FASTER? PLEASE! NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months.
May 9, 2024
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon.
Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host of Arab nations that boycott the Jewish state, including Hamas ally Qatar and Iran-controlled Lebanon, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
On Tuesday—just a day before President Joe Biden threatened to withhold key weapons deliveries from Israel if the country moves forward with an incursion in the Gaza Strip’s Rafah neighborhood—the State Department informed Congress that it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel, according to a copy of the notification obtained by the Free Beacon.
The Biden administration, which has waived these sanctions in the past, said in the notification that it intends to extend the waiver through April 30, 2025, allowing weapons to be sent to a host of nations that work closely with the Hamas terror group and other Iran-backed terror proxies.
It’s just amazing how much Good Ol’ Moderate Joe’s foreign policy decisions sound exactly like the sort of thing Obama would have done!
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WHY IS BIDEN WORKING SO HARD TO SAVE A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? Biden Commits To Saving Hamas, Will Cut Off Offensive Weapons To Israel If It Enters Rafah. Does he want “forever wars” in Ukraine and Gaza? And if so, why?
WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT EXPERTS? Expert: Federal Reserve Enables Gov’t Financial Irresponsibility, Massive Debt.
THIS IS BECOMING A TREND: Police Clear Pro-Palestinian Encampment in Amsterdam. “Police used bulldozers and quickly cleared the barricades.”
Plus: “Just one more bad idea Europe has imported from US campuses.” To be fair, U.S. campuses are fertile generators of bad ideas.
WILL ANYONE? Will You Miss The Chevrolet Malibu?
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: WaPo Carries Water for Biden on Border Crisis, Spills Most of It.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX breaks Space Shuttle pad record with Falcon 9 Starlink mission. “With a Wednesday afternoon launch, SpaceX’s Falcon family of rockets exceeded the total number of Space Shuttle missions from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The combination of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches passed the total number of shuttle flights seen at that pad.”
The Space Shuttle flew for 30 years. The first Falcon 9 was launched in 2010 and has made 329 successful launches compared to the Shuttle’s 133.
THE LONG AND GRINDING ROAD: 54 Years After its Release, Let It Be, the Beatles’ Last Movie, is Finally Available for Home Viewing.
My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: New research reports on financial entanglements between FDA chiefs and the drug industry.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE:
“Hey Google, How Many Jews Were Killed by Nazis?” vs. “Hey Google, what was the Nakba?”
There is something ROTTEN at Google.
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— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 8, 2024
I WONDER WHERE IT CAME FROM: California city declares a public health emergency after tuberculosis sickens 14.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America’s Future Leaders. “Besides the vast majority of the working poor slammed by Bidenomics, as noted by McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Tyson Foods executives in earnings calls in recent weeks, Gen-Zers have been very vocal about a shit economy they were given after taking out $100,000 in college loans.”
FASCISM, STRAIGHT UP: We’re Only Just Beginning to Understand the Extent of Biden’s Censorship Regime.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Harvard Bond Offering Raises Less Money Than Expected.
YOU AND I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH SCARCITY: ‘The era of cheap food is over,’ says Waitrose chief.
Bailey will unveil the “Farming for Nature” scheme at Leckford, the Waitrose farm in Hampshire where they have been farming regeneratively since 2020. The supermarket wants to source “as much as possible” of its UK meat, milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables from farms that use regenerative practices, such as reducing pesticide use and ploughing and turning over field margins to pollinators. The aim is that by 2035, all of its UK supply chain for these items will be from regenerative farms. It is aware it will be a huge learning curve for Waitrose farmers and can’t predict how many will sign up, but Bailey is determined that the supermarket should lead the way.
“I think there was a point at which we realised we had to do something,” he says. It sounds very noble, but some would say supermarkets have a major part to play in getting where we are now, having engaged in a systematic price war that has pushed farmers into intensification. Does Bailey, who worked for Sainsbury’s for 18 years – starting in the fresh food department and working his way to become its grocery buying director, before he joined Waitrose in 2020 – feel guilty?
He laughs awkwardly. “I feel responsible,” he says. “I’m part of a generation of people who are in the right place at the right time to make a change. And I feel that burden.”
“I think we’re seeing the end of the era of cheap food, because of the impact of that cheap food – not just on people’s health but the external impact, the environmental impact, the societal impact of that cheap food. We need to witness the end of cheap food and a reversal of the value of the food people are eating.”
The ghost of FDR smiles; as Amity Shlaes wrote, in the 1930s, “Roosevelt led the country in passing the Agricultural Administration Act, which taxed middlemen in order to give a greater share of revenue to farmers. The Act also restricted production and sent subsidies to those on the farm. Six million young pigs were killed early to drive up pork prices; farmers were instructed to plow crops under.”