DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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At least four Texas nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating on the U.S. southern border have come under scrutiny from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for their role in aiding illegal immigrants in recent months.

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Environmental groups represented on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s own environmental justice council are among the largest beneficiaries of the president’s environmental programs, collectively receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a database of federal grants reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

In total, four leading environmental justice organizations—WE ACT for Environmental Justice, the Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice at Texas Southern University, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, and Kean University’s Center for the Urban Environment—have been awarded a staggering $229 million in Environmental Protection Agency grants and have been named as partners to grantees awarded another $200 million.

Leaders of those groups serve on the White House’s so-called Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which is formally housed at EPA, the same agency doling out the grants. The council provides the administration with “independent advice and recommendations on how to address current and historic environmental injustice,” the White House description notes.

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We are now quite deep into the propaganda portion of the transition from Biden to Harris. How deep? NBC News is basically running youth commercials as “reports”.

Watch, as we wonder whether Antonia Hylton’s report qualifies as an in-kind donation to the Harris campaign.

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A new study reveals what common sense could have predicted – giving Americans $1,000 per month disincentivizes them from working, causing them to work less – and earn less, over time.

Why is this a surprise? You get more of what you pay for, and if you pay people not to work, they won’t work. A six-year-old can tell you that.

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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday for high crimes and misdemeanors over her refusal to “uphold Federal immigration laws” and misleading the public about Biden’s “physical and cognitive well-being.”

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has peddled a series of hoaxes as a U.S. senator and vice president, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found.

Here are the seven most egregious hoaxes pushed by Harris, author of the memoir The Truths We Hold.

Brett Cooper.

Let’s all move to Forney.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Researchers from Columbia University, Brookhaven National Lab, and the University of Connecticut recently assembled a team to see if they could create a material worthy of Tony Stark. What they developed was a material four times stronger than steel and five times lighter. And they made it using only glass — and DNA.

‘DEI,’ ‘Colored,’ ‘Jezebel’: MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)

Trump is already trying to back out of a debate with Kamala Harris (Marin Scotten/Salon)  There is no debate to back out of; Trump hasn’t agreed to any such thing.

A Decade Of Conspiracists?

Harris Opens Fire On Trump: ‘Predator, Fraudster, Cheater’ (The Daily Beast)

Trump subverted democracy. His allies are pretending the left did, too. (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump’s New Rival May Bring Out His Harshest Instincts (New York Times)

Trump-Lover Elon Musk Is Already Causing Kamala Harris Problems (Paige Oamek/New Republic)  Apparently ‘Trump-lover’ is the new ‘nigger-lover’.

Judge Cannon and JD Vance Are on the Same Team (Jesse Wegman/New York Times)  The team of truth, justice, and the American way?

It Got Nasty! The Worst Media Outbursts from the RNC

JD Vance repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault (CNN)

How Trump Set Deadly Election Trap for Himself (Jill Filipovic/The Daily Beast)

Oliver Trashes RNC as ‘A Bunch Of D**** on Stage’

Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt (Mark Follman/Mother Jones)

Trump Camp Is Planning to ‘Willie Horton’ Kamala Harris (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)  No, they’re going to ‘Kamala Harris’ her.

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History (Andrea Pitzer/scientificamerican.com)

Trump Is Suddenly Too Old (David Strom/HotAir)

King Claims It Is ‘Certain’ Harris Will Face ‘Racism and Sexism’ During Campaign

CNN: Outside ‘Reality’ for Trump Say He Wasn’t Properly Protected I guess his ear just shot itself.

J.D. Vance Spends Weird, Low-Energy Speech Praising Diet Mountain Dew (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

‘Donald Trump Will Destroy Democracy,’ Says Party Nominating Candidate No One Voted For (Babylon Bee)

This Politico GENIUS Mocked the GOP ‘Fantasy Crowd’ Over Their Biden-Replacement Theory

MSNBC Whines That Calling Harris A ‘DEI Hire’ Is ‘Clearly Racist’

With Harris Running, Democrats Open New Line of Attack on Trump: His Age (Wall Street Journal)

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Be careful out there.

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The Palestinian government will pay $16.4 million a month to imprisoned terrorists and their families, including nearly 900 Gaza-based fighters captured by Israeli forces in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, a watchdog group found.

Payments by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to imprisoned terrorists have risen by $2 million a month, and are being reliably doled out even as the West Bank-based government teeters on the brink of financial collapse, according to watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch. The PA has recognized thousands of those terrorists as eligible for “pay-to-slay” payments in the wake of Oct. 7, including 899 who were captured in Gaza in recent months.

