[ZeroHedge] The leftist-satirical rag The Onion announced on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars - the website founded and operated by Alex Jones since 1999.
On Wednesday, Jones said that the auction's trustee could choose any bidder it wanted - not necessarily the high bidder. Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning.
"I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning," he said. "The Connecticut democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us."
The Onion told the NY Times that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Jones.
The Onion did not disclose the price it paid for Infowars and its assets, including Jones' production studio and supplement business.
Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion parent company, Global Tetrahedron, says he plans to relaunch Infowars in January as a parody of itself, mocking "weird internet personalities."
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All those big personalities are already being mocked by other interneters, and according to Onion's funny trend, are already doing it better, so why?
And I'll ask the question - more likely to go after Hasan Piker and Johnny Somali, or the people who have been calling out the entertainment outlets?
[Modernity] During a recent discussion with Joe Polish at the Genius Network Annual Event, Tucker Carlson heaped praise on Joe Rogan, going as far to say that the podcast king has "changed American history."
Tucker noted that "Rogan created the genre of podcasting. I’ve been in the media my whole life. Rogan used to be a sitcom actor, a standup comedian, and an MMA fighter. So he starts this thing called a podcast where he talks for like three hours."
Carlson admitted "I’m in television at a big network and I thought it was dumb. No one is going to listen to a three-hour podcast from some MMA fighter?"
"I know, right?" Carlson said as the audience began to chuckle.
"And this guy’s not even in our business! What’s he doing?" Carlson related, explaining his feelings at the time.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Secret Service agent has been fired after his ex-girlfriend revealed that he took her to the Obamas' Hawaii estate to have sex in the bathroom 'like a mile-high club.'
Koryeah Dwanyen revealed the lurid details between herself and an agent, whom she only named as 'Dale,' in her book 'Undercover Heartbreak: a Memoir of Trust and Trauma.'
The book, which released on October 28, reveals that in 2022, 'Dale' showed him pictures of the residence before daring her to come with.
'No one will know. If anything, I'm the one who could get in trouble,' Dwanyen claims the agent said.
That's when he dared her to defile the former First Lady Michelle Obama's bathroom with him.
'We should have sex in Michelle [Obama]'s bathroom, like a mile-high club,' Dwanyen claims he suggested.
The Secret Service has confirmed that due to this and several other breaches, 'Dale' has been fired.
'On Nov. 6, 2022, a Secret Service agent involved in protective functions brought an individual who did not have authorized access into a protectee's residence without permission,' Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told ABC News.
'As soon as the Secret Service became aware of the incident, the agent involved was immediately suspended and after a full investigation, terminated.'
He added that the Obamas were not present when 'Dale' tried to bring Dwanyen for a tryst.
'Although the protectees were not present at the time of the incident, these actions were an unacceptable violation of our protocols, our protectees' trust and everything we stand for,' he added.
'Dale' was a serial liar, according to Dwanyen's book, saying that he lied about not being married and would continuously gossip about information learned from his job guarding the Obamas.
'There were major red flags—breaches of trust and of his job,' Dwanyen said. 'One of my friends has joked, 'You were a walking national security risk.'
Eventually, she blew the whistle and sent an email to 'Dale's' boss after having met him previously and gotten his contact info from the emails he shared with her.
It's the latest embarrassment for the Secret Service, after an independent report on the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump concludes it's likely another incident will happen if there is not a complete overhaul to the agency.
The four-person panel released a scathing 52-page report Thursday claiming there is a 'loss of public confidence' in the group tasked with protecting all current and former presidents as well as major party presidential candidates.
Without massive reform, the report claims, there will be more incidents like the one at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13.
The group appointed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is just one of the several groups looking into the USSS failures that allowed shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, to get just a few hundred feet within the former president with an AR-15 rifle.
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"In a world far too fearful of... drama,
A film noir of freaks seeking trauma
With really Black names!
[squeal] Imperial Games:
A Memoir of Mistrust and Obama."
"Jussie's Obama is a triumph of-- mmpf mmpf..."
