Tuesday, August 9, 2022

TLDR AND OPPO DIGEST 8/1-8

TLDR:


Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), who has led the charge in Congress to investigate the nefarious international business dealings of Joe Biden’s wayward son, told Fox News host Dan Bongino on Saturday that while he believes Hunter Biden might indeed be indicted, the contents of the indictment will be sealed. Johnson also believes the “mainstream media” will turn on the most inept president in the history of the presidency: “That’s my prediction. My other prediction is they may indict Hunter Biden, but they’ll probably seal — they’ll do a deal — they’ll seal all the information. The American public will never get the full truth.”


Prominent Senator Predicts 'Deal' to Hide Hunter Biden Indictment From American People

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/08/01/prominent-senator-predicts-deal-to-hide-hunter-biden-indictment-from-american-people-n605196


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“A mosque in Texas has enlisted its children into a propaganda campaign legitimizing the Islamist regime in Iran that kept 52 Americans hostage for 444 days in 1979 and 1980. The Islamic Education Center (IEC) in Houston did this by having dozens of young children perform an anthem titled “Salam Farmande” (“Hello Commander”) and posting the performance on YouTube and publicizing it on Facebook…Adrian Calamel, an analyst specializing in the Middle East and terrorism, reports that the song is part of the recruitment drive for the Iranian regime. “It’s enlisting the children to be the next generation of martyrs,” he said. “The song itself says ‘we are ready to die for the commander.’””


Texas Mosque Enlists Children into Cult of Iranian Martyrdom

https://islamism.news/2022/07/29/texas-mosque-enlists-children-into-cult-of-iranian-martyrdom/?goal=0_1ce70fade8-a1c2aeab46-34174501


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““The White House’s attempt to wordsmith its way around a recession shows the dangers of politicizing economic terms,” he wrote. “Mr. Biden’s economic advisers are trying to buy time by exploiting NBER’s otherwise defensible methodology. They hope doing so will insulate the administration from the electoral backlash in the event of a downturn.””


Economist Phillip Magness slams ‘Orwellian’ Facebook for fact-checking recession post

https://nypost.com/2022/08/01/economist-slams-facebook-for-fact-checking-recession-post/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fs=e&s=cl


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“Billionaire David Rubenstein’s philanthropic efforts trash the Founding Fathers, even though his own business has made a fortune from deals that have profited off the less fortunate…Rubenstein’s backstory shows he’s not so pure himself. He made his initial fortune in the 1980s by exploiting a tax loophole in Alaska allowing him to profit from deals made with Natives — and the Rubenstein family has been expanding their influence in the 49th state ever since.

In 2014, Rubenstein’s then-wife helped elect a governor in Alaska who in turn opened up the state’s $80 billion Permanent Fund, a fraction of which is managed by the Carlyle Group, to special interests. Rubenstein’s daughter was appointed to the board of that fund last month. “Here’s a guy who has taken advantage of other people to climb to the top while he expects perfection from the Founding Fathers,” Dan Fagan, a talk show host and journalist who covered Alaska for 25 years, told The Post. “Because of the Rubenstein family and how [his ex-wife] influenced the change in the state’s sovereign fund, the average Alaskan family has lost tens of thousands of dollars.””


‘Woke’ billionaire who trashed the Founding Fathers has profited off Natives, oil

https://nypost.com/2022/07/30/woke-billionaire-who-trashed-the-founding-fathers-profited-off-eskimos-oil/


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“Well guys I’m officially retired as a cheerleader as of last night at 5:30 AM. A girl on the team was being very disrespectful and told me I am a MAN with a PENIS and that [guys] should not be on the team,” the cheerleader, Averie Chanel Medlock, wrote on Facebook last week. “I stood up for myself and she called her mom and dad because she was scared because I [stood] up for myself. Her father said ‘she still has testosterone and a penis and I will kill anyone who comes after my daughter.’ “


Trans cheerleader kicked out of camp after allegedly choking teammate

https://nypost.com/2022/07/31/trans-cheerleader-averie-chanel-medlock-kicked-out-of-camp-after-allegedly-choking-teammatewas-kicked-out-of-a-texas-cheerleading-camp-and-given-a-criminal-citation-after-allegedly-choking-a-female-te/


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“…the response to American citizens rising up to defend what they saw was a constitutional order in crisis, in the aftermath of an election like none conducted in American history, with victory claimed by a man clearly in mental decline and incapable of conducting a real political campaign, the vote-counting in which contained irregularities which to the untrained eye (and perhaps even the trained one) looked for all the world like a banana republic rigged election, was what?”


