Reader’s Links for April 24th, 2023

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  2. Communist member of Canadian parliament ordered out of the chamber for using a tired attack technique based on a completely fictitious narrative:

    6:04:

  4. 11:54 Vintage Whatsherface. The reason I say vintage is because for the first time I’ve seen it comes with a YT warning, which means it should be particularly good, which it is:

  5. Long but important:

    Conservative documentary maker Mindy Robinson did an in-depth review of everything that happened before, during, and after the attack. Her video is below. Here’s her post on Twitter with many of the questions YouTube doesn’t want people asking:

    Why would they build algorithms to suppress everything but the official lone gunman narrative for the Las Vegas shooting, you ask? ?

    I spent half a year reading every FBI and police report from that night, listening to every 911 call, and talking to everybody I knew that was there. Let’s see what they don’t want people talking about:

    https://thelibertydaily.com/youtubes-gaslighting-about-las-vegas-mass-murderer-stephen-paddock-explained-by-someone-who-investigated/

    • Georgie boy has played a prominent roll in Canadian politics. Justine, Freeland and Carney worship him.

    • JUNE 04 2004 – C-SPAN – User Clip: Hillary, D’s and George Soros

      Hillary Clinton introduces George Soros at the “Take Back America Conference” in 2004.

      Soros discusses progressive ideologies, including Iraq, Al Qaeda, many anti-American theories.

      He also discussed putting his money where his mouth is and his book “The Bubble of American Supremacy”.

      + 54 min video

      https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4927730/user-clip-hillary-ds-george-soros

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      Hillary Introduces George Soros (2004)

      ( 1 min 07 )

  11. Isn’t it grand Elon Musk advocates for citizen journalists and truth determination by the people. Not out there manipulating people’s thoughts, kinda.

    “The actual voice of the people, not the filtered voice of the people, and let the people choose the narrative, and let the people determine the truth and not the five editors-in-chief of major publications”.

    “I don’t hate the man, but is time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset”.

    “My preference for the 2024 presidency is some someone sensible and centrists”.

    “I had hoped that would be the case for the Biden administration, but I’ve been disappointed so far”. (Whao, he voted for Biden, this oh so clever man voted for the Mail-in guy).

    He would support DeSantis in 2024.

    It is good that he wants the voice of the people and not some “filtered” voice of the people. One would expect Twitter to be apolitical.

  12. EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK 0

    SPEECH
    A digital euro: widely available and easy to use

    Introductory statement by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

    Brussels, 24 April 2023

    I am pleased to appear before this Committee again today as part of our series of hearings on the digital euro project.

    We are now entering the final stage of the investigation phase of the project. The ECB’s Governing Council recently endorsed a third set of design options for the digital euro – design options that we have also discussed in previous hearings. Today we are thus publishing a report setting out the Eurosystem’s views on how people could access, hold and start to use the digital euro. The report also examines how the digital euro could be distributed by intermediaries as well as the services and features it could offer.

    Our work in recent months has not just been about investigating technical issues. We have also held focus groups to hear from potential users of a digital euro and find out what they think about the different features a digital wallet should have. This will help us in designing a product that meets their needs.

    In a modern economy, being able to pay digitally is a basic need for people.

    With cash, central banks already provide a means of payment that is risk-free, widely accessible and easy to use, and that leaves no-one behind. But the rapid digitalisation of our economies requires us to complement cash with its evolution in the digital sphere: a digital euro.

    As a central bank, we need to be ready for future evolutions and make sure that the money we issue maintains its role as a monetary anchor in the digital era, thereby reassuring us that one euro is one euro whatever form it takes and wherever we go. And it cements people’s trust in our currency.

    For this monetary anchor to be effective, the digital euro would need to be in line with people’s preferences. Everyone across the euro area should be able to use it for day-to-day payments: online, in shops or from person to person.

    In my remarks today, I will focus on how we can ensure that everyone in the euro area would be able to easily access and use a digital euro – if and when they want to, no matter who they bank with or which country they come from. People would have no obligation to use the digital euro. But they should always have the option to use it. Just like they do with cash today.

    You, as European legislators, will take decisions that will be key to us achieving this objective. Therefore, in my remarks I will look at the digital euro also from a regulatory angle.

    Ensuring the digital euro is widely available and easy to use

    There is currently no single European digital means of payment that is universally accepted across the entire euro area. It therefore comes as no surprise that Europeans see the ability to pay anywhere as the most important feature of a potential digital euro. In other words, they are keen for one of the key characteristics of euro banknotes to be replicated in the digital realm.

    At the ECB, we have been investigating the technical solutions that would enable people to easily make payments in digital euro, anywhere in the euro area. But if we want the digital euro to replicate these cash-like features, we need a proper regulatory framework.

    Legislators assigned the legal tender status to euro banknotes in the Treaty, and this is why citizens can use them throughout the entire euro area. They are tangible proof that we share a single currency.

    The digital euro could also be given legal tender status by legislators. If introduced, the digital euro would be a public good, and Europeans would expect to be able to access and use it easily, anywhere in the euro area. So, it would be more beneficial and convenient for all users if merchants that accept digital payments were obliged to accept the digital euro as legal tender.

