[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A grieving Las Vegas mother has been left 'dumbfounded and in shock' after four bullies who were caught on camera beating her son to death accepted plea deals.
Melissa Ready lost her son Jonathan Lewis, 17, after he was attacked by a group of teens and stomped to the point of unconsciousness, before dying a week later.
Dontral Beaver, 16, Damian Hernandez, 18, Treavion Randolph, 16, and Gianni Robinson all stood accused of his murder after being charged as adults in January.
On Thursday, it was announced that they all accepted a plea deal that will allow them to plead guilty as juveniles to manslaughter.
That case would take place in a juvenile court, with the four facing an undetermined length of imprisonment in a juvenile detention center.
Should any of the teens back out of the deal, then all four would again be charged in adult court, Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani said.
Speaking with 8newsnow, Ready spoke of her disgust after the plea deal was announced, saying the four should be tried as adults.
Lewis's fatal assault took place outside Rancho High School in Las Vegas on November 1 of last year.
Videos of the attack show a group of teens hitting, kicking and stomping Lewis to the point of unconsciousness, which caused his death a week later.
Out of the nine teens arrested, four others, including a 13-year-old boy, have pleaded guilty in juvenile court to voluntary manslaughter.
Authorities in Vegas have said the students agreed to meet in the alley to fight over a vape pen and wireless headphones that had been stolen from Lewis' friend.
Footage obtained by 8 News Now shows Lewis being carried to safety by a student and neighbor back to the high school after the savage attack.
Defense lawyer Robert Draskovich, representing Robinson, called the fight a tragedy, but said convicting the four as adults would have been a second tragedy.
On Thursday, he said: 'This negotiation enables my client to graduate high school, move on with his life and become a productive citizen.'
Draskovich said he would ask at sentencing for Robinson to be released from custody with credit for time already served.
In a statement, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson
Is he another Soros DA? He acts like one…
acknowledged Lewi's mother's comments and 'the pain she is going through as she mourns her son'.
It added that she had been informed last week about the terms of the negotiations before defending the resolution of the case.
The statement said juvenile court is 'best equipped to punish the defendants for their heinous conduct' while also offering rehabilitation.
In Nevada, a teenager facing a murder charge can be charged as an adult if they were 13 or older when the crime occurred.
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We are fast reaching the point where people will not bother with the courts for Justice. It will be served in the streets alongside vengeance and anger.
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Damian Hernandez, 18 is not a juvenile under the law.
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IIRC, the gang was picking on and trying to rob a 3rd party when Jonathan stepped in, told them to knock it off, and was murdered. No bonus points for skin color guesses.
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Exactly why trust in government is cratering, especially as preferential treatment in justice, contracting, policy and employment breaks increasingly along racial lines.
[ZeroHedge] In Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at Tusványos in Romania, he focuses on the intractable differences developing between the East and West of Europe, with immigration one of the key divisions. He not only rejects the Western view on immigration, but sees it as an agenda with a very specific ideology behind it, which is designed to erode the nation-state entirely.
“But Westerners, quite differently, believe that nation-states no longer exist. They therefore deny that there is a common culture and a public morality based on (the nation-state). There is no public morality, if you watched the Olympic opening yesterday, you saw it. So, they also think differently about migration. They believe that migration is not a threat or a problem, but in fact a way of getting rid of the ethnic homogeneity that is the basis of a nation. This is the essence of the progressive liberal international concept. That is why the absurdity does not occur to them, or they do not see it as absurd,” he said.
He said that this contrast between East and West is playing out through war and the movement of peoples, saying that while hundreds of thousands of Christian people are killing each other in the East, “in the West of Europe, we are letting hundreds of thousands of people into a foreign civilization, which is absurd from our Central European point of view.”
This dramatic ideological cleavage is not a “secret,” according to Orbán. He said that the documents and policy papers coming out of the EU shpw that the “clear aim is to transcend the nation.”
