President Donald Trump was recently ridiculed for telling California Governor Jerry Brown that the Golden State should do as my country does.
Trump critics laughed at what some called his “bizarre” claim that foresters in Finland “rake” areas that have been thinned or clear-cut, to remove leaves and other debris that could otherwise start conflagrations like the recent tragic fires in California... Ironically, all this happened at just about the time that Finland’s own forest specialists declared that Mr. Trump was correct about what he told Governor Brown...
The “confusion” over what President Trump said unfortunately came initially from the Finnish side, as even our media thought “raking” meant only light removal of leaves, pine cones and other debris from forest floors...
A French woman who was conned out of €830,000 (£700,000; $850,000) by scammers posing as actor Brad Pitt has faced a huge wave of mockery, leading French broadcaster TF1 to withdraw a programme about her... Somebody purporting to be Pitt got in touch the next day, which set off alarm bells for Anne.
"But as someone who isn't very used to social media, I didn't really know what was happening to me," she said.
At one point, "Brad Pitt" said he tried to send her luxury gifts but that he was unable to pay customs on them as his bank accounts were frozen due to his divorce proceedings with actor Angelina Jolie, prompting Anne to transfer €9000 to the scammers. "Like a fool, I paid... Every time I doubted him, he managed to dissipate my doubts," she said...
Meanwhile, Anne and her husband divorced, and she was awarded €775,000 - all of which went to the scammers.
"I told myself I was maybe saving a man's life," Anne said, who is in cancer remission herself. Anne's daughter, now 22, told TF1 she tried to "get her mother to see reason" for over a year but that her mother was too excited. "It hurt to see how naive she was being," she said... The TF1 programme said the events left Anne broke, and that she has tried to end her life three times. "Why was I chosen to be hurt this way?," a tearful Anne said. "These people deserve hell. We need to find those scammers, I beg you - please help me find them." But in the YouTube interview on Tuesday Anne hit back at TF1, saying it had left out details on her repeated doubts over whether she was talking to the real Brad Pitt, and added that anyone could've fallen for the scam if they were told "words that you never heard from your own husband." Anne said she was now living with a friend: "My whole life is a small room with some boxes. That's all I have left."..
“CA, and especially LA, is controlled by Democrats. THEY are responsible. No more passing the buck. Our Mayor, who was in Ghana as fires exploded in our city, cut the fire budget by $17 million. Endless amounts of money funneled to bullshit scammer homeless nonprofits. We’re the highest taxed yet we have encampments and squalor everywhere,” Kasparian wrote in a post on X.
“Even worse, we don’t have enough firefighters to respond to the absolute disaster we’re experiencing right now. Rather than conserve the record rain we got last year, we just drained it into the ocean. We are a failing city run by a sick excuse for local government. You want to radicalize people against the modern Democratic Party? Send them to LA,” she concluded.
To: Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republicans in Congress
Tell Republicans: Stop attacking disaster relief!
Right now, the tragic wildfires raging across Southern California have already killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands from their homes.
But instead of working to support those trying to survive and rebuild, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are exploiting this climate disaster to spread disinformation and sow chaos for political points. And this isn't the first time. Right-wing disinformation and attacks against disaster workers prevented people from getting the urgent help they needed in the wake of devastating natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton...
The blame falls heavily on California authorities, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who slashed the city’s fire department funding, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who refused to sign a water bill that would have dramatically increased the city’s water supply.
But it seems humility is not in either one of their wheelhouses.
Hey, did you hear about that Trump-loving J6 couple who threw a bomb and permanently injured a cop?
He got five years. His wife got no years.
Yeah, those J6ers really got off easy.
Oh, wait, my mistake.
They were not J6 defendants.
They were a couple of Antifa scumbags who were mad because conservative commentator Michael Knowles was going to speak about transgender baloney.
Instead of being treated with the same scorn and harshness that the J6 defendants have been, this federal judge actually said they were something along the lines of very fine people.
How many years do you think a J6 defendant would get if he permanently injured a cop with a bomb? About a million.
But there’s a vital difference.
The Biden Administration (sic) likes Antifa terrorists and hates patriots.
The fact is we have a dual-track justice system, which is intolerable.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will create an external revenue office upon his return to the White House that will collect all foreign-sourced revenue, such as tariffs...
@realDonaldTrump/XThe incoming president added that the ERS would be established on Jan. 20 to “begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share.”
The prospective foreign policy of his second term has taken an unexpected turn, with his recent talk of annexing Canada, buying Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal. Rather than the neo-isolationist that he’s often accused of being, Trump is talking like a neo-imperialist, at least in our own hemisphere.
