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BOBA HAS LEFT THE BAKURA SYSTEM: Star Wars Tragedy: Boba Fett Actor Jeremy Bulloch Dies at 75.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Media Saves Joe Biden—Just as It Saved Barack Obama.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: It’s time for the ‘Deplorables’ to become the Unconquerables.
A SHOCKING AND UNFORESEEABLE RESULT: Florida’s Unemployment Claims Decline Sharply As State Remains Open. The Insta-Wife and I spent some time down in Panhandle Florida last week talking to servers, cashiers and others who work in wage-and-tip jobs, and they were all rather smug about Florida remaining open, and they strongly preferred their situation to that in places like California and New York. Their attitude toward those places was a mixture of smugness, and pity.
Plus: “The California experience was especially perplexing. Despite strict COVID-19 rules, the state has set records for new cases all week, including more than 50,000 on Thursday.
Florida, with no business restrictions, reported 13,148 new cases.”
#AMAZONSHITCARSHOW RETURNS: The Grand Tour: ‘A Massive Hunt’ gets surprise early release on Amazon Prime.
I watched it last night, and the 4K videography of Madagascar and Réunion Island is spectacular, and the ending(s) did a great job of subverting the show’s compulsory “And on that terrible disappointment” tagline. Lots of fun for fans of Top Gear/the Grand Tour.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Here Are the Strippers Who Saved San Diego Restaurants From Gavin Newsom’s Lockdown Orders.
MAD AS HELL: Americans Are in Full Revolt Against Pandemic Lockdowns. Across the country, restaurants and other businesses are defying lockdown orders, as J.D. Tucille reports. But politicians aren’t about to give up their newfound powers easily, as James Bovard points out in his essay, “Covid and The Rise of Cage Keeper Democracy.”
BAD NEWS FOR THE BUZZFEED CREW, I GUESS: Low testosterone can lead to severe Covid-19 outcomes for men: Study.
COVERING FOR HUNTER BIDEN: Why Americans Distrust the Media.
A majority of voters say the media intentionally buried The Post’s October bombshell about Hunter Biden’s laptop to help his father Joe Biden’s political campaign, a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Tuesday.
The poll found 52 percent of likely voters believe media companies provided scant coverage of the laptop story — which shed light on Hunter’s Ukrainian and Chinese business activities and suggested Joe Biden knew about them, despite his denials — in order to boost Biden’s prospects in the election, then a few weeks off. Only 32 percent disagreed.
Among those who said they followed the news “very closely,” more than three in four (76 percent) say the media ignored the story to help Biden.
A clear majority of voters (56 percent) also think it’s “likely” the president-elect was aware of his son’s ties to a corrupt Ukrainian business and to China, including 43 percent who think it’s “very likely.”
Meanwhile, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News reveal that top execs at Facebook and Twitter gave tens of thousands of dollars to Biden’s campaign — and “zero” to Team Trump. Many officials, like Facebook’s Erin Egan and Twitter’s James Kelm, gave the maximum, $5,600, to Biden during the primary and general elections. And this follows reports in October that found employees at the two companies sent more than 90 percent of their donations to Democrats.
Can it really just be some freaky coincidence that these plainly pro-Biden Big Tech firms also suppressed a story that might have hurt his prospects? Please.
Their aim was clear: They censored the story, with Twitter even suspending the accounts of those (including this newspaper) trying to share it, to protect him. (Their ideological bias also explains why they tend to “flag” or suppress pro-conservative content generally.)
Last week, Hunter Biden all-but-confirmed the laptop story by admitting the feds were probing him, and Fox News had previously confirmed that the laptop was part of an FBI probe. So there was never any good justification for burying this news. (The “this may be Russian disinformation” excuse never had any basis in fact.)
They’ve taken sides. Treat them like what they are.
ZOOM: 911 Porsche Turbo S does 0-60 in 2.2 seconds. “It’s as easy as turning the drive mode knob on the steering wheel to Sport or Sport Plus. Stop the car. Hold the brake with your left foot and hold down the accelerator with the right until the engine revs to 5000 rpm. Look as far down the road as you can before releasing the brake, and whooaa. Keep it floored for 21.4 seconds and you’ll be going 180 mph. . . . The last time expectations and reality were this tweaked was about a decade ago, and we were behind the wheel of a Bugatti Veyron.”
CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR HELEN KELLER: Time Mag. Liberal Says Helen Keller ‘Just Another Privileged White Person.’
To some Black disability rights activists, like Anita Cameron, Helen Keller is not radical at all, “just another, despite disabilities, privileged white person,” and yet another example of history telling the story of privileged white Americans.
Hey, you know who else was just another privileged white woman from American history?
HEATHER MAC DONALD: White Supremacy in Tutus. Classical ballet has largely escaped the revisionist destruction that hit the opera and theater stages years ago. But no more: Diversity and bias obsessions come for Swan Lake.
BRYAN PRESTON: The COVID Vaccine Messaging Is Just Getting More Confusing. “Is it just me, or is the messaging on the COVID vaccines more than a little off? Here’s NBC medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta either contradicting himself, moving the goalposts again, or just saying the vaccine can’t be trusted yet but he’s getting it anyway to virtue-signal to us unwashed commoners.”
IT’S HANDY DURING AMMO SHORTAGES: Is the .40 S&W Dead?
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Hot takes, cold drinks.
ANDY NGO: Portland lets Antifa win big — again.
Soon after last week’s raid on the occupied house, some 100 Antifa comrades mobilized through social media to retake the space. “There is an active call for numbers, defensive gear and supplies and change of clothes,” tweeted Antifa group Youth Liberation Front.
Within a few hours, the entire street was blocked off with stolen fencing, wood and junk taken from nearby homes. Some brought in power tools to reinforce the barriers. The militants laid out piles of rocks, metal spikes and glass bottles at strategic points to act as supply points for projectile weapons. They lined the road with impromptu “booby traps” — upward-facing nail strips, caltrops and more.
Portland police officers tried to shut down the RHAZ early on, but they were attacked and chased away. Their police cruisers were smashed up; they didn’t return.
“Those present at the barricades should leave it behind, put down your weapons and allow the neighborhood to return to peace and order,” Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell asked the militants, who ignored his polite request.
To protect their autonomous zone, the militants had their own team of roving “security,” like at CHAZ. They openly carried rifles and pistols. Neighborhood families felt terrorized; some have left.
Read the whole thing.
LOGISTICS: This Is How We’ll Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19.
Operation Warp Speed has been a real triumph. And remember, you can’t spell “Triumph” without “Trump.”
VDH: Biden Should Beware of Nemesis.
To win, the Democrats knowingly drafted the 77-year old Biden (who has since turned 78) to put a familiar veneer on radical agendas that had frightened primary voters. At times, Democrats seemed fated to be directly tied to the statue toppling, protesting, rioting and violence that plagued American cities for much of the summer.
Given the Democrats’ Faustian bargain with their leftmost faction, destructive rumors about Biden’s faculties or his family’s financial escapades will more likely come from his own party’s left wing, eager for a Harris presidency, rather than from the Republican opposition.
Biden will enter office with an ethical cloud hanging over his head — one that could have been vetted and adjudicated rather than blacked out for most of 2020. His son, brother and perhaps family associates may talk if faced with FBI and IRS probes, if not a special counsel investigation.
It will not help Biden that to defeat Trump, many of our institutions were deformed. Special counsels usually never receive a blank check — 22 months and $32 million — to assemble a team of partisans to investigate a new president on mostly hearsay evidence and an opposition-concocted dossier.
But that precedent ended with the ill-conceived Robert Muller investigation. By spring, Biden could have done to him what was done to Trump — and what Biden himself so frequently cheered on.
The “shock” that Democrats will feign when 2021 onward turns into a funhouse mirror version of the last four years will be astonishing to watch. As Michael Barone wrote earlier this month, Democrats are now reaping the whirlwind of their 2016 election ‘Resistance.’ “Democrats who are dismayed that many Americans aren’t meekly accepting the legitimacy of the Biden presidency are in the process of learning a lesson taught a very long time ago. You reap what you sow.”
