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Once upon a time in America, we had nice things.

Steve Sailer.

One of the biggest events in recent American history to be almost completely memoryholed is what happened to white ethnic urban neighborhoods due to racial integration in the second half of the 20th Century. Tens of millions of living Americans have first hand memories of these enormous events, but nobody wants to hear from them. This is particularly peculiar, since many of the children and grandchildren of the victims are bright people, some with jobs in the media.

At the Core of the Climate Crisis  The New Yorker.

Open Democracy: “Why don’t we take climate change seriously? Racism is the answer”

Arctic’s ‘Hottest Day’? Not So Fast

Not the End of the World

Hot Summer Epic Fail: New Climate Models Exaggerate Midwest Warming by 6X

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If ever there were a left-wing partisan, it would be Rosa Brooks. Her leftist resume includes serving as special counsel in George Soros’s foundation. She also held two different jobs in the Obama administration. And as I chronicled back in 2006, she was a virulent hater of then-President George W. Bush, analogizing him to Hitler, and enumerating the various ways in which she hated everything he did and stood for.

So it is nothing short of a fraud upon the public when Brooks and her comrades try to pass off as “non-partisan” a “project” she has devised whose clear aim is to stampede voters into handing Joe Biden a landslide victory.

Brooks’s so-called Transition Integrity Project has war-gamed four different election scenarios. In three of them, President Trump illicitly schemes to hold onto power. The only scenario guaranteeing “integrity” in the transition, and avoiding a “constitutional breakdown,” is the one in which Biden scores such a smashing win in both the popular vote and the Electoral College that Trump is helpless to overturn it.

At the Core of the Climate Crisis  … is a left-wing political agenda. The New Yorker.

100.4 degree Arctic temperature record confirmed as study suggests Earth is warmest in at least 12,000 years  CBS News.

Climate Scientist: “Anyone who wants to predict the future of the permafrost should be sure to keep the beaver in mind.”

Only Six Months to Save the Planet!

House Democrats just put out the most detailed climate plan in US political history

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To this point, 71 percent more Americans have died in New York nursing homes than have died in the entire state of Florida, which not only has a larger population but a population that skews older. To this point, New York’s death rate has been ten times larger than Florida’s. So, naturally, liberals are busy concocting a narrative that holds that the failures of the American response to coronavirus have been the fault of Trumpian nihilists in the Red States.

The “toxic imbecility” of Republicans is getting people killed, writes Max Boot. “Trumpism, not polarization, drives America’s disastrous coronavirus politics” says Ezra Klein. Some pundits who push this myth, Paul Krugman in particular, had even had the temerity to suggest that the country look to New York State for advice.

I can’t think of any circumstance where anyone ought to look to New York state for advice.

Claim: New research shows the South Pole is warming faster than the rest of the world

Select House Members push “Climate Crisis” Action Plan

The Climate Model Muddle

MET Office: Climate Change will Force the UK to Endure French Holiday Weather

California developer of ‘micro’ nuclear reactor aims to prove environmentalist doubters wrong

Molten Salt Reactors Are Nuclear’s Future. How Do We Get There?

The South Pole has been warming at three times the global average over the past 30 years, study says  CNN.

Forbes Censors Award-Winning Environmentalist’s Apology Over Three-Decade ‘Climate Scare’ – So Here It Is

On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Pro surfers hit artificial waves in the heat of the climate crisis

Guillotine Placed Outside Jeff Bezos’ D.C. Home by Anti-Amazon Protesters

The Calamity of Models – Podcast with Willis Eschenbach

Polar bear habitat in Canada and eastern Alaska compared at end of June 2012-2020  More throw pillows, not as many ash trays?

House Dems Unveil Aggressive Plan to Tackle Climate Change  At your expense, of course.

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Harvard has announced it will lift a blacklist on unrecognized single-sex student organizations, including fraternities and sororities, following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County.

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“The court accepted the plaintiffs’ legal theory that the policy, although adopted to counteract discrimination based on sex, is itself an instance of discrimination based on sex,” Bacow continued. “In reaching this view, Judge [Nathaniel] Gorton relied heavily on the reasoning in one of the appellate decisions (Zarda v. Altitude Express) that was affirmed by the Supreme Court [in Bostock]. It now seems clear that Judge Gorton would ultimately grant judgment in the plaintiffs’ favor in the pending lawsuit.”

Perhaps someday soon we can convince the Supreme Court that ‘affirmative action’ preferences are in fact racist.

