorities were on their side. And will continue to be on their side no matter what they do.

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We have seen this illustrated daily over the last week in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Recovery involving the rescue of thousands of people in remote mountain areas is a complex problem. Yet government – on most levels, from federal to county – all offer the same clear and simple answer to the problem: let us run everything. Do not assist without prior permission and clearance from us. Most of all, respect my authoratah!

That this delays response matters not. Process uber alles. It may cost lives, but better a few people be rescued properly than many get rescued in an unseemly manner, without procedures being followed.

This bureaucratic ineptitude is not universal. In Texas and Florida, the government knows enough to get out of the way of helpful volunteers. They even facilitate them. Apparently not so much elsewhere, especially on the federal level. I would say FEMA is turning in a Keystone Kops performance, only that is unfair to the Keystone Kops.

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Energy ignorance, at these levels of government, are getting deadly. I mean, we can all see Germany, right? It’s turning slapstick, what they’re doing to energy policy, and so many western leaders seem intent on following them. Force the closure of baseload power, force the adoption of intermittent power, watch AI buy up all the power from nuclear sources, claim to support new nuclear power which everyone knows won’t get here for a few decades, then trot off to an annual fall climate conference to tell the world what to do next.

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A new study co-authored by Tracy Beth Høeg delves into the side effects of masking, a subject completely ignored by experts and politicians desperate to exert control over individual behavior.

And in their discussion, it’s immediately obvious why their research and conclusions will be completely ignored by the mainstream media.

“There is a lack of robust evidence of benefit from masking children to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 or other respiratory viruses,” they explain.

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Abstract
Starch is a natural polymer which is commonly used as a cooking ingredient. The renewability and bio-degradability of starch has made it an interesting material for industrial applications, such as production of bioplastic. This paper introduces the application of corn starch in the production of a novel construction material, named CoRncrete. CoRncrete is formed by mixing corn starch with sand and water. The mixture appears to be self-compacting when wet. The mixture is poured in a mould and then heated in a microwave or an oven. This heating causes a gelatinisation process which results in a hardened material having compressive strength up to 26 MPa. The factors affecting the strength of hardened CoRncrete such as water content, sand aggregate size and heating procedure have been studied. The degradation and sustainability aspects of CoRncrete are elucidated and limitations in the potential application of this material are discussed.

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A new study details how a nasal spray formulated by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital may work to protect against viral and bacterial respiratory infections. Based on their preclinical studies, the researchers say the broad-spectrum nasal spray is long-lasting, safe, and, if validated in humans, could play a key role in reducing respiratory diseases and safeguarding public health against new threats.

Nature.

One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions have gone into remission after being treated with bioengineered and CRISPR-modified immune cells1. The three individuals from China are the first people with autoimmune disorders to be treated with engineered immune cells created from donor cells, rather than ones collected from their own bodies. This advance is the first step towards mass production of such therapies.

One of the recipients, Mr Gong, a 57-year-old man from Shanghai, has systemic sclerosis, which affects connective tissue and can result in skin stiffening and organ damage. He says that three days after receiving the therapy, he felt his skin loosen and he could start moving his fingers and opening his mouth again. Two weeks later, he returned to his office job. “I feel very good,” he says, more than a year after receiving the treatment.

Engineered immune cells, called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, have shown great promise in treating blood cancers — half a dozen products are approved in the United States — and potential for treating autoimmune conditions such as lupus and multiple sclerosis, in which rogue immune cells release autoantibodies that attack the body’s own tissue. But the therapy typically relies on a person’s own immune cells, and this personalization makes it expensive and time consuming.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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A blood-drenched, fiery horror scene played out in Haiti on Thursday, as a rampaging gang killed at least 70 people and injured 16 more. Mowed down by automatic weapons or choked to death by house-arson, the dead included three infants and 10 women, according to the UN’s human rights office.

In a troubling indicator of gang violence sprawling beyond the country’s capital, the bloodshed took place in the town of Pont-Sondé, which is located in the agricultural Artibonite department, about 60 miles north of Port-au-Prince. The carnage, which commenced around 3 am local time, prompted more than 6,000 to flee the town for their lives.

