Conspiracy Update: The Election Fixing Plan Is in Full Swing

I almost can’t believe they’ve made this move so blatantly and so soon.

I’m talking about the Biden administration’s recent announcement that it was going to grant “temporary legal status” to hundreds of thousands of “undocumented” Venezuelans that have entered the US since Biden and Harris opened the borders in 2020.

The purpose, they say, is to make these people “eligible to work.” Huh? What has that got to do with anything? Illegal immigrants have no problem finding work in the US, so long as they are willing to work as unskilled laborers. And even if finding work was a problem, what’s the rationale behind giving 300,000 to 400,000 Venezuelans work permits but not the other +/- 7 million undocumented immigrants that crossed our southern border during the same period. What’s wrong with Argentinians? Or Salvadorans? Or Haitians. Or Iranians, for that matter?

It makes no sense.

Unless you subscribe to the theory I’ve been pushing since they opened the border so widely: This isn’t about kids in cages. Nor is it about people legitimately seeking asylum. (At best, that represents less than 5% of those that cross the border.) This is about a plan hatched before Biden was elected to flush in 10+ million, mostly poorly educated, mostly Latin Americans into the US, make them legal, and get them voting during the 2024 election.

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$267 Million vs. $31 Million? Will Newsom’s Crime Reduction Plan Work?

Governor Newsom is allocating $267 million to a new grant program he’s touting to combat the pandemic of department store thefts in the state’s larger cities.

“Enough with these brazen smash-and-grabs,” Newsom said last week in a statement about the grants. “We are ensuring law enforcement agencies have the resources they need to take down these criminals.”

Since 2019, law enforcement officers in California have arrested more than 1,250 people and recovered $30.7 million in stolen merchandise. The grants, to be distributed over the next three years, will help local agencies create investigative units, increase foot patrols, purchase advanced surveillance technology and equipment, and crack down on vehicle and catalytic converter theft (an issue that has become rampant in the Bay Area).

The money would also help fund units dedicated to prosecuting these crimes, the governor’s office said. But unless Newsom cracks down on California DAs that refuse to prosecute robbers and thieves if the take is less than a thousand dollars, spending $267 million to fight a $30 million problem seems like a game trick.

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The Roof of the World

An excerpt from an interesting essay by Garrett Baldwin, a colleague of mine, on the next arena of the Cold War as competition between the US and Russia heats up among the ice floes:

“Russia is working overtime to pump crude oil and natural gas out of ports in the Arctic Circle.

“It’s a workaround as Western sanctions crank down on Russia and its energy firms and politicians in Moscow.

“Think of it as Prohibition…

“But to get around an alcohol ban, a bar has converted its upstairs into a bakery – but still sells booze through hoses in the basement to another building – where it is sold out the back alleys to willing drunks.

“China will take all the Russian oil it can get.

“India too.

“Russia is drastically increasing Arctic-borne shipments across the Northern passage to China. But they’re also getting more ambitious. News emerged that Russia sent a tanker around the Norwegian Sea and the coast of Ireland to Brazil. (They’re also selling natural gas 50% off.)

“To expedite those shipments, Russia has increased its fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.

“How has the US responded? Recently, our Navy punted the responsibility for icebreaking to the Alaskan Coast Guard, which has one operational mega icebreaker built in the mid-1970s.

“But not all hope is lost.”

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A Wild Ride with Jimmy Buffett​

A Town That Decided to Pay Out Reparations

Louis Weathers, 88, at the home he’s owned for more than 60 years in Evanston, IL 

There are so many flaws in the argument in favor of federal and state governments giving “reparations” to African Americans. I thought this essay by Adam Popescu of The Free Press provided another helpful perspective.

COVID Cases Are Up…Not to Worry! 

“Hospitalizations climbed 24% last week,” notes John Stossel in an article titled ‘Control Versus Choice’ in Taki’s Magazine. “But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline ‘Up 24%!’ comes after dramatic lows. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, ‘The pandemic is over.’”

Read more from John Stossel on contagion politics here.

Freddie deBoer on What Barbie Tells Us About Contemporary Thinking 

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Another Civil War? The Math Is Scary

The battle between Democrats and Republicans is heating up.

A recent study published by the University of Chicago’s Project on Security & Threats reports a steep rise in the percentage of each group that is comfortable with using violence to achieve its political objectives. According to the report, about 18 million Republicans (7% of the US population) believe that force may be necessary to “reinstate Donald Trump to the presidency.” That’s an increase of 6 million over those that held that opinion at the end of Trump’s term. Even scarier, 44 million Democrats (17% of the population) are comfortable with using violence to compel Congress to do what they consider to be “the right thing.”

That’s a total of 62 million Americans that are willing to use violence to accomplish their political objectives. A whole lot of potential warriors. (The total number of Americans that fought in the US Civil War was 3 million.)

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The Female Pickup Artists 

TheWizardLiz: Her YouTube video “How to receive princess treatment” has a million views 

A new group of influencers is peddling an old strategy, says Kat Rosenfield, writing in The Free Press. But with a difference. The old strategy (made famous in the 1995 bestseller The Rules) was about snaring an old-fashioned “good” man and having an old-fashioned “good” marriage. The new strategy has different goals, because it is based on a very different view of male-female relationships – one that is more transactional. Sort of like prostitution.

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Big Companies Losing Faith in Remote Work 

On Aug. 11, I reported that Zoom (ironically) now requires most of their employees to be in the office, in person, at least 2.5 days a week. And now Meta is threatening termination for employees who do not show up in person at least three days a week.

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Remote Work Is Dead… at Zoom?

Most of the businesses I work with are making efforts to get employees back to work. Zoom meetings are useful and efficient, the CEOs say, but there is something missing when employees work remotely all the time.

I thought it was interesting that senior executives at Zoom are feeling the same way. Recently, the company announced that employees who live within 50 miles of one of their offices are expected to be there at least in person 2.5 days a week.

Bull in a China Shop

In May, Binance reportedly facilitated $90 billion of crypto trading in China, where the act was, uh, made illegal in 2021. Meanwhile, US regulators are weighing fraud charges against the exchange, but worry about the effect on consumers. Click here.