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People who aren’t in long-term care and don’t have certain serious pre-existing conditions face very little risk. Almost none of the deaths from COVID-19 occur among people in that category. Leave the bars and restaurants open, and let the virus spread among the healthy so that they develop the antibodies. Then they will no longer spread it, and it will die out in due course, whether a vaccine is developed or not.

The ginning-up of panic over a “second wave” of COVID has already begun. It’s designed to do economic damage (which is always bad for an incumbent president) and induce the states to implement mail-in ballots, which should be more than enough to elect Joe Biden.

In any case, masks are widely considered ineffective. They simply serve as a signal. They say: “I’m a drone in the Hive.”

And let’s face it: the disease itself is mostly a hoax. Now that millions of people are being tested, the incidence of positives is increasing, but the death rate keeps dropping rapidly. That is, the coronavirus is mostly killing people in nursing homes and similar facilities. When it’s done scything its way through those institutions, there are hardly any victims left to kill off.

At this point, the crisis is an entirely political operation.

Michael Schellenberger: “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”

Matt Taibbi.

A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. The concept, as articulated in books like former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility(Amazon’s #1 seller!) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to racial power contests.

It’s been mind-boggling to watch White Fragility celebrated in recent weeks. When it surged past a Hunger Games book on bestseller lists, USA Today cheered, “American readers are more interested in combatting racism than in literary escapism.” When DiAngelo appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon gushed, “I know… everyone wants to talk to you right now!” White Fragility has been pitched as an uncontroversial road-map for fighting racism, at a time when after the murder of George Floyd Americans are suddenly (and appropriately) interested in doing just that. Except this isn’t a straightforward book about examining one’s own prejudices. Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?

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Colorism, the bias against people of darker skin tones, has vexed India for a long time. It is partly a product of colonial prejudices, and it has been exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood, the nation’s film industry, which has long promoted lighter-skinned heroes.

Oh, it’s olde than that. Varna, the term used in India for the complicated hereditary caste system, literally means ‘color’, and the lighter your skin color the higher in status you are. I suspect that it’s a relic of the Aryan invasion of India staring around 2000 BC.

Steve is learning at long range.

Speaking of dangerous, this weekend, I saw something that should sober up every cocky soy merchant out there who thinks it will be easy to overrun America, loot houses, and confiscate guns. I was in a room full of very ordinary conservative American outdoorsmen, and every one of them could kill a person, or group of people, easily at 500 yards. The instructors could shoot well over 1000 yards, and there are a lot of other snipers and competitors like them.

One of the teachers is a hunting guide. He goes to Alaska and helps bear hunters. He knows how to live in the wilderness. He’s tough. He is a combat veteran. He seems like a nice guy, but anyone who tries to pull anything near his home and family could end up feeding crows and possums, fast. Based on the things I heard him say about his military history and his feelings about leftists who might try to start a civil war, he is one of the last people on earth I would want to upset.

There is a huge number of people with similar skills all over the US. I don’t think leftists understand this. Leftists tend to be very ignorant about firearms and the outdoors. They don’t know what the people they hate do for fun.

I wouldn’t mind learning how to shoot accurately at over 1000 yards.

Steve Sailer.

For example, today when yet another delegation of Mostly Peaceful Protesters broke through a gate and onto private property in St. Louis, a rich couple who have painstakingly restored one of the city’s most magnificent mansions brought their guns out onto their porch to make sure the mob kept moving on past. New York Timeseditorialist Binyamin Appelbaum immediately explained the antiquarian angle that justifies breaking and entering….

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his is a tough one for Marxists to understand, but the political reality has been apparent for quite a while: small business remains generally conservative, but big business is mostly on the Left. How can that be?

The answer is partly economic. Conservatism favors open competition and innovation. Big business is, for the most part, on the other side of those concepts. The easiest path for the largest companies is to partner with government, erecting roadblocks to upstart competitors in the form of expensive regulations, and blocking innovation so that small competitors have little choice but to sell their inventions to more established companies.

Big government likes this arrangement, too. It is easier for the government to collaborate with, and to control, six banks, say, rather than one thousand. In the modern world, big government likes big business, and vice versa.

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With school districts across the country announcing their plans for next year, it’s clear that a battle is brewing, or at least should be, between teacher’s unions and parents.

On one side, the teachers, who overwhelmingly don’t want to go back to work. And the unions, of course, have their backs, because protecting teachers is their job, despite the fact that parents know their kids need to be back in classrooms come fall.

Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time  New York magazine.

A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic  The New Yorker.

A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality

CLAIM: 100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern

Vermont Senate Passes Right to Sue if the State Fails to Meet Climate Targets  Yeah, that’ll end well.

