Don Surber: Highlights of the News

Don Surber: Highlights of the News

ITEM 3: ElecTrek reported, "Tesla has laid off both the president of its LGBTQ+ community and a lead involved in diversity and inclusivity programs at the company.

"While they were let go as part of a broader wave of layoffs, it comes amid several comments Tesla CEO Elon Musk made, concerning what he describes as the woke mind virus."

Hiring a bunch of minorities to run your DIE shop (diversity, inclusion and equity) is not diverse or inclusive or equity. 

It creates a ghetto in corporate personnel chart to stick people in to meet your minority quotas. 

The hired don't mind because they get to sit around all day and do nothing but bitch..."

Something seriously wrong!

 

They knew what was going to happen. They filmed it, nothing else!-----Police Report Proves Undercover Cops Were Embedded With J6 Protestors

Police Report Proves Undercover Cops Were Embedded With J6 Protestors

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The January 6 plot thickens. Police records obtained by The Epoch Times called “First Amendment Demonstrations” proves there were undercover “members” from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Dept. (MPD) embedded among the January 6 protestors. Special plain clothed Electronic Surveillance Units (ESUs) joined the protestors and shot video surveillance footage. This isn’t really surprising to anyone paying attention but it’s nice to see it finally acknowledged..."

#1 This day 1966-----The Beatles - Paperback Writer

Worth bookmarking!!-----"For three decades, climate campaigners have fought to make fossil fuels so expensive..."

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"For three decades, climate campaigners have fought to make fossil fuels so expensive that people would be forced to abandon them. 

Their dream is becoming reality: 

• Energy prices are spiraling out of control and will soon get even worse. 
• Yet we are no closer to solving climate change.

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Yet the entire democrat party supports it!

 

CNN host grills Adam Schiff over motive for not hearing from witnesses who 'challenge' Jan. 6 narrative - TheBlaze

CNN host grills Adam Schiff over motive for not hearing from witnesses who 'challenge' Jan. 6 narrative - TheBlaze: 

CNN host Dana Bash grilled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday over why the House Jan. 6 committee is not hearing from witnesses who counter the committee narrative about the United States Capitol riot and former President Donald Trump. What happened? At the end of Schiff's interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Bash observed that every public witness the Jan. 6 committee has called thus far only confirmed the committee's narrative.

Chicago police foot chases: CPD unveil foot pursuit policy, no longer allowed to chase people on foot because they run away - ABC7 Chicago

Chicago police foot chases: CPD unveil foot pursuit policy, no longer allowed to chase people on foot because they run away - ABC7 Chicago

CHICAGO -- Chicago police officers will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot simply because they run away or give chase over minor offenses, the department said Tuesday, more than a year after two foot pursuits ended with officers fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy and 22-year-old man.
...Officers won't be allowed to chase people on foot if they suspect them of minor offenses such as parking violations, driving on suspended licenses or drinking alcohol in public. 
...Perhaps most significantly, the policy makes clear that the days of officers giving chase just because someone tries to avoid them are over..."

AM Fruitcake

History for June 22

History for June 22 - On-This-Day.com

Brit Hume 1943 - Broadcast journalist

• 1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
• 1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
• 1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
• 1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
• 1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
• 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18.
• 1980 - The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.

Tucker Carlson Steve Deace Fauci COVID Diagnosis - TheBlaze

Tucker Carlson Steve Deace Fauci COVID Diagnosis - TheBlaze: 

Regardless of your vaccination status, you will see value in this conversation with BlazeTV's Steve Deace, host of "Steve Deace Show." On Thursday, Steve joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight." He discussed his take on Dr. Anthony Fauci's COVID diagnosis and continued vaccine push. "It's all about power and control. If it were about science, they'd be a lot more transparent, a lot more honest, and a hell of a lot more humble," Deace told Tucker. Watch the video to hear more of the conversation.

The way we were-----10 World War II Myths That You Believe Because of Hollywood

The Economy of Japan: how a Superpower FELL from Grace in Four Decades

Important read!!-----How the Media Used Russiagate Conspiracy Theories to Create a News Cartel | FrontpageMag

How the Media Used Russiagate Conspiracy Theories to Create a News Cartel | FrontpageMag

• The alliance between Big Tech and Big Media was sealed with censorship and cash.

"...About a third of Americans regularly get their news through Facebook. 

The tech giant’s algorithms had the ability to make or break the news media, and would go on to break the digital media empires of the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and others in the lefty clickbait brigade.
...Facebook News was a walled garden that pushed the content of the major papers behind Russiagate

...The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook paid over $20 million to the New York Times and $15 million to the Washington Post in annual fees. 

Even more valuable than the big checks was Facebook’s ability to push media content to its users. 
...Facebook and the media had created a cartel in which media sites created paywalls to raise the value of their content and gain better deals with the social media monopoly. 

• ...In 2020, Zuckerberg had cut out the media middleman by influencing the election directly through the hundreds of millions in ‘Zuckerbucks’ that were handed out to local election offices in primarily Democrat areas, effectively “privatizing” a national presidential election..."

Biden Is Sleepwalking U.S. into Nuclear War with Russia

Biden Is Sleepwalking U.S. into Nuclear War with Russia

• How is it that Joe Biden and the rest of the foreign policy intelligentsia in Washington mistake the threat of nuclear war with Putin?  By Brandon J. Weichert

"Since Russia initiated its brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine, the West has responded with a hearty bellow of “Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!”.

Since February 24, NATO has poured nearly all its otherwise limited surplus of weapons and diplomatic capital—as well as economic capital, especially from the United States—into propping up the Ukrainian resistance front...
The Ukraine War has exacerbated the ongoing food and gas crises. 
...Just as with the concerns over food and energy prices, the threat of nuclear war has been written off publicly by American and European leaders alike. 

• We are told that Putin is simultaneously the most insane man alive and that he wouldn’t dare risk nuclear warfare with the West because . . . Well, that’d just be insane.

Of course, the same people ignoring the prospect of a Russian nuclear strike against NATO also insisted that Putin wouldn’t dare to invade Ukraine. 

Then when he did, they insisted that Putin wouldn’t dream of trying to conquer the capital of Kiev.

How did those predictions work out?
No doubt, they are wrong again.

• War Without End Goes Nuclear..."

Actor James Woods Blasts Soros-Funded DA Over Deaths of Two Police Officers: 'Blood on His Hands'

Actor James Woods Blasts Soros-Funded DA Over Deaths of Two Police Officers: 'Blood on His Hands': 

Two Los Angeles-area police officers are dead after an ambush shooting by a felon who reportedly should have been behind bars. The criminal is dead now, too, but so are El Monte, California, police Cpl. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana. And Hollywood conservative James Woods is blasting the man he believes is responsible: Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascn.

Condo Ass'n Gets $395K Judgment vs Owner Who Asked to See Records

California affordable housing can top $1 million per unit - Los Angeles Times

California affordable housing can top $1 million per unit - Los Angeles Times
"More than half a dozen affordable housing projects in California are costing more than $1 million per apartment to build...

• 
  “That is untenable,” said Assemblyman Tim Grayson (D-Concord), who is writing legislation aimed at simplifying state affordable housing financing. “That is not a sustainable model. We have got to do something to reduce the cost.”
  

...In comparison with private sector development, low-income housing is often saddled with more stringent environmental and labor standards..."

Lunch video-----Why would the left shout down ANY discussion about the sun's affect?-----Looking At The Sun

"Climate alarmists downplay or dismiss the role of the sun in climate change, attributing most or all of it to CO2 and to man-made CO2 at that. 

But in this Climate Discussion Nexus "Backgrounder" video Dr. John Robson explains that a technical dispute about satellite readings of solar output since 1979 is of enormous importance here because if one side is right, temperature fluctuations over the last four decades correlate very closely with cycles in the sun's activity and if the other is, they're almost entirely unrelated. 

And once again, the refusal of one side to admit there's a dispute, and to try to suppress evidence of it, tells you a lot about who's doing real climate "science".

Noon-toon

Elon Musk Takes Major Swipe At TikTok | The Daily Wire

Elon Musk Takes Major Swipe At TikTok | The Daily Wire: 

He followed that up saying, “Or perhaps social media in general.”

Musk’s tweet comes as a new report from BuzzFeed News late this week alleged that China-based TikTok employees have been accessing sensitive U.S. user data despite the company previously indicating that the information would only be accessed from inside the U.S.

