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September 27, 2022
WHAT A SHAME IT TOOK A LAWSUIT: Shareholders Demand Pfizer Scrap Race-Conscious Policies in the Wake of Civil Rights Lawsuit.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Investigation into congressional stock trading reveals massive corruption red flags. “‘From 2019 to 2021, 183 current senators or representatives reported a trade of a stock or another financial asset by themselves or an immediate family member,’ the Times reports . ‘More than half of them sat on congressional committees that potentially gave them insight into the companies whose shares they reported buying or selling.’ The Times investigation also revealed that ‘44 of the 50 members of Congress who were most active in the markets bought or sold securities in companies over which their committee assignments could give them some degree of knowledge or influence.’”
HOW LIKELY IS IT THAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WOULD DO ANYTHING TO SERIOUSLY HURT CHINA? TikTok can keep operating in US under deal being worked out with Biden.
THIS WAS THE MOMENT WHEN THE RISE OF THE OCEANS BEGAN TO SLOW AND OUR PLANET BEGAN TO HEAL: Amy Klobuchar Makes Wild Suggestion That Voting Democrat Will Stop Hurricanes.
(Classical reference in headline.)
IT’S ALMOST LIKE THEY DON’T WANT TO CURE INFLATION: The ‘real cure’ for inflation has gone ignored, Steve Forbes says.
ROGER KIMBALL: Giorgia Meloni and Common Sense.
Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, seems to be a rare member of the genus homo politicus in embracing such commonsensical positions.
In a speech three years ago at the World Congress of Families, she listed Orwellian by quoting not him, but G.K. Chesterton.
“Fires will be kindled,” she quoted, “to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in the summer.”
Chesterton’s wise words come from the end of his book “Heretics” (1905).
“The great march of mental destruction will go on,” he writes. “Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed.”
Meloni, founder and head of Italy’s Brothers of Italy party, is a euroskeptic.
This makes her a heretic.
She objects to the effort of the people in charge of Project Europe to turn her into a “perfect consumer,” a “consumer slave.”
This makes her a pariah.
Meloni refuses to be treated as a cipher, a number.
This makes her a threat.
She proudly defines herself as “Italian, Christian, woman, mother.”
This makes her a fascist.
That, anyway, is what the major news networks want you to believe.
On the eve of her stunning election victory—in 2018, the Brothers of Italy won only 4.5 percent of the vote—CBS indulged in a hysterical (I don’t mean “funny”) bit of rhetorical overkill.
“Voters in Italy appear poised to elect a far-right prime minister,” CBS informed viewers.
That’s not all. According to CBS, Meloni “leads a neo-fascist movement, reminiscent of Benito Mussolini’s own political party.”
Mussolini, eh?
Oh, yes.
This woman wants to reclaim her own identity as an individual, to champion the two-plus-two-make-four reality that she’s Italian, not a global citizen, a Christian, not a “consumer slave,” a mother, not “parent No. 1,” and a woman, not a “gender.”
All this makes her, if CBS is to be believed, the exponent of a political philosophy that has “roots in neo-fascism.”
Related: Giorgia Meloni is no springtime for Italian fascism. “With Italy already mired in economic woes, Meloni isn’t going to be able to convert it into a fascist state. Quite the contrary. Given the turbulent nature of Italian politics and the tawdry character of her political allies, she’ll be lucky if she can hold her coalition together for six months. Her Roman Holiday ends the moment she enters office.”
UPDATE: Jon Gabriel on Meloni, Mussolini, and the Media: “I’m no scholar in Italian politics, nor have I invested much time researching the 317 parties jockeying for control from Turin to Taranto. But considering the news media’s coverage of U.S. politics, I didn’t fall for their latest imprecation. They claimed Ronald Reagan was a fascist. As was Bush Sr., Bush Jr., McCain, Romney, and Trump*. As I type, the press is pivoting from ‘Trump is literally Hitler’ to ‘DeSantis is even more Hitlery than Hitler.’ Hell, they thought Liz Cheney was a fascist until a few years ago. So, their track record is, let’s say, spotty. And provincial. Which is why our political press called Jair Bolsonaro ‘Brazil’s Trump’ and Viktor Orbán ‘Hungary’s Trump.’ They view every election around the world as a proxy battle on whatever Beltway buzz is circling the cubicles this week.”
* Don’t forget Calvin Coolidge!
(Updated and bumped.)
HMM: Justices Urged to Weigh Social Media Laws Amid Appeals Split. “The constitutionality of state laws regulating Twitter Inc., Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, and other social media is teed up for the US Supreme Court to decide in its upcoming term, after two federal appeals courts split on the question. Florida asked the justices Sept. 21 to review a US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decision largely blocking its law barring platforms from suspending politician’s accounts. The move followed a Sept. 16 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding a Texas law that bars platforms with more than 50 million users from content discrimination on the basis ofto viewpoint. Florida’s petition gives the high court a chance to weigh in on whether the First Amendment shields social media from such government-imposed restrictions.”
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN? Connecticut will pay a security analyst 150k to monitor election memes for misinformation.
