During her Wednesday "OutFront" show, CNN's Erin Burnett decorated her disgust with conservative figures' vaccine hesitancy with a "bulls**t" cherry on top.
Burnett began her segment by highlighting "deadly disinformation about COVID vaccines, much of it coming from Republican lawmakers and right-wing media." With that she showed clips of GOP lawmakers such as Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado stating their disagreement with getting the shots.
Rafael Viego "Food and medicine has been excluded from the embargo for the last 21 years when President Clinton signed Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (TSRA) law.
According to Amnesty International, in 2008 alone, Cuba imported $700 Million worth of food and agricultural products.
So this talking point about the US preventing food and medicine to Cuba is a lie and propaganda.
This claim that the US embargo is the cause of misery for Cubans is BS.
Cuba trades with much of the world and has many natural resources.
And let’s add what many of us in Miami already know: — The US embargo does not prohibit fishers in Cuba from fishing; the dictatorship does. — The US embargo does not prohibit the Cuban people from eating meat; the dictatorship does. — The US embargo does not confiscate the food they harvest from the peasants; the dictatorship does. — The US embargo does not allow animals to die, and fruit and vegetables rot in the countryside while Cubans go hungry; the dictatorship does... ...Last year alone, the U.S. exported $176 million of goods to Cuba.
In the first six months of 2021, Cuba imported $123 million worth of chicken from the United States — just as an example. The Cuban government has an internal blockade on its citizens.
It has the Cuban people imprisoned in Cuba, hostages of a totalitarian government....Much more. Read all.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made an offer to Black Lives Matter this week after the far-left organization voiced support for the Cuban communist regime amid the Cuban people protesting for freedom.
1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
1848 - The Women's Rights Convention took place in Seneca Fall, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the convention.
1939 - Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures.
1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970.
1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
Michigan’s Republican senators, who hold a majority in the state Senate, used a procedural method this week to support the repeal of a decades-old emergency powers law with a petition that cannot be vetoed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Michigan senators voted along party lines, 20-15, backing the petition to repeal the Emergency Powers of Governor Act of 1945, which was brought by the group Unlock Michigan and various people critical of Whitmer’s use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
First, on the list, the 1963 Communist Party told Congress it wanted the U.S. to accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. Second, for the U.S. to be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. The rest of the list read as follows:
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
Despite such apparent support for socialism, many Americans don’t have a good grasp of the implications of this system, or even what socialism really looks like.
One of the best weapons against socialism simply may be teaching students what exactly socialism is.
Colleges and universities in America should make economics classes a priority for students.
"Although nearly a quarter of Americans (23%) say socialism means equality, fewer (17%) correctly identify socialism as an economic system where the government controls key factors of production and distribution, according to a Gallup poll in 2018.
The same poll found that 42% of Americans said they feel positively about socialism.
Despite such apparent support for socialism, many Americans don’t have a good grasp of the implications of this system, or even what socialism really looks like...Read all.
Anti-Critical Race Theory parents told to die by Fairfax County official - TheBlaze: Crowds gathered outside the Luther Jackson Middle School in Virginia, where concerned parents were rallying against critical race theory being taught to students in Fairfax County Public Schools. During Thursday's "Stop CRT Rally," a PTA and NAACP official spewed rhetoric against the parents, including proclaiming, "Let them die!"
U. North Carolina black students claim it’s ‘not safe’ for them on campus "At a press conference held last Wednesday, several black University of North Carolina student and faculty groups alleged it is “not safe” for (black) students on campus. As a result, members of the Black Student Movement, the Carolina Black Caucus and the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association “publicly announced” a set of demands at the event Chapelboro.com reports.
...Black Student Movement President Teddy Vann said “There’s no way that I, as a Black student, and as a Black woman, could ask anybody to send their child here. I cannot ask you to send your Black child to Carolina when there’s really no way for me to know if your child is going to be okay when they leave. There’s no way for me to know if your child is going to survive four years at UNC and it really is that serious.”
BSM Vice President Julia Clark claimed she was “brutalized” by now-UNC Interim Police Chief Rasheem Holland during a scuffle (below) at a June 30 Board of Trustees meeting...Read all.
