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Lebowitz calls for Biden-Harris to "dissolve the Supreme Court"


jonathanturley.org
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
Fran Lebowitz
Author and cultural critic Fran Lebowitz added voice to the unhinged calls on the left for trashing the Supreme Court. As I discussed recently in the Wall Street Journal (and in my book), there is a growing counter-constitutional movement in the United States led by law professors, pundits, and celebrities. Lebowitz amplified those calls in a radical demand to simply get rid of the Court.

Lebowitz called for President Joe Biden to "dissolve the Supreme Court" despite the fact that it would violate the Constitution and remove one of the most critical protections against executive and legislative abuse.

Lebowitz insisted that the Supreme Court is a "disgrace" because, in a reference to Donald Trump, it is "completely his." To the wild applause of the New York audience, she added: "It's so disgraceful, this court, that it shouldn't even be allowed to be called the Supreme Court. It's an insult to Motown. Basically, it's a harem. It's Trump's harem."

Her views aligned with others on the left who have attacked the Constitution, the Court, and even rights like free speech as now threats to our democracy.
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Hurricane Helene wreaks havoc across Asheville, NC; National Guard deployed, 119 rescued so far

Stepheny Price
Fox News
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:58 UTC
lake lure hurricane helene destruction
© Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesThe Rocky Broad River flows into Lake Lure, N.C., and overflows the town with debris from Chimney Rock after heavy rains from Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024.
Salon owner in Asheville shares images, video of storm's destruction

As the death toll continues to rise across the Southern states, first aid and assistance to those suffering from Hurricane Helene are rolling in across the country.

As of Sunday morning, the North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) activated more than 500 soldiers and airmen and more than 200 vehicles and aircraft, including hoist and emergency aviation assets as well as high-water response vehicles.

The NCNG reported that it completed 16 air missions, resulting in the rescue of 119 citizens and 11 pets.
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Red Pill

Major sponsor, Toyota, dumps 'increasingly political' Olympics


RT
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:45 UTC
Toyota Olympic sponsor
The event no longer puts "athletes first," Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has claimed.

Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota is officially ending its Olympics sponsorship following the Paris Games, Chairman Akio Toyoda announced in a podcast posted on the company's YouTube channel this week. According to Toyoda, this summer's Olympics demonstrated that the event has become "increasingly political."

Toyota struck a ten-year sponsorship agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2015. Toyota's Olympic Partner contract was reported to be worth $835 million, the IOC's largest sponsorship deal at the time. It was to span four Olympics but could be renewed upon expiry in 2025. Toyoda said, however, that he has become disillusioned with the event, which no longer puts athletes first.
"I've wondered for a while now whether the event is truly putting athletes first... It is also becoming increasingly political," the chairman stated. Previously, he said, "the Olympics should simply be about watching athletes from all walks of life, with all types of challenges, achieve their impossible."

Comment: It looks like some sponsors are pulling their support from the Woke WEF agenda's invasion of the sports world.

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Network

The "modern economy rests on a single road" in North Carolina where Hurricane Helene collapsed bridges

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:15 UTC
sprice pine quirtz essential mineral quartz
© SibelcoLeading industrial minerals provider Sibelco's Spruce Pines quartz mine in North Carolina
In March, a Wharton professor who studies artificial intelligence and start-ups claimed on X, "The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that are the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers."

Ethan Mollick noted at the time, "There are no alternative sources known" if supply disruptions were seen in Spruce Pines.

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Flashlight

RT logo adorns US embassy in Moscow (VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:59 UTC
RT Logo
Sanctions won't make the Russian broadcaster go away, a message projected onto the building proclaimed.

The facade of the US embassy in Moscow was lit up with a defiant message from RT on Thursday evening, as the Russian broadcaster informed the Americans that it is "not going away."

The projected message read "we're not going away" in both English and Russian, with RT's logo displayed underneath.

The diplomatic prank came after the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on RT and its parent companies earlier this month, accusing the network of being "engaged in covert influence activities... and functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence." The US Justice Department also filed criminal charges against two people it claimed worked for RT, accusing them of financing video content that sowed "discord and division" in the US.

