The Calls Are Coming From Inside The House

Via Mario Nawfal;

A senior Pentagon official disclosed that the suspect in leaking documents about Israel’s potential attack on Iran is the director of the office of the assistant commander of special operations at the US Department of Defense.

The individual allegedly passed the documents to Iranian authorities, raising alarm over US security.

Nobody could have seen that coming.

Show Them The Man

And they’ll show you the crime;

Montana Democrats are debuting a new form of political warfare against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. They’re trying to destroy the business he built.

Denunciations of “wealthy Republican businessmen” aren’t new. But the assault on the Sheehy-founded Bridger Aerospace is of a nastier breed. The goal seems to be to destroy Bridger so as to tar Mr. Sheehy as a failed businessman. Sen. Jon Tester’s campaign has joined the attacks — never mind the cost to Bridger employees, many of whom are Montanans, or the local economy.

Before Mr. Sheehy announced his Senate run in mid-2023, what little press Bridger received was complimentary. As a Navy SEAL, Mr. Sheehy experienced the military’s rapid advances in surveillance reconnaissance, and on retiring from service after injuries, he saw its potential to fight wildfires. Mr. Sheehy (who is a pilot) and a fellow veteran scraped together money to found Bridger in 2014 with the mission of providing aerial support for wildland firefighters. ]…]

Yet the closer Mr. Sheehy came to winning the nomination, the more hostile the environment became for Bridger. Late last year the company started getting strange inquiries from lenders and regulators — leading some managers to suspect that people were lodging accusations against it in hope of triggering lenders to pull loans or provoking a public regulatory rebuke.

After Bridger weathered that storm, the assault went public. In early August, NBC and the Washington Post ran negative articles a day apart making strikingly similar suggestions of a coming Bridger financial collapse, based in part on the anything-can-happen disclaimers that public companies are required to file. NBC also quoted Marc Cohodes — a short seller who has praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “great” and who routinely bashes Mr. Sheehy and Donald Trump — accusing Bridger of existing “for insiders and the Park Avenue billionaires at Blackstone.”

I bought a few shares in BAER in September. The price is climbing back up.

Hey Justin, here’s a new fringe minority for you to demonize

h/t ‘DavidR’

October 22, 2024: Reader Tips

I’m frequently asked by Europeans and Asians what are the differences between Americans and Canadians. There are definitely a lot of similarities. If you were to cover up the flags and mailboxes and parachute a foreign visitor into Vancouver or Seattle or perhaps Toronto or Chicago, it might be difficult for them to figure out which country they were in. A deeper comparison might delve into the fact that the Americans rebelled against their British overlords whereas the Canadians (aka loyalists) complied. But this doesn’t mean that Canadians were entirely happy with their fate. In fact, in 1837, there were two Canadian Rebellions. You can read more about them here.

Bonus: Here’s a very wise mom!

Got some good news tips? We want ’em!

Don’t Even Think About It

Reason- British Man Convicted of Criminal Charges for Praying Silently Near Abortion Clinic

This month, a British man was convicted of criminal charges for praying silently near an abortion clinic. The man, Adam Smith-Connor did not attempt to harass, intimidate, or interact in any way with those entering the clinic. Instead, he wordlessly prayed with his head bowed slightly. He wasn’t even on clinic property—he was outside the sightline of the clinic itself, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a religious freedom group.

Y2Kyoto: “These results contradict the previously published work”

Roger Pielke Jr:

A new paper is just out claiming that climate change is increasing the damage associated with U.S. hurricanes:

“US hurricane damage, normalized for changes of inflation, population, and wealth, increases approximately 1% per year. For 1900–2022, 1% per year is equivalent to a factor of >3 increase, substantially but not entirely, attributable to climate change.”

As they say — Big if true.

Alas, it is not true.Stop me if you’ve heard this before — some researchers found a fake Excel “dataset” online and decided to use it in a peer reviewed paper, favoring the fake dataset over data in the peer reviewed literature of known provenance and subject to decades of scrutiny.

Some Are More Equal Than Others

Back of the bus Whitey.

National Post- Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues

“Canadians have been sold a bill of goods,” Bruce Pardy, the author of the report and a Queen’s University law professor, told National Post by email. “Many of them think that they have a right to equal treatment under the law. They think that discrimination is illegal. But nothing could be further from the truth. In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups — and in particular against straight white men.

There is a business case for…

Blacklock’s- Canada A Fentanyl Exporter

Canada is a net exporter of fentanyl, says the Department of Foreign affairs. Canada “is now a source and transit country for fentanyl to some markets,” said a department briefing note.

Federal agencies had blamed China for illegal fentanyl shipments into the country. The memo noted the Chinese Communist Party “views the opioid crisis as a ‘North American problem’” and “emphasized the importance of cleaning up one’s own house first.”

Debanking is Growing

One of the unsung heroes of the Canadian Truckers Protest was the Ottawa-based writer, Rupa Subramanya, as illustrated here in 2022 and here in 2024.

Fast forward and Subramanya has written an important new piece: The Debanking of America In this video, she discussed her article.

Former first lady Melania Trump alleges in her new memoir that both she and her son, Barron, were debanked. “I was shocked and dismayed to learn that my long-time bank decided to terminate my account and deny my son the opportunity to open a new one,” she wrote. (Trump’s email provider also declined to continue providing her service.)

Being debanked is a family affair for the Trumps. This includes the former president, Donald Trump, who was shut out of a Florida bank account after the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol. So was a news app run by Donald Jr. So was MyPillow CEO (and Trump supporter) Mike Lindell.

But it’s not just Trump supporters. Also debanked have been a number of Christian charities, including Indigenous Advance Ministries, a Memphis-based charity that does philanthropic work for orphans in Uganda, and Family Council, a pro-life charity based in Arkansas. According to Democratic lawmakers, many Arab and South-Asian Americans—who are considered “high risk” because of being Muslim—have been debanked, too.

Thirsty Proletarians

In another nation where the leaders routinely address each other as comrade, basic infrastructure continues to implode right on schedule.

Currently, 45% of municipalities in South Africa cannot provide the most basic information on their water supply, including monthly consumption figures.

The report showed that 277 water systems – nearly 30% of the total – are in a critical state requiring urgent intervention. This is a significant increase from 103 systems in 2014.

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