Meet Apollo, a TikTok star that also happens to be a parrot. He recently scored a Guinness World Record because he identified 12 items in three minutes.
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đŽđą Representative Cori Bush says that she will be seeking revenge against the Israeli lobby AIPAC that funded massive campaigns against her.
đľ Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was canceled in Vienna after police arrested two people who were reportedly planning to launch a terrorist attack at the shows. That makes three shows cancelled across Europe now.
đŽđą The U.S. has reportedly told Israel that it will be able to resume combat operations in Gaza after the first stage of the hostage deal.
đ¤Śđťââď¸ The Justice Department has accused Hunter Biden of trying to help a “corrupt Romanian client by lobbying US officials during his fatherâs vice presidency,” according to new filings from special counsel David Weiss.
𤣠Steve Martin reportedly turned down the chance to play Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live.
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Stolen valor is a federal crime. This came up this week in relation to Governor Tim Walz’s military career, current candidate for Vice President on the Kamala Harris ticket.
Stolen valor is when someone embellishes or makes fraudulent claims about their military career. It is punishable by prison time because it is a very serious charge in the military.
Governor Walz is a veteran of the Minnesota National Guard. He was sent to Italy during Operation Enduring Freedom, which was what the U.S. called the war in Afghanistan between the years 2001 and 2021. In his campaigns he has played fast and loose with his association with Enduring Freedom, saying that he served “in support of Eduring Freedom” but never clarifying that he was neither a part of that operation nor in Afghanistan. His staff was pushed on this in 2009 by Enduring Freedom veterans in this video.
Another video was recently shared of Walz promoting gun control and saying “we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at.” But he wasn’t in war. Is that stolen valor? Even CNN now admits that Walz “has used language that suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation. There is no evidence that any time that he was in the position of being shot at and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was.â
Does it matter? According to NPR, not really. This is just fodder of a few old vets on the Internet “who get on social media and call each other very bad words” and it’s otherwise fine. They say it’s a shame that military service is being politicized. Politicized bad but embellished fine? That’s an insensitive take but to be expected from NPR.
Rumble and X are both suing advertiser groups for antitrust violations because here is what they do: They find content that they don’t like on X or Rumble, publish government-funded reports to call that content “hate speech,” and then tell advertisers not to advertise on those platforms in hopes that they will choke them out of existence.
X claims that this hurts their business and has cost them ad revenue, even as engagement is up on the platform. Both X and Rumble want to recover lost revenue but Rumble is also seeking an injunction so that these advertisers cannot do this again.
The advertisers are the World Federation of Advertisers; Unilever, Mars, CVS Health Corporation and Ărsted. They operate under an umbrella corporation called GARM, which we’ve discussed before many times on Redacted. They represent brands such as Google, LEGO, Verizon, Kellogg’s, Chanel, Adidas, BP, MasterCard, Bank of America, HP and more. These brands consult with GARM to see if they can advertise and GARM holds them off in order to suppress free speech platforms. Not only is that antitrust, it is anti-American because it suppresses free speech and conversation.
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In The U.K., Free Speech Is Now A Thing Of The Past
Free speech in the U.K. is….no longer a thing. People are being arrested for even supporting protests. Watch this Sky News piece in which the mainstream media warns about what you might think is innocent social media use but the government might deem violent and criminal.
“However you think you’re acting innocently…that could potentially be a criminal event.” The prosecution is pressing charges for “stirring up racial hatred online.” They admit that the government has “teams of people scouring the internet looking for this sort of thing.” Even a retweet could lead to prosecutions.
Protests have continued throughout England in the aftermath of young girls who were attacked and killed with a knife wielding son of immigrants. This caused anti-immigration demonstrations and pro-immigration demonstrations.
The message that, according to The Guardian, the government was the most upset about said this âTHEY WONâT STOP COMING UNTIL YOU TELL THEM ⌠NO MORE IMMIGRATION. MASK UP. SPREAD THIS AS FAR AND WIDE AS YOU CAN,â along with a dozen fire emojis.”
Sure that’s an emotional appeal but it does not say to harm anyone. Is that worthy of arresting people?
The government and the media can focus on people who have extreme anti-immigration views to deflect the real issue, which is that people are afraid of a society in which young girls can be harmed. It’s easier to blame inflamed responses than to deal with the cause clearly.
The World Health Organization is warning that Covid is still with us. Is it hurting or killing people? They don’t say that. They only say that case numbers are up.
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of the WHO said this to journalists this week: “Data from our sentinel-based surveillance system across 84 countries reports that the percent of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 has been rising over several weeks. Overall, test positivity is above 10 per cent, but this fluctuates per region. In Europe, percent positivity is above 20 per cent.â
This unexpected during the summer but she speculates that maybe the Olympics had something to do with it? All that gathering and sweating in the non-air conditioned buildings?
Dr. Van Kerkhove said that individuals should get a Covid vaccine every 12 months even though we KNOW that the vaccine does not prevent the spread of Covid. The WHO says that “as the virus continues to evolve and spread, there is a growing risk of a more severe strain of the virus that could potentially evade detection systems and be unresponsive to medical intervention.”
That makes no sense. If the vaccine does not prevent the spread, how could the vaccine prevent the evolution and spread? Perhaps the WHO missed this recent study that showed that there are “no systematic or statistically significant trends showing that vaccination campaigns in 2020 and 2021 reduced all-cause mortality.”
Beetlejuice is trending because Regal theaters will now carry these cool-but-obnoxious Beetlejuice-themed popcorn buckets for the upcoming film sequel, due out in September.
Angelman Syndrome is trending because actor Colin Farrell says that his 21 year-old son has this rare neurogenetic disorder. He has founded the Colin Farrell Foundation, which “will provide support for adult children who have an intellectual disability through advocacy, education and innovative programs.”
6-foot-5. That is the height of the Olympic wrestler from Cuba named MijaĂn LĂłpez. His nickname is El Terrible and this week he became “the first person ever to win gold in the same individual Olympic event five times.”
