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October 10, 2020
FORMULA ONE LATEST SPORT TO GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Lewis Hamilton: “I’m Not Going to Stay Quiet.” In a deeply personal interview, the six-time Formula 1 champion explains why he’s using his voice to support social justice and Black Lives Matter.
With the NBA crawling down from its social-justice posturing, this seems behind the curve.
NICE, IF UNEXCITING: Our Honda Passport Earns Praise on the Open Road.
GOODFELLAS FOREVER: And yes, it’s a guy thing.
To those who label GoodFellas a morality play that leaves us exiting the theater appropriately updated on the evils of the Mafia, I ask this: Knowing how his story ended, do you think Joe Pesci’s character Tommy DeVito would have done things any differently? If he’d had his life to live over, would he have gone into plumbing or roofing before expiring of a heart attack in his Barcalounger? Would he have chosen the life of a square? I think not. Even knowing things would end with a gunshot in the face (oh, sorry! — spoiler alert), I think Tommy would have considered it a fair trade. After all, he started out as a nobody and got to live like a medieval lord, for a while. Tommy got to kill with impunity, laugh and drink and play cards all day, to wallow in riches. It couldn’t last, and didn’t, but for him the glory was worth the price.
GoodFellas, which was released 30 years ago this fall, serves up a more convincing, more potent dose of gang life than any other picture, and awed fascination with its gory glory is why it has always been a black-comic underworld adventure for its mostly male fans. We watch it over and over because it’s fun. Dark fun, sure. It’s the cynical, anarchic flip side of Hillary Clinton’s earnest commencement-day wish for “more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating modes of living.” As much of a buzz as young Hillary got from student sit-ins, that’s what Henry Hill gets from entering a packed nightclub through its kitchen like he’s pope of the Copa. GoodFellas is, crucially but not exclusively, a buddy movie. Guys watch it in the same frame of mind we have when watching two beefy men in trunks pummel each other in a ring: We couldn’t do that, but what a supernatural plane of existence it must be.
The movie’s director, Martin Scorsese, has described its last act as a kind of “attack” that he hoped would leave the audience contemplating the wages of sin. As punishment rained down upon each mobster in turn, we were to have gained a sense that the moral points had been set down as firmly as they would have been in a 1940s crime saga, in accordance with General Principle no. 1 of Hollywood’s Production Code: “No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrong-doing, evil or sin.”
Read the whole thing. After his post-Raging Bull wilderness in the 1980s, Goodfellas was a brilliant return to form for Martin Scorsese, and even its last act is much more watchable than the endless last hour of Scorsese’s recent (nearly) straight-to-Netflix movie, The Irishman, whose last hour ground on interminably. I doubt the latter film will garner too many repeat viewings, unlike the perennially watchable Goodfellas.
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A HOLIDAY FROM CANCEL CULTURE: Don’t Defend Columbus–Celebrate Him. Dozens of cities have taken down their statues of Columbus, but he and the Italian immigrants who paid for those statues deserve tribute, not blame.
END THE LOCKDOWNS: Five Charts That Show Sweden’s Strategy Worked.
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: (Watch) Mask-Shamer Joe Biden Literally Removed His Mask to Cough.
BAH. FRACKING HAS MADE GAS-POWERED CARS SUSTAINABLE. Porsche is researching synthetic fuels to make gas-powered cars sustainable.
YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Three Inconvenient Truths 60 Minutes Forgot to Mention in Its Story on California Wildfires and Climate Change.
CBS journalist Scott Pelley recently visited Butte County, California, to report on the wildfires devastating the Golden State.
Government statistics show that more than 8,300 wildfires have burned some 4 million acres to date. The flames have claimed 31 lives and destroyed nearly 8,700 structures. One of those structures belonged to Fire Station 61 Chief Reed Rankin, who saw his home reduced to a charred skeleton after a September blaze.
“[It’s] nothin’ but a foundation with a metal roof on top of it,” Rankin, who has spent more than 28 years as a firefighter, told Pelley. “It’s completely burned down.”
CBS had a wonderful opportunity to explore the devastating impact and causes of California’s fires. Unfortunately, it was an opportunity missed. The 60 Minutes segment focused primarily on climate change, a topic that is covered in depth virtually every single day.
California’s historic wildfires received scant attention, and all but the most attuned viewers would have concluded that the wildfires are simply the result of global warming. That’s because Pelley spent a total of seven seconds of the 13-minute segment explaining a primary cause of California’s megafires.
