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last hour, I mentioned a bit of the developing news
over the last eighteen hours or so, which is that
Barry Weiss, the founder of the Free Press, she is
reportedly on the verge of having her publication acquired by
Paramount and then because Paramount owns CBS News and part
of the deal, according to puck News, part of the
deal is that she would be given control of CBS News.
And as you might imagine, the people working at CBS
News are in meltdown mode. How dare they be managed
by Barry Weiss? Of all people, Barry Weiss. She was
sort of canceled back during the summer of fiery but
mostly peaceful riots and looting, and because she defended her
editor who had published an op ed by Senator Tom
Cotton who said, hey, you know what, maybe we should
send some National Guard into these cities that are being
looted by the rioting. And he was then canceled by
his own newsroom people inside the New York Times. They
went after him, he was ousted, she defended him. She
ended up becoming targeted by these leftists in the New
York Times newsroom as well, and then she went off
and started the Free Press. And so what Dylan Bayer's
reported at Puck News is that the talks have been
accelerating for the last few days. The CEO of Paramount
sky Dance, which is the parent company of CBS, has
been apparently trying to woo Barry Weiss for more than
a year, and he says, I'm now told the two
sides have agreed in principle to a deal and lawyers
are hard at work finalizing a formal agreement. It's expected
to be worth more than a one hundred million dollars deal,
and whatever the number comes in, it's going to land
her a king's ransom or a queen's ransom. Just a
little over five years after her dramatic departure from The
New York Times. As part of the deal, Dylan Byer says,
the plan is to give Barry Weiss a role at
CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow
millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division. Barries
avowedly pro Israel and anti woke worldview. By the way,
she is a liberal. Okay, just for the record here,
she's a liberal's she was anti woke though she did
not like the cancelation. She did not like the group
identity Politics and such, and they did not like her
because she was anti woke, but also because she is
pro Israel and how dare she right? So it would
inevitably inspire blowback from various corners of the newsroom, which
it already is today, and could dramatically change the editorial
posture and reputation of one of the most storied and
certainly self important institutions in American journalism, and Buyers points
out that's probably part of the point, because if you
got a bunch of people that are at CBS News
that won't eve you bring in somebody like Barry Weiss
to now manage them in a way that is less partisan,
that's more ethical. Then they will leave on their own.
So it's a it's a way to help clean house
without actually having to fire a bunch of people. I
suspect that is part of what we are seeing go
on right because The Rap, which is a lefty website.
Sharon Waxman and Adam Chitwood, they wrote about this that
an individual with knowledge of the deal said Paramount did
expect there to be resignations as a result of Weiss's acquisition,
or what I would call a win win. When she
went on to found The Free Press, it has grown
into a robust media platform that consistently criticizes left leaning
cultural and social views, has a successful response to progressive
media and mainstream outlets that lean to the left. Again,
she is of the liberal persuasion, but she recognized that
the leftists were going too far right that and this
is part of the problem with leftism is that it
can never go too far. It always keeps going. As
the Kamis say, fullword. That's why they name their publications
full word, and that's why they use fullword as their
slogan all the time, and progress and all that, but
they never tell you where the destination is, except if
they do say it's like utopia, right, where all the
problems are solved, everybody makes all enough money, there's no poverty. Right.
They're selling a vision of perfection, which of course is unattainable.
And so they just say forward and progress, and they
never tell you where the destination is. They don't tell
you where the end zone is, which is what I
was asking way back during the HB two, like where's
the end zone? Where does this end? When is enough enough?
When are you satisfied? And I never got an answer
from anybody that I ever talked to on the left
or in the Democratic Party ever. So this idea that
she is somehow positioned as like a right winger and
she's not simply because she challenged the direction and the
pace that the left was going. Oh and of course
that she's pro Israel, which I think that's that's really
the problem here for a lot of the leftists, that
she's pro Israel, which, by the way, I just want
to give it up. It's been a banner week for
the anti Israel folks in the media that I repeat myself,
banner week, really, like there are now I think there
are three different hamasaganda stories that were pushed out that
media regurgitated dutifully as if they were true, and now
they've been debunked just in a matter of days. And
by the way, the Israeli government just totally stinks at
doing this. They're not good at the propaganda war at all.
This is people online. These are social media users, a
couple of right wing influencers and journalists and such, but
for the most part, it's just people online that see
these stories and sort of do a rapid response. They
just poke some holes in, you know, some of the narrative.
They ask a couple of questions and we find out, oh,
another story that's been a lie from the very beginning.
There was I've got I've got a list here going.
This is Eton Fischberger, who starts off on Twitter. He says,
the first one was that the Hamas terrorists were claiming
victory for abducting four IDF soldiers in Gaza. Remember that
story spread like wildfire, slight problem. It did not happen, right,
it did not happen. Everybody was so excited on the
Hamas holes side, so excited. Then there was the anti
journalism campaign run by NGOs to paint Israel as deliberately
targeting journalists and then you find out, oh, actually the
quote journalists were like commanders in hamas, but they would
just put on a vest that says media and then
it's like, oh my god, they killed a media person. Yeah,
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stories just in the last week, the story of for
Israeli soldiers abducted by Hamas they were not that did
not happen, The dead journalist collusion story that was fake.
Then we have the International Genocide Scholar story. This one's
pretty crazy. The IAGS, the International Association of Genocide Scholars
or IAGS, or as I call it, the IAGS, they
passed a resolution declaring that Israeli is committing genocide in Gaza.
Mainstream media outlets from The New York Times to The
Washington Post to Reuters described the association as a leading
academic voice on the subject. On Monday, The New York
Times wrote, the International the Association of Genocide Scholars, a
leading group of academic experts on the topic, declared that
Israel's policies and actions in Gaza met the legal definition
of genocide. So the first question is, what the hell
is the IAGS. I've never heard of this, but then again,
I haven't heard of a lot of things, so figure, Okay, well,
maybe somebody should look into what the IAGS is. As
the association's title would indicate, it is composed of genocide scholars,
as opposed to genocideal scholars those are usually found in prisons.
But anyway, its members actually include academic scholars. This is
from their website. Academic scholars, human rights activists, students, museum professionals,
memorial professionals, policymakers, educators, anthropologists, independent scholars, sociologists, artists, political scientists, economists, historians,
international law scholars, psychologists, and one of my favorites here
literature and film scholars. That's who comprises the IAGS. Like, okay, well,
what if you don't fit one of those seventeen titles,
do not fear you? Two can be an active member
of the IAGS. All you need to do is fill
out a biographical form and give them some money. Not
even a lot of money. It's one hundred and twenty
five bucks for one year membership. They do have deals,
so you can you can pay two ten for two years,
or if you want to just knock it all out
with a lifetime membership, twelve hundred dollars and you can
be a lifetime member of the IADS. And what do
you get for that good question? You get access to
the association's internal list serves like emails and such. But wait,
there's more. You get access to their newsletter. And if
that's not enough, you get access to their job listing
notifications as well as calls for papers and biennial conferences.
So here's the business model. You pay some money and
then you can propose some petitions, and then you get
to vote on those petitions. That's it. That's the Scholarly Association.
So according to their bylaws, again from their website, if
a resolution is to pass, voting has to be undertaken
by a quorum of more than twenty percent of the
paid membership. The association says it represents six hundred members
from all continents. Here's the problem with the Gaza genocide resolution.
Of the six hundred members, only one hundred and twenty
nine of them voted, so that would be twenty two
percent voted at all on the resolution. That's according to
Sarah Brown, a longtime IAGS member who actually served on
its advisory board. The IAGS told The Washington Post that
eighty six percent of respondents voted in favor of the resolution,
So that would be like one hundred and ten yes
votes out of the one twenty nine. Okay, but you
have six hundred members, so that would be just eighteen
per of the total membership. While it's unclear exactly who
voted on the resolution, there was a reason to believe
that at least some of the respondents were not actually
genocide scholars. I know, this is shocking several have little
to know online footprint, including any affiliation with like a
university of any sort. Salo Eisenberg, an independent scholar. He
actually went and registered as a member of the IAGS,
and he found that eighty members, or roughly thirteen percent
of all of the quote scholars, came from one country, Iraq,
which I was not aware that there was like that
kind of critical mass of genocide scholars all residing in Iraq.
Eisenberg inspired then a wave of individuals to start joining
the IAGS. So if you see anybody put in their
bio that they are a genocide scholar, if they're listing
themselves as a genocide scholar, this is the joke. Because
people started flooding the website yesterday. They would pay like
thirty bucks for a monthly membership so they could gain
access to it and then call themselves a genocide scholar.
And the response was so overwhelming and the lie was
so exposed that the IAGS purged all of its new
members and then took down its public membership directory and
then deleted its Twitter account. A real bang up work
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the text line, I love the free press. It seems balanced.
Some articles agree with me and others I get the
other side. She wrote, Barry Weiss wrote a fantastic piece
when gender rejecting care came into the cultural consciousness, and
she nailed it. So I was sold. Yeah, Look, the
free press carries pieces from all sorts of people, and
that's like, that's the point is that you're supposed to
be having those types of discussions of the you know,
these controversial and important issues of the day, rather than
simply advanced seeing one particular viewpoint all the time. You
can do that if you want to as a a newspaper, sure,
but then you can't really complain when you're not reaching
as wide of an audience as you otherwise might. Rodney
says progressives or commies are always going forward but always
bringing up the past, right, well, because the issue is
never the issue. The issue is always the revolution for comies,
that's the way it goes, right, So whatever they need
to say in order to justify whatever the position they're
doing today is, they will use that argument. This is
from an anonymous nine to eight to zero number. I
was going to pursue it. But what do you think
Should I just pay the thirty dollars and become a
genocide scholar? I mean that Look, that's a very perfectly
reasonable career path. I mean, look, thirty bucks and now
you're a genocide scholar. That's a pretty good return on
your investment. Right. Then you could start getting appearances on
all sorts of cable stations and such. Right, Although I
think I'm not sure the IAGS is going to have
as good of a reputation anymore, given what we've seen
with their implosion over the last twenty four hours. So
this is from what am I reading this from? Ag
Hamilton his sub stack. He's a independent journalist, he says.
On Tuesday, there were new membership accounts created on the
IAGS website for people dropping thirty bucks. So they had
all these new membership accounts created. Some of the names
on the list serve Adolf Hitler. He became a genocide scholar,
as did Cookie Monster that was another one of the members.
The exact composition of the original voters is unknown. It
keep in mind all of this was revealed not by
the media outlets that extensively cited the IAGS, but rather
by independent media and social media users right essentially trolls
with thirty bucks Like that's what exposed all of this.
And then there is another one, another lie that came
to light. I oh, hang on, Melissa wants to know
if any of the membership levels in the IAGS offer
a Greta Thunberg bubblehead. I don't believe so, but you
could probably go on to like eBay and just find
some old he Man action figures and just paint like
a Palestinian flag on his chest, and that would I
mean it would Basically it's a spinning image. So it's
the same thing. It's a commentary on her haircut. People. Okay,
look have you seen her recently? She's got the he
man haircut. I don't know why who told her that?
But anyway, then there was this, there was a guy
making the rounds. I did not cover this story because
the whole thing just stunk and I did not know
who to believe on all of this, but I did.
I have covered the GHF, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, right,
They've been operating these food supply sites in Gaza in
order to starve Hamas of its revenue stream. Because when
the UN runs the humanitarian aid, Gaza or Hamas financially
benefits from it, they steal the aid. The UN has
said this, they steal the aid, they sell it to
the to the Gazans. And again, if you want, if
you really want to help Palestinians, you want to help
the people of Gaza, you have to make sure that
Hamas does not stay in control. Okay, because with Hamas
in power, the palestinians plight never gets better, never so
the GHF has been in there, and a couple of
weeks ago there was a guy named Tony Aguilar who
made this claim that he saw this little kid named
a Mirror just get get undown by the IDF while
he was trying to get food. Turns out and there
were there were. The GHF pushed back and said, look,
this guy is not to be believed. He's a disgruntled worker.
He made all sorts of threats against the GHF. He
made he tried to extort us to try to get
his job back. There was all these So there was
all this swirl around this guy. So that's why I
didn't cover it, because I couldn't tell which was true
and which wasn't. Right. Well, it turns out, as I did,
suspect a little bit of BS going on with this dude,
And now it turns out there's a video of the
boy alive and well not gunned down. So that was
a lie too. See I'm starting to see a pattern here.
How about uh, how about this one? This is actually
from the Associated Press. A confidential report by the United
Namesation's nuclear watchdog, circulated to member states and viewed by
the Associated Press, states that Iran increased its stockpile of
uranium enriched to near weapons grade levels before Israel launched
its military attack on June thirteenth. That material is a
short technical step away from weapons grade levels of ninety percent,
so they did have nuclear stockpiles they were enriching to
right up to the weapons grade level. Interesting, they had
increased their stockpile of the highly enriched near weapons grade levels.
According to the IAEA, approximately forty two kilograms of sixty
percent enriched uranium is theoretically enough to produce one atomic
bomb if it gets enriched up to ninety percent, And
to go from sixty to ninety percent is super quick,
It's super easy to do. Once you get to sixty,
it's like just a short jump to the ninety. From
what I understand, that's what all the reporting says. So
they had forty two kilos at sixty percent more than
or sorry, forty two kilos is what it takes to
make one bomb, and they had increased that amount. Okay,
forty two kilos for one bomb. You know how much
they had enriched four hundred and forty one kilos, so,
in other words, ten times the amount for one bomb,
So they could have made ten atomic bombs. The confidential
report also said that Iran and the IAEA have not
reached an agreement on resuming inspections of sites that were
affected by the bombings, which we were told were completely unjustified.
There was no evidence that any of this stuff was having,
that Iran wasn't working on a bomb, and it's like,
it's just absolutely absurd, And now here we are a
month later, two months later, and it was true. All Right,
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as George W. Bush and Homer Simpson would call it.
Thought this was pretty interesting that the US Department of
Energy says that it has made an initial selection of
eleven projects for a pilot program seeking to develop high
tech test nuclear reactors and get at least at least
three of them to begin operating in less than a year.
As artificial intelligence and data centers boost power demand, the
US is aiming to develop small nuclear reactors, which developers
say will be cheaper to build per megawatt of output
than today's larger reactors because the parts could be replicated
in factories. Good, it's about time, Holy smokes, Thank goodness, Yes,
more of these. Look. I don't know what China's got planned,
I mean, beside the invasion of Taiwan, probably, I mean,
what do you think they're hoarding all that gold for.
But anyway, I don't know what they got planned. I
just think it's a good idea for us to be
completely energy independent and to have these small reactors around
hardens our infrastructure. I think it's a good idea of
the Department is doing this because Donald Trump issued an
executive order back in May trying to speed up the
permitting of nuclear reactors and reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The order allows the Energy Department to authorize the test
reactors without going through the NRC, because the NRC is
an independent agency, and so this is meant to get
around that regulatory burden. Small modular and so called advanced
nuclear reactors have been talked about in the US for years,
but the only ones operating are in Russia and China.
So yeah, let's get some of those online. Speaking of
Russia and China, the Chinese President Winnie the Pooh aka
Jijinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been overheard discussing
organ transplants as a means of prolonging life on the
sidelines of a military parade in Beijing. I mentioned this
offhand as a joke and people thought it was just
a joke, because for some reason, people sometimes have a
hard time deciphering when I'm kidding and when I'm not.
I don't I never kid. I don't know why people
think I'm kidding. Anyway, Putin suggested even eternal life could
be achievable as a result of innovations in biotechnology. The
unguarded moment was captured on a live stream carried by
Chinese state TV, so you know, somebody getting whacked for that,
And as the two leaders, along with North Korea's Kim
Jong un, walked together through China's historic Teneman Square, where
absolutely nothing has ever happened, particularly some sort of pro
democracy protest where they killed a whole bunch of college kids.
Nothing like that. So apparently the translation was like, oh, yeah,
you know, seventy is it? GI's translator could be heard
saying in Russian that so Winnie the Pooh was saying that,
you know, somebody now who was seventy. These days they
say at seventy, you're still a child. Okay, I don't
know who's saying that. I mean maybe the people that
are surrounding Jijinping because they're afraid of getting whacked if
they say you're getting kind of old G so maybe
they're saying, oh, seventy is the new twelve. It's totally fine.
And then they start talking about harvesting organs organ transplants,
which I'm sure they're not doing. All right, that'll do
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