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Best of the Web: Feds sue Elon Musk's SpaceX for hiring American workers

Josh Christenson
New York Post
Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:39 UTC
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© APSpaceX was accused of violating the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Biden administration sued Elon Musk-owned rocket and satellite company SpaceX on Thursday for allegedly discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in hiring.

"The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act," the Justice Department said in a statement.

"In job postings and public statements over several years, SpaceX wrongly claimed that under federal regulations known as 'export control laws,' SpaceX could hire only US citizens and lawful permanent residents, sometimes referred to as 'green card holders,'" the DOJ added.

The laws bar foreign persons from being given access to export-controlled items without approval from the State Department or Department of Commerce, but permits US persons including citizens, residents, refugees and asylum seekers, according to the lawsuit.

Comment: Following the DOJ's leftist policies are what will destroy the company. There aren't exactly many rocket scientists or skilled technicians coming into the country as asylum seekers or refugees.

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Best of the Web: Ontario to Jordan Peterson — you have the right to remain tweetless

Rahim Mohamed
National Post
Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:31 UTC
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© Bryan Passifiume/National PostJordan Peterson speaks to a full house at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, on Monday, January 30 2023.
You have the right to remain tweetless. Anything you tweet can and will be held against you by a professional oversight body.

This looks to be the law of the land in Ontario, at least.

A trio of Divisional Court judges moved unanimously to dismiss Jordan Peterson's appeal against the Ontario College of Psychologists' order that he attend social media training or risk losing his license to practice. The court was unswayed by Peterson's argument that his off-the-clock tweets were not written in his capacity as a clinical psychologist, but as a private citizen.

"Dr. Peterson sees himself functioning as a clinical psychologist 'in the broad public space' where he claims to be helping 'millions of people' and as he put it, he is 'still practicing in that more diffuse and broader manner,'" read the court's decision, penned by Justice Paul Schabas.

Peterson, a clinical psychologist by training, had run afoul of the organization due, in part, to his gruff (and wildly popular) online persona. (Peterson has over 4.5 million followers on Twitter/X). The college claimed to have received numerous complaints about Peterson's social media activity, dating back to 2018.

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Best of the Web: The West's attempt to create a Ukrainian scenario in Niger is faltering - Timofey Bordachev, Valdai Club Director

Timofey Bordachev
RT
Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:50 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Biden's little chat with Tinubu says a lot about the realities of what is going to happen and what can happen on the ground.
The development of the situation surrounding the possible invasion of Niger by the troops of certain countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is remarkably reminiscent of the discussions that took place on the eve of this summer's Ukrainian "counter-offensive."

The West's African states are in no hurry to embark on a risky adventure. Meanwhile, the US and its Western European allies are urging them to do so. Just as they have been pushing the Ukrainian military to attack fortified Russian positions throughout the spring of 2023.

But there is a significant difference. In the case of Ukraine, we are dealing with a regime that is pursuing a murderous policy towards the territory under its control. African leaders, on the other hand, are not at all willing to take risks for the interests of France and the United States. Therefore, what was a tragedy in Ukraine may turn out to be a farce in West Africa, with the end result being an amicable agreement between all parties concerned.
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Best of the Web: General Jean-Louis Georgelin, France's greatest living soldier, 'dies while walking in mountains'


France 24
Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:32 UTC

Comment: Men like this don't die falling in the mountains...


Jean-Louis Georgelin
© Thomas Samson, AFPIn 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron chose Jean-Louis Georgelin to lead the reconstruction work on Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral.
General Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, died on Friday in the Pyrenees mountain range straddling the France-Spain border, said the prosecutor's office in the southern French city of Foix.

A mountain rescue team deployed to the Mont-Valier peak "discovered the body of a man who has been formally identified as General Georgelin", a spokesman said, adding that an accident was the likely cause.

Notre-Dame has lost "the overseer of its rebirth" and France "one of its great servants", President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter, now rebranded as "X".

