At the Revere Hotel in Boston, FBI agents and Army Special Ops units were about to conduct a “training exercise”.
In the “exercise”, they would go into a room and interrogate a “role player”.
Instead, they went to the wrong room, where an unsuspecting airline pilot answered the door. They handcuffed him, threw him into the shower, and interrogated him for about an hour, before he was able to convince them he wasn’t the “role player”.
They then told him that he could never speak about what had happened, and left.
When it became public, the government’s response was basically “oops”.
The Worst Person in America
Randi Weingarten is a truly horrible, arguably evil person. She accepts zero personal responsibility or legal accountability for what she has done. A long prison sentence would be just the start of what she deserves.
Updates:
- My apologies re the link. Now fixed!
- This video from the National Education Association tells you everything you ever need to know about teachers unions. h/t Political Junkie
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Hundreds of Army aviation officers who were set to leave the military are being held to another three years of service after they say the branch quietly reinterpreted part of their contract amid retention and recruitment issues.
The shift has sparked an uproar among the more than 600 affected active-duty commissioned officers, including some who say their plans to start families, launch businesses and begin their civilian lives have been suddenly derailed.
“We are now completely in limbo,” said a captain who had scheduled his wedding around thinking he would be leaving the military this spring.
That captain and three other active-duty aviation officers who spoke to NBC News spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
Law & Order: Burning Churches Unit
A church in the Alberta hamlet of Cherry Grove went up in flames early Friday morning and RCMP are calling the fire suspicious.
Cold Lake RCMP were sent to the hamlet, about 10 kilometres east of Cold Lake, and found the church “fully engulfed.”
RCMP said the fire is considered “suspicious,” based on their early investigation.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
President’s son says he can’t afford to pay child support, has been ordered to appear in Arkansas court on Monday
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Transphobia in the United States is said to be ubiquitous and deadly, but for Jazz and family, transition presented extraordinary opportunities. In 2007, Jazz and her mother were interviewed by Barbara Walters. After that, a documentary, I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition, aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network. A best-selling book, I Am Jazz, was next; it has a place on the shelves of school libraries around the country and an award from the American Library Association, and it has been the occasion for public readings in schools, churches, and other community centers. In 2015, Jazz’s career reached its pinnacle. The TLC network launched a reality-show series starring Jazz and her family; it’s now in its eighth season. That year, Johnson & Johnson also named Jazz a spokesmodel for its Clean & Clear skin-care line. In 2018, she designed a bra in partnership with Knixteen, a teen underwear company. She is a much-in-demand LGBTQ influencer, with millions of followers on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. She was signed by Creative Artists Agency, representatives of Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, and other A-listers. The coup de grace in her rise came when she received an acceptance letter to Harvard. We don’t know how much she has earned from some of these seemingly lucrative enterprises, but it’s safe to say that her Harvard tuition shouldn’t be a problem.
Via Ed Driscoll, who has more.
Saturday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: A Vice hit piece. The Biden 2024 message. Narcissistic self love. Government shielded Joe Biden. Old Joe’s 30 hour work week. Who is paying for Hunter Biden’s lawyers? Your morning meme.
Today In Islam: U.K. prison gangs (JW). Some Muslim outreach in Nigeria (JW).
Trudeau’s Canada: Get that expensive hotel suite ready. Queen Justin will attend the coronation (CBC). And Hillary Clinton will speak at Liberal convention.
News From The Nursing Home: So what was old Joe Biden up to this week?
Home Safety News: Seven gun free tactics to defend your home.
Global Warming Scam News: Mega-billionaires and climate change.
Down The Primrose Path
Back in December, the European Union barred almost any seaborne crude oil imports from Russia. It extended the prohibition to refined fuels two months later.
However, the rules didn’t prevent countries like India from snapping up cheap Russian crude, turning it into fuels like diesel, and shipping it back to Europe at a markup.
The Asian country is on track to become Europe’s largest supplier of refined fuels this month while simultaneously buying record amounts of Russian crude, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from analytics firm Kpler.
“Russian oil is finding its way back into Europe despite all the sanctioning and India ramping up fuel exports to the west is a good example of it,” said Viktor Katona, lead crude analyst at the firm. “With India taking in so much Russian barrels, it’s inevitable.”