“But the point is that the powers, the sovereignty, should be transferred from the nation-states to Brussels. This is the logic behind all major measures. In their minds, the nation is a historical, or transitional, formation of the 18th and 19th centuries — as it came, so it may go. They are already in a post-national state in the Western half of Europe. It’s not just a politically different situation, but what I’m trying to talk about here is that it’s a new mental space.”
Orbán says that the Hungarian perspective is different, which is why the government is taking measures now to ensure it has a resilient social structure, and the first step is to combat Hungary’s demographic decline. He noted that progress in this area had been made in the preceding years but acknowledged that there has been a standstill and new measures must be taken.
“By 2035, Hungary should be demographically self-sustaining. There is no question of a population being replaced by migration. The Western experience is that if there are more guests than owners, the home is no longer a home. This risk should not be taken here.”
Orbán notes that not everyone in the West is happy about the demographic transformation taking place in their countries, and in many cases, there are strong majorities against continued mass immigration. This, in turn, has led to a sharp increase in repression against dissenting voices and increasingly undemocratic trends in Western countries.
And finally, the last element of reality is that this post-national situation that we see in the West has a serious, I would say dramatic, political consequence that is shaking democracy. Societies are increasingly resistant to migration, gender, war and globalism. And this creates the political problem of elites and the people, elitism and populism. This is a dominant phenomenon in Western politics today…This means that the elites condemn the people for drifting to the right. The feelings and ideas of the people are labeled xenophobia, homophobia and nationalism. The people, meanwhile, in response, accuse the elite of not caring about what is important to them, but of sinking into some kind of mindless globalism.
Consequently, the elites and the people cannot agree with each other on cooperation. I could mention many countries. But if the people and elites cannot agree to cooperate, how can it become a representative democracy? Because here we have an elite that does not want to represent the people, and is proud of not wanting to represent them, and here we have the people who are not represented.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vice President Kamala Harris has been branded a faker over a photo of her chatting to Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's widow on the phone.
The presumptive Democratic nominee shared the image on social media, explaining that she spoke with Yulia Navalnaya on Thursday amid a historic prisoner swap between the United States and Russia.
Harris made the call, she said, because some of the detainees freed in the deal 'worked with Navalny to combat corruption and build a free, democratic Russia.'
'I thanked Yulia for her courage in continuing her husband's works and reaffirmed my commitment to stand with those fighting for freedom in Russia and around the world,' she added.
But some eagle-eyed users of social media criticized the 59-year-old vice president as a 'phony' for holding the phone to her ear as she spoke to the grieving widow.
'Why is it on "speaker-phone" but being held up to your ear... as though you're speaking on the phone through the normal speaker,' Nikki Villanueva wrote.
On Friday, the Obamas posted a video of them calling Harris to endorse her for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In the video, Harris could once again be seen holding the phone to her ear - even though the speaker phone button is pressed.
'The Obama's endorse Kamala in the most cringeworthy way,' one X user wrote.
'None of them can act, and Kamala goes from taking the phone call on speaker to holding it to her ear.
'We somehow can still hear the Obamas clearly.
'These people are dumb.'
Drew Hernandez also called the video 'poorly scripted events.
'Everything about Kamala Harris right now is synthetic,' he wrote. 'Who talks on speaker phone with the phone up to their ear?'
This is what happens when politicians are coddled their whole careers by the news media because they’re “special”, and then they finally get the kind of scrutiny non-special politicians get from the beginning.
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Like that facetime bit with the Black influencer which was recorded and splice and, in retrospect, probably had a multiple of take to get Harris's 'accent' as best as possible.
[JustTheNews] In an effort to combat price increases from recent and anticipated fuel supply disruptions, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily waive the state’s requirement that gasoline sold during the summer meet lower emissions standards.
“Pleeeeeease don’t make us live up to the unreasonably high standards we voluntarily set for ourselves!”
“Michigan requests that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issue a waiver regarding reformulated gasoline regulations in Michigan. With a refinery in the region being offline due to unforeseen circumstances . . . precautionary measures must be taken to contain fuel supply disruptions and potential cost increases across the region,” the letter reads.
