“…the Climate Emergency Fund [is] a relatively new outfit,founded in 2019 by Rory Kennedy, daughter of Senator Robert Kennedy, and Aileen Getty, granddaughter of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty…Aileen’s grandfather, Jean Paul Getty, made his fortune in oil…While the Kennedys may not be as synonymous with the black sticky stuff, America’s most glamorous political dynasty has petrol on its fingerprints. When Rory Kennedy’s uncle — Senator Edward Kennedy — ran for president, the Washington Post noted, “What is not well known is that Kennedy, as an investor, is something of an oilman…He and his children own an interest in dozens of oil and gas properties in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and several other states, at least 39 leases and 101 royalty properties.” These holdings constituted “14 to 17.4 percent of the assets held in blind trust for his immediate family.””
Oil Baron Fortunes Now Fuel Climate Change Activism
https://www.nysun.com/article/oil-baron-fortunes-now-fuel-climate-change-activism
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“There was a real chance that Trump would fall into this trap of 2020 election rants instead of telling us how he would fix the economy and undo the wreckage left by the Biden administration. That's all under the rug now. That's not even a top item. He, Trump, is viewed as the Democrats' public enemy number one. And now, the state has gone after him—you just cannot beat that campaign line. It's set to fill the war chests of the Trump machine many times over.
“The Democrats' last gamble was to use the FBI, DOJ, and later the IRS to go after Americans to prevent them from running for office. It won't just be the presidency. It's not far-fetched now to think that any conservative running for federal office whom liberal America views as a threat to the gravy train will come under federal investigation. This raid was just the first shot, but a Trump presidency, or any presidency that doesn't have Biden in it—can stop that.
“The FBI is the Democratic Party's political hit squad whose origins can be traced back to when Eric Holder became attorney general. It accelerated rapidly under the Obama administration, and the same traitorous snakes remain. That was made clear in the Mar-a-Lago incursion, which ended the 2024 GOP primaries.”
The 2024 GOP Primaries Are Over. The FBI's Raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Ended Them.
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“As the New York Post reported, Batgirl, “which was doing test screenings for audiences in anticipation of a late 2022 debut, would rank among the most expensive cinematic castoffs ever. Those tests were said to be so poorly received by moviegoers that the studio decided to cut its losses and run for the sake of the brand’s future. It’s a DC disaster. “They think an unspeakable ‘Batgirl’ is going to be irredeemable,” the source said.””
“More Hollywood-friendly (i.e., less inquisitive) outlets like Variety, Esquire, and the Hollywood Reporter chose not to mention the viewer feedback, instead focusing only on Zaslav’s cruel penny-pinching. But a day later, when asked about the Batgirl axing, Zaslav offered, “We’re not going to launch a movie to make a quarter and we’re not going to put a movie out unless we believe in it,” making it clear that Batgirl was dead and worth more to the company as a tax write-off than another flop.”
The Breaking of Batgirl
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“In May, Meta — formerly Facebook — said that “discussing abortion openly at work has a heightened risk of creating a hostile work environment,” so it had taken “the position that we would not allow open discussion.” Progressive activists were surprised to see so many companies offering muted and generic statements about the Supreme Court’s recent abortion decision…Earlier this summer, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos effectively told his employees that it was time to stop complaining about programming that offended them: “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.” New Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav is reportedly meeting with Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, indicating he’s not interested in complaints about her views on trans issues.”
Corporate America Isn’t Certain It Can Afford to Be Woke Anymore
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"What if, for example, Jones’s lawyers knew their client had, against their advice, lied under oath in his deposition? And what if they “accidentally” passed the messages to the Sandy Hook lawyers and the judge in discovery… on purpose? Why would they do this? Well, what if the Jones lawyers, given they knew their client had lied under oath, were concerned that they might find themselves accused of suborning perjury? ... Would Jones’s lawyers really want to put their license to practice law on the line? For Alex Jones?
"In a situation when an attorney’s client has lied in their deposition, one course of action would be to withdraw representation. But would “accidentally” sending proof of the client’s perjury not be another option for the Jones attorneys, so they could fulfill their ethical obligation to the court and save their skins?"
Conspiracy theory: did Alex Jones’s lawyers leak his messages on purpose?
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“Strive seeks to beat the big fund managers at their own shareholder-activism game. That presents an obvious difficulty, akin to the challenge of starting a third political party: Even if your views are far more popular than the incumbents’, you’re starting from zero. How do you overcome their massive advantage in money, loyalty and voting power? The Engine No. 1 saga points to one answer: by using the power to introduce resolutions and board candidates and inducing the big funds to vote your way. Mr. Ramaswamy’s strategy entails heightening ESG’s contradictions by crafting resolutions that “call the bluff of the doublespeak,” by which he means the claim that fund mangers are simultaneously “using capital to address shared global challenges like systemic racism and global climate change” and “exclusively looking after the financial interests of their clients.””
How Woke Capital Politicized Your Retirement Account
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“Muller deserves credit for being more honest than most mask advocates. He notes that the World Health Organization said in March 2020 that “there is no evidence” that masks work, and he adds that “it was the absence of significant positive effects from RCTs prior to the pandemic that informed the WHO’s initial [anti-mask] stance.” Yet Muller laments the reliance on RCTs as opposed to “mechanism-based reasoning.” This is a fancy term for applying one’s own reasoning faculties. Muller’s reasoning leads him to be convinced that masks must work. But that, of course, is why we have RCTs: to test people’s notions about what works and what doesn’t.”
Masks Still Don’t Work
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“Omar, who previously said Minneapolis should “completely dismantle” its police department, told Fox 9 shortly after her primary win that Frey must do more to provide “adequate public safety” for city residents and address their worries about rising crime. But Frey dismissed her position as hypocritical, citing her outspoken advocacy for defunding the police and abolishing the city’s police force. “Congresswoman Omar is telling us that we need to be providing adequate safety? This is the person that literally called out to defund and get rid of the police,” Frey said.”
Minneapolis mayor criticizes Ilhan Omar for 'making it about' herself after narrow primary win
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“Unless and until Garland goes for full transparency, telling us all exactly what he’s investigating, we have to fear he’s simply taking a huge roll of the dice — hoping to find a Trump-slaying mother lode of evidence at the great risk of turning the ex-prez into a martyr and the next president.”
If Merrick Garland doesn’t give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump’s home, he’s probably just re-elected him
https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/merrick-garland-needs-to-give-a-reason-for-raiding-trumps-home/
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“Progressive, black, George-Soros-backed Albany County District Attorney David Soares has joined Mayor Eric Adams’ pleas for a special legislative session to truly fix the state’s criminal-justice laws. The “black lives” cited to justify the no-bail and Raise the Age reforms “are the very black lives most impacted by the violence” these “reforms” have triggered, Soares points out. “The same young people” apprehended for “very violent acts [are] back out on the street” engaging in the same behavior, he warns.”
Soros-backed DA David Soares wants NY’s criminal-justice laws fixed ASAP
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“For the feds to claim they suddenly care about classified documents is a joke []…They would have to care about Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, constantly leaking classified information and lying that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation. They would have to care about Hillary Clinton’s private server and missing emails. They would have to care that former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy Andrew McCabe lied to officials and disclosed classified information. They would have to care about Hunter’s laptop and the identity of the Big Guy. “Let’s be honest,” said Giordano. “Plenty of people are above the law in the United States.””
So FBI, why no raid of Hunter Biden’s house?!
https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/so-fbi-why-no-raid-of-hunter-bidens-house/
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“On Tuesday, police identified the suspect as another Muslim man, who is believed to have been motivated by intra-Islamic sectarian hatred. Police detained 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, an Afghan Muslim migrant, and charged him with the murder of Aftab Hussein and Muhammad Afzaal Hussain. Syed is reportedly Sunni Muslim and killed the men in anger over his daughter marrying a Shiite Muslim. Police believe he could be culpable for a string of homicides in the city over the past few months.”
Mainstream Media Jump to Conclusions in Killings of Four New Mexico Muslim Men
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“Is it really plausible that Garland was so ignorant of the political needs and familiar patterns of behavior of both Trump and his own administration that he thought this would not be an immediate front-page political firestorm, one in which leading Democrats would leap into the fray to declare, yet again, that Trump’s criminal prosecution for all manner of things was imminent? If so, he’s a bigger fool than any of us guessed.”
The Trump-FBI Whodunit Only Gets More Embarrassing
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Since the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound on Monday, the Democratic Party’s resistance leaders have been tumescent.
The FBI kills a mosquito with a howitzer
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-fbi-kills-a-mosquito-with-a-howitzer/
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“The “deep state” is no right-wing myth. While administrations come and go, the more than 2 million people who work for the federal government are largely immovable objects who cannot be fired except for cause and, as the Obama-era IRS scandal (among other incidents) indicated, not always then either.”
Trump FBI raid more proof we must remake a politicized bureaucracy
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“…the purpose of speech is as an alternative to violence. Open discourse is a sign of progress. What we’re doing now is the opposite…As the political climate changes—which it inevitably does—they may eventually find themselves on the other side of things, outside the popular narrative, without the skills to cope with no longer being able to silence voices or ideas they dislike.”