“Climate isn’t the only reason,” Pelley says of the wildfires at one point. “Decades of aggressively putting out every forest fire allowed brush to pile up like kindling.”
Pelley is correct. There is a widespread scientific consensus that California’s aggressive efforts to suppress fire have made the state ripe for megafires. But this is the last 60 Minutes viewers hear on the mismanagement of California’s forests.
Unexpectedly, as they say at Bloomberg.com: CBS ‘Global Warming Special’ Host [Scott Pelley] Likened Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers.
THE ANSWER IS “YES,” THEN. Democrat Joe Biden: Voters ‘Don’t Deserve’ To Know If I’m Going To Pack Supreme Court.
REPUBLICANS POUNCE: Biden, Harris won’t say whether they would ‘pack’ the court, drawing Republican criticism.
It says everything that the angle the Washington Post chose for their headline is “Republican criticism,” rather than demanding an answer from Biden and Harris.
FASTER, PLEASE: CDC launches new plan to tackle antibiotic-resistant infections.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Kamala Harris Bravely Defies Mansplaining ‘Do Not Eat’ Warning On Silica Gel Packet.
ROGER SIMON: The Presidential Debate Commission Should Resign Now.
Now it turns out CSPAN’s Steve Scully—the would be moderator of the third debate—allegedly was tweeting notorious Trump enemy Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci, of all people, for advice on how to question the President. (Why not Michael Avenatti?)
Scully, not surprisingly, denies this and says he “believes” he was hacked, which is possible, but so what?
The man got his start in the political world as an intern for Joe Biden, again of all people. Then Scully worked in the media department of Ted Kennedy. Unbiased?
Next you’d think he flacked for Nancy Pelosi!
Oh, wait, that was number two moderator Susan Page who is currently working on a hagiography (excuse me, biography) of the Speaker. How did that pass muster with the Debate Commission? Or was it considered an asset?
Worst of all, in a less obvious way, was initial moderator Chris Wallace, who hides his bias under the Fox label but is not in the slightest conservative or even neutral.
In fact, he pulled out some of the most discredited liberal canards of all of the “When did you stop beating your wife?” nature in order to “get Trump.”
One of the more obvious ones, harkening back to Charlottesville, was asking the president, for the umpteenth time, to repudiate “white supremacy,” when, as Wallace had to be aware, the full, not cherry-picked, text of Trump’s Charlottesville remarks had the President clearly disavowing such supremacists, including David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, as he had many times before and since.
Including previously to Chris Wallace himself:
2016: Trump denounced white supremacy to Chris Wallace
2020: Chris Wallace tries the same HOAX, this time talking over Trump
See it for yourself. It was a setup by Racist Hoaxer Chris Wallace! pic.twitter.com/BbxsJs2BTI
— Ali Alexander 🟧 (@ali) September 30, 2020
WAR ON THE CONSTITUTION: Harvard Report Pushes Gun Control As Rights “Reimagined.”
IN THE MAIL: From Steve & Kathy Doocy, The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook: 100-Plus Fast and Easy New Recipes That Taste Like Home (The Happy Cookbook Series).
IT’S THE ULTIMATE PUNK ROCK MOVE. Sex Pistols singer John Lydon: ‘Of course I’m voting for Trump.’
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Ivy League Is Decadent And Depraved.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC Boulder prof on Trump: ‘I just want him to die.’
BOB DOLE WEIGHS IN ON THE “NONPARTISAN” COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES:
One legacy of the Trump era is that just about every single “nonpartisan” institution has turned out to be politicized and corrupt.
Related: Roger L. Simon: The Presidential Debate Commission Should Resign Now. “It’s an open question whether the Commission on Presidential Debates should be abolished altogether or completely reconstituted, but it’s clear now that the current members should resign immediately.”
ONCE, I WOULD HAVE CARED: Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins Fears Theater Shutdown May Kill the Industry.
PAUL BEDARD: Charge: It’s a 2-point race, not 16, pro-Biden media polls trying to suppress Trump vote.
To be fair, they’re also trying to make cover for Democrats’ election-stealing efforts.