Michigan has a summer gasoline program outlined by the EPA, which requires the use of cleaner fuel blends and stricter ozone monitoring in the summer months in order for the state to receive federal highway funding dollars.
Due to the weather-instigated shutdown of the ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery in Illinois, which is expected to last until August,
…but it already is August. So now what?
Whitmer sent a precautionary letter to the EPA requesting greater flexibility for fuel use, particularly gasoline.
“With hurricane season in full swing and a refinery outage in Illinois, we must ensure we’re taking all the steps necessary to proactively protect Michiganders’ access to fuel for their cars, homes, and businesses without delay,” Whitmer said in a release. “That’s why I am dedicated to working with the EPA to keep fuel available and affordable for Michiganders by temporarily removing barriers to ensure an adequate and stable fuel supply.”
Ya know….if the Biden administration had just kept President Trump’s support for expanded oil production, shutting down one refinery would not have caused problems.
The average price of gas in Michigan is $3.68 per gallon as of Wednesday, according to AAA, 20 cents more than the national average.
Whitmer’s letter follows a day after another effort to cut fuel prices in Michigan, with Rep. Jason Hoskins, D-Southfield, and Rep. Laurie Pohutsky, D-Livonia introduced House Bill 5896, a measure that would prohibit excessive pricing for energy products like gasoline during times of supply disruptions.
Idiots. They don’t understand basic economics.
The bill is tied with two others that would prohibit the same kind of pricing practices in the hotel industry and regarding consumer items.
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Wisconsin already asked for and got the restrictions lifted. A tornado took the Joliet refinery offline. I hold no brief for her, but the request isn't crazy or particularly hypocritical -- the EPA should do a regional waiver without being asked.
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Wasn't she the gov that tried to block renewal of a Canada to Upper Peninsula Michigan pipeline for (ahem) environmental reasons?
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Wasn't she the gov that tried to block renewal of a Canada to Upper Peninsula Michigan pipeline ...
Yep. The Embridge Line 5 pipeline. The enviros are afraid a ship will drag an anchor and rupture the pipeline which would destroy the planet. Embridge wants to bore a tunnel thru the bedrock under the Straits of Mackinac, but the enviros are afraid that might work so they are against that too.
[VDare] Peter Brimelow: Why We've Suspended Vdare And I've Resigned After 25 Years
Someone I know recently lost his daughter. She was exactly the same age as my son Alexander, and in fact we have pictures of them together as babies.
Needless to say, losing VDARE.com is absolutely nothing compared to that.
But it still hurts.
Very soon, the VDARE.com website will be suspended. We are currently unsure for how long the archives will remain accessible, or even if they will be accessible at all.
(We do think that our social media, however, will still function).
So my role here has been destroyed. After 25 years, I am resigning as Editor of VDARE.com and from the VDARE.com Foundation board.
My wife Lydia will continue for now as President of the VDARE Foundation, handling the administrative details of winding down—and, of course, paying lawyers.
One bright spot: The Berkeley Springs Castle, which is where we’re filming this, is owned by a separate foundation that is based in West Virginia. It will continue to host Dissident conferences as well as normie events like weddings and so on—if any of you want to get married and battle the Great Replacement.
VDARE.com was a highly successful operation—particularly after Lydia solved the problem of us getting our conferences cancelled by buying the Castle.
But it has been murdered by New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
It’s important to note that she’s not charged us with anything. But under James, New York State has become what liberal law professor Jonathan Turley has described as “The Land The Law Forgot.”
She has waged unprecedented, unethical and unscrupulous lawfare against, for example, the National Rifle Association and, most notoriously, against President Donald J. Trump.
And, much lower down the food chain, against the VDARE Foundation.
We have been registered, alas, in New York State since 1999, before anyone had ever heard of lawfare. Or of Letitia James.
