[Daily Caller] The biggest letdown is the realization that Republicans in Congress will not use the power they are given, even when the facts are undeniable. "Letdown?" No, just another confirmation of Washington corruption.
Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, face a mountain of evidence alleging they conspired to make millions using Biden’s name and office as collateral. But the American people will never see them face the consequences of these decisions because House Republicans are more interested in bolstering their Twitter profiles and gaining media hits than in holding them accountable.
Fox News host Dana Perino said that people are watching GOP members hold the same hearing "over and over again" without any resolution. "Without any resolution" is the interim goal. The long-awaited Presidential Pardon will relieve us of this unpleasantness.
"At the end of this week, Congress is due to go into recess for another two weeks," Perino added. "And I do think that, in some ways, it just feels like they keep doing the same hearing over and over again. And people are starting to wonder at some point, do you fish or cut bait and do something about a vote or not and move on to the general election?"
She’s right. These hearings started in 2023, and it’s clear that not a single person involved is even worried that Republicans will do anything to them because they know what we all know... these hearings are useless fodder for GOP reelection campaigns.\ The Epstein solution is not an options. The insanity must continue until a pardon is issued.
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A freshman Congresswoman said months ago that there was enough evidence to go after Joe and Hunter and back then and was saying to her constituents that she could not understand why they were sitting on it.
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I think they ought to sit on it until after the Democratic convention. Make sure Joe is the nominee first.
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Until the Republicans control both Houses of Congress, all they can do is fuss, because the Democrat-controlled Senate will block it. For now the only place the Republicans can hold the Bidens accountable is in the court of public opinion, where at least a third of the voters are yellow dog Democrats.
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And then it still depends which branch of the GOP controls that majority. I think all that seems to happen when we get rid of a few RINOs is that some other ones inner squish comes out.
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Has any Republican congressional investigation EVER DONE ANYTHING? No, so until people are in prison and executed for all the treason they're committing, I won't believe Republicans in congress will do a damn thing other than bloviate crap.
[AmericanThinker] In 2020, Pew Research released the results of a study that revealed more than 50% of "liberal" women between the ages of 18 and 29 had been diagnosed with a "mental health condition" by a professional; for men of that same age and political orientation, that number was over 30%.
When compared to "conservatives" and "moderates" of the same age and sex, "liberals" took the crown for most mentally ill.
Here’s a post to X with a breakdown of the charts: See at the link
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“ All forms of hormonal contraception were associated with an increased risk of developing depression, with higher risks associated with the progesterone-only forms, including the IUD. This risk was higher in teens ages 15 to 19, and especially for non-oral forms of birth control such as the ring, patch and IUD.”. Another article discusses weight gain. COVID jabs, Contraceptives? No wonder there are so many KARENs around. Pig Pharma?
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AWFuL i.e. Angry White Female Liberal.
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They're the same ones who complain they can't find a 'good' man. Most men are not into 'fixing' the broken.
"Because people are neurodivergent it is not a death sentence"
[FoxNews] San Bernardino sheriff deputies shot Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old boy, amid a confrontation.
A 15-year-old autistic boy was shot and killed in a confrontation with police in Southern California, according to a recent report.
San Bernardino sheriff deputies shot and killed Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old boy, on March 9," ABC7 reported.
"He had been acting out that afternoon and a family member called 911," according to the outlet.
"Guess who had to tell her sister that her baby was dead? I did," the boy's aunt, Sheila Silver, said.
The family is considering suing the county, per the report.
Activists in Oakland, California, held a demonstration on Sunday in response to the shooting and called for police to stop being dispatched for calls related to mental health.
"We are calling for us to decriminalize mental health care, right? We are calling to decriminalize autism. Because people are neurodivergent it is not a death sentence," activist James Burch told reporters.
"Anyone coming into Oakland interested in public safety, what they need to know is how we keep us safe here in the city," Burch said. "How we invest in programs that are life-giving, affirmative. That treat people with respect and dignity."
Tuan Hall, a mother who lost her son Miles in 2019 after he experienced a mental health episode and was killed by police, believes that trained mental health experts should be called for mental health emergencies and not police.
"When something is a medical condition, which is autism and mental health, we shouldn't rely on police to come and be the first responders," Hall said.
She compared Gainer's death with her son, Miles.
"It was very similar to Miles. Miles had a garden tool" that she said he believed was a "staff from God."
"He was in a mental health emergency, so was Ryan. Ryan was autistic. All he needed was help," she added.
The San Bernadino Police Department did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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I think cities need to decide what they want more - crazy people loose on their streets or things that are dangerous if operated when crazy people are around. You know, busses, subways, open stairways, flammable stuff, etc.