“Today, once again, once too often, we are faced with the most absolute cowardice,” said Haitian Prime Minister Gary Conille in a social media post. “This heinous crime, perpetrated against defenseless women, men and children, is not only an attack on these victims, but on the entire Haitian nation.”

Send ’em to Springfield. Plenty of room. FEMA has money for that, at least.

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Former Gov. David Paterson and his 20 year-old stepson were assaulted on Manhattan’s Upper East Side Friday evening, according to the governor’s spokesperson and police.

The governor and his stepson, Anthony Chester Sliwa, were sent home from the hospital early Saturday morning after being taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center “as a precaution” on Friday evening, according to his spokesperson Sean Darcy.

“The Governor’s only request is that people refrain from attempting to use an unfortunate act of violence for their own personal or political gain,” Darcy said in a statement via text message on Saturday.

American Dreaming.

How sure are we about a future population crash, and would a decline in the population necessarily be a disaster for humanity? On both scores, there is ample reason to be skeptical.

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The Biden-Harris administration is facing several disasters this week.

From FEMA’s botched response in the hurricane-ravaged US Southeast to elevated WW3 risks in the Middle East, one major and ongoing crisis that went underreported this week was multiple attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on commercial ships in the critical maritime chokepoint of the southern Red Sea.

On Wednseday we penned a note, citing intelligence firm SynMax, which specializes in maritime and energy intelligence, about two commercial vessels targeted by Houthis:

“Two ships targeted by Houthis in the RedSea yesterday—Panama-flagged CORDELIA MOON and Liberian-flagged MINOAN COURAGE—the first such attacks since September,” SynMax wrote on X.

Muslim terrorists are doing their best to get Trump elected, although I’m sure that’s not their intent.

I certainly wish Theodore Roosevelt had never done anything. Our country would be a better place, and our lives would be much improved. For one thing, Woodrow Wilson would never have been President.

“Just because no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artists.”

My dad was born in 1918. If he were still with us, but suffering from dementia, I would spend long hours with him finding out what it was like being a teenager during the Great Depression, learning more about his older brother (and that brother’s kids), and stuff I never thought to talk to him about when I was young and foolish.

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The essential complaint of populists is that democracy is a noble ideal from which we have strayed. To be precise, it has been killed off by a hyper-progressive, self-serving, out-of-touch establishment—a betrayal that has occurred most of all at the expense of Europe’s native working-classes. In the 21st century, any conservative-minded counter-elite worth its salt must either act in the interests of these people or resign themselves to the only plausible alternative: indefinite left-wing political domination.

Bear in mind, too, that the Left of this century will be nothing like the Left of the last. The genuine heirs to Keir Hardie and Clement Atlee, well-represented by ‘Blue Labour’ figures like Lord Glasman in Britain and paleo-leftist parties like Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany, do not have demographic momentum on their side. The 21st century Left will consist of activists more inclined to condemn Winston Churchill as a racist, genocidal maniac than to smile at the thought of having served in his war cabinet, as Atlee himself did.

At least since Tony Blair, Britain’s former party of the proletariat has been consciously dependent on minority voting blocs, having ditched solidarity with the working man for the politics of racial, ethnic, and religious grievance. Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter for Blair, once had an unwise moment of candour in the Evening Standard, admitting that under New Labour mass immigration was partly “intended … to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”

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Peer-reviewed study. Abstract:

Donald J. Trump’s presidency broke the mold in many ways, including how to think about judicial appointments. Unlike other recent presidents, Trump was open about how “his” judges could be depended on to rule in particular ways on key issues important to voters he was courting (e.g., on issues such as guns, religion, and abortion). Other factors such as age and personal loyalty to Trump seemed important criteria. With selection criteria such as these, one might expect that Trump would select from a smaller pool of candidates than other presidents. Given the smaller pool and deviation from traditional norms of picking “good” judges, we were curious about how the Trump judges performed on a basic set of measures of judging. One prediction is that Trumpian constraints on judicial selection produced a different set of judges. Specifically, one that would underperform compared to sets of judges appointed by other presidents. Using data on active federal appeals court judges from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023, we examine data on judges across three different measures: opinion production, influence (measured by citations), and independence or what we refer to as “maverick” behavior. Contrary to the prediction of underperformance, Trump judges outperform other judges, with the very top rankings of judges predominantly filled by Trump judges.

