Author: Sarcasticat

NEW: How the Biden Administration Spent Hundreds of Millions on ‘Misinformation’ Research Is ‘Disturbing’

As I reported on November 22, the Biden-Harris administration has spent more than a quarter of a billion taxpayer dollars to suppress “misinformation.” According to a nongovernmental nonprofit, much of the spending went toward studying information about COVID-19 and Americans’ response to the pandemic.

OpenTheBooks reported that the federal government has spent $267 million since 2021 on contracts and research grants that include the term “misinformation” in the proposals. During the first Trump administration, just $7 million was spent on grants involving misinformation. That works out to a 44-fold increase in spending under the Biden-run government on a topic about which even experts disagree over what constitutes misinformation and its cousins, disinformation and malinformation.

I ended that article with “Nuff said — until next time.”

Welp, “next time” has arrived.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Propaganda

Why fast food industry watchers expect big discounts in the first half of 2025

Bourbon St. Grill is trying to lure them in with a pair of beef or chicken Jamaican patties for $5 and a “budget-friendly” meal for students priced at $10.99.

Nearby, New York Fries is hoping a $7.49 hotdog and pop combo designed for “lunchfast, lupper or snacktime” will do the trick, and over at Sansotei Ramen, it’s all about an offer knocking $2 off tonkotsu or spicy tan tan.

This onslaught of promotions has taken shape at just about every fast-food joint across the country, and the phenomenon has intensified into what industry watchers have dubbed a “value war.”

They’re predicting the battle for your buck isn’t going away anytime soon and may even hit new heights next year.

“It’s going to be at least the first six months of 2025, when we’re going to be seeing elevated promotions, but it’s likely going to be the entire 2025,” said Danilo Gargiulo, investment research firm Bernstein’s senior analyst specializing in restaurants.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Economy, food

Biden’s three biggest lies about his family’s shady business dealings

President Joe Biden lied from start to finish about his family’s influence-peddling racket. He recently issued a sweeping pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, contradicting his repeated assurances that he would not interfere. This pardon may be one of the most comprehensive in U.S. history, encompassing over a decade of corruption. While some have drawn parallels between this pardon and President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon, the comparison falls short. Ford aimed to heal a divided nation; Biden is shielding himself and his family from accountability.

Unlike the corporate media and Democrats, who sought to shield Biden until his political future was doomed, observers of the Biden crime family’s corrupt practices are unsurprised by this latest contradiction. Biden’s claim that he would not pardon Hunter Biden is part of a broader pattern of deception regarding his family’s business dealings in order to conceal his involvement.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBiden Family Corruption

UN ‘Gender’ Treaty Would Wage International Lawfare Against People Who Believe Men And Women Are Different

In one of his parting gifts to the United States and the world, President Joe Biden agreed to advance a new United Nations treaty that weaponizes international criminal law against opposition to transgender policy. Under its provisions, politicians who deliberately “misgender” someone or advocate for female-only private spaces would be guilty of “gender-based persecution,” a crime against humanity. In November, the General Assembly agreed to a timeline for finalizing the treaty by 2029.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inGender, UN

BREAKING: Person of Interest Matching Description of UHC CEO Assassin Nabbed by Police (Updated)

A person of interest who may be the suspect who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been picked up by police near Pittsburgh, PA, according to authorities.

The unnamed individual not only matched the description and images of the suspected shooter; he was also reported to be carrying a gun, silencer, four fake IDs, and a manifesto when he was nabbed and taken into custody in Altoona, PA. These items were “consistent” with what authorities were looking for in the case, sources said.

Daily Mail: Suspect in Brian Thompson shooting detained with gun and manifesto at McDonald’s in Altoona, PA: Live updates

Police in Pennsylvania are questioning a man in connection with the shock slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.

The man, who has not been identified, was taken into custody after McDonald’s customers in Altoona, around 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, believed they recognized him as the gunman.

Person of interest in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ID’d as Luigi Mangione, an ex-Ivy League student

Tech whiz Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Md., was taken into custody Monday morning at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., after an intense manhunt following the coldblooded execution of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last week, sources said.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAssassination

BREAKING: Manhattan Jury Finds Daniel Penny Not Guilty

Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the charges against Daniel Penny on June 28, 2023. Penny faced as many as 15 years behind bars. The veteran and architecture student pleaded not guilty. 

