“Despite Europe’s efforts, greenhouse gas emissions have been going up steadily since the first UN climate conference in 1995, with the highest emissions to date produced in 2021. And despite the steady stream of warnings over the last few decades that there were only 12 (or 10 or nine) years before irreparable damage to the planet, the world’s major cities have not sunk under rising seas nor have climate refugees poured over borders. (That there are currently millions of refugees escaping intolerable conditions is due to Putin, not climate change.) If Russia and China, the countries that produce 35 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, opt-out, the West may well tire of shouldering the heavy, now patently useless burden of making their own economies achieve “zero-net emissions.””
“Can Ukraine Kill Climate Change?” https://spectator.org/can-ukraine-kill-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR0zpGvw5PqubIB43ktIeODgauKgWdZVP_ZTEvPQC77S7NCiAyoxxWCNnjg
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“…when scientific institutions are captured by ideology, they end up suggesting policies that actually hurt people. Who can forget when the CDC suggested prioritizing COVID-19 vaccines for essential workers rather than the elderly in late 2020—because the elderly were proportionally "whiter" than young essential workers. If implemented, this would have certainly resulted in far more deaths—including deaths of people of color!—as elderly people die in far greater numbers from COVID-19 than do young workers. To be sure, there are many on the right with deep skepticism of science who engage in their own cancelations and pseudoscience. But capitulation to the moral agendas of the far-Left only worsen this problem. Scientific institutions need to do the hard work of rejecting moral grandstanding and returning to data-based objectivity. And they need to begin immediately.”
“Scientific Institutions Are Going Woke—and Hemorrhaging Credibility” https://www.newsweek.com/scientific-institutions-are-going-woke-hemorrhaging-credibility-opinion-1693973
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“Dr David Bell, who is a former staff governor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, was speaking about children who suffer from gender dysphoria. There has been a "great pressure to affirm these children as being trans" without having "appropriate exploration," according to Bell. "Thirty-five percent of these children are on the autistic spectrum. A large number of these children are gay and lesbian children, who are suffering in relation to their sexual orientation, need to be helped to understand themselves better," he said. The doctor also said that some of those children and young people have "internalized homophobia" as they "hate their sexual body and want to get out of it," and therefore it is important to recognize their "terrible suffering" and not label them trans and "put them on a medical pathway, which has irreversible consequences." "There's been a tendency to interpret the memorandum of understanding, which is the professional framework, as implying that children and young people who present with gender identity issues should be immediately affirmed and this has caused damage," he added.”
“Dr David Bell tells @BBCNews that children’s Gender Dysphoria needs careful exploration, not automatic affirmation” https://twitter.com/i/status/1509926533149990923
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“It’s odd that Joe Biden would confuse Michelle Obama with Kamala Harris…But he also “confused” Maxine Waters for Val Demings at a bill signing and Kweisi Mfume for Brandon Scott at a town hall”
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“Remember 20 years ago and all the talk about the emerging Democrat majority? Well, that was supposed to be driven by Latinx people, except Latinx people think "Latinx" is dumber than Mazie Hirono and Sheldon Whitehouse's love child. The Democrat elite took Hispanics for granted – talk about condescension – and Hispanics took off.”
“It's Like Democrats Want to Be Crushed in November” https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/04/04/its-like-democrats-want-to-be-crushed-in-november-n2605426?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1
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“In a Facebook entry posted on March 31, 2022, AMP took issue with an article published by the New York Times highlighting an attack outside of Tel Aviv that resulted in the deaths of five people, including a police officer and two foreign workers, on March 29, 2022. In the post, AMP seemed to justify the recent spate of killings by declaring, “Last year during Ramadan, Israel tried to kick out Palestinian families from their homes, attacked worshipers at one of the holiest Muslim sites, and then bombed Palestinian apartment buildings killing over 260 Palestinians … [T]hat context is missing.””
AMP Claims Outrage Over Killing of Jews is Missing ‘Context’ https://islamism.news/2022/04/01/amp-claims-outrage-over-killing-of-jews-is-missing-context/
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“The view that our criminal-justice system is broken and inherently biased undermines the rule of law, respect for law enforcement officials and ultimately the safety of the public it is designed to protect. Judge Jackson's record, as well as her public statements, cast doubt about her commitment to and confidence in our criminal-justice system. Heightening this concern are clear indicators of judicial activism from her time on the bench. On several notable occasions, as I outlined to the committee, Judge Jackson has exercised her discretion to achieve desired social or political ends to the detriment of public safety.”