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Explosion

Nearly one million forcibly displaced in Lebanon after Israeli aggression: PM


The Cradle
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
people in Lebanon could be displaced
© Courtney Bonneau/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
Thousands of families have been forced to sleep out in the open as shelters quickly overcrowded due to the ferocity of Israel's attacks

As many as one million people in Lebanon could be displaced by dozens of Israeli airstrikes that have hit the country's capital over the past few days, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati told reporters on 29 September.

"The number of displaced people... could reach a million. Let's not forget the large influx from the south and the Bekaa," Mikati said following an emergency cabinet meeting, calling the situation "the largest displacement movement that may have happened" in the country.

Caretaker Environment Minister Nasser Yassin echoed Mikati's words, announcing that about 250,000 people have taken refuge in government-run and informal shelters. However, he stressed that the total number is about "four times as many directly affected and/or displaced outside the shelters."
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Massive fire engulfs Atlanta-area chemical plant, evacuations underway

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:54 UTC
chemical fire atlanta georgia
© WSB-TV AtlantaSmoke billowing from burning Rockdale County chemical plant as neighbors shelter in place
A massive fire broke out at a chemical plant in Conyers, Georgia, prompting local area evacuations and road closures. Footage of the blaze shared on X might remind some of the train derailment fire in East Palestine, Ohio, early last year.

The Rockdale County Sheriff's Office said the fire occurred at BioLab, a chemical plant that makes specialty pool and spa care products. They told residents near the plant to stay indoors and keep windows closed to minimize exposure to harmful chemicals, adding, "Safety measures are in place to protect the public."
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'Defy human decency': Border agents rescue drugged, smuggled children

Bethany Blankley
The Center Square
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
An unaccompanied minor smuggled into the U.S.
© US Border Patrol El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino via XAn unaccompanied minor smuggled into the U.S.
Border Patrol agents are rescuing young unaccompanied children smuggled into the country by cartel operatives, believing they have been drugged and abused.

"Sometimes we encounter criminal actions so horrendous they defy human decency," El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said in a recent social media post.

He described how Border Patrol agents rescued a young boy "from a trafficker who heavily dosed him w/ sleep aids to prevent him from talking to agents. Scarier still is the trafficker had birth certificates for more kids." Bovino also posted photos of the child and multiple Arizona birth certificates they discovered.

So sad for the innocents caught up in trafficking," he said in another social media post, adding that within 48 hours they rescued two more minors. "This is sad, reprehensible, and evil." In another post, he said, "We just caught another drugged child load within the past 48 hours that was just as bad. ... This is terrible. Poor children."
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Bad Guys

Transplant industry whistleblower claims she was pressured to harvest organs from a person who was still alive and fired after complaining

Alex Hammer
Daily Mail
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
organ donor
© KODA
A former employee of a nonprofit organ recovery group has claimed she was asked to harvest organs from a person who was still living - and then fired after airing her qualms to members of Congress.

Nyckoletta Martin, 38, made the latter revelations Tuesday to the Wall Street Journal, describing how she was let go by organ collection group Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates on September 13.

Days before, a letter she wrote to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee was read and discussed on the House floor, after it alleged that there is currently outsized pressure on organ collectors.
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Toys

IMF: Carbon taxes hurt the poor. Also the IMF: We need a global carbon tax

Mark E. Jeftovic
Bombthrower
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
IMF blog
File between "No Sh*t Sherlock" and "You Don't Say?"

The IMF's "Chart of the Week" just dropped, promising a glimpse into how carbon taxes can be "less regressive", "socially fair" and "economically efficient".

Citing a new research paper, the chart of the week comes from research findings that carbon taxes inordinately penalize the poors,
"lower-income groups are affected disproportionately, because they spend a smaller share of their expenditure on products that benefit from exemptions than their higher-income counterparts."
Finding that low-income households pay anywhere between $1.26 USD and $4.95 USD more per tonne of CO2 than the rich and affluent,
"Our incidence calculations for the EU in 2020 show that average price paid for carbon across all emission sources were around 11.35 USD, which was 60% lower than the EU ETS price of that year (28.22 USD). The difference between this average price paid for carbon and the EU ETS price is due to incomplete carbon price coverage in the value chains behind the products that EU consumers buy."
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