Speech isn't violence; it's how we avoid it
https://fairforall.substack.com/p/speech-is-not-violence?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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“For Inoue, any black student who does not want to speak in his or her “home” language is a dupe who wants nothing more than to “become a nice little cog in the system.” Thus, I argued, Inoue reflects the devolution of the field of rhetoric and composition, and perpetuates the infantilizing victimization of black students…In my view, Inoue’s beliefs make sense if the real goal is not writing instruction at all, but the fundamental transformation of society into one that deemphasizes the individual and emphasizes the communal—a society that does not see individuals as sovereign beings but as valuable parts in a collective; a society that sounds much to me like a Marxist utopia. I would argue that Inoue and his ilk are a temporal manifestation of the “long march through institutions” put forth by economic and cultural Marxists, who—despite their differences—agree that society is nothing more than a battle between oppressor and oppressed. It is this belief that informs Inoue’s pedagogy, and through citing prominent Marxist theorists and pedagogues, one can better understand why a writing teacher would, with such righteous indignation, refuse to actually teach writing.”
How Marxism replaces education with indoctrination
https://fairforall.substack.com/p/asao-inoue-marxism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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“Al Gore recently said that those still skeptical about global warming are no better than the police officers who did nothing after entering Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, during that heinous mass shooting that left 19 young children dead in May. Yes, being skeptical about cannibalizing trillions of dollars in economic growth and activity to ratchet down the Earth’s temperature less than a degree over the next ten or so years which could come at the cost of total catastrophe for our societies, makes us just like the do-nothing cops who got kids killed in Uvalde. Go to hell, Al.”
Climate Change Advocates' Appalling Take on Lightning Strike That Killed Three in DC
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“Even in celebration, liberals are miserable. They redirected fire into their ship, roasting one of their outlets, The Washington Post, for a headline that, for once, was accurate. Attorney General Merrick Garland did promise to depoliticize the Justice Department, but this raid has ended that promise, if there ever was one, in a brutal fashion.”
Why Liberals Had a Chernobyl-Level Freakout Over WaPo's Headline About Trump, the FBI, and Garland
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“New York state law will no longer refer to prisoners as "inmates" and will instead call them "incarcerated individuals," according to a new law…Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the legislation Monday. She argues that removing the term "inmate" will help to "reduce harmful stigma against incarcerated people by correcting outdated terminology…In New York, we’re doing everything in our power to show that justice and safety can go hand-in-hand…We can make our streets and communities safer by giving justice-involved individuals the chance to complete their rehabilitation program and work at the same time. By treating all New Yorkers with dignity and respect, we can improve public safety while ensuring New Yorkers have a fair shot at a second chance," she added.”
New York to scrap 'inmate' in favor of 'incarcerated individual' in state law
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“Everyone should be deeply troubled by the recent report that the Army is on pace to miss its recruiting goal by dozens of thousands of troops and by the report that followed a few days later, alleging that the Border Patrol is running short of agents in Arizona and Texas. The border is so porous these days that even mayors of sanctuary cities are starting to complain about illegal immigration. So, what is Congress doing about these crises? They are going to spend tens of billions of dollars to increase the number of ... IRS employees. The plan calls for spending some $80 billion to hire some 80,000 new agents and investigators. This will give the IRS the resources to double the number of people who get audited every year. Is this about the most warped set of national priorities you've ever heard? If this $80 billion were rerouted to the Army and the Border Patrol, we could easily stop much of the tide of illegal immigration and staff up our military so we have the soldiers we need to defend our country.”
Biden Puts IRS Funding Ahead of Military and Border Security
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“Francesca Albanese, the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967,” defended Palestinian terrorists on Monday after a ceasefire was put into effect following three days of fighting between the IDF and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).”
UN ‘human rights’ investigator endorses ‘killing Israelis’
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“A college that codified these “competencies” would certainly dissuade faculty from expressing many widely-held political opinions — most obviously, opposition to affirmative action. Thus, the policy is likely illegal, running afoul of First Amendment law, which treats academic freedom as sacrosanct. Yet, from Arizona, to Utah, to North Carolina, such policies continue to be adopted and implemented.”
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is tearing academia apart
https://unherd.com/thepost/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-tearing-academia-apart/
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“Who wants a brick through the window, a death threat, a calumny, all that damage to your reputation? Write out of turn and you get what you deserve. People felt this was justice, not cowardice… in fact, that most people do not like freedom of speech very much. Most people — and that includes most writers — will not risk being banished to Siberia…What wasn’t so clear that morning in 1989 was how much further than Rushdie the culture of his fatwa would extend.”
How we gave up Salman Rushdie: Britain saw his fatwa and internalised it
https://unherd.com/2022/08/how-we-gave-up-salman-rushdie/
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“Progressive leftism and global capitalism, far from being antagonistic as some of us once thought, have turned out to be a usefully snug fit. Both are totalising, utopian projects. Both are suspicious of the past, impatient with borders and boundaries, and hostile to religion, “superstition” and the limits on the human individual imposed by nature or culture. Both are in pursuit of a global utopia where, in the dreams of both Lenin and Lennon, the world will live as one…If the past 40 years have taught us anything, it’s that dreams of universal equality can segue very easily into dreams of universal market access.”
How the Left fell for capitalism
https://unherd.com/2022/07/how-the-left-fell-for-capitalism/?=refinnar
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