To repeat: James has not charged us with anything. She has simply battered us to death by a massive and intrusive “investigation” that bears no rational relationship to any conceivable offense. We estimate we’ve spent upwards of a million dollars on compliance, let alone hundreds of hours of work. All of these resources should have gone to our mission: advancing the cause of Patriotic Immigration Reform.
Letitia James is quite obviously aiming at suppressing our speech. But the New York State courts have completely declined to protect our First Amendment rights.
We can’t go on.
But there are three other interlocking issues that are also forcing us to suspend.
The first one is the extraordinary wave of Cancellation that we've experienced increasingly over the last several years.
It extends even to personal matters, for example our long-time personal financial advisor, who's been with us 15 or 16 years, was forced to drop us recently.
Americans generally don't understand what is actually going on here—how this de facto “Social Credit “system, like the one the Chinese Communists have, being used to suppress patriots.
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"Food Insecurity" sounds so academic and thought-provoking, but lacks an emotional undertone, as intended.
HUNGER is a more accurate, and deeply troubling term when describing American citizens! The former describes an unimaginable concept a few years ago, and the latter reflects a signpost of decline.
In 2006, USDA introduced new language to describe ranges of severity of food insecurity. USDA made these changes in response to recommendations of an expert panel convened at USDA's request by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies. Although new labels were introduced, the methods used to assess households' food security remained unchanged, so statistics for 2005 to now are directly comparable with those for earlier years. The following labels define ranges of food security:
Food Security
High food security (old label = Food security): no reported indications of food-access problems or limitations.
Marginal food security (old label = Food security): one or two reported indications—typically of anxiety over food sufficiency or shortage of food in the house. Little or no indication of changes in diets or food intake.
Food Insecurity
Low food security (old label = Food insecurity without hunger): reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of reduced food intake.
Very low food security (old label = Food insecurity with hunger): reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.
Reading further at the link, it is revealed most households labelled food insecure are much more worried about the possibility of food running out in the future than actually going hungry. Less than 20% of those experiencing low food security had actually cut the size of a meal or skipped a meal in the past 3+ months.
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I love it when you delve into a topic, but would add a cautionary contra-indication TW. The below exemplars are from a cursory google search on people skipping meals to save money. My own personal experience suggests the food issue is a component of overall financial crisis for a large swath of the American public. The Wiki cite makes the point: "37% of Americans can't afford an emergency expense over $400, according to Empower research.Jul 2, 2024"
"39% of Americans say they’ve skipped meals to make housing payments: report"
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/39-of-americans-say-theyve-skipped-meals-to-make-housing-payments-report-e4769c9f
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Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults sometimes don't get enough to eat"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-in-four-americans-food-insecure/
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Fair enough and thank you, NoMoreBS — your good opinion is well worth having.
I agree that Americans in general are considerably more financially insecure than before Joe Biden was sworn in. And that people are having to make choices that they mostly did not have to before Covid, and even more so since Donald Trump left office — I cannot speak to the details, since Mr. Wife took over the grocery shopping during Covid, but he has mentioned that even with his mad money managing skills (he is much, much better at such things than I, though not close to what his little sister do with a dollar), he spends about double what we used to before.
On the other hand, as a society Americans have long been terrible about saving, so inevitably too many get into financial difficulties when the economy goes south — and then many aren’t willing to downsize until they are in serious trouble. I watched this same discussion following the 2008 housing bubble crisis, the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, and Reagan recession in 1981. Arguably it’s worse this time because the economy was doing so well on Donald Trump’s watch, which seduced more into trusting that the future would be just as secure…
[Breitbart] Despite coordinating the investment of more than $5 billion in public and private investments to increase employment opportunities and reduce corruption in Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to stem the flow of migrants across the southwest border have failed miserably. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 500 thousand unaccompanied migrant children arrived at the United States border with Mexico since the Biden-Harris administration took office.
