Month: May 2023

The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for the past 9 years. A rifle not seen too often, here’s the Colt Canada C20 DMR.
These rifles use the Schmidt & Bender 3-20×50 Ultra Short Scopes in Coyote M17 TAN. As part of a review, I recently shot a DMR competition out to about 700 meters with exactly the same riflescope (but another rifle and caliber), and it worked great.
Canadian Armed Forces snipers conduct defensive operation as part of Exercise Crystal Arrow. Image was captured on March 24 2023 at Camp Adazi, Latvia. Canadian Armed Forces Photo – RPAV2023

Members of the German Armed Forces conduct offensive operations as part of Exercise Crystal Arrow. The image was captured on March 24 2023 at Camp Adazi, Latvia. Canadian Armed Forces Photo – RPAV2023

For further information, the following articles may be interesting: “Danish Armed Forces Chose New Sniper Rifle – Colt Canada C20 DMR“, “Canadian Army Buys Colt Canada C20” and “Canada’s C20s get Schmidt & Bender 3-20×50 Ultra Short Scopes in Coyote M17 TAN“.

Source: Canadian Armed Forces Photo, NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia. […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence will reportedly launch a campaign for president next week.
Pence will kick off his bid for the presidency at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa on June 7.
He will head to New Hampshire and early-voting states to campaign.

Next Wednesday, Pence will participate in a town hall in Iowa with Dana Bash, Daily Mail reports.

Pence is the latest to join the field of GOP presidential hopefuls including his former boss, former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott and Nikki Haley.
Gov. Chris Christie is also slated to throw his hat into the Republican presidential ring at an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Pence has repeatedly made jabs at Trump since leaving office.
“President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election,” he told the Federalist Society during a speech in Florida last year.
In April Pence testified to a federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 elections and the actions of Trump surrounding the January 6 protest.
His testimony marked the first time in modern history a vice president testified about the president he served beside.
Pence, who has been hinting at a 2024 presidential bid for months, served for 12 years in the US House of Representatives and for four years as the governor of Indiana.
Trump continues to hold a steady lead among 2024 Republican primary candidates.
A new Morning Consult poll shows DeSantis with 22 percent compared to former President Trump’s 56 percent support. No other candidates earned double-digit support from primary voters. […]

Believe All Women.The same fake news outlets that promoted the hoax that Trump super-fan and lunatic E. Jean Carroll was raped in a New York department store some time in the 90s, but she can’t even name THE YEAR — are now insinuating Biden accuser Tara Reade was a Russian operative all along.
You just can’t make this up.
On Tuesday news broke that Tara Reade had traveled to Russia and is considering political asylum. Read

So you know what that means. The fake news media immediately used it as a way to defend Joe Biden the groper.

CBS hack reporter Nancy Cordes asked John Kirby during the White House presser on Wednesday about Tara Reade. Cordes insinuated the Tara Reade was a Russian asset all along.
Nancy Cordes: She announced yesterday she is seeking citizenship in Russia and feels safer there. Does the White House have any reaction to that announcement given the accusations she’s made about him?… Does the White House believe that her allegations were motivated by her allegiance to, affinity for Russia?
After performing a cursory search it appears this is the first time Ms. Cordes has ever reported on Tara Reade. What a surprise!
These hacks would make Russia’s Pravda blush.
Via Midnight Rider. […]

Graphic via TMZ
83-year-old Hollywood actor Al Pacino is going to be a daddy again!
Al Pacino is expecting a baby with his 29-year-old girlfriend Noor Alfallah.
Noor Alfallah is reportedly 8 months pregnant.
This will be Al Pacino’s 4th kid (if it’s his).