IS THIS THE ULTIMATE IN TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME? Keith Olberman has again left ESPN to do Far-Left political commentary, only this time he’s also applying for Chief Commissar for Ideological Purity in the coming Harris-Biden USA of CHAZ. Here’s his first criminal referral:
“So, let us brace ourselves. The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.”
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ANTIFA WILL EXPLOIT YELP’S NEW “RACISM” WARNING:
However, should Yelp flag itself about its own racism? Newsweek notes Republicans are pouncing! Yelp Racist Behavior Alert Decried by Conservatives over Fears It Will Destroy Businesses:
Director Robby Starbuck added: “So Yelp if we accuse you of racism will you mark your own site as being accused of racism?
“This idiotic policy will be weaponized. It’ll destroy families and their businesses which will hurt their kids. Will Yelp get a ‘you’ve been accused of hurting kids’ badge?”
Other social media users pointed out that Yelp’s office in Phoenix was the subject of racism allegations last month.
The link in the above Newsweek article goes to a September 19th USA Today article that now redirects to the regularly updated USA Today latest news page. However, it’s still in the Google cache for now, and is headlined, “At Yelp’s Phoenix office, some insiders say a ‘boy’s club’ atmosphere fueled racism, sexism, and a hard-partying culture — on top of regular verbal abuse from customers:”
One of Yelp’s Black employees says she was getting tired of the racist abuse hurled at her while working.
As a member of the company’s inbound sales team, she was responsible for handling angry businesses that were listed on the online directory service, trying to sell them advertising even as they called in to complain.
“I was getting called the n-word every day defending the algorithm,” she recalled, along with sexist and homophobic slurs. When she let her manager know, she was given sympathy, but little in the way of material support. The manager told her “don’t let your last call affect your next call” — and sent her a BuzzFeed article of puppies dressed up in costumes.
Such verbal abuse from aggrieved customers was commonplace for the employees in Yelp’s Phoenix, Arizona office who dealt with them, as was Yelp’s failure to offer affected employees meaningful assistance, some employees say.
But, according to some current and former employees from Yelp’s sales team, most based in Phoenix, it wasn’t the only problematic conduct that many employees had to face.
Business Insider spoke to nine current or former employees of Yelp, who described a workplace that at times featured racist comments, inappropriate conduct, bacchanalian parties, a clique-y atmosphere, failures of trust in management, and drug use in the office. (Sources were granted anonymity as they weren’t authorized to discuss their experiences.)
Yelp’s Phoenix office housed much of the local sales team, which is the largest team but also tends to be younger and less experienced — and away from senior management in San Francisco. One source from another of Yelp’s sales teams said they felt much of the problematic conduct would not be accepted elsewhere in the company.
Obviously, there’s only one way for Yelp to atone — flag itself as racist under its new system:
The Blaze rounds up additional reaction from conservatives:
“Didn’t think this one through, did you? You are going to be buried under lawsuits you’ll never recover from, rightfully so,” said Amber Smith, former deputy assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
Harmeet K. Dhillon, lawyer and founder of the Center For American Liberty, said Yelp is “weaponizing defamation,” adding, “More work for me, more litigation for you.”
As Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
NORTH CAROLINA’S DEMOCRATIC SEX SCANDAL: Are There More Women? Cal Cunningham Won’t Say: Scandal-plagued Democrat repeatedly dodges question at ‘news’ conference.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: San Francisco tax revenue plunge points to resident exodus.
FATHERS ARE THE FORGOTTEN KEY TO SOCIAL WELFARE: Dr. Patrick Fagan of Marripedia cites multiple data-driven studies during the Trump era that demonstrate the crucial importance of fathers being present and genuinely involved with their kids. But you would never know that from how federal social welfare programs are focused.
BIDEN-TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN MIAMI OFFICIALLY CANCELED:
At this stage, the third Trump-Biden contest in Nashville on Oct. 22 is still going ahead.
The Trump campaign later issued a statement on the cancelation.
“There is no medical reason to stop the Oct. 15 debate in Miami from proceeding as scheduled, since the President will be healthy and ready to debate. There is also no reason there shouldn’t be the three total presidential debates as Joe Biden had originally agreed. We have suggested using Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 to hold the final two debates. It’s time for the biased commission to stop protecting Biden and preventing voters from hearing from the two candidates for president,” said Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director.
And earlier, The Post reported that as many as 175 medical doctors from across the nation have written to the commission saying an in-person debate would be safe as long as social distancing guidelines were followed by both Trump and Biden.
