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House Republicans move to cut funding for FBI, protect whistleblowers

Leif Le Mahieu
The Daily Wire
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 01:00 UTC
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© UnknownFBI Chief Christopher Wray
House Republicans have moved to cut $1 billion in funding for the FBI and protect federal whistleblowers as lawmakers continue to question the bureau over its treatment of conservatives.

The bill introducing the cuts was passed by Republicans on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and was opposed by Democrats on the committee. If the bill, which could face an uphill battle in the Senate and from the White House, becomes law it would cut FBI funding by about 9%.

The proposed bill also prevents funds from being used for the FBI's office of diversity and inclusion, as well as other agency diversity offices that fall under the scope of the appropriations bill, which covers a variety of federal agencies including the Commerce Department and the Department of Justice.

The DOJ would also get its funding cut by $2 billion and the Commerce Department would lose $1.4 in discretionary spending.
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Biohazard

Homes evacuated after train carrying hazardous materials derails in Pennsylvania

Isabel Keane
New York Post
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:57 UTC
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© NBC 10 PhiladelphiaThe 40-car freight train derailed in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania.
Homes were being evacuated early Monday after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed outside Philadelphia.

A 40-car CSX Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just before 5 a.m. Monday, prompting emergency crews to respond to a suburban area of Whitemarsh Township.

Between 15 and 20 of the derailed cars were carrying hazardous materials, prompting a Level 2 hazmat response, Fox 29 reported.
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British Government funds campaign to rewrite climate science entries on Wikipedia

Chris Morrison
Daily Sceptic
Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:00 UTC
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A major rewriting of the science published on Wikipedia that is sceptical of the 'settled' climate narrative is being funded by a number of Governments from Scandinavia and the U.K. The operation is being directed by the green activist group, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), under a project titled 'Improving communication of climate knowledge through Wikipedia'.

The operation targets climate change pages that have significant daily page views. The SEI notes that Wikipedia articles usually appear at the top of internet search results, and the site plays a "key role" in helping promote climate change knowledge. "The improvement of the key articles making use of available scientific expertise is necessary," it says.

The key word of course is "improvement" but, alas, a brief list of the "content experts" does not inspire confidence that rigorous dissemination of all climate science views will prevail. For instance, Kristie L. Ebi from the University of Washington has the curious notion that rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are "affecting the nutritional quality of our food". Poor old CO2 you might feel. It gets a shocking press these days but few doubt its role as the gas of life, whose 60% reduction in the atmosphere would lead to the swift removal of all plant and life forms on Earth.
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Attention

Son of Canadian pastor facing prison for sermon blasts Trudeau before EU Parliament, draws standing ovation

Jon Brown
Fox News
Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:30 UTC
Nathaniel Pawlowski
© Nathaniel PawlowskiNathaniel Pawlowski urged the EU Parliament to intervene in his father's case, and warned that Canadian freedoms are quickly eroding.
'Trudeau is a modern-day Caligula,' Nathaniel Pawlowski told EU Parliament to applause.

The son of a Canadian pastor drew raucous applause from the European Parliament earlier this month when he pleaded for international pressure in the case of his father, who potentially faces 10 years in prison after delivering a sermon to truckers blocking the U.S.-Canada border last year.

"I am here today in desperation, a cry for help," Nathaniel Pawlowski, 23, told members of the EU Parliament on July 4. "I would like to stand here and tell you all the things about freedom and democracy that I like, but I no longer know those things."

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Mr. Potato

'Are you historically illiterate?': Dana Loesch torches Blinken over Bastille Day tweet

Virginia Kruta
The Daily Wire
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
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Nationally syndicated radio host Dana Loesch took time out on Saturday to offer a brief history lesson to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, mocking him for comparing the American Revolution to the French Revolution.

Blinken had offered a statement Friday in honor of Bastille Day — the day that French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison in 1789.

"The War of Independence and the French Revolution were fueled by the same aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Today, we are more committed than ever to defending them — together. Warmest wishes on Bastille Day to the people of France," Blinken wrote.

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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: Everything you need to know about sex-trafficking charges against Andrew Tate

Citizen Frank
CF
Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:31 UTC
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THE BACKSTORY

Timeline
  • Early 2010s: Andrew Tate started his webcamming business in the U.K. in the early 2010s. He was broke at the time and saw an opportunity to make money by setting up a webcam studio (he made his first big money and become a multi millionaire with his webcamming business).
  • 2015: Andrew Tate was arrested three times in the U.K. on suspicion of sexually assaulting one woman and raping two others — but the case was dropped altogether in 2019. In 2023, the three women who had accused Tate of rape and sexual assault announced they were filing another lawsuit against him.

