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“Defendant contends that the Constitution grants him “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions performed within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility” while he served as President of the United States, so long as he was not both impeached and convicted for those actions…. No court—or any other branch of government—has ever accepted it. And this court will not so hold.” //
Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Trump was not immune from civil suit based on claims related to January 6, on the ground that the conduct constesting the election was in his capacity as a candidate, not as a president.
If hypocrisy caused global warming, we would rival the temperatures on our sister planet, Venus, at this point. //
DD Denslow 🇬🇧 @wolsned
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COP28 is about to take place in one of the hottest places at this time of year, Dubai.
70,000 attendees, 1000s of private jets, and a few motorcades for the richest most carbon hungry individuals on Earth, to tell the poorest people they are destroying the planet.
Priceless.
12:23 PM · Nov 28, 2023 //
Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF
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COP28 Climate Summit:
Americans must reduce meat consumption.
COP27 Climate Summit:
Global elites dine on a gourmet selection of meats.
10:47 AM · Nov 28, 2023 //
UnCivilServant | December 1, 2023 at 2:02 pm
You know, if I were an unscrupulous Oil-producing nation in the region with all of these anti-fossil fuel nutters packed together in one convenient location… //
randian | December 1, 2023 at 10:46 pm
If hypocrisy caused global warming, we would rival the temperatures on our sister planet, Venus, at this point.
Amusingly, CO2 is not why Venus is hot, protestations by the climate cult notwithstanding. Venus is hot because its surface pressure is 92 bar, and anybody who has studied basic chemistry knows gases under pressure in a constant volume increase in temperature in rough proportion to pressure.
The Times of Israel reported:
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that Hamas “violated the framework, did not meet its obligation to release all hostage women, and fired rockets at Israel.”
“Amid the return to combat, we stress the government of Israel is committed to achieving the goals of the war — releasing our hostages, eliminating Hamas, and ensuring that Gaza can never again threaten the people of Israel.”
Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig
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The IDF has created and published a map splitting the Gaza Strip into evacuation zones to notify Palestinian civilians of active combat zones and provide safety instructions.
Hamas uses their people as human shields.
The IDF is doing everything it can to protect them.
7:15 AM · Dec 1, 2023 //
“Israel seeks to kill Hamas leaders hiding abroad after war ends,” the Newspaper Israel Hayom reported Friday. “Israeli officials have openly stated that the goal of the ongoing war is elimination of Hamas, and its leaders residing across the Middle East are no exception.” //
David Collier @mishtal
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Classic @bbcnews headline. Main item on their site.
"Israeli strikes" - no mention of Hamas breaking ceasefire. Along with image of grieving Palestinian mother and young child.
95% of people won't read the article. Israel blamed. Palestinians are victims. The BBC job is done. //
Eylon Levy @EylonALevy
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Let’s put this [NY Times] headline in chronological order: FIRST Hamas “fired a projectile” from Gaza, THEN the truce expired, then Israel resumed the military campaign. The order is 3,1,2.
7:26 AM · Dec 1, 2023
Massie pointed out that the tweet referenced a study from Israel showing that immunity to the COVID-19 virus “due to prior infection is the same as for the Pfizer vaccine.”
Troye doubled down, claiming that Massie’s tweet “was flagged for a reason,” to which the lawmaker retorted:
What's the reason? Is there ever a good reason to censor a member of Congress? This is my official account. This is not a personal account. This is not a campaign account. This is my communication with my constituents. By the way, I bring this up not to claim that members of Congress have more right to free speech than the general public. In fact, I don't even think the press or the media has more rights to the First Amendment than the general public. The general public has the same rights that we have. I bring this up to show, number one, that your testimony is false. But number two, if they can do this to a member of Congress's official account, they can do it to anybody.
And therein lies the crux of the matter. Stanford Internet Observatory, along with a slew of other organizations, is being funded with taxpayer dollars to help social media companies censor content that contradicts the government’s line on the coronavirus and other issues. This problem came to light in full force when Elon Musk decided to release inside information showing how the company operated before he took over. //
frylock234
4 hours ago
If it was a study, as in real science, done in Israel and peer reviewed, why would it be censored as "disinformation" no matter how much it contradicted what TPTB would prefer us to believe? Science isn't always on the same page with itself and with political necessity. Sometimes, results show things we'd rather they didn't, but that's how we eventually arrive at the truth. //
RedStater In a Blue Apocalypse
3 hours ago
Not all that long ago, we held that we live in the Age of Information. And for a brief period, there was a universal belief this was a good thing. It was probably more accurate to describe it as the Age of Decentralization of Information, and we were all relatively pleased with it. Even the elite were dancing in celebration.
But, this really upset the apple cart for those that hold truth subordinate to power.
These times of attempting to re-centralize information by these psychopathic control freaks will eventually be labeled the Age of Absurdity.
For the first time ever, a commercial plane flew across the Atlantic Ocean without using fossil fuels.
Virgin Atlantic said the test flight Tuesday from London to New York was powered only by sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, a broad category of jet fuel that creates fewer carbon emissions than standard kerosene blends. The fuel on this flight was made from waste fats and plant sugars and emits 70% less carbon than petroleum-based jet fuel, according to a press release. //
Sustainable aviation fuels are a broad category that includes biofuels made from raw materials such as corn, animal fat, algae, municipal trash and sewage. By definition, they must emit at least 50% less carbon than petroleum-based jet fuel, according to federal guidelines.
But all of these fuels still produce some emissions. SAF, on its own, will not get the airline industry to zero carbon emissions.
To do that, the industry will have to develop new technologies that will allow planes to run on electric batteries, liquid hydrogen or some other as-yet-unproven fuel source. ///
Novel, but not very sustainable -- imagine how much "stuff" (sugar and fat) that takes to manufacture, compared to the equivalent volume of petroleum/crude oil...
Just because you can doesn't mean you should! I don't think it will scale well. Another case of diverting food for fuel. Humans can't eat petroleum, even though engines can be made to consume both.
Sarcasm aside, the article accurately diagnoses the problems facing the housing market, and ultimately the economy, as a result of current interest rate policies. But particularly given events of the last several years, count this conservative highly skeptical that the “solution” to a problem caused in part by poor Federal Reserve policy can come via yet another policy intervention by Fed officials. //
Given that poor decision-making by the Federal Reserve helped cause the mess the housing market is currently in, what on Earth makes Alpert think that asking the Fed to meddle more will end in anything other than tears? //
The past quarter-century has seen all manner of, as Alpert put it, “creative policies” on the fiscal and monetary fronts. Those policies — ultra-low interest rates, quantitative easing, and massive fiscal stimulus — have in rapid succession brought us a housing crash, a financial crisis, years of economic stagnation, bubbles in nearly every asset class, tens of trillions of dollars in federal debt, and most recently the highest inflation in generations.
Cinematography and a conservative bent are not enough to redeem this historical falsification of Napoleon’s life. //
Still, it is sadly not enough to redeem what could have been a glorious film about an epochal man’s rise and fall. Ridley Scott tries to tell an interesting story about Napoleon but falls flat in both respects. The story is bland and spastic, with seemingly random jumps between unrelated scenes that confuse more than clarify. The movie treats its central figure with scorn, making it an uncomfortable experience for the average viewer and a positively infuriating one for the historically inclined. The battles are enjoyable but are not worth the price of admission. You’d be far better off waiting for it to come to streaming or skipping it altogether.
The Great Man deserved more than this falsification of his fascinating life. The audience does, too.
Disney has abandoned heroism. In fact, instead of just ignoring heroes, Disney has taken the extra step of eviscerating established ones. Since 1981, Indiana Jones, like Superman and John Wayne, has been a symbol of America and the American man. He is smart, tough, and a fighter who does the right thing. Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” turned him into an old, feeble man who cowers in the corner while his goddaughter saves the day. Not even “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” did that.
Luke Skywalker was the most optimistic character in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, a warrior who defeated the emperor, saved the galaxy, and rescued his father’s soul from the Dark Side. Disney Luke is a paranoid, cynical, broken old man who has to be coaxed back into the good fight by a Mary Sue and then dies, not in a blaze of glory but by concentrating too hard. There are other examples: fat Thor, an emasculated Nick Fury, and the growing host of “diverse women of color” who have taken the place of the traditional hero and, more often than not, have to fight — surprise, surprise — a straight, white man. If you are an example of the SWM, Disney wants you to know that you are either a villain or a comically castrated clown.
Part of the reason for this new campaign against heroes is that Disney is now thoroughly behind what YouTube’s Critical Drinker has simply dubbed “The Message,” the current web of racialism, rainbow mafia, DEI, and general hatred of Western civilization. //
It may come as a shock to Disney executives that people resent it when they are blamed for not seeing a movie that doesn’t deserve to be seen. This then creates a doomsday loop: The more failures Disney has, the more it will blame what’s left of its audience, whittling down that audience even more.
Disney is not just chopping away its audience but also its brand. And that is the foundational issue in all of this. Since 1937, Disney has been a name not just loved but trusted. //
But now, the sleeping giant of the American public is awake, and it knows those days are gone. And once that trust is gone, it may prove impossible to win back. That should be the nightmare keeping Disney’s leadership up at night.
Until conservatives learn to become active in GOP primaries and make them pay the electoral consequences for their failures, establishment Republicans will continue to sell out their voters on every issue that matters, when it matters.
Released On: 24 Dec 1959
Charles Dickens' Christmas tale takes a bashing from Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?).
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” So goes an old quip attributed to Paul Ehrlich. He was right. One of the defining things about computers is that they–or, more specifically, the people who program them–get so many things so very wrong. Hence the need for error messages, which have been around nearly as long as computers themselves..
In theory, error messages should be painful at worst and boring at best. They tend to be cryptic; they rarely offer an apology even when one is due; they like to provide useless information like hexadecimal numbers and to withhold facts that would be useful, like plain-English explanations of how to right want went wrong. In multiple ways, most of them represent technology at its most irritating. //
- Abort, Retry, Fail? (MS-DOS)
In many ways, it remains an error message to judge other error messages by. It’s terse. (Three words.) It’s confusing. //
[UPDATE: Almost four hundred people have chimed into this discussion, and many nominated other error messages that are at least as worthy of celebration as the ones in the story. So celebrate ’em we did–please check out The 13 Other Greatest Error Messages of All Time.]
Kissinger served as U.S. secretary of state during the Ford and Nixon administrations and has been an advisor to business leaders as well as many Democratic and Republican politicians, including several presidents. He was one of the architects of the global depopulation agenda and the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF).
Kissinger shaped U.S. foreign policy, especially in the 1970s under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. //
Apart from his public role in U.S. foreign policy, Kissinger was a key leader in the global depopulation agenda. A 1974 National Security Study memo called “The Kissinger Report,” which was declassified in 1989, advocated for policies to drastically reduce fertility rates globally to combat so-called “overpopulation.” His plan became a reality a year later as President Gerald Ford signed National Security Decision 314.
Furthermore, Kissinger was Klaus Schwab’s mentor and helped him to found the globalist WEF. Shortly after the beginning of the COVID crisis in 2020, Kissinger called for a global “post-coronavirus order” and recommended a re-shaping of the global order similar to Klaus Schwab’s plan, which was released later that year in his book COVID-19: The Great Reset.
Any time Gavin Newsom says, “Here are the facts,” brace yourself — you will not be getting the facts.
The reasons for the recent spike in California gas prices was expertly laid out by Valero executive Scott Folwarkow in reply to a September 30 letter California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild sent to California refinery executives regarding the issue. Hochschild’s letter was filed at the Commission at 1:26 p.m. that Friday afternoon, and he demanded a reply to his questions by Monday, October 3 — giving them just one business day to answer. //
We believe the Commission experts understand that California cannot mandate a unique fuel that is not readily unavailable outside of the West Coast and then burden or eliminate California refining capacity and expect to have robust fuel supplies. Adding further costs, in the form of new taxes or regulatory constraints, will only further strain the fuel market and adversely impact refiners and ultimately those costs will pass to California consumers. //
For Valero, California is the most expensive operating environment in the country and a very hostile regulatory environment for refining. California policy makers have knowingly adopted policies with the expressed intent of eliminating the refinery sector. California requires refiners to pay very high carbon cap and trade fees and burdened gasoline with cost of the low carbon fuel standards. With the backdrop of these policies, not surprisingly, California has seen refineries completely close or shut down major units. When you shut down refinery operations, you limit the resilience of the supply chain. //
the number of operating refineries in the state has decreased dramatically over the years. In 2000 there were 23 operating refineries, compared to just 13 in 2022. In 1983, when the state’s population was 25 million, there were 40 operating refineries. In 2020 there were 40 million people in California and just 14 operating refineries.
Other than the United Nations' despicable treatment of Israel, there's nothing the world body is more hypocritical about than climate change — purported anthropomorphic (human-caused) climate change ("global warming"), to be precise. For the latest example, we need to look no further than the U.N. Secretary-General, António Guterres.
