[Bee] CORUSCANT — Controversial former U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe was not unemployed for long, as the Galactic Empire reportedly recruited the recently retired athlete to train its stormtroopers to shoot.
"She's the perfect fit for the job," said General Cassio Tagge of the move. "The Empire has carried on a long tradition of poor marksmanship. It is one of the bedrocks of everything we have built in the galaxy. Bringing Megan Rapinoe on staff to train new troops will ensure that tradition continues. If anyone knows about missing important shots, it's this dude with the funny-colored hair."
Imperial leadership had grown concerned in recent months after new classes of stormtroopers were reportedly hitting their targets with an increased rate of accuracy. "Word came down directly from Emperor Palpatine himself," Tagge continued. "He will not tolerate stormtroopers being able to consistently hit what they're aiming at. He was the one who suggested hiring Megan Rapinoe in the first place. We'll have our infantry back to being totally inept and incapable of hitting any of their shots in no time."
Though Rapinoe was unavailable for comment, reports from sources say working for the Empire is a dream come true for the soccer star. "She's fully on board with everything the Empire stands for," said the unnamed source. "Spreading evil throughout the galaxy is what she's all about."
At publishing time, Rapinoe was already in hot water with imperial leadership as she demanded to be paid as much as Darth Vader.
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[SmallestMinority] The Rightmost edge of the Left is beginning to understand the situation. Too little, too late.
In Matt Taibbi’s August 1 Racket News column, (RTWT linked below) he says:
The cognoscenti never figured out or accepted that the support for protest candidates like Trump or Bernie Sanders even is rooted in wide generalized rage directed their way. To this day they don’t accept it. They keep thinking they can wish it away, describe it away (see Bump’s description of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as "not at this point serious competition"), indict it away. If you drop 76 charges on a candidate and he goes up in polls, you might want to consider that you might be part of the problem. But they can’t take even that heavy a hint.
Just last week David Brooks, the New York Times token "Conservative" wrote a piece, "What If We’re the Bad Guys Here?" (also linked below) in which he asks:
We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation.
Daniel Markovits summarized years of research in his book "The Meritocracy Trap": "Today, middle-class children lose out to the rich children at school, and middle-class adults lose out to elite graduates at work. Meritocracy blocks the middle class from opportunity. Then it blames those who lose a competition for income and status that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win."
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Perhaps Brook's editorial is the first pebble in the rock slide.
This article explains Bernie Sanders, RFK, and Trump together. Interesting.
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They can't understand why, when they climb up on their stump and shout instructions, the crowd ignores them and keeps walking past.
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Eventually, people will take more notice of them and they will realize that the stump was a very bad idea unless it is a Hogan’s Heroes style stump.
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[FoxNews] President Biden has abandoned his sixth U.S. embassy in less than three years. His first was the atrocious withdrawal from Afghanistan, where I had completed my last combat deployment six months before.
Afghanistan was stable enough and the fledgling Afghan National Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) were just learning to stand on their own two feet. Our plan was to leave 2,500 special operators as a quick reaction force. Joe Biden neither approved nor disapproved the plan, resulting in the loss of 11 Marines, a sailor and a soldier.
As a contingency, if we had to evacuate, the 75th Ranger Regiment was to surround Bagram Air Base while we flew everyone out, and they would fold in at the end and exfil. Biden’s team gave up Bagram to the Taliban before anything else, leaving us with no plan B.
The additional U.S. Embassy evacuations in Ukraine, Belarus, Sudan, Haiti and now Niger show Biden’s failed foreign policy and weakness. While Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is bowing multiple times to greet Xi Xiping, and Secretary of State Tony Blinken is going on talk shows, China, Russia and Iran are collecting valuable diplomatic equity around the world.
What was Biden’s excuse? We didn’t have the forces? What about the Marine Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) company stationed in Rota, Spain, whose job is exactly for that task? Or better yet, why not call the special operators in Northern Niger, in Agadez?
