Top 25 News Stories (July 5, 2024)
NATION
Explosion at Arkansas weapon manufacturer leaves 2 people injured, 1 missing
Editorial: The 2024 Election Fix Is In – Only We Can Stop It
Wisconsin Wants the Disabled to Download Ballots Online
CBS sued for $5M by anchor Jeff Vaughn over diversity policy: ‘Too many white males’ (Mainstream)
The Party Running On Saving Democracy Wants To Rig Their Election
Of Death Squads, Dementia, and Desperation
In reading Sotomayor’s frenzied, angst-ridden, and petulant prose, one can easily envision the full-blown tantrum she almost certainly had in her chambers while authoring the dissent. (The 70-year-old Obama appointee recently admitted she sometimes “cries” over court decisions that don’t go her way and how “every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart.”)
Claiming the opinion “effectively creates a law-free zone around the President”—Sotomayor obviously unaware the leader of the free world and commander-in-chief of the military enjoys certain rights denied to every other American—she presented her own list of what she called “nightmare scenarios.”
“When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution,” she wrote. “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
It’s unclear whether Sotomayor threw her cookie from her highchair after that.
WORLD
Britain Populist Farage Takes Long-Term View in Election
UK: EVERYONE participating at this General Election will need ID in order to cast their vote
Hezbollah’s powerful regional divisions controlling southern Lebanon
What of Gaza’s ‘other hostages’ — the thousands of Palestinians held in Israel without charge?
It Was Biodefense, Not Public Health: UK Edition
To summarize: The British government’s response to the Covid pandemic switched from “Plan A” – a public health response led by the Department of Health, to “Plan B” – a surveillance and lockdown response, modeled on responses to terrorist attacks, led by intelligence operatives, and operating in secrecy.
What prompted the switch?
This is the million dollar question – not just in the UK, but in the US and all over the world, where the same pattern was followed.
HEMISPHERE
Hurricane Beryl roars toward Mexico after leaving destruction in Jamaica and eastern Caribbean (Mainstream) Please note that a news article that might have once been categorized as a “Weather” story is now placed on the “Climate and Environment” shelf.
As questions swirl, Canadians expect Trudeau to stay on until election
The First Victims of Bukele’s Absolute Power Editorial Comment: Beware of any regime that enforces “illicit association”.
HEALTH
A Critical Analysis of All-Cause Deaths during COVID-19 Vaccination in an Italian Province
MACRO
Plotting the Fentanyl money flows
A Realistic Assessment of Bank Capital Adequacy vs the Federal Reserve Board’s Stress Test Fiction
David Rosenberg: ‘Our Economy is Running on Borrowed Time – Severe Fallout Ahead’ (YT) (Long but relatively concise video)
MICRO
How do Content Creators make money? Brand deals, market rates and more! (YT)
6 Ways Influencers are making money! (YT)
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Baseless Conspiracies Ep 88 – OKC Bombing Part 3 (Rumble)
CULTURE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
One Year Later: Carly Tefft Talks Career Boom And Note From President Trump
Carly Tefft – Better Off At A Bar ( Lyric Video ) (YT)
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