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Bill Maher
Bill Maher
Top lines from Maher's segment on HBO's Real Time with Bill Mahe" included:
Society's Child
Top lines from Maher's segment on HBO's Real Time with Bill Mahe" included:
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Olympic medical boss Dr Richard Budgett (right) and weightlifter Laurel Hubbard
Olympic medical boss Dr Richard Budgett (right) and weightlifter Laurel Hubbard
Dr Richard Budgett, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) medical and science director, has overseen rules based on guidelines from 2015 that have allowed transitioned athletes to compete when their testosterone is below a specified level for 12 months.
Hubbard, the controversial New Zealander who is competing in the women's competition at super-heavyweight, takes medication to lower her testosterone below the set level.
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ROC quartet of David Belyavskiy, Denis Abliazin, Artur Dalaloyan and Nikita Nagornyy tearfully celebrate their gold medal at Tokyo 2020
ROC quartet of David Belyavskiy, Denis Abliazin, Artur Dalaloyan and Nikita Nagornyy tearfully celebrate their gold medal at Tokyo 2020
The latest US athlete to cut the effortlessly grating figure of the wronged runner-up was swimmer Ryan Murphy, who, endlessly irked at losing twice in a week to Russian counterpart Evgeny Rylov at Tokyo 2020, launched a mini-monologue of microaggressions drenched in melodrama during his post-swim presser.
"It is what it is. I try not to get caught up in that. It is a huge mental drain on me to go throughout the year, that I am swimming in a race that's probably not clean and that is what it is," defending champion Murphy declared after finishing second in the 200m backstroke final.
Unsurprisingly, Murphy's mumblings featured empty platitudes aplenty and read like a bingo card of cliched phrases used by any US athlete bleating about unfair treatment and mental health when forced to face their own failings.
Comment: Having been subjected to years of coddling and social justice (as well as anti-Russia) propaganda, could we expect the US team to do otherwise?
"THIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM."
I'm not going to show you all those signs out again. People like me have been pointing them out, and reading them out loud, for 17 months now. Anyone who knows anything about the history of totalitarianism, how it incrementally transforms society into a monstrous mirror image of itself, has known since the beginning what the "New Normal" is, and we have been shouting from the rooftops about it.
We have watched as the New Normal transformed our societies into paranoid, pathologized, authoritarian dystopias where people now have to show their "papers" to see a movie or get a cup of coffee and publicly display their ideological conformity to enter a supermarket and buy their groceries.
We have watched as the New Normal transformed the majority of the masses into hate-drunk, hysterical mobs that are openly persecuting "the Unvaccinated," the official "Untermenschen" of the New Normal ideology.
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St Mary Magdalene's parish church, Caldecote, Hertfordshire.
St Mary Magdalene's parish church, Caldecote, Hertfordshire.
The 14th and 15th century Church of St. Mary Magdalene, which is Grade II-listed and maintained by the Friends of Friendless Churches charity, had its windows smashed, its decorations destroyed, and its furniture, floors and altar covered in fire extinguishing powder and bleach on Thursday afternoon.
The Friends of Friendless Churches published photos of the destruction on social media, noting that though "it may not look like much," the fire extinguishing powder "is everywhere" and "in every crevice."
Comment:
- Paris' Legendary Notre Dame Cathedral Destroyed by Fire
- 12th Century church gutted by fire in Norfolk, UK
- Blackburn, UK: 230yo church engulfed in fire
- Russia's tallest wooden church, built in 1774, destroyed in fire
- Major fire breaks out at historic St. Sulpice church in Paris - Cause unknown
- Fires destroy 3 old Orthodox churches in New York City, Sydney and Melbourne on Orthodox Easter Sunday
- US Catholic church vandalized with satanic and anarchist symbols
- Spate of arson attacks burns down Catholic churches in Canada
- Another Canadian church goes up in flames, amid suspicion arson attacks are linked to unmarked graves discoveries
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'Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story'
'Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story'
When the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell over her alleged complicity in trafficking teenage girls for sex with dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein eventually draws to a conclusion, it is unlikely to be the end of this sordid, salacious saga.
Thanks to the mass of journalistic grunt work carried out by Miami Herald investigative reporter, Julie K Brown, and rigorously documented in her recently published Perversion of Justice, the recriminations will continue, law officials will continue to look over their shoulders and the victims will edge ever closer to closure, of sorts.