When there is a leadership void in the world, there is a long line of countries waiting to fill that void. In less than three years, we have left a huge crater in the world diplomatic forum.
The Abraham Accords brought peace in the Middle East for the first time in my life, and before the ink dried, those countries quickly turned to China for leadership. Iran is rattling its saber in the Persian Gulf, taking over commercial ships, and the insurrectionists in Niger are waving Russian flags.
We need leadership in Washington, D.C. Not bureaucrats or lifelong politicians. We need doers and people who have served this nation, not for glory or riches, but for the honor to just be Americans. This is why I am running for the U.S. Senate against lifelong politician Tim Kaine.
Virginia needs someone who believes in the same values of God, family and country, but more importantly, Virginia deserves someone who will fight for them, not special interest groups. We need a strong legislative branch and a strong judicial branch for checks and balances on the executive branch. It’s time to stop surrendering.
Hung Cao is a retired Navy captain who served in Special Operations for 25 years. He is a refugee from Vietnam and immigrant to the United States after his family escaped in 1975 shortly before the fall of Saigon. Cao is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia. He lives in Purcellville, Virginia, with his wife and five children.
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[RIA] The West does not know what to do with Niger. After the coup in this West African country, the United States and France, whose troops are in Niger, faced a difficult choice - to organize the violent overthrow of the military who took power or try to negotiate with them peacefully. But in the incomplete two weeks that have passed since the coup, it turned out that none of the options worked. What is the reason?
The fact that the French and Americans immediately not only declared their non-recognition of the new authorities and demanded the reinstatement of the deposed president, but also began to threaten sanctions and military intervention. Not on their own, but through the hands of Niger's neighbors from the countries of the ECOWAS regional union - while everyone understands that it is Paris and Washington that will direct the actions of the interventionists. However, the threat of a military invasion not only did not frighten the new authorities in Niamey , but also caused a number of consequences that only worsened the situation for the West.
The new leader of Niger, General Tchiani, announced the rupture of military agreements with France and demanded that French troops be withdrawn from the country within a month. The leaders of neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso supported the Niger military and said that an attack on Niger would be tantamount to a declaration of war on their countries. Tchiani's deputy, General Modi, visited Bamako and Ouagadougou , the capitals of Mali and Burkina Faso, for talks with the leaders of these countries - and allegedly even met with representatives of the Wagner PMC there. Then the Senate of Nigeria, the main regional power with a population of 220 million (against 25 in Niger), did not give consent to intervention in a neighboring country - and the week-long ultimatum of ECOWAS expired without any consequences.
Moreover, neighboring Chad, whose President Déby came to Niamey in the first days after the coup to meet with both Chiani and the ousted President Bazum, declared that he would not participate in the ECOWAS-led military intervention. And the leader of Niger's northern neighbor, Algeria , Tebun opposed any military intervention because it could set the entire region on fire.
In Niamey itself, a large rally was held last weekend in support of Tchiani, and on Monday delegations from Mali and Burkina Faso arrived in the city to express solidarity with the neighboring people. At the same time, there were unconfirmed reports of the arrival of the first Wagner instructors in Niamey, so far from neighboring Mali.
That is, in a matter of days, a complex combination lined up: most of Niger's neighbors are against intervention, and two (Nigeria and Benin ) are in favor, although it seems more in words. The latter are joined by several other ECOWAS countries, but without Nigeria no intervention is possible. However, Nigeria will not fight - because the intervention will blow up itself. After all, the largest people both in it and in Niger are the Hausa, that is, it turns out that the Nigerian army will have to fight with their own tribesmen.
Yes, both countries are multiethnic, but the war against Hausa Muslims will also hit the multi-religious alignment in Nigeria, where there are huge contradictions between the rich Christian south and the poor Muslim north. That is, to fight in Niger - and for Western interests - who want to fight in AfricaNo. However, preparations for the operation are still allegedly underway. Why?