Trump on Greenland: is he serious?
Even if President Trump does none of these things — he’s largely joking about the Great White North — his musings are a reminder of the crucial importance of geography and the control of territory. The first thing you need to do to understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, is to look at a map.
“Geography is the most fundamental factor in the foreign policy of states because it is the most permanent,” the 20th century strategist Nicholas Spykman observed...
Footage recently surfaced from a victory over Columbia Bible College in October, during which Mackenzie is seen knocking over at least half a dozen women in a physically dominating display.
The fire now engulfing whole neighborhoods in Los Angeles will soon engulf the politicians who failed to protect them.
The first casualties will be Mayor Karen Bass and California governor Gavin Newsom.
They are already “dead politicians walking.” It is important to recognize that Newsom and Bass are not being held responsible for a “natural disaster,” even one of horrific scale.
Nor should they be.
They should be held responsible for failed leadership, for misplaced priorities, for the misuse of high tax revenues (no one can say Californians are undertaxed), and for policy choices that failed to meet the first responsibility of any government: protecting citizens’ lives and property...
1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
1900 - The U.S. Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the Samoan islands.
1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
1970 - Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi became virtual president of Libya.
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, black people had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
The budget resolution for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, which said on the front cover that the document was submitted by Bass herself before being modified and adopted by the Los Angeles City Council, indeed revealed some rather foolish spending priorities.
There was a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe,” for which Bass suggested a $100,000 slush fund, an amount that was fully approved by the City Council.
The Department of Defense spent $79.1 billion on contracts and grants in September 2024...
The dollar total includes $33.1 billion spent in the last five working days of September..
Others were a bit more surprising.
The military spent $103.7 million on meat, fish and poultry in September, partially because they ordered raw lobster tail 147 times for $6.1 million. They also dropped $16.6 million on ribeye steak, $6.4 million on salmon and $407,000 on Alaskan king crab...
Not all the groceries were as healthy.
The DoD ordered ice cream 79 times for $113,230 and spent $117,787 on fresh doughnuts.
The military also spent $1.2 million on musical instruments of over a dozen varieties, including $12,480 for “piano tuning.”...
At least $5.1 million on Apple products, including 130 iPhone 16 Pro Max devices...
1.) drained 4 reservoirs and removed dams to accommodate fish 2.) prevented removal of deadwood from forests because it provides housing for mice 3.) reduced firefighting budget 4.) gave "excess" firefighting equipment to UKRAINE 5.) implemented DEI hiring to ensure an ALL LESBIAN leadership team for the LAFD (because all-lesbian leadership is diverse, right?)
Don't be accusing the governor of failing to prepare for fire season!
He was exceptionally well prepared to ensure the greatest possible destruction.
A 2021 court order essentially dropped National Review from Mann's suit, though Steyn was eventually found by a jury to have defamed Mann. Steyn is now on the hook for $1 million in damages payable to Mann. Notably, Abraham Wyner — a tenured statistics professor and the chair of the undergraduate statistics program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School — testified during Steyn's trial that Mann engaged in "improper manipulation" of data such that his signature model was "misleading."
The media and other Democrats endlessly complain about misinformation, but here is Massachusetts senator Ed Markey spreading false information about how the fires in California are caused by oil and Trump, a pair of outrageous lies:
Dem senator warns ‘LA fires are preview of coming atrocities,’ claims Trump bought off by ‘Big Oil’ As fires wreak havoc in California, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., claimed in a post on X the catastrophe is ‘what a climate emergency looks like.’ In another tweet, he took aim at President-elect Trump, asserting the incoming president has been bought off by the oil industry. ‘Trump has been bought for $1 billion by Big Oil. Just a payoff to kill the IRA and the Green New Deal. We know what will happen. More fires, more climate disasters, more death. The LA fires are [a] preview of coming atrocities,’ Markey declared in a post on X.
Democrats have had complete control of California for decades, and have had control of the White House for twelve of the last sixteen years, but somehow this is what California will look like with Trump in charge the next four years...
A French woman who was conned out of €830,000 (£700,000; $850,000) by scammers posing as actor Brad Pitt has faced a huge wave of mockery, leading French broadcaster TF1 to withdraw a programme about her...
The fire now engulfing whole neighborhoods in Los Angeles will soon engulf the politicians who failed to protect them.
The Department of Defense spent $79.1 billion on contracts and grants in September 2024...
1.) drained 4 reservoirs and removed dams to accommodate fish
The media and other Democrats endlessly complain about misinformation, but here is Massachusetts senator Ed Markey spreading false information about how the fires in California are caused by oil and Trump, a pair of outrageous lies: