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Translating Biden's 'Soul of a Nation' Speech

Pete McArdle
American Thinker
Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:01 UTC
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Joe Biden, with his history of brain injuries (two!), rapidly advancing dementia, lifelong tendency to plagiarize, lie, and self-aggrandize, and his mouthful of marbles and no doubt costly white porcelain, can be quite difficult to understand.

As a public service, then, allow me to translate some of Crusty Joe's "Soul of America" speech to the best of my ability.

"We, the people."

By that, Biden meant Democrats, teachers unions, the fake-news media, the hopelessly corrupt DoJ and FBI, and Big Tech.

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Attention

Former senator discusses the hushed efforts to change the US Constitution


ABC News
Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:12 UTC
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© The Washington Post via Getty ImagesProtesters take over the Inaugural stage during a protest calling for legislators to overturn the election results in President Donald Trump's favor at the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021.
There is a new strategy that far-right activists are using to attempt to weaken the foundations of our democracy: something called the "convention provision" in the Constitution, according to a former senator.

Former Sen. Russ Feingold spoke with "ABC News Prime" about his new book "The Constitution in Jeopardy," co-written with attorney Peter Prindiville, about what they see as a coordinated effort to amend the Constitution and making sweeping changes to our democracy using a specific provision in Article 5

Comment: Sounds a lot like partisan fear-mongering. Traditionally, it's been the Left, not the Right, who are trying to dismantle the Constitution. But we'll have to wait and see.

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Light Sabers

Gender-affirming care for transgender kids is going to backfire: experts

Rikki Schlott
New York Post
Sat, 03 Sep 2022 08:02 UTC
Keira Bell
© Paul Cooper/ShutterstockDetransitioner Keira Bell is an outspoken critic of Britain's controversial Tavistock gender identity clinic, which will close next year. Experts warn that many US kids getting similar treatment to Bell's could also suffer -- and ultimately detransition.
When her biological daughter Alex* came out as transgender at the age of 12, Anna* offered her support instantly — but she also had concerns. The New York City-based mom knew her child also suffered from autism, severe depression and self-harm, and hoped that any psychologist exploring a transition with her child would consider all those conditions as part of the treatment.

Instead, she says her child was offered puberty blockers after a 10-minute evaluation at "the best possible clinic" for transgender care in New York. "My child's autism was completely overlooked," Anna told The Post.

Although Anna needed to give consent for Alex to start the puberty blocker treatment (which she denied), she said she and her husband felt pressured to give her the hormones. "From the first moment we told her counselor that our child said she was trans, they told us the standard of care is to affirm. That was it. No questions. I thought we have to trust the science, we have to trust the medical professionals. But I now know they have little understanding of what's truly going on," she said.

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Dollars

BLM leader accused of stealing $10 MILLION from group, using donations as 'personal piggy bank'

Joshua Young
The Post Millennial
Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:49 UTC
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The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Shalomyah Bowers, was accused of stealing over $10 million from the organization in a lawsuit filed Thursday by Black Lives Matter Grassroots.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the lawsuit was announced at a news conference by Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah who said Bowers was a "rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper" and used the organization as a "personal piggy bank."


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Alarm Clock

Libs of TikTok returns to Twitter, threatens lawsuit if removed permanently

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 15:15 UTC
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After Libs of TikTok was reinstated to Twitter after being suspended twice, the account stated that, if they were banned permanently, they would file suit against Twitter. This after it was revealed in June that Twitter employees were debating suspending the account — which simply reveals people in their own words — altogether.

Twitter had suspended the account for what they termed "hateful conduct" and violating the "hateful conduct policy" after Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik posted an article, complete with audio of phone recordings, implicating National Children's Hospital in Washington, DC of performing hysterectomies on healthy, 16-year-old girls, for the purpose of treating gender dysphoria.

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Dollars

Flashback Old paper £20 and £50 banknotes not 'legal tender' by end September 22'


Bank of England
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:05 UTC
UK Pieces of Paper
© AlamyAnyone with paper £20 or £50 notes must spend them by the end of September.
The Bank of England will be withdrawing legal tender status of paper £20 and £50 banknotes after 30 September 2022.

After this date, paper £20 and £50 banknotes will no longer be legal tender. So we are encouraging anyone who still has these to use them or deposit them at their bank or a Post Office during these last 100 days.