According to reports, Noor Alfallah is known for dating much older Hollywood men.
TMZ reported:
Al Pacino wasn’t looking to become a new daddy at the ripe old age of 83 … we’ve learned his girlfriend’s pregnancy came as a total surprise to the actor.
Sources close to Pacino and 29-year-old Noor Alfallah tell us … he was not gunning to have baby #4 in their fairly-new relationship. They’ve only been dating for a year.
Although it seems like a “no duh,” there are a bunch of seniors who are intentional about producing offspring, like 73-year-old Richard Gere, who has a 2 1/2-year-old, a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old. And famously, there’s Tony Randall, who was 77 when he and his 26-year-old wife had the first of 2 kids. Larry King was 65 when he had his son Chance, followed by son Cannon the next year. And, Billy Joel was 71 when he had his last kid.
Al Pacino wasn’t looking to become a new daddy at the ripe old age of 83 … we’ve learned his girlfriend’s pregnancy came as a total surprise to the actor.
Sources close to Pacino and 29-year-old Noor Alfallah tell us … he was not gunning to have baby #4 in their fairly-new relationship. They’ve only been dating for a year.
Although it seems like a “no duh,” there are a bunch of seniors who are intentional about producing offspring, like 73-year-old Richard Gere, who has a 2 1/2-year-old, a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old. And famously, there’s Tony Randall, who was 77 when he and his 26-year-old wife had the first of 2 kids. Larry King was 65 when he had his son Chance, followed by son Cannon the next year. And, Billy Joel was 71 when he had his last kid. […]

Joe Biden on Wednesday met with leaders of his federal emergency preparedness and response team to receive the annual briefing on the federal government’s extreme weather preparedness.
This is Joe Biden’s first public appearance since Monday where he looked completely confused during a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Biden slurred his words and struggled to speak during the meeting.

“Thanks to National Oceanic and Enviro— Oceanic Atmosphere and En— Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…” Biden said.
He’s completely shot.
WATCH:

BIDEN: “Thanks to National Oceanic and Enviro— Oceanic Atmosphere and En— Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…” pic.twitter.com/mueFxAZXcs
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 31, 2023

Biden snapped at reporters asking about the debt ceiling.
“I told all these guys you wouldn’t ask anything about what we just talked about. Was I right? Just wanted to show you I was right, right?” Biden said.
WATCH:
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“Logo of the World Health Organization” by US Mission Geneva is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.
Communist North Korea, a regime notorious for starving its own people while investing heavily in nuclear weapons, has been elected to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Under the leadership of Kim Il-sung, the country’s founder, North Korea adopted a socialist and communist system.
The communist country has been widely criticized for its human rights record, and there have been reports of severe punishments inflicted on its own people for various reasons. (It is important to note that information about the country’s internal workings is limited due to its isolation and strict control over information.)
Some of the reported methods of punishment in North Korea include:

Forced Labor: The government has been accused of using forced labor, including in prison camps known as “kwanliso,” where detainees are subjected to harsh conditions and forced to perform hard labor.
Political Prison Camps: North Korea operates a network of prison camps where individuals deemed to be enemies of the state, including political dissidents and their families, are imprisoned. The conditions in these camps have been described as inhumane, with reports of torture, starvation, and other forms of abuse.
Arbitrary Detention: The government has been known to detain individuals arbitrarily, often without due process or access to legal representation. Detainees can be held for extended periods without any formal charges or trial.
Public Execution: North Korea has been reported to carry out public executions for offenses such as espionage, political dissent, and even for actions deemed as disobedience to the regime. These executions are often meant to instill fear and maintain control.
Restrictions on Freedom of Expression: The regime tightly controls the flow of information and restricts freedom of speech and expression. Possessing or distributing unauthorized materials, including foreign media, can lead to severe punishment.
Collective Punishment: The government has been accused of implementing a system of collective punishment, where the family members of individuals deemed disloyal or engaging in dissent can also face punishment, including being sent to prison camps.

North Korea’s regime, led by Kim Jong Un, has long been accused of gross human rights abuses and negligence toward the basic needs of its own citizens.

Despite this, the World Health Organization elected North Korea to its Executive Board.
“The Executive Board is composed of 34 persons who are technically qualified in the field of health, each designated by a Member State that has been elected to serve by the World Health Assembly. Member States are elected for three-year terms,” according to WHO.
Dr. Jong Min Pak, Director of the Department of External Affairs, Ministry of Public Health in Pyongyang, has been elected as one of the executive boards.