BREAKING: Jordan Neely’s father says system is ‘rigged’, BLM leader calls for ‘black vigilante’ action as protests erupt after Daniel Penny not guilty verdict

“What we preach is unity, black unity. Stop begging this system to justify our lives,” Newsome said. Stop begging this system for justice. When things happen to you, you step up and defend yourself. Just like everybody else seeks justice on their own, just like everybody else has vigilantes, we need some black vigilantes. People want to jump up and choke us, and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inA Little Good News

The secretive private school upending America’s most liberal city: ‘We don’t talk about pronouns here’

In ultra-progressive San Francisco, parents increasingly seek something a little more traditional for their kids.

That’s the message from the growing enrollments at Donum Dei Classical Academy and other religious schools in the liberal California city.

These private Christian schools weave tradition, faith, and conservative values into the curriculum.

Some were founded by Republican fans of president-elect Donald Trump and want Christianity to play a major role in American life.

For the parents who use them — this means no ‘woke’ books on library shelves and no talk of gender identity in classrooms.

The popularity of the schools, though a worry for some, suggests a backlash against Golden State progressivism.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inA Little Good News, California

China’s digital strategy: Cyber espionage!

China’s infiltration into agricultural IoT (Internet of Things) networks represents a critical yet underexplored dimension of its global technological strategy. Through key players such as Huawei and Alibaba Cloud, Beijing has embedded IoT technologies into agricultural systems in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. These initiatives, often framed as development partnerships aimed at improving food production and supply chain resilience, concurrently enable the collection of extensive agricultural and environmental data with profound strategic and geopolitical implications.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inChina, Cybercrime

‘Defund the police’ activist complains ‘the cops didn’t do sh*t’ after she’s robbed of all she owns in San Francisco

A San Francisco resident and vocal “defund the police” advocate, Darcie Bell, went viral after publicly complaining about police inaction following the theft of her rented U-Haul truck, which contained all her belongings.

Bell, who goes by the name Jerque Cousteau on X, initially posted a plea for help after the theft, writing, “If you see a 26 foot Uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.” The post garnered attention, with many mocking her due to her past of anti-police posts.

After filing a police report, Bell immediately criticized law enforcement for not finding her stolen belongings. In comments made to the New York Post, Bell said “I haven’t found my sh*t! The cops didn’t do sh*t! U-Haul made me file a f*cking police report!”

“There’s cameras all over this city. They haven’t done sh*t!… I just want my stuff back,” she added.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Depolicing", Karma

Family dance event cancelled after tickets discounted for people of colour: La Presse

MTL Shake, a family dance party planned for Sunday afternoon in Rosemont, was cancelled on Saturday after La Presse reported discounted tickets were being sold for Black, Indigenous and people of colour.

Ticket price for a white adult had been set at $25.83, compared with $15.18 for BIPOC adults. Lawyer Julius Grey, an expert in human rights law, called the initiative an example of “flagrant discrimination,” the newspaper reported.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDiscrimination, Quebec, Racism

Ireland, U.K. becoming ‘dangerous’ for people with disabilities

“Many doctors in Ireland, and groups representing disabled people and older people, are not in favour of assisted dying legislation. They have deep concerns about what happened in Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada which have seen expansion upon expansion of the grounds for assisted suicide and euthanasia. Diminishing services prolong and increase older, disabled and sick people’s suffering to the extent that many now feel they can no longer live a valuable and productive life.”

She referred to it as “euthanasia by stealth.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inIreland, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, UK

This is a disaster for Iran and the ayatollahs have never been more vulnerable. The smell of regime change is now in the Tehran air

The biggest losers, by far, from the collapse of the Syrian dictatorship yesterday — other than the brutal Assad family and its thuggish acolytes — are the ruling mullahs of Iran.

Their dreams of Middle East hegemony are now in ruins, their genocidal aim of wiping Israel off the map now mission impossible, their ability to supply their murderous proxies across the region with weapons and boots on the ground now crippled.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inIran, Syria

Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

Are there words in the English language that fully describe what happened during the Covid years that are not already overused? Calamity comes to mind. Disaster. Cataclysm. Ruin, devastation, catastrophe, unprecedented debacle, fiasco, and utter wreckage – all fine words and phrases but nothing quite captures it.

Given that, there is probably no report on the thing that can properly characterize the whole of it. On the other hand, it’s worth trying.

Meanwhile, the results of Covid commissions of governments around the world have become unbearably predictable. So far they have mostly said their government failed because they didn’t act fast enough, did not enforce lockdowns hard enough, did not communicate and coordinate well enough, and so on.

Everyone in the corporate world knows that when a committee reduces all problems to “communication and coordination” you are being fed a load of bull.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCovid/Coronavirus, Tyranny!