All told, “9,750 terrorist prisoners are now recognized by the PA as eligible for monthly terror rewards, up from 4,300 prior to October 7,” according to Palestinian Media Watch, which tracks the PA’s terrorist payment system. The watchdog group “calculates that once the processing of the new prisoners is complete, the PA will be paying a minimum of 59,560,000 shekels (about $16.4 million) a month in salaries to terrorist prisoners, up from 52,000,000 shekels (about $14.3 million) a month prior to October 7.”

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A recent graduate of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota is suing the university administration, alleging that she was forced to pay a fee that went to a liberal student activist group.

Tayah Lackie filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in May, with assistance from the Liberty Justice Center and the Upper Midwest Law Center.

My, what a surprise.

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More and more Americans who use “micromobility” transport, such as electric bikes and e-scooters, are motoring their way straight into the ER, new data shows.

The hippy-dippy life can kill you.

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After a pause lasting five months, the new Labour government has announced that the UK will restart funding to a United Nations agency that Israel claims has been infiltrated by Hamas.

It was alleged that staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were involved in the October 7th terror attacks, coinciding with criticism from MEPs about the longer-term use of European Union funds in Gaza. In January 2024, then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak halted British payments to the organisation. Despite Israel’s legitimate security concerns, UK funding of UNRWA has now resumed.

Israel says that dozens of workers from the UNRWA took part in October’s pogrom, which saw more than 1,100 Israelis killed and 251 hostages taken, and that intelligence points to “the deep and systemic infiltration by … Hamas into the ranks of UNRWA.”

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The only thing more cringe than Kamala Harris is the legion of white women who have suddenly rediscovered their obsession with the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. The KHive, as Harris’s fans call themselves, was launched during Harris’s failed bid for the presidency in 2020 and has since been remobilized to provide suburban moms and young gay men a platform to post coconut memes.

The first pillar of the KHive is race. Being a part of the coalition demands an acute awareness of the enormity of electing the nation’s first black female president and unburdening the white privilege that has been. Any mention of Harris’s Indian heritage is, of course, only optional. “Fellow white ladies. Get over it. Whatever it is, get past it right now,” Rebecca Fachner, a self-proclaimed historian, posted to X. “We’re gonna elect a black woman president and I promise you it’s gonna be amazing. Get on board, no reservations.”

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Without earning a single vote cast by the American public, Vice President Kamala Harris won enough support from Democratic delegates to secure her party’s presidential nomination less than 48 hours after her octogenarian boss dropped out of the race.

Over 2,660 delegates said they back the former California attorney general, pushing her way over the 1,976 votes needed to clinch the nomination, an Associated Press survey found. No other potential candidates were named in the survey as an alternative to Harris.

From vote fraud to rigged elections to back-room deals, the most accurate thing one can say about the Democrat Party is that they avoid democracy as if it were some loathsome disease.

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Going back to when the regime selected Joe Biden to “win” the Democratic primary and then “win” the general election, there have been jokes about his health, making references to the movie Weekend At Bernie’s. Just about every way to call someone a corpse has been used to describe Joe Biden. In what could be final proof that we do live in a simulation, Joe Biden is now hiding out, incommunicado, at his beach house in Delaware, supposedly suffering from Covid.

Now, he is not entirely cut off from the world. He supposedly wrote that letter, a scan of which was posted on Twitter, now stupidly called X, in which he bowed out of the presidential race. Someone who sort of sounded like Biden supposedly “called” the Harris campaign to pledge support. Amusingly or alarmingly, depending upon your point of view, Harris flubbed her lines and started to say it was a recording, but then caught herself and played along until the end.

Now, the letter Biden allegedly wrote is a huge problem for a number of reasons, not the least of which is we have no idea who wrote it. The official version is his longtime friend “helped” him write it, but then why was it not on White House letterhead or even the letterhead of the campaign? Why does the signature look like it was written by another person or possibly generated using Microsoft Paint? Resigning by scanned letter posted on social media is also bizarre.

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As people grow increasingly wary of dangers around them, a split-screen has again opened up on how the Left and Right approach the threat of terrorism. On the Left, you have the Army being trained on the purported terrorist threat posed by Christian pro-lifers. On the other, elected officials are finally probing pro-Hamas groups.

The pro-life groups presented as terrorist threats to U.S. Army soldiers were National Right to Life and Operation Rescue, two Christian-based groups with zero history of violence. The pro-Hamas groups that Republican state and federal elected officials want probed organized violent protests in U.S. campuses and cities to advocate Hamas, a Gaza-based Iranian proxy group that the State Department has designated as a terrorist organization.

