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  • The Buffalo shooter’s views are mainstream on the right (Hurl alert)

    05/17/2022 5:51:03 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 39 replies
    Washington Post ^ | May 15th 2022 | Max Boot
    It was a conservative writer who coined the phrase “ideas have consequences.” The mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday, which left 10 people dead, shows the consequences of two of the horrific ideas that have taken root on the American right: support for the “great replacement” theory and opposition to gun control. The 18-year-old arrested for the mass shooting posted a lengthy manifesto explaining his reasons for wanting to murder African Americans. (I will not use his name or link to his twisted explanation.) Like many on the right, he is enraged by what he imagines to be...
  • Is Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard Really Role Play?

    05/17/2022 4:31:45 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    Spectator ^ | 17 May 2022 | Eleanor Harmsworth
    Both characters seem to be in on their actThe Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial is now in its fourth week, and so many of us are still gripped. People are either consciously ‘following’ or ‘not-following’ the trial as if it were a television drama, which in more than one way it is. The two main characters are actors, after all. Kimberly Lau, a partner at the New York legal firm Warshaw Burstein, said this week that ‘the testimony of the witnesses and documentary evidence will be even more essential for the jury to determine who is really telling the...
  • Canaries twitching: Yemen, Sri Lanka, Lebanon…many more.

    05/17/2022 2:01:42 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    michaelyon.locals.com ^ | 17 May, 2022 | Michael Yon
    The cascade has begun. For those who have read at least several books on famine, little if any of this is suprise. Those who have read, say, 5-10 books on famine can go ahead and take the written test and likely be pretty predictive of what is too unfold. Witness how accurate I have been since January 2020 on food issues. Incredibly accurate. Reading history is like cheating. Soon, people will begin to die in small areas by the hundreds, then thousands. More countries will begin to shut food exports, as should the United States. To be clear, this exacerbates...
  • Bannon War Room - Tuesday evening show, 5-6pm ET

    05/17/2022 1:58:24 PM PDT · by 4Liberty · 3 replies
    America’s Voice News ^ | 05/17/2022 | Steve Bannon
    Freep Mail 4Liberty, if you want On/Off this list. Tune in LIVE at one of these links or via Roku/AppleTV/AmazonFire with the America’s Voice App...... https://americasvoice.news/ https://americasvoice.app https://warroom.org/ On GETTR, go here & click “Live now” button: https://gettr.com/user/realamvoice On Rumble – “Live” & for past episodes: https://rumble.com/BannonsWarRoom https://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voice“WarRoom BATTLEGROUND” Live following Bannon’s regular PM show, 6–7PM EST, at these links: https://frankspeech.com/ https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom
  • CRISPR Gene Editing Now Possible in Cockroaches

    05/17/2022 12:29:47 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    https://scitechdaily.com ^ | 17 MAY 2022 | By CELL PRESS
    Cartoon of CRISPR in cockroaches. Credit: Shirai et al./Cell Reports Methods According to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports Methods by Cell Press on May 16th, 2022, researchers devised a CRISPR-Cas9 technique to enable gene editing in cockroaches. The straightforward and effective “direct parental” CRISPR (DIPA-CRISPR) procedure involves injecting materials into female adults where eggs are developing rather than into the embryos themselves. “In a sense, insect researchers have been freed from the annoyance of egg injections,” says senior study author Takaaki Daimon of Kyoto University. “We can now edit insect genomes more freely and at will. In...
  • Scientists Have Revived a Glimmer of Activity in Human Eyes After Death

    05/17/2022 11:00:36 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | May 12, 2022 | CARLY CASSELLA
    Scientists have momentarily restored a faint twinkle of life to dying cells in the human eye. In order to better understand the way nerve cells succumb to a lack of oxygen, a team of US researchers measured activity in mouse and human retinal cells soon after their death. Amazingly, with a few tweaks to the tissue's environment, they were able to revive the cells' ability to communicate hours later. When stimulated by light, the postmortem retinas were shown to emit specific electrical signals, known as b-waves. These waves are also seen in living retinas, and they indicate communication between all...
  • Snorkeler finds $2,000 dentures in Gulf, reunites with owner