    A requirement for merchants to accept digital euro could, in fact, also be seen as an opportunity. For example, it would make European payments more resilient and would enhance competition. This, in turn, would help to make payments cheaper, with clear benefits for everyone in the euro area. But if we want to make the digital euro widely usable, acceptance is only one side of the coin. The other side is access.

    Individuals and merchants will expect to be able to obtain digital euro at their banks , just like they do today with cash. It should be simple for people to start using the digital euro, and there should be no need to change bank in order to do so.

    In our regular exchanges, consumer associations and merchants have remarked that the best way to ensure broad access for consumers would be to require euro area banks and other payment service providers to make the digital euro available to their customers.

    Previous attempts at building pan-European payment initiatives have shown that ensuring broad access throughout the euro area has ultimately always required regulatory measures.

    So, both sides of the coin – widespread acceptance and broad access – are necessary to ensuring the digital euro would be a public good that meets the expectations of consumers and merchants.

    These two aspects are also key to achieve other public policy goals. For instance, they are essential to ensure that the digital euro can support financial inclusion and generate opportunities for financial intermediaries.

    A digital euro would offer a new platform for innovation that is truly European. It would allow these intermediaries to build services for their customers that are instantly available across Europe. It could help domestic payment providers and new instant payment solutions to scale up and operate at the European level. And it would reduce dependence on a few dominant providers, increasing competition and resilience.

    Ensuring a seamless European payment experience
    Over the past 20 years euro banknotes have enabled everyone in the euro area to easily recognise and use public money, regardless of what country they are living in, or where they are paying.

    The same should be true for the digital euro. People should be able to pay and be paid in digital euro anywhere in the euro area, no matter which intermediary they are using to access the digital euro or which country they are in.

    To achieve this, we need a common set of standards – which we call a “payment scheme”.

    The scope of these standards will be limited to what is strictly necessary to establish and offer users a harmonised and convenient payment experience, while enabling and inviting the supervised intermediaries to develop further services and solutions.

    Even if supervised intermediaries will distribute the digital euro, one should not forget that it will be a liability of the central bank. The Eurosystem, as its issuer, would be accountable to euro area citizens for its correspondence to their payment needs. The Eurosystem should therefore be able to govern the standards to ensure that using a digital euro in the future is as standardised as using cash today. It would do so by steering consensus among all involved stakeholders – consumers, retailers, banks and non-banks.

    Ensuring wide availability through the right economic incentives

    Economic incentives should be used to encourage the active distribution of the digital euro and to ensure that it is widely available. We have already proposed a set of four core principles for a digital euro compensation model.

    You asked for more details on these principles in previous hearings, so I will share our thoughts on them now. Ultimately, however, the decision on the regulatory framework for fees is primarily a matter for you, as European legislators.

    The first principle is that, as a public good, the digital euro should serve society. We believe consumers should be able to use it free of charge for basic day-to-day purposes.

    Second, intermediaries should be compensated for the services they provide, just like they are for other digital payments.

    Third, legislative safeguards should prevent merchants from being overcharged by intermediaries if they are obliged to accept digital euro as legal tender. While we believe that the digital euro would allow for more competitive fees, this principle would ensure that fees for merchants cannot exceed the current levels for comparable means of payment.

    Finally, the Eurosystem would bear its own costs, for example for settlement activities and managing the common standards for making and receiving payments in digital euro. This would reflect the public good nature of the digital euro and follow the same logic that currently applies to cash. The savings that arise from the Eurosystem covering its own costs would ultimately benefit the end-users.

    The path ahead

    Let me conclude.

    The design of the digital euro and its regulatory framework are key to ensuring that it retains its key characteristics as a public good.

    It will then be European legislators to decide whether the digital euro will be an inclusive, truly European means of payment – widely usable and accessible across the entire euro area, free for basic use, and offering the highest levels of privacy. The success of a digital euro will be in your hands.

    The ECB stands ready to continue discussing all these issues with you during the legislative process. Throughout the next project phase, which is expected to be launched later this year, we will accommodate any necessary adjustments to the design of the digital euro that may emerge from legislative deliberations.

    In that phase, we will develop and test the possible technical solutions and business arrangements necessary to provide a digital euro.

    These two processes – legislative and design – should advance in parallel so we can be in a position to promptly begin issuing a digital euro, if and when warranted. The possible decision by the Governing Council to issue a digital euro would be taken only after the legislative act has been adopted.

    We will take all the necessary measures to ensure that the digital euro would act as a true public good. But all European institutions have to play their part to achieve our common goal of making the digital euro a success. This is why we are looking forward to the European Commission’s legislative proposal. It will be a decisive step forward for the digital euro and put Europe at the forefront of the work on central bank digital currencies among the G7.

    I now look forward to your questions.

    https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2023/html/ecb.sp230424_1~f44c7ac164.en.html

    • europravda – European countries sign declaration to make North Sea wind power hub

    • DEUTSCHE PRAVDA – Exposed: The smear tactics against wind and solar

      You shouldn’t believe everything you see on the internet. Particularly when it comes to renewable energy.

      We started debunking some of the biggest myths about wind and solar energy – and ended up in a world of shady lobby groups and secret money streams.

      We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate.

      But it doesn’t need to be this way.

      Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means.

      We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change

  13. europravda – At least 60 killed in suspected jihadist attack in Burkina Faso

    Attacks blamed on suspected jihadists are on the rise in Burkina Faso, which is battling an insurgency that spilled over from neighbouring Mali.

    • ITALY – Man shot dead by cops after grabbing gun from officer

      Shoot-out with ‘out of control’ Moroccan near Vicenza

      APR 24 – A Moroccan citizen was shot dead by police near the northern city of Vicenza after grabbing a Carabinieri officer’s gun and shooting and wounding a traffic cop after police were called after the man was reported to be “running wild” in the street shouting God is Great, local sources said.

      The incident took place at Fara Vicentino.

      The man was reported to have been screaming “Allahu Akbar” in a threatening way, out of control.

      A scuffle ensued after police and traffic officers moved to stop him, as he grabbed a Carabiniere’s pistol and shot the traffic warden before Carabinieri shot him dead.

      https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2023/04/24/man-shot-dead-by-cops-after-grabbing-gun-from-officer_0275ead7-ba22-4571-b06d-8da87619f380.html

  14. europravda – Police use drill to free activist’s hand during climate protest in Germany

      • Seems like that grand counteroffensive is happening now – massive drone swarms. Our fingerprints are all over it. This is bad.

        In the last 24 hours a couple landed in the MOSCOW area. Both ran out of fuel, but they were carrying heavy payload of explosives. Test runs.

        Drones have been coming fast and furious all along the line of contact.

        Long distance incursions too, checking out the air defense systems in Crimea and Russia proper. Some think they’re hunting specific, high profile individuals deep inside Russia.

    • APRIL 24 2023 – ‘Crazy’ that Russia and Ukraine still trade – Seymour Hersh

      […]He has claimed that the CIA has estimated that President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least $400 million last year from money provided by the US to buy diesel for the Ukrainian army.

      Overpriced fuel bought by Kiev allegedly came via the black market from Russia.

      “All you have to do is look at the high life in Kiev today,” he said. “There is a really good high life: the fancy restaurants are going, you can find liquor stores with everything in it, there is a lot of money being pushed around.”

      https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.04/6446756a85f5407fab327e6d.mp4

    • zero hedge – America’s Afghan Watchdog Says “You’re Gonna See Pilferage” Of Ukraine Aid

      The watchdog for US spending on Afghanistan told Responsible Statecraft in an interview that he expects “pilferage” of US aid to Ukraine.

      John Sopko, who has served as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) since 2012, said that he personally favored creating a similar position for US spending on the war in Ukraine. Explaining why more oversight on the Ukraine policy is needed, Sopko pointed to the fact that the US has already authorized $113 billion in spending.

      “That money is flowing like manna from the sky. If you don’t get in there soon, you’re gonna see pilferage,” he said.

      Sopko said he was not just concerned about military assistance to Ukraine but also aid disbursed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). “We’ve always had more problems with AID. In Afghanistan, my experience with them is they have not been a very well-run organization,” he said.

      Sopko pointed to the fact that USAID was overseeing aid that’s paying the salaries of Ukrainian government workers. In Afghanistan, Sopko said the Pentagon directed the paying of government salaries and could never come up with a system to make sure the US was paying the salaries of real Afghans.

      “Well, have you heard anybody saying, ‘what’s the system they have in place to ensure that they’re not paying ghost Ukrainian civil servants, ghost Ukrainian police, ghost Ukrainian soldiers?'” he said.

      Sopko said USAID has “had a poor track record on ghosts and on oversight” and added that the State Department is “even worse.” The US has provided Ukraine with tens of billions in “budgetary aid,” funds that go directly to the Ukrainian government.

      Sopko said he was worried about after the war when the US and its allies fund Ukraine’s reconstruction. “The real crisis is going to happen once the shooting stops, and they start laying concrete, and they start rebuilding things … We’re going to be buying horribly overpriced steel and cement and other products,” he said.

      US government agencies have assigned their own inspector generals to oversee Ukraine aid but have resisted efforts to establish a position similar to Sopko’s. He said a “whole of government” approach was necessary for the oversight. The Senate recently voted down an amendment introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that would have created a special inspector general for Ukraine.

      Earlier this month, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report that alleged the CIA is aware of rampant corruption in Ukraine and estimated that Ukrainian officials have skimmed at least $400 million in US-provided funds earmarked for diesel purchases.

      Before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Ukraine’s notorious corruption was commonly cited by Western governments. In June 2021, President Biden said Kyiv must “clean up corruption” before it can join NATO. But since the US began flooding Ukraine with weapons and money, the corruption concerns have barely been mentioned.

