[LI] Back in 2021, Mike covered the UVA student who was harassed and doxxed because a BLM activist misheard a remark made at a protest.
Red State summarizes the incident in question:
During the summer of 2020, BLM protesters were gathered on a partially blocked Charlottesville street. Morgan Bettinger, also a UVA student, began to drive down the street and then realized it was blocked off by a dump truck. Bettinger parked and started to walk down the street to see what was happening. As she passed by the truck, she had a brief conversation with the truck driver and made remarks to the effect of, "It’s a good thing that you are here because otherwise these people would have been speed bumps." The comments were meant to praise the presence of the truck so no protesters would be hurt by any possible oncoming traffic.
But in a twisted game of telephone, Bettinger’s comments made it through the crowd and turned into Bettinger calling the protesters speed bumps and saying she was going to run them over. BLM protester Bryant then took it upon herself to post an account of the incident on X, formerly Twitter. But that wasn’t enough for Bryant. She immediately began demanding that school administrators expel Bettinger. Bryant also filed a complaint with the University Judiciary Committee, claiming to the student-run disciplinary committee that Bettinger had "threatened students’ health and safety."
The committee sided with Bryant. But Bryant wasn’t done yet. She then filed a complaint with UVA’s Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights. It is here that Bryant got a bit creative with the story, claiming that Bettinger had repeated the alleged speed bump statement five times and had racially discriminated against her. Thankfully, the EOCR Office engaged in a bit of common sense and determined that Bryant did not hear the comments being repeated herself because no one could be found that could corroborate the claim.
The BLM activist in question, Zyahna Bryant, later admitted that she "might have misheard" what was said and that the UVA student did not urge anyone or threaten to herself make "speed bumps" of BLM protesters after all. The student in question, however, was bullied and harassed so badly by the woke mob that she is still feeling the aftershock. Dove soap
Dove has now hired Bryant to be their big fat soap ambassador. Or something. Apparently, there is an ongoing push by these woke companies to "normalize" morbid obesity, to heck with the health consequences both in normal times and during the covid plandemic when obesity was a key comorbidity.
Dove Soap hired morbidly obese BLM hoaxer Zyahna Bryant for an ad campaign based around "fat liberation."
While a student at UV-Charlottesville, Bryant viciously ruined another student's life by falsely claiming she joked about driving into BLM rioters.
This is so outrageous that calls are already being made to make Dove the next Bud Light. Unlike Bud Light, which I do not drink and did not get to not buy, I do like the Dove body wash for its clean scent and hydration. I have bought my last bottle of it, though.
The New York Post reports:
Beauty giant Dove is facing a Bud Light-style boycott for partnering with controversial Black Lives Matter activist Zyanha Bryant, who was previously accused of getting a white student expelled over "misheard" comments.
Some once-loyal customers even posted pictures of bars of soap in the trash after Bryant, 22, announced she was a "Dove ambassador" helping to promote "fat liberation."
"After hearing that Dove Beauty chose Zyanha Bryant — who ruined Morgan Bettinger’s life — for their ’fat acceptance ambassador,’ THIS lifelong large lady and now former Dove customer tossed out the last three bars of Dove products she will EVER buy," one, Carole Thorpe, tweeted Thursday night along with a shot of the bars in her trash.
Even Elon Musk weighed in as outrage spread across his social media platform X, the new name for Twitter.
"Messed up," he wrote alongside a clip of the BLM activist’s initial announcement.
. . . . The company has yet to publicly comment on the controversy about hiring Bryant, whose alleged vendetta against fellow student Bettinger began in the summer of 2020 amid ongoing police brutality protests.
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It was about 2/3 through the article I realized cosmetics.
Lipstick on a pig can be big business.
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It's a solid business move on their part.
Bigger model, more surface area, sell more soap.
It's mathematics.
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Bigger model, more surface area, sell more soap.
True, but she has T-Rex arms, comparatively. No reach
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"Gentlemen, I am seeing a marketing opportunity. Here at Dove, we already make soap for specific body parts - face soap, hand soap, body wash. I propose a new brand, Butt Light, a soap for were the sun don't shine! Brighten your day with Butt Light! (warning: excessive use can lead to irritation)
Genius idea, boss! I'll get our crack marketing team on it right away."
Long, detailed, and with a useful map. Herewith, the opening set-up:
[LongWarJournal] On the eve of the 22nd anniversary of Al Qaeda’s deadly attacks on New York and Washington, American intelligence officials further minimized the terror group’s safe haven in Afghanistan and its global reach. The U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that “Al Qaeda is at its historical nadir in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and its revival is unlikely” is directly at odds with intelligence gleaned by the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, which recently reported that Al Qaeda is running training camps, safe houses, and a media operations center throughout Afghanistan.
The assessment of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan was briefed to reporters on Sept. 8 by two unnamed U.S. intelligence officials. In addition to Al Qaeda being at a “historical nadir,” its “ability to threaten the United States from Afghanistan or Pakistan is probably at its lowest point,” the officials claimed, according to CNN.
Oddly, the intelligence officials surmised that Al Qaeda is weak because the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan meant that Al Qaeda fighters no longer had a “proving ground” to battle U.S. forces.
Additionally, the intelligence officials claimed that Al Qaeda “was left without ‘leadership talent’ and “strategic guidance’” after the U.S. killed Al Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike at a Taliban safe house in Kabul in the summer of 2022, CNN reported.
The intelligence officials dismissed the UN Monitoring Team’s report as “an outlier within the UN system” and “‘wildly out of whack’ with intelligence collected by the US and its partners,” CNN noted.
However, the UN Monitoring Team’s report closely tracks with information on Al Qaeda’s historical and recent operations in Afghanistan that has been gathered by FDD’s Long War Journal.
A HISTORICAL NADIR?
The unnamed intelligence officials were incredibly dismissive of the Monitoring Team’s report, which was released in early June. According to the Monitoring Team, the Al Qaeda camps are located in six Afghan provinces: Helmand, Zabul, Badghis, Nangarhar, Nuristan, and Kunar. Additionally, the Monitoring Team noted that Al Qaeda has established “safe houses” in Farah, Helmand, Herat and Kabul, and opened a media operations center in Herat.
Despite the assertions of the U.S. intelligence officials Al Qaeda was known to have a significant presence in the provinces of Helmand, Farah, Zabul, Kunar, Nuristan, and Nangarhar prior to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. There is no indication that Al Qaeda abandoned these provinces with post-U.S. withdrawal. As the Monitoring Team has noted and FDD’s Long War Journal has independently assessed, the Taliban-Al Qaeda relationship remains strong.
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[REGNUM] Caribbean countries will demand reparations for the slave trade from a number of British institutions, including the royal family, insurance company Lloyd's of London and the Church of England, the British press reports. This is due to the fact that, according to surviving documents, the royal house was a beneficiary and active participant in the slave trade. Will the program of compensation for sins of hundreds of years ago help those living today? There are reasons to doubt this.
[Daily Caller] A striking member of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) told a reporter on Friday that President Joe Biden’s pursuit of an all- electric vehicle (EV) economy would be a detriment to autoworkers.
The UAW walked off the job at three auto manufacturing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri at midnight Friday, after failing to reach an agreement with Ford, General Motors(GM) and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). The UAW has criticized President Joe Biden’s efforts to promote EVs, prompting autoworker Travis Hanson to tell Fox News that "right now, electric cars are losing us money."
"Right now, with inflation and the price of vehicles so high, we’re looking for fair for the future, not just for now," Harrison said on the picket line outside of a Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan. "So, for four years[referring to the contract length]it could be fair, but we are looking for more than four. I have more than four years to go before I retire, so I’m looking for future security."
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will provide $370 billion to combat so-called climate change, into law in August 2022. The legislation is loaded with green energy provisions, including a $7,500 tax credit for EVs.
Despite Biden’s push for EVs, the Biden administration blocked efforts to start mining for copper and nickel near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in January, The Wall Street Journal reported. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) made a determination on Jan. 31 that would block the mining of 1.4 billion tons of copper, gold, molybdenum, silver and rhenium in Alaska in order to protect salmon.
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EVs lose money with each sale, but they help DEI scores. Perhaps there is another DEI strategy that can be selected that doesn’t drive a company into extinction.
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"Despite Biden’s push for EVs, the Biden administration blocked efforts to start mining for copper and nickel..."
Yet another example of how ill thought out political agendas get in the way of actual real life.
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Well, yeah. But when you're a bureaucrat in an office, the job is to produce regulations, not cars.
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let's look at the logic here. Mandate electric vehicles and yet restrict mining the raw materials needed for electric cars all in the name of saving the planet.
It's pretty clear that saving the planet is a pretty weak cover. It's actually about population control via restricting mobility. Cortez had nothing on these clowns.
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"Are you really that stupid?" Is the crumbling industrial wreckage of the Rust Belt Cities not enough to open your eyes? The Democratic Party cabal of academic elitists, SEIU service unionists and the the New Rich Elite stabbed you in the back a generation ago ... you are unneeded because the think they have enough welfare recipients to win.
