What were they thinking at Bud Light?

UPDATE: Anheuser-Busch CEO Issues Statement After Dylan Mulvaney Beer Can Scandal (breitbart.com)

 What were they thinking at Bud Light? - American Thinker   . . ."If Bud Light decides to align its branding with the LGBT crowd, so be it.  I don't drink the stuff anyway, but if others decide to abandon it in favor of a label more aligned with themselves, that is, or should be, their choice.  But will it be?  Or is the left going to use this as leverage to divide us further by shaming all those who don't embrace the LGBT-endorsed products?. . ." 

Here Are All the Brands Owned by Bud Light's Parent Company Anheuser-Busch (resistthemainstream.com)

It's Not Just Bud Light: These 13 Major Brands Are Also Partnered with Transgender Dylan Mulvaney (westernjournal.com)  

The Only Way Out Is Through - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"A decade ago, around the time liberals were boycotting Chick-fil-A en masse due to the devout Christian beliefs and strongly held views on marriage of the company’s founder and managers, many on the Right refused to countenance reciprocating with such “nasty” tactics, preferring instead to seize an illusory moral high ground. But concerted economic boycotts, it turns out, work: They are effectual punishments of one’s cultural enemies using the undoubtedly legitimate means of market pressure. The Right, it turns out, can mass-organize just like the Left can. Perhaps Anheuser-Busch will see the folly of its ham-fisted attempt to foist the transgender agenda down the throats of its disapproving — “fratty,” to use the Bud Light vice president of marketing’s now-infamous description — customer base. Or perhaps it won’t. Regardless, the dramatic and successful pushback, which continues almost two weeks later, underscores that the only way out is through.

"Consider also the recent drama in Tennessee, where the Republican-dominated state House of Representatives recently voted to expel two Democrats for their role in fomenting what the hyperpartisan corporate press, if the parties were reversed, would not hesitate to describe as an “insurrection.” Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are both clearly seen on video ginning up a frothing pro-gun control mob that descended upon the legislative chamber to demand more Second Amendment restrictions after a transgender lunatic decided to shoot up a local Christian school. In the video, Jones and Pearson can be clearly seen shouting into a bullhorn, flying protest signs, and leading vapid chants for protesters in the gallery — all of which flouts Tennessee House rules.". . .

Riley Gaines rips Nike for partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney: ‘They can forget taking my money’ - Bistosh World  . . ." Gaines appeared on OutKick’s “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” and joked that she has not been given an offer from Nike.

“And I don’t anticipate that happening. I don’t know if they can understand the mockery [Mulvaney’s deal] makes of women, especially the video of Dylan — I guess portraying what he thinks women look like when we work out — doing jumping jacks . . ."

"Hunter The Handler"

 Biden takes questions from kids in Ireland - and Hunter steps in to give instructions | Daily Mail Online  Now we know why Joe and Hunter seem joined at the hip. (As is Hunter with many working girls.) TD

'Any of you guys want to ask me any questions?' Biden asked the children.

 He then got distracted by a youngster holding a toy model of Air Force One. 

Then he turned his attention back to the crowd.

'In the back. He's got a question,' Hunter told his father. 

 The kid then asked the president to describe the 'top step' to success.

 Biden went into a long-winded answer about Senator Helms 'who was "not very crazy about African Americans.

" 'Oh, what's the key to success? 

You know what I found out is the key to success? 

And I'm not sure I'm the best guy to explain it; these guys can tell you,' he says. 

'The key to success is whenever you disagree with someone, it's okay to question their judgment — whether they're right or wrong — but it's never okay to question their motive. 

If you question their motive, then you never get to be able to agree. 

'For example, if you say to somebody, "The reason why you don't agree with me is because you are stupid, you are bad, you are — you just don't like the people I like."

You mean the people you spoke of here, Joe?

Vatican Apologizes to the ‘Infidel Enemies of the Christian Name’ –

 "That 'dialogue' only resumed, after al-Tayeb broke it off during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, when Francis agreed not to criticize Islam or speak out against Muslim persecution of Christians. Al-Tayeb, meanwhile, made no similar concessions. The 'dialogue' is entirely one-sided," Spencer noted.    Christians Slam Pope Francis' "Abomination of Desolation"

 Raymond Ibrahim; PJ Media . . .While the above sounds open-minded and “progressive,” the all-important context is, as usual, missing. The above-referenced bulls, or edicts, were primarily focused on neutralizing Muslim powers that were otherwise terrorizing virtually every corner of Christendom.