According to CNN, Trump is in talks to take part in a solo NBC town hall on the night of the cancelled Miami meet-up.
Prior to the announcement, Jim Treacher wrote: Debate Moderator Steve Scully Asks Anthony Scaramucci for Help With Trump, Debate Commission Claims He Was Hacked.
The Commission on Presidential Debates is investigating the dog’s feces for traces of the homework Steve Scully failed to turn in.
So now the journalists and other Democrats will circle the wagons and proclaim Scully is the finest and most evenhanded reporter who has ever lived. Anybody who scoffs will be branded a MAGA-head Trumper who’s not worth listening to anyway. And then they’ll wonder, for the millionth time, why so many Americans distrust and revile them.
How are our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press supposed to give us the truth if we keep busting them for lying?
I‘m honestly surprised to see C-Span going the Joy Reid/Anderson Cooper/Anthony Weiner route as a modified limited hangout. It will likely work in the short-term, but it won’t do much for their reputation. Scully hasn’t helped matters by apparently first deleting his Twitter account, and then protecting his tweets:
Incidentally, yesterday’s incident is at least the third time Scully has claimed his account was “hacked.”
Perhaps it’s best for all concerned to: Retire the Commission on Presidential Debates. “Two-hundred-and-thirty-three. That is the combined age of the three co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates, an organization which has become embroiled in several eyebrow-raising incidents in the past three elections. (Candy Crowley anyone?) The debates haven’t revealed much this election season. Trump is being Trump and Biden is allowed to skate by without answering questions. In fact, the most consequential revelation has been how ill-equipped the Commission for Presidential Debates is for the moment, and for the future. The Commission finds itself as the focal point of the debates, thanks to their choices of moderators and their on-the-fly rule changes.”
SYSTEMIC RACISM: Data Reveal How Yale Discriminates Based on Race.
THE DEEP STATE. STILL ALL IN FOR DEMOCRATS: Durham Dreams Destroyed.
SARAH REPORT PUSHES MENTAL WARD AS HARVARD REIMAGINED: Harvard Report Pushes Gun Control As Rights “Reimagined” .
ACTUALLY THAT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. IN THE END BOTH SIDES LOST: This election reflects America’s peculiar, and very dangerous, class war.
Yes, I now, but it started with a strategy of d’haute en bas, with the king allying with the dispossessed against the middle class and the nobility. In the end, the nobility took it in the neck. … So did the king. So did an awful lot of the other two classes. Before you go abooging, remember, Madame Guillotine is always hungry. And indiscriminate with it.
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SHOCKED, SHOCKED SHOCKED: Mail-in ballots in Westmoreland County delayed, voters confused and frustrated.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Trump’s first-term gains for oil industry could be undone by Biden.
No, not could, WILL.
SURE. IMAGINARY CREATURES DO EVERYTHING: Washington Post Blames “Systemic Racism” for George Floyd Robbing a Latino Woman at Gunpoint.
IN THE END, IT WILL COME DOWN TO US: Solomon’s America.
NOT AS UNI AS YOU THINK, BUT FEEL FREE TO ELECT ANGELS: The Uniparty?
I’M CALLING THIS JUSSIE SMOLLET: Whitmer And Tlaib Blame Trump For Kidnap Plot.
DO THEY REALIZE IF THEY PURSUE THIS, THEY’LL DESTROY THEMSELVES AS A SERVICE? Yelp To Flag Businesses Accused Of Racism.
OH, THERE ARE MORE STUPID TWEETS AHEAD, I’M SURE: More Epic Dumb Tweets.
HOMESCHOOL! IF YOU MUST USE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR BABYSITTING (NO JUDGEMENT) THEN HOMESCHOOL AFTER SCHOOL. I DID: What Our Children Learn In School.
October 9, 2020
WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY ARE: Orthodox Jews Say They’re Being Targeted by New NYC Lockdowns: The newest lockdown, which explicitly targets religious gatherings, seems likely to further skepticism of public health directives.
Bill de Blasio — real name, Warren Wilhelm — doesn’t like Jews. And the evidence suggests that if you want your religion respected by the secular authorities, you’ve got to be willing to behead a few of them.
Related: De Blasio Accidentally Criticizes Antifa After Mistaking Them for Orthodox Jews.
I BELIEVE THAT. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT PELOSI HAS A PLAN TO GET RID OF KAMALA, TOO. The real target of this 25th Amendment talk is… Joe?!