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Jack Smith’s “October Surprise” was so overtly political and unethical that it was too much even for a senior legal analyst from a liberal network, CNN. The disgust by Elie Honig towards the antics of Jack Smith boiled over on Thursday in New York Magazine in an article whose title reflected Honig’s opinion, “Jack Smith’s October Cheap Shot.”

Newsbusters.

In case you couldn’t already tell, MSNBC (or more accurately, MSDNC) is trying to help Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump for President.

One producer now admits it’s the “Democratic party’s mouthpiece.”

New York Times.

The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.

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Minnesota lawmakers and officials criticized Gov. Tim Walz for not holding his administration accountable for “massive” fraud schemes related to pandemic-era aid programs, saying the responsibility “falls squarely on his shoulders.”

“When he is not holding any commissioners responsible, then yes, Governor Walz is responsible for the fraud that has been ongoing in the state of Minnesota,” state House GOP leader Lisa Demuth told CNN. “It falls squarely on his shoulders.”

In 2022, Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor launched a series of investigations into allegations of fraud involving the state’s pandemic funding. One audit revealed that bonus checks intended for frontline employees were issued to unqualified recipients, while another highlighted the administration’s failure to oversee Feeding Our Future, a program designed to feed needy children. Prosecutors said this oversight led to a “massive” fraud scheme. The Walz administration repeatedly downplayed or ignored the allegations, the state’s nonpartisan auditor, Judy Randall, told CNN.

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A Columbia University student group praised Tuesday’s Tel Aviv terrorist attack that killed seven innocent Israelis, including a mother who died while shielding her 9-month-old baby. That “bold attack,” Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) wrote in an essay, “serves as a reminder that the struggle is not confined to Gaza or Lebanon.”

“On October 1, in a significant act of resistance, a shooting took place in Tel Aviv, targeting Israeli security forces and settlers,” the group wrote Thursday on its Substack.

“This bold attack comes amid the ongoing escalation of violence in the region and highlights the growing resolve of those resisting Israeli occupation. The shooting serves as a reminder that the struggle is not confined to Gaza or Lebanon but has now reached deep into the heart of settler-colonial territory, further destabilizing the Zionist regime’s claims to security and control.”

Imagine how much more peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace did not exist.

CNN.

One state audit found that bonus checks intended for frontline workers during the pandemic were handed out to undeserving recipients. Another criticized a Minnesota state agency for failing to ensure there were no conflicts of interest in taxpayer-funded mental health and addiction programs. A third detailed lax oversight of a program to feed needy kids which federal prosecutors say resulted in the nation’s largest Covid-era fraud scheme.

But when confronted with these and other troubling examples of waste, fraud and abuse, some state agencies working under the administration of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz repeatedly minimized or dismissed the allegations, the state’s nonpartisan auditor, Judy Randall, told CNN.

A CNN review of audits – and the responses they prompted – as well as interviews with statewide politicians and pundits, found that Walz has been a hands-off leader when it comes to seeking accountability for episodes of fraud and mismanagement on his watch. What’s more, some state agencies headed by his appointees have responded defensively in recent months to the audits – a dynamic that Randall, who has worked in the department for 26 years, has found surprising.

Of course, you can’t trust a far-right misinformation source like CNN.

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Google, for four days in a row, engulfed its Search with nine times as many articles from leftist media outlets than outlets without a predominantly leftist bias. This comes a week after the Big Tech platform attempted to dismiss an MRC Free Speech America search study as a mere one-off.

This week, MRC researchers conducted the same searches for “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024” every day for four days starting Sept. 30. Google continued to flood its search results with articles from leftist media outlets and videos above former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign websites. Altogether, Google displayed 45 articles from leftist, U.S.- and U.K.-based media outlets compared to just five without a predominantly leftist bias: NewsNation, Fox News and C-SPAN.

“Google owes the MRC and the American people an apology for its election interference,” said Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell. “Google has been caught misrepresenting the facts.” “”

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God forbid anybody should get help other than from the government.

UPDATE: SpaceX Engineer In North Carolina Has Dire Warning: Biden-Harris’ FEMA “Actively Blocking Shipments” For Relief 

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The Old New Hitler retires.