Jackson Hearings Signal Democrats Don't Want to Talk About Crime https://www.newsweek.com/jackson-hearings-signal-democrats-dont-want-talk-about-crime-opinion-1693791
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"Why else did he cancel the Nord Stream 2 sanctions? Why did he cancel the China Initiative, which was a Department of Justice initiative to try and investigate and uncover Chinese theft of intellectual property? What is going on here?" he speculated. "I don't know all the details, but you know who does, Maria? Chinese intelligence, Russian intelligence, probably Iranian and North Korean intelligence. And here's the really sad part. I believe our FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies know as well. They're just not going to tell us or you, the American public… here you have a treasure trove of evidence that Joe Biden actually is compromised. He actually has this vast web of connections in China, in Kazakstan, in Russia, in Ukraine. And yet the media just turns a blind eye toward it. This is corruption at the highest level," Johnson said.”
Ron Johnson: President Biden "Actually Is Compromised" By Hunter's Network Of Foreign Contacts, "Complicit" Media Doesn't Care https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/04/03/ron_johnson_biden_actually_is_compromised_by_his_son_hunters_network_of_foreign_contacts_in_china_kazakhstan_russia_ukraine.html
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“Taxes taking my whole dang check. A rat bit my sister. Whitey on the moon. Gil Scott Heron wrote that more than 50 years ago and actually if you think about it, not a lot has changed. At least in the positive direction. …It has all gotten worse. Measurably worse. But Biden does plan to make one improvement, however. There'll be no more whiteys on the moon. Biden is going to diversify space travel. Seven and half billion dollars to "Land the first woman and person of color on the moon." Gil Scott-Heron is gone now but imagine if you live to see this moment. You can imagine the tears of joy and gratitude. After 50 years, Whitey has been vanquished from the moon.”
Tucker Carlson: You Are Watching The End Of American Liberalism, It Is Too Ridiculous To Continue https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/04/01/tucker_carlson_you_are_watching_the_end_of_american_liberalism_it_is_too_ridiculous_to_continue.html
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“Despite multiple appeals, during which company officials admitted that the perception of racism was more important than whether or not my tweet was actually racist, the company has refused to reverse its decision. Meanwhile, my image and bio is still being used on the WMAL website and social media channels to promote their programming. I am racist enough not to be paid, but not so racist that my likeness cannot be affiliated with the station, apparently.”
“I was fired for a joke about Kamala Harris’s outfit” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fired-joke-kamala-harris-outfit-wmal-cumulus-cancel-culture/
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“The minute I’m out of the league, the NBA comes crawling back to China…When Adam Silver and I spoke on the phone, he claimed he ‘didn’t know the NBA/Celtics games were banned in China.’ Business as usual.”…to simplify: Kanter Freedom begins his vocal opposition to the league’s ongoing relationship with China in October of last year. In February of this year, he is cut from the Houston Rockets and not picked up by another team. In March, the NBA resumes what appears to be a conditional relationship with China to air its games and continue to have its stars participate in the Chinese market by operating basketball camps, such as LeBron James does, while refusing to criticize the human rights abuses carried out against Hong Kong and the ethnic Uighurs. Some have compared Kanter’s blackballing to that of backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick…but Kaepernick has enjoyed rampant mainstream media support, and has signed multimillion dollar development contracts with both Netflix and Nike, a corporation that has openly lobbied against proposed anti-slave labor legislation.”
“Did China just take out an NBA player?” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/did-china-just-take-out-an-nba-player/
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“Following the widespread release of a credible set of war images from a suburb of Kiev, America announced today it would seek the ouster of Russia from the Geneva-based body charged with monitoring human rights violations around the globe…No word yet on whether countries like Communist China, Cuba, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan, or Venezuela — all members of the world’s top body charged with judging the human rights record of democracies like Israel — deserve a similar fate to Russia’s.”
