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Danish director scoffs at idiot reporter asking about 'lack of diversity' in his film: 'Takes place in Denmark in the 1750s'

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Filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel
A Danish actor and director reacted with derision when asked about the lack of "diversity" in the film The Promised Land, which was screened at the Venice Film Festival.

Actor Mads Mikkelsen and award-winning filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel were sitting for a panel discussion about the movie when an unnamed journalist posed the question.

"If it's not because of artistic reasons, but because of a lack of diversity this film cannot compete in [the Academy Awards]. Are you worried about that?" the journalist asked, prompting Mikkelsen to quickly say, "Are you?"

"You're putting us on the spot, so you answer the question," he continued with a laugh and shake of his head.

Comment: Why doesn't the Academy simply write the scripts they will approve of and distribute them to the directors? It would save ever so much time.


Arrow Up

Florida board approves 'Classic Learning Test' as SAT/ACT alternative

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The decision comes in the wake of multiple high-profile spats between Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and the College Board, which curates Advanced Placement (AP) materials and the SAT.

The Florida Board of Governors on Friday approved a college preparedness exam intended to serve as an alternative to the SAT and ACT for use in the Sunshine State's public universities.

The Classic Learning Test aims to offer "a new standard that puts students in front of the thinkers and questions that have most meaningfully shaped our culture for the past two millennia." CLT offers a traditional college entrance exam, as well as a preparatory exam, a high school readiness exam, and tests for younger grades.

CEO Jeremy Tate confirmed the state's approval on Friday.

The decision comes in the wake of multiple high-profile spats between Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and the College Board, which curates Advanced Placement (AP) materials and the SAT. Under the governor's leadership, the state has moved to eliminate what it perceives as left-wing political indoctrination in public education.

Brick Wall

Appeals court allows Texas to keep floating border buoys in Rio Grande - for now

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© Omar Ornelas/ El Paso Times / USA TODAY NETWORK / FileBuoys float on the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, July 20, 2023, as a Mexican engineer with the International Boundary and Water Commission uses GPS determine to see if the buoys are crossing into Mexican territory.
The ruling comes a day after a US judge ordered the state a day prior to remove the floating border buoys

The floating border buoys that Texas installed in the middle of the Rio Grande to curb the flow of illegal immigrants may remain while the controversial measure makes its way through the courts, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

The temporary stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit comes abruptly after a U.S. judge ordered the state a day prior to move the floating buoys to the embankment.

Although that order was not meant to take effect until Sept. 15, Thursday's ruling could prevent Texas from having to take immediate steps to start moving the barriers.

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Alarm Clock

More 2020 election fraud: Multiple Michigan clerks reported receiving late voter registrations sent directly from SOS Benson's office

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© The Gateway PunditMichigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
The forms were delivered only ONE day before the election. What's going on?

Last week, we reported about a whistleblower who shared a Facebook page Michigan clerks used to discuss issues they faced related to elections. The conversations we found between city and county clerks and, in at least one case, a top election official working for MI SOS Jocelyn Benson appear to be very telling of how Michigan's dishonest Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson really runs her elections.

On August 1, 2020, only three days before the August 4 Primary Election in Michigan, a Michigan city clerk asked fellow clerks if they were also getting "last minute voter registrations from SOS Jocelyn Benson's Bureau of Elections.
"Anyone else getting emails of last-minute voter registrations from the Bureau of Election? I have to wonder what's going on, I received one today, and the only information on the voter registration was an address...nothing else, no date, no name, no signature, absolutely nothing but an address. What did they expect me to do with it, and why bother sending it?"

"We got 34 of them at 10 pm on Friday. Most dated back to mid-June and early July."

"Yet we, as clerks, are expected to respond to requests within 24 hours of receiving them. smh"

"Me too! Four of them dated back in early July - so we have deadlines, but the Secretary of State doesn't??"

Pistol

New Mexico sheriff REFUSES to enforce governor's ban on carrying guns: 'It's unconstitutional'

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Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Sheriff John Allen and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
"As the elected Sheriff, I have reservations regarding this order."

On Friday, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Sheriff John Allen announced that he has "reservations" regarding an order from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to suspend firearm laws for 30 days because it "challenges the foundation of our Constitution."

In a post on X, Allen acknowledged that "Every lost life is a tragedy, and the well-being of our community is of paramount concern to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office." He said, "However, as the elected Sheriff, I have reservations regarding this order."

"While I understand and appreciate the urgency, the temporary ban challenges the foundation of our Constitution, which I swore an oath to uphold," He continued. "I am wary of placing my deputies in positions that could lead to civil liability conflicts, as well as the potential risks posed by prohibiting law-abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense."

