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Back in June, Scott reported on the embarrassment on live TV of feminist celebrity author Naomi Wolf (“Death Recorded Live“), in which it was revealed that her forthcoming book Outrages, which alleged that 19th century Britain executed homosexuals on a prodigious scale, was based on a misunderstanding of a legal term so simple that an undergraduate should have spotted it. I wrote separately at the same time that “I suspect the book will be canceled entirely, or at least pulped in its current form and rewritten for low-profile release next year.” The book had already been published in Britain at...

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India going off the rails, China next Mikhail Voytenko News October 22, 2019 8:34 am India decided to win a dubious, to say the least, title, of being the first country in the world to ban all plastics on board of all ships calling Indian ports, or transiting Indian waters, according to a document, sent to all ships of a major shipping company: As from 01 Jan 2020 the following single use of plastics are prohibited to be use: 1) Bags, Trays, Containers, food packing film; 2) Milk Bottles, freeze bags, shampoo bottles, ice cream containers; 3) Bottes for water...

An explosive new investigation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has revealed how relatives and allies of the Cambodian regime stashed tens of millions of dollars abroad. Central to this story is how many of these individuals bought EU passports from Cyprus, gaining access to the EU and its rights and protections. Citizenship and residency by investment programmes - or "golden visas" - have long been Europe's Achilles heel in its defences against suspicious wealth. At a time when refugees fleeing war zones are being denied entry, global elites are buying their way into Europe to enjoy luxury lifestyles. It is...

* Sechin says attacks create doubts about Saudi oil reliability * Sechin says U.S. the winner from its sanctions on others * Sechin says U.S. financial monopoly should be challenged (Adds details, quotes, background) VERONA, Italy, Oct 24 (Reuters) - September attacks on Saudi oil assets have created doubts about Saudi Arabia's status as a reliable oil supplier, Igor Sechin, Chief Executive of Russia's Rosneft, said. The attacks, which temporarily shut down around half of the kingdom's oil output, gave "grounds to rethink Saudi Arabia's role as an undoubtedly reliable oil supplier", Sechin told a conference in Italy on Thursday....

You pretty much know that the leftist hive of Teen Vogue would exclude conservatives in its survey of youth politics when the synopsis of each young person from 16 to 24 featured is prefaced by the sentient being's preferred pronouns. Preferred pronouns, of course, are one of the easy symbols to recognize that any such article would act as if conservative or Republican youth would be considered to be creatures from another world thus not even within the Teen Vogue realm of being considered for attention. The best Teen Vogue could do is the occasional “unaffiliated.” But no conservatives. 

The U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft is officially about to get some surround sound. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on Wednesday awarded Terma North America Inc. a $60 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to retrofit 328 3D audio systems for the close-air support aircraft's cockpit, according to a Defense Department announcement. The company is a subsidiary of Terma A/S, a Danish defense and aerospace company. Pilots have multiple audio signals coming at them, making it difficult to discern certain radio calls and warnings. The 3D audio system will give pilots...

President Trump said that in addition to border wall construction in New Mexico and Texas, “We’re building a wall in Colorado.” Speaking in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Shale Insight Conference on Wednesday, Trump appeared to flub his geography when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border. “We’re building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we’re building a wall in Colorado. We’re building a beautiful wall. A big one that really works, that you can’t get over, you can’t get under. And we’re building a wall in Texas,” Trump said. “We’re not building a wall in Kansas, but they...

Michael T. Flynn ("Mr. Flynn") requests this Court order the filing of his proposed redacted Reply on the public docket. ... From June 6, 2019, as evidenced by defense counsel's confidential letter to the Deputy Attorney General, the government attached in its response, new lead counsel for Mr. Flynn has given the government every opportunity to dismiss this case in the interest of justice on its own because of the rampant wrongdoing of government agents from the inception of the "investigation" and prosecution of Mr. Flynn. Instead of doing so, the government has continued to defy its constitutional, ethical and...

Headline: MSNBC's Donny Deutsch: 'Pathetic' Republicans who stormed closed hearing are 'boring, nerdy-looking white guys' MSNBC's Donny Deutsch on Thursday morning called Republican lawmakers who stormed a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill to protest the impeachment inquiry into President Trump "middle-aged, boring, nerdy-looking white guys" and "pathetic people." "When watching those Republicans yesterday march — those white guys, those middle-aged, boring, nerdy-looking white guys walk down those steps was pathetic," Deutsch, a marketing and branding expert, opined on "Morning Joe." “I challenge all of those guys two and three years from now, because they are living today, Donald Trump is...

