Instapundit - I HAVE A STRONG DISAGREEMENT WITH THIS ARTICLE: “You had to be unacceptably racist in 1993 to predict where South Africa would be in thirty years”.

The population is NOT exploding in the third world. - Sarah Hoyt

• It’s crashing everywhere. 

It’s just that the third world lies more impunely and brazenly. 

I’m sorry it takes a very smart person to fall for the stupid idea that the third world countries conduct reliable censuses. 

Or even attempt them, for that matter. 

Ridiculous. 

• They just pretend to larger population because they get more “aid” money.

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History for January 4

History for January 4 - On-This-Day.com 

Don Shula 1940 - Football coach

• 1936 - The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.
• 1962 - New York City introduced a train that operated without conductors and motormen.
• 1965 - In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the "Great Society."
• 1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
• 2007 - Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.

Jonathan Turley explains why feds can dig deep into Somali scammer scandal * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

Jonathan Turley explains why feds can dig deep into Somali scammer scandal * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Tuesday the scale of the reported welfare fraud in Minnesota could only occur with interstate commerce, which gives the federal government jurisdiction. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the agency already surged additional resources in a Sunday post on X, saying that the deployment occurred before a 42-minute video of independent journalist Nick Shirley visiting various Somali-run day care centers suspected of defrauding the state of millions of dollars went viral. Turley dismissed claims by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota that he lacked authority to pursue the fraud.

The way we were-----Dragnet (1951) - Season 1, Episode 2: The Big Actor (HD Remastered)

Soviet Propaganda. The Day I Realized They Were Lying

Must read!--They declare "success" by money "raised". Not by delivering the promised aid!-----The Humanitarian-Industrial Complex - by Michael Smith

How Western aid became an industry first and a moral mission second - Michael Smith

• ProPublica (a hard left “news” outlet) marked Christmas Day with a story designed to shock the conscience: the claim that the elimination of USAID funding has driven pregnant African women to eat clay and charcoal and left thousands without AIDS medication or contraception. 
• Democratic politicians now insist that hundreds of thousands of children may die because decades-old foreign-aid programs are losing U.S. taxpayer support...

Critics abroad have rushed to condemn the United States for turning off the spigot. 

• Yet few acknowledge that many NGOs skim off vast sums—sometimes millions in executive salaries—before a dime is converted into medicine or food. 
• The patronage culture surrounding federal grants has become so routine that when watchdogs began exposing specific abuses, Americans were struck not by the fact that skimming existed, but by the sheer scale of it...

Anyone who has worked internationally knows that “facilitation” arrangements often grease the skids. That is not news. 

• But what has startled many Americans is discovering that enormous sums never leave U.S. soil at all. Investigations have revealed cases in which 75 to 90 percent of taxpayer funding vanished into “administrative costs,” with only pennies per dollar reaching the ground—if any did...

Hungary REVEALS the Reason Migration is Allowed in Europe:

"It is the replacement of native-born voters. 

This is the left’s plan." - Based Hungary @HungaryBased

Humiliating: CNN's New Years Eve Show Descends Into Debauchery Yet Again

Humiliating: CNN's New Years Eve Show Descends Into Debauchery Yet Again: 

As we head into 2026, what is the direction of this network?

If CNN is looking to redeem itself anytime soon after almost a decade of functioning as the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party, it isn’t doing a great job by complimenting that with drunken debauchery and general nonsense.

You can’t take the network seriously for its political takes, and they don’t take themselves seriously otherwise.

Someone noticed something VERY PECULIAR in Nick Shirley's video...

NYC poised to force landlords to sell private property to non-profits to ensure 'affordable housing'

“Today marks the beginning of a new social housing era in New York City…  - Thomas Stevenson

The New York City Council ...(COPA) that will force private building owners to offer up their property to nonprofits and government entities before they make any private sale, effectively causing massive delays in property sales and other regulatory hurdles in the Big Apple’s housing industry...