And on the flip-side: CNN’s Jake Tapper Accidentally Previews Media’s New Biden Defense Strategy, and It Is Pathetic.
IMPRESSIVE: Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase.
To reduce production costs, Amazon said it must “decrease the size, weight, and complexity” of the antenna. But this is difficult with Ka-band equipment, which needs “more physical separation between transmit and receive antennas to cover its wide frequency range,” Amazon said. “For this reason, legacy Ka-band antennas place the transmit antenna and receive antenna next to one another, requiring a larger surface area and increasing production costs.”
Amazon said its solution is to use “tiny antenna element structures to overlay one over the other. This has never been accomplished in the Ka-band… Our design uses a combination of digital and analog components to electronically steer Ka-band beams toward satellites passing overhead.” This method let Amazon create a “single aperture phased array antenna that measures 12 inches in diameter, making it three times smaller and proportionately lighter than legacy antenna designs,” the company said.
That’s some nifty engineering.
IT’S HARD TO BINGE-DRINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHEN YOU’RE TAKING CLASSES ONLINE FROM YOUR PARENTS’ HOUSE: COVID-19 pandemic has college kids drinking less, survey suggests.
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SINCE HE WAS A REPUBLICAN, TIMESPEOPLE ASSUME THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN WRONG: Frederick Douglass vs. the 1619 Project. New video from Reason TV:
TOO BAD WE’VE KEPT EVERYONE INDOORS: Researchers uncover evidence that UV radiation from sunlight reduces COVID-19 transmission.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Rhode Island governor joins list of prominent Democrats under fire for violating own coronavirus recommendation.
Related: COVID Hysteria Serves Desire for Power.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Birdsong works like a mood booster for humans.
SHE EXPECTS TO BE CALLED ‘DR’ FOR THAT? Hans Bader has examined Jill Biden’s dissertation and is not impressed.
JILL BIDEN’S DOCTORATE IS GARBAGE BECAUSE HER DISSERTATION IS GARBAGE:
Insisting on being called “Doctor” when you don’t heal people is, among most holders of doctorates, seen as a gauche, silly, cringey ego trip. Consider “Dr.” Jill Biden, who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world. President-elect Joe Biden once explained that his wife sought the degree purely for status reasons: “She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” Joe Biden has said.
Mrs. Biden wanted the credential for its own sake. As for its quality, well. She got it from the University of Delaware, whose ties to her husband, its most illustrious alumnus if you don’t count Joe Flacco, run so deep that it has a school of public policy named after him. That the University of Delaware would have rejected her 2006 dissertation as sloppy, poorly written, non-academic, and barely fit for a middle-school Social Studies classroom (all of which it is) when her husband had been representing its state in the U.S. Senate for more than three decades was about as likely as Tom Hagen telling Vito Corleone that his wife is a fat sow on payday. The only risk to the University of Delaware was that it might strain its collective wrist in its rush to rubber-stamp her doctoral paper. Mrs. Biden could have turned in a quarter-a**ed excuse for a magazine article written at the level of Simple English Wikipedia and been heartily congratulated by the university for her towering mastery. Which is exactly what happened.
Do I even need to add the obligatory read the whole thing at this point?
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I’M GLAD IT ISN’T JUST US: China’s Shandong aircraft carrier completes sea trial but no word on basic combat readiness. “The first built-in-China aircraft carrier has completed a third sea trial but needs more time to reach combat readiness, with the coronavirus pandemic taking a toll on testing schedules, according to military observers.”
MEMBER OF “UNITY PARTY” UTTERS KINSLEY GAFFE: “Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as ‘f–kers.’”
IN AUSTIN? YES, IN AUSTIN: Jimmy Flannigan Goes Down In Flames. “A tiny glimmer of hope in Austin’s winter of discontent: Liberal city councilman Jimmy Flannigan was defeated by Mackenzie Kelly.”
THIS DISAGREES WITH THE EARLIER THINKING ON THIS SUBJECT: Not enough evidence linking Vitamin D with lower Covid risk.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Another Hypocrite #DefundThePolice Supporter, Another 911 Call to the Police.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call someone who votes to #DefundThePolice but then dials 911 to report a crime that they want to legalize?