It is also exactly one year since we issued the polymer £50 banknote featuring the scientist Alan Turing, on what would have been his 109th birthday. The Turing £50 completed our family of polymer notes, with all denominations (£5, £10, £20 and £50) now printed on polymer.

While the majority of paper £20 and £50 banknotes in circulation have been replaced with new polymer versions, there are still over £6 billion worth of paper £20 featuring the economist Adam Smith, and over £8 billion worth of paper £50 banknotes featuring the engineers Boulton and Watt, in circulation. That's more than 300 million individual £20 banknotes, and 160 million paper £50 banknotes.footnote[1]

Speaking ahead of the date, the Bank of England's Chief Cashier Sarah John said "Changing our banknotes from paper to polymer over recent years has been an important development, because it makes them more difficult to counterfeit, and means they are more durable. The majority of paper banknotes have now been taken out of circulation, but a significant number remain in the economy, so we're asking you to check if you have any at home. For the next 100 days, these can still be used or deposited at your bank in the normal way."
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Europe doesn't have enough stored gas to last through winter - Reuters


RT
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 11:09 UTC
Sagunto spain
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Fully-stocked gas storage facilities may not be sufficient to sustain EU countries during the upcoming heating season, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing analysts.

According to Aurora Energy Research's calculations, the bloc's storage can only provide enough gas for up to 90 days of average demand.


Comment: This summer's weather was far from 'average', and it's likely that winter won't be average either


Modeling by data intelligence firm ICIS also shows that the region's reserves may run dry by March. Analysts therefore agree that gas consumption should be slashed in order to avoid shortages.

"To cope with this crisis situation, demand reduction will be even more important than storage," Simone Tagliapietra, a senior fellow at the Bruegel think-tank, was cited as saying.

Comment: This was all rather predictable, and mostly avoidable, and it's likely why officials across the EU were warning months ago of energy rationing and rolling blackouts.

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Bad Guys

Millions locked down in Chengdu, as Covid-19 brings Chinese megacity to a standstill


Hong Kong Free Press
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:17 UTC
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© Photo by CNS / AFP / China OUTThis photo taken on September 1, 2022 shows police officers checking information on a road amid restrictions due to an outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Chengdu, in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.
Millions were stuck at home in China's Chengdu on Friday after a handful of Covid-19 cases brought the megacity to a standstill.

Supermarket shelves were stripped bare this week as locals in the city — a powerhouse economic hub in China's southwest that is home to 21 million people — feared a repeat of the months-long lockdown in the eastern megalopolis of Shanghai earlier this year.

Long lines of residents queued for mandatory testing, while videos verified by AFP showed supermarket shelves cleared of produce.

One local, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP he believed "everyone was crazily stocking up for goods" because of the experience of Shanghai, which was hit by food shortages during its lockdown.

The 25-year-old said he had been in the eastern city during its shutdown and had since been "habitually stocking up" before Chengdu's latest measures were announced.

Under the rules, in force until Sunday, each household will be allowed to send one person out to buy groceries and essential goods per day, provided they have tested negative for Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours, an official notice said.

It added that all residents would be tested for the virus, urging them not to leave the city unless "absolutely necessary".

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: No economy will survive this


Adapt 2030
Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:52 UTC
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European Electric futures market in chaos, hyperinflation running into energy prices and the changes people are making in life to survive the coming winter. Cashless digital payments are the future as our old fiat system disappears. How can we thrive during these periods.

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India overtakes UK to become world's fifth largest economy

C Krishnasai
WION News
Sat, 03 Sep 2022 10:33 UTC
India economic region
© ReutersIndia pushes UK to the sixth spot in economy
India has overtaken the United Kingdom to become the fifth largest economy in the world, according to Bloomberg, which has cited GDP figures from the International Monetary Fund.

New Delhi pushed Britain to the sixth spot in the final three months of 2021 to become the fifth-biggest economy. The calculation is based on US dollars, with India extending its lead in the first quarter.


Comment: Valuing countries in dollars is likely to give a distorted view of a country's worth, as is also the case with GDP.


According to the Bloomberg report, the size of the Indian economy with regards to 'nominal' cash was $854.7 billion during the quarter through March on an adjusted basis and using the dollar exchange rate on the last day of the relevant quarter. In contrast, the UK was at $814 billion.

Comment: And so even with distorted valuations, and the UK having undue influence on the markets what with it being one of centres of financial fraud, India has still managed to surpass it.

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