…the two ‘explorers’ refuse to leave the vessel by helicopter, probably as it destroys the narrative of their journey.
Come Back, Pizzagate!
All is forgiven: Surveillance footage showing Jeffrey Epstein’s first alleged suicide attempt has “gone missing.”
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Diversity Is Their Strength!
Islamist groups have recruited dozens of former French soldiers, a troubling new report has revealed less than three months after a terrorist attack by a staff member at police headquarters in Paris shocked the nation.
More than a third of the ex-servicemen are converts to Islam and nearly half served in elite Foreign Legion, parachute, commando or marine units where they acquired expertise in combat and handling weapons and explosives.
The conservative newspaper Le Figaro published excerpts on Wednesday from the forthcoming report by the Centre for the Analysis of Terrorism, a Paris-based think tank.
I, Napoleon
I am a professor of philosophy, employed at a British university in a Philosophy Department. Today, an UK employment tribunal judge ruled that the belief that biological sex is immutable, and that it is impossible to change one’s sex, is “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others”.
Fallout!
Woke author JK Rowling, who retroactively made her book characters gay to appease the mob, is getting attacked by the same mob for not being woke enough. pic.twitter.com/qKxAxuAoTj
— Roosh (@rooshv) December 19, 2019
Pollspotting!
CTV Saskatoon: Should President Donald Trump be impeached?
Currently 421 yes vs 238 no.
Update! @13:44 the no vote has taken the lead: 593 – 473
And @15:20 we’re at 806 – 496.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Trump’s greatest superpower is his ability to bait political and media elites into revealing themselves as the vulgar and dishonest lightweights we always knew them to be.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
They’ll pry my 2002 Astro from my cold, dead hands.
As Fowler writes, “My Chevy’s dashboard didn’t say what the car was recording. It wasn’t in the owner’s manual. There was no way to download it.”
To figure this out, Fowler had someone hack into the Volt. He discovered that the car was recording details about where the car was driven and parked, call logs, identification information for his phone and contact information from his phone, “right down to people’s address, emails and even photos.” In another example, Fowler bought a Chevy infotainment computer on eBay and was able to extract private information from it about whoever owned it before him, including pictures of the person the previous owner called “Sweetie.”
While GM was the subject of Fowler’s experiments, it’s not the only company collecting data on its drivers.
Y2Kyoto: Up In Smoke
Oh, there’s lots of people who have plenty to show for it — it just happens none of them are us.
Alarming @NRCan study says there's little to show for $269M in #ClimateChange subsidies to green tech. Solution: more subsidies! https://t.co/7cjmsHGzgy #cdnpoli #Titanic #iceberg pic.twitter.com/xongnMSWFY
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) December 18, 2019
But wait! There’s more!
Canadian federal agency invests $141M in China’s coal industry. Because #ClimateEmergency. @cppib #HongKong #cdnpoli https://t.co/cWXuRBeNCU pic.twitter.com/EGtNpo28OB
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) December 18, 2019
Because… one must keep the benefactors happy.
December 19, 2019: Reader Tips
The Libranos: SNC Lavalin
Let’s not forget them.
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s failed efforts to see SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution led to him losing two key ministers, his edge in the polls and (almost) his party’s hold on government, the Quebec engineering firm at the centre of the controversy walked away today with a plea deal that looks a lot like what it asked the government for in the first place.
A judge on Thursday accepted the plea deal that a division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. struck with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Under the agreement, the company pleaded guilty to one charge of fraud over $5,000 in relation to the company’s activities in Libya.
All other charges have been dropped.
Main take away: “So we’re very happy that it’s now over. We are free to bid as normal. This guilty plea does not prevent construction, or any other entity of the group, to bid on public contracts.”
@globeandmail — SNC shares surge…
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Heads up “low-level FBI agents”. Andy McCabe is your new bus driver.
More: ‘You Chose to Sit on Your Hands!’
A Historic Day
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and confusion that morning had arrived and Donald Trump was still their President.
Trump will change what the word "impeachment" means to the country more than impeachment will change the Trump presidency. We are only days away from the word becoming meaningless.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 18, 2019
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Via email;
Now I am definitely old enough to remember when Mark Steyns “America Alone”
was lambasted and ridiculed for its fantastical and fanciful ideas about
population replacement and the death of western culture due to
“demographics”.
A while later the same treatment was accorded to Melanie Phillips book
“Londonistan”
They both would now appear to be prophets.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
December 18, 2019: Reader Tips
I’m late with this, sorry! Thread’s open.
Joe And Mika, Meet The New Rules
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
In a stunning rebuke of @Comey, the FISA Court calls out the FBI director for fraud that occurred under his leadership. pic.twitter.com/FpbpLPeDfG
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 17, 2019
More here.
The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.
Well, finally.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Tesla Is Hiding Its “Solar Test House” With Even More Tents To Prevent “Prying Eyes”
Meanwhile, it has now been more than three years since October 2016, when Musk first “revealed” the tiles in an event that many skeptics say was purely for show and to move Tesla’s
bailoutmerger of SolarCity along. A solar panel expert recently debunked Tesla’s 2016 presentation in a podcast and explained why he used it as the basis for forming his skeptical opinion on the company.
Musk has yet to disclose how many people have paid $100 to pre-order the Solarglass Roof, despite touting the company’s pre-order numbers for its Cybertruck. Is it possible that both products still don’t exist, we wonder?
Related: Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Glencore did not immediately respond for comment.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Getting the government they voted for — good and hard.
Update! They’ll be able to work for… free.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
It’s Bloomberg, so that means they think it’s bad.
President Trump is right to fight against expanding the electric vehicle tax credit. Taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for a subsidy for California’s elite. Thank you @realDonaldTrump for defending American taxpayers.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) December 17, 2019