James Beverley

Research Professor, Tyndale University, Toronto
Associate Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Woodway, Texas

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

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[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

@bonchieredstate Z,

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace.

None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.

We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal.

We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this.

Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.

Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

🎙️ BEST Opera Singers EVER on Got Talent❗ https://t.co/D5RKxmwjre via @YouTube
An amazing collection. Many artists will bring tears!

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

@elonmusk Kamala's sarcasm and laugh about someone claiming "Jesus is Lord" at her rally is truly upsetting.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Kamala hates Christians

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

Your good points on Kamala need to be balanced:
1. She absolutely failed from the start to address her deplorable record on immigration.
2. She did not apologize for the border failures leading to the deaths of the three women mentioned by Baier.
3. She simply cannot see her pathetic record on the economy.

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

@elonmusk Harris won't admit the obvios.

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

This clip from RFK Jr. is very important. I am no expert on the things he talks about but he, at the very least, raises some very, very disturbing issues.

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

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[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

RFK Jr: “Why are we in all these wars? … Here’s the reason why.”

“When a new nation enters NATO, the contract requires it to conform its weapons purchases to NATO specifications, which means billions and billions of dollars for Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics and the other military contractors.

Who owns all of those? One company: BlackRock. These are the people who are dictating what the Democratic Party does.”

@RobertKennedyJr @ZacharyLevi @TulsiGabbard

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

@PatrickByrne It was astounding to me that the judge could make dogmatic statements about Tina's intentions and inner thoughts and label her a charlatan and say she was in it only for the attention. Is he a mind reader?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Takes less than 5 minutes and zero documentation to get approved as an illegal immigrant and be flown to the United States with air tickets paid for by the American taxpayer

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

Cat eating in Ohio
So, you know the cat eating stories are lies, right?
Well, before you get too dogmatic, read Christopher Rufo's investigation.

https://t.co/6I3shSzv1Z

https://t.co/eZzzGs38EI

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

CBS News has published a response to the “Cat Eaters of Ohio” story. It’s a supremely dishonest and completely partisan report, but let’s break it down, to show exactly how the establishment media maintains its lines of propaganda.

The CBS report hinges on two arguments. First, CBS writes: “The video shows what appears to be animal carcasses on a grill. The man filming the footage alleges, without evidence, that they are cats.” Without evidence? The eyewitness directly observed the incident and took a video recording of it—both of which are firsthand evidence. But CBS’s apparent standard, when such evidence violates the establishment narrative, is: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

The report also quotes Dayton’s Democratic mayor, who says there have been “absolutely zero reports of this type of activity.” Which is true, but does not contradict the evidence at all. Nobody filed a police report, so there would be no police report—and the absence of a police report does not mean that something did not happen. This is a convenient way of ignoring the evidence, and laundering lies through friendly media apparatus.

What did CBS not do? Journalism. The network, which has massive resources, did not send a reporter to the scene, interview the eyewitness, interview the neighbors, investigate the visual evidence, conduct background research, or provide a detailed analysis. They simply adopted “don’t believe your lying eyes” as their standard and repeated an empty, evidence-free statement from a partisan political figure.

Now, I’d like to take you through exactly how we produced the story and analyzed the evidence. This is precisely the case that I made in the original piece, that the establishment media is more interested in denial and obfuscation, even when the evidence points the other way.

Sourcing

An individual in my personal social network reached out with a tip and a link to the social media post with the video. (This source neither requested, nor received, the monetary prize I had posted on social media a few days prior.) Our team then collected the timestamped social media from August 2023, which was still live. We tracked down the author, authenticated the video, matched it to his voice, and conducted an interview by phone, in which he confirmed the key details of the story.

The following day, we had the author bring us to the location and make introductions, had a team member conduct background research, and sent a reporter into the field to make observations and conduct interviews. To confirm the exact location of the video, we matched the visual elements in the picture to the visual elements on the scene, down to matching knot patterns in fence planks, which provided us with the precise address and camera position relative to the scene. For extra care, we also cross-referenced the visual evidence with street and satellite images, plus residential property records.

Eyewitness Account

Our interview with the eyewitness matched the details of the original video and was unambiguous in its conclusion: “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill. They was barbecuing the damn cat!” The eyewitness was familiar with the African families in the housing complex (his son played with their children) and his child’s mother, who lived next door to the Africans, had observed them on at least one occasion butchering a large mammal on the street.

The eyewitness had a close, unmediated look at the incident and maintained a consistent story over one year, to multiple different groups, including his own peer group. He is familiar with barbecuing and, like anyone, is familiar with cats. The source of his initial shock was that the animal on the grill was not a chicken, burger, hotdog, or other usual fare. Again, he witnessed the incident firsthand, recorded a video, and maintained a consistent story over a year. This is all direct evidence, contrary to CBS News’s disingenuous claim.

Field Interviews

Our field reporter spoke with a half-dozen people in the housing complex, who confirmed the following details: all of the residents of the complex were migrants from Africa, most commonly the Congo; they were familiar with the eyewitness, his child’s mother, and his son; they told us another African family had recently moved out of one of the units; this family owned and used a blue grill; the father would go out with a knife and gather meat; there were stray cats breeding on the property and some residents wanted to get rid of them.

