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Democrats only have themselves to blame for the rise of Ron DeSantis

Charles C.W. Cooke
New York Post
Sat, 02 Apr 2022 08:28 UTC
DeSantis
© NY PostThe more Democrats take aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on COVID and social issues, the more they propel him to a conservative superhero on the national stage.
The mercurial rise of Ron DeSantis is the Democrats' fault.

I say this with gratitude, not regret. Absent some catastrophe, DeSantis is going to win a second term as governor of Florida this coming November and, after that, he has a fair shot of being president. This is partly because he has done an excellent job for his state. It's also because he was unusually lucky in his enemies.

Unable to help themselves, the Democrats have aided him at every stage. They still are.

2018 was a good year for the Democratic Party, but not so good a year that the quality of its candidates didn't matter. Had the party nominated a credible centrist in Florida's toss-up gubernatorial race — Gwen Graham, for example — that candidate would not only have won the governor's mansion for the Democrats for the first time in two decades, she'd have ended DeSantis' career.


Comment: This, of course, is speculation.


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Court upholds bakery's $32M victory against Oberlin College over false racism accusations

Brittany Bernstein
Yahoo News
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:13 UTC
Gibsons
© Colorado Citizens PressGibson's Bakery, Oberlin, Ohio
An Ohio appeals court has upheld a ruling that awarded more than $30 million to a bakery that accused Oberlin College of damaging its business and libeling it with false accusations of racism.

A three-judge panel on the Ninth District Court of Appeals issued a unanimous decision to uphold a 2019 ruling by Lorain County Judge John Miraldi, who initially awarded the bakery more than $40 million in punitive and compensatory damages, Cleveland.com reported. However, the sum was later reduced to $25 million, though the bakery was awarded more than $6 million for lawyers' fees.

Gibson's Bakery sued the college in 2017, accusing the school and one of its administrators of hurting its business and libeling it over an incident in which the son of the bakery owner stopped three black Oberlin College students, one of whom was stealing wine bottles from the store, in November 2016.

Students from the school protested the bakery after the arrest, handing out fliers outside the shop telling patrons to shop elsewhere. The fliers also accused the Gibsons of having a long history of racial profiling, citing the November 2016 incident, according to Legal Insurrection. Witnesses who testified at the trial said Oberlin College Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo participated in the protests, handing out stacks of fliers for others to distribute.
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Banksters in trouble? JPMorgan stock slips as CEO Jamie Dimon warns Russia exposure will cost $1B

Martin Baccardax
The Street
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:33 UTC
JP Morgan
© Dylan Martinez / Reuters
"We are not worried about our direct exposure to Russia, though we could still lose about $1 billion over time," CEO Jamie Dimon told shareholders Monday.

JPMorgan shares moved lower Monday after CEO Jamie Dimon cautioned investors that its exposure to Russia could clip $1 billion from the bank's bottom line.

In his annual letter to shareholders, published Monday, Dimon said both Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the ongoing dispute between the U.S. and China over trade, highlight what he called the "critical importance of economic relationships" that will affect geopolitics "for decades".

Ahead of the bank's first quarter earnings next week, Dimon also provided his most detailed assessment of the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the bank's profits, while also warning that rate hikes from the Federal Reserve "could be significantly higher than the market expects' between now and the end of the year.

Comment: Dimon MUST know disaster is looming for the dollar, and by extension, the West's financial system in general. He's trying to keep the herd from stampeding.

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Elon Musk takes a chunk of Twitter: Now the company's largest shareholder


RT
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 18:27 UTC
Elon Musk Twitter logo
© The Post MillennialElon Musk
The billionaire now holds a 9.2% stake in the micro-blogging platform, filings show

Twitter's share price jumped 26% in pre-market trading on Monday after a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing revealed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in the social media company.

The stake is worth $2.89 billion, based on Twitter's closing price on Friday. The filing shows that Musk made the purchase on March 14 and he now owns 73,486,938 shares.

Comment: Mixed reviews on Musk's purchase:







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JK Rowling weighs in on transgender sporting debate


RT
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:53 UTC
jk rowling
© Neil Mockford / FilmMagicAuthor JK Rowling
The Harry Potter author threw her support behind opposition to trans athletes competing against biological women

Harry Potter author JK Rowling says that British former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies is an "inspiration" for her continued opposition to trans athletes competing against biologically-born women.

Both Rowling and Davies have been prominent critics in the ongoing debate about the fairness and efficacy of having trans athletes competing directly against cis women, citing prominent cases such as those involving American swimmer Lia Thomas and New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard as examples of sporting inequality, after both were successful in competition against women despite being born male.