Although the vice president made attempts to distance herself from the unofficial title of “Border Czar,” her role was publicly announced by President Biden during a March 2021 White House briefing, the president assigned the lead immigration role to the vice president during his remarks, stating, “In addition to that, there’s about five other major things she’s handling, but I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.”
According to CBP, between October 2023 and June 2024, more than 90,000 unaccompanied migrant children were encountered at the southwest border. According to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), approximately 80 percent of those migrant children were from the same Central American countries receiving the more than $5 billion in investments coordinated by Vice President Harris during her tenure as lead border strategist in the Biden-Harris administration.
During fiscal year 2020, the last full year of the Trump administration, the number of unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the southwest border was slightly more than 30,000. Immigration enforcement policies enacted under the Trump administration, such as the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as “Remain in Mexico”, and the Title 42 COVID-19 emergency expulsion program, may have served as a deterrent to parents abandoning their children at the border.
According to a 2020 CBS news report, during May 2020, only 39 unaccompanied migrant children of the 1,001 arrested at the border were not removed from the United States under Trump’s Title 42 Covid removal program. More than 96 percent of all unaccompanied migrant children that month were swiftly expelled from the United States.
Shortly after assuming office, the Biden-Harris administration canceled several Trump-era immigration enforcement policies and prohibited authorities from deporting unaccompanied migrant children under Title 42 except for Mexican nationals. The move to discontinue the removal of unaccompanied children at the southwest border saw the number of encounters for unaccompanied migrant children rise from 1,001 in May 2020 to nearly 19,000 in March 2021, a nearly 2,000 percent increase.
In February 2023, Vice President Harris touted her accomplishment of facilitating more than $3.2 billion in private investments for the three Central American Countries. At a White House press briefing on reducing root causes of migration, Harris told attendees, “This summer, at the Summit of Americas in Los Angeles, I announced that, working with the Partnership for Central America, we generated more than $3.2 billion in investments.”
By March 2024, Harris announced in another briefing her efforts in the Central American Northern Triangle had resulted in investments totaling $5.2 billion to create jobs and stability as an answer to the root causes of migration. Outlining the purpose of her efforts, the lead border strategist told reporters, “These investments are creating jobs, connecting people to the digital economy, expanding access to financing for small businesses, providing training and education for youth, women, and workers, and improving economic livelihoods for people in the region.”
Harris went on to say, “These investments are materializing into tangible opportunities for families and communities across integrated supply chains in Central America and the United States – benefiting students, employees, entrepreneurs, and families – and shaping a model for mobilizing private sector commitments through collective action to drive economic development.”
What the Vice President failed to say, however, is that the creation of jobs has not resulted in any material change in the dismal wages paid by investors moving into the region. The monthly minimum wages in El Salvador have remained unchanged since 2020 and stand at $365 per month, or roughly $12.00 per day. In Honduras, the monthly minimum wage is $327 followed by Guatemala at $436.
It appears the investments coordinated by Harris to improve living conditions for the Central American Northern Triangle countries did little to raise wages or discourage migrant parents from abandoning their children at the U.S. southern border. According to a source within CBP, the practice, on many occasions, allows the parents to enter the United States illegally shortly afterward to claim the child and gain release into the United States.
The move did perhaps allow corporations to take advantage of the dismal wages paid to workers in the region from which, more than $33 billion in products are imported to the United States annually. That total, according to Statista.Com, includes $14 billion in petroleum and related products, $4 billion in vehicles, $4 billion in medical products and medicines, and $3 billion in communications equipment.
Vice President Harris also failed to mention the lax vetting of unaccompanied minors released at the southern border. As reported by Breitbart, in January 2023, authorities arrested an MS-13 gang member suspected of murdering Kayla Marie Hamilton, a 20-year-old with autism, in Aberdeen, Maryland. According to police, Hamilton was strangled by the 17-year-old El Salvadoran migrant who was released as an unaccompanied migrant child at the southwest border. The failure to properly investigate the background of unaccompanied migrant children has allowed some adult migrants to claim juvenile status to secure release.
