Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 15, 2022
FAMILY TIES: Hunter Biden cries poverty! President’s son is demanding his support payments to four-year-old love child with Lunden Roberts be LOWERED due to a ‘substantial material change’ to his income. “Hunter has never met Navy Joan and would not be able to pick her out of a photo lineup, according to filings in their child custody suit.”
FRAUD, BULLYING, INTIMIDATION: Facebook Worked With FBI to Spy on Americans Who Questioned 2020 Election.
CHANGE: Denmark BANS Covid Vaccines for Almost Everyone Under Age 50. “Danes under 50 will only be allowed to receive the shots if they are ‘higher risk of becoming severely [emphasis added] from Covid-19.'”
DOG BITES MAN: The Democrat-Media-Industrial Complex Is Doubling Down on Censorship. “The Dems have a lot of weapons at their disposal in this effort. We’ve witnessed on multiple occasions the casual ease with which the Biden administration will weaponize the federal government to attack political opponents. Of course, their old friends in the mainstream media and new friends in social media are hard at work for them.”
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence.
Last week, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, withdrew from a major tournament with a $350,000 prize money after his unexpected defeat by underdog Hans Niemann.
Norway’s Carlsen announced his withdrawal in a cryptic tweet with a video implying that Niemann had cheated. The tweet was accompanied by a video of Portuguese soccer manager, José Mourinho, saying, ‘I prefer really not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble.’
Other big names in the sport declared Niemann’s play ‘sus’, suspicions were raised further when Niemann admitted to cheating twice previously. Chess.com issued a statement that it had banned Niemann from its site over his alleged cheating.
Chess enthusiasts online have since gone on to speculate that Niemann may have been cheating with computer assistance and anal beads.
Let’s hope they get to the bottom of this.
GENERATION SNOWFLAKE: College Students Need Eco-Anxiety Counseling.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Two-Thirds of San Francisco Residents Plan to Flee Due to Crime, Homelessness. “A new poll surveyed 1,653 adults from the city, finding that 65 percent said the city was declining, while 37 percent said they plan to live elsewhere in three years.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ‘Good Catholic’ Biden Wants to Normalize Abortion in a Sinister Way. “I have been a practicing Roman Catholic my whole life and I can assure you that the Church hasn’t softened its stance on abortion. Biden is no more a good Catholic than I am a thousand-yard rushing threat in the NFL.”
WELL, YES: Economic Freedom Falls in the United States, Global Report Shows.
The authors of the index recognize a key aspect of property rights is access to a currency that enables exchange. When government prevents access to solid currencies and engages in policies that cause the value of a national currency to fluctuate wildly, they are hampering access to sound money and impeding mutually beneficial exchange.
The authors measure money supply changes, inflation variables, and access to foreign currencies
The US is historically very high on this measure. The fact that the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency should tell us something about its soundness. In 2020 the sound money score fell from 9.75 to 9.63.
This may seem like a small change, but readers should note that this score is for 2020 — before massive inflation began.
As Glenn said yesterday, “These morons are doing serious lasting harm to America, and need to be stopped.”
BIG BROTHER REALLY IS WATCHING YOU: Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit. “If you thought cookie pop-ups were an annoying nuisance, just wait until you have to scan your face for some third party to ‘verify your age’ after California’s new design code becomes law.”
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Matt Margolis: Democrats Thrive on Election Uncertainty, but You Are a ‘Threat to Democracy.’ “Ultimately, the only way to restore faith in our elections is by implementing commonsense election integrity policies. The problem is that one party in Washington opposes those policies.”
Rick Moran: It’s Back to the Drawing Board for Putin and the Russian Military. “These latest setbacks in Kharkiv are worse than originally thought. It appears the retreat from Izyum — the most important base and staging area in Donbas — has blown up the entire eastern front.”