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Because people are neurodivergent it is not a death sentence
The mileage of others around them will necessarily vary...
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[Tablet] Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor of American constitutional law at Ireland’s Maynooth University, is not the first interview subject to have sent me reading suggestions before we met, but he is the one whose emailed packet of PDFs most unsettled whatever prior idea I had of him.
Thanks to debates over the emoluments clause’s applicability to the presidency, and, more recently, over Donald Trump’s eligibility for the White House under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, Tillman is known in academic legal circles for arguing that the president, for constitutional purposes, is neither an "officer of the United States" nor an "officer under the United States." He sent me four pieces of writing that made this novel assertion look tame. Tillman has a growing reputation as a consequential contrarian, but he had gone deep enough and far enough into untouchable regions of inquiry to cheapen any label anyone might attach to him.
In two academic papers published in 2021, Tillman, who is an Orthodox Jew, argues that the North Carolina House of Commons’ failed 1809 attempt to expel Jacob Henry over the Jewish legislator’s objections to the state’s religious test for public office has been misremembered to the point of mythology: Henry likely did swear the oath he was alleged to have refused, and there is scant evidence he considered himself Jewish. After a rigorous and richly footnoted plunge into North Carolina constitutional history, as well as an exhaustive close reading of all existing records of the House of Commons debate over Henry’s attempted expulsion, Tillman offers the revisionist argument that Henry was nearly thrown from office not because of his commitment to Jewish religious beliefs that he may not have ever held, but because Henry, who was of Jewish heritage, had sworn his oath of office on a Christian Bible, an act which his legislative colleagues could have "perceived as a kind of lie." His opponents then "pounced and sought to entrap him," Tillman wrote.
It is only through a long process of misremembering that Henry’s defense is now considered a watershed in the history of American pluralism. "There are multiple aspects of the standard narrative involving the Jacob Henry story that just don’t make any sense and that people just have mindlessly repeated for almost two centuries now," Tillman told me when we met in early February. "What are we doing as a society that we tell stories that don’t make any sense, and there’s no recognition that the story on its face wasn’t palatable, wasn’t believable?"
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Long. Lots of useful information about ISIS at the bottom.
[REGNUM] The terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS), took responsibility for the terrible terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow. But this only adds questions about the true organizers of the tragedy.
The first message on behalf of Amaq, the main information resource of ISIS, released on March 22, was duplicated on several ISIS-related information platforms, for example, on the ISIS channel “Nashir News” and the pro-ISIS channel “Ilam”, as was also done during other terrorist attacks. On March 23, Amaq published a more detailed statement from ISIS with details of the terrorist attack and with a photo of its perpetrators in front of the organization’s flag.
On the same day, but a little later, there was an official statement from the “press service” of ISIS, which was distributed through channels associated with this terrorist organization. And finally, also on March 23, an Amaq News video appeared with horrifying scenes of the terrorists' actions, filmed by themselves, entitled "Amaq Agency Exclusive Footage."
The fact that the faces of the terrorists in the photos and videos were “blurred” should not be embarrassing and does not indicate the fake nature of these frames. For example, during the terrorist attack in Iranian Kerman, the statement of the terrorists against the backdrop of the ISIS flag was published with “blurred” faces. This is a common but not required practice.
At the same time, there are doubts that the terrorists who carried out the massacre of our fellow citizens had deep ideological ties with ISIS and were recruited directly by emissaries of this group.
The investigation will put a final point on this, but in any case, the involvement of ISIS in this terrorist attack cannot in any way exclude the possibility that, in fact, behind the attack on Crocus City were the intelligence services of states hostile to Russia, primarily the Kiev regime, which took advantage of the “flag” » ISIS and the willingness of these terrorists to chalk up the inhumane act to their own account.
For the “caliphate,” as ISIS calls itself, the statement that its “soldiers” carried out a terrorist attack is, first and foremost, an indicator of the viability of the project.
True.
Therefore, in the current conditions, “ISIS” members are not particularly picky about the ideology of the perpetrators, as well as how correctly they understand the dogmatic and other guidelines of this group.
We’ve noticed.
For them, the main thing is to maintain the myth that the “caliphate project” is alive, as is its slogan “to survive and expand.” In this case, we are talking about expanding the group’s activity to those territories where it has not yet declared itself with the bloodiest terrorist attacks, as in the Russian Federation.
On the other hand, for Kyiv, using the ISIS brand is a good way to evade responsibility, but at the same time achieve the same goals as if this terrorist attack was carried out by militants whose affiliation with the Zelensky regime is unconditional.