"Portland Police – what’s left of them – report that eight people were shot overnight in a mass shooting in downtown Portland. Portland Police reported that one of the victims had life-threatening injuries. No one died in the shooting. No arrests have been made.
...Police had precious little information.
...When officers arrived they found many people injured. The officers initiated lifesaving measures and secured the scene for paramedics to respond. So far 8 patients have been located and transported to the hospital by ambulance. At least one is considered life threatening...
The suspect or suspects left the scene before police were called and no one has been arrested. No suspect descriptions are being released at this time.
In fact, the short-handed cop shop didn’t even bother to send out a public information officer to gather first-person information for public consumption, according to the press release sent out on social media after the 2 a.m. shooting...Read all.
Black Lives Matter reacted to Cubans engaging in pro-freedom demonstrations by praising the communist Cuban regime that oppresses its own people, over a million of whom are black. The Black Lives Matter organization also blamed the United States for the current upswell of unrest in Cuba. BLM was blasted on social media for its official stance on the anti-government protests in Cuba.
"Hoisting flags and political signs, more than 250 Arizona conservatives rallied in Scottsdale on July 14 to demand the release of pro-Trump protesters being held in federal prisons since Jan. 6.
“This nation will not be [made] safe by cowards,” said keynote speaker Matt Braynard of Look Ahead America, co-sponsor of the rally with local branch Look Ahead Arizona, at Sue Wood’s Scottsdale Studios.
...Braynard, a former Trump data analyst, is leading the charge with Look Ahead America to release what he called “political prisoners.”
He said the July 14 rally was a run-up to a large political protest to be held on July 17 at a federal prison in Washington.
While the FBI has arrested 535 protesters, Braynard said, “in almost all cases, these were non-violent” people.
“They’re losing their jobs because their employers don’t want to employ them,” Braynard said, noting that 100 to 200 people have been held without bail since they were arrested. “They’re not forgotten.”...Read all.
Martha Chansley, mother of imprisoned Jan. 6 protestor and Arizona resident Jacob Chansley, also known as the “Q-Anon Shaman,” makes a plea for the release of her son during a rally on July 14, 2021, in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Allan Stein/Epoch Times)
"The National Football League (NFL) recently joined virtually every other American institution in lauding — and marketing to — the LGBT community during Pride Month in June. It did so by releasing a new 30-second commercial proudly proclaiming that "football is gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, bisexual and exciting."
The ad begins by stating "football is gay" to the sound of drums rolling and people cheering. (I'm not sure what Dick Butkus would have to say about this advertisement, but I digress.)...Read all.
Biden Admin Wants UN to Investigate America's 'Racism' - Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden is going to spend the next three years calling America racist. That's the administration's plan, facts be damned. There is no other way to look at it. He calls voter integrity laws just like the Civil War even though his party lost the battle of telling people voter ID laws are racist. His education department wants to teach children how racist America is and has always been, ignoring all the non-white parents fighting back over it. If Joe Biden wants to find racism, he should consider looking in the mirror. Instead, he has his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calling for the United Nations to investigate us.
[Minnesota state Rep. John Thompson (D)] later asks why he was pulled over, and the officer says because of Thompson’s missing front license plate and because of the way he took off from a stoplight.
“I’m too old to run from the police man,” Thompson replies. “You profiled me because you looked me dead in the face and I got a ticket for driving while Black. You pulled me over because you saw a Black face in this car brother. There’s no way in hell I’m taking off with you behind me.”
...“The traffic stop was by the books. What happened afterwards was anything but,” Axtell continued.
1932 - The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
Moments before the protest took place inside the Hart Senate Office Building, Beatty, who serves as head of the Congressional Black Caucus, shared photos to her social media accounts claiming she and others would be “marching to the Senate to send a strong message” about voting rights for black women.
“Black women are demanding OUR right to vote,” she wrote in a tweet. “We’re marching to the Senate to send a strong message.”
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, lashed out at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) but was mocked and ridiculed for the mathematically impossible claim she made.
And let’s add what many of us in Miami already know:
