ZMan pokes the sore.

That’s an aspect that gets very little attention. The violence we are seeing is in mostly white cities by mostly white people. Minneapolis is 19% black. Seattle is 7% black and Portland is 6% black. Kenosha is 10% black and close to 80% white! Note that super-black cities like Baltimore, St. Louis and Detroit have had no riots. Los Angeles, which just had a police shooting, could not get a decent riot going. They tried, but they lack the white kids with back packs needed to do it.

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The commander of the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood is being removed from his position and will no longer assume command of a division at Fort Bliss, according to a U.S. Army statement released Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt was set to take over the 1st Armored Division soon. Now the Army will announce who will take over the division in the coming days. Division commander is a critical step in an Army general’s career and losing a division can be a career-ending move.

An estimate of Climate Sensitivity

Watch an Aussie Politician Squirm as Malcolm Roberts demands Evidence Climate Change is a Problem

Claim: Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario

Biden Says He’s Not Banning Fracking Months After Promising To Stop All New Fracking Projects  Just call him Whiplash Joe.

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Increasingly, calls for wealth and power redistribution are dressed as compensatory justice for members of different identity groups. We see this playing out on our campuses, in our corporations, and, recently, in our streets. But when did the world shift away from a Marxism based on economic classes (the worker v. the bourgeois) into one based on immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, and even disability status?

Since now, I guess.

A story has to start somewhere, and I suggest the best place for this one is a fascist prison in Italy in the late 1920s and 1930s. There languished the Italian Com­munist leader Antonio Gramsci. Now he had the time to write down thoughts he’d been entertaining for over a decade.

Gramsci’s influence is quite unappreciated.

Dunno. I’d buy one.

ZMan explains it all to you.

Imagine a small kingdom that is faced with a disease outbreak of unknown origin and unknown severity. The king, upon being briefed by his staff, gives a speech to his people informing them of what is known and what efforts are being made to determine the severity of the disease. He asks his people to take reasonable precautions, as they would during the cold and flu season. As more information is gathered, he will inform the public so they can act accordingly.

As it becomes clear that the disease is hard on the very old and very sick, but not much of a threat to everyone else, efforts are made to insulate the very old and those in nursing homes. The public is informed of this and told to be extra cautious around the very old and very sick. Resources are made available to those charged with caring for the very old and sick. Otherwise, the public is asked to go about their business as they would in the cold and flu season.

This probably sounds completely insane to most people, but it used to be the way rulers handled public health matters. In the Asian Flu and Hong Kong flu outbreaks last century, the public was informed and reasonable precautions were taken by local government to limit the impact. Schools might be closed for a few weeks until the wave passed through a community, for example. The flu came and went, as they always do, with a varying degrees of impact on communities.

ABC: Chinese Migrants who Survived Mao’s Great Leap Forward can Help Us Learn Sustainability  Or at least how to survive Communism.

Green scientific illiteracy enters small nuclear reactors, too  People need to learn that ‘illiteracy’ isn’t a synonym for ‘ignorance’.

Trump greenlights drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but will oil companies show up?  No, because they know that if Democrats ever win the rug will be jerked out from under them to the tune of all of the money they’ve spent so far.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #421

Are Radioactive Diamond Batteries a Cure for Nuclear Waste?

Self-charging ‘thousand-year’ battery completes lab tests

UN Advisor: Divert National Military Budgets to Climate Change and UN Sustainability Programmes

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Check Congress. They have a surplus.

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Rioters and looters would lose federal unemployment benefits and be forced to pay for extra policing needed at protests under a new bill being introduced by a military-veteran congressman.

“Antifa thugs are descending on suffering communities, disrupting peaceful protests and leaving violence, looting and vandalism in their wake,” Indiana rep. Jim Banks said while introducing his “Support Peaceful Protest Act” on Friday.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were stingless bees, much less that they had spiral honeycombs.

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The New Yorker, when it isn’t doing politics, as it too often does these days, is well worth reading.

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Many feminists and progressives argue that the West is plagued by pervasive misogyny. In fact, this claim is made with such frequency, and is so rarely challenged, that it has become part of the Left’s catechism of victimhood, repeated by rote without a second thought. The only real question is how powerful and pernicious the misogyny is. Real-world data, however, suggest a different narrative, complicated by the fact that men have worse outcomes in many domains. For example, they are much more likely to be incarcerated, to be shot by the police, to be a victim of violent crime, to be homeless, to commit suicide, and to die on the job or in combat than women. Furthermore, they have a shorter life expectancy and are less likely to be college educated than women. Although these (and similar) data can be reconciled with the pervasive misogyny theory, they should at least give pause to the open-minded. The best data from contemporary social science tell a rather different story and suggest that the very persistence of the pervasive misogyny narrative is itself a manifestation of the opposite: society is largely biased in favor of women.