The development is double-edged for the EU. On the one hand, the bloc needs alternative sources of diesel now that it has cut off direct flows from Russia, previously its top supplier. However, it ultimately boosts demand for Moscow’s barrels, and means extra freight costs.
It also means more competition for Europe’s oil refiners who can’t access cheap Russian crude, and comes amid wider market scrutiny about where the region’s diesel imports are coming from.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
@RealJamesWoods – Notoriously liberal West Hollywood had the brilliant idea of replacing police officers with unarmed “safety ambassadors.” Let’s take a peek at how that’s worked out during an assault in progress…
April 29, 2023: Reader Tips
Tonight, Jim Gaffigan teaches us all about Fashion.
Your most fashionable recent news tips are always in vogue!
Foreign investors begone!
It was the elder Trudeau who instituted the Foreign Investment Review Act which was thankfully jettisoned during the Mulroney years. Fast forward to the present era, and we now find the current leader of the Conservatives agreeing with Trudeau the younger that it should at least be resurrected on an ad hoc basis.
Why is a party allegedly dedicated to a free market economic system suddenly embracing this kind of mercantilist thinking? This is supremely ironic for a man who is campaigning on removing “gatekeepers” from the economy.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative party, is calling for the federal government to block Glencore Plc’s bid to buy Canada’s largest diversified miner, Teck Resources Ltd., adding yet another political voice against the potential takeover.
Under FIRA, foreign investors were at least well aware of the hurdles they faced when trying to invest capital in Canada. Now, the hurdles are invoked on a whim and can apparently come from any political direction.
Y2Kyoto: Climate Of Frankenstein
Yikes!
This is very concerning, especially if their intention is to blockade attendees, including the President, in such large numbers to overwhelm police response. pic.twitter.com/C5PVu9ItfJ
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) April 28, 2023
I, Napoleon
Barbie Kardashian, 21… has been threatening to rape female officers at the women’s prison he is being housed at.
Canada’s Own Little Dictator
The majority of Canadians may have gone into ostrich-mode but people around the world are paying attention.
Related: Douglas Murray’s performance at last year’s Monk Debates should be required viewing for all Canadians. h/t RedPop
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Democracy Dies In Ballot Box: The Jeff Bezos Post sent two reporters Grand Haven, Michigan, a town of 11,011 people and the county seat of Ottawa County. Their job was to do his newspaper’s version of a story in Politico in February, “What It Looks Like When the Far Right Takes Control of Local Government.”
Remain In Your Pods, Eat Your Bugs
And await further instructions.
The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria poses a major threat to global health and food security as the use of antibiotics continue to grow. And now, a team of researchers from Quebec and France say bacteria with antibiotic-resistant genes can even spread through the clouds.
The study, published last month in the journal Science of The Total Environment, looked at samples taken from clouds at the Puy de Dôme summit, located 1,465 metres above the ground atop a dormant volcano in central France.
Analysis of the samples found anywhere between 330 to over 30,000 bacteria per millilitre of cloud water, with the average being around 8,000.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Pascale Fournier, former CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, testifies that she had questions about donation receipts issued by her predecessor, Morris Rosenberg, the man who also wrote a report on foreign interference for Trudeau:
“One mentions an address in China.” pic.twitter.com/nDLX3JbzZz
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) April 28, 2023
Stephen Chase is live tweeting her testimony, sort of.
Update: Pascale Fournier, former Trudeau Foundation CEO, describes how her property (including her phone) was promptly confiscated at her home following her resignation over a controversial Chinese donation
The Sound Of Settled Science
Joe Rogan & Dave Smith on the Illusion of Scientific Consensus
"It's not that there's consensus amongst the scientists. It's that any scientist that doesn't agree with the consensus gets kicked out. They all get excommunicated and silenced. And then it's just this completely… pic.twitter.com/mNblPe6MsM
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 28, 2023
Related: Now it turns out Canadian health officials knew ahead of time that the COVID-19 vaccinated likely carried the same viral load as the unvaccinated.
Down The Primrose Path
Worth Asking: why is Tucker the only TV host (at least not on Fox) whom senior military leaders wanted off the air?
Dear Leader’s Bought And Paid For Media
Apparently the CBC is a pillar of democracy.