Jimmy Dore: You’d think climate activists would be up in arms about the new four-lane highway being cut through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest. Except it turns ou the highway is being built expressly for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
The highway aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.
"Women don't listen, they don't want to know. ...they don't like that men are finally standing up for themselves."
Far From Eden
But the Kremlin has consistently rejected the idea of NATO troops deploying to Ukraine, even in the name of 'peacekeeping'. This announced upcoming meeting, set for Tuesday, will focus on making progress on "practical plans for how our militaries can support Ukraine’s future security," Starmer said.
It took three powerful men, each of whom had the advantage of operating entirely in public, and with massive and obvious real-world consequences, to rupture the apparatus of false consciousness that Obama built...
If anyone in the future cares enough to write an authentic history of the 2024 presidential campaign, they might begin by noting that American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river. Like any river, American culture follows a particular path, which has been reconfigured at key moments by new technologies. In turn, these technologies, which redefine both space and time—canals and lakes, the postal system, the telegraph, railroads, radio and later television, the internet, and most recently the networking of billions of people in real time on social media platforms—set the rules by which stories are communicated, audiences are configured, and individuals define themselves.
"Christ is king, is trending."
Candace Owens: Harvey Weinstein gives me a major public shout out, Justin Bieber shares a humble message on social media, and we are learning that Hugh Jackman will be deposed in the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni’s legal battle.
Paging DOGE, stat...
Authored by Jeremy Portnoy: Topline: A Chinese lab is continuing to receive funds from the U.S. to conduct cruel studies on beagles, according to contracts obtained by the nonprofit White Coat Waste Project and shared with the New York Post.
Key facts: The $124,200 contract was awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences using money from the Pentagon, for the experiments on beagle puppies — as well as mice and rats — at the Beijing-based company’s lab from September 2023 until May 2025.
They’ll do it again if we let them...
Authored by Jim Bovard:
“Pandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won’t Make Us Safer” was the headline of my first salvo against the pandemic hysteria, published on March 24, 2020 in the Daily Caller. I scoffed at President Trump’s proclamations about being a “wartime president at war with an invisible enemy.” Wartime presidents too easily pretend they’re on a mission from God to scourge all resistance. I warned: “The pandemic threatens to open authoritarian Pandora’s Boxes. Permitting governments to seize almost unlimited power based on shaky extrapolations of infection rates will doom our republic.”