Answer: You call her Lisa Herbold, and of course she has a seat on the Seattle City Council.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Steve Schmidt, practicing Democrat, is more wrong than you’ll ever know
- Now it’s disgraced former congresscritter Katie Hill demanding “you f-kers” show more unity
- Paris government hires too many women, gets fined
Bonus sanity: Governor DeSantis promises no more restaurant shutdowns.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
DON’T GET COCKY: Emerson runoff polls: 51/48 in both Georgia races for…
IN THE MAIL: From reader James Cohoon, Do No Harm (The Medical Students).
NOT ONLY IS 2020 STRANGER THAN WE IMAGINED, IT IS STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE: Creed’s Scott Stapp to Portray Frank Sinatra in New Movie About Ronald Reagan.
BY THE NUMBERS: Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed, And The Latter Has More COVID Deaths.
It’s also worth noting that Florida has more people than New York does, and a much higher percentage of the population (21.0% in FL vs 16.9% in NY) in the most-vulnerable 65-and-over age cohort.
STRAIGHT-UP ORWELLIAN BULLSHIT: Instagram censors post for linking Joe Biden’s 1994 law to mass incarceration. “Social media” has been the worst thing to happen to our politics, our journalism, and our culture in the history of this nation. It needs to be taken apart.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Iowa charges student with ‘professional misconduct’ for challenging its criticism of Trump order. “The University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry charged a student with ‘professional misconduct’ because he responded to its college-wide email condemning President Trump’s executive order on federally funded trainings in critical race theory, which may apply to some university activities. It refused to let him bring an attorney or record the hearing, even though possible outcomes were probation or dismissal from the program.”
Tar. Feathers.
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee is Being Widely Used as a COVID-19 Diagnostic Tool.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: AI Just Controlled a Military Plane for the First Time Ever.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Can Be a Social Media Kingmaker if Twitter Bans Him. “Twitter would stupid to get rid of Trump, of course. He’s the greatest free advertising the platform has ever had. They’ve been in the advanced stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome over there for a long time though, and we know those afflicted with it don’t make good choices.”
WHEN I SPOKE TO HIM LAST MONTH, HE SAID THE MORE DANGER HE IS IN, THE MORE EFFECTIVE HE BECOMES: Leftist call to send Jimmy Lai for trial in mainland China and ‘make an example of him.’
BIG TECH ON BIG TECH: Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads. “Developers will need to ask iOS 14 users for permission to gather data and track them across mobile apps and websites on an iPhone and iPad soon. Apple had planned to implement these changes with the initial iOS 14 release in September, but delayed enforcing them until early next year. These changes will impact Facebook’s ad business, and in particular its ad network for developers and businesses, as end users are more likely to opt out of tracking prompts.”
Actually, in the just-released iOS 14.3, end-users must opt in to app tracking.
Apps can’t even ask for permission to use tracking unless this new switch is set to on, and it’s set to off by default.
Apple’s motivation might be less about consumer privacy than it is about denying revenue to Facebook, but they have enhanced consumer privacy.
NEW POLL SHOWS MORE VOTERS THAN NOT THINK THERE WAS ELECTION FRAUD: More voters agree there was election fraud. “While a Tuesday Pew Research Center survey said that it was mostly Republicans who believed that fraud occurred, the new McLaughlin & Associates poll found that all voters, by a 46%-45% margin, believed that there was fraud.”
HUNTER BIDEN SENT ‘BEST WISHES FROM THE ENTIRE BIDEN FAMILY’ TO CHINESE ENERGY FIRM, ASKED FOR $10M.
And the MSM is on it! No, just kidding, of course:
R.I.P., Ralph K. Winter. A fine man, a fine judge, and an excellent teacher. I had him for three classes at Yale: Antitrust, Corporations/Business Associations, and Evidence. Even though he was teaching while sitting as a Second Circuit judge, he was always prepared and always amusing. Favorite quote: “I’ve been called a fascist because I believe in small government, which shows either a misunderstanding of me or a misunderstanding of fascism.”
