Thursday, February 08, 2024
9-year-old girl previously held hostage by Hamas speaks in code about time in Gaza captivity | Blaze Media
9-year-old girl previously held hostage by Hamas speaks in code about time in Gaza captivity | Blaze Media:
A 9-year-old Israeli girl who spent time as a Hamas hostage continues to struggle to speak normally after her abduction. While she communicates, she does so in hushed tones and coded language, according to the New York Post.
Emily Hand's father, Thomas, said in a recent interview that his daughter does not talk much about the horrifying ordeal that played out in October. He went on to say that the girl's family was told by psychiatrists not to question her about the incident.
Remember That Houthi Missile That Almost Got Through?
Remember That Houthi Missile That Almost Got Through? - MARK WAUCK
Potentially very big story out this morning: A US Arleigh Burke class destroyer shot down a Houthi cruise missile, using one of its Phalanx CIWS guns.
- The significance of the missile that almost got through to the USS Gravely, and Arleigh Burke class destroyer, bears repeating—so I’ll repeat it. Or at least the first part of the post:
Potentially very big story out this morning: A US Arleigh Burke class destroyer shot down a Houthi cruise missile, using one of its Phalanx CIWS guns.
- What’s the big story here?
The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer centered around the Aegis Combat System
- Phalanx CIWS?
- What this means is that the Houthi cruise missile got past our most sophisticated defenses and had to be taken down by the destroyer’s last ditch defense system.
Count on this—nobody wants to have to take down a cruise missile with a “close-in weapon system.”...
History for February 8
History for February 8 - On-This-Day.com 
Jules Verne 1828
- 1861 - The Confederate States of America was formed.
- 1896 - The Western Conference was formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. The group changed its name to the Big 10 Conference.
- 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria.
- 1910 - William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1952 - Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died on February 6.
- 1963 - Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. The new team was named the Chiefs.
- 1993 - General Motors sued NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC.
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Jim Jordan's 'Amazon Files' Reveals Biden White House Pressure on Company to Censor Books
Jim Jordan's 'Amazon Files' Reveals Biden White House Pressure on Company to Censor Books:
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) took to X/Twitter on Monday to post “never-before-released internal emails” subpoenaed by the House Judiciary GOP that he dubbed the “Amazon files,” which reveal “that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.”
“Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS,” Rep. Jordan announced at the start of his X/Twitter thread.
Using climate-loon's "math"-----Media Lies: Those January Jobs Gains Never Happened STEPHEN GREEN
Media Lies: Those January Jobs Gains Never Happened STEPHEN GREEN
U.S. employment soars by 353,000, stunning Wall Street. —MarketWatch...
So how did the BLS come up with 335,000 new jobs when the Household Survey showed a net loss of 31,000? For that, let's go to Seeking Alpha:
The BLS assumes that so many jobs were created or destroyed and (kind of) fixes the imaginary numbers when the real data come in. Now you know why jobs always seem to get revised downward.
- When are 335,000 new jobs not 335,000 new jobs? When Washington makes them up and the media dutifully report them with all due breathlessness...
U.S. employment soars by 353,000, stunning Wall Street. —MarketWatch...
So how did the BLS come up with 335,000 new jobs when the Household Survey showed a net loss of 31,000? For that, let's go to Seeking Alpha:
"Birth/Death assumptions" means just that.The BLS also publishes the data behind their Birth/Death assumptions. January is always a big drop, but this was smaller than last year (-144k in Jan 2023 vs. -121k in Jan 2024). Birth/death specifically refers to assumptions made about new business being formed.
- Seeking Alpha adds that "many believe the Household survey is a more accurate measure of employment when compared to the headline number."
The Moral Hazard Of An Open Border I & I Editorial Board
The Moral Hazard Of An Open Border I & I Editorial Board 
"...It might seem that the most ethical and decent path we can take is to fully open our country to economic refugees who simply want to live better lives and are willing to work for them.
- But following that course creates a moral hazard, because as long as entry into the U.S. is a pressure release valve for countries where millions are mired in perpetual, handed-down poverty, those nations have no incentive to liberalize their economies and root out the government corruption that limits prosperity to only a select few.
- They can continue to send their “tempest-tost” homeless and poor to America and not concern themselves with the hard labor needed to fix their problems, or worry about staying in power.
- Their benign neglect, and in some cases outright depravity, condemns countless future generations to lives of squalor and desperation.
U.N. 'secretly working with banks' to destroy American food industry
U.N. 'secretly working with banks' to destroy American food industry:
The report explained the banks use the U.N.'s "Marxist 'environmental, social, and corporate governance' (ESG) criteria to score and penalize farmers."
They found that those farmers not sufficiently "woke," that is, using methods and processes that are not ESG-approved, have their accounts shut down without notice, the report said.
Seven basketball sudden deaths in last two weeks.
Seven basketball sudden deaths in last two weeks. William Makis MD @MakisMD
Cluster of recent BASKETBALL Sudden Deaths in the US -
Cluster of recent BASKETBALL Sudden Deaths in the US -
Lunch video-----Wind energy racket exposed at last
"And if Siemens Energy Chairman Joe Kaeser told The Telegraph, “Every transformation comes at a cost and every transformation is painful.
And that’s something that the energy industry and the public sector - governments - don’t really want to hear.”
- Then are governments accurately anticipating the cost of the energy transition?
Californians shocked by electric bills after rate hike: 'Like you're getting punished' | Fox News
Californians shocked by electric bills after rate hike: 'Like you're getting punished' | Fox News:
Some California residents are "stunned" by the high cost of their latest electric and gas bill, after a major utility company raised prices for millions of customers last month.
"It’s almost like you’re getting punished," 90-year-old Dorothy Lovell told The San Francisco Chronicle. The Santa Rosa resident's utility bill was $696.64 in January.
"I really was not prepared," longtime San Francisco resident Rebecca Gallegos told the paper after her bill increased by $162 from the month prior. "I’m blown away."
Mainstream science mulls 'global moratorium' on COVID vaccines as cancers rise, boosters flub | Just The News
Mainstream science mulls 'global moratorium' on COVID vaccines as cancers rise, boosters flub | Just The News
"Calling for governments to enact a "global moratorium" on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could have been a death sentence for a scientist's career not long ago.
"Calling for governments to enact a "global moratorium" on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could have been a death sentence for a scientist's career not long ago.
Now it opens the door to a prestigious science publisher.
The Springer Nature medical journal Cureus, sibling to Nature and Scientific American, published a peer-reviewed paper by high-profile mRNA vaccine critics last month, showing the growing mainstream openness to data and arguments once nitpicked if not ignored by publishers and suppressed by academia and Big Tech...
The Springer Nature medical journal Cureus, sibling to Nature and Scientific American, published a peer-reviewed paper by high-profile mRNA vaccine critics last month, showing the growing mainstream openness to data and arguments once nitpicked if not ignored by publishers and suppressed by academia and Big Tech...
We Thought No One Was Above the Law: Pelosi's Son Avoids Federal Charges for the SEVENTH Time Amy Curtis
We Thought No One Was Above the Law: Pelosi's Son Avoids Federal Charges for the SEVENTH Time Amy Curtis 
"We love to say that everything -- laws, morals, standards -- are (D)ifferent when a Democrat is involved.
The party that likes to remind us 'no one is above the law' seems to be the ones who are constantly above the law...
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