Because the loss of Niger would be a huge political blow to France, effectively killing her reputation in the Sahel , in that part of West Africa . Now French troops are deployed in six countries of the continent - after leaving Niger, there will still be Djibouti, Chad, Gabon, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire. But given that in recent years Paris has lost influence (and withdrawn contingents) from the CAR, Mali and Burkina Faso, the trend is looming very unpleasant.
Niger, along with Chad, was the most important base for French troops - and if Paris cannot maintain its influence in Niger, there is no guarantee that it will be able to stay in Chad for a long time. And the loss of Chad will mean a complete loss of the opportunity to influence all of West Africa - the contingents in Senegal and Gabon are symbolic, and although the Foreign Legion is based in Djibouti, this base is located on the other side of Africa.
Therefore, France wants to punish the Niger rebels in any way in order to stop the further collapse of its African positions. But she herself does not want to fight, because this will cause an explosion of anti-French feelings throughout the region and throughout Africa. Paris assured the Africans that it was helping them fight terrorists and Islamists, forgetting to add that the last wave of instability in the same Sahel rose just after the French overthrew Gaddafi and destroyed Libya.
But now is not 2011, and even more so not the 60-90s of the last century, when French paratroopers could easily change the government in the "liberated" countries of Africa. France can no longer afford to use force in its zone of influence, because it has lost both most of its influence and the ability to use force.
China came to Africa and Russia returned - in different ways, but seriously and for a long time. And we don't even have to "stir up" any conspiracies against the French. As the current events in Niger show, in a country with practically no ties with Russia (let us recall that there was not even an embassy of the Russian Federation in Niamey), generals who are absolutely not tied to Russia begin to seek her help, and the people take to the streets with our flags.
For all this, Paris can only thank itself - they turn to the Russians because of their dislike for the French. And they deserved this dislike with their African policy, first of the colonial, and then of the post-colonial years. And no military intervention by one's own or someone else's hands will fix anything - and there won't be one in the end.
[Hot Air] The New York Times is committed to finding "dog whistles" whenever a conservative speaks.
Opposing rioting is a dog whistle for racism. Trump asking his followers to "peacefully and patriotically" protest an election he believed was stolen was actually a call for a violent insurrection. Putting criminals in jail is systemic racism.
But when Black South African politicians call for the murder of people for being White, it is racist to think he is calling for the murder of people for being White.
Speech not calling for violence is dangerous; speech demanding violence shouldn’t be taken literally either.
That actually sounds kinda racist to me, assuming that Black people are incapable of saying what they mean. Apparently, the Times believes that Black people cannot understand that violent language can be interpreted as calls for violence.
You probably have heard of the controversy over Julius Malema, the leader of the South African political party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), leading a crowd in a rousing rendition of a song calling for the wholesale murder of "Boers," as Dutch settlers in South Africa are called. The chant in the song is "Kill the Boers!)
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[REGNUM] The presentation of a new history textbook for high school students caused a strong reaction - history is being rewritten in Russia again! Moreover, Vladimir Medinsky , who led the textbook creation project, himself said that the sections on the 70-90s of the last century, as well as the zero ones, were "completely rewritten." Liberals are expected to be sarcastic about "a country with an unpredictable past", and the German Bild generally called the textbook "crazy". And this despite the fact that so far only photographs of several pages from the textbook have been published - so it is impossible to analyze its content.
The noise and indignation are understandable - the struggle for the minds of the younger generation is the most important front of the ideological war. The war that we are now waging not only with the departed liberal cosmopolitans (who hope to return not only to the country, but also to power - and for this they need to defeat Putin not only on the battlefield, but also in the heads of future generations), but also the most collective West, armed with the only true doctrine of good and evil in history in general and in the history of Russia in particular.
That is why the new textbook is so important - it sets a new, truly patriotic matrix of Russian history. It is clear that our children receive primary knowledge about the history of their own country not so much from a textbook, and not even from history books, and not even from bloggers' articles, but from videos on social networks (the generation of visuals has grown). But still, the textbook is of great importance - both for children and adults.