We also made the following direct observations on the scene: we matched the visuals in the video to the location; we found an abandoned grill that matched the make, model, and color in the video and the descriptions in the interviews; we noticed that there were at least ten cats on the property, which appeared to be strays and were very comfortable with the residents, coming onto the porches and milling around the exterior of the house.

Background Research

Our research team learned that there is a tradition of cat eating in the Congo and surrounding nations. We also learned that, since at least 2021, Dayton has accommodated a relatively large number of migrants from the Congo. By chance, one of our in-house researchers had experience dissecting cats and studying their anatomy. In addition, we spoke on background with a chicken farmer, surgeon, biologist, hunter, and medical professor. After some left-wing conspiracy accounts on social began claiming that the animals were chickens, rather than cats, we asked them to provide their opinion. I will reproduce some of the quotations from two of those interviews below.

Chicken Farmer Interview

This farmer, who has processed thousands of animals per year, confirmed that it could not be a chicken in the video:

• “The most obvious evidence is that the claws on the grill are facing the wrong way for it to be an avian creature. Size-wise the only poultry [the claws] could credibly be compared to is a Cornish game hen or something small, but the carcasses are much larger than that. Literally any poultry farmer or butcher would tell you that’s not a chicken or a waterfowl.”

• “A bird wouldn’t be able to rest upside down like that. Its heavy legs would cause it to flop to one side or another, or the legs would just drop down to either side … There’s no way for a bird to naturally sit that way. They’re bottom-heavy creatures.”

• “The legs are too skinny [to be a chicken]. The ‘drumstick’ even on a laying hen would be much meatier. Number two is that, even if it were a bird, the talons are facing in the wrong direction. But they are in the right direction for cat’s paws. They are basically claiming that the two legs on the left are those of a chicken, and that its butt is somehow propped in the air. First of all, why would it be propped in the air? ... But more importantly, why would the drumsticks be stuck up in midair? For a quadruped like a feline this makes sense (they are the front legs) but not an avian creature which has one set of legs with a sort of folding joint in them. If the bird were face up as they are claiming, the legs would fold down onto the thighs, not project straight into the air.”

• “The feet of a chicken or a waterfowl are much larger in proportion to the carcass than what’s in the video. Whereas the proportion fits that between a cat’s leg and paw. When you shoot a cow or sheep or pig, they might fall and roll onto their back with their legs straight up in the air like the cat is. Because they’re also quadrupeds. Not possible with a chicken because it just has a totally different leg structure. Made to do different things.”

Surgeon Interview

This surgeon, who also has practical experience with animals, explained that the proportions of the animal, particularly the “ileum-to-scapula distance,” resemble a mammal, more specifically, a cat, rather than a chicken:

• “It’s fascinating how different animal species have remarkably similar skeletal structures - the humerus is proximal to the radius, the sternum anterior to the scapula - but the relationship of those bones to each other is what largely differentiates one animal species to the next, not only in appearance but also in function.”

• “[In the video,] you can see that a cat has a greater distance between the scapula and the ileum. This provides more space for the abdominal organs (i.e. small bowel, liver) between the thoracic cavity and the pelvis. When the legs are stretched, a 90-degree angle is formed between the legs and the pelvis/abdominal cavity (as can be seen in the picture).”

• “In contrast, a chicken has a very short distance between the scapula and the ileum. The reason for this is that the abdominal organs are located more caudally (i.e. towards the tail). When a chicken’s legs are stretched, this exaggerated 90-degree angle (as is seen in the video) is absent because the thoracic cavity is so close to the pelvis - hence, short distance between the scapula and ileum.”

• “The animals in the video are cats and not chickens due to the pronounced right angle between the legs and the abdomen that occur as a result of a longer ileum-to-scapula distance.”

Conclusion

The CBS News report is not credible and does not make any attempt to investigate the facts. Rather, it simply denied the eyewitness account and firsthand video as “without evidence”—a logical contradiction—and copied a statement from the Democratic mayor, who also did not investigate the matter. There is no indication that CBS sent a reporter into the field, conducted any interviews, or provided any visual analysis. There is no indication that CBS even knows where the incident occurred, something that took our team some time on the ground. As I wrote in my original piece about the story, the establishment media wants to maintain a line of propaganda and wish away any evidence to the contrary, appealing to authority rather than evidence. This is dishonest and does a disservice to productive debate.

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

@elonmusk In line with Musk, the Steele Dossier served as "election interference" for the 2022 midterms and the 2024 election by serving as one huge conspiracy against Trump.

[James Beverley @jimbeverley]

This is a stunning example of blindness on Scarborough's part. How could he make the claim about Biden given what was so obvious about the president's mental and physical decline?

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[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Joe Scarborough,Today: MAGA supporters know the truth, but deliberately choose to believe lies.

Joe Scarborough, a Couple of Months Ago: F you if you cant handle the truth. This is the best Biden ever. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.

🤡🌎

[Drew Hernandez @DrewHLive]

BODY CAM: Video footage has been released of an officer clearly stating a sniper had eyes on Thomas Crooks

Took pictures and “called it out” sometime before he took a shot at President Trump

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@publiusbtc @DavidSacks The list from publius.btc is important because the cover-up about Hunter's laptop is one of the most outrageous examples of censorship and election interference in history. The public intellectuals were joined by leading media figures plus figures in the Biden world.