Comment:
- Protecting the network? Lawyers for pedo-madam Ghislaine Maxwell seek redaction of 100s of names in Epstein docs
- Ghislaine Maxwell has 'a lot of information' on Epstein's powerful connections - producer
- Something to hide: Defense lawyers look to keep any videos of Ghislaine Maxwell from going public - 'highly confidential' evidence
- 'The real monster': Maxwell accuser claims Epstein's 'madam' was 'mastermind' of sex trafficking
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California Highway Patrol monitoring devastating fire
California Highway Patrol monitoring devastating fire
Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett announced on Facebook that her office had determined that PG&E was "criminally liable" for the Zogg Fire. Prosecutors hadn't yet decided which charges to file, but they plan to do so before the September anniversary of the blaze, Bridgett said.
PG&E said the loss of life and devastation from the fire was
"heartbreaking" but said it has resolved civil claims with Shasta County and continues to reach settlements with victims and their families in an effort to make it right. We do not, however, agree with the district attorney's conclusion that criminal charges are warranted given the facts of this case."Pushed by strong winds, the fire that began on Sept. 27 raged through the Sierra Nevada mountains and local communities, killing four people, burning about 200 homes and blackening about 87.5 square miles (226.6 square kilometers) of land.
Comment: Until California decentralizes to more regional companies, neither the state nor the people have the benefit of competition for better services, newer equipment, competitive prices and legal leverage. PG&E has been an unaccountable relic for years - now a danger to those it professes to serve.
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British PM Boris Johnson's hospital visit
British PM Boris Johnson's hospital visit
The expression, "nanny state," used to be no more than a metaphor in the English language to denote the authorities that are unduly and unjustifiably interfering with the lives and choices of their by-and-large tax-paying (therefore, fully adult subjects).
But the figurative "nanny state," has turned into a literal one. And of course, this constant patronizing of millions of previously self-sufficient grown-ups had to present a chance for a slippery slope into who knows what kind forms of indoctrination they now may be subjected to, down from the baseline one like, "make sure you wash your hands." (Well. Duh.)
And where better to observe this emerging phenomenon in the wild than in the UK, the home of George Orwell, who predicted it more than half a century ago.
You wouldn't have guessed just by a glance - or maybe this is one of those amazing transcendental "leaders" who have no need to lead by example - but PM Boris Johnson seems to be really into healthy eating. And true or not, he wants everybody to follow this - fake or real - suit.
Eating healthy is not an issue in and of itself, it's a great thing to do - but what is the UK government trying to do here? Introduce an app and promote the lifestyle by effectively monitoring people and their supermarket shopping habits and incentivizing them, some say China social-credit-style.
Comment: "Open wide"...here comes another heaping spoonful of force-fed regulations.
The July 30th edition of the New York Post finally took it to the CDC, the Biden administration, and all of the Democrats and weak-kneed Republicans panicking about Covid spreading, even among the vaccinated.
Check out the cover image:
The graph made by the New York Post is EXTREMELY effective imaging and exactly what we should be seeing from anyone who is pro-vaccine at this point in time. The argument is that the vaccine is effective and that the panic is EXTREMELY overblown.
161 million Americans vaxxed, 5,601 of those sent to the hospital, and 1,141 of those have died of Covid. When put into the context of the squares on the cover, it's obvious what a tiny number that is.
Check out the cover image:
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161 million Americans vaxxed, 5,601 of those sent to the hospital, and 1,141 of those have died of Covid. When put into the context of the squares on the cover, it's obvious what a tiny number that is.
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Mourners in Beit Ummar carry the body of 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami who was killed by Israeli soldiers while on his way home from grocery shopping with his family . July 29th, 2021
Mourners in Beit Ummar carry the body of 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami who was killed by Israeli soldiers while on his way home from grocery shopping with his family . July 29th, 2021
Moayyad al-Alami loved bringing his three children along with him when he would run errands in his hometown of Beit Ummar in the Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank.
It was something he enjoyed doing, as it was a chance for him to spend time with his kids when he wasn't working. So on Wednesday afternoon when his wife asked him to pick up some groceries before lunch, Moayyad took his three children, Mohammed, 11, Anan, 9, and Ahmed, 5, along with him.
"We arrived at the entrance of our street, and Mohammed asked me to turn around and go back to the store, because he forgot to buy a snack that he really wanted," al-Alami told Mondoweiss, adding that there were Israeli soldiers in the area — not an uncommon site for the family, who live right next to a permanent Israeli military base at the entrance of the town.
Comment: The women's competitions that include a biological male are blatantly unfair. Yet the current cultural madness dictates that society must go along with the lie. Only in such a world could a middle-aged mediocre (male) athlete 'win' Olympic gold.