Biden’s America: Stop the panicked fear mongering. A banana republic. Biden looks after China’s energy needs. How Jesse Jackson remade the Democratic Party. Joe Biden’s weather report. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Amidst the usual daily shootings and stabbings, a special diversity outbreak in Toronto.
Global Warming Scam News: Boston mayor bans use of fossil fuels. The climate alarmists.
Today In Islam: No Christians allowed (JW). A mostly peaceful Muslim scholar (JW).
I miss Robert. *sigh*
Experts and the Power of Self-Deception
Experts are ordinary human beings, with all the fallibilities that come with membership in our species. Like everyone else, experts sometimes suppress truth and disseminate falsehoods for self-preservation or personal gain. Sometimes, they do so in service to some larger cause. Experts, short on time or resources, may cut corners, publishing information they hope is correct, while knowing it may not be. In all these situations, the expert knows his or her information is or may be false.
More interesting, more likely, and more dangerous are those situations where the expert sincerely believes his or her falsehoods to be correct, owing to the lure of self-deception.
Another good essay by Robert F. Graboyes, who is generous with his free content. Pour a coffee and consider subscribing to his always excellent substack.
Zerohedge- Hollywood Starlets Face Extinction As Sexy AI-Influencers Invade Social Media
Thanks to the advent of AI-powered image and video generators, as well as chatbots, a number of virtual influencers, such as “Milla Sofia,” are posting content that appears to show them living a life of luxury.
Sofia may claim to hail from Finland and post bikini pictures from European trips. And to the untrained eye, her content appears real, but it’s not. A message on the AI bot’s website reads Sofia is a “24-year-old virtual influencer and fashion model.”
AI bots can pump out quality content much faster, at a much cheaper price. Where an Onlyfans model might charge $20.00+ for a subscription to their page, a bot could produce the same photos, videos, and messages for less than half the price.
Central planning is like a washing machine cycle that never ends:
Step 1: Subsidize production.
Step 2: When production exceeds consumer demand, subsidize the losses.
Step 3: When the losses become terminal, pay producers to exit the industry.
Step 4: When prices rise, go back to Step 1.
The first stage of the production-cut program is voluntary. Those that agree to participate must leave the industry for a minimum of five years. Two-thirds of the cost will be covered by Farm Income Stabilization Insurance, a taxpayer-funded provincial program that, when market prices are low, covers the costs of production. One-third will be paid by Les Éleveurs de porcs du Québec.
This will mean that every producer who remains in the sector must pay $2.86 to the union for every hog they sell, to cover producers’ share of the expense, according to reporting by La Presse. The pool of cash will be used to pay producers who leave.
“We understand we need the taxpayer helping us‚ but at the same time we bring lots of money, too,” Mr. Roy said.
China currently has more carbon emissions than the entire developed world combined. But hey, let’s take the land away from farmers, cull cows, add net zero taxes, enforce 15 minute cities and ban gas stoves.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) July 22, 2023
Trudeau’s Canada: Comrade Chow would like to rename Dundas St. Katie Telford gets fact checked.
Biden’s America: Why are TV dads so dumb? Apparently chromosomes don’t matter. Hottest summer in a gazillion years. Planned Parenthood’s fight for child marriage.
Woke Britain: The transgender inmate pretending to be a baby, is moved to a men’s prison. Oh no! Greta is upset.
Another history lesson with Neil Oliver. China Virus News: Fiery senate hearing in Australia.
Here. Use this thread.
It’s a well-known historical fact that the revolution eventually eats its own children, and in this particular case it happened to be a gay leftist. It goes to show you that no one is really safe from the Woke juggernaut.
“It was not only his job that was taken away from him, but his reputation, because those very people were assassinating his character. They claimed he was a white supremacist, that he was a racist. They knew nothing about him.
Like the victims of Maoist show trials, those termed “white” are unquestioningly guilty of racism; in fact, they cannot even know that they are racists. Their only option is to accept guilt without thought or question and whatever punishment that follows. It’s a crude reformulation of the Marxist attempt to segregate people irreconcilably into revolutionary and counter-revolutionary camps.
“As white people, there’s a whole bunch going on that isn’t your personal experience,” Thompson said at the second session. “It will never be. You will never know it to be so. You will never know it to be so. So your job in this work, as white people, is to believe.”
Joe Biden had an exciting old man’s vacation this week. No word yet on how many times he fell off his bike.
Biden Administration Ordered Facebook to Change Algorithms to Suppress Conservatives
In one meeting on April 14th, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook if it was possible to artificially promote outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, instead the Daily Wire and Fox News, particularly commentator Tomi Lahren.
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people,” Flaherty asked. “You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” […]
“Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House,” said Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on Twitter.
Constitutional scholars have also raised the alarm over the revelations, with George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley saying that he has “asked Congress to pass a law barring federal employees from engaging in censorship and targeting of citizens.”
“Agencies have a right to speak in their own voices,” Turley added. “Instead, the Biden Administration sought to engage in what I have called ‘censorship through surrogate.’ This is part of that pattern.”
I am no longer anonymous. My name is Angel SanMartin and, as a teacher, I refuse to spread an ideology that damages and confuses children. pic.twitter.com/LmglTecxYo
— Blightaga (@TheBlightaga) August 2, 2023
Coming soon… “termite Tuesday”. You will eat the bugs and be happy.
The City- Green Gambit: Plant-Based Meals Mandated at Senior Centers Once a Week
The city’s Department for the Aging is now requiring senior centers to provide at least one plant-based meal a week to New Yorkers older than 60 who eat at senior centers or have food delivered to their homes, according to an internal June 23 memo obtained by THE CITY.
The menu change — which allows plant-based entrees to replace the weekly vegetarian meal that senior centers already must provide — is part of a City Hall-led health kick that affects millions of meals for the golden-age set.
Land of the freezing, home of the bug eaters.
Under new Energy Department efficiency standards, bulbs manufactured and sold now must meet the “minimum energy-efficiency standard” of 45 lumens per watt, giving rise to LED bulbs that some researchers have suggested can cause health complications.
Biden’s light bulb ban joins the list of growing home items the President has fixated on. Perhaps most notably, gas stoves have been a target of his administration for several months.
Specifically, the DOE-proposed energy consumption standards that, if enacted, would reportedly make half of America’s gas-powered stoves non-compliant with the rule, a move Republicans have warned would wreak havoc on financially burdened families.
Because of this, House Republicans passed two bills aimed at blocking federal attempts to regulate gas-powered stoves, arguing that, on top of the economic implications, it would also violate consumer choice.
Other items like gas furnaces, AC units, washing machines and refrigerators have also come under DOE scrutiny, all in the name of “energy efficiency” and combating climate change. However, many don’t agree that the efforts to regulate home appliances are climate-motivated.
And their Chinese installed affiliates in media.
China’s election interference and political influence in Canada has been enabled by Beijing’s covert “takeover” of Chinese-language media, plus sophisticated, massively-funded schemes targeting mainstream outlets and seeking to control “key media entities” according to intelligence documents.
These clandestine operations have involved threats against journalists, the documents say, but also inducements, such as benefits offered by Vancouver’s Chinese Consulate to cultivate “key editors, producers and high-ranking managers.”
While the Trudeau Government faces a crisis of public confidence after intelligence leaks alleged Chinese diplomats directed funds clandestinely into Canada’s 2019 federal election, this new documentation adds another layer of concern, outlining Beijing’s overarching strategy to subvert democracy using Canada’s free press.
Beijing’s ultimate objective is influencing Canadian media to help elect politicians friendly towards the Chinese Communist Party and promoting reporting that favours its interests, the documents say.
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According to the unredacted June 2019 NSICOP report, the Chinese Communist Party also increasingly targets Canada’s media giants.
Under the subheading “Mainstream Canadian Media” it says Beijing has switched from a defensive strategy, focused on domestic censorship and expelling foreign journalists, to flooding international media outlets “with massive infusions of money.”
These funds aim to have Beijing’s propaganda published by major newspapers and broadcasters.
“CSIS assesses that Canadian media outlets have been heavily targeted in this regard,” the NSICOP document says.
It adds CSIS reported in 2017 that “PRC authorities have … attempted to use Canadian media outlets in order to deliberately publish false or misleading information.”
Throw Sam a few bucks if you’re able, he’s earned it. Unlike the jokers coasting on taxpayer largess.
Biden’s America: Creepy Joe. The Pill. The NIH shows China how to kill Americans. A surveillance state. This week in really big lies. Apparently Dianne Feinstein is still alive. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Dear Leader makes another woke appointment. The DEI group received thousands from the Liberal government. A China controlled media. Don’t ask any questions about residential schools. The renaming of everything in B.C. (CBC) Don’t upset the Metis convicts. Hans Gruber wants us to pay more for electricity.
Today In Islam: Muslim missionaries trafficking indigenous boys (JW). British imams have a nice visit with the Taliban.
Woke Britain: Saying black market is racist. Global Warming Scam News: The Left hates people.
Al Sharpton: “Can you imagine…reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?” pic.twitter.com/UakGPmPNSB
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 3, 2023
Tips thread open.
Whoever made this is a genius.
Trump talking about straws like the beginning of a Seinfeld episode… pic.twitter.com/qdLCI4Bw8W
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 3, 2023
Is there any possibility that the folks in Edmonton have been paying attention to all the stories I’ve been doing on the failure of wind in Alberta? Because on Thursday, Alberta announced a six month pause on renewable energy approvals.