Yours Truly: SPOILER: Biden Wants the Railroad Strike. “Really, when it comes to their goals, means, and even tone, Biden’s is a European, hard-Left Labour government. Any Briton who lived through the ’70s would find the this administration instantly recognizable.”
September 14, 2022
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is Showtime Doing Damage Control for The Lincoln Project? “The group is better known for seismic scandals, fleeing executives and a willingness to take down other GOP favorites … including Gov. Ron DeSantis. Does Showtime want to bring the group back from the political abyss?”
IF OUR PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS WOULD START CLEANING UP THEIR ACT RIGHT NOW, IT WILL STILL BE A GENERATION BEFORE THEY’RE TRUSTED AGAIN: CDC Finally Admits It Lied About Covid Vaccine Safety Monitoring.
LAUGHING WOLF: Ave Bezos. “This morning, I come not to bury Bezos and Blue Origin, nor to praise them. For that matter, I am not here to dance on the inevitable launch failure. Instead, I come here to tell them, and Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic, a simple yet profound message: You are not fucking up enough.”
Indeed. And read the whole thing.
UNDERREPORTED STORIES: Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Flares Up Again. “Christian Armenia has a long, unhappy history with Turkey, including genocide at the hands of Muslim Turks in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Like the Balkans, the Caucuses are an unstable cauldron of mixed ethno-religious-nationalism, with a side-order of Jihadism thrown in for good measure (the Islamic State – Caucasus Province, the successor to the Caucasus Emirate, has been relatively quit recently, but such groups seldom wither away entirely). Russia still occupies the parts of Georgia it conquered in 2008, but the blooding it’s taken in Ukraine has probably weakened its hand regionally. And coming food and energy security issues (Azerbaijan in energy rich, but Armenia is energy-poor) are likely to exacerbate tensions in the coming months.”
As partners in the post-Soviet CSTO alliance, Russia is supposed to come to Armenia’s defense — but with what?
IT MUST BE THAT TIME OF DAY FOR THE STOPPED CLOCK: You Won’t Believe Who’s Giving Up on Green Energy.
BIDENFLATION: Inflation is slowing down for the wrong reasons: Everything besides gas is getting more expensive. “In August, most items the Bureau of Labor Statistics measures actually increased in price, but things related to oil fell, as well as used cars, whose prices fell 0.1 percent. These had been major drivers of inflation since the economy began to reopen. Where there were price increases — and sizable ones — were in things like housing and food and even utility gas.”
Oil is down because the global economy is slowing. Inflation on everything else you buy regularly continues to increase.
MORE ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC FROM THE LEFT: U.S. Senate Candidate Vows to ‘Kill and Confront’ MAGA Movement.
BOOKMARKED FOR LATER: MicroRNA found to regrow 90% of lost hair, new study finds.
TO BE FAIR, SHE’S A KNUCKLEHEAD ABOUT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING: Congressman Calls Kamala Harris a ‘Knucklehead’ for Saying the Border Secure.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (RUSSIA EDITION): Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 13.
The Kremlin acknowledged its defeat in Kharkiv Oblast, the first time Moscow has openly recognized a defeat since the start of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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Kremlin sources are now working to clear Putin of any responsibility for the defeat, instead blaming the loss of almost all of occupied Kharkiv Oblast on underinformed military advisors within Putin’s circle.[4] One member of the Kremlin’s Council for Interethnic Relations, Bogdan Bezpalko, even stated that military officials who had failed to see the concentration of Ukrainian troops and equipment and disregarded Telegram channels that warned of the imminent Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv Oblast should have their heads ”lying on Putin’s desk.”[5] ISW has previously reported that the Kremlin delayed Putin‘s meeting with Russian defense officials immediately after the withdrawal of troops from around Kharkiv, increasing the appearance of a rift between the Kremlin and the Russian MoD.[6] The Kremlin’s admission of defeat in Kharkiv shows that Putin is willing and able to recognize and even accept a Russian defeat at least in some circumstances and focus on deflecting blame from himself.
If only Comrade Putin knew!