      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/americas-afghan-watchdog-says-youre-gonna-see-pilferage-ukraine-aid

      • Comments on Russian MSM and social media blast the continuing sales of fuel and other stuff to Ukraine. Oligarchs are a Putin constituency, okay that’s tolerable. But this is an outrage.

        More open windows!

  16. CNBC – Bill Gates says A.I. chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months: You’ll be ‘stunned by how it helps’

    Soon, artificial intelligence could help teach your kids and improve their grades.

    That’s according to billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who says AI chatbots are on track to help children learn to read and hone their writing skills in 18 months time.

    “The AI’s will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could,” Gates said in a keynote talk on Tuesday at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.

    AI chatbots, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, have developed rapidly over the past several months, and can now compete with human-level intelligence on certain standardized tests. That growth has sparked both excitement over the technology’s potential and debate over the possible negative consequences.

    Count Gates in the camp of people who are impressed. Today’s chatbots have “incredible fluency at being able to read and write,” which will soon help them teach students to improve their own reading and writing in ways that technology never could before, he said.

    “At first, we’ll be most stunned by how it helps with reading — being a reading research assistant — and giving you feedback on writing,” said Gates.

    Historically, teaching writing skills has proven to be an incredibly difficult task for a computer, Gates noted. When teachers give feedback on essays, they look for traits like narrative structure and clarity of prose — a “high-cognitive exercise” that’s “tough” for developers to replicate in code, he said.

    But AI chatbots’ ability to recognize and recreate human-like language changes that dynamic, proponents say.

    Kevin Roose, a New York Times tech columnist, wrote last month that he’s already used programs ChatGPT to improve his writing, using the AI’s ability to quickly search through style guides online.

    Some academics say they’re impressed by chatbots’ ability to summarize and offer feedback on pieces of text, or even to write full essays themselves.

    However, those same academics warn that the technology is not yet fully formed, and can inadvertently introduce significant errors or misinformation. And AI technology must improve at reading and recreating human language to better motivate students before it can become a viable tutor, Gates said.

    “If you just took the next 18 months, the AIs will come in as a teacher’s aide and give feedback on writing,” said Gates. “And then they will amp up what we’re able to do in math.”

    The idea that chatbots will excel at reading and writing before math may be somewhat surprising: Algebra and calculus are often used to develop AI technology.

    But chatbots, which are trained on large datasets, often struggle with mathematical calculations, experts note. If a solved math equation already exists within the datasets the chatbot is trained on, it can provide you with the answer. But calculating its own solution is a different story.

    Gates said he regularly asks Microsoft AI developers why chatbots can’t perform relatively simple calculations, or even multiply some numbers. The answer: AI needs improved reasoning abilities to handle the complexity of a math calculation.

    It may take some time, but Gates is confident the technology will improve, likely within two years, he said. Then, it could help make private tutoring available to a wide swath of students who might otherwise be unable to afford it.

    That’s not to say it’ll be free, though. ChatGPT and Bing both have limited free versions now, but the former rolled out a $20-per-month subscription plan called ChatGPT Plus in February.

    Still, Gates said it’ll at least be more affordable and accessible than one-on-one tutoring with a human instructor.

    “This should be a leveler,” he said. “Because having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students — especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that you’ve done and look across your entire body of work.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/22/bill-gates-ai-chatbots-will-teach-kids-how-to-read-within-18-months.html

  17. APRIL 24 2023 – NYT – Fox News Parts Ways With Tucker Carlson

    Mr. Carlson has been one of the network’s top-rated hosts for many years.

    Fox News said Monday that it was parting ways with Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime time host who was also the source of repeated controversies and headaches for the network because of his statements on everything from race relations to L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

    The network made the announcement less than a week after it agreed to pay $787.5 million in a defamation lawsuit in which Mr. Carlson’s show, one of the highest rated on Fox, figured prominently for its role in spreading misinformation after the 2020 election.

    In making its announcement, Fox offered a terse statement of gratitude. “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” it said.

    His last program was on Friday, Fox said.

    Mr. Carlson is also facing a lawsuit from a former Fox News producer, Abby Grossberg, who claims that he presided over a misogynistic and discriminatory workplace culture. Ms. Grossberg said in the lawsuit, which was filed in March, that on her first day working for Mr. Carlson, she discovered the work space was decorated with large pictures of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wearing a swimsuit.

    Ms. Grossberg, who was fired after filing the lawsuit, also claimed that after she was coerced by Fox’s lawyers into providing a misleading deposition in the Dominion trial and defending an offensive text from Mr. Carlson, his producers emailed the rest of the staff in recognition of “Abby Day” and suggested ordering a staff lunch to celebrate.

    Fox has disputed Ms. Grossberg’s claims. A spokeswoman said in a recent statement: “We will continue to vigorously defend Fox against Ms. Grossberg’s unmeritorious legal claims, which are riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees.”

    Mr. Carlson, 53, had helmed his prime time show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” since 2016. In 2021, he signed a new deal with Fox News expanding into podcasts and a series called “Tucker Carlson Originals” for the streaming service Fox Nation.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/media/tucker-carlson-fox-news.html

    • We can expect Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and others to be let go soon. The left is purging FOX before the 2024 election campaigns start.

      We can expect them to start working to shutdown conservative talk radio shows and the new media on the net.

      This action says the left is planning to steal another Presidential election. Along with other Third World Dictator actions against it’s internal political enemies.

    • Yesterday on Twitter AOC said that a law was needed to stop FOX and that Tucker needed to be fired.

      This was the second of the Conservative opinion people at FOX that has left this weekend.

    • rolling stone – Fox Staffers Celebrate Tucker’s Departure: ‘Pure Joy’

      “I fear management will replace him with someone who is just like him, so there probably won’t be any real change,” a producer warned of the shocking split

      FOX NEWS AND Tucker Carlson have parted ways. The rest of the network seems thrilled.

      “Pure joy,” one Fox reporter told Rolling Stone of their reaction to the split. “No one is untouchable. It’s a great day for America, and for the real journalists who work hard every day to deliver the news at Fox.”

      “It was a good move to part ways with Tucker,” added a producer. “He knowingly spread lies throughout his time at Fox, but I fear management will replace him with someone who is just like him … so there probably won’t be any real change.”

      “Good riddance,” said a network correspondent. “For a while there it seemed like he was running the network. This clearly is a message that he’s not. In the interim, it’s a morale boost, that’s for sure.”

      Fox announced the move in a press release on Monday. “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the statement read. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

      Harris Faulkner announced the move on air, essentially reading the press release but adding that the parting was “mutual,” although multiple outlets have reported that Carlson wasn’t informed that he’d lost his show until Monday morning. Fox said in its announcement that Carlson’s last program was last Friday and that Fox News Tonight will begin airing in Carlson’s old time slot until a new host is named.

      The split comes a week after Fox settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. Dominion sued the network in 2021 for pushing a false narrative about the company’s involvement in a nonexistent scheme to rig the election. Court filings revealed that Carlson and other prominent hosts knew the network couldn’t substantiate the conspiracy theory. They continued to push it anyway, with Carlson inviting MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on in the weeks following the Capitol riot to spew more lies about Dominion and the election.

      Abby Grossberg, a former Carlson producer who alleged she was coached to give misleading testimony in her deposition for the Dominion case, filed her own lawsuit against the network, alleging Carlson’s senior staff regularly held discussions about women in sexist terms, often invoking the term “cunt.”

      Semafor reported that Carlson’s executive producer, Justin Wells, is also no longer with the network. Wells was also named in Grossberg’s suit.

      It’s unclear if the breakup is related to the settlement. Regardless, it’s a shocking development. Carlson was the network’s star host, helming the most-watched show in cable news. Mediaite reported in March that Carlson was essentially beyond reproach at the network, enjoying “unconditional backing” from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch. Carlson reportedly faced plenty of criticism from elsewhere within the network, though, with Fox’s news division refusing to broadcast his exceedingly dubious report on the Jan. 6 surveillance tapes House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) leaked to Carlson exclusively.

      Carlson using selectively edited surveillance footage to paint the Capitol riot as peaceful was not out of character. The host was well known for distorting facts and spreading misinformation to millions of Americans on a nightly basis. The announcement comes a day after 60 Minutes profiled Ray Epps, a Trump supporter who was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, and whom Carlson has repeatedly suggested incited the riot on behalf of the FBI. Lawyers representing Epps, whose life has been upended by conspiracy theories about his role in the riot, wrote a letter to Fox and Carlson last month demanding the host retract his “false and defamatory statements.”

      Carlson was also the network’s foremost purveyor of white supremacist rhetoric, the “great replacement” theory, and other unvarnished racism — such as earlier this month when he ranted about Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, accusing the Black lawmaker of speaking like a “sharecropper.” Carlson railed about Black people moving to the suburbs and argued that racism does not affect home appraisals in his final episode last Friday.

      Carlson’s final show ended with the host enjoying some pizza he had delivered to the studio. “We’ll be back on Monday,” he said. “We’ll see you then.”

      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-fox-news-end-relationship-1234722551/

  21. If this has anything to do with the recent verdict and payout against Fox re Dominion, the fact we have seen enough evidence proving the election was stolen only makes Fox look worse. Crooked judges passing crooked verdicts don’t make Carlson or Bongino wrong about their reporting on the story. Fox just castrated itself.

  22. (Richard: The Louisville bank shooter left a manifesto that among other things went on a rant about the ease of buying guns. Owning weapons to defend yourself, your family, your property and your freedom is an enumerated right in the Constitution. The rant on ease of the ability to exercise a Constitutional right shows how effective long term indoctrination can be. The left spent most of the Twentieth Century indoctrinating people in the BS that the weapons cause the crime instead of the individual. This idea ignores the mass stabbings that occur in Japan, China and other nations with oppressive gun control laws.)