- some MAGA dude
[RedState] The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit summarily vaporized 46 years of Federal environmental regulations. Writing in a case called Marin Audubon Society, et al v. FAA, et al, the majority of a three-judge panel ruled that the Council on Environmental Quality, a cabal inside the Executive Office of the President charged with ensuring that National Environmental Protection Act requirements are interpreted uniformly across the federal government, had illegally used the Federal Register to publish that guidance thereby giving citizens, agencies, and even the courts the impression that their internal guidance had the authority of law.
The decision was written by Karen LeCraft Henderson (George H. W. Bush) and A. Raymond Randolph (George H. W. Bush) with Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan (Joe Biden) dissenting, and it found:
As the parties argue the case, it centers on whether the Agencies complied with regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality, an entity within the Executive Office of the President. We will not address these arguments. The CEQ regulations, which purport to govern how all federal agencies must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, are ultra vires.
Ultra vires means the CEQ was acting "beyond the legal scope of its authority."
The court goes on to detail the shenanigans by which an advisory body with no regulatory authority was able to write environmental regulations for the entire United States for nearly a half-century just because it decided it could.
Making the case even more awesome is that it was set off by enviro-wackos suing the FAA for allowing sightseeing flights near some national parks. The enviros claimed the FAA used the wrong standard established by the CEQ to permit the flight. They ended up being right in a backhanded kind of way.
This decision throws the entire environmental regulation scheme governing the federal government into chaos. I suspect that many of the CEQs regulations will be reissued by other agencies, but after Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (see The Supreme Court Firebombs the Administrative State and Tells Congress to Get Off Its Butt and Work) that slew the medusa called "Chevron deference," the survival of those replacement regulations is not assured.
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This was long overdue, as the EPA, DC Swamp & Eco-Wacko's were getting crazier and crazier in their demands. The Eco-Wacko's lies have cost the US Taxpayers $100's of Billions over the last 45+ years.
BTW: Ethol-Gas cost more to produce that plain gasoline.
The USA alone uses 5.18 Billion bushels of corn each year to make it. Which is almost enough to feed all of North & Central America for 6+ months.
OPEN NOTE TO AL GORE:
Hey! AL,
My feet are still dry.
No Massive Poplar Ice Melt due to Co2 gases, the Ozone hole, or emissions.
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Did they amend the US Constitution last night ?
Because raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives. So only Congress can impose TAXES.
So the question is... Will the RINO's in the House help the LSD's?
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NN, the Chevron doctrine from almost 100 years ago allowed congress to give law making authority government agencies under the premise some things are too complicate so let the experts make the laws. This allowed the EPA, SEC, IRS and other agencies to use their courts to put you on trial, find you guilty and not allow you to testify in person. Earlier this year the supreme court tossed most of the Chevron defense out as unconstitutional. This is fallout from it. Finally.
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[Jpost] Monday marked the 102nd anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings on November 4, 1922, one of the most spectacular discoveries in archaeology. On that fateful day, British archaeologist Howard Carter wrote in his diary, "I discovered the first traces of the entrance to the tomb (Tut-ank-Amon)," marking the discovery of the tomb of the Golden King.
Howard Carter had been excavating in the Valley of the Kings for a decade and was no stranger to the challenges of treasure hunting in such an ancient and looted place. Since 1907, he had been working with British nobleman Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excavations in the lands washed by the Nile. However, Lord Carnarvon began to doubt that his investment would yield results. In 1922, when Carter had been excavating in the valley for five years without significant results, Lord Carnarvon pressured him to terminate the work. Lord Carnarvon granted Carter a last season of work in the autumn of that year—his final opportunity.
By a stroke of luck, Carter and his team made an incredible discovery, having begun excavations just three days earlier. A member of their team, a water boy, accidentally stumbled upon a stone that turned out to be the first step of an ancient staircase. Intrigued, Carter ordered to excavate quickly, and gradually, the team unearthed a series of descending steps leading to a sealed door with hieroglyphic inscriptions. These seals indicated that it was a royal tomb, and Carter realized he was facing the find of his life—a historic event.
[Breitbart] The incoming Trump is administration is openly hostile to the UK government’s push to give away a key strategic island in the Indian ocean, the Labour minister fending off criticism by repeatedly emphasising the Biden White House likes it, which apparently makes everything alright.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage MP was granted an urgent question in Britannia’s House of Commons, the main legislating chamber, on Wednesday afternoon on the shock announcement last month that the UK government was giving away the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) to Mauritius. The question is of major interest to the United States and the wider Western intelligence and defence community given one of the U.S. military’s most strategic bases is on the largest of the BIOT islands, Diego Garcia.
Leveraging his closeness to the incoming Trump administration, something he can uniquely claim among perhaps every member of the 650-seat house, Farage made clear his understanding that the new Trump White House would not take kindly to the treaty to hand over the islands in return for assurances from Mauritus that the UK and U.S. could keep their base there and that other islands wouldn’t then be handed over to adversaries like China being signed.
Mr Farage told the chamber: "I warned the Foreign Secretary six weeks ago in this chamber that it was an enormous mistake to do this given that we had a U.S. Presidential election coming up on November 5th.
[NY Post] A man killed himself with a bomb outside Brazil’s Supreme Court after trying to enter the building on Wednesday, officials said, stirring security concerns before the country hosts global leaders from the Group of 20 major economies.
The blasts come five days before the G20 heads of state meet in Rio de Janeiro, followed by a state visit to the capital Brasilia by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The first of two explosions went off on Wednesday evening in a parking lot near the court building and a second blast came seconds later in front of the court, where the man’s body was found.
Federal District Vice Governor Celina Leao said preliminary information suggested the man had killed himself with explosives after trying to enter the Supreme Court.
She said he owned a nearby car in which another explosion blew open the trunk.
Leao said she hoped it was the crime of a "lone wolf," but she could not be sure.
Police said they had not made a final identification of the dead man as they were confronting the risk of additional explosives on the body.
The explosions took place around the Plaza of the Three Powers, an iconic square in Brasilia connecting the principal buildings of Brazil’s three branches of federal government.
It was the scene of riots on Jan. 8 last year when supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the buildings to protest his electoral defeat.
Police deployed a bomb squad with an explosive disposal robot to the square in the heart of Brazilian capital to investigate the blasts.
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There's no domestic suicide bombing program among brazilian opposition. The junta govt is blaming the Right Wing because that's what the right wing does, we suicide bomb people - not. Quote: Suspected attacker was affiliated with former President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing party.
[NY Post] Flounces! Hissy fit! Oh what will we do without ol what's his name?
Left-leaning former CNN anchor Don Lemon said Wednesday he is quitting Elon Musk’s social media platform X — blaming the site’s new policy for all legal disputes to be heard in Texas.
Lemon — who is currently suing Musk in California after having his show on X canceled by the mogul — claimed the upcoming switch in the terms of service would hamper free speech.
“I once believed that it [X] was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose,” Lemon told his 1.5 million followers on X in a video.
X’s new terms of service, which take effect Friday, mandate that all lawsuits be filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas – not the Western District of Texas, where the company is headquartered.
Ten of the 11 active judges in the Northern District were appointed by a Republican president, compared to six of the 11 judges in the Western District, according to Georgetown University law professor Steve Vladeck.
Lemon quoted a report in The Washington Post, which said X’s new policy “ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in courthouses that are a hub for conservatives, which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics.”
“I think that speaks for itself,” Lemon said, before plugging his YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky accounts.
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“I once believed that it [X] was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose,” Lemon told his 1.5 million followers on X in a video. Bullshit. In an interview with Musk he outright asked Musk why he did't "moderate" X. Musk said because he doesn't censor anyone whereby Lemon said, "that isn't censorship". Wotta turd.
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Maybe he finally got a slot on The View.
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Gosh...what will it take for Lemon to crawl under a rock and cry me a river?
Taking advantage of the event, Rome has pooled billions of euros of state and European funds to overhaul tourist sites, transport hubs, parks, streets and even its rubbish bins.
The frenzy of work has snarled traffic, to the fury of residents, and left some visitors this year feeling short-changed as they weave their way through myriad building sites, but mayor Roberto Gualtieri promised it will all be worth it.
'This is an unmissable opportunity to make structural changes ... and transform Rome,' Gualtieri said in July. 'We are going to get a more sustainable, inclusive and innovative city that enhances its extraordinary heritage.'
Rome's monumental facelift ahead of the 2025 Roman Catholic Holy Year has left tourists feeling let down after seeing more scaffolding than famous sites.