Comment: New Mexico governor suspends people's right to carry guns in Albuquerque


Even the Libtards know the optics are bad, even though it's one of their goals:


Of which the governor herself seems aware:




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Docs offer glimpse inside Censorship Industrial Complex

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Welcome to the Censorship Industrial Complex. It's rather like the old "military industrial complex," which was shorthand for the military, private companies, and academia working together to achieve U.S. battlefield dominance, with the R&D funded by the government that buys the final product.

But the censorship industrial complex builds algorithms, not bombers. The players aren't Raytheon and Boeing, but social media companies, tech startups, and universities and their institutes. The foes to be dominated are American citizens whose opinions diverge from government narratives on issues ranging from COVID-19 responses to electoral fraud to transgenderism.

When first exposed a few months ago, many of the actors and their media defenders perversely claimed that they, as private entities, were acting out of concern for "democracy" and exercising their own First Amendment rights.

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New Mexico governor suspends people's right to carry guns in Albuquerque

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© Sam Wasson / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNew Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham: "Whoopsies!"
New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham banned people from being able to carry guns in Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least the next 30 days after a kid was killed during a road rage incident.

Grisham signed an executive order on Thursday declaring that gun violence was a public health emergency in the Democrat-controlled state.

On Friday, Grisham unilaterally suspended open and concealed carry laws in Albuquerque and the surrounding area. She said that she could further lengthen or renew her order — which was immediately slammed by many as being unconstitutional.

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Quebec man charged with arson after allegedly setting wildfires, causing evacuations

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A man from northern Quebec has been arrested and charged with two counts of arson following a weeks-long manhunt. The 37-year-old, whose name has not been released, is accused of intentionally setting fire to forests in the area near Chibougamau, a town 500km north of the provincial capital, from which 7,500 residents had to be evacuated in early June.

Quebec was battered by wildfires all summer long, and though it has been claimed that firefighters were able to quickly extinguish those allegedly set by the suspect, an investigation is underway to determine whether they were, in fact, linked to those that wreaked havoc on la belle province.

According to the CBC, the suspect appeared in court virtually via videoconference on Thursday from his home in Chibougamau. During proceedings, it was alleged that he had set a series of fires in the area between May 31 and September 5. Most of the blazes were said to have occurred in the forest, however, in one instance he allegedly torched a fishing cabin.

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Freedom truckers' lawyers say trial of Tamara Lich, Chris Barber is about Canadians being 'shamed and vilified' for protesting Trudeau's Covid lockdowns

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The lawyer who represented the Freedom Convoy at last November's Emergency Act Inquiry said Wednesday that the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is about ordinary Canadians being "shamed and vilified."

In an exclusive interview with The Post Millennial, Edmonton attorney Eva Chipiuk said the long, arduous legal ordeal endured by both Tamara Lich and Chris Barber has already produced a protest "chill" in Canadian society.

"Canadians are being shamed and vilified for doing so. Democracy is not grounded in unilateral sacrifices, but requires reciprocal participation. It is the government and the police authorities that should be answering questions about why they chose to stand against citizens rather than with citizens."

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Syringe

German health authorities plead to parliamentary committee that they have yet to evaluate adverse vaccine events because there are too many of them

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© Epoch TimesLothar Wieler • Heiko Rottmann-Großner • Brandenburg Investigative Committee, 1 Sept. 2023
The major German political parties will never investigate the pandemic response, because they are all complicit in it. Across the entire political landscape of the Federal Republic, the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland stands alone in its critical stance towards lockdowns and mass vaccination, and only in the state parliament of Brandenburg do they have sufficient seats to gather an investigatory committee on the transgressions of the Corona era. On Friday, 1 September, the AfD-convened Brandenburg Corona Committee summoned Robert Koch-Institut Chief Lothar Wieler (the German counterpart to Anthony Fauci) and Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski, head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Safety and Diagnostics at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. They were questioned for six hours on the Covid vaccines.

Journalists who eagerly reported Wieler's every utterance during the Covid pandemic almost totally ignored his committee testimony. Among the few exceptions is Larissa Fußer, who has provided extensive reporting at Apollo News. The picture she paints is incredible: Neither the RKI, Germany's public health authority, nor the PEI, our pharmaceuticals regulator, have taken even the most basic steps to evaluate the frequency or nature of vaccine injuries, or even the effectiveness of the vaccines in general. Technical problems, staff shortages, and the sheer extent of the data, has prevented them from fulfilling their most basic duties.

Comment: Can't even say 'they failed'. They never tried.