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Light Sabers

Consumers fighting back, with some success, against brands gone woke

Jonathan Turley
The HIll
Sat, 27 May 2023 21:06 UTC
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At a recent baseball game, I watched a fellow Cubs fan facing a dilemma at Nationals Park in Washington. No, it wasn't the dilemma of whether to cheer another meltdown by a Cubs pitcher — it was the beer vendor, who was handing him a Bud Light. The vendor had only Bud Lights left...for a good reason. The company is now literally giving away beer for free due to a consumer backlash.

With a pained look, the obviously thirsty fan declined and headed for the concourse looking for another brand. Bud Light was dead to him after the controversy over a promotion featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. The Cubs fan isn't alone. Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, has reportedly lost nearly $19 billion since this controversy began.

Comment: Interesting take on corporate DEI initiatives from Vince Kennedy:



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Pirates

End of the grift: Black Lives Matter is headed for INSOLVENCY after plunging $8.5M into the red

Harriet Alexander
The Daily Mail
Sat, 27 May 2023 20:30 UTC
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But founder Patrisse Cullors' brother was still paid $1.6M for 'security services' in 2022, while sister of board member earned $1.1M for 'consulting'

Black Lives Matter's national organization is at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5 million into the red last year - while simultaneously handing multiple staff seven-figure salaries.

Financial disclosures obtained by The Washington Free Beacon show the perilous state of BLM's Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020, as a more formal way of structuring the civil rights movement.

Yet despite the financial controversy and scrutiny, BLM GNF continued to hire relatives of the founder, Patrisse Cullors, and several board members.

Cullors' brother, Paul Cullors, set up two companies which were paid $1.6 million providing 'professional security services' for Black Lives Matter in 2022.

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Arrow Down

Biden's DOJ drops all charges against Soros-backed Massachusetts DA caught lying under oath

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownUS Attorney District Massachusetts Rachel Rollins • US AG Merrick Garland
Biden's DOJ has decided not to charge Rachael Rollins after evidence found her guilty of election interference, raising concerns about a double standard in the criminal justice system.

Rachel Rollins, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, resigned from her office on Friday after the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found evidence that she lied to investigators to reportedly influence an election. The OIG referred criminal charges to the DOJ, but the Justice Department decided not to prosecute the district attorney, according to The Messenger.

The report states that "on December 16, 2022, pursuant to the Inspector General Act, 5 U.S.C. § 404(d), the OIG referred the false statements allegation to the Department for a prosecutive decision.

The OIG's investigation revealed that Rollins lied under oath during an investigation into the attorney allegedly trying to influence an election for district attorney in Suffolk County, MA last year.

Despite the findings, the OIG's report stated that "On January 6, 2023, the Department informed the OIG that it declined prosecution."

Comment: See also: Embattled Soros-backed U.S. attorney resigns following DOJ ethics investigation

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Arrow Down

Major oil producer fears 'apocalyptic' impact of Russia sanctions


RT
Sat, 27 May 2023 13:55 UTC
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The stability of oil supplies from Kazakhstan to the global market relies on transit through Russia, the country's ambassador to the US, Yerzhan Ashikbayev, has stated. He added that any disruption to flows caused by sanctions could trigger a dire scenario.

"We proceed from the mutual interest of all parties, the interest in the stability of the global market, in the stability of supplies. This is vital both for the functioning of our [Kazakh] economy and for the entire global economy," the envoy told RIA Novosti on Thursday on the sidelines of the Trans-Caspian Forum in Washington.

When asked whether he sees any risk that sanctions could make it difficult or impossible for Kazakhstan to transit oil, the diplomat described it as "some kind of apocalyptic scenario."
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Pistol

Man arrested with AK-47, handgun and ammo at Virginia preschool

Ronny Reyes
New York Post
Wed, 24 May 2023 14:04 UTC
Eric Sandow
Fairfax County Police found weapons and ammo inside Eric Sandow’s vehicle.
A trespasser carrying an AK-47, handgun and loads of ammo was arrested at a preschool in Virginia, as he claimed he was headed to the nearby CIA headquarters.