“Today marks the beginning of a new social housing era in New York City… COPA levels the playing field and makes it possible to preserve and create thousands of permanently affordable homes across our city.”

The act dictates that landlords must 

• first tip off the government entities and nonprofits that qualify, and “may not take any action that will result in the sale of such covered property to a person other than” those entities. 
• Then the owner must sit on that property for 25 days as it is up for sale to the nonprofits, which can submit a statement of interest.
• If the statement of interest is submitted to the property owner, the nonprofit entity then has 80 days to submit a first offer. 
• Only after rejecting any offer from the nonprofit during those 80 days would the owner then be able to list the property for public sale.
• That, however, is not the end of the red tape...

Lunch video-----The Big Problem With Solar Power

Noon-toon

 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Copies One of Trump's Signature Policies

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Copies One of Trump's Signature Policies: 

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that she will be following suit with one of President Donald Trump’s signature policy initiatives.

“I’m kicking the new year off with a proposal of no state income tax on tips, continuing my efforts to make New York more affordable for hard-working New Yorkers,” Hochul said in a news release.

We know he's succeeding cuz all the bad people hate him!

 

Tons of links and commentary here!-----Instapundit - THAT WAS FAST!

Maduro ‘captured’ and taken out of Venezuela after US military operation in Caracas: Trump.

• We should turn him over to the new government for prosecution once it’s established.
• More here.

Plus:

Assimilate or get out of town!

 

Katherine Herridge is one of the rare honest journalists remaining.

The purpose of journalism is to inform, not indoctrinate. - Mackubin Owens

Donald Trump For President
POWERFUL ADMISSION: Catherine Herridge just exposed how legacy media kills major stories behind closed doors — including a potential interview with Elon Musk.

Catherine Herridge: 

"...But at the end of the day, this opportunity to interview Elon Musk was developing. 

So I went to the CBS executives and I said, this is the opportunity that we have. 

He’s saying I want to do it live and on my platform. 

He’s one of the most influential human beings on the planet.
And the reaction from the executives was, well, we can’t do it live. 

I said, what do you mean we can’t do it live? 

They’re like, well, we don’t know what he’s going to say. 

I was like, well, I’m thinking, isn’t that the point of journalism?...

#1 This day 1975-----Elton John - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

Elon Musk @elonmusk - Because they aren’t actually news organizations, they are legacy media propaganda pushers for the far left.

It’s almost been 24 hours and not a single Corporate Media outlet has had anything to say about this. - Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson

• Funny how that works.

Peak DARVO. - "deny, attack, reverse victim and offender."

 

'Absolutely blew my mind': Watch TSA agents spill the beans on Somali men flying potentially billions of dollars out of U.S. in carry-on luggage * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Absolutely blew my mind': Watch TSA agents spill the beans on Somali men flying potentially billions of dollars out of U.S. in carry-on luggage * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

As alarms continue to blare concerning massive fraud in Minnesota's Somali community, some federal TSA agents are now revealing details of how Somali men have been flying potentially billions of dollars out of the U.S. inside their carry-on luggage in recent years, with no one stopping them.

Liz Jaksa, a former TSA agent who worked at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from 2016 to 2021, recently spoke to Liz Collin of Alpha News, as Collin noted the practice "sounds like something out of a spy movie – people going through security and getting on planes with suitcases filled with millions of dollars in cash."

Surprise! A $600 Million Insect Protein Animal Feed Business Just Went Bankrupt

I love it when green activists and clueless Hollywood celebrities think they know how to run a business.

French startup Ÿnsect shot into the spotlight when “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. touted its merits on the “Late Show” during Super Bowl weekend 2021.
Now, nearly four years later, the insect farming company has been placed into judicial liquidation — essentially bankruptcy — for insolvency...

By 2023, the company had racked up a net loss of €79.7 million ($94 million).
But the vision collided with market reality.

• Animal feed is a commodity market driven by price, not sustainability premiums...

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