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REALITY CONTINUES TO LAP THE BEE: Turbines in One Part of Norway Are Falling Apart Because of…the Wind.
BELATEDLY FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE: CDC drops universal masking at nursing homes, hospitals.
IT USED TO BE CAREER-ENDING TO EVEN RAISE A QUESTION LIKE THIS: The Atlantic: Did a famous doctor’s COVID shot make his cancer worse?
Goldman is a Belgian immunologist and one of Europe’s best-known champions of medical research. He is profiled in The Atlantic for a pretty shocking reason, especially given that publication’s very extreme positions on COVID lockdowns and vaccines in past issues. The Atlantic, you might remember, attacked Governor Brian Kemp as, essentially, a murderer for pushing to reopen his state during the COVID hysteria. Their headline alone was remarkable: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice. Following less strict COVID prevention provisions was human sacrifice. Unbelievable. Infuriating.
Yet last night on Twitter The Atlantic linked to a new article–one that if it had been published by a slightly less prestigious source would have been instantly banned on Twitter and Facebook, no doubt–that explored the case of Dr. Michel Goldman, who perhaps was given lymphoma by the COVID vaccine, and almost certainly had it spread extremely rapidly because of it.
The thing is, the prestige of the source is no indicator of accuracy, as we’ve seen over the past couple of years.
Related: Trudeau Capitulates: Canada to Drop Vaccine Mandate at its Border.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Damage To Nord Stream Pipelines ‘Unprecedented;’ May Have Been ‘Sabotaged.’ “The destruction that happened within one day at three lines of the Nord Stream pipeline system is unprecedented … and impossible now to estimate the timeframe for restoring operations of the gas shipment infrastructure.”
Previously: Trump Warned Germany About Russian Energy and They Laughed About It.
THAT WAS FAST — PUTIN CALLS UP THE VOLKSSTURM:
Mobiks of the "elite" 1st Tank Regiment saying there will be absolutely no training for them ahead of them being sent to Kherson on the 29th. pic.twitter.com/aBlh0HIbFH
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) September 27, 2022
VICTIMHOOD PECKING ORDER: Court Rules Trans Prison Guard Can’t Strip-Search Muslim Inmate.
ETHICS? The Atrocious Ethics of Fauci’s Lockdown Defense.
Fauci, on the other hand, is defending “draconian” public policies that harm innocent people. During the pandemic, people were arrested for leaving their homes, driving their cars, paddling a boat, or going to a park. Moreover, Fauci admits these draconian policies also had other “deleterious consequences.” These included mental health deterioration, record drug overdoses, systemic fraud of taxpayers, millions of jobs lost, increased self-harm (especially among teenage girls), and more.
Despite these consequences, Dr. Fauci has consistently defended lockdowns, insisting that the draconian policies served a greater good.
To be fair, Fauci lies a lot.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Old Man Yells at Cloud… I Mean, Biden Tackles Inflation. “It might also be that Biden just doesn’t understand what inflation is. Watch this clip from a couple of days ago.”
Plus:
- Spank your children before they grow up to be shrieking toddlers
- There’s no escape from Los Angeles DA George Gascon
- You won’t believe John Fetterman’s latest brain impairment… or will you?
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
TRAMPLING ON 1ST AMENDMENT HURTS NATIONAL SECURITY: The connection between upholding the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious expression and practice and protecting national security likely isn’t the first most people would think of if asked. But The Washington Stand’s Ben Johnson lays it out in detail today:
“Even as the military faces its greatest enlistment crisis in decades, tens of thousands of Christian service-members face expulsion for refusing to take the COVID-19 shot. The largest branch of the services, the U.S. Army, announced it met only 52% of its recruitment goal this fiscal year, which ends Friday,” Johnson reports today.
“’The Department anticipates we will collectively miss our recruiting mission despite accessing more than 170,000 remarkable young men and women,’” the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy, Stephanie Miller, testified before a Senate subcommittee last Wednesday. That leaves the Army with 466,400 soldiers on active duty — 10,000 soldiers shy of its reduced goal, a gap that will creep to 21,000 by next September.”
And that’s just for the ground-pounders. The Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard face similar problems. But wait a minute, didn’t President Joe Biden declare the Pandemic over just last week?
DON’T GET COCKY: Eye-Opening Poll Shows GOP Far Ahead in Battleground States. “Hold on to your hats for this one: An ABC News/Washington Post poll of registered voters shows that Republicans are 21 points up against Democrats in battleground districts across the country. That’s right, 21 points. These aren’t even just likely voters — they are registered voters — and many key pollsters think Republican voters don’t even want to answer polling surveys because the FBI might take their cellphones away. Looking at just races rated at least somewhat competitive by ABC’s FiveThirtyEight model, voters favor GOP candidates 55 percent to 34 percent. Overall, by the way, the likely voter subheading showed a 51-46 Republican-Democratic split. Here’s the actual most important key message in this poll: The GOP is favored in three of the four issues rated most important by voters, the economy (considered important by 84 percent), education (77 percent), inflation (76 percent), and crime (69 percent).”
What about trans-rights, though?
But seriously, don’t get cocky. If you care about this election you need to be donating and volunteering.