For children, as it gives them a certain canon of understanding of the history of Russia by adults, that is, it acquaints them not only with how our country was formed and developed, but also with what it is. The current textbook says not only that Russia is the successor of the USSR, which, in turn, is the successor of the Russian Empire, and that of the Muscovy and Ancient Rus', but also that “the Russian Federation is the current form of the state of our civilization.”
This is a huge progress - after all, even before 2014, even we had attempts to single out an almost autonomous history of “Kievan Rus”. And if in Soviet or tsarist times the term “Kyiv” itself did not contain any separatist connotation, then after 1991 it began to be used to prove the existence of various Russian states, and as a maximum to justify the right to the existence of “historical Ukraine”.
Just imagine, back in the day of the empire of the Medes and the Persians, that the Medes decided they didn’t want any part of it anymore...
And even more important is the statement that the Russian Federation is just the current form of the state of our civilization. Finally, it is recognized that the Russian people have their own civilization, it can have different forms of state existence - imperial, union, federal, unitary ... Moreover, the Russian people can even experience periods of unrest, civil wars and temporary collapse of the state: and this will also be a form of the state of his civilization. But the form is temporary, passing, surmountable - subject to one main condition.
The Russian people must realize and know, understand their unity - and then they will restore it again. And to understand this unity, history textbooks are needed, that is, the very history of this people, written by them.
Not according to other people's patterns, as it was in the 90s, not through the prism of the class struggle (as it was in the early Soviet years), but through the blood and sweat of one's own awareness of one's own history. Bloody and great, heavy and heroic - but dear and beloved. All the talk that the "ideological textbook" interferes with the objective perception of history, distorts and simplifies it - from the evil one. Historical education is the most important part of the education of not just a citizen, but also a person who feels his belonging to his people, knows his history and loves him.
It is impossible to educate a Russian patriot without instilling in him the knowledge and love for his native history, no matter what the times are in the yard during the years of his formation, nothing justifies the contempt or oblivion of one's own roots and the historical path of one's people. In the generation of consumers raised after the collapse of the USSR in the same Moscow and among the wealthy strata of society, there were so many cosmopolitan relocators precisely because they, at best, simply did not know the history of their own country, and at worst, they learned its Russophobic version: no longer " prison of peoples”, but “a country of slaves and thieves”, “the lost daughter of European civilization”.
Naturally, a school textbook on its own will not educate a patriot - the most correct words written in it must be supported by everything else: university education (including the training of school history teachers, in shaping the worldview of which not even university textbooks, but teachers play a huge role, and just among them we had a lot of carriers of the liberal-cosmopolitan idea of Russian history), works of mass culture dedicated to history (from serials to novels on historical topics), state propaganda on historical topics, and many others.
All this should not be either bureaucratically urapatriotic or Russophobic derogatory and revealing. And if the second leaves together with those who chose "relocation", then the first will always remain a real threat. The patriotic presentation of Russian history is not at all doomed to be a fairy tale about “our great righteous ancestors” - we need to talk about all the events of our history, including tragic ones. But they can and should be presented in such a way that an understanding of their causes and context comes, and not cause contempt and disrespect for one's own history.
Any, even the most critical, view of certain pages of native history is appropriate and justified if it is based on love for it, the desire to understand one's ancestors, and not the detached view of an "enlightened Russian European" on "Asian atrocities and barbarism."
The past does not just determine our future - the attitude to our own history determines what future we consider correct, what we strive for. If we really know and love our history, it will be easier for us to formulate and build a sustainable state and socio-economic system that meets our values.
Russian civilization does not end with us, but it is on us that its success in the coming decades depends. Having broken two forms of our existence in the last century, we are only now embarking on the meaningful construction of a third. Not temporary, transitional, but stable. To draw a competent drawing of it, we need to learn well the plans of previous great but failed projects. And only those who know the history of Russia will be able to read the drawings of their ancestors.
[Breitbart] We’re focusing on the wrong aspect of the perennial political persecutions of my former boss, the 45th President of the United States.