BREAKING: North Korea, a regime that starves its own people, was just elected to the @WHO Executive Board. No joke: https://t.co/cBmNO6AmvJ pic.twitter.com/661rILwqEY
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 31, 2023

Critics argue that this move undermines the credibility and effectiveness of the WHO, which is already facing scrutiny for its handling of global health crises.
International human rights lawyer Hillel Neuer has more on this story.
What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care. It is an absurd episode for a key U.N. agency that is in much need of self-reflection and reform.
North Korea’s regime allows its people to die of starvation while they spend billions on nuclear weapons.
As a member of the WHO Executive Board for the next three year, Kim Jong Un will help set the agency’s agenda and implement its policies. (See: North Korea Suffers One of Its Worst Food Shortages in Decades)
North Korea was elected, in a slate with the other nominees, by a secret ballot: 123 nations voting yes, 13 abstentions and 6 spoiled ballots; 35 countries were absent. Normally the elections are by consensus, but Russia challenged Ukraine’s nomination, and so a vote was held.
The right signal from the U.N. to the North Korean regime would be an overdue referral to the International Criminal Court, not an election to an organization that sets the standards for global health.
The truth is that scores of North Korean regime actors, from Kim Jong-un to low-level guards, should be investigated and prosecuted for committing some of the most heinous crimes against humanity ever documented in modern times. This is what the U.N. should be advancing. […]

On Wednesday night, the House of Representatives will vote on the flawed uniparty bill, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.
During a recent press conference, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy bragged that his deal with Biden is the “largest cut in American history.”

“We’re going to pass the largest cut in American history. It’s just a small step putting at us on the right tracks. We make good policies in here with work requirements. It’s going to change people’s lives. People are going to get a job because of it. Roads are going to be built because of people reform faster. It’s going to save those money in the long. If I’m a member of Congress, I wouldn’t want history to pass me by when I could do the biggest cut, when I could do work reforms for welfare. When I can see that we can reform NIPA for the first time in 40 years, so you’re cutting the red tape so you build things and make America competitive. Everybody has a right to their own opinion, but on history, I’d want to be here with this bill today.”

According to Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), it was McCarthy who suggested increasing the debt ceiling by $4 trillion until Jan 1, 2025.
“It wasn’t even asked for by the Democrats… That’s a $4 trillion increase in debt that we just let [Biden] have and the Speaker made the call,” said Bishop.
A simple majority – at least 218 votes if all members are present – will be needed for passage. The Democrats will all likely vote in favor of the passage, excluding AOC (D-N.Y.) and Greg Casar (D-Texas). Democrats have 212 seats in the House of Representatives.

So far, 37 Republicans are a “no” vote on the Biden-McCarthy scam debt bill. (Read below)
UPDATE: Here are the 37 Republicans Who Stand with “We the People” and Won’t Vote for Biden & McCarthy’s Flawed Uniparty Bill

Now, RINO Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said he will support the uniparty debt ceiling deal once it reaches the Senate.
“House Republicans – Unity gave them the upper hand – They used it to secure a much-needed step in the right direction. When this agreement reaches the Senate, I’ll be proud to support it without delay,” he said.

“When this agreement reaches the Senate, I’ll be proud to support it without delay.”
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the debt ceiling deal pic.twitter.com/q4nebYC6s6
— The Recount (@therecount) May 31, 2023 […]

Grammy-nominated Cuban singer, songwriter Juan Carlos Formell died at 59 after suffering a heart attack on stage during a show in New York City last Friday.
Juan Carlos Formell was performing a show in the Bronx when he wandered off stage 20 minutes into the set.
The singer collapsed near a curtain back stage.

WATCH:

Perturbador, el bajista de los Van Van Juan Carlos Formel sale caminando del escenario en pleno concierto y muere minutos despuésSe cree que sufrió un infarto pic.twitter.com/kL82m3otJN
— El Pana (@ElPana_CU) May 27, 2023

The Daily Mail reported:
Juan Carlos Formell, the renowned Cuban singer and songwriter, has died at the age of 59.
He died after suffering a heart attack onstage at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx, New York City on May 26.
Formell, who was the son of musical legend Juan Formell, was nominated for a Grammy in 2000 for his debut album ‘Songs from a Little Blue House.’
He fled from Cuba and moved to New York in 1993, and following his father’s death in 2014, he took over as the bassist in his Afro-Cuban band, Los Van Van.
They were performing in the Bronx when he suddenly wandered off, and collapsed near a curtain at the back of the stage after suffering from a heart attack.
The band took a half an hour break before telling the audience that Formell was suffering with health problems. They then finished the set, playing for another hour, reports NYT. […]