"For example, Dum Diversas was issued the same year (1452) that Sultan Muhammad II laid siege to Constantinople, leading to that ancient Christian city’s brutal fall in 1453.  At the same time, Muslims from North Africa were terrorizing Spain and the broader Mediterranean through constant and devastating slave raids. Whether in Christendom’s furthest east (Constantinople), then, or furthest west (Spain), Muslims were massacring and enslaving countless Christians.

"As such, these bulls, like so many before them, were designed to inspire Europeans to rise up and defend Christendom against Muslims — to “restrain the savage excesses of the Saracens and of other infidels, enemies of the Christian name,” to quote from the Romanus Pontifex.

"Because some of these bulls deal with Christians invading and seeking to conquer North Africa, modern-day “enemies of the Christian name” have sought to spin these as unprovoked wars of conquest and colonization.  For example, the Romanus Pontifex authorized King Alfonso V of Portugal (1432–1481) to “invade [North Africa], conquer, defeat and subjugate all Saracens and pagans and other enemies of Christ,” and to “enslave their persons perpetually” and seize their possessions for profit.". . .

Again, such ruthless language must not be read in a vacuum.  The atrocities Muslims were committing against nearby Christians, especially against the subjects of Spain and Portugal, make Islamic State (“ISIS”) atrocities seem like child’s play. It was all-out war to the death.

Moreover, while expeditions into North Africa were very similar to the Crusades, in that they featured Christians traveling to and seeking to conquer Muslim lands, often left out is that all of these “Muslim lands” — all of North Africa and the Middle East — were Christian first, centuries before Islam invaded and conquered them in the seventh century.

Raymond Ibrahim, an expert in Islamic history and doctrine, is the author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (2022); Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018); Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013); and The Al Qaeda Reader . . .

Joe Biden confuses All Blacks with Black and Tans during Ireland trip

Joe Biden confuses All Blacks with Black and Tans during Ireland trip | Joe Biden | The Guardian White House edits transcript after US president referred to military force rather than New Zealand rugby team

The All Blacks team

"The White House has corrected a gaffe by Joe Biden that confused New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the British military force known as the Black and Tans that terrorised Ireland.

"An official transcript of the remarks released on Thursday crossed out “Black and Tans” and inserted “All Blacks” instead.

"The US president made the slip during a speech in the Windsor pub in Dundalk on Wednesday night on the first day of his three-day visit to Ireland.

"Biden was thanking Rob Kearney, a distant cousin who played in an Irish rugby team that beat New Zealand, for the tie he was wearing. “This was given to me by one of these guys, right here. He was a hell of a rugby player. He beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.”

"Ireland’s rugby team won a famous victory against the All Blacks at Soldier Field in Chicago in 2016.". . . 

In Ireland, most commentary seemed to view it as funny and harmless. The Irish Times called it a “delicious gaffe”, while the Irish Mirror said Biden had left people “in stitches”. Twitter users called it a highlight of the trip. “A fantastic Freudian slip. Good lad Joe,” said one. . . .

Then there are the Black and Tans.   The real history behind The Black and Tans in Ireland (irishcentral.com)    "The Black and Tans were a force of Temporary Constables recruited to assist the Royal Irish Constabulary in maintaining control over the IRA during the Irish War of Independence. They were generally thought of as the scum of the British system - looking for British ex-soldiers turned psychopaths, turning them into an evil, murderous militia and releasing them from jails into Ireland.

"Not so, says author David Leeson. And a review of the book by Eunan O'Halpin in The Irish Times says it will open many eyes.". . ."Among the major surprises, I found while reading O'Halpin's review was that many of the Black and Tans were actually Irish-born and that regular British soldiers were far more likely to commit atrocities.

"He writes: "Leeson’s careful analysis of Black and Tan recruitment disposes of the widely altered charge that these temporary policemen were the sweepings of the British penal system. Rather, they were a miscellany of British and Irish ex-servicemen, almost none of whom had criminal records.' ". . .