STONEWALLING AND COVERUPS: Judge fines Va. House Speaker for FOIA violation. “The Speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates, Eileen Filler-Corn (D), was fined $500 Friday and told to pay attorney fees totaling nearly $2,000 after a Northern Virginia lawyer took her to court for denying his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.”
SOME PEOPLE — DEMOCRATS — DON’T SEEM TO BUY THE POLLS:
Related thoughts from Ace:
So yeah: Political types whose job it is to state their political opinions and voting intention are still so cowed by anti-Trump peer pressure that they’re lying to their audiences (and editors and publishers) with anti-Trump sounding magazine copy while actually getting ready to pull the lever for Trump.
That makes me think that the Shy Trump Voter effect is very real.
Another point made: If there were a lot of Trump defectors, the media would be profiling them and lionizing them and promoting them 24-7.
But I haven’t seen a single story about Trump 2016-Biden 2020 defectors.
The media hasn’t found any — despite the fact that by announcing that you’re now a full-on Democrat Liberal, you gain employment opportunities and social prestige.
So if the media can’t find any of these people… do they even exist?
One more point, from Vashta Nerada:
Biden is so far ahead, he is campaigning in states Clinton won in 2016.
What’s the story among the people you know? Do you know any Trump-to-Biden flippers?
How many NeverTrump to Reluctant Trump Voters do you know? How many Reluctant Trump Voters to Enthusiastic Trump Voters do you know?
Indeed. If Trump wins despite the polls – and my gut says he will, though my gut’s track record is imperfect — then this is why.
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE REASONS: Mask-Shamer Joe Biden Literally Removed His Mask to Cough.
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK COMMENTS:
Listening to NPR reminds me of a clever psych experiment on what constitutes an argument or explanation. In that experiment, the testers would walk to people standing in line to a library copier, ask to cut in line, and record people’s responses. Sometimes, the testers would simply ask to cut in line without saying anything else. And sometimes, they would say: “Can I cut in line because I need to make copies?” It turned out that if you just say the obvious (“because I need to make copies”), people will let you through at a much higher rate than if you simply ask to do something without uttering the magic word “because”. Apparently, simply saying “because” generates an impression that a meaningful explanation was provided.
So, NPR is trying to convince the audience that J. Barrett should not be appointed. The newest argument: “Because the election is so soon and some people already voted! Some people already voted!”
I actually stopped for a minute to understand why having “some people already voted” could possibly matter for J. Barrett’s appointment — until I realized this was from the department of “because I need to make copies”.
Heh.
GOOD RIDDANCE: 60 Employees Leave Coinbase Over CEO’s Pledge To Be Apolitical. These are the employees you want to lose — and that others would be smart not to hire.
NEVER LET A PANDEMIC GO TO WASTE: Lab Coat Tyranny. California is using “public health” as a rationale to push progressive political goals.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What to Know About Vitamin D and COVID-19.
Related: Vitamin D deficiency may predict COVID-19 seroconversion. “A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in October 2020 reports the potential contribution of vitamin D deficiency to an increased risk of COVID-19 in a subset of health care workers in the UK.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 5 Ways Hunter Biden’s Business Deals Empowered China at America’s Expense.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: The Radical Priest Came to Get Me Released, Plus When Emus Attack.
GOOD: New class of highly effective inhibitors protects against neurodegeneration. “This novel class of drugs opens up—for the first time—perspectives to combat currently untreatable diseases of the nervous system.”
CHRISTIAN TOTO: A Day in the Life of a Conservative Entertainment Reporter. “One day, one massive wave of progressive entertainment news and updates.”
Deep dive, lots of fun.
#HERTOO? ‘Empowered Medusa’ to Stand Outside Courthouse Where Harvey Weinstein Was Sentenced.
Those entering the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse: beware. A seven-foot-tall statue of Greek mythological Gorgon, Medusa, will be greeting you. Twitter user Marlene Bonnelly shared the exciting news of the statue’s home on Thursday evening. Manhattan Criminal Courthouse has seen many trials over the years, including the sentencing of Harvey Weinstein.
“Luciano Garbati, the sculptor behind quite possibly my favorite piece of art ever (Medusa with the head of Perseus) just announced that he received permission from the City of NY to install a bronze version of her for the public to enjoy!” she announced. “I AM SO EXCITED.”