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A “New Italian” originally from Pakistan lived up to a cultural stereotype by dragging a 55-year-old into the bushes and raping her. If only he had not been discriminated against by racist Italians, the unfortunate youth would never have engaged in such questionable behavior.

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more outrageous the entire thing becomes. Anthony Fauci had the utter audacity to sit in Congress and admit they had no data, so they just creatively improvised things like social distancing measures. They fooled a lot of folks once, so shame on them. It looks like they’re about to try and fool us twice with the Bird Flu. If we fall for it again, then shame on us.

They did everything from withholding effective medications to depriving people of employment to shaming people publicly, discriminating against them, and wishing them dead.

Then as if 2020 and 2021 weren’t brutal enough, we find out from Congressional investigations and Anthony Fauci’s recent testimony it was all a bunch of baloney to make Big Pharma rich and Big Government powerful. People died who didn’t need to die, the elderly became isolated from their loved ones, medical personnel became burned out and traumatized, and children lost an entire year of educational experiences. Others were vaccinated, some eagerly and some grudgingly, and are suffering longterm disability and even death from the hastily created mRNA vaccine.

Washington Examiner.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) introduced impeachment articles against Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday after a fruitless House Oversight Committee hearing in which she provided little to no information on the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.

Steube announced his intention to file impeachment articles after Cheatle testified before the committee on what she described as the most “significant operational failure” in decades.

“In light of Kimberly Cheatle’s unacceptable handling of the Trump assassination attempt, her disastrous appearance before the House Oversight Committee today, and her refusal to resign, we have no choice but to impeach,” Steube said in a statement to X.

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Vice President Kamala Harris is actively raising money for a bail fund that busts violent criminals from jail as her nascent presidential campaign signals her candidacy will lean heavily on her roots as a tough-on-crime former prosecutor.

Harris urged her followers to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in June 2020 as Black Lives Matter rioters wreaked havoc in Minneapolis in the days following George Floyd’s death. Harris’s fundraising efforts helped the fund raise more than $41 million in 2020, but the group only used a small fraction of that bounty—$210,000—to bail rioters out of jail. The remaining funds helped post bail for violent criminals such as Christopher Boswell, a twice-convicted rapist who was freed from jail in 2020 pending kidnapping and sexual assault charges after the Minnesota Freedom Fund paid $350,000 for his release.

“The last time we were down there, the clerk said, ‘we hate it when you bail out these sex offenders, that is what they said,’” former Minnesota Freedom Fund interim executive director Greg Lewin told Fox9 in August 2020.

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The city of Dearborn, Michigan has been bestowed with the title of “America’s Jihad Capital”, and has fallen into civil war with itself over the war in Gaza, the Daily Mail reported last week.

Dearborn, near Detroit, Michigan, hosts the largest Arab American community in the U.S. As the death toll in Gaza rises with no political solution in sight, local sentiment has shifted.

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The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into a stable fuel that can replace fossil fuels in some applications. But most such conversion processes have had problems with low carbon efficiency, or they produce fuels that can be hard to handle, toxic, or flammable.

Now, researchers at MIT and Harvard University have developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a liquid or solid material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity. Potassium or sodium formate, already produced at industrial scales and commonly used as a de-icer for roads and sidewalks, is nontoxic, nonflammable, easy to store and transport, and can remain stable in ordinary steel tanks to be used months, or even years, after its production.

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At the Toto showroom in downtown Manhattan, a young, well-dressed woman enters and announces with a groan that she’s here to buy a bidet toilet seat. The salesperson proudly displays the five different models of Toto’s Washlet, the advanced electronic toilet seat with a built-in, controllable bidet (along with seat heater, deodorizer, MP3 player, and other available features). “I don’t really care which one,” the woman tells the salesperson. “I’m not going to use it. If it were up to me I wouldn’t get this thing, but it’s something my husband wants. Our deal is he gets this, and I get my say with the rest of the house. It’ll be hidden in our master bathroom. … I don’t want my guests to see this.”

I stand a few feet away, shaking my head in disbelief. Here we are in the world’s most sophisticated city, surrounded by the marvels of 21st century technological progress, and this clearly wealthy woman cannot wrap her head around a toilet seat that will wash her husband’s ass. What’s wrong with North American society? Why do people so fear the one perfect device that can guarantee their bum’s cleanliness? Despite its obvious and well-proven benefits, from personal hygiene to environmental, the integrated bidet toilet seat—which sprays a controlled stream of water from underneath the toilet seat at the push of a button—remains stubbornly off-putting to North Americans. Laugh all you want, but this has an impact on all of us.

Toto toilets are Japenese — and very expensive. (Look ’em up on Amazon.)

I don’t know about you, but my ass is as clean as it needs to be. Just sayin’.