One such case involves 24-year-old Yery Noel Medina Ulloa of Honduras, who posed as an unaccompanied migrant child to get released into the United States. Authorities allege the migrant was sent to live with a sponsor in Florida whom he later was suspected of killing. Prosecutors in the case allege Ulloa murdered 46-year-old Francisco Javier Cuellar, a father of four, in November 2021.
The vetting for sponsors to care for migrant children released into the United States does not seem to be any more robust, according to some internal agency documents. Earlier this month, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released internal records revealing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent two unaccompanied migrant children to a household connected to the violent MS-13 gang. Grassley issued a statement on the matter, saying, “The records I’m releasing today are the kind the government fights tooth and nail to withhold from the public, and they ought to send a chill up every person’s spine.”
Grassley went on to say the incident is one of thousands of cases that contain evidence of potential child trafficking.
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[NYPOST] A pair of black female activists, who have met with Vice President Harris several times and previously vowed to get “real serious” about helping her become the next president, could alienate some of the “White women for Kamala” supporters with their past rhetoric as they mobilize ahead of November’s election.
Cora Masters Barry, Widow of late D.C. mayor Marion the bitch set me up Barry
an appointee of Democrat D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and longtime civil rights activist, and Melanie Campbell, who leads the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, have visited the White House more than 50 times combined during the Biden administration, including nearly a dozen visits with Harris or her staff, a Fox News Digital review found.
Weeks before President Biden and Harris were sworn into office in 2021, Barry and Campbell participated in a public Zoom call in which they made controversial statements about Trump supporters and used an expletive against White voters, specifically White women, which could cause some internal clashes as different coalitions mobilize to try to get Harris into the White House.
Approximately 164,000 White women hopped on a Zoom call last week, which was organized by Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts and other female celebrities. The call, titled “White Women: Answer the Call,” reportedly raised millions of dollars for Harris’ campaign and could be a major fundraising force over the next few months.
[NYPOST] Google was accused of skewing search results relating to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... in favor of his Dem rival Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day — days after allegedly censoring searches related to the liquidation attempt on the former president.
The tech giant again came under fire for potential election interference Thursday after a Google search for "Trump rally" yielded a photo of the vice president under its Top Stories with the label "Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta."
A Post analysis on Friday found that entering the term "Trump rally" no longer showed Harris’ photo as the top result but still churned out news articles from left-leaning media outlets that staunchly support Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... ’s hand-picked successor after he bowed out.
Emblazoned with the title "Kamala Responds to Donald Trump’s Remarks," users needed to scroll deeper into the search results to find any articles about the former commander-in-chief’s rally in Pennsylvania, his first return to the state since surviving an assassin’s bullet on July 13.
The top results yielded stories about the Secret Service’ failings in detecting button menThomas Crooks
…also in the Rantburg archives as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, the gamer had just got an associate degree in engineering and possibly had that extraverted version of clinical depression that leads to mass murder. As the FBI gets deeper into his encrypted files, he looks ever more like a hate-filled Antifa wannabe…
before he fired off eight rounds in Butler, Pa., from the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , and an article by notoriously anti-Trump cable network MSNBC, headlined "Trump makes callous joke while honoring the man killed at his Butler rally."
The alleged bias was first spotted by Tesla founder Elon Musk, who wrote on his X social media platform: "Just did a search for "Trump Rally" on Google and Kamala was the top result."
British-born Wall Street trader and financial commentator Jim Osman also noticed the glitch.
"We are being bombarded by Democrat propaganda. Be super awake," he said.
A Google spokesperson declined to comment Friday, referring The Post to a tweet that its PR team had made on X on Wednesday.
"These labels are automatically generated based on related news topics, and they change over time," the message read.
The latest controversy comes after the world’s top search engine’s "Autocomplete" function failed to show suggested results for the attempted liquidation of Donald Trump, as The Post reported.
[NYPOST] Vice President Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress got enough delegate votes Friday in the virtual roll call process to become the official Democratic nominee.