Comment: It has to be an incredibly difficult mental and emotional place to be in, that one feels the need to alter one's life at such a basic level. Yet there are those who navigate those difficulties while still maintaining a grip on reality, and are speaking up.



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Refugee from Mariupol says the Nazis mined the theater before the explosion


Essence of Time
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:53 UTC
goya painting truth rescued by time
Truth Rescued by Time, Witnessed by History
Francisco Goya, 1812-1814.
Neo-Nazis from the Ukrainian Azov Regiment (organization banned in Russia) were bringing boxes, probably with explosives and detonators, into the building before the explosion of the Drama Theater in Mariupol, said refugee from Mariupol and former police operative Maksim Pavlenko on April 1, giving explanations to Russian FSB Border Guard Service officers.

Pavlenko told about his acquaintance in Berdyansk with Mikhail, a cook from the Drama Theater, who cooked food for two thousand civilians hiding daily in the theater basement. Mikhail, the cook, told former operative Pavlenko that on the eve of the explosion, militants of Azov (organization banned in the Russian Federation) brought boxes into the theater.

Comment: Many testified as to the real situation, but were blocked from the West's mainstream media





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NYC's top doc apologizes to black and Hispanic 'birthing people' for calling them 'mothers'

Leonardo Briceno
The Post Millennial
Sun, 03 Apr 2022 01:50 UTC
Dr. Michelle E. Morse tweet
Dr. Michelle Morse, the chief medical officer at New York City's Department of Health, has received sharp criticism for describing pregnant women differently along lines of race, choosing to call pregnant white women "birthing people" while referencing pregnant women of color as "mothers" in a late March tweet.

Since the city's top doctor's March 23 tweet, a DOH spokesman called Morse's post an "oversight" and said "we apologize for inadvertently gendering Black and Puerto Rican birthing people," according to the New York Post.

Morse had been sharing a number of tweets in which she advocated for increased allocation of goods and services to women of color. A disproportionate number of them, Morse argued, had died either during or shortly after childbirth.

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US corporate profits hit a new record high in 2021

Matt Phillips
Axios
Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
corporate profits
© Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios VisualsU.S. pre-tax corporate profits
Corporate profits hit another record in 2021, though the breakneck pace of growth slowed sharply during the fourth quarter.

Why it matters: This shows that companies have been able to overcome the inflationary wave flowing through the U.S. economy — and even profit from it.

State of play: Companies complained loudly about rising costs for raw materials and labor for most of 2021, but data released yesterday by the Commerce Department show that they passed those costs along — and then some.
  • For the full year 2021, pre-tax profits rose 25% to roughly $2.81 trillion, handily outpacing the 7% rise in consumer prices over the same stretch.

Comment: The greed of the establishment and the impoverishment of citizens can only go on for so long before a collapse is inevitable, and it seems that this is at least part of the plan and that the crisis is to be used as the opening to enforce their Great Reset agenda. However, there are a variety of other converging issues that have not been accounted for, and it's possible that all may not play out as planned: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Bucha False-Flag - Sanctions Gas Theater - BRICS Dismantling Dollar Domination



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Tucker Carlson reports spying allegations in Congress

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC
tucker carlson Rep. Chris Stewart
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported that two members of Congress are being "spied on" by the U.S. intelligence apparatus.

The top-rated cable news personality, who accused the National Security Agency of spying on him last year, made the comment during an interview Friday with Utah GOP Rep. Chris Stewart. The congressman has introduced legislation to better protect U.S. citizens from domestic surveillance activities.

Carlson said he's "spoken directly to two sitting members of Congress" tasked with overseeing the intelligence community, and he heard they "were being spied on by the intel agencies, and they didn't do anything about it."

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Ukrainian journalist finds charred remains where alleged war crime was filmed

Robert Mackey
The Intercept
Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:24 UTC
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© Yuriy Butusov/Censor.NetLeft: a screenshot from video posted online Sunday that appeared to show the abuse of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine. Right: a screenshot from video posted online Monday by a Ukrainian journalist which showed the same location after explosions and a fire.
Amid overwhelming evidence that Russian forces have committed war crimes during an unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials were confronted this week with video that appeared to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting captive Russian soldiers in the legs.

Although Ukraine's senior military leader and its domestic intelligence agency both insisted that the video posted on social networks on Sunday was "a fake" produced by Russia, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised that the government would investigate and punish those responsible if the incident did take place.

On Monday, a well-known Ukrainian journalist, Yuri Butusov, published graphic video showing the charred remains of three men he identified as Russian soldiers, as Ukrainian forces recaptured the town of Malaya Rohan, outside Kharkiv, over the weekend.

Although Butusov made no mention of the video of the alleged war crime, a visual analysis of his footage shows that it was clearly filmed in the same location as the video of the prisoners being shot, some time after that incident.
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