Kanye West Wears ‘White Lives Matter’ Sweater at His YZY Fashion Show in Paris

Grammy-winning recording artist and billionaire fashion mogul Kanye West was seen wearing a sweatshirt with the words “White Lives Matter” written on the back of it.

West was seen wearing the “White Lives Matter” sweater at his YZY season 9 presentation in Paris, France, on Monday, according to a report by Complex.

The rapper was not the only one wearing the phrase on his shirt, as other models in the presentation were reportedly wearing “variations of the same design, the report adds

Conservative firebrand Candace Owens was also seen at the event, wearing a t-shirt with the same verbiage on it.

While addressing the audience, West reportedly spoke about how some news outlets had focused on the delayed start time of his previous events, and explained that the delays were due to him trying to “present the best idea.”

Last month, West said he terminated the contract between his company Yeezy and Gap Inc., in part, because “they have a lot of commitments to China,” and he wanted to “bring industry back to America.”

Also last month, the rapper proclaimed that “Hollywood is a giant brothel” and “pornography destroyed my family,” adding that he wants to stay in his kids’ lives.

Earlier this year, West said that Kim Kardashian put their daughter North West on TikTok without his consent, asking the Internet for advice regarding how to get his daughter off the Chinese-owned social media platform.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/03/kanye-west-wears-white-lives-matter-sweater-at-his-yzy-fashion-show-in-paris/

U.S. ships seize $100 million of hash, heroin in the Gulf of Oman

A U.S. Navy destroyer and a Coast Guard cutter operating in the Gulf of Oman seized close to $100 million worth of hashish and heroin from two separate vessels Tuesday and Wednesday, according to statements from U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

The destroyer Delbert D. Black intercepted a fishing vessel that was transporting $10 million worth of hashish in international waters, according to the statement. The destroyer is supporting operations in U.S. 5th Fleet and began patrolling waters in the Middle East in August.

“This seizure is a testament to the professionalism and determination of the ‘Trailblazer’ team,” Cmdr. Mark Gallagher, commanding officer of Delbert D. Black, said in the statement. “I’m proud of our commitment to regional security and countering illicit activity on the high seas across the Middle East region.”

Black’s seizure came just a day after U.S. Coast Guard cutter Charles Moulthrope intercepted more than 2,000 kilograms of heroin on Tuesday. According to NAVCENT, the Charles Moulthrope was operating as a part of the Combined Maritime Forces, the largest multinational naval partnership.

According to NAVCENT, the heroin was worth more than $85 million. Over the course of the year, CMF has intercepted 13 vessels, resulting in more than $300 million worth of heroin, hashish and amphetamines.

Last year, after increasing patrols in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, NAVCENT and CMF seized record amounts of illicit drugs and weapons, totaling $193 million. That sum was larger than the previous four years combined.

“We have enhanced our presence and vigilance across regional waters,” Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said in a January news release. “This reflects our continued commitment to confront destabilizing activities that disrupt the rules-based international order which underlies maritime security in the Middle East.”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/09/30/us-ships-seize-100-million-of-hash-heroin-in-the-gulf-of-oman/

Musk's peace plan hammered by pro-Ukraine 'bots'

The Tesla magnate said he doesn’t care about popularity, but doesn’t want “millions of people to die”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has defended a controversial peace plan he proposed for Ukraine which would see Kiev make some concessions to Russia. Musk was hounded on Twitter by pro-Ukrainian bot accounts and condemned by the Ukrainian government, but insists that his idea is preferable to the deaths of “millions of people.”

Musk posted his peace proposal to Twitter on Monday, suggesting that Russia hold new UN-supervised referendums in its newly-acquired territories, while Ukraine formally relinquishes its claim to Crimea, guarantees the peninsula’s water supply, and declares itself a neutral country.

A poll accompanying his post showed around 60% of respondents backing the plan, before pro-Ukrainian accounts in the comments summoned an army of trolls to swing the vote in their favor. Musk himself said that the poll was subjected to the “biggest bot attack I’ve ever seen.”

Ukraine’s parliament responded to the suggestion with a simple “no,” while Kiev’s outgoing ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnik, said that his “very diplomatic reply” would be “f**k off.”

Musk then ran a fresh poll, asking whether “the will of the people who live in the Donbass and Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine.” The two Donbass Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk declared independence from Ukraine in 2014 and are currently being formally acceded into Russia, while Crimea overwhelmingly voted to rejoin Russia in 2014 and was accepted the same year.

With Musk claiming that the troll army was still out in force, 44% of respondents said they would deny these people the choice. Musk was again criticized for supposedly hindering the Ukrainian cause, but the billionaire stood his ground.

“You are assuming that I wish to be popular. I don’t care,” he replied to one critic. “I do care that millions of people may die needlessly for an essentially identical outcome.”

“Russia is doing partial mobilization,” he explained. “They go to full war mobilization if Crimea is at risk. Death on both sides will be devastating.” Adding that “victory for Ukraine is unlikely in total war,” he urged the commenter “if you care about the people of Ukraine, seek peace.”

Musk’s Ukraine-enraging polls spawned a deluge of jokes and memes on Russian social media channels. With Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina set to blast off in one of SpaceX’ modules later this month, Russia’s former space exploration chief Dmitry Rogozin remarked on Telegram “that’s what a Russian woman did to an American.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/563999-ukraine-elon-musk-poll/

Who says Russian's don't joke around?

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1577032704327286784

‘Dangerous Precedent’: SCOTUS Rejects Gun Rights Group’s Challenge To ATF Bump Stock Ban

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from Gun Owners of America (GOA), which challenged a Trump-era policy that redefined the term “machine gun” to effectively ban bump stocks.

The organization argued in the court filing that this new definition for a machine gun is “politically driven.”

“Thus, any purported statutory ambiguity is of recent vintage, interjected by [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’] new and contorted manipulation of the English language to make a type of rifle stock — a ‘bump stock’ — fit into the statutory definition of ‘machine gun,'” the filing read.

In a statement posted to social media, GOA blasted SCOTUS for dismissing its petition.

“This decision sets a horrible and dangerous precedent, one that will allow the ATF to further arbitrarily regulate various firearms. This very same precedent is already being abused by Joe Biden to ban millions of lawfully purchased pistols even without an ACT of Congress!” the gun-rights group wrote.

The Supreme Court’s dismissal comes after a major win for gun rights in June. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that a New York law requiring that individuals show “good case” for carrying a firearm was a violation of the Second Amendment.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/03/scotus-supreme-court-rejects-gun-rights-gun-owners-america-challenge-atf-bump-stock-ban/

‘Anarchist’ Teacher Wants to ‘Burn Down the System’ After Being Exposed for ‘Woke’ Indoctrination

NYU Fires Award-Winning Organic Chemistry Teacher After Students Petition to Get Rid of Him For Making Course ‘Too Hard’

Checking in on Gen-Z…

An award-winning New York University organic chemistry teacher was fired after 82 students signed a petition to get rid of him for making his course ‘too hard.’

Dr. Maitland Jones Jr., 84, used to teach at Princeton until he semi-retired in 2007.

Dr. Jones then took a job teaching organic chemistry at NYU on a yearly contract.

The students claimed in the petition that his course was too hard and blamed Dr. Jones for their failing grades.

“We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class,” the petition said, according to The New York Times.

“We urge you to realize that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students’ learning and well-being a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole,” the students said.

The whiney students said Dr. Jones didn’t offer extra credit, didn’t allow for Zoom classes for students sick with Covid and taught with a ‘condescending and demanding’ tone.

Dr. Jones said he noticed his students were struggling to adapt to in-person learning post-Covid pandemic.

“They weren’t coming to class, that’s for sure, because I can count the house,” Dr. Jones said in an interview. “They weren’t watching the videos, and they weren’t able to answer the questions.”

“We now see single digit scores and even zeros,” Dr. Jones said.

Dr. Jones tried to further help his students by taping 52 lectures which he paid $5,000 of his own money to publish disperse.

But Jones was fired anyway.

The New York Times reported:

In the field of organic chemistry, Maitland Jones Jr. has a storied reputation. He taught the subject for decades, first at Princeton and then at New York University, and wrote an influential textbook. He received awards for his teaching, as well as recognition as one of N.Y.U.’s coolest professors.

But last spring, as the campus emerged from pandemic restrictions, 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him.

Students said the high-stakes course — notorious for ending many a dream of medical school — was too hard, blaming Dr. Jones for their poor test scores.

The professor defended his standards. But just before the start of the fall semester, university deans terminated Dr. Jones’s contract.

The officials also had tried to placate the students by offering to review their grades and allowing them to withdraw from the class retroactively. The chemistry department’s chairman, Mark E. Tuckerman, said the unusual offer to withdraw was a “one-time exception granted to students by the dean of the college.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/nyu-fires-award-winning-organic-chemistry-teacher-students-petition-get-rid-making-course-hard/

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DAVID SOUTHWELL goes behind the scenes at Australia's 'anti woke conference' - where extremists describe climate change as a 'scam' and declare there are only two genders

Weekend CPAC gathering in Sydney was the conference of all things anti-woke

People posed with 'Trump' and applauded any saying there's only two genders

Tony Abbott told how he was kicked out of class for questioning climate change

Left-wing protesters chanted outside and at tried to break into the building

I spent Saturday in the land that woke forgot.

It was a place where the national anthem was played, stood up for and respectfully sung along with, where climate change was described as a 'cult', 'religion' or a 'scam' and every declaration that there are only two genders was a guaranteed applause line.

I was at the Australian CPAC (conservative political action conference) held over the weekend at Sydney's Darling Harbour International Convention Centre.

It was what the unkind might describe as a gathering of right-wing nutjobs, conspiracy theory kooks and reactionary throwbacks.

That's obviously why I went.

It was certainly the right place to be for a selfie with Donald Trump.

The former US president wasn't there in person but was represented by a, perhaps suitably shallow, life-sized cardboard cut-out image giving a broad smile and (tiny handed?) thumb's up to attendees as they walked towards the main auditorium.

After enjoying such an un-PC Make Australia Great Again smile I was a little disappointed conference proceedings kicked off with a very respectful Welcome to Country, that even drew good applause.

That applause was dwarfed, however, by the enthusiasm that greeted the very pointed welcome to both the colonised and colonisers made by Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price, who gave a rousing opening speech.

For a bunch of ratbag right-wingers it was a polite crowd, that skewed towards grey haired but not exclusively so.

The speakers were a line-up of conservative Aussie politicians, or former ones, along with Sky News commentators and a sprinkling of overseas guests, most from the US and UK, with the best known one being British Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11273931/Behind-scenes-Australias-anti-woke-CPAC-conference.html

This will age well

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s fake National Anti-Corruption Commission fails whistleblowers

PM Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party have backflipped on their election promise for a powerful National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). One of the ways they have done that is by making sure as few whistleblowers come forward as possible which is designed to cover up Labor Party corruption in future years.

That will mean the new Federal NACC will start running low on the amount of corruption they have to investigate once they have dealt with corruption in the past by the coalition government of the last nine years. And possibly going back to the John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard years as well. But even investigations into past corruption will be limited without better protection for whistleblowers.

The key points of the fake National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) are:

Bare minimum protection for whistleblowers.

They have backflipped on their election promise for public hearings which will now only happen in exceptional circumstances.

Massive Breach of Open justice – This is also in part designed to intimidate whistleblowers from not coming forward.

The Anthony Albanese government hates whistleblowers just as much as the Scott Morrison government did and the proof is that they are still prosecuting Australian Tax Office whistleblower Richard Boyle and war crimes whistleblower David McBride. And I have no doubt part of the reason the Albanese government is still prosecuting them is to send a

Bare minimum protection for whistleblowers

What fuels all anti-corruption bodies investigating corruption is having as many whistleblowers come forward as possible and Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party know that. So, they have made sure as few as possible will come forward in the future who could blow the whistle on corruption in their government.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus told the media this blatant lie:

The legislation would provide “strong protections for whistleblowers” which is based on “The National Anti-Corruption Commission bill will have its own whistleblower protections, as is appropriate for Australian public servants and people working in the public sector who come forward with allegations that the commission should look at,”

And some journalists and commentators repeated the lie as a fact such as Barrister Geoffrey Watson in the SMH who said: “The legislation provides for comprehensive whistleblower protection”. (Click here to read more)

But others exposed the truth such as Transparency International Australia which reported (28/9/22):

The government gave an election pledge that its package would be “extremely similar” to the integrity commission models previously introduced by the Greens, McGowan and her successor, Dr Helen Haines.

However the bill differs substantially from Haines’ model by not including a whistleblowing commissioner, identified by past parliamentary inquiries as also central to a strengthened integrity system.

Despite recently telling parliament the government was taking the idea of a whistleblower protection authority “very seriously indeed”, it got no mention in the Attorney-General’s speech introducing the new commission.

The government has committed to fix overdue, minor problems with federal public sector whistleblowing laws. But it’s yet to outline plans to address more serious reforms to plug this gap, including an agency to actually enforce protections and make them real.

It remains to be seen whether all these historic integrity reforms, when complete, will be enough to reverse Australia’s decade-long slide on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. (Click here to read more)

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2022/10/02/prime-minister-anthony-albaneses-fake-national-anti-corruption-commission-fails-whistleblowers/

New Details About Potentially Privileged Documents From Trump Resort Made Public

New details about the documents seized from former President Donald Trump were made public on Oct. 3.

Among them were the two initial instances of investigators viewing potentially sensitive material.

The Department of Justice used what’s called a privilege review team to look over the materials in Mar-a-Lago in August and separate any materials that may be protected, including by attorney-client privilege. The government previously disclosed that on two occasions, workers not on the review team came upon materials that hadn’t been separated.

Benjamin Hawk, an attorney who helps lead the team, has said that the first instance was when investigators saw the top of a letterhead contained the name of a firm, and that the second instance involved a document “that could potentially include privileged information.”

In a newly unsealed document that was originally filed on Aug. 30, the government said an investigator in the first instance found “a document on Morgan Lewis letterhead comingled with newspapers.”

Morgan Lewis is an international law firm.

“Consistent with the filter protocols set forth in the Affidavit, the Case Team stopped its review of that entire box and provided it to the Privilege Review Team agents to conduct a review to identify and segregate potentially privileged materials,” U.S. lawyers stated.

In the affidavit for a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, an FBI agent stated that if personnel assigned to the investigation identified any potentially privileged information, they would “cease the review” of the materials and hand it over to the privilege review team.

The second instance involved an attorney for the team of investigators finding a 39-page set of materials “that appear to reflect the former President’s calls,” the government said. Most of the pages in the set were titled “The President’s Calls” and included the presidential seal. The documents contain handwritten names, numbers, and notes.

The attorney noticed the notes, halted the review, and notified the review team, according to the filing.

Cannon Order

The government asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee overseeing the Trump records case, to unseal the filing after Hawk described aspects of it during a court hearing. The “broad strokes” of the filing were made public during the hearing, making it so there was no “compelling interest” in maintaining the sealed status, government lawyers argued.

Trump’s lawyers opposed unsealing the document but hadn’t identified any privileged information that should remain under seal or proposed any redactions, according to the government.

Cannon ordered the document unsealed on Oct. 3, and it was made public soon after.

Two attached files with more information about the potentially privileged materials remain under seal “for purposes of protecting claims of attorney-client privilege,” Cannon said.

https://www.ntd.com/new-details-about-potentially-privileged-documents-from-trump-resort-made-public_850364.html