White House edits transcript after US president referred to military force rather than New Zealand rugby team

Why You Should Never Order A Black And Tan In Ireland | VinePair  "It would seem pretty un-offensive to call the drink a Black and Tan since it’s, well, black. And tan. But as with “Irish car bomb,” though maybe less obviously, the term Black and Tan has a totally different connotation in Irish history. (fairly recent Irish history, at that) “Black and Tan” was the nickname given to the British paramilitary force “formed to suppress the Irish independence movement in 1920 and 1921.” They were mostly of ex-servicemen who’d served in World War I and they all wore khakis and dark shirts."

I don't want to go home: Biden jokes that he wants to STAY in Ireland as he meets President Michael Higgins after White House was forced to correct his 'Black and Tans' gaffe - and brings son Hunter and sister Valerie along

 - and brings son Hunter and sister Valerie along.

The Best Memes From The Joe Biden/Black And Tans Gaffe | Balls.ie  "Yesterday's Joe Biden 'Black and Tans' gaffe is destined to go down in Irish cultural history with moments such as the time we entered Dustin into the Eurovision or when we legalised ecstasy for the day. Surreal and down right bizarre.

"As a quick recap; Biden was discussing Ireland's famous win over New Zealand in Chicago in 2016, but referred to the Southern Hemisphere side as the 'All Black and Tans'.

"The story has been picked up all over the world, most notably with the White House addressing the mistake and Sky News getting into a bother about it.

" 'Officials say Biden is having the time of his life reconnecting with his Irish heritage.

"  'But they also had to play clean-up on Biden's gaffe when he muddled the Black and Tans, a British force that brutally put down Irish insurgents in the 1920s, with the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team.". . .

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report - Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)

" The Carousel of Hope Charity Ball announced Friday that the fundraiser will be held this fall at the Beverly Hilton. It's a big charity event where movie stars serve as dealers in the casino. One possible problem is, what do you say if Will Smith is your Blackjack dealer and you need another card?

"The White House was reported Monday to be hiring popular social media influencers to spread goodwill toward President Biden, influencers that include young women who dance on TikTok. So the President of the United States is paying women dancers to say they love him. Like father, like son.

"Beer Business Daily website reported that Americans drank a total of six billion gallons of beer in 2022. It takes creative marketing for new brands to attract the public's attention. Anheuser Busch received tremendous publicity last week when it introduced its new beer Bud Light in the Loafers.

"Beer Business Daily website reported that Americans drank a total of six billion gallons of beer in 2022. It takes creative marketing for new brands to attract the public's attention. Anheuser Busch received tremendous publicity last week when it introduced its new beer Bud Light in the Loafers.

" China conducted naval, army and missile drills in the Straits of Taiwan last Saturday in anger over U.S. congressional meetings with Taiwan. During the drill, China fired missiles that landed in the ocean, short of Taiwan. The Taiwanese naturally assumed they were being attacked by North Korea. .

Millions Have Voted For Trump Since 2020 — With Their Feet

But not every city in America is suffering these maladies. And the ones that are getting hit worst are all controlled by Democrats. They are the ones who pushed draconian lockdowns, needlessly shuttered their schools, forced people to wear masks (even outdoors), required vaccine passports, let crime run rampant, punished their residents with high taxes, and suffocated businesses with onerous regulations. Cities that haven’t followed this script aren’t seeing their people flee in droves.

Millions Have Voted For Trump Since 2020 — With Their Feet – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)  "Over the past two years, vast numbers of Americans picked up and moved. In a mobile society like ours, that’s not news. What is news is where they are moving from, and where they are going to.

"Turns out, there’s a mass exodus underway, with people leaving Biden strongholds and heading to MAGA country.

"New Census data show that, from 2021 to 2022, more than 2 million people moved out of urban areas that are largely controlled by Democrats and relocated to exurbs and more rural areas that largely voted for Donald Trump.

"Los Angeles County, for example, had a net ex-migration of more than 363,000 over the past two years. Cook County, Illinois, lost 200,000. In New York, New York County lost 109,000, Queens County, 158,000, and Kings County, 187,000. Philadelphia County sank 52,000.

"In Texas, a state where Trump beat Joe Biden 52%-46%, the two counties that saw the largest ex-migration – Dallas and Harris – both went heavily for Biden. Combined they had a net loss of 130,000 people.

"The two biggest gainers in Texas – Collin and Denton counties – went for Trump. They had a net gain of 120,000. Another big gainer – Montgomery County – voted 71% for Trump.

"Salt Lake County, Utah, (which went for Biden 58%-39% in a state Trump carried 58%-38%), lost 20,000 people.". . .