I want you to spare a thought—and a prayer—for the invisible victims of this state-sponsored political persecution: humble, hardworking Americans like President Trump’s butler Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago’s property manager Carlos De Oliveira.
Yes, it is beyond an outrage what they are doing to President Trump.
From the joint CIA/FBI/NSA operation Crossfire Hurricane that illegally spied on Trump’s campaign seven years ago predicated on a smear campaign financed by Hillary Clinton to the armed FBI raid on Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, the political persecutions never stop.
The latest assault on the fabric of the republic is Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 45-page indictment accusing the president of conspiring against the American voter and subverting the 2020 election.
If you haven’t read it, you should. But let me save you the time.
[BEE] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats have recruited a professional puppeteer to assist 90-year-old Dianne Feinstein by moving her dead limbs and speaking for her whenever needed, according to sources. Feinstein is now expected to retain her senate seat forever.
"Wow! She's so lifelike now!" exclaimed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. "And she tells great jokes!"
The person who operates Feinstein's lifeless husk made her say, "I'm not dead, I'm FINE-stein. HA HA!" He then pulled her strings in such a way as to make her perform a charming tap dance.
"Hilarious!" Schumer reiterated.
Republicans have been uncharacteristically supportive of Feinstein's new aide.
"Feinstein will live as long as the deep state has need of her," said a visibly emotional Mitch McConnell. "We may not always see eye to eye — especially now that she's unaware of anything happening around her — but seeing a master puppeteer control her body gives me hope that I, too, may continue to serve for a long...
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"It is the aspiring hope of all senators to be a puppet," he added.
At publishing time, Dianne Feinstein had thrilled DC audiences by introducing a bill on the Senate floor while performing "La Macarena."
[Breitbart] The far-left New York Times (NYT) on Saturday published an exposé on Neville Roy Singham,
...Sri Lankan-American founder of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company which he sold for $785 million in 2017, and since his youth of the Left, starting out a Maoist Black Nationalist — which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white...
an American millionaire socialist activist who, the newspaper claimed, “works closely with the Chinese government media machine” and finances Chinese Communist Party propaganda operations around the world.
“From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, The Times tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points,” the NYT reported.
One example spotlighted in the report is a group called “No Cold War,” which is ostensibly a “loose collective” of American and British activists who believe the Western world is picking a fight with China to distract the public from “issues like climate change and racial injustice.”
No Cold War is allegedly a fuzzy outgrowth of Singham’s “web of charities and shell companies,” and its activities receive wildly disproportionate attention from Chinese state media organizations – which, unlike the general Chinese population, are allowed to use Western social media platforms like Twitter to push Beijing’s propaganda.
When push comes to shove, as it literally did during a November 2021 brawl in the streets of London’s Chinatown, groups like No Cold War are conspicuously willing to prioritize the Chinese government’s interests over their own agendas. In the case of the 2021 brawl, violence erupted after Hong Kong democracy activists confronted No Cold War’s street legions.
The NYT also paid some attention to Code Pink, the “anti-war” group that suddenly decided concentration camps and forced labor for the Uyghur Muslims were peachy keen after Chinese money began seeping into its funding stream. Singham’s wife Jodie Evans is a co-founder of Code Pink.
The UK Daily Mail on Saturday remembered Code Pink activists disrupting U.S. congressional hearings on the rising threat of China, chanting and waving signs with slogans such as “China Is Not Our Enemy” and “Stop Asian Hate.”
Some of Singham’s other groups work quite openly with Chinese state media and even share office space with Chinese propaganda operations.
The NYT somewhat petulantly described the Singham network as a good example of what a “disinformation” network “looks like on the left” – as though the left was not positively brimming with them:
Mr. Singham’s groups have produced YouTube videos that, together, racked up millions of views. They also seek to influence real-world politics by meeting with congressional aides, training politicians in Africa, running candidates in South African elections and organizing protests like the one in London that erupted into violence.