    EXCLUSIVE: Motive for massacre: Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon wrote chilling 13-page manifesto laying out his THREE reasons for killing spree: To prove how easy it is to buy a gun, highlight America’s mental health crisis…and kill himself

    Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon wrote a chilling manifesto before slaughtering five senior executives at the branch where he worked, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

    The 13-page missive describes his goals before the horror at the downtown Old National Bank, where the 25-year-old livestreamed the massacre on Instagram as he gunned down co-workers at their morning conference.

    Sturgeon made three key points in the manifesto, which is in the hands of the police: he wanted to kill himself, he wanted to prove how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky and he wanted to highlight a mental health crisis in America.

    The mass-murderer legally purchased an AR-15 assault rifle on April 4, six days before he entered the bank at 8:33am where he was met by a friendly woman colleague at the entrance. He told her ‘you need to get out of here’ before he tried to shoot her.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995155/Louisville-bank-killer-left-13-page-manifesto-revealing-three-motives-shooting.html

  23. EXC: Hunter Biden Ally Registers As Ukraine Lobbyist To Build ‘Russian War Crimes’ Exhibit Inside The US Capitol.
    By: Natalie Winters
    Natalie Winters by Natalie Winters April 24, 2023 Reading Time: 3 mins read

    The Daschle Group, whose executive leadership is linked to the Biden family, recently registered to represent Ukraine as foreign lobbyists, filings from the Department of Justice reveal.

    Founded by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, the lobbying shop also counts his son, Nathan Daschle, as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Both names appear on the infamous Hunter Biden hard drive, which contains emails suggesting President Joe Biden’s son retains close relationships – personal and professional – with the father-and-son lobbyist duo.

    The Daschle Group began representing the United Kingdom Office of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation on February 14th, 2023. Pinchuk is a Ukrainian oligarch who is also one of the “biggest donors to the Clinton Global Initiative,” according to The Financial Times.

    The Daschle Group pledged to assist the Victor Pinchuk Foundation by “bringing an exhibit on Russian war crimes against Ukraine to the United States Congress.” “The Registrant will coordinate with United States Members of Congress to arrange for the display of the exhibit,” explains the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filing.

    The exhibit is supposed to be on display directly inside of the “United States Capitol complex,” the filing continues.

    To achieve this objective,

    https://warroom.org/biden-ally-reps-ukraine-lobbyist-pushing-russian-capitol-exhibit/

  24. Susan Rice to step down as Biden’s domestic policy chief
    Rice’s departure next month will bring to a close her prolific, wide-ranging and at times controversial tenure.

    President Joe Biden’s domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, is stepping down from her post next month, multiple current and former senior administration officials told NBC News.

    The move brings to a close Rice’s prolific, wide-ranging and at times controversial tenure overseeing Biden’s domestic agenda — including some of the thorniest political issues, such as immigration policy. During her more than two years in the role, Biden has signed executive and legislative actions on health care, gun safety, student loans, policing and other key priorities for Democrats.

    Rice’s last day in the White House will be May 26, according to a senior administration official.

    White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said Rice, who served as national security adviser during the Obama administration, has been critical to driving Biden’s agenda and has taken the Domestic Policy Council “to new heights.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/susan-rice-step-bidens-domestic-policy-chief-rcna80654

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    BREAKING: Susan Rice Announces that She Is Leaving the Biden White House Next Month – So Who Will Run the Administration Now?
    By Joe Hoft Apr. 24, 2023 10:00 am357 Comments

    Susan Rice announced today that she is leaving her position in the Biden Administration next month.

    CNN reported moments ago:

    White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice will leave her administration post next month, an official tells CNN, marking one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile departures as the president’s domestic agenda stalls in a divided Congress.

    Rice’s final day will be May 26, the official said. NBC News first reported her upcoming departure.

    Biden offered effusive praise for Rice in a statement Monday, writing there “is no one more capable, and more determined to get important things done for the American people than Susan Rice.”

    “As the only person to serve as both National Security Advisor and Domestic Policy Advisor, Susan’s record of public service makes history,” Biden said. “But what sets

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/breaking-susan-rice-announces-that-she-is-leaving-the-biden-white-house-next-month-who-will-run-the-biden-white-house-now/

  25. A MUST read, long report on (UUT) Understanding The Threat, and not shocking you will read Georgie Soros involvement along the way.
    Newsletter: Preparing for the Coming Violence.

    Here is a follow up to the situation UTT is discussing:

    An LGBT activist took to Ticktok to threaten anyone who would bar him or other male transvestites from entering women’s washrooms, daring concerned parents to try to protect their children.

    Thomas Jay White’s threats remain on his platform.

    Reduxx reported that White, who calls himself “Tara” and identifies as “Poly Trans Lesbian” is a “baby fetishist” into “age play” and “diapers” He indicated on his Twitter account that he is into various other deviant behaviours including “bloodletting”.

    In a now deleted video, White said, “If you back a wild animal into a corner, they are going to become a dangerous animal. So if you want to die on that hill of yours — of righteousness and moral majority— then you go right ahead”.

    I dare you to try and stop me from going into a woman’s bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make. I dare you to try and stop a transgender woman in my presence from using the bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make”.