Beatrix von Storch is vice-chair of the AfD party in the German parliament

While the Biden Regime is funding “Climate Pollution Reduction” with $5 billion from its laughably named “Inflation Reduction Act”, BlackRock Investment expects to do $100 trillion in business thanks to the so-called Green New Deal. The recent German Green corruption scandal revealed how BlackRock execs, climate activists and taxpayer-funded “non-governmental” organizations are undermining our democracy in a trillion-dollar bid to wreck the economy while getting filthy rich.
 The Biden Regime has hired BlackRock execs Brian Deese to serve on the National Economic Council, Adewale Adeyemo to head the Treasury Department and Michael Pyle as chief economic advisor to Vice President Harris. Deese, Adeyemo, and Pyle all previously worked for the Obama administration. A guest post by MP Beatrix von Storch:
Swedish financial entrepreneur Ingmar Rentzhog is not only a consultant to BlackRock and JPMorgan, but also the “discoverer” of Greta Thunberg. What a coincidence! Greta Thunberg’s very first protest in August 2018, when she sat in front of the Swedish Riksdagen with a cardboard sign, was professionally hyped by Rentzhog and his media team, with photos, videos and English-language press blurbs. What was staged as a spontaneous protest by high-school students was actually a PR campaign planned by a BlackRock communication consultant, in order to turn the autistic young girl into an world-wide icon and poster child for “climate change.”

“The time was ripe to give the climate crisis a human face,” Rentzhog said. Greta posed with the message “We don’t have time”, which just happens to be the name of Renthzogs non-profit. His philosophy: “There’s no conflict of interest between saving the climate and making money.”