Comment: This is, obviously, suspicious, for a number of reasons. Such VIPs don't tend to 'hike alone in the Pyrenees', especially not in the middle of 'the hottest heatwave ever', and especially not given how serious and pressing a job he had to get Notre Dame ready in time for the Olympics in Paris next year. La Depeche reports:
His body was found below the path located under the Col de Faustin, on the slopes of Mont-Valier, in the Ariège Pyrenees. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who supervised the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, died on Friday August 18 during the descent, "at the level of a particularly steep rocky passage"...

This Monday, the deputy prosecutor of Foix, Benoît De Saintignon, clarified that "nothing suggests that the general was on the wrong path at the time of his fall". While some regulars in the area wondered about the route taken by the victim, suggesting that he had been able to go through a mountaineering route, "a very steep path with cliffs at the end..."

The magistrate said: "according to the rescuer who intervened on the spot, Jean-Louis Georgelin was on the normal route, the one which is marked and which appears on the IGN maps. It is a not particularly dangerous path which nevertheless requires one to be vigilant. It is true that on this passage, cables have been installed, but only for the purpose of guiding the hiker."
Another reason this is suspicious is because of the remaining questions over what happened to the Notre Dame cathedral (specifically, whether it was caused by 'an electrical fault' or arson). Did Georgelin learn something about this? Notre Dame's reconstruction is such a sensitive issue in France that it could also be that Georgelin clashed with the government about how it should be rebuilt.

Then there's this bombshell tweet from the Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, in which he strongly insinuates that he has inside knowledge that Georgelin was in fact killed in the line of (covert) duty in Ukraine, and his dead body later brought to the Pyrenees to be 'discovered':



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Best of the Web: Neocon dark money front launches desperate ad blitz as support for Ukraine forever war is cratering

Alexander Rubinstein
The Grayzone
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:11 UTC
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According to archneocon Bill Kristol, this image will feature on ten billboards during the Republcan presidential debate in Milwaulkee, August 20, 2023
A PR offensive to inundate the American public with pro-Ukraine war advertisements during the 2024 election is the latest initiative of neocon chickenhawk Bill Kristol. While targeted at GOP voters, the campaign appears to be another Democratic Party front.

Defending Democracy Together, a neoconservative outfit led by career chickenhawk scribe Bill Kristol, has launched a new initiative called "Republicans for Ukraine" to transform the 2024 presidential election into a referendum on US funding for the NATO proxy war.

Urging Republicans in Congress to support more funding for Ukraine in the upcoming appropriations bill is also a key item on the agenda.

Kristol had defined himself as a leader of the Republican Party's neoconservative faction, bashing isolationist and antiwar GOP figures on the pages of his now-defunct Weekly Standard magazine while laying the intellectual groundwork for the invasion of Iraq through his Project for a New American Century.
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Best of the Web: Death Valley in California got year's worth of rain in 24 hours - all-time wettest day


abc7.com
Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:28 UTC
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Death Valley is known for breaking records when it comes to hot temperatures, but on Sunday, Tropical Storm Hilary dumped 2.2 inches of rain over the area, which breaks the record for the all-time wettest day in Death Valley.

According to the National Weather Service, that's actually the exact amount of rain they average annually.

Death Valley National Park remained closed Monday due to mud and debris flows and the threat of flash flooding. Even once the park reopens, getting around may be difficult. Park officials said the shoulders of several roads have been either undercut or washed away.


Comment: Related: Tropical Storm Hilary hitting Southern California as Southwest braces for its wrath - first such storm in 84 years

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Best of the Web: Scott Ritter: For NATO and Ukraine, Reality Bites

Scott Ritter
Sputnik
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:49 UTC
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© Sputnik / Viktor AntonyukA destroyed tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Troitske, controlled by pro-Russian troops, Luhansk People's Republic.
There's an iconic scene in the 1990's cult classic movie, Reality Bites, where Leilaina, played by Winona Ryder, delivers the valedictory address. "What are we going to do now?" she asks, before following up with an even more pertinent question: "How can we repair all the damage we inherited?"

She then answers her questions with a plaintive, "I don't know."