Comment: Tate is a liar and master manipulator. He put up a convincing false front in his interview with Tucker, but even a preliminary look into his past turns up a truly sordid history. This is not a person to look up to.

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Oil Well

Here's what our climate overlords fail to understand about fossil fuels

David Blackmon
The Daily Caller
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:59 UTC
Gas pump
© Flickr / Senado Federal
"Today, our society requires oil and gas ... There is no way to think that overnight we can just eliminate all that and rely only on 10% of low-carbon energy. It will take decades to build a new system. If we don't invest enough, the [oil] price will not be $75 per barrel, it will be $150 or $200 and all consumers will be super unhappy and our life will be a nightmare." That quote was made by TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne during a recent interview with CNBC.

Mr. Pouyanne is certainly not alone in his assessment, though he is closer to the situation than most of the rest of us. The fact is the world is not engaged in any sort of a real "energy transition" at all, but rather a massive diversification and expansion of all types of energy resources. That includes wind and solar, renewable energy sources that are in the midst of a huge expansion drive by trillions of dollars in global government subsidies, but nuclear and coal and wood and biofuels and yes, oil and natural gas.

A new analysis released this week by Energy Outlook Advisors (EOA), a Texas-based advisory group headed up by Anas Alhajji, demonstrates clearly why the popular energy transition narrative about achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 is literally a fantasy.
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Arrow Up

Biden administration scores victory against order blocking contact with social media companies

Daniel Chaitin
The Daily Wire
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
WH PS
© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
The Biden administration received a reprieve on Friday from a judge's order blocking several government agencies and officials from contacting social media companies.

A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a temporary stay "until further orders" are given and called for expediting oral arguments in the case, which now appear to be set for August 10.

The ruling is part of a lawsuit brought in 2022 by the GOP attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri over alleged collusion between the federal government and social media companies such as Twitter and YouTube to censor "disfavored" speech in violation of the First Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who was nominated to his position by former President Donald Trump, granted a preliminary injunction on July 4 while recognizing allegations of coordinated suppression of information on a range of topics ranging from COVID to elections labeled by the defendants as "misinformation," "disinformation," or "malinformation."

Comment: See also: Federal judge blocks Biden administration from meeting with social media companies

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Question

Who's afraid of Moms for Liberty?

Robert Pondiscio
The Free Press
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Octavio Jones/Getty ImagesThe Moms for Liberty mission statement “We Do Not Co-Parent with the Government” has animated an enormous audience—with almost 300 chapters in 45 states.
A growing cadre of angry mothers is taking over school boards and winning influence as GOP kingmakers. Why are they being called a 'hate group'?

In a breakout session in a windowless conference room at last weekend's Moms for Liberty "Joyful Warrior Summit" in Philadelphia, Christian Ziegler, the chairman of the Florida Republican Party and father of three school-aged daughters, is stiffening spines. Dozens of attendees, mostly women, are nodding and taking notes as Ziegler explains how to work with local news media:
"Your product is parental rights. Your product is protecting children and eliminating indoctrination and the sexualization of children. You're the grassroots. You're on the ground. You're the moms, the grandparents, the families that are impacted. The stories you tell help set a narrative."
One story above us, the ballroom floor of the downtown Marriott is groaning under the weight of crowded press risers, where camera crews have set up for the parade of Republican presidential hopefuls coming here to curry favor with the more than 600 Moms for Liberty members attending — and a few thousand more watching the livestream.

Ron DeSantis held forth this morning. Nikki Haley is scheduled to speak at lunch. Donald Trump will close things out later this afternoon. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson are on tap for tomorrow.
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Car manufacturers to require facial recognition to drive their vehicles

William McCurdy
Biometric Update.com
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:25 UTC
Facial Recognition
© Östermalms Trafikskola
A slew of the world's largest automakers, including Sony, Honda, Ford, Genesis, and Mullen Automotive, have all either recently announced or patented facial recognition technologies.

A newly unveiled prototype car from Sony and Honda, called "Afeela," is set to employ facial recognition to unlock the vehicle and open its door.

The semiconductors and chipsets set to underpin this biometric tech will be provided by electronics giant Qualcomm.

The firms will start taking orders in 2025, with U.S. deliveries set to start in 2026.

Commenting on the move, Sony Honda Mobility President Izumi Kawanishi told Axios, that though the automotive industry has been "a very traditional business," it is "growing up" by adopting products and software from the IT world.

Ford is yet another example of a major automaker that appears it could be getting into the action. In June, the auto giant filed a patent application for "enhanced biometric authorization," which includes but is not limited to facial recognition.
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