[Stripes] A majority of Germans support significant defense spending increases, an outlook that coincides with the imminent return of Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... to the White House and an anticipated pressure campaign on allied militaries to step up, a new public opinion survey found.
In September, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius proposed pushing the amount of spending dedicated to the military from 2% of gross domestic product to between 3 and 3.5%.
In a new poll released Monday by the Koerber-Stiftung Institute, 50% of respondents supported Pistorius’ idea, while a further 15% said even more should be spent on German defense.
The bullish public sentiment on defense expenditures could come in handy for German politicians, who are likely to come under heavy scrutiny once Trump returns to office in January.
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credits this to a changing attitude that began soon after Microsoft founder Bill Gates touted nuclear energy as “ideal for dealing with climate change” in 2018.
Ironic, it seems to me.
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The global Marxist democrats in the USA are reeling from the seismic political shift underway in the 2024 elections, lashing out in all directions looking for who to blame for their massive loss, taking crazy to a new level, as they wrestle with a clear and compelling message from American electors that they just refuse to comprehend.
The "MAGA" movement is much bigger and stronger than they had imagined, as they were Pavlov-trained by their elitist leaders to believe it was all about one man, Donald J. Trump, and that all of his supporters were mere mindless members of his alleged "cult." That was a fatally flawed belief...promoted by the "legacy media."
[News with views] The legacy of the "legacy media" is they no longer control the hearts and minds of the American electorate. It was bound to happen sooner or later, thanks to social media, making it possible for people to get to the truth with a little honest research, and walk away from the mass-propaganda machine known as the "legacy media."
A full week after election day, a few democrat-controlled states like California and Arizona are still having trouble counting their votes and reporting their final numbers. But we can already see exactly what happened in the 2024 elections, and the people should have seen it coming for years.
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There were localized attempts to steal the election in a few critical critical swing states. For the most part it was shut down. It was a good move to replace Ronna McDaniel at the RNC with Whatley and Laura Trump. The RNC was going nowhere previously.
[Federalist] An employee who was terminated from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for ordering government workers to bypass homes of Trump supporters said she was simply following standard operating procedure.
On Friday, the Daily Wire reported that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington had instructed staff to "avoid homes advertising Trump" while "they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid" after Hurricane Milton tore through the region in early October.
"Government employees told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance," the outlet reported. "Images shared with The Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers, who wrote in the government system messages such as: ’Trump sign no entry per leadership.’"
Washington was promptly fired from the agency, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell condemned the conduct as "a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation."
"This was reprehensible," Criswell said. "This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel."
Washington, however, who was also terminated from her private sector job at a property management company, said in an interview with the Black Star Network published late Monday night that she was just following FEMA’s standard operating procedure.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump.
A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the 218 House victories that make up the majority. Republicans earlier gained control of the Senate from Democrats.
With hard-fought yet thin majorities, Republican leaders are envisioning a mandate to upend the federal government and swiftly implement Trump’s vision for the country.
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The term 'control' needs qualification. RINOs in the House are still operatives of the Deep State and will obstruct or defy whatever measures they can mess with.
[Jpost] An ancient marble tablet inscribed with an ancient Hebrew version of the biblical Ten Commandments is set to be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York on December 18. The auction house announced that the tablet will be exhibited to the public starting December 5. Sotheby's presented the tablet on Tuesday in a statement as "the oldest known version" of the Ten Commandments made in stone.
The tablet dates from the Byzantine era and is approximately 1,500 years old. Weighing 52 kilograms and standing about 60 centimeters high, the stone bears twenty lines of text engraved in Paleo-Hebrew, a script that went out of common use many centuries ago. The twenty lines of text closely follow the biblical verses familiar to both Christian and Jewish traditions.
However, although ten commandments are inscribed on the plaque, there is one commandment not found in the Book of Exodus: "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain." Sotheby's specified that the commandment not found in the Book of Exodus is to pray on Mount Gerizim, a specific sacred place for the Samaritans.
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.
[Breitbart] The incoming Trump is administration is openly hostile to the UK government’s push to give away a key strategic island in the Indian ocean, the Labour minister fending off criticism by repeatedly emphasising the Biden White House likes it, which apparently makes everything alright.
[NY Post] 
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