“U.S. Wheels on Russia, Joins Push To End Moscow’s Membership in UN Human Rights Council” https://www.nysun.com/article/u-s-wheels-on-russia-joins-push-to-end-moscows-membership-in-un-human-rights-council?utm_content=The%20Evening%20Sun%3A%20U%20S%20%20Joins%20Push%20To%20End%20Moscow%20Membership%20in%20RIghts%20Council&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20From%20the%20site
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“[O]n April 1, James's office sent to Merrick Garland a letter making the same claims about the IPT and requesting a "DOJ investigation into IPT's possible violations of federal law," asserting that "it would send the message that the federal government will also use its powers to protect Muslims' rights." With subway-pushers, gun-toting teenagers (and preteens), and homeless encampments in New York City, and carjacking now a regular occurrence throughout the state, James has used her office and political clout to make investigative reporters stop investigating and reporting while sticking up for a group with intimate ties to Hamas.”
“New York State Supports Hamas, Muzzles Anti-Islamist Reporter” https://www.meforum.org/63153/new-york-state-supports-hamas?goal=0_086cfd423c-def3ab80f6-33689901&mc_cid=def3ab80f6&mc_eid=a18d54a80a
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“"Ukraine will become a “‘big Israel' with its own face,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared on Tuesday, indicating that his country intends to emulate the Israeli security state in the wake of Russia’s invasion. “Ukraine will definitely not be what we wanted it to be from the beginning. It is impossible. Absolutely liberal, European – it will not be like that. It [Ukraine] will definitely come from the strength of every house, every building, every person,” Zelenskyy told members of the Ukrainian media during a briefing.”
“Zelenskyy Says Post-war Ukraine Will Emulate Israel, Won’t Be ‘Liberal, European’” https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-zelenskyy-says-post-war-ukraine-will-emulate-israel-won-t-be-liberal-european-1.10721395
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“This country doesn’t just have a narrow civil liberties dispute about speech. We’re in a crisis of communication and intimacy, compounded by a uniquely American terror of sex that probably dates back to the days of the Puritans, and seems at the core of what Kipnis calls the “carceral turn” in her world of higher education. Atop legitimate and necessary mechanisms for identifying and stopping campus predators — Kipnis stresses that “sexual assault is a reality on campus, though not exactly a new one” — we’re building new bureaucracies to prosecute an array of social or even just intellectual offenses.”
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“…the “social-justice snitch,” a burgeoning category composed of those who want to defund the police and reform the criminal-justice system but are nevertheless happy to feed the maws of a frequently unprocedural and (many say) racist campus-justice system. There are, to be sure, right-wing students and organizations dedicated to harassing professors whose politics they object to, but that’s to be expected. What’s not is the so-called campus left failing to notice the degree to which the “carceral turn” in American higher ed — the prosecutorial ethos, the resources reallocated to regulation and punishment — shares a certain cultural logic with the rise of mass incarceration and over-policing in off-campus America. Or that the zeal for policing intellectual borders has certain resonances with the signature tactics of Trumpian America, for which unpoliced borders are equally intolerable. But what care social-justice types about fostering the carceral university if those with suspect politics can be flattened, even — fingers crossed! — expelled, or left unemployed and penurious?”
“Why Are Scholars Such Snitches?” https://www.chronicle.com/article/academe-is-a-hotbed-of-craven-snitches?emailConfirmed=true&supportSignUp=true&supportForgotPassword=true&email=jet10025%40yahoo.com&success=true&code=success&bc_nonce=e91yx97pgkt9ktwhi4w7qt&cid=gen_sign_in
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“The Doha Forum was the logical next step in an international effort by Islamists to distract from their violence and advance their interests using the accompanying legitimacy of Western statesmanship; benefiting not just the radical Qatari hosts, the Iranian regime or the murderous Taliban, but even their Islamist proxies in the West…It seems reasonable to conclude that the Doha Forum is not an event where free-wheeling discussion about the challenges facing humanity can take place but is really just one grand forum where Islamists – as both hosts and attendees – can disguise their agenda behind the language of peace, justice and human rights.”
“Islamist Americans Rub Shoulders With Western Elites in Doha” https://islamism.news/2022/04/04/islamist-americans-rub-shoulders-with-western-elites-in-doha/?goal=0_1ce70fade8-35cd37acdc-34174501
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“In 1994, Joe Biden voted for an amendment that was far more draconian than he now claims Florida’s child protection law to be.”