"The counties in Virginia that saw the biggest outflow of people are all ones that went heavily for Biden.". . .

Still not convinced? Take a look at these two maps in the gallery below. One, produced by the Census Department, shows net migration from 2021 to 2022. The other (click on the arrow) shows the 2020 election results by county. Notice how, across the country, the places losing population almost all voted for Biden, and the ones gaining are almost all Trump counties.

The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares War

 The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares War - Long Island Wins "When Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, it was not clear what New York’s best-known regiment would do. The New York State Militia’s “Fighting Irish” 69th Infantry Regiment was one of the most controversial, and beloved, military units in the United States. But its loyalty to the Union and its willingness to submit to Lincoln’s control were in doubt.

"Today we think of militias as paramilitary groups attached to extremist political movements. Historians like to compare Civil War-era militias to today’s National Guard: part-time soldiers under state control who could be federalized in times of national emergency. Upon closer examination, however, we find that the militia units of 1861 were not exact counterparts of either.

"The 69th New York was formed in 1849. The city was flooding with refugees from the Potato Famine and exiles connected with the failed 1848 revolt against British rule. Irish immigrant leaders saw the formation of an Irish military unit as a way of focusing a dispirited community on a future in which they would be able to challenge their overlords.

"The leadership of the regiment would come from a cadre of recent nationalist exiles associated with the Young Ireland revolutionary movement who believed that Irish in their homeland and in the growing diaspora needed an armed force to win respect.". . . 

. . .

The evidence against Hunter and Joe Biden that is already public is voluminous. It’s not clear what they are still hiding.

 

CHINA COUGHS UP THE DOCUMENTS: Releases Proof of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of Payments from China Firm to Hunter Biden - And They're Just Getting Started! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft    "As The Gateway Pundit has reported – the connections and business dealings between Communist China and the Biden Crime Family are numerous.

"Colorado Attorney Kevin Evans says the Biden Department of Justice is hiding hundreds of documents on gifts Joe and Hunter Biden received from China.

"Evans sued the DOJ in March after he said the agency failed to comply with his Freedom of Information Act request for records about the overseas business relationships of Joe Biden’s son and brother James Biden.

"The Gateway Pundit reported on the giant diamond gifted to Hunter Biden from Ye Jianming, then the chairman of CEFC China Energy Company. The Gateway Pundit reported in

October 2020 that this diamond was estimated to be worth $80,000. Hunter claimed it was worth $10,000.". . .

Why are There so Few Christians in the West?

 The Postil Magazine

A concern for both Catholics and Protestants. The caveat, however, is that the Scriptures speak of a "falling away" in the last time and that God has ordained the paths of nations and the Church. "The church", meaning all believers in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; those basing their salvation on that alone. The Tunnel Dweller

"Christianity has become a minority religion in Europe, the place of its influence: how did this come about and what is the future of Christians in the West? Why are there so few Christians in the West?

” ' For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things” (Phil 3:18-19). Do these lines of St. Paul, written two thousand years ago, not apply to our present world? Let us add this question asked by Christ: ” But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8). These words challenge us, when the question of God seems to be of little interest to Westerners, when they are in the minority in believing in God and even less in practicing what the religion of their fathers prescribes for them, even though no one here can ignore the existence of Christianity, even though many people are unaware of what it actually is and what it teaches.

"Many books have been written on the reasons for the de-Christianization of the West, its secularization and the fall in the number of practicing Catholics. External and internal causes are usually put forward. Among the former, we can largely mention the long movement of emancipation of man from his traditional dependencies (God, nature, culture), with the nominalist revolution and the affirmation of sovereign reason from the Renaissance onwards; thus, without denying faith at first, God was progressively put aside. At the personal level on the one hand, the rise of individualism, to the detriment of holism, caused a dissociation between spiritual life, belonging to the private sphere, and public life. [In politics, holism refers to a society where the group, the whole, predominates over the individual, the part.]

"At the political level, on the other hand, a clear separation between the temporal and spiritual orders was established, giving total primacy to the former. With the French Revolution and the disappearance of “Christendom,” the movement accelerated and sometimes took on a strong anti-Christian tone, as in France with the secular laws that led to the 1905 separation. At that moment, God’s sovereignty over the city was largely destroyed—there yet remained to destroy the sovereignty of the natural moral law and the heritage of culture so that the will of man would no longer have any obstacle. We are there today, gender theory and Wokism being the final stages of the deconstruction of the classical anthropology shaped by Christianity.

