100% correct. When I was at the Del Rio, TX Haitian bridge camp in 2021, many of the Haitians told me they had been living in Chile & Brazil for years before coming to the US illegally for economic (not safety) reasons. The Haitians were dumping & tearing up their Chilean documents at the river’s edge hide this fact from the US so it wouldn’t hurt their fraudulent asylum claims.
The idea that all these Haitians came directly from Haiti after an earthquake or assassination is false. Many of them were living happily and safely for years in South America until Biden’s open border policies became too attractive to pass up. Others also flew into the US via Biden’s CHNV mass parole program which was supposed to be for only 2 year humanitarian parole grants. Of course, most never left.
Rome’s decline is too readily reduced to decadence — bread and circuses. The deeper account is demographic and civic. Contemporary anxiety over fertility was real enough that Augustus legislated against it. The Lex Julia sought to compel among the elite what confidence no longer produced freely. A population that ceases to reproduce at replacement, and loses cohesion in the same generation, erodes the foundation long before any frontier is breached. The barbarian incursions were the occasion of the fall, not its cause.
Demography is the long game. Civilizations are sustained or surrendered across generations, not headlines. @GadSaad@grok
NEW: Authorities have arrested another man for his part in the planned attack on the UFC 250 Event at the White House.
The latest arrest: Alexander Iniguez Mercado of Chicago.
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So here's a story about the Düsseldorf University Hospital where heart patients are sweltering in 38°/100.4° temperatures right now because this 15-year-old building lacks central A/C.
I taught at the law faculty of this university for 15 years. When the law faculty built a new expansion in 2005, I asked whether it would be air-conditioned. They said: "No, because then every building on campus would ask for it". I thought to myself, "Well, that's Europe for you. Crabs in a bucket."
Then the university announced plans for this new building, the one you see in the picture, which would be the main university hospital. That was in 2013 or thereabouts. Shortly thereafter, they published the plans and sketches online. No A/C infrastructure visible.
At some sort of faculty function, I asked the dean or assistant dean of the medical faculty whether they were going to install central air-conditioning on this building. "It's no problem if lawyers are brain-fuddled because of the heat -- in fact it might be a bonus! -- but surgeons? Patients?"
The dean answered: "Well, we asked, but the construction board and city officials said no, because if this new building gets air-conditioning, then all the older buildings on the university campus will demand it."
"Even though this is a fucking hospital?" I asked with typical American coarseness.
"Yes, even though it's a hospital," responded the dean, staring with chagrin into his beer.
And so now dozens of people recovering from open-heart surgery are bathing in their own sweat. Across the country, thousands of people are dying in un-air-conditioned hospitals right now.
As in all former heatwaves, there will be institutional pressure at all levels to attribute their deaths to underlying ailments, not the fact that they sweltered for over a week in brutal temperatures.
🚨 BREAKING:
The United Nations has officially declared Gaza a genocide zone, stating that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants.
It took them three full years to reach this conclusion.
A Palestine Action-style terror group has posted video of its members attacking aviation repair company Muirhead Avionics in Berkshire, England with hammers. “People Against Genocide” accuses the business of supporting Israel.
Mad Miliband didn’t give a toss about Solar panels being made using slave labour, so why should he worry about asbestos in wind turbines?
#CostofNetZero#Renewables
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@christopherrufo The premise that the wealthy pay lower tax rates than the rest is a lie. The average tax rate rises from 2% at the lowest quintile income group to 45% for the top 0.01% of taxpayers.
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Last October the clowns on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board claimed that the entire reason John Bolton was indicted was because he didn't praise Trump in his book.
The WSJ is such a joke.
One climate scenario helped justify trillions in spending, Net Zero policies, ESG mandates, and climate emergencies.
Now many scientists no longer regard it as plausible.
What happened to RCP 8.5?
https://t.co/Dmj5chUaOy
I joined @dagenmcdowell and @BrianBrenberg on @BottomLineFBN tonight to discuss the European heat wave, air conditioning and what Europe bought for trillions in climate spending.
Tulsi Gabbards bahnbrechende Enthüllungen über die Fauci-Verschwörung, in die auch Deutschland und Drosten verwickelt ist, stehen bei fast 50 Millionen Views. Soweit ich sehen kann, gibt es in Deutschland KEINE mediale Reaktion darauf, nicht einmal die notorischen „Faktenchecks“.
Sie können nicht berichten, was ist, wenn sie es nicht in ihrem Sinne rahmen können.
50 Millionen Views entspricht der Einwohnerzahl von Spanien. Gabbard ist die scheidende Geheimdienst-Chefin der mächtigsten Nation der Welt.
Einfach keine Berichterstattung.
Aber gibt ja die neuen Medien.
The WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury has deleted a controversial meme that seemed to mock the physical attack on Caitlin Clark by one of their team's players. https://t.co/Mkvu98xqPI