J6 Will Go Down as a Disaster for Democrats

https://spectator.org/j6-will-go-down-as-a-disaster-for-democrats/


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“The would-be monkacolypse isn’t panning out as some would like — no deaths have been reported outside of Africa — and apparently 99 percent of U.S. victims are gay men having sex with gay men.”


The Myth — and Grift — of Long COVID
https://spectator.org/long-covid-myth-grift/


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“Perhaps it’s best for these folks to take a hint and bow to the inevitable. Certainly, it must have crossed the queen’s mind more than a few times during the last several years that maybe the Fates are telling her to hang it up…the whole royalty thing may just possibly have outlived its sell-by date and that Britain, Norway, and the other storied kingdoms of Europe should follow the example of Barbados and the queen’s other Caribbean satrapies. Indeed, in at least one or two cases, it’s hard not to ponder with some degree of fondness the punishment meted out in 1918 to the Romanovs.”


Curtain Call [-] Is it time to shut down the royal houses of Europe?

https://spectator.org/curtain-call/



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“Using data from a popular Twitter account that tracks celebrity jet movements based on public information, the report stated that planes affiliated with celebrities emitted an average of more than 3,376 metric tons of CO2 — roughly 480 times more than an average person’s annual emissions.”


Celebrities use private jets excessively. It’s a climate nightmare.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/02/taylor-swift-kylie-jenner-private-jet-emissions/


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“…it sure seems like Griner benefited more from being a black, lesbian athlete married to another woman in a tough midterm year than anything approaching right or wrong, never mind the geopolitics setting free an arms dealer who sought to harm innocent Americans.”

Is Biden giving Brittney Griner special treatment?

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/is-biden-giving-brittney-griner-special-treatment/?utm_source=Spectator+World+Signup&utm_campaign=352ae8cb81-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_04_04_22_COPY_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_edf2ae2373-352ae8cb81-154710445


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“Yes, the green, sexually fungible, racially-obsessed agenda will hurt a lot of people. Among other things, it will lead to what one of Obama’s chief science advisers called the “de-development” — that’s Newspeak for “impoverishment” — of the United States. But here’s the thing to appreciate. Factota like Deese are not troubled by the suffering of ordinary people. Indeed, they approve of a certain amount of suffering. Suffering produces dependency, and dependency is an insurance policy for those who cater to it: the bureaucrats who fill the troughs that feed the populace…


“The point, of course, is never to end the dependency. The point is to manage in such a way as to perpetuate and expand it. Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, in the metabolism of this great act of political legerdemain. I suspect that Biden has outlived his plausibility and will soon be retired.” 


The great White House replacement

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/great-white-house-jettison-biden-harris/?utm_source=Spectator+World+Signup&utm_campaign=352ae8cb81-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_04_04_22_COPY_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_edf2ae2373-352ae8cb81-154710445


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Liberal approaches to COVID-19 are today reflected in our children’s academic and emotional decay. Months later, mandating that schools champion an extreme gender pedagogy or risk losing federal lunch funding further emphasizes that the Biden administration is forfeiting the health of America’s youth to fuel its ideologically driven objectives…It bears mentioning that those most affected by the USDA’s enforcement of Biden’s Title IX regulations are black and Hispanic youth, whose rates of food insecurity in 2020 were 21.7 percent and 17.2 percent, respectively. Both figures reflect a higher degree of food scarcity than the 10.5 percent national average. A piece in the New York Post also highlighted the thousands of military families, numbering close to 30 percent of “troops in the most junior enlisted ranks,” that face food insecurity. Democrats’ decision to punish underprivileged communities and Blue Star families whose schools fail to embrace a progressive gender doctrine proves the party has abandoned any semblance of pragmatic governance.”