"On the side of internal causes, by oversimplifying, two types of explanations clash. The “progressives,” who had hoped that the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) would mark a clean break with the past, believe that the decline of Catholicism is due to the Church’s still reactionary positions, positions that are not understood by our contemporaries; they therefore advocate an opening to the world and its demands, especially moral ones (contraception, abortion, same-sex marriage, abolition of celibacy for priests and desacralization of the office, ordination of women, etc.). Some “traditionalists” defend the exact opposite point of view: Vatican II caused a rupture in the Church’s Magisterium and in its liturgy, a rupture caused by a rejection of the past and an excessive openness to the world, which manifested itself in a generalized stampede that explains the sharp drop in religious practice and vocations; the remedy would be a “forgetting” of Vatican II and a certain return to the pre-conciliar Church. Between these two somewhat caricatural extremes, there are all kinds of nuances, including those who consider internal causes to be negligible.

"External justifications have certainly played a major role in the decline of Christianity in Europe. As for the internal causes, the “progressive” explanations are far from reality. . . ."

BLM, Eco-harpies, Trans Loons, and Femi-nags Are All Marxists, But Christianity Is the Cure – PJ Media  . . ."The leaders of the left-wing fringe groups — referred to as “sleepers” or “sleeper cells” — wait for a triggering event to spring into action. A perfect example would be the death of Saintly George Floyd. (Emphasis mine, TD)

"If the true goal of BLM is to help black people, why would they destroy black communities around the nation? They wouldn’t. The actions of BLM — with the help of Antifa — were focused on two goals: to get rich; and to destroy as much of America as possible. What could be more Marxist than that?....

"A  Milwaukee, Wis., thug named Sylville Smith pulled a gun on cops in 2016 and was shot by a black policeman. Race played no part in this incident, yet “protestors” began burning down a black neighborhood in Milwaukee. Smith’s younger sister, unaware that Marxists were behind the violence, urged rioters to go burn down the suburbs where white people lived instead. The Communist News Network (CNN) dutifully edited the tape to try to show the angry little lady as a peacekeeper and not the violent racist she is. The violent Marxists on the ground did their job, as did the sneaky, lying tovarishes at CNN.

Expel Them Again

 Ann Coulter

But according to MSNBC, the only reason Jones and Pearson were expelled was because the "predominantly white, predominantly male" lawmakers refuse to "coexist with representatives who are female or young or black" -- as Nicole Wallace put it. (Nicole: Relax. You've got the job.)

"The vote to expel two Democrats from the Tennessee House of Representatives last week reminds us of one of the immutable laws of politics: Whenever Democrats accuse anyone of racism, demand to see the videotape.

"Hey -- remember the 2016 racist bus attack on three black coeds at the University at Albany that caught Hillary Clinton's attention? They claimed a group of white men shouting racial epithets started hitting them, but no one on the bus cared! Foolishly, in retrospect, they didn't check to see if the bus had cameras. It did. Rallies, hysteria, a Hillary tweet ... and then it turned out they were the ones beating up a white girl.

"Or how about the Princeton professor who claimed she'd been the victim of a vicious racist policeman in 2016? "Many women who look like me," she wrote on Twitter, "have a much more frightening end to such arrests." After a hue and cry, the police released the officer's dashcam footage. The officer had been almost comically polite to her, despite her going 20 mph over the speed limit, as well as driving on a suspended license.

"In 2015 in Connecticut, another BIPOC lady professor decided that, instead of simply paying a small traffic fine, she'd wreck a cop's life. In a blizzard of letters to government officials, she accused the policeman of racism and demanded that "action be taken against the officer." The police released a recorded transcript of the entire interaction -- and guess what? The officer never said any of the racist things she'd alleged. He, too, was a model of professionalism.". . .

Tucker Carlson exposes the pretenders in US Politics - American Thinker

. . ."Tucker reminded everyone that Obama may have been a pioneer in the field of pretender politicians. Obama pretended to be an “African-American Baptist pastor from Chicago with deep roots in Mississippi” while campaigning for the midterms last year. A few months later in December, Obama spoke in his normal accent. It would be unfair to credit Obama for this inglorious practice; Hillary has been doing this much before. Tucker showed a clip of Hillary in 2007, sounding like a "politically aware gospel singer from the segregated South' ".