    05/17/2022 10:45:48 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    https://www.fox10tv.com ^ | May. 16, 2022 at 4:50 PM CDT | By Hal Scheurich
    GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - In the most unlikely of outcomes, a Wisconsin man who lost his dentures in the Gulf of Mexico last Monday will be getting them back thanks to a bizarre stroke of luck. A Mississippi man, vacationing in Gulf Shores later the same week just happened to find them while snorkeling near the shore. The odds against finding the false teeth were tremendous, especially once you actor in the teeth were lost on a Monday. They weren’t found until that Friday and had moved more than two miles to the west. “They actually scared me,” said...
  • Washington Arby's manager charged with assault after police say he peed in milkshake mix

    05/17/2022 10:38:30 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    https://www.cbsnews.com ^ | MAY 16, 2022 / 6:00 PM | Staff
    <p>A manager at an Arby's fast food restaurant in Washington state has been accused of urinating into a milkshake mix that might then have been served to dozens of people.</p><p>Police in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, said they uncovered footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of a child pornography investigation, The Columbian newspaper reported.</p>
  • Ancient Tooth Once Belonged to The Mysterious Denisovans, Scientists Think

    05/17/2022 9:50:30 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 17 MAY 2022 | JACINTA BOWLER
    Deep in the forests of Laos, in a cave in the Annamite Mountains, lay a single child's tooth. That tooth – an unassuming molar - could be from a mysterious species of human we know little about, and of which few remains are known to exist. "Analyses of the internal structure of the molar in tandem with palaeoproteomic analyses of the enamel indicate that the tooth derives from a young, likely female, Homo individual," researchers write in a new study. The tooth, from the Tam Ngu Hao 2 cave, "most likely represents a Denisovan", the researchers say. Denisovans are an...
  • For Democrats, when did the US Constitution Die?

    05/17/2022 7:22:03 AM PDT · by mononymous · 59 replies
    Self ^ | 5/17/2022 | Self
    A question I've been pondering recently; for how long has the US Constitution been dead to Democrats? Can anyone help me understand when, over the last 100 years or so, have they done anything to advance the cause of individual freedom and personal responsibility?
  • How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

    05/17/2022 6:41:29 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 13 replies
    Evolution News and Science Today ^ | May 16, 2022 | John G. West
    How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NYOver the weekend, a teenage male shooter perpetrated a horrific mass murder in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where 13 people were shot, and 10 died. All but two of the victims were black.Journalists and commentators have rushed to report that the shooter is a white supremacist who hates blacks, Jews, and immigrants and subscribes to the racist theory known as “The Great Replacement.” The description is true as far as it goes. But it is also woefully inadequate. It doesn’t tell us anything about the roots of the...
  • Bannon War Room - Tuesday morning show, 10am-Noon ET

    05/17/2022 6:39:29 AM PDT · by 4Liberty · 9 replies
    America’s Voice News ^ | 05/17/2022 | Steve Bannon
    Freep Mail 4Liberty, if you want On/Off this list. Tune in LIVE at one of these links or via Roku/AppleTV/AmazonFire with the America’s Voice App...... https://americasvoice.news/ https://americasvoice.app https://warroom.org/ On GETTR, go here & click “Live now” button: https://gettr.com/user/realamvoice On Rumble – “Live” & for past episodes: https://rumble.com/BannonsWarRoom https://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voice“WarRoom BATTLEGROUND” Live following Bannon’s regular PM show, 6–7PM EST, at these links: https://frankspeech.com/ https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom
  • When Attorney General Merrick Garland’s goon squad came for parents

    05/17/2022 5:58:14 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 13 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 16 May, 2022 | Editorial Board
    Last fall, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not using counterterrorism statutes to investigate parents who were exercising their First Amendment rights at local school board meetings. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee produced evidence that Garland's FBI was doing just that. “Like you, I can’t imagine any circumstance in which the PATRIOT Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can I imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism,” Garland told the committee last October. Now, ranking member...
  • The Demented - and Selective - Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents For Mass Shootings

