It turns out that Tim Walz may well have provided indirect support for the Wuhan Institute of Virology - yes, that Wuhan Institute of Virology:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13917247/tim-walz-hormel-institute-china-military-wuhan-lab.html

The Daily Mail printed a second expose about Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday, reporting that in May 2012 Emhoff slapped a woman across the face "so hard she spun around" as the two waited for a taxi while leaving a party in Cannes. Emhoff had been dating the woman for about three months when the public incident occurred. But the piece also revealed additional information about Emhoff's relationship with Najen Naylor, a woman who worked as a teacher at the Emhoff kids' school and directly for the Emhoffs as a nanny. //

We need to know if Emhoff has been involved in any other domestic violence incidents, whether the police were called or not.

And, we need to know what Kamala Harris knew and when, and if she has ever engaged in any intimidation of these women as her career grew. Since Emhoff reportedly told Jane all about what happened with Naylor quite early in their relationship, he likely told Harris early on as well.

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At the first commercial break, my #VPDebate focus group says by a 10-3 margin that JD Vance is winning.

That is a big deal since only 5 of them were leaning toward Trump-Vance when the debate began.
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Final focus group vote tonight after the #VPDebate: 12-2 in favor of JD Vance
10:54 PM · Oct 1, 2024

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JD Vance is the first time a Republican VP ever received over 50% in an instant poll… and it oversampled Democrats by 5 points
12:17 AM · Oct 2, 2024

Many of the cybercriminals in this community have stolen tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency, and can easily afford to bribe police officers. KrebsOnSecurity would expect to see more of this in the future as young, crypto-rich cybercriminals seek to corrupt people in authority to their advantage.

The food pyramid was created in the 1970s and adopted by the United States in 1992. It has had disastrous results for American health, particularly by minimizing the role of healthy fats and proteins and increasing low-nutrition carbs.

Nutrition expert Dr. Paul Mason has an excellent video detailing the history of the food pyramid. It was created by flawed and inaccurate studies, and heavily influenced by politics and not research. Since the food pyramid was set as a guideline, the average American adult weighs 30 pounds more than Americans did previously!

Secondly, the pyramid’s suggested protein intake is much too low, even though protein is necessary for maintaining and growing muscle, can help decrease unhealthy weight gain, regulates blood glucose, and so much more. Finally, the pyramid’s neglect of healthy fats has led to a misunderstanding of dietary fat, causing many to avoid beneficial fats even though unsaturated fats help lower the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in America.

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The best part about the moderators going after Walz about his Tiananmen Square lie is that they did not then turn and ask Vance about his lie. Because they couldn't find one. It's CBS. You know they looked for one. They looked hard.

Walz said a lot of strange things. But one of the strangest had to be when he claimed that he was "friends with school shooters."

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"I've become friends with school shooters."

• Tim Walz

10:07 PM · Oct 1, 2024

I don't know what the viewership numbers were on the vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, but if they're not high they should have been because that was one of the best debates I've ever watched in my time as a political junkie (which goes back a looong time).

UN Secretary General António Guterres:

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I condemn the broadening of the Middle East conflict with escalation after escalation.

This must stop.

We absolutely need a ceasefire.
1:26 PM · Oct 1, 2024

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We condemn your inability to string together a tweet which holds Iran responsible for firing 181 ballistic missiles at 10 million Israeli civilians.

1:52 PM · Oct 1, 2024

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You’ve gotta be kidding.

You condemn”the broadening”?!

You just aren’t able to blurt the simple words “I condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran who just shot roughly 180 deadly ballistic missiles towards the citizens of Israel.”

Quit.
2:10 PM · Oct 1, 2024

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Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon: "Let me be very clear: we will defend our people. We will act. Iran will soon feel the consequences of their actions. The response will be painful."
4:44 PM · Oct 1, 2024

To be clear, this was not about mixing up dates. If I tell you I was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 but it turns out I was just in New York three months later, that would be an inexcusable lie. The event is the point in a situation like this, not the date. A person doesn't accidentally say they were in Hong Kong for the Tiananmen Square protests when they weren't. Walz has long lied about his background for personal gain, and this is just another example of that.

Past that, this idea that he was taking trips to China to teach students about democracy is absurd. That would be the last place one would take students if they wanted to learn about the topic. Whatever affinity Walz had for China, learning about democracy had nothing to do with it.

This is what Walz does. He lies about things and then tries to pretend to be a lovable goofball who just made an honest mistake. He does not "talk like everybody else." He talks like a pathological liar because he is one. The surest sign of it is how nervous he gets. Listen to how fast he's speaking and how much he stumbles over his talking points. He knows he's not telling the truth.

A clear bias has been uncovered in the AI image creator Image Creator from Microsoft Bing, also known as Microsoft Designer. The online tool will allow the creation of images with Kamala Harris for President content, but will not allow the same for Donald Trump.

The Israel Air Force launched at least seven airstrikes against the Houthi port city of Hodeidah in retaliation to a ballistic missile fired at Tel Aviv. The strikes hit the port's tank farm and a power plant.

The Israel Defense Force's Chief of the General Staff, General Herzi Halevi, describes the action this way: “This is not a message, it is an action — an action that carries a message with it.”

Message indeed.

Last night, we saw another "action that carries a message with it." The Israel Defense Force crossed into southern Lebanon to eradicate the Hezbollah presence from where it has no right to be under UN Resolution 1701.

For decades, the Iranian regime has used Hezbollah and the Houthis as a shield to protect itself from its actions. The Houthis could be relied upon to close the Red Sea during a crisis and jack up shipping rates to pressure the civilized world to bow to Tehran. Hezbollah was Iran's ace-in-the-hole that made any decision by Israel to attack Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure guaranteed to provoke an attack on Israeli cities by Hezbollah.

Israel has decided to break this strategic stalemate. //

Iran's main strategic partner, Russia, is mired in a war in Ukraine. It no longer has the weapons to send to Iran, and no sane person is in awe of Russia's military.

Hamas has totally collapsed, and its leadership is either dead or trying to find a clean pair of brown trousers in the bunker.

The failed April 13 Iranian missile and drone blitz of Israel reveals just how flimsy and inferior its offensive weaponry was when confronted by Israel's defenses. This further degraded Iran's ability to deter Israeli action.

The Hezbollah ally they have cultivated for a half-century has been decapitated like no other combatant in history. In the space of less than two weeks, the entire "middle management" of Hezbollah was gutted by a wave of exploding pagers and other electronic devices... //

Iran will now accelerate its move to nuclear breakout, but the air attack on Hodeidah, Yemen, and the removal of Hezbollah forces as a cohesive fighting unit sent another message.

The range circle depicts the distance from Tel Aviv to Hodeidah.

Iran's nuclear weapons project is within the range of Israeli air power, and they won't have to fly over Hezbollah-manned air defense sites in Lebanon to get to them.

The FCC’s war on Musk may have contributed to Helene’s death toll, which is already at 138 Americans across six states, with many hundreds still missing. //

Among the serious problems facing rural victims is an inability to communicate with potential rescuers as roads are washed out, telecommunications are down, electricity is out, and people are facing fatal flooding.

It didn’t have to be this way.

In 2020, the Federal Communications Commission awarded Musk’s Starlink an $885.5 million award to help get broadband access to 642,000 rural homes and businesses in 35 states. A subsidiary of SpaceX, Starlink is a satellite internet system delivering high-speed internet to anyone on the planet. The plan would work out to less than $1,400 per linkup, same-day delivery of the necessary hardware, and only a few hours to get up and running.

Some 19,552 households and businesses in North Carolina would have had access to Starlink if they desired. Of the 21 worst-hit counties in North Carolina, the FCC-funded Starlink program would have served all or part of 17 of them, according to multiple officials. The FCC suddenly canceled that grant in 2022, a few months before Joe Biden suggested that the federal government find ways to go after Musk, a former Democrat who began criticizing some of the Democrat Party’s support of censorship of and lawfare against political opponents. After a challenge from SpaceX, the FCC reaffirmed its decision to cancel the award in 2023. //

The National Labor Relations Board went after Tesla over its dress code. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are also investigating Musk and his companies. //

Joe Biden named Kamala Harris the Broadband Czar in April 2021 and placed her in charge of a $100 billion slush fund for broadband projects. At the Commerce Department, a $42.5 billion subset of that program was launched in 2021, with guidance written to limit the ability of Starlink to compete for contracts. The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program was supposed to fund programs in all 50 states. It has been a complete failure.

More than three years later, not a single rural American family or business has been connected to broadband through the program. At best the groundwork will begin four years after the launch and won’t finish until 2030 at the earliest. For that much taxpayer money, Starlink could be provided to 140 million people, and without the wait, observers noted.

The FCC’s anti-Musk efforts come at the same time that the Democrat-run agency fast-tracked a shocking application by a group backed by the Democrat Soros family to purchase more than 200 radio stations across the country.

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Lefty women: We are every bit the equals of men, but if you treat us like men are treated you are sexist because we expect to be treated differently because we are women. We deserve special privileges like we are always right no matter what.

Shoot me for noticing. //

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I read an article, written by a woman, a few years ago who said she had spent an extended period of time observing men interacting with other men. She spent time in coffeeshops, sporting goods stores, hardware stores, and so on where a woman was not unusual, but the clientele was predominately male. Her conclusion was that if a man treated a woman exactly the same as he would a man in the same situation ( giving advice on a product, how to do a repair) he would be accused of mansplaining. In short, if you really want to anger some women just give her exactly what she asked for.

I'm constantly being told by corporate media, political activists, and entertainment creators that masculinity is evil, dangerous, and needs to be lessened, even feminized. I'm told that masculinity is toxic and that we need to teach boys early on that their more boyish mannerisms should be curbed and tamped down in order to be better and help make a more equal society.

Meanwhile, as my fellow men and I are villainized for merely existing as we are, we're given examples to emulate. We're shown men who are less aggressive, more caring, softer, empathetic, and focused on equality. This is the enlightened male. He's gentle and supportive. He listens and makes is open about his emotions.