The result is a seemingly organic bloom of far-left groups that echo Chinese government talking points, echo one another, and are echoed in turn by the Chinese state media.
Because the network is built on the back of American nonprofit groups, tax experts said, Mr. Singham may have been eligible for tax deductions for his donations.
Later in the article, the NYT admitted the major reason it decided to start wading through the incredibly complex paperwork jungle surrounding Singham’s influence network is that “self-described anti-fascists” were complaining about the Chinese government muscling in on their movement.
The Indian government in 2021 raided an operation called NewsClick that was financed by Singham because Indian officials accused the site of money laundering and pushing Chinese propaganda. Indian media responded to the NYT’s report with a hearty “Welcome to the party, pal.”
The Times of India (TOI) gently chided the NYT for not spending more time on the Singham network’s support for Russian imperialism as well as Chinese fascism.
TOI noted, seeming in part to echo the NYT:
Singham’s collectives have produced YouTube videos that, collectively, have garnered millions of views. Their endeavors also extend to exerting influence in real-world politics through interactions with congressional aides, training political figures in Africa, fielding candidates in South African elections, and orchestrating demonstrations.
The NYT mentioned that networks like Singham’s fit neatly into Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s strategy for winning a “smokeless war,” a concept that broadly includes defeating the West through information warfare and economic leverage rather than military force.
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These millionaire+ neocommies know what the system really is - just another form of the plantation system. They intend to be among the people in the mansion. It's good to be king Master.
The Post Millennial tweeted video of the attacks — the tweets can be seen at the link.
[Townhall] At the conclusion of journalist Andy Ngo's multi-day civil trial against Rose City Antifa, whose far-left militant members brutally beat the investigative reporter when he went undercover to expose Antifa's extremist activities on the riot-torn streets of Portland, a 12-person jury reached a verdict in the case Tuesday evening, reportedly finding both of the defendants not liable for all claims.
The Post Millennial's senior editor—represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon's nonprofit Center for American Liberty—sought almost $1 million in damages in a lawsuit accusing the co-defendants of assault, battery, theft, and intentional infliction of emotional distress over a series of violent Antifa attacks beginning in 2019, when Ngo was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.
In 2020, Andy Ngo filed a lawsuit in Portland, Oregon claiming assault and other injuries by alleged members of Antifa.
These violent attacks were caught on camera/video.
In closing statements, defense counsel Michelle Burrows told the jurors that not only does she self-identify as an "anti-fascist," she strongly declared, "I am Antifa," and insisted upon making herself an "I am Antifa" t-shirt, which the activist attorney said she would wear after the trial. In spite of Antifa's well-documented history of violence, Burrows told the jury that Antifa's unfavorable reputation is untrue and depicted the organized militants as activists fighting for social justice and civil rights. "Resistance in this country has never been peaceful," Burrows argued in defense of Antifa, admitting that Ngo's tormenters were, in fact, "terrorists."
Rather than taking the time to provide evidence as to why the defendants should be free of liability, Burrow instead defended anti-fascism and attacked Ngo's credibility as a journalist. Burrows also told jurrors that she "will remember each one of their faces."
Before jury deliberation commenced, Judge Chanpone Sinlapasai announced that the jurors have raised safety concerns about being "doxxed" and claimed that people have been trying to identify them, according to a Post Millennial report by Seattle-based correspondent Katie Daviscourt. Prior to the trial's conclusion, Sinlapasai issued court orders banning the public and non-credentialed press from the courtroom for the duration of Ngo's jury trial as it was underway in Multnomah County Circuit Court. The judge's decision was made due to multiple in-court disruptions since the trial began on July 31 as well as security issues.
Ngo's legal team had hoped the landmark case would hold lawless Antifa extremists accountable. Dhillon, alongside Ngo's fellow journalists and supporters, took to Twitter to weigh in on the jury's decision, expressing widespread outrage over the outcome:
On the highly anticipated trial's penultimate day, the court had ruled in the defense's favor when it came to witness testimony.