Eric Sandow, 32, of Florida, was taken into custody on Tuesday at the Dolley Madison preschool in McLean after he was caught sneaking onto school grounds, police said.

Officials recovered an AK-47 assault rifle with five extra magazines, a handgun with six extra magazines, as well as several boxes and bags of ammo from Sandow's vehicle.

Police said Sandow told them he was actually headed to the CIA's headquarters, in Langley, less than 2 miles away from the school.

The preschool said in a statement that Sandow asked to come into the school to use the restroom, which was denied.
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Eye 1

North Face deploys drag queen yelling 'COME OUT' to sell LGBTQ+ apparel to kids

Jack Montgomery
The National Pulse
Wed, 24 May 2023 13:41 UTC
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Leading outdoor apparel brand The North Face has partnered with a "drag queen" in advance of LGBTQIA2s+ Pride Month, even selling children's clothing daubed in gay rainbow colors, as part of its "Out in Nature" collection.

"Hi, it's me, Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual," a mustachioed man says in their new ad, as he announces the Summer of Pride tour for The North Face, a subsidiary of the VF Corporation which also owns brands such as Supreme, Vans, and Timberland.

Mr. Gonia opens the ad - in part directed at children - by offering "an invitation to come out..." with a long, suggestive pause, and the words "COME OUT" flashing on screen.

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Bulb

British Cycling BANS trans-identified males from competing in women's events


Human Events
Fri, 26 May 2023 13:28 UTC
Emily Bridges
British Cycling is set to ban trans-identified males from being able to compete in the women's category. This comes after nine months of review and deliberations. The BBC reported that trans-identified males will now have to compete in an "open category" with men under the new participation policy.

The report noted that women's races will now be for those who are biologically female. This will prevent competitors such as Emily Bridges, a man who identifies as a woman, from competing with the British women's team.

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Robot

Neuralink gets FDA approval to start human clinical trials

Jarryd Jaeger
The Post Millennial
Fri, 26 May 2023 00:01 UTC
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On Thursday, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence-driven brain implant company Neuralink received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to begin first-in-human clinical trials of its devices.

The move has been a long time coming, with Musk first suggesting that Neuralink would commence testing on humans in 2019.


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Telephone

States sue telecom company accused of making billions of robocalls to people on Do Not Call Registry

Julia Musto
Fox News
Wed, 24 May 2023 07:46 UTC
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© Mario Tama/Getty Images / Getty ImagesKris Mayes, then-Democratic candidate for Arizona Attorney General, speaks at a Women's March rally outside the State Capitol on Oct. 8, 2022, in Phoenix.
Lawsuit alleges company also allegedly sent or transmitted scam calls about the Social Security Administration, Medicare, Amazon.

Attorneys general in states across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit Tuesday against a telecommunications company that is accused of making 7.5 billion illegal robocalls to millions of people on the Do Not Call Registry.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Arizona, against Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky and Stacey Reeves, its vice president.

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Black Magic

Ukraine sent untrained conscripts into Donbass 'meat grinder', Wall Street Journal reports


RT
Thu, 25 May 2023 15:54 UTC
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© John Moore / Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Ukraine soldiers on the march. "Bakhmut will teach you," a commander reportedly told a soldier who complained he had never held a gun before.
Kiev used untrained and poorly equipped troops in the lost battle for the strategic Donbass city of Artyomovsk, which the Ukrainians call Bakhmut, in order to save better units for its planned counteroffensive, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

In an article on Thursday, the US outlet told a story of a group of 16 Ukrainian conscripts, who were crushed by the Russian forces during the fighting in Artyomovsk, in Russia's Donetsk People's Republic in February.

The troops in question were "mostly poor men," many of whom were unemployed. They had been recruited by the Ukrainian military from villages in the northeastern Kharkov Region, the report said. Some had completed mandatory military service years or decades ago, but almost none had ever seen actual combat, it added.
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