"Households will pay a £170-a-year green levy on energy bills in the coming days, with Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt accused of “slyly” shifting costs back to consumers... The cost of the levies was shifted from consumer bills to be funded instead by the Government, following a year-long campaign by energy firms and MPs amid spiraling gas, electricity and food prices last year. It will again be imposed on consumers...
"Alleged president Joe Biden is on his “ban assault rifles'' kick again because the government apparently needs to keep firearms
out of the hands of law-abiding citizens and
in the hands of meth-addled whoremonger scumbags like his son.
One constant component of this stumped stump speech is a line of nonsense that essentially boils down to us not needing real guns to fight government tyranny because the government – his government – will unleash the F-16s on you uppity peasants if you fail to obey your elite masters.
...Putin’s Wagner problem provides an example of what happens when the folks you are counting on to do your dirty work start counting and realize that the numbers are on their side.
But all mutinies are not openly mutinous.
A little story, with the names omitted to protect the jerk involved:
There once was this aviation battalion commander who was a real pain – just obnoxious – and then the battalion deployed to a combat zone. The commander continued being obnoxious, including to maintenance personnel. And suddenly, the unit operational readiness rate for the choppers dropped. This is bad. You do not want to be in a war zone and have to explain why 80% of your choppers are grounded. You can’t just order the aircraft ungrounded – you need to get the maintainers to maintain and sign off. But the OR rate kept dropping, and no amount of threats, screaming, and other fulminations could bring it up. The generals relieved the commander; oddly, the OR rate shot right up under the new CO. So, all resistance is not necessarily kinetic...
"...That brings us back to the everpresent SKYNET question.
What will the Pentagon’s AI system be “thinking” about when it has access to all of our military secrets and intelligence assets?
And what might it decide to do with that information if it has control of some of the Pentagon’s more interesting toys?
Those include things like their autonomous military drones that carry weapons and use limited (for now) artificial intelligence to navigate the battlefield and identify targets.
Do we really want a system such as the one being planned to have that kind of firepower?
Call me paranoid if you wish, but I’m no longer entirely joking when I say that this is all getting a distinctly SKYNET feel to it.
‘PentGPT, stand down the missile launchers.’ “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
"This WhatsApp directly ties Joe Biden to the millions of dollars coming from communist China," Cruz said. "Now, it is possible Hunter Biden was lying, it's possible Joe Biden wasn't next to him. It's possible Joe Biden was not going to inflict official damage on the Chinese if they didn't pay him and his son millions of dollars. That's possible, but you know what, we don't know if it's true or not. Why? Because, according to the whistleblower, they didn't investigate, and they were prohibited from investigating. They were prevented from even asking the question."
"Let me be clear: This, on the face of it, is obstruction of justice," he said. "And if Merrick Garland issued that order, he is the one blocking the investigation, and I think there's real evidence of Merrick Garland being guilty of obstruction of justice."
The Russian paramilitary group Wagner made headlines overnight and into Saturday after the group's owner and leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, vowed to strike back against the Russian military over allegations that government troops had killed a significant number of his private mercenaries. In a nutshell, Prigozhin claims that Russian troops fired on and killed his own men as the latter fought in eastern Ukraine... Prigozhin has vowed to continue to Moscow and appears to be on his way already... And Putin has ordered his military to crush the Wagner coup.
In the recent past, Prigozhin has been a sharp critic of Russia's elite class for what he said has been wasteful and profligate conduct during the Ukrainian war. He has even criticized Vladimir Putin, which is a big no-no in Russia.
Here is Putin's address to Russia about the uprising:
UPDATE: Aaaand it's over. The greatest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power fizzled out after the rebellious mercenary commander who ordered his troops to march on Moscow abruptly reached a deal with the Kremlin to go into exile and sounded the retreat...
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1900 - The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.
1900 - A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
1974 - In Troy, Ohio, a Marsh supermarket installed the first bar code scanning equipment, made by IBM, and a product with a bar code was scanned for the first time. The product was Juicy Fruit gum.
Carlson described an imaginary scenario in which an airplane cabin is filling with smoke but nobody is talking about it. When someone mentions the smoke to a flight attendant, she replies, "Shut up racist!" adding, "That's a dangerous Russian conspiracy theory. Stop spreading misinformation or I'll call TSA and have you arrested when we land."
After laying out that scenario, Carlson suggested that it serves as a parallel to modern American society. He said that while people can sense that there is "something very bad going on," leaders will not acknowledge it and insist that nothing is amiss.
NYT columnist roasted on a spit for his 'boot licking' spin on the inspirational 'Hunter Biden saga' - American Wire News - Chris Donaldson There can be no serious argument that the media isn’t in the bag for President Joe Biden but a New York Times columnist took the spin to an entirely new level with a piece gaslighting readers that the “Hunter Biden saga” is less about the pervasive corruption of the crack-smoking, gun-toting, sexual degenerate but a tale of how a flawed man overcame his addictions with help of his loving dad that should serve as an inspiration to all... In his piece titled “The Real Lesson From the Hunter Biden Saga,” Nicholas Kristof foists off his shameless propaganda about Hunter and his crooked career politician father who he writes, offers “the country a fine model of the love and support that people with addictions need.”
Kristof’s piece was received with all of the scorn and ridicule that it was deserving of, and then some, from Twitter...