Operation Market Garden is one of the best-known Allied failures of World War II. A daring, but hastily assembled and extremely risky plan, it was intended to liberate the Netherlands, enter Germany without having to fight through the Siegfried defensive line and bring the war to an end by the Christmas of 1944, all in one fell swoop. The plan, however, was just as badly ridden with problems as it was ambitious: equipment failure, a poor use of airborne troops, bad intelligence, a lack of aggressive spirit by some units and just having too many moving parts that could go wrong all conspired to ultimate defeat.
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I really can't think up an operation that Monty was head of that wasn't a collosal fuck up.
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I'm rereading "Citizen Soldiers" by the late Stephen Ambrose. He details quite well the hubris, bad planning, and fecklessness of Montgomery that lead to the disaster that was Market Garden. The book is well worth reading.
I also watched "A Bridge Too Far" last night. Early on while the Germans are planning their defense they are trying to decide where to best place their defenses. They were trying to figure out where the next big offensive would come from and who would lead it.
They decide that the next big allied offensive would come from the south and Patton would be in charge.
One of the German generals says it has to be Patton. "Not even Eisenhower is that stupid that he would put Montgomery in charge."
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There are many examples of great military figures. Monty belongs with the WWI crowd of nabobs.
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Wasn't around the same time frame when patton slapped the soldiers and everyone was butthurt?
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[American Liberty] A recent letter from congressional leaders reveals stunning new allegations that the CIA attempted to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
According to the letter addressed to CIA Director William Burns, a whistleblower has come forward claiming the CIA assembled a team in 2021 to investigate COVID-19's origins. The team was made up of experienced officers with extensive scientific expertise.
At the conclusion of the investigation, six out of seven team members believed there was sufficient intelligence to make a "low confidence assessment" that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a Wuhan lab.
However, the whistleblower states that the CIA then offered these analysts "significant monetary incentive" to change their conclusions and say the virus originated naturally instead. The lone dissenting analyst who believed in natural origins was the most senior member of the team.
If true, this is an alarming development. Offering hush money to analysts to cover up legitimate inquiry into COVID's origins would represent a major breach of ethics and transparency.
Congressional leaders are demanding the CIA turn over all documentation related to this team and its investigation immediately. They also requested records of the CIA's communication with other agencies such as the FBI and State Department on this matter.
The American people deserve complete openness and honesty regarding the virus that has claimed over one million lives in the US alone. These shocking whistleblower revelations confirm we may not have received the full truth so far.
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Congressional leaders are demanding the CIA turn over all documentation related to this team and its investigation immediately. They also requested records of the CIA's communication with other agencies such as the FBI and State Department on this matter.
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[REGNUM] Republicans in Congress have officially launched impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden. At the same time, they themselves admit that they have no real chance of removing Biden from power. But the threat of impeachment is an attempt to weaken Biden's electoral position or even force him to voluntarily resign. Continued on Page 49
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Look for rapprochement between Jojo and Kamalalala in the coming weeks. The Puppet Show is increasingly adrift from the Kalorama Puppeteers who want the Democrap Convention slate cleared for a more competitive and cognitively functional fronts-piece for the POTATUS role. Dr. Jilly and Hunter see the gravy-train and safe-space of the White House ending, and no way to avoid those pesky criminal charges that will follow.
Enter the deal... Jojo continues the sham basement re-election campaign through the Convention, blocking out any challenges to democrap party "unity", get the Biden-Harris ticket confirmed, and then Jojo will exit stage left soon after, leaving Harris the Presidency. She will campaign as an incumbent President and feed her insatiable ego with symbolism galore. She pardons everybody in the Biden crime syndicate in exchange for the Presidency, and the Biden clan goes to Rehobeth in rich obscurity.
The Obama confederation will simmer, but it's backers (especially the CCP) will deal with the "First Black Female President" and seek to park someone (Big-Mike or even Champ) in the #2 spot to coach and continue the wreckage.
However fantastical it sounds, it beats the democrap chances with Biden as the candidate for 2024.
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The chances of a California lib winning Ohio are about as high as Judge Judy ending up on the Supreme Court. Obama’s election was predicated on him being a mystery box wrapped as a Christmas present. Kamala and Gavin are too well known. Tim Ryan didn’t even make it through the sieve of public discernment. While Ohio has gone pretty red, I’m not sure Gavin would be popular In Pennsylvania or Michigan either. The Dems did a dumb thing when the hung Manchin out to dry.