He is the male feminist, and according to the mainstream left, he should be the ultimate goal for every man to be. //

The fact is, we're often told masculinity is a form of evil that has to be checked, but it's pretty obvious that a lack of masculinity causes a real issue, not just for society in general, which needs masculinity to function properly, but it causes an issue within men. When it's not present, something goes wrong, like a loose gear or a burnt out wire. These men suddenly become unmanly. They abuse women and display both emotional and physical cruelty to them.

The lack of masculinity is the issue, not the presence of it.

As usual, the proof is right in front of us, but it's highly unlikely that mainstream leftism will ever admit to it, which is par for the course. //

As you can see, there is a well-established pattern here. Make people believe you are a caring, empathetic man who understands the plight of women and will stand up for them. You will use your masculinity, not for the toxicity you see men often accused of, but to advance the cause of "equality." Then the facade drops and it's discovered that you're actually a massive piece of garbage.

Look at the tweet from former prime minister Naftali Bennett last night, using very strong language, saying: “This is the greatest opportunity in 50 years to change the face of the Middle East.” He was arguing that Israel should go after Iran’s nuclear facilities, in order to “fatally cripple this terrorist regime”.

Now he’s not prime minister (although he is widely tipped to be a future one, so he was making a point to show he is tough) but it does reflect a certain mood in the country.

I would not rule out attacks by Israel on anything at the moment – nuclear sites, petrochemical facilities, anything that could cause damage to the Iranian economy.

The scenario always was that Iran had a forward defence in the shape of Hezbollah in Lebanon, with a massive arsenal of sophisticated weapons, to be used, in theory, if Iran and its nuclear facilities were attacked.

But in the last couple of weeks, Israel has decapitated the Hezbollah organisation, destroyed half of its weapons, according to American and Israeli authorities; and invaded Lebanon.

The deterrent Iran had, you could argue, is not just gone – it’s smashed into a thousand pieces. So I think the Israelis are feeling more free to act. And Joe Biden is moving another carrier battle group to the Mediterranean, signalling to the Iranians that if you hit Israel, you hit the US too.

jPeter Moss | October 1, 2024 at 1:07 pm
This brought to you by weak horses – Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Joe Biden – who have done their level best to back the mullahs and their 7th century nonsense.

The blood is on their hands.

Prayers for the good people of Israel as they (finally) take care of family business.

akebizlaw in reply to Peter Moss. | October 1, 2024 at 1:28 pm
Iran lighting candles for Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday cake. 45 years of American pusillanimity and left wing cowardice.

oden in reply to Peter Moss. | October 1, 2024 at 1:49 pm
Carter lies at the root of the Iran menace. Way way back in the 1970s I attended a classified talk by Iranian expert. She was fluent in Farsi, and spent her career specializing in Iran. Iran was once a US ally and friendly towards Israel. We supplied high-end weapons to Iran. But Carter decided Iran had a human rights problem, and the Shah had to go. She went into details on how the Islamic revolution in Iran played out. The world, especially Israel is paying the price for Carter’s disastrous foreign policy. In my opinion, (and many others as well) Carter was our worst president in terms of the lasting damage he did. Others conclude he was not an honorable man. For example Robert Novak called him the biggest liar in Washington, which is saying a lot. Not being an insider, I have no idea if this is actually true. He would have a lot of competition.

We know from Genesis in the Torah that Abraham struck a deal with G_d. Sodom would be spared if he could find ten righteous men (down from 50). He couldn’t, so Sodom was destroyed. Well DC has about 1,000 times the population of ancient Sodom. Could we find 10,000 righteous men in today’s Washington? I don’t think so. I doubt we could even find ten.

If you’re an anti-Israel terrorist these days, it must be hard getting to sleep. There’s a good chance you won’t wake up.

Now, the Islamic Republic’s former president is admitting that the Israelis even managed to penetrate Iranian security services that were… wait for it… tasked with targeting the Jewish state’s intelligence service, Mossad. I’m sorry, but it’s hard not to laugh.

The head of an Iranian secret service unit set up to target Mossad agents working in the Islamic Republic turned out to be an Israeli agent himself, according to former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Speaking to CNN Turk, Ahmadinejad claimed Monday that a further 20 agents in the Iranian intelligence team tasked with monitoring Israeli spying activities also turned against Tehran.

The alleged double agents provided Israel with sensitive information on the Iranian nuclear program, according to his comments in the interview, which were widely picked up by international media. //

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You would think it is a joke, but it isn’t

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with @cnnturk said that Iran’s secret services had created a special unit to combat Mossad operating in Iran. However, turns out the head of this unit was himself a Mossad agent, along with 20 other agents, who were responsible for multiple intelligence operations in Iran including stealing nuclear docs and assassinating several Iranian nuclear scientists before allegedly fleeing to Israel

I can’t stop laughing, that’s too bad*** even for you. [Laughing emojis]
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The head of the counterintelligence unit was revealed as a double agent in 2021 but he and all of the other alleged Mossad moles were able to flee the country and are now living in Israel...