The enemy of my enemy is my tool.

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And she has Alzheimers.

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Now that he’s been replaced for the election, there’s no reason to keep up pretenses.

Wall Street Journal.

An academic paper in 2010 popularized $75,000 as the salary threshold beyond which earning more money didn’t make people any happier. More recent research indicates that there is no such plateau.

Indeed there is not. There is no such thing as having too much money, unless maybe you’re Barack Obama (and I don’t see him giving any of it back, or sending it on to the IRS).

Anybody who says (or thinks) money doesn’t buy happiness is a pea-brain.

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This horrific natural disaster is a reminder of the extent to which the regime hates the people who live there.

Yes, yes it does.

The Coastal Crust have always looked with contempt on the Dirt People in flyover country.

New York Times.

For the past eight years and across two impeachment trials, the Democratic Party has defined itself in opposition to Donald Trump’s corruption, assailing the ways he abused the presidency for his own financial and political benefit. But with Mayor Eric Adams of New York fighting a federal corruption indictment, former Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey awaiting sentencing for a similar fraud and bribery scheme and numerous California officials sitting in federal prison, it’s hard to deny that corruption is a bipartisan problem.

For a party that wraps itself in the mantle of truth and integrity, pointing across the aisle and saying “they’re worse” is not good enough. For the sake of their electoral fortunes, not to mention the country they purport to serve, Democrats must show voters a serious plan to curb corruption and corporate crime — including within their own ranks.

The difference is, the charges against Trump are manufactured political show-trial attacks, whereas the corrupt Democrats are part of a centuries-long tradition in the Donkey Party.

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Of course it was.

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The European Commission is suing Hungary over its so-called Sovereignty Protection Act, a bill that was passed last December to defend the country against undue political interference from foreign entities.

Brussels had already launched an infringement procedure in February, claiming the law violates several European Union rules and principles, but Hungary has cited foreign interference in the 2022 Hungarian election campaign as the main reason for introducing the law.

In its response to Brussels’ infringement procedure, Hungary argued that the law does not violate EU law and that the concerns raised are unfounded. However, the Commission said in a statement on Thursday, October 3rd that “after carefully assessing the reply of the Hungarian authorities, the Commission maintains that most of the grievances identified have still not been addressed.” A ruling by the European Court of Justice is expected in the coming years.

András László, a Member of the European Parliament for the ruling conservative Hungarian Fidesz party reacted by tweeting: “The national law on the Defence of Sovereignty was not adopted for fun. It was a response to the valid outrage of Hungarians when they learned about the illegal foreign funding.”

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The incompetence of Biden-Harris cabinet secretaries have brought us: an invasion of illegal aliens, including murderers, gang members, rapists, and other hardened criminals across the southern border; the enrichment and appeasement of Iran so it could continue to foment terror across the Middle East and in particular threaten the existence of Israel; a massive longshoremen’s union strike across ports along the East and Gulf Coast ports that threatened stores and other retail outlets with massive shortages—a strike that the Secretary of Commerce admitted, in her own words, “…I have not been very focused on that. I would refer you to the White House or the transportation secretary.” Stunning advice to refer the longshoreman’s union dispute to Pete Buttigieg, the most ineffectual, unresponsive and incompetent cabinet secretary to hold that position.

UPDATE: The Reprehensible Audacity Of FEMA Being Broke

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Across Europe, authorities are bracing for a wave of protests and violence as the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel approaches. Ministers and security forces in several countries have warned of heightened unrest in major cities as Islamists and their left-wing allies celebrate the attack and protest Israel’s response.

Demonstrations are planned across various European cities through next week, with the largest gatherings expected from October 5th to 7th. Demonstrators will converge in cities such as London, Berlin, Paris, and Rome, with events peaking on October 7th itself.

In Berlin, a march is scheduled from the Brandenburg Gate to Bebelplatz on October 6th. Die Welt reports that security forces have warned of potential overload due to the scale of protests. The German Police Union (GdP) has issued a stark warning, saying, “We are looking at the coming days with great concern,” said Benjamin Jendro, spokesman for the GdP in Berlin. He pointed to increasing antisemitic and violent incidents in recent days, linked to the pro-Palestinian movement.

Just think how much more peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

CNN.

Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s.

The researchers involved in the project say they believe the tree species, which is thought to be extinct today, could have been the source of a healing balm mentioned in the Bible and other ancient texts.

Unearthed during an archaeological dig in the lower Wadi el-Makkuk region north of Jerusalem, the ancient seed was determined to be in pristine condition. But the scientists conducting the new research weren’t able to identify the type of tree from the seed alone. The team, led by Dr. Sarah Sallon, a physician who founded the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, planted the seed to further investigate more than a dozen years ago.

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A former militant group leader whose organization was affiliated with the Weathermen terrorists and monitored by the FBI now leads a small but influential group of White House policymakers championed by Vice President Kamala Harris.

The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council was created in the first week of the Biden-Harris administration as part of the White House’s effort to, according to an executive order, “increase the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice.” The group is composed of individuals appointed by the president who, the White House states, “have knowledge about or experience in environmental justice, climate change, disaster preparedness, or racial inequity, among other areas of expertise.”

Leading those individuals is a man named Richard Moore, who co-chairs the council. His brief biography provided by the Environmental Protection Agency describes him as a “widely respected national leader in the area of environmental justice” who “has served on numerous government and nongovernmental committees and panels.”

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UK-based anti-Israel organization Palestine Action sent several of its far-left radical members to attack the Teledyne CML Composites factory in Bromborough, UK, which it claims supplies critical parts for F-35 stealth fighters.

Palestine Action’s X account posted a viral video on Tuesday showing its ‘Actionists’ – or ‘agents of change’ – conducting a rooftop entry into the factory, breaking through the ceiling panels, and comprising what the group claims is a ‘clean room’ for F-35 jet part production.

“According to a senior Teledyne manager, contamination of their clean rooms could stop production for up to 12 months. Actionists just got through to the clean room for Israel’s F-35 fighter jet parts,” Palestine Action said.

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The number of people who are illiterate in Sweden is expected to exceed 800,000 in winter of this year, with researchers expecting the number to soon reach 1 million, in large part due to mass immigration.

The most recent survey by Statistics Sweden shows there are currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring.

“Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or write, it’s hard for them to find a place, pay their bills, or even book a doctor’s appointment.

But I’ll bet they can all recited the Koran from memory.

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Well, I’m glad we cleared that up.

New York Post.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas set off outrage Wednesday when he told reporters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to see Americans through the rest of this Atlantic hurricane season — after the agency spent more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis.

“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas said during a press gaggle on Air Force One en route to tour damage from Hurricane Helene in South and North Carolina.
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” he added. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what — what is imminent.”

This Is Why You Should Never Trust The Government (Brett Cooper)

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“If that’s what you want us to do, we’ll leave, no issue,” he told WJZY. “And I explained to him that I left my son on the side of the mountain, and I left another victim. I was going to go back and bring them. It was already set up for the landing spot and then I would get out of his area. He told me I wasn’t going to go back up the mountain to get them; I was going to leave them there.”

When he asked the official for a specific reason why he was ordering him to stop his rescue efforts, Seidhom said the man said, “You’re interfering with my operation.”

Seidhom said he told the official he was going back to get his copilot.

“He said, ‘If you turn around and go back up the mountain, you’re going to be arrested,'” Seidhom said. “I said, ‘Well, sir, I’m going back to get my copilot, I don’t know what to tell you.'”

No good deed goes unpunished.

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U.S. dock workers and port operators have reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) said on Thursday.

The tentative agreement is for a wage hike of around 62 percent over six years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The workers union had been seeking a 77 percent raise while the employer group previously raised its offer to a nearly 50 percent hike.

Thereby strongly increasing the incentive for companies to automate their processes and get rid of actual live workers. Smooth move, guys. Let me know how that works out for you.

Meanwhile, back in flyover country, what is this settlement going to do to prices for imported goods (almost everything these days)?

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Below are more details on the attacks against Israeli embassies in Sweden and Denmark, including the arrest of three young miscreants in Copenhagen.

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Pure coincidence, I’m quite sure. Could happen to anybody. You know how these things are.

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Never before has the United States stuck its nose militarily into so many countries, with so little result.