The deadline for DNC delegates to turn in their electronic ballot is on Monday, but by Friday afternoon, Harris already had the majority of delegate support secured.
“I am so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison said in a call.
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Given, the DNC seems to be moving more and more towards Socialism. A person could rightfully think the DNC borrowed the Venezuela political playbook.
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*First, apologies for doing this in chapters, playing magic word, which is fine. Also, a bit long.
The suspension of election results and the installment of a new 'candidate' without voting is confirmation it is all orchestrated. Points awarded to conspiracy theorists of 2016 who said Sanders was forcibly removed for Hillary!, and not allowed to run 2020.
So I'd go with auditions to see who the regime wanted to have as the....face...of Plan 3AM.
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Remember Biden was a nothing, showing his age like a 50 year old playing pick up basketball with teenagers. Harris and Bootygig were the favorites until Harris got smoked on center stage. The regime called the contest, consulted, and decided Biden would be the best..face. It was the Summer of Shove, Covid Karens, and Wine Aunts, so Harris checked more boxes than Bootygig and I'm sure was promised could be polished.
Remember the campaign A Vote for a President Biden is really a vote for a President Harris?
(because Biden is in poor health) is the shadow of that campaign.
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She was handed a number of plum assignments and topics to build her image and they all flopped. I posit not only could she not be polished, but between her shortcomings and upset that she needed to change (and possibly off the clock fun) she took it out on her staff, Harris never being pleasant at best of times, and the team had cascade failures.
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I present as evidence that she could have been made President at any point the last couple weeks. Counter evidence would be they want a hype campaign first and an announcement outside of Olympic coverage. Fair, but there isn't even any talk about it, she has been put in a media hole, and what policy topics she has weighed in on have been off, like high-fiving Maduro Results even as his goons roamed the streets shooting anyone who said otherwise. And that gawdAWFL speech in Georgia in some Californian's idea of what a black and southern accent sounds like. It was worse than Tropic Thunder and that was a parody movie. The only thing worse would be to have her take the stage with a 40 and a grill. Embarrassing.
People notice things. They notice food prices. They notice ever since that hotel was turned into an illegal migrant camp the only shit which doesn't go missing is on the sidewalk and stairs. There is a certain suspension of disbelief required for this program and it requires a face. Harris, unlikable, uncoachable, with no mental talents, and a bit of a loose cannon, is a hard sale whose team can't even get the VP Choice announcement organized.
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Going to try to break down the 'Weird' campaign, because it is the other edge of the knife.
For the past 10 years at least, Keep It Weird has been a counter-culture rally cry: Keep Portland Weird, Keep San Francisco Weird, etc. So why are Harris' Advertisers now using it as an insult, other than the latest firmware update?
By implying their behavior is the normal, with your permission, calling others weird makes a straw man. He isn't weird, he is a goal oriented person. He isn't weird, he just believes in service and family. So on. And if people are rushing to that defense, they are not point at how weird the leftist sales package is. Dude painted blue laying on a table covered in fruit with his balls hanging out. Someone of California privilege of immigrants who has the same amount of African American experience as Talcum X is Southern Black. Someone who has been trained for 4 years is somehow now a worse communicator, who can't complete a thought on the first try and randomly breaks out in laughter. Actually weird things.
It is an actual Disney advertising technique. When some behind the scenes footage of the Snow White remake was leaked, they went and called the original characters weird to try and lower its status so the remake looked better. Star Wars, their recent stuff has been absolute shit, so they went back and called the extras casting in the original 3 weird. But Billy Dee Williams, the defenders flocked to, thus leaving self impregnating l#sb1an space witches unchecked. Aren't the prequel character stereotypes weird, sending off other fans to its defense so Mark Hammil and the Princess Warriors chapters are left alone.
I read somewhere that it is akin to throwing sticks with a dog, and there is absolute truth to that. I'd add, while trying to break into the house. It distracts and wears out the dog, when the dog should be focused on guarding the door. Don't chase sticks.