    I wonder if this ugly looking guy pretending to be a woman has been arrested or will “they” wait until he kills some people so “they” can call for gun control.

    I was at an auction sale the other day, talking to some unvaccinated people about the number of dead vaccinated people in our area and the general consensus was things are escalating and the future is looking scary. One person said is it not weird that a mother peeking in on her 13 year old daughter just before she retires, finds her dead in her bed.

  27. I will probably add more comments as they occur to be.

    Listening to Brad Johnson it occured to .e that given the disaster that Biden’s policies are it is unlikely that anyone on the Democrat side can win an honest election.

    This means the Dems have to do what FDR did to win his first election. President Hoover was a Progressive and made the Depression worse with the Marxist Keynesian economics tactics he implemented. FDR campaigned that he was going to use the time proven policies if cutting taxes, government spending and government employees to end the depression. He was elected then proceeded to double down in Hoovers policies. FDR turned an ordinary depression into the Great Depression.

    I think the Dems are going to dump Biden then bring in some one like Michelle Obama to run. They think that they can use her race and sex to cover up the massive steal that will be necessary for them to win. This is why they are finding ways to force the conservative opinion people out of FOX. They will need to do a lot more to cover the steal so expect more firings at FOX and more arrests of Patriotic politicians and reporters. The left is going to go full Marxist in their attempt to turn the US into a Communist nation.

    • Brad made me smile – even lol – when he said, I feel kinda sorry for the guy [Biden], even though he IS an -hole.

      I’d interject: dementia for sure, but Biden was never all that bright. Crafty, but not smart enough to keep track of his own lies. Absent morals, a lazy and spoiled Teddy Kennedy personality.

      A pretty face who attached himself to a series of serious powerbrokers. He was useful to them: folksy Irish working-class act, charms voters who don’t pay attention to issues. Gets a pass for just about anything.

      It’s not surprising to learn he’s a mafia don with intimates. Did all kinds of terrible things – the Big Guy is entitled to do as he likes. A bully. A creep. A weapon in the hands of our country’s enemies.

  28. Trans teen died from vaginoplasty complications during landmark Dutch study used to justify child sex changes

    Major complications began within just 24 hours of the surgery.

    A 2016 medical article documenting the tragic death of one of the participants in the linchpin Dutch study upon which the entire child sex change experiment is based indicates that puberty suppression was to blame for the young person’s death.

    The case is that of an 18-year-old trans-identified male whose puberty was blocked by the Dutch researchers at a very early stage, meaning there wasn’t enough penile tissue for surgeons to use to create a “neo-vagina.” Therefore, a more risky procedure using a section of the patient’s bowel was necessary, which resulted in fatal necrotizing fasciitis.

    The manuscript begins by saying that the “absence of a functional vagina has a negative effect on the (sexual) quality of life of (transgender) women” and explains that multiple surgical procedures have been described for vaginal “reconstruction” in these patients.

    The patient is described as being a “healthy” 18-year-old for whom standard vaginoplasty surgery was “not feasible” due to having undeveloped genitals as a result of early puberty suppression.

    “Transgender women with early-onset gender dysphoria, treated with puberty suppressing hormones, report fewer behavioral and emotional problems and an improvement of general functioning,” readers are assured at this point.

    Major complications began within 24 hours of surgery, and necrotising fasciitis was confirmed in the days that followed. Despite large doses of intravenous antibiotics and “repeated surgical debridement,” the previously healthy patient went into multiple organ failure and died.

    Once again, after this harrowing account of a young person’s needless death, the researchers assure the reader that “vaginal reconstruction” has a “positive influence” on the quality of life of “non-transgender and transgender women, but cautions that “physicians and patients need to be aware of serious complications that may arise.”

    The investigation into the young person’s death revealed that the deadly strain of E-Coli most likely came from the patient’s own intestines, not from the hospital setting, meaning that the more risky vaginoplasty surgery necessary due to early puberty suppression almost certainly caused the fatality.

    Dr. Michael Biggs, a sociologist who played a key role in exposing the scandal that unfolded at the soon-to-be-closed Tavistock gender clinic in London, spoke of this tragic case in a recent interview on the Wider Lens podcast.

    Biggs noted that while early puberty suppression for boys who experience childhood-onset gender dysphoria has the advantage of creating a more feminine appearance in adulthood, the major disadvantage is the penis remains that of small boy making vaginoplasty much riskier.

    “Instead of using the penile tissue, they will have to use some of your colon,” explained Biggs. “Now of course, that means opening up your intestines, and that’s obviously much much much riskier because then you have a different site and of course, intestines are also messy.”

    Biggs went on to say that the Dutch team do not acknowledge that the young person’s death was not due to a random hospital infection but rather was an indirect consequence of puberty suppression.

    Jazz Jennings, star of the reality TV show I Am Jazz, faced a similar issue when it came time for genital surgery. Jennings’s was an extremely gender-nonconforming child who would almost certainly have grown up to be a gay man but was instead transitioned at a very young age.

    Jennings’s puberty was also blocked very early meaning standard vaginoplasty was not possible. Jennings’s required three corrective surgeries, still struggles in the dating world, and has never experienced orgasm.

