Word Salad With a Side of Lies

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Word Salad With a Side of Lies

August 31, 2024

VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris finally sat for an interview this week. While she didn’t do as badly as President Biden during the June debate with Donald Trump, Harris showed why her handlers have kept her away from the press.

Besides “word salad” answers that were empty of substance (and truth, in some cases), the set, lighting, and camera angles made her appear nervous and small—literally. She looked tiny compared to her running mate Tim Walz and CNN anchor Dana Bash. It was not a presidential performance.

Meanwhile, Aurora, Colorado is dealing with a migrant crisis stemming from nearby Denver’s status as a sanctuary city. The vicious and violent Venezuelan gang Tren Aragua has reportedly taken over several apartment complexes in Aurora, terrorizing residents and demanding that rent be paid to them instead of the property owners. Aurora’s mayor says the city will use court orders to remove the gang from the city, but since security camera video shows that the gang members are armed, it may not be as easy as serving eviction notices.

Also: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar reportedly surrounded by 20 Israeli hostages—who may be the only ones of the 105 unaccounted for still alive; FDA issues emergency use authorization for new COVID vaccine (protein-based, not mRNA); Ukraine tries to drag the US and NATO into its war with Russia; and Harris promises $25,000 “free” down payment to first-time homebuyers—another economic proposal that might win votes but will only make housing more unaffordable.

Trump and Kennedy Shatter the Paradigm

August 24, 2024

THINK WHAT YOU WILL about Donald Trump, his announcement Friday that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., would play a role in a second Trump administration was a masterstroke of political judo. On Friday, Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign and announced that he would remove his name from ballots in swing states where he might draw enough votes away from Trump in November to hand the election to Kamala Harris. Kennedy said the Democratic Party had abandoned the ideals it held when his father and uncle, Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, were Attorney General and President of the United States 60 years ago—fighting for peace, freedom, and the working class. According to Kennedy, Democrats now represent Big Pharma, Big Food, endless war, and the “censorship-industrial complex.” Kennedy described his decision as heart-wrenching, in no small part because his wife and family do not support (or even like) Donald Trump. He's become the first member of his family to endorse a Republican for president, and his siblings issued a statement less than an hour after his speech disavowing him and his endorsement. But Kennedy said that as a 70-year-old man, he doesn’t have that many years left to be effective, and he views Trump as offering the best hope to save future generations of American children from chronic illnesses due to toxic chemicals in food and medicines, reverse the trend toward government censorship adopted by the Biden-Harris administration, and end America’s military adventures overseas. Kennedy later appeared at a Trump rally in suburban Phoenix, where the former president promised to empower Kennedy to investigate the assassinations of his father and uncle. Kennedy’s potential role in a Trump administration is still unclear, but the unity between the two men, based on a promise to protect children, is a refreshing change from the increasingly personal attacks between Democrats and Republicans. The event derailed whatever momentum Kamala Harris had built with the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, which she addressed Thursday night. Reaction to her speech, which she delivered well, has been buried in the news cycle by the Trump-Kennedy alliance announced less than 24 hours later. At the rally, Trump mentioned a report released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General this week revealing some 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children that have disappeared into the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has little authority to track those children or intervene, even in circumstances that are reportedly unsafe—as in one case where a woman reported to ICE that a migrant minor was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband. One Health and Human Services whistleblower described this shocking situation earlier this year as “taxpayer-funded child slavery.” Also: Exciting new discovery at Göbekli Tepe; reported case of tularemia spreading from a seal to a human in Washington state; and thought crime apparently now illegal in the US and UK.

Mpox is Not a Fake Disease

August 17, 2024

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) this week. Because of its handling of COVID-19, many view this as another power grab. We understand. As we’ve discussed on this program, the WHO is trying to establish an Orwellian system of global control by claiming expertise over matters of public health, and then defining everything from infectious disease to gun violence to social media as public health issues. The fact remains that the clade of mpox spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo has a fatality rate of about 5% in adults and 10% in children, far higher than even the Great Influenza of 1918–19 that killed upwards of 20 million people. We’ll keep eyes on this. Meanwhile, an unreported data breach has reportedly exposed sensitive information for 2.9 billion users, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and personal details on relatives living and dead. This only came to light through a lawsuit brought against National Public Data, which allegedly obtains information from private sources without consent. Bottom line: It’s time to change your passwords. Also: Ukraine’s Battle of the Bulge moment; Israel’s foreign minister claims the US, UK, and France will help it attack Iran if Iran strikes Israel; and generic store-brand versions of Mucinex found with dangerous levels of benzene, a known carcinogen.

Holy Cow (Not)

August 10, 2024

ACTIVISTS FROM THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE were pictured last week apparently practicing the ritual of the red heifer to herald construction of the Third Temple. However, the image shared on social media (which was taken in the City of David, not the Mount of Olives as Derek incorrectly said) showed the rabbis with appears to be a cardboard standup of a bovid that is neither fully red nor a heifer. It’s a steer (a bull that’s been neutered). We discuss the situation in Israel, where tensions are high as Israelis await Iran’s expected military response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 31. Some Western intelligence analysts believe it will come on the 9th of Av, which begins at sundown Monday, a date that marks the anniversaries of the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 586 BC and the Second Temple in 70 AD. There are reports that Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian is trying to prevent an all-out war with Israel. We pray the reports are true and that he succeeds. Also: US agrees to sell offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia; wave of bank closures in US; and new research shows that cows can be “mixing vessels” for H5N1 avian flu, allowing for transmission to humans.