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[Laughing Wolf ht HotAir] Präsident der Republik Grisham has earned two posts here recently (one here and one here) with her overweening arrogance and complete disregard for the Constitution and law. For all that it would be easy to believe the latest act (after all, this is a creature that closed grocery stores as part of overly draconian lockdown restrictions), is just more totalitarian rule, Jeff Goldstein (aka Protein Wisdom) has a different take. One thing I’ve learned over the years is to carefully consider such takes from him.
His take is that the act is orchestrated and meant to fail, for a reason. The idea being to set up a basis to claim or create a federal "right" to such an emergency mandate via the 10th amendment. As he notes, shades of Woodrow Wilson. Progressives are already jumping in to say ’why not’ do so.
My own hope remains that this gets shot down thoroughly and completely, and that Grisham faces severe official and unofficial sanctions as a warning to others. The cynic in me doubts that will happen, but one can still hope as without such I fear others will only be emboldened. I also hope Jeff is wrong, or that as this issue is being dealt with in the courts, steps can be taken to eliminate any effort to try to do a federal end-run via the 10th.
Oh, two quick things. For those wondering, the title I use for her was the title for the president of East Germany. Seems fitting. For those wondering why I’m not considering NM when I look at moving the the SW, it’s her actions, the simps and gimps of the legislature who went along with them, and the fact that she was voted back into office (similar to human petri dish High Tax Holcomb) by the people who’s rights and liberties she trampled during the lockdowns. No thanks.
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New Mexico is a beautiful state. Too bad the people make CA look conservative. The mask signs were still up earlier this year at the gas stations. Only the workers and locals were wearing them. This state is the "Official" nanny state and they love for the government to take care of them. AZ is trapped between to loser states.
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10th Amendment approach was nullified by the 14th Amendment -
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
States can not shut down basic Constitutional rights. Been tried and always slapped down in the end.
I’m not considering NM when I look at moving the the SW
That's fine. Just understand that NM is among the bottom 3 states in economic ranking. It's harder to be evil when you don't have the resources to make it happen. Their greenie brigade does a good job keeping it way by obstructing the exploitation of natural resources.
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BTW, we're not California yet. We've had a wave of retail raiding/theft. Our Donk legislature quickly passed this year a change in the law that puts the value of felony at $700 - accumulated not a single offense. They've been rounding up the thieves.
[Doomberg] "Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze." — Aimé Césaire
To be an effective podcast guest requires a few basic tactics. First, it is important to let the host get their full question asked before beginning to answer yourself. In normal conversation, it is not uncommon to understand where a friend is going and to get there before they do, but in a podcast setting it can be off-putting. It is also advisable to directly address the host’s questions in a concise manner and to mix in a few memorable phrases that listeners can work into their own discourse. Driving home a key communication objective with a catchy turn of phrase—a verbal meme, if you will—can make the difference between being remembered or forgotten.
One phrase that we coined and have popularized on various podcast appearances is "In the battle between physics and platitudes, physics is undefeated." It is a polite way of articulating that the hard realities of life must eventually be confronted, and no amount of pompous speech, deceptive statistics, or outright fabrications can overcome the laws of physics. It might take many years, involve billions in misallocated money, and cause significant social and political upheaval, but one simply cannot wish away the fundamental constraints of the universe. The global energy strategy is no exception.
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If wind energy has unworkable flaws, I expect government to continue funding it for decades ahead. Corruption overrules both physics and platitudes.
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Look for the DOE to propose placing giant fans next to wind farms to make sure the turbines produce power. Giant fans powered by toxic waste.
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I read somewhere that one third of the turbines in the California wind valley doesn't produce any power due to some issues or another, but the operators keep the blades turning to make it looks like they still work.
[WashingtonInstitute] Two decades after the 9/11 attacks, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is once again becoming a haven for terrorist activities abroad—but this time by a local Islamic State branch.
Over the past three decades, successive jihadist organizations have sought to conduct external operations beyond their local battlefields, often from safe havens abroad. The long list includes actors such as the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (when it hijacked Air La Belle France Flight 8969 in 1994), al-Qaeda (most infamously via the 9/11 attacks, but also through plots by local branches al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , al-Shabaab
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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.
[LI] Back in 2021, Mike covered the UVA student who was harassed and doxxed because a BLM activist misheard a remark made at a protest.
[Laughing Wolf ht HotAir] Präsident der Republik Grisham has earned two posts here recently (one here and one here) with her overweening arrogance and complete disregard for the Constitution and law. For all that it would be easy to believe the latest act (after all, this is a creature that closed grocery stores as part of overly draconian lockdown restrictions), is just more totalitarian rule, Jeff Goldstein (aka Protein Wisdom) has a different take. One thing I’ve learned over the years is to carefully consider such takes from him.