Russa desperately wants to hang tuis round Kiev’s neck…
It is significant that this terrorist action clearly fits into the outline of a terrorist attack on the Russian Federation against the backdrop of the inability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to achieve success in the zone of the Northern Military District.
Hence the DRG attacks on the Belgorod and Kursk regions, the constant shelling of our cities,
…which Russia started…
kamikaze drone strikes on civilian vehicles and even individual citizens, and, finally, the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall as the apogee of this terrorist offensive.
According to the organizers, the offensive should sow distrust of the population in the authorities, highlight all the most pressing problems (migration, interfaith and interethnic relations), turning cracks in them into fault lines, make Russians realize that now the war concerns each of them, and wherever they are were located from Belgorod to Vladivostok, they cannot feel safe. And even where drones and MLRS missiles cannot reach, terrorists can overtake them.
In this case, for Kyiv it does not matter what brand or name these terrorists have - RDK, ISIS or anything else. The main thing is to achieve your desired goals. Make Russian citizens doubt their choice, which they made on March 15–17, 2024.
As for the possibility of organizing such terrorist attacks, for which ISIS will ultimately take responsibility, a hypothetical situation may look like this: a certain group, attracted through combined recruitment methods, that is, material interest, Russophobia and radical religious attitudes, is being trained and receives everything it needs from the intelligence services of third countries.
Then, in agreement with the same special services, which can act as some kind of “preachers,” they make a statement to ISIS, indicating that they are preparing an attack and that they swear an oath to ISIS, thus receiving the status of “soldiers of the caliphate.” This is in effect for notice.
No emissaries will come and check how sincere these (in)people are in their belief in the ideology of ISIS and share its guidelines; no one will demand a preliminary plan of operation either. This can be done after the fact, and it is even possible that the future terrorist should first record the oath (bayat) of ISIS, send or post the recording in a safe place, without sending directly to the real, deeply secret structures of the terrorist organization, with which he simply does not have communication channels.
All this makes it easier for interested third parties to use the ISIS flag.
It is also noteworthy that the ISIS statement includes the definition of “soldiers of the caliphate”, that is, we are talking about people previously unknown to these terrorists who declared an oath and carried out a terrorist attack on their behalf, without being sent to a particular country by the “central command” of ISIS and the Amniyat security service.
If the terrorist attack is planned directly by Amniyat and proven militants, then the terrorists are no longer declared “soldiers of the caliphate,” but “martyr brothers,” and from the wording itself one can conclude that there is no provision for saving their lives after the terrorist attack.
“INGHIMASI” WITHOUT “ISTISHKHADIYEV”
Formally, ISIS fighters on the battlefield (including during sabotage or terrorist attacks) can be divided into three types, which, in turn, are divided into subtypes: this is the “infantry” itself with light small arms, RPGs and ATGMs; “Istishhadi” - suicide bombers to break through the enemy’s defenses and cause damage to his manpower, who are sent by Amniyat to carry out terrorist attacks; "ingimasi" - "commandos" or "stormtroopers", usually trained fighters for operations and actions in difficult areas, who can also wear suicide "belts", but detonate them only when necessary.
For example, in issue No. 11 of the ISIS magazine “Rumiyah”, the combined terrorist attacks in Tehran are described as follows: the first group of “Istishhadis” blew themselves up at the Khomeini mausoleum, the second group of “Inghimasis” of three people attacked the parliament building.
Accordingly, the terrorists from Crocus City were also called “ingimasi”, despite the fact that among them there were no “istishkhadis”, who are usually used in the preparation of terrorist attacks by Amniyat.
Therefore, now, during the decline of ISIS, the procedure for declaring a “soldier of the caliphate” has become even more simplified. And it allows virtually anyone to use the “ISIS brand.” Especially if we are not talking about suicide attacks, where ideological pumping is required, but about the actions of the “Ingimasyev”.
At the same time, it is obvious that the Crocus terrorists themselves did not have the capabilities to prepare such a terrorist attack, but were most likely selected for the implementation of a specific plan. Weapons caches were organized, waste routes were worked out, and so on. All that ISIS in Russia could hardly organize, but that the intelligence services and local agents of third countries could provide in the interests of terrorists acting on behalf of ISIS.
Again, the Islamic rhetoric appearing as if specifically on the video recording of the terrorist attack should convince these individuals of their “sincere” adherence to the ISIS ideology. Probably, the customers themselves could have asked them for this, which was included in the “price” for ruined human lives.