Rather like Oprah complaining about racism.

First mass extinctions in 13000 years may be on the way

The future of climate change is here, scientist warns

Wind Motion 70, the Wind-Powered Trimaran That Will Save the World  At least for those who can afford a 70-foot yacht.

Scientific American: “What Climate Change Does to the Human Body”  They do crazy things, like voting for Trump.

Fatal polar bear attack in Svalbard unfairly blamed on lack of sea ice

You are Probably a Criminal. Hands Up–Drop the Feather!

Post-Covid-19 ‘Sustainable Development’ Means Little In Precision Or Practice  ‘Sustainable’ is a word you throw into your advertising copy in order to appear Hip And Trendy.

After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform  I guess they had to figure out a way for their favored grifters to monetize it first.

Severian creates some terminology.

You’ll have to trust me on this, I guess, but way back in Rotten Chestnuts’ early days I had a post about “moonwalking.” This was my attempt at… meme generation, I guess, although it was really just shorthand for some things we were dealing with at the time (anyone who came over from House of Eratosthenes remembers the Cuttlefish infestation). “Motte and Bailey” seems to have caught on as a way to describe this Leftist rhetorical tactic, so you may have seen it described that way, but even if not you know the kind of thing I’m talking about:

From the totally 100% true scientific fact that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, Lefty will, if you let xhyzer, insist on the whole “Green New Deal” schmear. If you point out all the problems with the GND, though, and Lefty feels like xhzyr is losing the argument, xzhe scuttles back to “carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas!!,” then calls you a “science denier” — as if all the flaws you pointed out with the Green New Deal only exist if you deny, as no literate person could, that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. It’s such a bizarrely stylized gesture — didja really think we didn’t notice, Snowflake? — that it looks like a dance move. Hence, moonwalking.

Scott Adams loves calling out this kind of thing, and he does it very entertainingly.

CO? removal to halt warming soon would be a gargantuan undertaking

The “racism” of climate change alarmists

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There has been little as divisive in this pandemic as the debate over face masks. It’s a battle waged on many fronts, some political, others scientific. It raises not only thorny issues about identity politics and the culture wars that plague us but important questions about the way in which we weigh facts and act as a society on scientific evidence.

As the winter approaches and we are pushed indoors, expect the battle to intensify as we look for ways to mitigate transmission of the virus in offices, and even our homes.

Well, some of us will. Others of us don’t give a shit.

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Hear, hear.

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A couple of days ago, we reported that conservative attorney Lin Wood has taken on the case of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who has been hit with 6 charges stemming from a Tuesday night bloodbath where he shot three men, killing two, during a night of chaos, anarchy and looting.

As the lawyer goes about shaping and implementing his legal strategy, Wood told reporters that he plans to argue his client acted in self-defense during the fatal shootings.

Steve Sailer.

A statement issued by the Kenosha Professional Police Association.

Steve looks this stuff up so you don’t have to.

On Climate Change, We’ve Run Out of Presidential Terms to Waste  The New Yorker.

Amid crying over low Arctic ice, W Hudson Bay polar bears leave ice as late as 2009

Steve looks at the Kenosha kerfluffle.

Here’s something you need to know before you read anything else. Reader Monty James posted a comment in which he mentioned a website where people can donate to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund. It’s legitimate. The attorney who represented Nick Sandmann has agreed to represent Kyle, and he is behind the site. Here is a link so you can donate: LINK. I just hope what I’ve read is true and that the attorneys won’t be accepting fees. Even without fees, expenses will add up, and Kyle may have financial problems related to his actions.

Things look worse and worse for the prosecutor and the rioter/terrorists. Surviving assailant Gaige Grosskreutz looks particularly bad today. More video keeps popping up, and a Twitter post from a person claiming to be Grosskreutz’s friend contains a damning statement purportedly from Grosskreutz.

If you want to see a good chronology of what happened–and I can’t believe I’m recommending this–The New York Times has one. A Times employee named Christiaan Triebert, who may be fired shortly for his honesty, posted a series of tweets detailing what happened on the night of the shootings. One remarkable point: an unknown gunman fired a shot before Kyle did. Kyle was being chased by rioter/terrorists, and someone fired a shot. It was immediately after this that Kyle started shooting, killing rioter/terrorist/sex offender Jo Jo Rosenbaum. After shooting, Kyle tried to escape to safety as a large mob of angry rioter/terrorists pursued him.