The statue “will be on view from October 13, 2020 – April 30, 2021:”
In Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Medusa was a maiden in the temple of Athena, who was stalked and raped by Poseidon. Athena, in a rage, banishes and curses Medusa with a monstrous head of snakes and a gaze which turns men to stone. Medusa is herself blamed and punished for the crime of which she was the victim; she is cast away as a monster and then with the cruel assistance of Athena and Poseidon, eventually is hunted-down and beheaded by the epic hero Perseus, who displays her head as a trophy on his shield. Garbati’s sculpture speaks directly to the 16th Century Florentine bronze masterpiece Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini (1545-1554). Through this work, Garbati asks ‘how can a triumph be possible if you are defeating a victim?’”
To paraphrase J.B.S. Haldane, 2020 is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine.
SAY ANYTHING: Biden Rewrites History on Trump’s Proud Boys Comment.
WE CAN HOPE: U.S. space mining policies may trigger regulatory ‘race to the bottom,’ scientists warn. Well if “a pair of Canadian scientists” are upset. . .
“It’s not the Artemis Accords alone that are problematic,” Michael Byers, professor of global politics and international law at the University of British Columbia, told UPI in an email. “Rather, it’s the ongoing and concerted U.S. diplomatic effort to promote national regulation of space mining and to proceed with resource extraction before a multilateral agreement has been negotiated.”
Good.
REPORT: Pelosis Take a Big Stake in CrowdStrike. “The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike rose to global prominence in mid-June 2016 when it publicly accused Russia of hacking the Democratic National Committee and stealing its data. The previously unknown company’s explosive allegation set off a seismic chain of events that engulfs U.S. national politics to this day. The Hillary Clinton campaign seized on CrowdStrike’s claim by accusing Russia of meddling in the election to help Donald Trump. U.S. intelligence officials would soon also endorse CrowdStrike’s allegation and pursue what amounted to a multi-year, all-consuming investigation of Russian interference and Trump’s potential complicity…Recent financial disclosure filings show that the House speaker and her husband, Paul Pelosi, have invested up to $1 million in CrowdStrike Holdings.”
IT’S JUST AN IDEA: DHS Homeland Threat Assessment Omits Antifa.
STEVE SCULLY’S QUESTION FOR ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI RAISES EYEBROWS AHEAD OF DEBATE: Debate moderator questioned after asking Scaramucci on Trump.
The moderator of the planned second debate between President Trump and Joe Biden sparked objectivity questions after he publicly asked former White House comms chief-turned-Trump foe Anthony Scaramucci for advice, according to a report.
Steve Scully, political editor of C-SPAN and host of “Washington Journal,” sent Scaramucci what apparently was meant to be a private message, Fox News reported.
“@Scaramucci should I respond to trump,” Scully wrote.
“Ignore. He is having a hard enough time. Some more bad stuff about to go down,” responded “The Mooch,” who was famously fired after his rocky 11-day stint as White House communications director in 2018.
The president had told Fox News host Sean Hannity late Thursday that Scully was a “never-Trumper — and I think somebody said he worked for Biden at one point.”
Right on cue: Debate Commission co-chair on Steve Scully’s deleted tweet to Anthony Scaramucci: ‘He was hacked. It didn’t happen.’ “Otherwise known as the ‘Joy Reid Defense:’
And from Steve at the start of the month: Seriously? Moderator of Second Presidential Debate Served as an Intern for Joe Biden.
CAROLINE GLICK IS RIGHT ABOUT THE TURKISH THREAT, but this makes it sound like the bigger threat was internal:
Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, sought to restructure the U.S. alliance system in the Middle East away from Israel and the U.S.’s traditional Sunni Arab allies and toward Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Glad we’ve moved past that, but I expect if Biden is elected we’ll go back to siding with our enemies.
THE FALSE CLAIM IS ALL OVER FACEBOOK, BUT THEY DON’T SEEM TO BE MARKING IT “FALSE.” Fact check: Trump’s antibody therapy not made from fetal stem cells but fetal-derived cells used during testing.
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL: Child caught on camera stealing Trump flag in Greeley.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS SAYS JERK ‘1619 PROJECT’ PULITZER: It’s about time somebody said this.
OF COURSE HE DIDN’T: No, Trump Didn’t Blame Gold Star Families for His COVID-19 Infection.
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