At the moment, there is no convincing evidence of the involvement of those arrested in Salafi or radical Islamist circles, just as there are no signs of their stable affiliation with the corresponding subculture.
The terrorist attack was not carried out at all in the style of the relevant terrorist organizations.
When attacking such a significant object with an entire armed group, where security forces and police were supposed to arrive, ISIS, obviously, in its own planning of this operation, would be extremely interested in the “ingimasi” eventually blowing up their “suicide belts” when entering the battle.
Those cases when ISIS terrorists left the scene of a terrorist attack are noticeably different from the events at Crocus in terms of the scale of preparation and planning and are more likely to be of a spontaneous nature, like in January 2024 in Istanbul.
"VELAYAT KHORASAN"
In this context, it should also be noted that the statements of ISIS themselves did not say anything that their cell “Islamic State - Velayat Khorasan” (ISIS-K) was behind the terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation.
It is generally believed that this is an Afghan-Pakistani affiliate of ISIS. And the fact that the terrorist attack was carried out by Tajiks should have convinced everyone that ISIS-X was behind it. Let us recall that the terrorist attacks in Iranian Kerman on behalf of ISIS-X were carried out by people from Tajikistan, as was the January terrorist attack in Istanbul.
ISIS-X, dominated by Tajiks and Uzbeks, is trying to become the most active cell of ISIS along with the group’s African branches and spread its terrorist activity to almost all of Eurasia.
Actually, ISIS-X, dominated by Tajiks and Uzbeks, is trying to become the most active cell of ISIS along with the group’s African branches and spread its terrorist activity to almost all of Eurasia.
Initially, ISIS-X had Pakistani roots, in the sense that its activities spread to Afghanistan from Pakistan.
Its existence should be counted from September 2014.
Then a “delegation” of IS arrived in the Pakistani province of Waziristan from Syria and Iraq and held negotiations with some representatives of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an independent Pakistani jihadist structure fighting Islamabad and not associated with the Afghan Taliban, although consonant in the name. Among the leaders of this group were those who moved away from the traditional Hanafi madhhab for Pashtuns and began to profess Arabian Salafism.
This caused a split in the TTP, and some of its Salafi field commanders tried to impose their views as the only true ones for the entire organization, which, however, did not meet with understanding among the majority of militants and Tehrik leaders. This is what ISIS tried to take advantage of.
As a result of negotiations with IS emissaries, on October 15, 2015, Hafiz Said Khan, one of its leaders, officially left the TTP, along with seven other top-level “schismatics,” including the “official” TTP representative Shahidullah Shahid ; TTP district chief Khyber Gul Zaman Fateh ; TTP Chief Mufti in Peshawar Hassan Swati ; Kurram District Chief Hafiz Dawlat Khan ; TTP commander in Waziristan Abdul Bahar Mehsud and others.
They created a new group called Tehreek-e-Khilafat Pakistan (TCP), pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
ISIS-X was proclaimed on January 11, 2015 and became the successor to the TKP, and Said Khan became its first leader.
The group was unable to gain a foothold in Pakistan due to the rather effective actions of local security forces and the conflict with the TTP and tried to transfer its activity to Afghanistan, where by June 2015 it occupied some areas in the Nananghar province, which is still one of the centers of ISIS activity.
After the Americans eliminated Hafiz Said Khan in 2016 and his successor Abdul Hasib Logari in 2017, ISIS-X actually split into two independent factions, as numerous people from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and other representatives of the Central Asian republics refused to recognize the new leadership ISIS-X is led by Pashtuns who came from Afghanistan.
Thus, two independent groups began to operate under the brand “Islamic State Vilayat Khorasan” in 2017. One - consisting of natives of the Central Asian republics and local Tajiks and Uzbeks who joined them, and the other - of Pakistani Pashtuns and Afghan Salafis from the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan.
This division probably continues to this day, but with a significant dominance of Uzbeks and Tajiks.
At the same time, ISIS-X, having invaded Afghanistan, entered into confrontation not only with government troops and the international contingent, but also with the Taliban, who were able to inflict a number of sensitive defeats on ISIS. For example, they defeated the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which decided to join ISIS-X.
Subsequently, the main burden of countering ISIS in Afghanistan also fell on the Taliban, while government troops, on the contrary, often saved the “ISIS” from complete destruction. As this, for example, happened during the Battle of Darzab in July 2018, where the main forces of ISIS-X were concentrated in Afghanistan at that time.