Attempting to undermine Ngo's reputation, the defense called controversial Portland State University professor Alexander Reid Ross, who proudly identifies as Antifa, to the stand Monday as a so-called "expert" on "far-right" media, which he claimed includes Ngo, whom he smeared as a "rage inducer" and "provocateur" without evidence to back his defamatory statements.
Although Ngo's team objected to Ross being a witness on the basis of relevancy, the judge overruled the objection.
A fellow of the Centre for Radical Right Analysis, Ross's work has appeared in left-wing mainstream outlets such as VICE, The Washington Post, and The Daily Beast, where his writings feature favorable coverage of Antifa. Ngo's counsel revealed during cross-examination that Ross's reporting is allegedly too extreme even for the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which had retracted an article by Ross after he had falsley identified individuals as white nationalists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites.
In mid-July, the court granted an order of default against co-defendants Jacob Christian Evans, Madison Lee Allen, and Corbyn/Katherine Belyea, who were also named in Ngo's lawsuit. The judge will likely decide liability for damages post-trial.
Evans, whose legal name was changed amid pending litigation to Sammica Overkill Schott-Deputy (an anti-police statement meaning "shot deputy") and whose gender legally became "non-binary," arrived at the courthouse Monday despite being found in default, which excluded the defendant from the jury trial. The repeat arrestee with a violent criminal past across several counties has attested to "undergoing surgical, hormonal, or other appropriate treatment for the purpose of affirming gender identity.”
Earlier last month, Rose City Antifa was dismissed from Ngo's lawsuit on grounds that it's "not a discreet entity under common law" and therefore cannot be sued nor served as an unassociated identity. Though, the individual defendants were still suable.
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Utter contempt for the law, ANTIFA trashed the car of the journalist supporting Ngo in testimony, while she was in court where she was also threatened. This is blatant display of how lawless Portland has become. The defense attorney "told jurrors that she "will remember each one of their faces." This is shocking, even for Portland.
[Huffpoo] Seeing someone you love like a parent or grandparent experience memory loss can be crushing. However, just because someone starts having slip-ups doesn’t automatically mean they’re showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Biden rocked for Grand Canyon gaffe: 'He's clueless'
It could, of course, be nothing. Or cognitive confusion or decline could be more of a sign of dementia ― which isn’t the same thing as Alzheimer’s, despite what many people might think. Although there’s an overlap between the two, there are some important differences to note.
Below is information on how dementia and Alzheimer’s vary, so you can help your loved ones ― or yourself ― get the right kind of treatment.
Dementia is an umbrella term for many different conditions ― including Alzheimer’s
Reminiscent of the Excalibur myth.
[Jpost] Geologists and historians have discovered an arrowhead constructed from meteoritic iron, a material not naturally found on Earth, according to a new study published in July.
The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic Journal of Archaeological Science, analyzed the arrowhead which was being held in the Bern History Museum.
The arrowhead’s material was found to be partially made of aluminum-26 isotopes, which is a material that is not naturally found on Earth. Further testing showed that metals included an iron and nickel alloy, which has only been detected in meteorites.
WHERE DID THE ARROWHEAD COME FROM?
While it is incredibly likely that the materials of the arrowhead came from space, it is believed that the weapon was once used by Earthlings. More specifically, a group of individuals existed in Mörigen, Lake of Biel in Switzerland during the Bronze Age, from 900-800 BCE.
The Twannberg meteorite had crashed into Earth less than 5 miles from where the arrowhead had been found. However, despite initial theories that this was the source of the material, the concentrations of germanium and nickel on the arrowhead did not match the Twannberg.
Failing to match the arrowhead to the Twannberg meteorite, the researchers began analyzing other meteors that fell during that time period.
Through this analysis, they realized that a meteorite from Estonia was the most likely source for the arrowhead. This proved that there was a large amount of trade occurring throughout the Bronze Age in Central Europe.