The recent scandal in Germany has revealed how the economics ministry run by Green “vice-chancellor” Robert Habeck was infiltrated by a billion-dollar network of NGOs, foundations, think tanks and lobby organizations financed by Wall Street billionaires like Bill Gates and Larry Fink.
The establishment of a $1 billion “Climate Finance Partnership” in 2018 was a milestone in this development, a partnership between BlackRock, the governments of Germany, France and Japan, and large US foundations, such as the Hewlett Foundation.
BlackRock owns shares in 17,000 companies and manages $10 trillion in equity capital – one-tenth of global GDP. Together with the two other major mutual funds, Vanguard and State Street, the “big three” control 88 percent of top US corporations.
Hal Harvey: The US Kingpin
The Hewlett Foundation is the main donor to US climate activist Hal Harvey, founder of San Francisco-based energy and environmental policy firm Energy Innovation as well as a whole network of “non”-governmental organizations, including the Climate Works Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, the Climate Imperative Foundation and the Climate Neutrality Foundation, and Agora Energy Transition, which is at the center of the current nepotism and kickback scandal which forced “Green economics” deputy secretary Patrick Graichen to resign May 17.
The reason Big Finance is all in on “climate change” is the enormous profits it offers: BlackRock Investment Institute estimates the total investment needed to achieve “world climate goals” at $50 to 100 trillion – that’s as much as of the entire global economy. The “Green New Deal”, which BlackRock Investment Institute describes as a “once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity”, will thus be the largest redistribution of wealth in history.
In 2018, BlackRock announced that it would increase the volume of its “sustainable investment” funds from $25 billion to $400 billion in the next decade.
At the same time, BlackRock expanded into the field of climate policy with a lucrative consulting business. First, BlackRock advised the European Central Bank on where to invest, then the EU Commission inked a consultancy contract with BlackRock 2020 to implement the “Green New Deal” in the banking sector.  BlackRock was thus in charge of both “climate policy” and “sustainable investments”.
It was a perfect hustle – except for one unpredictable variable: democracy. The market for “sustainability” and “Green infrastructure” depends virtually 100% on politics. The production of wind turbines, solar panels, heat pumps and electric cars is not driven by market demand, but by subsidies, bans, regulations and other government red tape.
In February 2022, BlackRock Investment Institute warned that “If governments do not continue their commitment, the invested capital may go to waste.” The big uncertainty factor is elections, because with every change of government there is the possibility that the climate laws will be withdrawn.
Klaus Schwab and the Unholy Alliance of Big Finance and Big Climate
In his infamous book “Covid-19: The Great Reset” June 2020, Klaus Schwab described his vision of Big Finance working hand in hand with left-wing activists: “Let’s imagine the following situation to illustrate the point: a group of green activists could demonstrate in front of a coal-fired power plant to demand greater enforcement of pollution regulations, while a group of investors does the same in the boardroom by depriving the plant access to capital.”
The unholy alliance of Big Finance and Big Climate that Schwab invoked has now become a reality. German industrial giant Siemens experienced this painfully when it was attacked by both Greenpeace and BlackRock over a deal with an Australian coal producer.
The head of Greenpeace at the time was Jennifer Morgan. Although Greenpeace does not publish its donors, a list of large donors can be reconstructed from the financial reports of the foundations. Front and center: BlackRock partners and Hal Harvey funders, the Hewlett Foundation and the Packard Foundation. The major shareholders of Hewlett-Packard are BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. In addition, sums flow directly to Greenpeace through Harvey’s Climate Works Foundation.
When the Green party came into office after the 2021 German elections, US citizen Jennifer Morgan was awarded German citizenship in an expedited process so she could go to work for German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, as ”Climate State Secretary”.
Morgan previously worked as speech writer for Angela Merkel 1996-97 when she was Environmental Minister and has served a director at the World Resources Institute, whose largest donors include the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is also an Agenda Contributor at Schwab’s World Economic Forum.
Penetrating the Cabinets
Along with BlackRock, one of the most aggressive spokesmen for this movement is British hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn, who manages assets of $22 billion. Hohn sponsors Harvey’s European Climate Foundation, which also finances Graichen’s Agora think tank.   Hohn’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) pledged $7,000,000 to the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) and is the largest sponsor of radical climate sect Extinction Rebellion, which doesn’t stop at violence and sabotage.
Christopher Hohn’s legal counsel was Friedrich Merz, the head of the German “opposition” party, Merkel’s Christian Democrats, who went on to become Chairman of the Board of BlackRock Germany. Extinction Rebellion‘s other source of funding is the Climate Emergency Fund which was founded by Trevor Neilson, the former head of communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  The wealth of the Gates Foundation derives from the sale of Gates’ Microsoft shares to BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.
Gates’ Breakthrough Energy project is supported by the BlackRock Foundation. “Breakthrough Energy” was founded in 2015 to promote “sustainable energies” to reduce greenhouse gases. Gates thanked BlackRock CEO Larry Fink for his “very serious discussions” to enlist the support of other major companies.
Gates and Fink demonstrated their cooperation in a joint Bloomberg interview in September 2021, identifying the “Green Premium” as the main obstacle to the goal of “net zero”.
The “Green Premium” is how they describe the fact that green energy and products are too expensive, and therefore not -competitive in a free market. Fink has stated on previous occasions that it’s up to governments to create more demand for “Green” products and thereby make them profitable for financial investors like BlackRock. And that’s the rub:
Because in the end, the taxpayers will have to foot the bill for the “Green Premium”.
The gigantic expansion of wind power and LNG terminals, the destruction of cheap competition by phasing out coal and nuclear power, and the ban on internal combustion engines, oil and gas heating have the purpose of making BlackRock & Co.’s investments profitable. The driving force behind it was Hal Harvey in the USA and Patrick Graichen in the German economics ministry. But they are not alone. To make the Green scam work, it is key to “penetrate the cabinets”.  Therefore, the network has posted its people at many strategically important points.
In Germany,  it is not just the numerous Graichen friends and relatives, but also  Jennifer Morgan in the Foreign Ministry and Elga Bartsch in the Federal Ministry of Economics. Elga Bartsch was responsible for climate and monetary policy at the BlackRock Investment Institute until the summer of last year, when ”Economics and Climate” Minister Robert Habeck brought her to the ministry and put her at the head of the policy department.
The German climate corruption scandal has revealed the blueprint of how the global financial industry is in cahoots with the climate change crazies at the expense of the taxpayer. It is time to smoke out the rest of the network, from Berlin and Brussels to Washington DC and Wall Street.
Beatrix von Storch is Vice-Chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the German Bundestag […]