The mysterious flight between the two nations had many asking "Whodunnit?" A privately owned, unidentified Challenger 604 jet departed from Ben-Gurion International Airport, landing first in the Jordanian capital of Amman and then in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Tuesday evening, causing many to question which Israeli decided to pay the Saudis a visit. The plane in question departed from Israel and flew to an airport in Amman, where it remained on the ground for about two minutes before taking off again and landing in the Saudi capital. After a little less than an hour, the plane, privately...

Video at link. Democrats "may end up walking away" from their effort to impeach President Donald Trump, predicted Doug Burns, who is a former federal prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Eastern District of New York and a practicing attorney. On Fox Nation's "Deep Dive" Wednesday, Burns said that the "elephant in the room" is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., opted not to ask the full House of Representatives to vote on the question of opening a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Instead, Pelosi announced that an impeachment inquiry had begun, breaking precedent regarding these proceedings. "You...

British police have said that all 39 people who were found dead in a truck in a UK industrial park on Wednesday were Chinese nationals. Their cause of death has yet to be established, the police added, as they “must undergo a full coroner’s process … before we move on to attempting to identify each individual within the trailer. This will be a substantial operation and, at this stage, we cannot estimate how long these procedures will take.” On Wednesday, 25-year-old Northern Irish truck driver, Morris Robinson, was arrested on suspicion of murder after a truck, originating from Northern Ireland,...

We're looking for a new 30" range for the kitchen. Needs to run on propane. While we are on-grid, we're looking for ranges made for off-grid for the simplicity and reliability. We're in a rural area and sometimes the road is inaccessible. Our last stove spent the last 18 months not working more often than working. Two "safety" valves, a control board, a temperature sensor, three glow ignitors. Was under warranty, but we couldn't get anyone to come down the road and look at it. So we're looking for either pilot lights or battery-powered spark ignition. The former isn't manufactured...

Things took a disastrous turn when India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempted to land on the Moon on September 6. As it approached the Moon’s south pole, where it had planned to land in order to confirm the presence of water ice, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the machine. It was presumed the machine crashed into lunar surface but after more than a month of searching, there has been no evidence of Chandrayaan-2 found

This is HEARTBREAKING. New video of 7yo "transgender" kid James Younger admitting his mom abuses him... He said the mom dresses him in dresses, paints his nails, & told him he's a girl.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania state senators have voted unanimously to transfer control of what had been the lieutenant governor’s residence at Fort Indiantown Gap to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The Senate voted Wednesday to send the House a bill directing the property be used to support veterans’ programs and National Guard families. The current lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, has chosen to rent an apartment in Harrisburg and opened the Fort Indiantown Gap home’s pool this summer for hundreds of children to swim.

UK: That Muslim Gang Attack on Those Non-Muslim Tree Surgeons OCT 24, 2019 10:00 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD A teenage tree surgeon had his hand chopped off with an axe in an ‘appalling’ attack carried out by an armed mob sparked by a road rage row in Rochdale, a court heard. The victim, then aged just 18, was one of four workmates set upon on Church Road, Newbold, on the afternoon of October 17, 2017 by a gang of up to 20 men. They had been summoned by Habibur Rahman, 27, who called the victims ‘white b******s’ who were in...

California's largest utility once again began shutting off electricity to nearly a half-million people on Wednesday to protect against wildfires sparked by their equipment. And yet another widespread blackout could be needed next week, it said. Hot, dry Santa Ana winds and low humidity were creating a high risk of damage and sparks and "rapid wildfire spread," Pacific Gas and Electric Corp., or PG&E, said in announcing that it was beginning to cut off power to 179,000 customers in the northern part of the state Wednesday afternoon.

"President Trump acted in the best interest of the Constitution when he withdrew American troops from Syria," said Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox Nation. Earlier this month, Trump decided that 1,000 U.S. troops would be pulled out of northern Syria. The move provided an opportunity for Turkish forces to launch a military assault on the Syrian Kurds in the region, whom the Turkish government considers to the terrorists. "While it may not be a popular move from both sides of the aisle, with many Republicans and Democrats referring to it as a moral betrayal. The president,...