Kamala Harris Must Be the Candidate. This Is How She Beats Trump (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  Whisper it: Vote fraud.

JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm  I like him already.

LGBTQ community sounds alarm bells over Vance (Brooke Migdon/The Hill)

MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden (Aditi Bharade/Business Insider)

A Small Matter of the Politics (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo) If you don’t want to be slut-shamed, don ‘t be a slut. ODF.

A Candidate, Not a Cult Leader (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  The implication is that Trump is the ‘cult leader’ in question. Unexamined is the counter-assertion, ‘A tool, not a candidate’.

In the new 2024 race, Trump hedges on debating Kamala Harris (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Trump wanted to ‘debate’ Biden to demonstrate that Biden is a vegetable. Nobody needs a demonstration that Harris is an incompetent fool.

MAGA World Resurfaces Kamala Harris ‘Side Chick’ Slurs (Philippe Naughton/The Daily Beast)  Any inconvenient truth that the Left doesn’t like is a ‘slur’.

ABC Hails Kamala ‘Blazing New Trails’ After ‘Biblical’ Biden Twist, Trump ‘Meltdown’

Trump and His Allies Are Freaking Out Over Biden Leaving Race (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history (Talia Lakritz/Business Insider)  Only because Biden was shit-canned.

Now, We Beat Trump. – OK Everyone! It’s time to rise out of our despair! (Michael Moore)

Donald Trump Donated Thousands to Kamala Harris in the Past (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)  Well, he’s given money to whores in the past….

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas (Gil Duran/New Republic) “Techno-authoritarian”? You mean like Zuckerberg and the guys who run YouTube and Google?

The post-Biden era may be uncertain for the Democrats, but for Trump it will be utterly dismaying (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)  I suspect he’ll cope.

Trump’s Alarming New Rant Praising Dictators Shows Media Is Failing Us (New Republic)  Of course, there was no such ‘rant’; they’re just making it up because that’s what they do.

Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  As do his critics.

All The Ways The Right Is Melting Down Over Kamala Harris (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)  They must have the right confused with the Harris campaign.

MAGA Crowd Melts Down After Mike Pence Says Something Reasonable (David Moye/HuffPost)

Trump’s age and health under renewed scrutiny after Biden’s exit (Michael Kranish/Washington Post)

Michael Moore Urges Boldness by Dems to Thwart MAGA  Boldness? Or morbid obesity?

Democrats Now Flipping Age Card Against Trump  The question isn’t age, the question is competence.

Trump’s social media suggests a campaign scrambling from Biden leaving 2024 race (ABC News)

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The secret service fumbled badly.

The American Mind.

The Palestine Liberation movement is heading toward its endgame. Within the next few years, it will either succeed or fail—placing a primacy on understanding what its “success” and “failure” would mean for the world.

The Palestine Liberation movement was founded to ensure that the Middle East could not stabilize as long as it contained a Jewish state. Everything ever done in the name of Palestine has been in service of that goal.

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People are getting sick of being invaded.

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The first official report of the UK’s COVID Inquiry—which has cost the British taxpayer at least £300,000 (€355,000) a day over the last year—contains a number of predictable conclusions. Namely that the UK’s pandemic planning was riddled with “fatal strategic flaws” and, as reported in The Guardian, made all the worse by Brexit and Conservative austerity measures.

But, rather unexpectedly, it is also fairly critical of the policy of locking down the country for months on end—or, indeed, at all.

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Police responded to a call about gunshots shortly after 2 a.m. on the 1200 block of North Alden Street.

A 33-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and two other men died at local hospitals, according to police.

Late Sunday night, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that police are investigating the shooting and she’ll have more to say on Monday.

She is, of course, a Woman of Color.

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Overshadowed by the Republican National Convention last week, CNN’s lawyers filed a motion for a protective order that aimed to block network host Jake Tapper from being deposed as part of the $1 billion defamation suit against the network. It was the second time Tapper was requested for deposition and the second time CNN put up resistance, this time more aggressively. CNN has also been accused of destroying evidence critical to the case.

“There is no basis to depose Tapper,” CNN counsel Deanna Shullman wrote in her motion as she argued against “re-opening fact discovery and deposing CNN employee Jake Tapper.”

Further in her motion, Shullman seemed to produce contradictory information about the plaintiff’s interest in having Tapper deposed (bold text added to highlight):

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“All of these white people keep Acting White! I don’t understand it!”

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No doubt. She’s got more mileage than an F1 McLaren.

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I remember a time (before Munich–remember Munich?) when that wasn’t thought necessary.

UPDATE: Israeli Olympians Receive Death Threats, Hate Messages  And that’s why.

