Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have both reportedly been spotted at the annual “billionaire summer camp” held in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week. Non-scientist Gates is attending to give a lecture on climate change to the assembled Big Tech Masters of the Universe and media moguls. There have been so many private jets flying in and out of the elite event that the FAA has reportedly delayed incoming planes.
"Darryl Cooper, aka MartyrMade, is a researcher, writer, and podcaster who has put together one of the most brilliant Twitter threads you will ever read. Over the course of 35 tweets, he examines fact after fact from the last five years to explain why conservatives – the people who used to believe in our government, in law enforcement, in the election process – have become cynical, disillusioned, and prone to accepting conspiracy theories to explain the manifest breakdowns in the American system.
It’s a brilliant analysis, one so good that Tucker Carlson read almost the entire thread on his show.
Since I find it hard to read long Twitter threads, I’ve put the entire text, verbatim, into prose form. You can read the thread here, in the original tweets. Frankly, I’m a little surprised the thread is still up because its scathing truths should frighten outlets like Twitter...Read all!!!
The real story about that Gaza death toll - by Melanie Phillips - Melanie Phillips The media's malign fictions feed murderous hysteria against Israel In the recent hostilities between Israel and its attackers in Gaza, a prime Israel-bashing meme was — as ever — the falsehood that the Israeli forces were killing a huge number of Gaza’s civilians.
In vain did defenders of Israel point out that Hamas deliberately sited its missiles and other weaponry in and among apartment buildings, schools and hospitals in order to maximise civilian casualties of Israeli air strikes and thus defame Israel as a wanton aggressor.
In vain was it pointed out that Israel goes to lengths deemed unthinkable by any other armed forces in the world to avoid the loss of enemy civilian life, including issuing residents of targeted buildings with evacuation warnings by text, phone calls or “knock on the roof” harmless missile strikes to tell anyone in there to get out.
None of these facts stopped the relentless flow of claims that the majority of those killed by Israeli missile attacks in May’s Operation Guardian of the Walls were defenceless civilians.
Now, however, the evidence from the updated casualty figures in that operation reveals that, relative to Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza with some 1500 strikes, the proportion of civilian deaths was astonishingly small...Read all.
Covid passports 'WILL be compulsory in pubs': Ministers 'plan to force bars, clubs and restaurants to demand proof of two jabs or negative test from autumn' to help tackle fourth wave of the virus
The government hopes Covid passports will encourage vaccine-shy young people to get jabbed
By September, all adults over 18 should have been offered both vaccine doses, allowing for the passports
Patrons will need to show proof of either two vaccine doses or a recent negative test under the proposals
The brave patriots who were willing to risk everything to take on the oppressive British government spelled out that promise on July 4, 1776. More than facts, they expressed truths that should be obvious to everyone. They declared that all people were created equal and that God — not the government — gave us these rights, rights that cannot be taken away. They declared that there are many, but the most important are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They further declared that the primary role of government is to secure these rights and that the government only has power given to it by the people.
"Hopefully, America’s spies are a little more stealthy.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was roundly mocked on social media Thursday for using an image on the cover of its annual diversity report that was obviously Photoshopped...
“Siri, show me the worst use of stock photos ever,” Thompson tweeted Thursday...
“Things like this make you pray there actually is a shadow government running things,” one Twitter user responded to Thompson.
Another user asked why “no one in this super-diverse office appears to be over 35? Is this the lobby of LogansRun Inc.?”...Read all.
John Quincy Adams 1767 - Sixth President of the United States
1533 - Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1786 - Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by "An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps" passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.
1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.
1962 - The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the Telstar I satellite.
1985 - Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to re-operate.
The Supreme Court has ruled many times that chilling — government behavior that gives one pause or fear before speaking freely about the government — is a direct violation of the natural and constitutionally protected right to the freedom of speech.
Tucker Carlson and you and I can say whatever we want about the government and it cannot legally or constitutionally chill or prevent that. If it could, then our rights are just empty claims.Why have we reposed the Constitution for safekeeping into the hands of those who subvert it?
The incident took place early Monday morning when a suspect reportedly fired on an occupied patrol vehicle in Salisbury. Authorities said that a deputy inside the vehicle came under fire while responding to reports of shots being fired.
"On the 13th of November, 1965, the SS Yarmouth Castle – an American passenger steamship – was sailing from Miami to Nassau when a fire broke out on board.
On another ship, this might have been a minor incident, but due to the condition of the Yarmouth Castle, and the actions of those on board, the fire spread until it endangered the entire ship.
Six hours after the fire began, the vessel sank with the loss of 87 lives.
It was the worst disaster in North American waters in 15 years, and it was, it emerged, entirely preventable."
The real problem for Beijing is that consumption, the only sustainable part of the Chinese economy, looks far softer than officially reported, something evident from the widely followed China Beige Book survey. Spending will not fully recover until the coronavirus pandemic passes, and that is unlikely to happen soon due to China's barely effective vaccines...
In any event, Washington must begin enforcing laws, especially those banning the importation of products made with forced or slave labor.
The larger goal has to be an ending of trade relations with China. "Because the threat posed by China to the United States results from its hostile system and includes economic, technological, and military dimensions, only systemic, not piecemeal, responses can possibly protect critical U.S. interests," Washington, D.C.-based trade expert Alan Tonelson tells Gatestone. "Sanctions against individuals or companies will inevitably produce only pinprick effects, and even these are easily nullified with shell game corporate renamings and personnel changes."
The newly minted creative plans to sell his paintings for eyebrow-raising amounts.
"Two years after ending his stint as a Ukrainian natural gas expert, Hunter Biden has a new calling: high-rolling artist.
Hunter’s first round of art sales, scheduled for this fall, will feature eye-popping prices ranging from $75,000 to $500,000 per piece, according to media reports.
If those sound like exorbitant prices, that’s because they are.
For comparison, many of Salvador DalÃ’s originals have sold for less.
...So why would anyone pay six figures for his paintings?
We know why.
Or, at the very least, we can narrow the answer down to two possibilities.
The more generous interpretation is that Hunter is, once again, coasting off of his father’s name brand. The other possibility is that his art will serve as a convenient way for foreign interest groups to buy influence with the White House...Read all.
Spawned in part from the progressive political correctness movement, cancel culture has become so broadly disfavored that even left-wing Hollywood elites are taking turns trashing it.
"In some respects, Canada has been a step ahead of America in terms of moral and cultural decline. That means that what happens in Canada today – and I mean what happens in the most negative sense – could well be coming to America tomorrow.
...Yet, when it comes to government overreach or attacks on fundamental liberties or hostility towards the Church, Canada’s descent has been more frightening.
We do well to pay attention to what is taking place to our north.
For example, Canada legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2005, a decade before the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, without which the states would have been battling over the issue for years to come. Not surprisingly, Canada was also well ahead of America in terms of prosecuting Christians who opposed gay activism and propaganda...Read all.
San Francisco's Leaders Out of Touch as City Descends Into Lawlessness
"If you don’t like the explosion of violent crime, you’re a racist.
That’s the message sent by a top aide to the San Francisco district attorney to a self-described “Democrat” who had said on Twitter that the jump in crime had made people afraid for their lives and dubious about the city’s future.
...Kate Chatfield, a senior director for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, responded from a now-locked Twitter account: “‘Husbands are scared for their wives’—your reminder that the ‘crime surge’ crowd shares the same ideology as The Birth of a Nation.”...Read all.
"In some respects, Canada has been a step ahead of America in terms of moral and cultural decline. That means that what happens in Canada today – and I mean what happens in the most negative sense – could well be coming to America tomorrow.