GIVE THANKS: After Weeks Of Holier Than Thou Howling, The ‘Thanksgiving Surge’ Is A No Show.
“We haven’t seen something significant to talk about now,” Illinois Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “We’ll see for sure in this coming week … We’ll keep our fingers crossed that maybe we’re not going to see a big bump.”
Ezike was one of many public health officials who cautioned Americans to skip out on family gatherings, noting that the celebrations could actually be super spreader events, according to the report. The average new detected infections was declining prior to Thanksgiving but rose a bit afterwards. However, it has since been on the decline, according to the Chicago Tribune.
I’m still trying to figure out how curfews are supposed to prevent transmission.
DEFUND HIGHER EDUCATION: Students at University of Oregon Attempt to Remove College Republicans from Campus.
Tulsi Gabbard will retire from Congress at the end of the year. The Hawaii representative is going out with a bang, introducing several bills that show why she is so despised by her establishment Democratic counterparts — and why she could potentially become a very powerful broker in the American political realignment.
Read the whole thing.
WHEN THE PUBLIC HEALTH APPARAT HAS LOST THE TRUST OF HEALTH WORKERS: Majority of Southern California nurses refusing the COVID vaccine.
This is how badly the “experts” have screwed up.
GOOD GRIEF: US Navy investigates potential LCS class-wide design flaw. “Repeated failures in the propulsion train on the Freedom-class littoral combat ships Little Rock and Detroit have raised the specter of a class-wide design flaw that could trigger an expensive reworking of a crucial component on 17 of the Navy’s small surface combatants.”
To understand how insane Governor Walz’s order is, you might need to live in Minnesota. The forecast for December 24, Christmas Eve, shows a high of 10 degrees and a low of 3 degrees. That is Fahrenheit, not Celsius. Christmas Day will be balmy, with a high of 22 and a low of 10, with a chance of snow.
The idea that anyone will have dinner on Christmas or Christmas Eve outdoors under these conditions is a sick joke–a sick joke that is perpetrated by the governor of the State of Minnesota, who glories in his ability to perpetrate such absurdities. Likewise, the idea that it is viable for restaurants to stay in business via outdoor service in Minnesota in December and January is ridiculous.
What we are seeing in Minnesota, and elsewhere around the country, is not a sane approach to public policy, but rather the manifestation of a proto-fascist urge to exercise total control over everyone’s life. In this regard, Tim Walz is certainly among the worst, but he is not alone. The sad reality is that millions of Americans have happily dispensed with just about every known freedom–you can’t leave your house without government permission!–in hopes of avoiding a respiratory virus that is dangerous to the elderly whose health is already severely compromised, but not noticed by most under the age of 70 who contract it. Home of the brave, indeed.
Meanwhile, in California: The French Laundry’s PPP Loans Were 17 Times Higher Than Everyone Else’s. The politically popular restaurant was awarded $2.4 million, while smaller businesses were told that no money was left.
THE LEFT NEEDED IT WHEN THEY WEREN’T IN CONTROL, NOW THEY THINK THEY DON’T: Where Academic Freedom Ends.
SPLC SCAM CONTINUES: Fact Check: Did KKK-Style ‘Hate Groups’ Receive $4M in PPP Funds?.
GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Steve Schmidt’s new announcement means he’s AOC’s problem now.
Alt Headline: Lincoln Project member fully endorses party of slavery:
But shouldn’t the Lincoln Project be changing their name to make it official, particularly in light of this announcement? San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because ‘black lives didn’t matter to him.’
Possible alternatives:
● The Woodrow Wilson Project.
● The Franklin D. Roosevelt Project.
● The Robert C. Byrd Project.
Or for real truth in advertising: The Joe Biden Project.
UPDATE: You can argue over how much money the Lincoln Project set alight, but you can’t argue with the results:
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OUR CORRUPT INSTITUTIONS: Mollie Hemingway: When People Claim The Election Was Rigged, They Include Big Tech And Big Media.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Poll: 60 percent approve of Biden’s job as president-elect.