Red States Move to Block Biden From Taking Away Kids’ Lunch Money

https://spectator.org/biden-taking-away-children-lunch-money/


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“Not only did we spend millions of dollars developing a missile specifically made NOT to kill anyone but the intended target, but we even constrained ourselves to a robust intelligence development process that included protections for—wait for it—the family of the man who was partially responsible for killing thousands of our own men, women, and children. … Our nation is good, and that goodness is shown even in how we kill.”


Killing Zawahiri: How the CIA Hunts Monsters

https://current.thedispatch.com/p/killing-zawahiri-how-the-cia-hunts?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


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“Unlike opportunists that crop up on the Right, …there are very few attempts to police these figures on the Left. No one to interrogate the basis of these people’s expertise. Author Roy Scranton is free to write and publish whatever he likes, but it would be nice if someone asked, “What gives him the authority to build a career around climate doom as an associate professor of English and fiction writer?” I seem to remember people asking what gave Joe Rogan the authority to question the official COVID-19 narrative to an audience of millions as a comedian-cum-podcaster.”


Doom Sells: How I spent six years trapped in the cult of climate alarmism

https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/doom-sells?r=3cl4x&utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email


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Since the U.S. drone strike on July 30 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a number of Western Islamists and their allies have denounced the U.S. government, claiming its operation “threatens peace” and was completely “unjustified.”[:]


“OK let's say Afghanistan was harbouring Ayman Al Zawahiri. The UK is harbouring Tony Blair and the US is harbouring George Bush. Those latter two are responsible for much more death and destruction than Al Qaeda.”


“After the killing of Zawahiri, the feds probably gonna amplify their surveillance on Muslims to see if AQ cell members are plotting something. And we know, for them, every Muslim is a potential "terrorist". So tie your camel, and be careful with your posts.”


“Bush, Blair, Obama, Putin, Jinping, Asad are monsters responsible for the deaths, injuries and destitution of millions  around the world. The world would be safer without them. Please do inform us when you plan to seek their assassinations at congress. We’re all ears.”


Western Islamists Denounce Killing of Zawahiri

https://islamism.news/2022/08/03/western-islamists-denounce-killing-of-zawahiri/?goal=0_1ce70fade8-51bf57512e-34174501


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“The European Union's own survey shows that most anti-Semitic acts in the EU are committed by Muslims, followed by left-wing extremists. Right-wing extremists are in third place. Did you know that? I bet you didn't. The European governing establishment prefers to keep quiet about that, because it destroys their open-borders liberal globalism. Do you know who has spend much of his fortune trying to compel Hungary to open its borders to Islamic migrants? George Soros. This is why Hungary is both the most anti-Soros country in Europe, and the one safest for Jews.


The Vision Of Viktor Orbán

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-vision-of-viktor-orban/


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“The media is also to blame for the current state of decrepitude among the anti-Trump wing of the GOP. The more they’ve attacked primary candidates who were smeared as nutty or have buoyed the ones they claim to like, but hate, the more Republican voters are inclined to back the untraditional newcomers running for office. For Liz, it was a combination of smearing her supporters as insane, endorsing the Left’s unhinged crusade against Trump, and simply being more focused on attacking Trump than working with the new Trump wing of the party. There’s a ton of overlap between Trumpism and Reagan conservatives. Cheney’s loss will be one of the most avoidable, but these people share something with the Left. They’re both condescending in their way and more obsessed with being right than leading.”


GOP Establishment's Latest Goal: Saving Liz Cheney

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/08/05/gop-establishments-latest-goal-saving-liz-cheney-n2611328?utm_source=breakingemail


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“Maybe the DOJ should consider charging progressive prosecutors with civil rights violations for wanton endangerment of public safety. Just today the New York Post reported that 10 career criminals had racked up 500 arrests in the wake of progressive bail reform policies, and most of them are still out on bail.”


Are the New Charges in the Breonna Taylor Case Justice—or Mob Appeasement?

https://www.newsweek.com/are-new-charges-breonna-taylor-case-justice-mob-appeasement-opinion-1731054


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“Now is the time for the GOP to go all in. Republicans have more governors and control of more state legislative chambers than at any time since there have been 50 states. There are education improvement proposals out there that have already proven they work. This includes vouchers, scholarships, the expansion of charter schools and altering the process through which schools are funded by having the money follow the student rather than being earmarked to a particular school. Parents are asking to be empowered so they can make sure the lockdowns, which may have cost children years of learning that will be hard to get back and exposed them to unforeseen health risks because of the traditional mixing that couldn’t occur because children were kept apart, never happen again. That’s a revolution, and the GOP should prepare to spend political capital making it happen.”


GOP now leads Democrats on the issue of education

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/1/editorial-gop-now-leads-democrats-on-the-issue-of-/


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“Initially, the Biden administration mocked the busing strategy, pointing out that the migrants were all volunteering to come east. But later the administration settled on a new message, complaining that Texas was disrupting Homeland Security’s ability to manage and track the migrants…“In addition to Washington, D.C., New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city,” Mr. Abbott said Friday. “I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief.””


Texas starts busing illegal immigrants directly to New York

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/5/texas-starts-busing-illegal-immigrants-directly-ne/?cx_testId=11&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0&cx_experienceId=EXW11Z0K4US7&utm_source=piano&utm_medium=footer_ribbon&utm_campaign=4_item_Pos_0_desktop#cxrecs_s


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“The conservative reaction to George Soros’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed exemplifies free-speech principles—in contrast with the behavior of left-wing papers like the New York Times…The different reactions to the Soros and the Cotton op-eds and to the Inquirer headline undercuts the Left’s assertion that it is conservatives who threaten free speech in the U.S. Running George Soros was as much of a challenge to the worldview of many Republicans and to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial position as running the Cotton op-ed was a challenge to Times staffers and the Times’s reader base…Today, whether on college campuses or in the media, it is conservatives who still believe in the value of debate. The nauseating claim that argument with which a listener disagrees “harms” that listener is an extortion tactic used almost exclusively on the left. If the Left gets its way, however, whether through Big Tech or government campaigns against “disinformation,” there will be no more conservative speech to uphold what was once the bedrock principle of democracy.”


Unabridged

city-journal.org/unlike-the-left-the-right-still-believes-in-debate


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“The dirty little secret of higher-ed admissions is that achieving a desired “diverse” racial mix means discriminating against Asian applicants — or at least, secret until Students for Fair Admissions exposed it.  The higher-ed establishment is brazenly defending its race-conscious admissions in dozens of amicus briefs just filed in the US Supreme Court opposing SFFA’s discrimination suits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina. It’s terrified the cases, which the court just announced it will hear in October, could spell the end of racial affirmative action.”


Higher ed unites against Asian students in Supreme Court’s Harvard discrimination case

https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/higher-ed-vs-asian-students-in-supreme-courts-harvard-discrimination-case/


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“…the CDC’s ineptitude goes farther back than that. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the CDC also failed, admitting its performance was “rocky” as it saw itself outperformed in many ways by health officials in countries like Nigeria. That debacle, five years before COVID’s emergence, should have been a wakeup call — but the agency slept on…And of course, the CDC’s performance during the 1980s AIDS outbreak, when Fauci first became famous, was abysmal. Fauci in particular pushed the false notion that run-of-the-mill heterosexuals were at risk for AIDS in the same fashion as gays and intravenous-drug users, which wasn’t true. It both spread unnecessary fear and diluted efforts to aid at-risk populations. There’s not much of a learning curve here.”


Fauci and other health ‘experts’ are messing up monkeypox just as they did COVID, Ebola and AIDS

https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/fauci-messing-up-monkeypox-just-like-covid-ebola-and-aids/



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OPPO:




Doctors becoming equity brokers:

“As policymakers continue to target SGM people, the health care sector can play a critical role in mitigating resulting harm and advocating for evidence-based policies protecting health and well-being. We believe the Triple Aim framework — which consists of enhancing patients’ care experiences, improving population health, and reducing per-capita costs of care — can help identify existing challenges and next steps for promoting SGM health.”


Achieving the Triple Aim for Sexual and Gender Minorities

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2204569


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Voxplaining to save Biden:


“Biden gets the blowback. But bad local decisions have helped drive prices of housing, energy, and everything else higher.”


Mad about inflation? Blame your local officials.
https://stocks.apple.com/AicepGyIGSF6do5u-Muk9PA


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Problem is, even before the Boston Globe exploded the scandal in 2000, the Church’s defenders were making the same argument.  The post-hoc admission by this canon lawyer undermines his own argument: we shouldn’t have believed you then, why would we believe you now?  When did you — or Church defenders — ever care about victim-survivors?  And lumping yourself with “all the other churches have the issue” isn’t smart PR…

“Trying to hang the deadly sin of abuse around the church’s policy of clerical celibacy was perhaps an understandable speculative endeavor in the aftermath of the horrific scandals reported by the Spotlight team of the Boston Globe in the early 2000s. But, with all we have learned in the decades since, and with the painful, continuing revelations of abuse of children in all manner of institutions, trotting out the canard that married priests would mean less abuse isn’t just ignorant. It’s a shocking disservice to victim-survivors…the suggestion that abuse is caused, amplified, or sustained by the unmarried state of clergy isn’t just without evidence: It flies in the face of the experiences of so many survivors of abuse in other settings. No one who has followed the terrible reckoning the Southern Baptist Convention has had with its own institutional failure to protect children could cite the “successful” example of Protestant clergy as proof that married pastors mitigate the risk of abuse. Likewise, consider the heartbreaking experiences of survivors of abuse in families, schools, youth organizations, the Boy Scouts, and the child-welfare system.”


Ending Priestly Celibacy Would Not Stop Abuse

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/ending-priestly-celibacy-would-not-stop-abuse/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202022-07-31&utm_term=WIR-Smart


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ButtWiPo gives another terrorist a bold-type obit.  At least this time they forgot the “austere religious scholar” accolade…


Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader, killed at 71

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/01/ayman-al-zawahiri-al-qaeda-dead/




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The only people who thought this had naything to do with race were the wokerati who re-introduced the dead idea…and most of the people getting it are rich progressives who COULD maybe be shomer negiah for a frew weeks to flatten the curve, but nooooo….


Critics say 'monkeypox' is a racist name. But it's not going away anytime soon

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/01/1113908154/critics-say-monkeypox-is-a-racist-name-but-its-not-going-away-anytime-soon?fbclid=IwAR0shDShGJqT_a31CHu4wLioZDwdJAVkkd0wKTWU9luprcmPvvJGsqVhWiQ



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INGRATE.


Your dad is a Nam vet, you invoke him to get outta jail, AFTER you denigrate the flag?

“I’m terrified I might be here forever,” [Griner] wrote. “On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran. It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.”

Russian Court Sentences WNBA Star Brittney Griner to Nine Years in Penal Colony

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/russian-prosecutors-seeking-nine-year-prison-sentence-for-wnba-star-brittney-griner/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=28613166


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...because the first two times weren't bad enough


The Days of ‘Germany Knows Best’ Are Over

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-28/europe-energy-crisis-it-s-time-germany-answer-to-spain-portugal-italy-greece?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=220728&utm_campaign=sharetheview&sref=8lYdtgkp



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While the Party leadership and progressive base whines about rich white people, the Party’s electoral fortunes are completely dependent on…rich white people


“White-collar suburban voters will play an outsize role in upcoming elections.”


Democrats Might Avoid a Midterm Wipeout

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/08/democrats-midterms-suburban-voters/671042/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20220803&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily


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Since the U.S. drone strike on July 30 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a number of Western Islamists and their allies have denounced the U.S. government, claiming its operation “threatens peace” and was completely “unjustified.”[:]


“OK let's say Afghanistan was harbouring Ayman Al Zawahiri. The UK is harbouring Tony Blair and the US is harbouring George Bush. Those latter two are responsible for much more death and destruction than Al Qaeda.”


“After the killing of Zawahiri, the feds probably gonna amplify their surveillance on Muslims to see if AQ cell members are plotting something. And we know, for them, every Muslim is a potential "terrorist". So tie your camel, and be careful with your posts.”


“Bush, Blair, Obama, Putin, Jinping, Asad are monsters responsible for the deaths, injuries and destitution of millions  around the world. The world would be safer without them. Please do inform us when you plan to seek their assassinations at congress. We’re all ears.”


Western Islamists Denounce Killing of Zawahiri

https://islamism.news/2022/08/03/western-islamists-denounce-killing-of-zawahiri/?goal=0_1ce70fade8-51bf57512e-34174501



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Because it makes you rich, George.


Why I Support Reform Prosecutors

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441


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