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During the network’s post-convention coverage early Friday morning, former RNC official and CNN commentator Mike Shields pointed out the media’s hypocrisy in trying to pin President Trump for the BLM violence, while giving President Obama a pass for cities like Ferguson that were destroyed by BLM during his presidency. He made this point after Chris Cuomo demanded he answer who’s to blame for the violence:

Steve Sailer.

My impressions are that white Antifa rioters seem disproportionately to be:

– pedophile
– transgender
– drug addict
– general criminal
– punk rocker
– enjoy vandalism and violence
– working or lower middle class by background
– physically unattractive
– firebugs: people who enjoy starting pretty, pretty fires

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The alleged “murder” of George Floyd by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin triggered the riots, looting and arson that have dominated the Summer months. That Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department is an article of faith on the left and on many precincts of the right.

But is it true? Floyd’s case became internationally famous because of cell phone video that showed him slowly becoming unconscious while a police officer knelt on his neck. Surely he was asphyxiated! That conclusion seemed inescapable, especially since, while lying on the street with officers restraining him, Floyd complained of being unable to breathe. “I can’t breathe” became a Black Lives Matter battle cry.

But video that came out later showed that Floyd had been complaining of inability to breathe when he was standing up and walking around, long before he was on the street. And it emerged that the toxicology report associated with his autopsy found that he had at least double the dose of fentanyl in his blood that is normally considered lethal, along with other drugs. And shortness of breath is notoriously a symptom of fentanyl poisoning.

The cop was kneeling on the side of his neck. It’s impossible to suffocate somebody kneeling on the side of the neck; the best you can do is give him a crick.

Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling  The Guardian.

Earth Science Basics: What Determines the Level of the Sea?

Renowned climate-change researcher killed by climate change: colleagues

Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice  Surely Trump is to blame.

New confirmation that climate models overstate atmospheric warming

New confirmation that climate models overstate atmospheric warming

Steven Hayward from PowerLine blog.

Let’s stipulate starting out that Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, who has been arrested and charged with murder for shooting two people during the Kenosha riots two nights ago, should not have been present at the scene with a semi-auto rifle. That’s no place for a 17-year-old, even if he is a regular at the gun range. And resorting to vigilantism is a sure path to a breakdown in the rule of law and perhaps even open civil war. We’ll hold off a recitation of Lincoln’ Lyceum Address on this point for some other time, as well as scoring the appalling negligence of Democratic political leaders in Wisconsin.

That said, there appears to be a decent case that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. Who says this? Sit down for the answer: a team of reporters from the New York Times. I’m starting to think someone from Fox News has spiked the water at the Times, as this story makes two sensible news stories in one day from the Times. Or maybe the panic is that high at DNC headquarters.

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The Internet Archive receives the files of a monumental New York City typewriter business.

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Just after midnight, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin turned deadly after a teenager allegedly killed two and injured a third. The protracted incident was an apparent case of self-defense (though he was charged with first-degree intentional homicide), as the teen was fleeing from a mob of violent rioters. But the viewers of ABC, CBS, and NBC were treated to lies and misinformation during their evening newscasts later that day.

Video evidence from multiple angles show 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse running into a parking lot as a violent rioter chased after him and threw something at him. As the assailant got closer, Rittenhouse turned and fired his rifle. The 17-year-old was then chased down the street as a violent mob attacked him. He fell to the ground and was beaten with a skateboard by one assailant and another brandished a handgun at him. Again Rittenhouse defended himself with his rifle.

But that’s not the story that was told to network news viewers.

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Wisconsin Justice Department investigators recovered a knife from the driver’s side floorboard of the car into which Jacob Blake Jr, was leaning when he was shot in the back by a police officer three days ago, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.

Attorney General Josh Kaul also told a news conference that Blake, 29, a Black man whose wounding by police has left him paralyzed and the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, torn by civil strife, had admitted to investigators that he had a knife in his possession at the time.

Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice

Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change

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? 7x charge:size vs. current phone batteries
? Tiny & modular, can be sized to any device

Steve is apprehensive.

Yesterday it suddenly occurred to me that the town my cousin lives in might be close to Kenosha. I texted her to find out. She says the closest part of Kenosha is 15 minutes away. Her son’s girlfriend lives in Kenosha.

I asked how things were going. She told me over 600 cars from Minnesota had arrived. Terrorists or protestors? It appears that the answer to that question, in many cases, depends on the local response. If the police and citizens show up in a display of force, visitors protest relatively peacefully and then leave. If not, terrorist rioting is likely. Her bedroom community has a population of around 20,000, so the arrival of several thousand potential rioters is a serious threat.

Severian digs into the news.

I see the citizens of Kenosha have started opening fire.

That’s what it’s going to come to, nationwide.

Folks who fancy themselves cynics like to say that the Powers That Be don’t want the riots stopped — they’re SJW True Believers, and nothing gets their thighs moister, faster, than a good race riot. But look, y’all: nobody’s that stupid. Not even a tertiary-educated ovulating White Democrat from a gated community. They like being in charge, and even they have finally figured out that if this goes on much longer, there won’t be anything left for them to be in charge of — see the recent, widely-reported mass exoduses from California, New York City, Minneapolis, etc.

No, the truth is much more sordid than that. They know that eventually, someone’s going to start shooting. They’re just trying to make sure their name isn’t on it.

ZMan is there for you.

Like the Democrat convention, the Republican convention is mostly about the past, in that it is packaged and marketed to people who no longer exist. The Democrats put on a show that would have been great for their coalition of a generation ago. The Republicans are doing much of the same, tailoring their pitch to white civic nationalists, feeling generous in their prosperity. It’s a lot of happy warrior stuff, even though the warriors are too old now to be happy about anything.

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The debate over hydroxychloroquine has faded from the forefront as big tech has worked to suppress information and silence the voices of doctors and researchers promoting it. However, it appears the controversy over the drug has encouraged some senators to take a closer look, and it seems they are asking the FDA the right questions.

False Alarm: Book Review

Nuclear advocates fret as first maker of small reactors encounters trouble

Artificial Photosynthesis Advance: Standalone Device Converts Sunlight, CO2 and Water Into Clean Fuel

After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform

Up to Half of The World’s Oceans Are Already Affected by Climate Change

Earth Lost a ‘Staggering’ 28 Trillion Tonnes of Ice in Just 23 Years  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Researchers Identify Larger Variability in Future Sea Levels As Earth Warms

ABC: Failure to Acknowledge the Climate Change Grief of Others Causes Serious Health Problems

Kamala Harris and AOC craft crazy climate law

Ali Velshi Rants Climate Change Will Kill Far More People Than COVID  I wish it would be about it then.

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Which tells you, perhaps not everything you need to know, but a lot of what you need to know about Wikipedia.

I first became conscious of the difference between ‘speaking Scots’ and ‘speaking with a Scottish accent’ while watching a comedic rant about golf by Robin Williams on a British talk show. It was very entertaining but at one point he talks about them using a ‘tiny flag ta give ye hope’, and the use of ‘little’ where any Scot would have used ‘wee’ just threw me completely out of the routine.

Steve has a biscuit victory marred by a chicken FAIL.

’ve learned a few things about flour over the last few weeks. First of all, you don’t need bread flour to make bread. Some kinds of bread need high-gluten flour, but others don’t. The type of bread that surprised me is the baguette. You would think a crusty, airy loaf of bread would have to be made with bread flour, but it’s not true. Baguettes should be made with flour that is lower in gluten. That’s not my opinion. It’s the opinion of people unlike me who make prizewinning baguettes.

Today I learned that biscuit flour is the wrong flour for biscuits.

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A trio of armed residents protected a small business in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as rioters and looters lit multiple buildings on fire Monday evening.

That’s what I’m talking’ about….

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Who are the best type of Republicans to give the GOP perspective on night one of the party’s convention? Well, if you’re at MSNBC, the answer is ex-Republicans who are doing their best to elect Democrats. In order to understand the out of touch, delusional perspective MSNBC holds, it’s helpful to see a list of who the network turned to on Monday night for coverage.

As soon as the last speaker was done, MSNBC featured co-host Nicolle Wallace. She’s an ex-Republican aide to the 2008 John McCain campaign who promised (if necessary) to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2020.

Brian Williams introduced Steve Schmidt, he’s an ex-Republican aide to the 2008 John McCain campaign who was now determined to elect Democrats. As Brian Williams said: “Back with us tonight, Steve Schmidt, veteran political strategist, leader of the John McCain ’08 campaign effort, who has since left the party. He was among the founders, in fact, of the Lincoln Project, dedicated to the defeat of one Donald Trump and Trumpism.” And by the way, he also interviewed for a leadership positioning the 2016 Trump campaign.

NASA Research Reveals the True Causes of Sea Level Rise Since 1900

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Climate Hypocrisy? Harrison Ford Takes a Private Jet Trip

Ozone on the rise – suggests pollution controls aren’t ‘working as well as we thought’

How airships could provide the future of green transport

Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return  Still waiting for NYC to be under water. Still waiting for prices of beachfront property in Malibu to go down.

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Pockets in tight jeans look bad. Putting a modern slab phone, a wallet,
and keys into a pair of skinny jeans will leave even the most fashionable
figure looking looking like they’re wearing batman’s utility belt as unde-
rwear. Even empty, in tight pants a large pocket bag can show through.