    Dr. Marci Bowers, Jennings’s surgeon and president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, is on record saying that all boys who have their puberty blocked early will never experience orgasm, which surely casts doubt on the Dutch researcher’s conclusion that “vaginal reconstruction has a positive influence on the quality of life in (transgender) women.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-teen-died-from-vaginoplasty-complications-during-landmark-dutch-study-used-to-justify-child-sex-changes

    • There’s a comment on the site:
      Blackrock just bought majority share in Fox News last week.

  31. The dollar just broke the Yaun

    https://youtu.be/EWcJVRznD5E

    Russia and China’s economies are in very bad shape, the oil deals allowing payment in their currencies are really barter deals. Saudi is trading oil for some Chinese products.

  34. AFMC Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada

    Theresa Tam supports the Academic Health Institutions’ Declaration on Planetary Health – ICAM’23

    • BREITBART – Three Anti-Macron Protesters Face Prison for Giving President the Middle Finger

      French authorities have confirmed that they will prosecute three anti-Macron protesters over allegations they gave the embattled president the middle finger.

      Two men and one woman reportedly face the possibility of a criminal conviction at the hands of French prosecutors after giving President Emmanuel Macron the middle finger, reports in local media have claimed.

      The three are reportedly thought to have fallen foul of a draconian law in the country that forbids statements that “affect the personal dignity or the respect owed to a public official” with the alleged gesture, which is said to have been given while Macron was touring the country earlier in the week in a desperate attempt to regain the favour of the public.

      According to a report by BFMTV, prosecutors have claimed that all three individuals — none of whom have previous convictions — have admitted to giving the gesture said to have been directed at the President during his trip to Sélestat earlier this week. They will all face trial in September.

      Under the French Criminal Code such an offence carries heavy penalties, including a fine of 15,000 euros and potentially up to one year in prison, according to broadcaster La Chaîne Info.

      This is not the first time that authorities have targeted members of the French public for insulting Macron, with another woman falling foul of law enforcement sensibilities after comparing the President to trash on social media.

      The woman is said to have been arrested by three police officers who showed up at her home over one of her online posts, which is said to have depicted her in front of graffiti mocking Macron that authorities now say she herself made.

      Such a claim is denied by the woman, who now faces a maximum penalty of €15,000 and a year in prison if found guilty of insulting Macron by a French court.

      Meanwhile, in the UK, another man thought to have been involved in anti-Macron protests in France has also been arrested under a British anti-terrorism law, sparking outrage both domestically and internationally.

      Ernest Moret, a French publisher with left-wing sympathies, was detained shortly after arriving in London by train, with police formally arresting him the following day over claims he refused to surrender his mobile phone and passwords to officers when they demanded he do so.

      With this latter example sparking significant outrage internationally, the proceedings against the three Sélestat protesters are likely the last thing President Macron needs right now.

      Already on the ropes as a result of ongoing protests in the country, the French leader has started touring his country in the hopes of regaining the favour of the general public, who have turned viciously against their head-of-state over the last number of weeks after he raised the country’s retirement age by two years.

      Macron has now seen his popularity fall to its lowest point ever, with barely over a quarter of the country now holding a favourable view of the Jupitarian leader.

      Meanwhile, officials on France’s populist right have seen their popularity jump, with polling suggesting that Marine Le Pen would win the Presidency if an election was held in the country tomorrow.

      https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/23/three-anti-macron-protesters-face-prison-for-giving-president-the-middle-finger/

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  40. Tucker Carlson Keynote Address | Heritage 50th Anniversary Celebration
    The Heritage Foundation – April 21, 2023

    • “…the more you tell the truth the stronger you become…”
      .
      He knew what was coming.

    • Tucker mentioned rushing into the proverbial burning building.
      That reminds me of “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis.
      I like this website because it has the text & audio.
      Scroll down to Table of Contents
      https://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/apologetics/mere-christianity/cs-lewis-mere-christianity-toc.php#.ZEcGeC2ZP0F

      Excerpt taken from Book1 – 2. Some Objections

      Another way of seeing that the Moral Law is not simply one of our instincts is this. If two instincts are in conflict, and there is nothing in a creature’s mind except those two instincts, obviously the stronger of the two must win. But at those moments when we are most conscious of the Moral Law, it usually seems to be telling us to side with the weaker of the two impulses. You probably want to be safe much more than you want to help the man who is drowning: but the Moral Law tells you to help him all the same. And surely it often tells us to try to make the right impulse stronger than it naturally is? I mean, we often feel it our duty to stimulate the herd instinct, by waking up our imaginations and arousing our pity and so on, so as to get up enough steam for doing the right thing. But clearly we are not acting from instinct when we set about making an instinct stronger than it is. The thing that says to you, “Your herd instinct is asleep. Wake it up,” cannot itself be the herd instinct. The thing that tells you which note on the piano needs to be played louder cannot itself be that note.

      This YT video is also from this website.
      Rushing into the burning building.
      WARNING! – Run from False Teachers