Joe Biden’s Reversal On Sexual Exposure For Kids Shows Just How Extreme The Democratic Party Has Become https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/05/joe-bidens-reversal-on-sexual-exposure-for-kids-shows-just-how-extreme-the-democratic-party-has-become/
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“…for conversation purposes, it’s perfectly defensible and largely accurate to say that Putin is determined to commit cultural genocide and to use conventionally genocidal tactics to get what he wants. And if you find yourself arguing with someone who denies Putin’s genocidal aims and invokes the U.N. as the final authority on this, you might want to ask them if there are any other circumstances in which they’d defer to the U.N.’s judgment. Because most of the self-proclaimed nationalists I know explicitly reject the U.N.’s authority, moral or otherwise (as I pretty much do as well). When they retreat behind the U.N.’s skirt to defend Putin, you can safely assume it’s not because they admire the U.N., it’s because they admire Putin.”
“Is It Okay to Use the ‘G-Word’?” https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/is-it-okay-to-use-the-g-word?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzAwNDA3MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTE3NDY3MDYsIl8iOiJqMU02dyIsImlhdCI6MTY0OTMwMDc1OCwiZXhwIjoxNjQ5MzA0MzU4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTc4MTkiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.gifvZHKhxX_Jls6fA-TJrIUEmNvJkfTDskRILZSWRfI&s=r
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“The fact is that a constellation of powerful interests decided to kill a legitimate news story to protect their preferred candidate. And, in many ways, their reaction to the revelation of the story’s authenticity is more telling than the initial cover-up. There’s nothing wrong with some skepticism, especially after the habitual unprofessionalism we’ve witnessed over past six or seven years. Yet now that we know the Hunter scoop is true, many of the same people who dismissed the story or justified censoring it claim the entire episode was irrelevant. They’re abandoned democratic principles to save democracy, I guess.”
“If the Hunter Biden Story Was ‘Irrelevant,’ Why Was It Censored?” https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/04/if-the-hunter-biden-story-was-irrelevant-why-was-it-censored/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=first
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“It’s a good thing George Carlin is dead because today, the seven words you can’t say on TV are “Jada, can’t wait for “G.I. Jane 2.”
“This War on Jokes Must End”, Bill Maher
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“The immediate problem is that NATO recognizes the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal and potentially threatening to it and something it must oppose, having begun by resignedly assuming the Russians would win within five days. NATO, though, wants to oppose Russia without offending Russia, so it is not really enabling Ukraine to protect its own airspace as this might, in the word of the stumblebum Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, be “escalatory.”… In its aversion to addressing the issue with integrity, the western leadership purports to be resisting those who are anxious to plunge into ground combat with Russia, although there are no such people, and President Biden tediously recites that he is defending “every square inch of NATO territory,” although, since none of it is under threat, he might as well be shaking his fist at the Kremlin like King Lear and announcing that he will defend every square inch of Paraguay and Sri Lanka.”
“A Cloud of Self-Righteous Smugness Turns Sanctions on Russia Into an Assault on Privacy of Millions” https://www.nysun.com/article/a-cloud-of-self-righteous-smugness-turns-sanctions-on-russia-into-an-assault-on-privacy-of-millions?utm_content=The%20Weekend%20Sun%3A%20At%20100%20Days%2C%20Mayor%20Adams%20Is%20Feeling%20Good%20and%20Is%20Ready%20To%20Fight%20Crime&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_campaign=Weekend%20Sun%209-APRIL-2022
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“Righteous nations ratify treaties that formalize policies they intend to follow anyway, while rogues sign on as a public relations exercise while intending to spurn their treaty obligations at the first opportunity… If [Putin] ever winds up in the dock, he’ll have been sent there by a new regime that’s prepared to sacrifice Russia’s erstwhile leader in hopes of shedding Russia’s status as a pariah state.”
“Putin’s War and the Failure of International Law” https://www.nysun.com/article/putins-war-and-the-failure-of-international-law?utm_content=The%20Weekend%20Sun%3A%20At%20100%20Days%2C%20Mayor%20Adams%20Is%20Feeling%20Good%20and%20Is%20Ready%20To%20Fight%20Crime&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_campaign=Weekend%20Sun%209-APRIL-2022
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“Why the reliance on government coercion rather than persuasion? Economist Thomas Sowell puts his finger on it: One side has process goals while the other has outcome goals. Conservatives care that the process of becoming a board member is fair and that candidates are not discriminated against because they are minorities or women. Progressives, on the other hand, want women and minorities to be board members proportionate to their population share, process and personal decisions be damned.”
“Democrats, Valuing Outcomes Over Process, Packing Corporate Boards in Pursuit of Equity”
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“I’m OK, I have a whole show, and I’m not talking about that until I get paid”—Chris Rock
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