THEY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING AND FORGOTTEN NOTHING: Disgraced fake newsman Dan Rather gets journalism awards named in his honor.
No one does more harm to journalism than people in journalism.
The Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin unveiled this week two awards honoring disgraced former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.
“The Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts honor the process of journalism as much as the end product,” the organization announced Wednesday. “They will be awarded to professional and collegiate journalists who go the extra yard — overcoming obstacles like stonewalling and harassment — to get the story that tells truth to power.”
A spokesperson for the Moody College of Communication confirmed in a response to the Washington Examiner that the awards are, in fact, real and that they are not part of an elaborate joke.
“The Medals are named for Dan Rather, the legendary reporter and anchor who went far afield from his Texan roots but never forgot his humble beginnings,” the announcement continues. “He has been an ardent supporter of the School of Journalism and Media, inspiring and advocating for our majors. He is a permanent member of the Moody College of Communication’s Advisory Council, where he has been instrumental in its extraordinary development.”
It adds, “The School and the College sponsor the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts to further his goal of supporting and defending bravery and excellence in journalism in the face of overwhelming odds. While journalism and journalists have long been under constant fire from the powerful, recognizing those who show ‘News and Guts’ has never been more important than it is today. … These medals in his name, to be presented to professional and college journalists, honor that effort.”
Adding insult to injury, the school then quotes Rather himself, who once said, “News organizations and teams within those organizations have to have the guts and the backbone to dig into stories that people in power don’t want the public to know.”
Absent from the college’s announcement is any mention of why Rather has not anchored a serious news desk since 2004. It knows why. The college simply would rather not talk about the thing that destroyed his career; the thing for which Rather is completely unrepentant. For those who don’t remember, he alleged falsely during the 2004 U.S. presidential election that then-President George W. Bush had gone “AWOL” for much of his tenure in the National Guard. Rather’s supposed “bombshell” story, for which he lost his job at CBS, was based entirely on forged documents.
When Kevin Williamson was hired and then nearly-immediately fired in 2018 by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg after his crybully staffers melted down, Williamson reminded Goldberg that the Atlantic had always welcomed controversial authors, and specifically mentioned the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens. To which Goldberg replied, “Yes. But Hitchens was in the family. You are not.”
When you’re in the DNC-MSM’s family, you can get away with anything. Just ask Dan Rather, in a May 2001 exchange with Bill O’Reilly that foreshadowed Rather’s downfall three and a half years later:
DEMOCRATS’ GOVERNANCE PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE: The most dangerous cities in America, ranked. Weirdly, that isn’t discussed in this CBS News feature.
CHINA IS THE DEMOCRATS’ PARTNER: China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC. Like usual for the Democrats’ partners, China is literally forcing people to pick cotton.
AND THAT’S JUST MICHIGAN: A New Warning That International Pandemic Responses Are Eroding Freedom.
THERE MUST BE A LEGAL PHRASE FOR 100% BULLSHIT: As Ed Driscoll first raised here, Democratic Mayor of Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot actually directed her personally-appointed city lawyers to block CBS’ Chicago TV station from airing police body cam footage of them arresting and cuffing the wrong woman.
FFS, how can this woman say she believes “Black Lives Matter” when she tries to suppress footage showing potential police misconduct or incompetence? How can any Democrat say they support her and the idea of BLM? She was rightly laughed out of court. Worth noting:
“This isn’t the first time CPD attempted to shield body camera video from public view. Last year, police denied CBS 2’s FOIA request for video that would show how officers handcuffed 8-year-old Royal Wilson during a bad raid. The department said it would be “unduly burdensome” for police to collect, review and redact 16 hours of video.”
Next time some simpleton tells you all Democrats are good and all conservatives are evil, show them this and ask them to explain it. Then ask them if there should be a federal law denying federal funding to any department who does not release body cam footage to the public within, say 3 or 5 hours.
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XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese Communist Party’s members have infiltrated UK firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants: Report.
Meanwhile, on this side of the pond: NBA Stays Quiet on Chinese Slave Labor.
GIVE SOME TO BIDEN, DISAPPOINT KAMALA: Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. They Stole It Fair And Square.
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