Box Office Analyst Estimates Disney Lost $890 Million on Last Eight Theatrical Releases ...“That can’t go on forever. It’s just simple numbers, folks,” Valliant Renegade said in the video. “That’s where we are. The Walt Disney Company is just making all the wrong decisions not only creatively, but in the distribution channels as well.” Disney is facing an unprecedented financial crisis with CEO Bob Iger attempting to slash $5.5 billion in spending, including laying off 7,000 workers worldwide...
Disney’s financial woes come as the company increasingly embraces transgenderism, critical race theory, and other forms of woke politics in its entertainment aimed at children.
Pixar’s Elemental, which had the worst opening of any movie in Pixar history, featured the studio’s first gender “non-binary” character in a theatrically released movie.
Every House Democrat on the committee that released whistleblower testimony about the Hunter Biden tax probe on Thursday voted to keep that information hidden from the public eye.
A pair of IRS whistleblowers accused the Biden administration of stymying U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ investigation into President Biden’s son, which resulted in a plea deal earlier this week that is expected to see him avoid time behind bars. Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanor charges, but the whistleblowers claimed that it came after the Department of Justice "provided preferential treatment, slow-walked the investigation, did nothing to avoid obvious conflicts of interest in this investigation."
"It seems almost beyond belief that a film which shows medieval Europe populated exclusively by white people with traditional gender roles could upset progressive types, but The Northman is being slated as appealing to the alt-right and being a dog whistle to white supremacists.
The rest were partially filled, ranging from about 30 to 80 percent...
But some say the winter’s water was not stored because it was flushed to the ocean to help replenish some endangered fish species, like the Delta smelt.
“It’s a political problem,” Don Jackson, an almond farmer and a water board member of Kern County, said on a recent episode of EpochTV’s California Insider. “We’re flushing all the water out … instead of sending it to the people—which the aqueduct system was built for.”
Bud Light, a beer brand has been embroiled in controversy since enlisting transgender figure Dylan Mulvaney to advertise its product, has resumed tweeting after a prolonged pause on Twitter. But the new tweet is getting majorly ratioed amid persistent public backlash against the brand.
"Crack a cold one: we've got an epic summer ahead. Sock tans included," Bud Light tweeted when sharing a one-minute commercial.
Last time I looked more than 111K of his followers (after just a few hours of it being being posted) were regurgitating the nonsense message that, of course, the Great Barrier Reef is stuffed...
Too many Australians, whether young or old, voting Labor, Greens, Liberal or Teal, are mostly abrogating their capacity for reason in favour of being fashionable...
I sent Jordan Shanks the following short note by email yesterday. friendlyjordies@protonmail.com Dear Friendly Jordie, I’ve just watched your episode about the Riddler and the Reef. I was hoping to see you in the water with some corals... It was reported by Graham Readfearn in The Guardian as the worst of the worst bleached, and then there were the official aerial surveys that also reported on the bleaching. Last year, there was even the United Nation’s UNESCO people who visited – but not John Brewer Reef. They said it was all dead and dying.
This map was being promoted through March and April 2022 as showing the Great Barrier Reef suffering from mass coral bleaching with the impression that most of the coral was going to die.But guess what: the assessment team never actually visited any of the reefs that were reported as bleached/dead and dying.
The experts relied for their stories about the bleaching from the flybys that score the state of the corals out an aeroplane window from an altitude of 150 metres. I’ve tried that. You can’t see much. To know the state of the corals you need to get in and under-the-water.Come see, with me. I’ve been out to John Brewer a few times and under-the-water, and even made a short under-water documentary film showing the corals up close. You can watch the film here, https://vimeo.com/775205373 But, of course, it is never the same as seeing with your own eyes.
The corals at John Brewer Reef as filmed, underwater and from a drone at 5, 10,20,40 and 120 metres altitude in early April 2022 – when this reef was being reported as the epicentre of the sixth mass coral bleaching. Contrary to the media headlines, there was good coral cover and the coral was colourful and healthy at John Brewer Reef.
"Welcome Walgreens shoplifters. You’ll see we have new anti-theft devices in order to make the shopping experience pleasant for everyone. However, if you’re in a hurry, feel free to bring a blowtorch to cut through those security protections. While you do, one of our associates will be happy to record your shopping experience on their cellphone.
Except they know and you know nothing is going to happen to you...
New York City LGBTQXYZLMNOP etc. etc. activists just came out of the closet… as pedophiles.
At least, how else should we interpret a lot of LGBTQ activists marching about chanting, “We’re coming for your children”?
"Of course, this chant is similar to the sentiment expressed by our esteemed president and his ever-brilliant White House press secretary. “There is no such thing as someone else’s child,” Joe Biden asserted in April...
And in May, White House Press Secretary and open lesbian Karine Jean-Pierre made the same creepy claim regarding parents’ objections to transgender surgeries for children: “These are our kids. They belong to all of us.”...
Hunter Biden, whom President Joe Biden claimed is the "smartest guy" he knows, deducted tens of thousands of dollars in payments he made to prostitutes and a sex club from his taxes, according to Internal Revenue Service whistleblower testimony released Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) indicated in a press conference Thursday that two IRS whistleblowers have provided evidence of "misconduct and government abuse that is resulting in preferential treatment for the president's son, Hunter Biden."