UPDATE: French Leftist MP: Israeli Athletes “Not Welcome in Paris”  And that’s why.

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Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday, as they attempt to make it to the U.S. border.Some of the members of the group said they hoped to make it to the U.S. border before elections are held in November.

Note that none of them doubt that they’ll be able to get across and vanish into the interior.

Thank you, Joe Biden.

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Thank you, Joe Biden.

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The concept Universal Basic Income is a pet notion of the Left. They never explain where they’re going to get all of the necessary money. Studies like these focus on what the recipients do with the money; they never focus on where the money comes from.

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It used to be high-status to hold a job and take care of your family. Not so much anymore.

Those who sit at or near the apex of the social ladder (who decide what behaviors are prestigious) have decided that family stability is unimportant.

Ben Thompson at Stratechery.

I’ve long maintained that if the powers-that-be understood what the Internet’s impact would be, they would have never allowed it to be created. It’s hard to accuse said shadowy figures of negligence, however, given how clueless technologists were as well; look no further than an operating system like Windows.

Ben Thompson is one of the most respected voices in tech journalism.

UK Telegraph.

Two non-identical twin girls in the US were found to have a level of autism at 20 months old that required “very substantial support”.

A groundbreaking trial saw their parents and a team of medical experts create a bespoke two-year programme of interventions designed to help the children thrive and flourish as much as possible.

Scientists say the programme was successful, with both girls undergoing “dramatic improvements” in the severity of their symptoms.

Navy Matters.

‘Defeat in detail’ is a military tactic of destroying an enemy force by engaging its small, isolated units one by one with a larger force.

This is a great military theory – and proven successful – but it requires that the enemy present his forces in small, dispersed packets ready to be defeated. This generally only happens if one is fighting an utterly inept foe or if the enemy’s units are forced to disperse due to unrecoverable circumstances such as the rout of a main force or the end of a conflict when the enemy lacks the forces to mass and fight.

In other words, no sane military is going to willingly present its forces to the enemy in small, isolated units. Unfortunately, this is exactly what the Navy and Marines seem determined to do. They seem committed to a war doctrine of small, isolated, individually weak units that will, in some unexplained and unfathomable manner, not only survive and avoid defeat in detail but will go on to exert an effect greater than the woefully weak sum of its parts.

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Biden’s X account shared a letter that he supposedly signed on Sunday announcing that he’s dropping his re-election campaign in favor of endorsing Kamala, which led to everyone from the Soroses to Hillary throwing their support behind her, with the notable exception of Obama. The New York Times (NYT) cited people close to him though who advised “not to read too much into it” since he supposedly wants to “position himself as an impartial elder statesman above intraparty machinations”.

The circumstances surrounding Biden’s decision are super controversial since he’s supposedly isolating after falling ill with COVID for a third time despite his multiple vaccinations and had reportedly felt backstabbed by the Obama-Pelosi duopoly’s plot to turn the media and party elites against him. The NYT described Obama as the “puppet master” of this operation and Pelosi as the “main instigator”, yet that’s all now being memory-holed, as is talk about Biden’s cognitive faculties since he hasn’t (yet?) resigned.

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The bizarre resignation of President Joe Biden plunged the United States into a crisis unlike any it has known. This is what Biden and his party, those stalwart Defenders Of Democracy against the Trumpian menace, have done to the country, out of their arrogant self-righteousness.

The June 27 Atlanta debate with Donald Trump destroyed the lie told by the White House, the Democrats, and their lackeys in the news media: that aging, enfeebled Joe Biden was fit for office. The post-debate network interviews and the campaign speeches at worst reinforced the declinist narrative, and at best failed to reassure anybody not already blinded by ideology. That number includes donors, whose idealistic political zeal is tempered by the hard fact that they have to pay for it.

Donations dried up. More and more Democratic members of Congress began to say Joe must go. Over the past few days, the Democratic leadership played an extraordinary game of psychological pressure, leaking to the media stories that the president was on the verge of withdrawing from the race, forcing the White House to issue denials. Was this an attempt at some kind of soft coup, an attempt to gaslight Biden into quitting?

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Residents of Nantucket, Massachusetts, spoke out on Wednesday at a town hall against a wind power company for a “turbine blade failure incident” that resulted in debris washing up along the beach.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

The term “conspiracy theory” has been a popular and effective slur against anyone skeptical of official narratives for a long time. The main reason it has been effective is it was always used against people with implausible theories. While the official narrative may not hold up, the alternatives ranged from unlikely to absurd. We have now reached a point where the poles have reversed. The “conspiracy theories” are often far more plausible and sober minded than official narratives.