    05/17/2022 5:30:44 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 10 replies
    greenwald.substack.com ^ | 15 May, 2022 | Glenn Greenwald
    All ideologies spawn psychopaths who kill innocents in its name. Yet only some are blamed for their violent adherents: by opportunists cravenly exploiting corpses while they still lie on the ground. At a softball field in a Washington, DC suburb on June 14, 2017, a lone gunman used a rifle to indiscriminately spray bullets at members of the House GOP who had gathered for their usual Saturday morning practice for an upcoming charity game. The then-House Majority Whip, Rep. Steven Scalise (R-LA), was shot in the hip while standing on second base and almost died, spending six weeks in the...
  • No Data Supports Threat of ‘White Supremacists’

    05/17/2022 4:49:31 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 17 May, 2022 | Julie Kelly
    Joe Biden will use the blood of innocents to paint millions of Americans as “white supremacists” and wannabe terrorists simply for supporting the opposite political party. Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday, ostensibly to join the upstate New York community in mourning the murders of 10 people at a local grocery store over the weekend. It is, of course, appropriate for Biden in his role as president to grieve with Americans devastated by such a brutal massacre of innocents, especially an attack that from all accounts was racially motivated. What’s not appropriate is for Biden to use the...
  • New Florida law establishes ‘Victims of Communism Day’

    05/17/2022 4:25:57 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 14 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 17 May, 2022 | Chris Talgo
    While many blue states are celebrating communism and socialism in their public-school classrooms, Florida, as usual, is bucking this disturbing trend by ensuring that Sunshine State students learn about the unvarnished horrors these evil ideologies have wrought upon humanity over the past century. On May 9, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 395 into law, which establishes November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day.” According to a press release from the Florida governor’s office, the new law “calls for public schools to observe the day. High school students will be required to receive at least 45 minutes of instruction...
  • Critical Race Theory has infected 80% of the top U.S. medical schools

    05/17/2022 4:21:37 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 17 May, 2022 | Peter Barry Chowka
    The U.S. medical establishment is in the process of absurdly identifying “racism” as the major determinant in health care outcomes. Last January, I wrote about how the Biden administration was “institutionalizing medical racism nationwide.” In a previous article in April 2021, I reported how “Medical Racism – Preferential Treatments for Blacks over Whites – is Here.” Yesterday, Fox News’ Brian Flood advanced this underreported story by noting how 39 of the nation’s 50 top medical schools have mandated Critical Race Theory training for their medical students. At least 39 of America’s 50 most prestigious medical colleges and universities have some...
  • Guess how the Buffalo shooter identified himself politically

    05/17/2022 4:13:28 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 17 May, 2022 | D. Parker
    The media want you to think he was a "mainstream Republican," but the truth couldn't be more different. The alleged supermarket killer is self-described as authoritarian left — so why isn't this being reported? If the alleged Buffalo killer's "manifesto" is authentic, he was deep into communist ideology and now is an authoritarian leftist. Why is this being kept under wraps? The teenager accused of murdering ten people last Saturday in Buffalo, N.Y. also allegedly posted a 180-page "manifesto" online that the national media are selectively exploiting, leaving out key facts. Why? Please note that we're going to use the...
  • Hey Liberals: Let’s Talk about Biden’s Lies

    05/17/2022 4:04:14 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 17 May, 2022 | Christopher Chantrill
    The problem is that our liberal friends have been in charge of the public square and permitted speech for so long that they have forgotten that there are other people on this Earth. Back in the day our liberal and Democratic friends were utterly appalled by President Trump’s lies. According to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, “Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years.” But whatabout President Biden? According to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker: Through April 29, his 100th day, Biden has made 78 false or misleading statements, according to a Washington Post Fact Checker analysis of...
  • Liberalism and the Problem of Evil

    05/17/2022 3:53:14 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 4 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 17 May, 2022 | Philip Ahlrich
    No one can speak of evil without mentioning its attraction to the Democrat Party, which is now the party of official racism in America. Political evil is a contagion of psychological immaturity, self-delusion, and counterfeit justification, and its virus has spread throughout America's liberal ruling class. Its influence has scoured our nation of its fundamental values, and leftists are intent upon creating a state apparatus that facilitates the separation of children from their parents, criminals from justice, and citizens from the Bill of Rights. This is a call to Marxist socialism that has no past and no possibility of a...