Call it bad timing.
Guterres hysterically backed a complete fossil fuel “phaseout” on Thursday, just before jetting off to the two-week COP 28 climate conference in oil-rich Dubai — where he will undoubtedly gnash his teeth with upwards of 70,000 other climate fanatics. //
Look, I'm no Al Gore, John Kerry, or Leo DiCaprio [sarc], but Guterres and like-minded climate alarmists are now calling for the complete elimination of the use of fossil fuels on the planet — for the sake of 1.5 degrees. Just me, or does it strike you as more than a bit of overkill? //
anon-a755
11 hours ago
I have a friend who lives in a part of Utah where the summer temperature averages near 110 F. He said, "I rather live with 112 degrees with air conditioning than in 110 degrees without it." You can bet your last nickel the climate snobs will always, always have their air conditioning. //
Blue State Deplorable
10 hours ago
As much as it may upset many people, my message is the planet is not in peril. This is good news. I believe there is no climate crisis. The alleged atmospheric CO2 and methane have a negligible effect on the climate.
- Dr. John Clauser, 2022 Nobel Laureate for Physics
"Let's see," Reason magazine associate editor Billy Binion posted on X. "Some recent stats: Mississippi's gun homicide rate: ~13 murders per 100,000 people; Louisiana's gun homicide rate: ~15 murders per 100,000 people; Missouri's gun homicide rate: ~11 murders per 100,000 people; Chicago's gun homicide rate: ~29 murders per 100,000 people."
"Why do you pick just a couple of states to compare?" John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, posted on X. "Is that how public health researchers do research? Why don't you look at local crime rates where policing policies are determined and where DAs and judges are almost always selected?"
If you remove the blue cities from the red states, such as New Orleans, the murder rates tend to fall.
Zack Smith @tzsmith
Nov 29
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State-level murder rates are highly misleading. As my @Heritage colleagues and I explained in our Blue City Murder Problem paper, crime is a localized phenomenon.
https://heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/the-blue-city-murder-problem
And guess what? Remove the blue cities from the red states...and the murder rates fall.
Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC
Watch the Senator pretend that he didn’t just hear that his home state has higher death rates from firearms than Chicago. Then he blows past that reality and thinks that insulting a woman will make us forget…that his own state has higher death rates from guns than Chicago.
Zack Smith @tzsmith
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As you can see from this table, take New Orleans' murder rate out, and Louisiana's murder rate falls by over 15%!
And take Chicago's murder rate out, and Illinois' falls by a shocking 55%!
3:24 PM · Nov 29, 2023 //
Clare Boothe Lucid
11 hours ago edited
Also note how gun control proponents often want to talk about the overall gun death rate which includes many suicides as well as some accidents along with homicides. Obviously suicides and accidents are important, too, but those are substantially different issues with different causes and potential solutions compared to homicides. One can see examples above…one person mentions death rates from firearms and another answers with homicide rates
In a blow to the "ceasefire now" crowd, including clownishly antisemitic politicians like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Hamas leadership has let it be known that they don't want a ceasefire.
The first indication of that came on Thursday when Hamas carried out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, leaving three dead and dozens injured. If that wasn't clear enough, though, Hamas' leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar let it be known on the same day that the October 7th attacks were just a rehearsal.
Gaza Report - اخبار غزة @gaza_report
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#BREAKING: Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in his first publicized statements since launching Al Aqsa Floods campaign:
"The leaders of the Occupation should know, October 7th was just a rehearsal"
10:05 AM · Nov 30, 2023 //
FL Free
12 hours ago
Leftists who claim to want multiculturalism absolutely refuse to acknowledge the core tenets of other cultures. They assume everyone views the world as they do (not based in reality). They refuse to believe what those of another culture explicitly tell them. Hamas is not hiding their mission, the MSM tries/lies to.
During Artemis I, NASA’s new mega Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), roared into the night sky and sent the Orion spacecraft on a 1.4-million-mile journey beyond the Moon and back. //
The spacecraft reached a maximum distance from Earth when it was 268,563 miles away from our home planet. Orion surpassed the record for distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans, previously set during Apollo 13.
A close up view of the Orion in space. The orange spacesuit on Commander Moonikin Campos can be seen through one of the crew module's windows. The American flag on the body of the crew module and red NASA lettering can also be seen.
A camera mounted on one of Orion’s solar array wings captured a close up image of the crew module.