Sunday, March 2, 2025
The Visitors
Tourism, North Korean style:
The tourists were given a strict set of guidelines to follow, including don’t insult the country’s leaders, don’t mock North Korea’s ideology and don’t be judgmental of their unusual and repressive way of life, the outlet writes. They were also followed and watched closely at all times by the country’s ever-present minders, who make sure visitors don’t run afoul of the restrictions or stray from the itinerary. North Korean classroom with a teacher at the blackboard and students sitting at desks facing her. Among the carefully curated locales the group was allowed to visit was a primary school. “A couple of times I even had to let them know when I wanted to use the bathroom,” Mike O’Kennedy, 28, a British YouTuber told the outlet. “I’ve never had to do that anywhere in the world.”It's not exactly Disneyland...
African Stew
What happens when socialists meet "refugees":
The socialist managers of the historic theater, built in 1862, said the theater was not "designed or equipped for accommodation on such a scale" but that they would "maintain its activity to allow the venue to remain open to its various audiences." That didn't last long. Shortly after the migrants took up residence, the managers were forced to cancel performances and other events as the migrants spread out and made themselves at home. Soon, the number of migrants at the theater had risen to 450. The socialists say that they're all unaccompanied minors under the age of 18, but that's obviously a crock. The theater is now an unsanitary mess, with just four toilets and no showers for the "residents." The socialist managers have decided enough is enough and are pulling out. They want the national government to take over. But French President Emanuel Macron has problems of his own, and he and his ministers are ignoring the socialist's pleas for assistance.At least Parisians will be used to the smell...
Foreign Flop
Whose foreign polcies really failed:
"Your guy couldn’t even talk to Putin. For 3.5 years! Your policies helped usher in a war in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda if you remember," Grenell posted to X on Saturday afternoon. "And then you lied about Libya - it wasn’t caused by a video," he continued, referring to claims in 2012 that an anti-Islam video led to the Benghazi terror attack on U.S. government facilities in the Libyan city. "You made that up…. Donald Trump handed you peace in the Middle East and Europe - you handed us two wars. We see you," he added. Grenell was responding to a post from Susan Rice, who served as an Obama administration national security advisor and U.N. ambassador, that claimed conservatives "are up to the same old tired crap" following President Donald Trump's tense meeting with Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy on Friday.Putting the blame where it belongs...
Staying Home
They're not coming anymore:
Large-scale immigration raids across the United States and consistent messaging from the entire Trump administration resulted in the reduction of illegal border crossings. This forced the closure of multiple non-government migrant shelters that once received hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars from FEMA to move released migrants farther into the United States to await asylum hearings. As reported by Breitbart Texas, in late January, just days after President Trump’s inauguration, two shelters closed in Pima County, Arizona. In February, a private non-government migrant shelter closed in San Antonio, Texas, just a few miles from the San Antonio International Airport. The Migrant Resource Center (MRC) had been under a partnership with the City of San Antonio and Catholic Charities since 2022. Among other measures that occurred during February, the Trump administration conducted the first military flight transporting migrants to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. The camp in Cuba is currently undergoing modifications that will allow for up to 30,000 migrants to be held at the facility located within the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Information provided by the Border Patrol, revealing a new trend of reverse migration, is contributing to the lower number of crossings. Disappointed migrants are turning away from the United States mid-journey to return home.The call of the South...
Troop Count
The troops that weren't there:
The media’s much-claimed 15,000 number is almost four times the Pentagon’s 2025 count of 4,240 self-declared transgender service members. That number was posted as Pentagon officials formally adopted a policy barring any recognition of transgenderism in the U.S. military. The policy does not exclude service members who privately prefer to have been born a member of the opposite sex — but only those service members who insist that other service members treat them as members of the opposite sex. The policy declares: “The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual’s sex is immutable, unchanging during a person’s life.” The new 4,240 number was reported in just four media outlets by late Friday. But the inflated estimate of 15,000 has been posted in many media outlets since 2011. The claim was validated by the media because a pro-transgender group claimed in 2011 and 2018 that there were roughly 15,000 transgender service members — and presumably because many reporters and editors sympathize with transgenderism.But not our actual troops...
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