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The thing is, when you're a primitive gatherer picking up random stuff to try to make a tool, you don't actually know where it came from. Except for, over there on the ground.
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I just love reading what journalism majors write about science:
*"meteoritic iron, a material not naturally found on Earth" (Well, DUH!)
*"the weapon was once used by Earthlings (DUH and DUH!)
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My question is whether Chaka’s blood was present on the arrowhead.
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A workshop. Wakandan aesthetic.
The Princess prints something synthetic,
Is sure she'll make bank
On her fake purple drank:
"Griot! Market as high tech emetic."
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Er, sorry. Land of the Lost is a complete blind spot for me... and I'm kinda fixated on the horrifyingly bad WF, having finally finished it off last night. Between that and Smollett Country, I'm pretty much walking fast and trying not to make eye contact with me fellow "citizens." Yikes.
[Jpost] Who says daily scientific work in a lab is a grind? For some, it can be fun and a barrel of laughs. To study play behaviors in animals, researchers at Humboldt-University in Berlin spend their time tickling rats on their bellies and backs to locate the part of their brains involved in playfulness and laughter. The results taught them about human children as well.
Of all classes of mammalian behaviors, play is one of the least understood at the neurobiological level. While scientists have a rough idea about the neural loci responsible for sexual and aggressive behaviors, fear, reward, sensory processing, and even cognition, until now they couldn’t pinpoint the neural circuits underlying play.
Rats are less inclined to play if they are anxious or restrained, and there are minimal data on their brain activity when they are free to play.
After getting rats comfortable with a human playmate, tickling them under controlled conditions, then measuring the rats’ squeaks and brain activity, a research team reports in the prestigious journal Neuron that a structure in rat brains called the periaqueductal gray is essential for all the fun. It was seriously entitled “Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray.”
“We know that vocalizations such as laughter are very important in play, which supported the idea that there is some sort of organization signal in the brain regulating this behavior,” said neuroscientist and senior author Michael Brecht. “For example, children check for laughter when they play-fight with each other, and if their playmate isn’t laughing anymore, they stop fighting.”
Play is one of the least understood types of behavior, and scientists currently do not know the neural pathways that control the playfulness of humans and various other mammals. They let the rats get accustomed to their new environment for a few days, and once they were comfortable, the researchers played games of “chase the hand” with them and tickled the rats on their backs and bellies.
Rats don’t laugh the way humans do, but when amused, they squeak in a high-pitched tone that humans cannot hear. The researchers monitored this sound to ensure that the rats were having fun. Rodent version of a Dog Whistle
When looking at these animals’ brain activity, the researchers found strong neural responses to both tickling and playing in the lateral column of the periaqueductal gray (PAG). If this part of the brain were inhibited, the rats stopped playing as much and didn’t laugh as frequently.
On the other hand, if the rats were put in an unfamiliar environment that was designed to provoke anxiety, they also stopped laughing, and the tickling- and play-responsive cells in the lateral column of the PAG decreased their activity.
The PAG is located in the midbrain, and it has been known in the past to control vocalizations and the fight-or-flight response. Play-fighting can also invoke a fight-or-flight response, which might be one explanation for the PAG’s role in play. Prior research has shown that playfulness persists even if the cortex, which controls consciousness, fails to develop, which suggests that play is a more instinctual behavior.
“A lot of people think that play is childish or not a very decisive behavior, but play is underrated,” noted Brecht. “In my perception of play, it’s a self-training behavior. Usually, brains serve for controlling behaviors. Play behaviors, however, seem to serve for growing brains.”
Next, the researchers plan on seeing if they observe similar activity in the lateral column of other animals when they are being played with, which could allow them to compare the playfulness of different species. They also plan to see if giving younger rats different play habits might change the way that the lateral column of the PAG develops.
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.
[Bee] CORUSCANT — Controversial former U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe was not unemployed for long, as the Galactic Empire reportedly recruited the recently retired athlete to train its stormtroopers to shoot.
[Townhall] At the conclusion of journalist 