They're attempting to take "Americans" out of America.

 

THEY WANT YOU TO LEAD A MORE CONSTRAINED LIFE

THEY WANT YOU TO LEAD A MORE CONSTRAINED LIFE

• High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet—here’s how to keep it that way.

Related: “So those high prices for gasoline and the long, chaotic lines and canceled flights at the airports are not a bug, they’re the lynchpin of the whole scheme, which is itself part and parcel of the entire Great Reset project (about which much more tomorrow; watch this space). 

In order for the Lords of Davos to control you they must first curtail and control your freedom of movement, and what better way to do that than to make the price of oil prohibitively expensive? 

• First your cars stop moving, then the trucks that deliver almost everything of value, including food, to the stores. 

An inability to move freely and without government oversight will vanish as computers take over your automobiles and which, when they are fully electric, can be disabled at will. 

As they like to say: You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy. 

What better metaphor, then, for the parlous state of our national affairs than the sight of Biden on his keister after toppling off his bike over the weekend.”--Posted by Glenn Reynolds

The REAL domestic terrorists. Now they're an arm of the democrat government!

 

You Think Times Are Hard Now? Buckle Up, Buttercup

You Think Times Are Hard Now? Buckle Up, Buttercup
"...here are some of the sorry conditions likely headed our way:

• 
  High Prices Aren’t Going Anywhere...
• Interest Rate Hikes...
• Property Values...
• COVID-inspired changes in work habits have left a whole lot of office space vacant, leading the commercial market to sag as well.
• Global Recession...
• Bear Market...
• Scarcity and Hunger...

...Even more scarce are competent leadership and common sense. 

So long as everyone wants to prioritize green fantasies, ESG scores, and social Marxism and no one wants to be serious, we’re going to be in the stew. 

Stock up on essentials..."

#1 This day 1951-----"Too Young" Nat King Cole

Russia: "Beyond Serious" - by Mark Wauck

Russia: "Beyond Serious" - by Mark Wauck

• Russia has responded at the highest levels to Lithuania’s unilateral abrogation of the treaty governing goods transport—through the territory of Lithuania—between the Russian Federation and its Kaliningrad Oblast (which is surrounded by Poland and Lithuania). 
• Reuters has the details of the Russian response:

LONDON (Reuters) - Russia warned NATO member Lithuania on Monday that unless the transit of goods to Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea was swiftly restored then Moscow would take undisclosed measures to defend its national interests.
...As we’ve previously noted, the military power—on land, sea, and in the air—that Russia has at its disposal in the Baltic area simply dwarfs that of all other countries combined. 

A direct attack on the functioning of Russia as a sovereign nation which has entered into a binding treaty with Lithuania seems wildly reckless. 

There is no reason to suppose that Russia doesn’t mean business..."

Yeah, this is real. From the CDC!

 

Twitter reactions to Hillary Clinton knocking the Electoral College - TheBlaze

Twitter reactions to Hillary Clinton knocking the Electoral College - TheBlaze: 

Hillary Clinton was lampooned for attempting to vilify Republicans for attempting to carry out the alleged crime of trying to win presidential elections by winning the Electoral College. Numerous online commentators pointed out the basic civics lesson that the presidential candidate that wins the Electoral College – not the popular vote – wins the election as long as the candidate has at least 270 electoral votes.

Why Does Boston Buy Natural Gas from Russia? - CO2 Coalition

Why Does Boston Buy Natural Gas from Russia? - CO2 Coalition
"Europe is vulnerable and needs our natural gas; prices are absurd and going higher. 

Yet, everyone in the oil and gas industry is afraid to invest any money, even if they have financing available. 

Who wants to start a 10- to 20-year natural gas project, whether it’s a gas field, pipeline, or LNG (liquified natural gas) terminal, when the administration is saying they will shut you down in 10 years?
“You’ve got six years, eight years, no more than 10 years or so,” says Climate Envoy John Kerry. 

“No one should make it easy for the [natural] gas interests to be building out 30- or 40-year infrastructure.”
...Yet, natural gas is imported to Boston’s LNG facility from Russia, Canada, and the Caribbean at great cost due to the lack of pipeline capacity..."