In watching NATO and Ukrainian officials struggle to comprehend the reality of the situation they find themselves in, with the long-awaited and much-anticipated counteroffensive floundering against Russian defenses that have proved to be impenetrable, Leilaina's words came immediately to mind. Ukraine has dispatched the last of its strategic reserves, led by the elite 82nd Airlanding Brigade, into the battle for the Zaporozhye village of Rabotino. Here, in fields made fallow by conditions of war, Ukraine's best fighting forces have been eviscerated by Russian defenders who have refused to yield. Based upon the experience of the lead elements of the 82nd Brigade, this fate awaits them as well.

Comment: Indeed, Lukashenko outlined the reality facing Ukraine in the starkest terms:





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Best of the Web: Dependency on the State is the core of the takeover plot of humanity

Gary D. Barnett
LewRockwell.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:20 UTC
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"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle."

P.J. O'Rourke
Most of you have entered the final stage of your voluntary acceptance of mass slavery, and that slavery is fully dependent on the concept of fear, compliance to a false 'authority,' and total dependence on the very tyrant called government, whose plan is to control the world by controlling the common, ignorant, and apathetic collective crowd called 'the people.'

The most vital component of this 'Great Reset' agenda, is for the majority to be dependent on the State, and that phenomenon is now close at hand.

The final foundation of all restriction, control of financial and monetary transactions, and control of movement, will hinge on the farcical fraud called manmade 'climate change.'

No worries however, because many other excuses, and aspects of control and manipulation will be used as well, but at this point, the 'climate change' hoax is the lynchpin of the future takeover plot.
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Best of the Web: Cosmic climate change? Neptune's clouds have disappeared, surprising scientists

Michelle Starr
Science Alert
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:51 UTC
Neptune
© NASA/JPLAn image of Neptune snapped by Voyager 2 in 1989, the only spacecraft ever to have visited the distant world.
Something very strange has happened to Neptune. In the last several years, the pale streaks of cloud that typically adorn its blue atmosphere have all but vanished.

Moreover, images dating back to 1994, when the Hubble Space Telescope first started documenting Neptune, show this isn't the first time this has happened. The fluctuations also seem linked to another periodic change - the 11-year activity of the solar cycle.


Comment: Which has recently been found to be one of 2 cycles in effect: Two solar cycles occur at the same time, lasting 17 years each, new study reveals


Given Neptune is from the Sun - about 4.5 billion kilometers, or just over 30 times the average distance between Earth and the Sun - this revelation has astronomers both surprised and intrigued.


Comment: Although it probably shouldn't given the fact that NASA discovered that electric currents driven by solar wind create Saturn's auroras and heat the planet's atmosphere.


Comment: For more on the evidence that leads one to conclude the climate change we're seeing on Earth, and further afield, is part of a cosmic phenomenon, see: Cosmic climate change: Is the cause of all this extreme weather to be found in outer space?

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Flashback Best of the Web: Are alien-human 'hybrids' already walking among us? Indeed, claims retired professor David Jacobs

Dana Difilippo
philly.com
Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:42 UTC
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The way David M. Jacobs sees it, aliens from outer space have been kidnapping humans for aeons and sexually molesting them to create human-alien hybrids that walk among us today undetected and will soon take over Earth.

He knows that sounds crazy.

But he long ago quit caring what people think of him. As director of the International Center for Abduction Research, Jacobs, 71, has made it his life's mission to investigate claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

"What I'm doing will either be an interesting but nonessential footnote to popular culture or the most important thing that's ever happened to humankind. I see it as the latter," said Jacobs, who's now working on his fifth book, tentatively titled The New People.

While most people might write off UFO believers as deluded, conspiracy-theorist kooks, Jacobs isn't your typical believer.

He was a tenured professor at Temple University, where he taught American history for 36 years before retiring in 2011. He's a married father of two who lives in a picturesque, 134-year-old Victorian just over the Philadelphia line, in Wyndmoor. He makes his case with well-reasoned, articulate explanations and applies a scholarly approach to his research, which he has shared in four books - printed by well-known and academic publishers.

Jacobs has interviewed about 150 people who say they've been abducted by aliens, the forgotten details of their cosmic kidnappings resurfacing in relaxation sessions the self-taught hypnotist does in his home.
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