The Taliban practically destroyed this group of 700 militants (of which 128 were captured). There were 200 survivors who turned to the Afghan pro-American government for help. It provided them with a corridor to retreat to territories controlled by government forces, so as not to be completely destroyed by the Taliba. There, the remnants of this group surrendered to the Afghan authorities.
Currently, despite terrorist attacks, ISIS-X in Afghanistan is significantly weaker than in 2017–2018. The group can carry out individual acts of intimidation, but is unable to ensure sustainable territorial control over entire regions.
Therefore, it is likely that the Taliban will be able to restrain the activity of ISIS-X and prevent any cities and regions from falling under its control, but it is unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will be able to completely eliminate all cells of this terrorist organization in Afghanistan.
In turn, ISIS-X seeks to demonstrate its activity through various terrorist attacks, thereby compensating for its own failures in Afghanistan, and at the same time, it is probably ready to provide “its flag” to anyone who will bring “black resonance” to the group.
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Russia's attitude towards foreigners has for decades been along the lines of: They're all against us!
And this is the corner that they've worked themselves into.
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#2 If America’s greatest ally no longer cares what the White House has to say, maybe Israel is simply working with people it sees as more important than the White House.
[Daily Mail, where America get its news] A desolate North Carolina town is now set to become a powerhouse for the world's AI revolution.
Sibelco's mines have been extracting quartz in Spruce Pine since the 1970s but its $500 million investment between now and 2027 will fuel the global demand for semiconductors, a market worth $530bn but that is expected to soar as AI becomes more prominent.
High-purity quartz is a vital component of building semiconductor chips which helps AI-powered software to process large amounts of data quickly and accurately and is used in cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices.
The quartz must be high-purity because if there are any imperfections, it can hinder the effectiveness, speed and accuracy of the semiconductors.
Spruce Pine is a small town nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, northwest of Charlotte, and houses a population of 2,200 people, down from 2,700 residents in 2018.
Sibelco claimed the enlarged mining area will create valuable new jobs in North Carolina and 'will ensure that Spruce Pine remains the world's leading source of HPQ.'
The global quartz market value reached $8.5 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach nearly $18.7 billion by 2031, with China topping other countries as the largest customer.
Spruce Pine is the only known place in the US that can fulfill the growing need for semiconductor chips which is increasing by an annual rate of 5.6 percent.
Some historical background:
(i) No Virginia, there never was a Palestinian state - or Palestinian Nation. Muslims just started invading British mandate Palestine a few decades before their, current, invasion of the West.
(ii) Some recent USA politics.
[American Thinker] ...What changed in 2024 is that Biden wants a second term in office. That means catering to his base and, as we’ve seen since October 7, his base is antisemitic. Well, anti- a lot of traditional American values. The core Democrat party has been taken over by people who hate Christians, Jews, America, law and order, women, and individual liberty. That makes them a perfect fit with Hamas and other Islamists. The only difference is in their attitude toward the homosexual spectrum but, for now, the Islamists are willing to overlook that.
Nowhere is that fanaticism more apparent than among the massed Muslims in Michigan and Wisconsin, two swing states that Biden must win. Glenn Beaton perfectly analyzes Biden’s election calculations when it comes to the Muslim populations in those two states—or, as Netanyahu calls it, Biden’s "two-state solution."
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The puppy-blender himself have spoken!
[NYPost] "Can’t anybody here play this game?"
Those were the words manager Casey Stengel addressed to the bumbling 1962 New York Mets.
But nowadays, it might just as reasonably be addressed to the people who run our biggest and most important institutions.
"Get woke, go broke" has been a catchphrase for several years.
Yet the people at the top of major corporations and government agencies keep, well, getting woke and going broke.
Harvard, roiled by antisemitism scandals in which woke politics kept administrators from protecting Jewish students, has lost enough in donations that it’s shutting down a library and looking to borrow money to meet expenses.
(It won’t actually go broke with its gigantic endowment, but most of that money is tied up, and it relies on donors to cover year-to-year costs.)
Early-admissions applications took a hit after the fall’s scandals.
Disney, marked by subsidiary Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy’s "Put a chick in it, and make her gay" — as "South Park" famously formulated — is losing money hand over fist, as one beloved franchise after another is turned into politicized dreck that alienates fans.
Sports Illustrated, which had a surefire moneymaker in its venerable swimsuit issue, went out of its way to alienate its once-loyal audience by featuring trans, obese and old models on the cover and is laying off its entire staff.
Planet Fitness has decided to embrace men who identify as women shaving in the women’s locker room, and its stock is plummeting. (It’s even terminated the memberships of women who complained.)
Target, with a similar restroom policy, has also taken a hit.
Read the rest at the link.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
