Creepy panopticon Monaco, financial crime capital, has managed to eke out three murders or almost-murders in the last few decades, all involving high-level corruption and/or un max d’argent. The latest is a bomb attack on a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch right at his doorstep.
It’s nowhere online, but now that he’s all over the news it would be good to find out who educated him. He runs a Baptist school in Kentucky which gathers its little kids in a room and makes them watch as a bunch of men in fatigues rush in and shoot massive guns at a man onstage. The man writhes and wriggles and moans and spasms until he dies.
The shooters drag the corpse offstage and blow it up.
And even though it’s all just pretend, the pastor explains that the kids should shoot and then explode the corpse of the devil, just the way the pretend killers did.
We must all shoot and detonate the devil, he goes on to explain in the video he made to respond to the fallout the skit is generating.
Young, with rare technical skills (“one of the only surgeons in Canada routinely performing both robotic mitral valve and coronary bypass surgeries”), and rapidly on his way out the door. Too much Jew-hatred in Montreal, and he’s had enough – he’s coming here, probably to Emory University.
“Doctors are trained to detect diseases from their earliest signs. That’s exactly what they are doing, and it’s making them choose to leave.” That is, this guy’s not the only one.
’. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…’
“The … consequence of a ban [on the sale of Nazi items] is not [necessarily] that suddenly that kind of market will totally dry up […]. You run the risk that this material will actually just disappear for good in[to] the wrong channels.”
It’s an interesting question. What about buying North Korean propaganda posters, which are rather popular in the west? There is no more disgusting fascistic regime in the world; and to make it worse, the regime profits from some of these sales. You can buy glossy posters of Pol Pot for your dorm room if you want, and obviously Stalin – a bigger butcher than Hitler – is available everywhere.
These markets represent what Robert Nozick called capitalist acts between consenting adults, and, as Weber’s comment suggests, it would be impossible to truly police them.
None of which is to defend all market transactions as legally acceptable; but this particular one, I think, gets a pass.
But Tennessee has one outmoded little law barring guns from college campuses. UD has no idea why the legislature has overlooked this embarrassment, which is no doubt keeping Memphis from being the most dangerous city in the world, and she feels confident there’s legislation, as we speak, removing the restriction.
Meanwhile, poor Christopher Stokes, Univ Memphis football player! Speeding through campus in your big SUV, with your big Glock, would seem a common enough activity for a Memphian. Big cars and big guns – don’t get any more USAan than that…

But the police arrested the lad (he’s twenty), and the school threw him off the team and took down his player webpage and all. Texas Tech, here he comes!
Lois Hugentober, a longtime employee, got out of her car, “pulled out a revolver, and leveled the laser-sighted weapon on a group of bicyclists at an intersection.”
When police caught up with her at her office, she “punched a wall in her supervisor’s office so forcibly it caused a clock to fall from the wall.”
This is why these people need to be kept in Syria. Off she goes onto the free streets of Melbourne, to work her magic. The newspaper article describes her, before anything else, as a bride and a grandmother. If this were about an ISIS man, would his first description be groom and grandfather? UD’s blood boils.
Other well-meaning courts in other well-meaning countries will do the same — I guess because holding Yazidi teenagers as slaves is no big deal.
And what’s really idiotic is that these courts clearly think women can’t be terrorists. Women can’t focus their minds enough to evolve a terrorist ideology. This chick said what they all do and the court bought it – I never really, you know, believed … what does ISIS believe again? It’s only women who are little by little being allowed to walk free. Everyone’s fine with male terrorists staying in Syrian prisons. But women are too stupid to be real terrorists, so let them go.
Economist Gabriel Zucman, who teaches at Berkeley, points out that
California billionaires’ wealth has increased approximately 144% from 2023-25 and totals approximately $2.31 trillion as of May… [F]rom 2023-25, California billionaires only paid approximately 0.2% of their wealth in state individual income tax annually.
America’s grotesque wealth inequality erodes its polity.
“Billionaires are the group [which] has been doing the best economically, with their wealth exploding in recent years and decades, and they are also the group that pays the least in taxes relative to their economic income,” [Zucman’s colleague Emmanuel] Saez said in an email. “Therefore, the time is ripe to make them contribute more to the public good.”
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With $55 trillion in assets, the richest 1 percent owns almost one-third of the country’s wealth — about the same as the bottom 90 percent. That gap, which far exceeds that of other developed economies, is the largest it has been since the Federal Reserve began tracking Americans’ wealth in 1989.
Its leftwing government will soon likely ban the Muslim call to prayer, where men only are summoned several times a a day, loudly, to their religious duty. Denmark already restricts burqas, niqabs, and religious dress in schools. Like France, Quebec, and other self-respecting liberal democracies, it knows that the price of freedom and equality is eternal vigilance.
The [immigration] minister’s comments reflect concerns in Denmark that the public broadcasting of the adhan represents more than a simple religious practice. The adhan is performed five times each day and is intended to summon Muslims to prayer. Critics argue that broadcasting it over loudspeakers imposes a religious message on the wider public, including those who do not belong to the faith.
The controversy is further intensified by the meaning of the words being broadcast. The adhan can be translated as “God is great, there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer.” For opponents, the wording goes beyond a simple call to worship by publicly proclaiming Islam’s religious claims.
Plus he just beat up one of the Sherwins. They don’t make men of God like this outside of Louisiana.
Mao said it in 1927, and Berkeley County South Carolina Planning Commissioner James Sineath echoes the sentiment in 2026. He didn’t like something a citizen said during a recent meeting, so he threatened him with a gun.
Lil ol Anaconda MT ain’t even got 10,000 people in it, but it can sure shoot up bars! Life there is one post-bar-killing fundraiser after another … which is no small feat, cuz they have to compete with the post-gun-suicide fundraisers.
Anaconda County has the highest suicide rate in Montana, which itself has the highest suicide rate in the United States. So believe, sister, believe! Believe that when
Montana has among the worst gun laws in the country and has an especially high rate of household firearm ownership. The Treasure State has one of the highest rates of gun suicides in the country. Montana’s state legislature has repeatedly made the state’s weak laws even weaker. In 2021, state lawmakers eliminated the permit requirement for carrying a concealed gun in public and required colleges and universities to allow guns on their campuses.
— when you got all that going for you, believe you can turn your state red. I mean haha you’re already red politically — I mean you can turn the whole fuckin thing into one big bloody head after another exploding all over the place, babe. You just gotta believe.
Today, it’s ranked #198. Search this blog for TEXAS TECH to find out all the reasons why.
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