Speaking of pretenders:

 What were they thinking at Bud Light? - American Thinker

. . ."The result of that strategy should not have been unexpected.  Bud Light sales are in the toilet.  Overnight.  A viral video shows Bud Light sitting untouched in a store’s cooler.   🤣 This is real! I went to my local store, and she said they haven't sold a 12-pack or 30-pack of Bud Light this whole week! #BudLightWentWoke #budlight:. .

50 Shades Of Justin Pearson (thefederalist.com) "Hilaria Baldwin. Hilary Clinton. Elizabeth Warren. Justin Trudeau. 

"There is a long list of white Democrats who love, love putting on rhetorical “blackface” to try appearing less white, more ethnic, and more authentically authentic.

"Hilaria Baldwin (neé Hillary Hayward-Thomas) famously “became” Spanish after a single semester abroad in Spain, despite not actually being Spanish and living her whole life in the United States.

"Justin Trudeau is a subject matter expert in all forms of blackface, as he demonstrates whenever he dons Indian (feather and dot) mufti. Sandy Cortez, theater kid from Westchester, was rebranded as a “fiery Latina” to win her seat in Congress. 

"Who is the audience for these clickbait performances? Well, the usual suspects of course: Middle-Aged Liberal White Women. These lonely ladies gobble up fake ethnicities, feel-good cultural stereotypes, and white guilt like they’re gobbling chocolate-covered antidepressants. “50 Shades of Patriarchal Oppression” is their titillation of choice.". . .

Biden takes the dollar down -

The world views America as just another banana republic following the indictment of President Trump. Not that the world really cares. It mocks us because we are doing what we have clucked our tongues at other countries for doing. Our self-righteousness amuses them.

  Don Surber (substack.com)  "When Barack Hussein Obama said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up,” it was not a warning; it was a guarantee. Likewise, when former DOD chief Robert Gates said Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” this was not a criticism but a selling point. If you want America to fail, there was no better man to endorse for president in 2020. Cackling Kamala was the best woman for the job.

"The dollar is dying because of this. Let me explain.

 "The Biden administration with its drag queens and tokens allows the deep state to run things while the Big Guy pockets the bribes and falls up steps. He auctions off foreign policy to the highest bidder, which is turning the greatest empire of the 20th century into a bloated country being overrun by drug dealers and sex traffickers.

"Oh he had help. Obama, Clinton and the Bushes enabled companies to export jobs to the point where America can no longer feed and clothe itself. My mother supported five children by working at a pill company. 60 years later, those jobs are in India and Red China.

"But Biden has hastened our demise in a manner that will permanently disable our nation and leave our economy to the whims of Chairman Xi.

"On Wednesday, Michael Maherrey reported, “China and Brazil recently finalized a trade deal in their own currencies completely bypassing the dollar, but that’s not the only bad news for the world’s reserve currency.

" 'Last week, a Russian official announced that the BRICS* nations are working to develop a new currency, yet another sign that dollar dominance is waning.". . .

*A summit in August is scheduled for the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, Red China and South Africa. Iran and Saudi Arabia likely will join them, as Chairman Xi got those two nations to agree to resume diplomatic relations.

Pentagon Leak Traced to Video Game Chat Group

  PJ Media

Maybe the Pentagon should hire some of these guys to improve our cyber security. If they can break in to steal fighter jet or tank specs, perhaps they can design ways to keep them secret.

"At least some of the Pentagon’s top secret documents on the war in Ukraine were leaked on a private chat room on the platform Discord, according to the online intelligence site Bellingcat.

“ 'After a brief spat with another person on the server about Minecraft Maps and the war in Ukraine, one of the Discord users replied, ‘here, have some leaked documents’ — attaching 10 documents about Ukraine, some of which bore the ‘Top Secret’ markings,” Bellingcat analyst Aric Toler wrote.

"That user had found those documents on another Discord server

"Other leaked documents were posted to a Discord server named “Thug Shaker Central” — perhaps as early as mid-January.

“ 'Posts and channel listings show that the server’s users were interested in video games, music, Orthodox Christianity, and fandom for the popular YouTuber ‘Oxide,'” Toler wrote.

Related: Leak of Classified Documents on Ukraine, China, and the Middle East a ‘Nightmare’ Says Pentagon

"Apparently, finding highly classified documents is easy on gamer sites.

"Guardian:". . .