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The "Weird Counter Culture" required surplus money, it required the free exchange of ideas, it required the safety and security to complete those ideas, the acceptance of others without putting people into check boxes, a vibrant energy and hopeful future in which an individual can be part of and participate in.
In its slur form, weird - again they are counting on your permission to take a negative - it is family, duty, honor, acceptance, children's health and well being. It is wanting a good quality of life. It is goal oriented accomplishments. Its knowing when it is time to be serious.
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[JustTheNews] Using renewable energy or fossil fuels, the seven hubs scattered across the nation plan to produce hydrogen from water through an electrolysis process, then store the hydrogen until it’s used for power generation, fuel, and other industrial processes.
The federal government cut its first check for a multi-state experiment to build a hydrogen-based manufacturing and energy hub in Appalachia, sending $30 million to ARCH2.
The team behind the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub expects up to $925 million from the Department of Energy to spearhead development.
“This federal funding will unlock billions of dollars in private sector investment to create thousands of well-paying jobs in Appalachia’s emerging hydrogen economy,” ARCH2 officials said in a press release. “ARCH2 will create a clean, economically viable, and socially equitable hydrogen ecosystem within Appalachia, revitalizing local communities impacted by the energy transition.”
The hub, with its headquarters in Morgantown, West Virginia, aims to build a regional cluster in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania of producers, consumers, and infrastructure to lower overall emissions by using hydrogen.
Using renewable energy or fossil fuels, the seven hubs scattered across the nation plan to produce hydrogen from water through an electrolysis process, then store the hydrogen until it’s used for power generation, fuel, and other industrial processes.
The $30 million will fund phase one of the hub, expected to run up to 36 months. Other money will follow for future phases if ARCH2 hits DOE-set milestones. The four phases of the hub are expected to run for more than a decade.
“Less than a year ago, ARCH2 was merely a proposal. Today, we are diligently transforming that idea into reality,” officials noted in a recent summer update. They anticipate a webinar within a month for more updates.
Pennsylvania’s other hub, MACH2 in the eastern region, awaits its first award. In June, the Department of Environmental Protection’s Citizens Advisory Council heard a presentation from officials on the hub’s benefits and timetable. CAC members asked for more information and details about the plan while public commenters urged them to be skeptical due to the public being “kept in the dark.”
Environmentalists have warned against the hydrogen hubs, calling on Gov. Josh Shapiro in May to put a pause on their development. The viability of the hubs have also been called into question, as no large-scale success stories yet exist even as hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing to the hubs from the government.
Some legislators, too, have cried foul over the legal changes made to accommodate hub-related technology like carbon capture and sequestration.
Rep. Dawn Keefer, R-Dillsburg, condemned Senate Bill 831 in July, which established a legal framework for carbon capture.
“If a Pennsylvania family’s water is contaminated by CO2 being pumped into the ground, who’s responsible? Under the carbon capture legislation, one thing is very clear: it won’t be the multi-billion dollar corporation conducting the carbon capture experimental technology,” Keefer said. “If carbon capture is so safe and proven, then why is this legislation written to protect the corporations? It’s because carbon capture is not a proven science.”
In a newsletter to her constituents, she warned carbon capture is not for the welfare of Pennsylvania, but for corporate subsidies that “runs roughshod over the rights of property owners.”
The Ohio River Valley Institute, which has urged states to make alternative investments in clean energy rather than the hydrogen hubs, called the ARCH2 hub a “boondoggle.”
“This award represents a continued commitment to invest in a natural gas industry that has added to the pollution and health burdens in the region while failing to deliver any measurable growth in jobs, income, and population,” ORVI Senior Researcher Sean O’Leary said. “At a time when we should be pursuing proven, cost-effective, job-producing decarbonization models, this decision sends us further down the path of dependency on natural gas that will result in increased taxes and utility bills.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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The top results yielded stories about the Secret Service’ failings in detecting 
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress