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It has now been over a month since the killing of George Floyd, and still Yale University has yet to say anything about a process to strip the painful memory of its slave-trader namesake Elihu Yale. Not even a committee to think about a process to come up with a consultation for concepts and ideas about a new name paradigm. Yale’s administrators are failing even to rise to the level of administrative bureau-speak. I keep being told that “silence is violence,” and Yale’s silence is more deafening than noise-canceling headphones!

If they removed the name, they would never get another dime from the vast majority of their alumni. Money talks.

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A suite of experiments that use the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to modify human embryos have revealed how the process can make large, unwanted changes to the genome at or near the target site.

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Something strange happened to the news over the past four years. The dominant stories all resembled the scripts of bad movies—sequels and reboots. The Kavanaugh hearings were a sequel to the Clarence Thomas hearings, and Russian collusion was rebooted as Ukrainian impeachment. Journalists are supposed to hunt for good scoops, but in January, as the coronavirus spread, they focused on the impeachment reality show instead of a real story.

It’s not just journalists. The so-called second golden era of televi­sion was a decade ago, and many of those shows relied on cliff-hangers and gratuitous nudity to hold audience attention. Across TV, movies, and novels it is increasingly difficult to find a compelling story that doesn’t rely on gimmicks. Even foundational stories like liberalism, equality, and meritocracy are failing; the resulting woke phenomenon is the greatest shark jump in history.

Storytelling is central to any civilization, so its sudden failure across society should set off alarm bells. Culture inevitably reflects the selection process that sorts people into the upper class, and today’s insipid stories suggest a profound failure of this sorting mech­anism.

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Inverted tropes also define the relationship between the Left and the Right. Rather than tell a new story, the Left and Right tell genre fiction that depends upon their mutual opposition for meaning. Pope Benedict XVI once argued that modernity brought the believer and the atheist closer together because the believer is tempted by doubt while the nonbeliever is tempted by “perhaps it’s true,” and both stories are linked by fundamental uncertainty. A similar dynamic ex­plains why our politics is simultaneously divisive and homogeneous. The Bass Pro shopper tells a story in which patriotism is expressed through the consumer choice to wear an American flag T-shirt. The Bushwick woman tells a story in which getting an ugly haircut makes her “nonbinary.” These stories don’t make sense unless they are told in opposition to the story of the libtard, or the patriarchy, respectively. Polarization makes political actors dependent on their political opponents, which increases divisions because any area of agreement threatens to erode entire political identities. These lazy stories find their apotheosis in our politicians.

Andrew Sullivan.

Iconoclasm is not just vandalism and violence. It is a very specific variety that usually signifies profound regime change. That’s why the toppling of old Soviet monoliths in the 1989 liberation of Eastern Europe was so salient. They were important symbols of that sclerotic Soviet empire’s power. And for true revolutionary potential, it’s helpful if these monuments are torn down by popular uprisings. That adds to the symbolism of a new era, even if it also adds to the chaos. That was the case in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, when the younger generation, egged on by the regime, went to work on any public symbols or statues they deemed problematically counterrevolutionary, creating a reign of terror that even surpassed France’s.

Severian does a deep dive.

I’m increasingly convinced that the Left have screwed the pooch. bigtime.

First, consider the argument, detailed below, that the “Left” is far from a monolith. To us outsiders, it looks like one big, shiny black obelisk of bugfuck lunacy, but it’s actually more like an avalanche — a whole bunch of little pebbles of bugfuck lunacy flowing willy-nilly in the same general direction. The general direction in which they’re flowing is, of course, “the destruction of Western society,” and that’s step two of my argument: The pebbles at the front of the avalanche believe they’re somehow controlling the avalanche… but meanwhile, the big boulders in the back know better. For them, this is endgame.

As Z Man keeps pointing out, lots of what we’re seeing in the Imperial Crapital is a palace coup. There’s open civil war on the Left. I, too, have been beating this drum for years. The orcs and their True Believer enablers in the Media are fed up with triangulation and half-measures. As radical as Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff et al seem to us, the orcs and their propagandists see nothing but geriatric White milquetoasts. They hate Boomers for the same reasons we do, but double, because while we hate them for not riding gracefully into the sunset like every previous generation, the orcs, being natural conspirazoids, see The Man keeping them down again.

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In a college Roman history class, we read Ronald Syme’s The Roman Revolution (1939). If memory serves, Syme described how Augustus became king, in fact, if not in name, while observing all the niceties of the Republic. The Senate still met but Augustus was firmly in charge. I wonder if we’re in danger of having our country decisively change while the institutions appear to continue.

In 2016, James Comey withheld from the Gang of Eight the investigation of the Trump campaign. The FBI investigation of the HRC private server was a joke and never was seriously pursued. But the pursuit of a Trump and his advisors was ongoing. Comey doubtless withheld the information from Congress because the four Republicans in the Gang of Eight would have protested. The bureaucracy felt itself a fourth part of government immune from oversight.

The First Amendment means little when the SJW mob comes after you. Citing facts only makes things worse since they are a hate crime when they subvert the narrative.

All the pieces of paper in the world won’t help you if the people in charge of the process ignore them and get away with it. Japanese American citizens found this out during World War II — the government ignored the Bill of Rights and nobody in the population was willing to call them out on it, so they were able to run roughshod over the Constitutional rights of thousands of people.

Crikey Slams Bipartisan Climate Policy Offer: “offering to deal with terrorists”

Study: Imprisonment for Climate Deniers is Too Blunt and Risky

Accusation Implodes in MN Global Warming Lawsuit

Extinction Rebellion Communication Head Quits After Researching Nuclear Power

Why Climate Change Won’t Be Stopped  Because everyone realizes it’s a scam?

The Debate Over Burning Dead Trees to Create Biomass Energy

CMIP6 Climate Models Producing 50% More Surface Warming than Observations since 1979

New Climate Assessment Suggests No Dangerous Warming

Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part II

THE CURRENT STATE OF CLIMATE ALARMISTS

Steve Sailer.

Most countries today have a problem with Statistical Racial Inequality: not all groups are as accomplished in each particular field as some other groups.

Australia, however, is apparently solving its racial inequality problem by letting white people, like this neurologist, declare themselves to be Aboriginals.

To a large degree this happens in the U.S. as sell. The traditional ‘brown paper bag and ruler’ test that ‘black’ people apply to each other gives extra prestige points for white ancestry in the ‘black community’ itself; look at the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus and see how many of its members obviously have more European than African ancestry — if Congressman Butterfield has more than 1/16 ‘black’ ancestry he certainly doesn’t show it. (I’d love to see DNA tests on all of the most prominent ‘African-Americans’, who in most other mixed-race countries — like Brazil — would be classed as ‘white’.)

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The Australian software company Atlassian is putting its new headquarters in a state-of-the-art mass timber and steel skyscraper. While the 40-story building will be the world’s tallest “hybrid timber” tower, it’s just one of among several planned mass timber constructions across the globe.

I’d love to see how well it would withstand a 747 flown into it.

Increased warming in latest generation of climate models likely caused by clouds

The Disparate Impact of California Climate Policies

Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct

Now crystal clear: the left is weaponizing science for its benefit

Climate Explainer: “If humans had not contributed to greenhouses gases in any way at all, what would the global temperature be today…”  As if they would know.

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Oh, look! It’s chickens! Coming home to roost!

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Hammer tech.

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FAKE NOOSE! (yuk yuk yuk)

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Guess which party.

Go on; guess.

Climate Change? Temperature Hits 100 Degrees Above Arctic Circle, Just Like 100 Years Ago

The Arctic Is on Fire: Siberian Heat Wave Alarms Scientists

Why the Arctic Is Warming So Fast, and Why That’s So Alarming

The latest summer forecast calls for deadly heat waves  BS. They can’t even predict the weather five days out, much less months from now.

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The Orthodox come through.

Steve Sailer.

The years of antiwhite hate hysteria over nooses supposedly being planted by white racists to terrorize blacks will eventually induce some white guy to actually do it. But, judging by what we know so far about the latest brouhaha—over a purported noose found in the garage of Bubba Wallace, the half-black NASCAR race driver—Noose News seems to remain Fake Noose.

The Arctic Circle Hit 101°F Saturday, Its Hottest Temperature Ever  EVER! SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME!

Minerals Council of Australia Fails to Appease Climate Activists  Does anything ever ‘appease climate activists’?

Study: Demand for Vegan Soy Driving Climate Change, Brazilian Habitat Destruction

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There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.

Some science is more equal than others.

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So many wealthy people are rushing to move away from the big cities that it is creating a bit of a “real estate boom” in many suburban areas, small towns and rural communities. Fear of COVID-19, a collapsing economy and the tremendous urban violence that we have witnessed in recent weeks have combined to create a frenzy of activity. Last week, my wife and I heard from a friend in New York City that is all of a sudden desperate to move to another state, and I certainly can’t blame him for wanting to relocate. If I was in his shoes, I would be wanting to move too. But at this point so many people are all thinking the same thing that the demand for housing in certain areas threatens to greatly exceed the supply.