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People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in a matter of milliseconds, and are very hard to avoid.

Why would you want to avoid them, unless you’re a Grievance Studies professional? People in most cases dress like what they are: Stoners dress like stoners, bums dress like bums, farmers dress like farmers, students dress like students, rich people dress like people in very expensive casual clothes. Most people are Players and dress to tell you who they want you to think they are. Like terrorists, they have no one to blame but themselves if you take them at their word.

Daily Mail.

Of course she did. They all do. This is news?

Actually, the news here is that the knives appear to be coming out for Professor Umbrage.

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Not as long as Trump is President they won’t.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Claim: The Montreal Protocol Saved the Arctic From Global Warming

DOJ Watchdog Puts Final Nail In Steele Dossier’s Coffin

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Frets Liberals Not Doing Enough to Dismantle Capitalism

The Woke Media: Apologists For The State

No joke: Russian scientists marked problem Kara Sea polar bear with T-34

Report Reveals The Extent Of Liz Warren’s Past Defending Big Business From Enviro Activists

BREAKING: #ExxonKnew lawsuit crashes and burns

Exxon Defeats Climate Crusading AG’s Attempt To Hold Big Oil Responsible For Duping Investors

Exxon Mobil Prevails Over “Politically-Biased” New York AG In Major Climate-Change Case

At #AGU19, they declare – full “climate crisis mode” – but there’s an inconvenient fact

Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets

40 million more people at risk of flooding as Greenland loses ice ‘seven times faster than in 1990s’  Call me when one of them gets wet.

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Professor Umbrage does not appear to be as popular as her Pokemon Victim Point score would suggest.

Ryrkaypiy ‘over-run’ by >50 polar bears is probably due to more Chukchi Sea bears

Miss Universe Says ‘The Planet Is Dying’ After Epic Steve Harvey Eye Roll

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #389

A Geological Perspective on Sea Level Rise Acceleration  I’ll believe it when Malibu is under water.

Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets

L A Times supports mandated relocation of coastal properties based on climate alarmist flawed sea level rise claims

The antidote to @GretaThunberg – Naomi Seibt – former climate alarmist turned climate skeptic

Fix earth’s climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets

Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime  For which, of course, they hope to be handsomely compensated by The Usual Suspects.

Art Basel Climate Change Installation Accused Of Being Bad For The Environment

The Great Recycling Con

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No shit.

Obama started it as The Magic Negro. Nobody cared about his policies; they were just there for the music.

As Scott Adams often says, Trump found money lying on the table and just scooped it up. If the people want a show, well, ‘hey, kids, let’s put on a show’. Mickey Rooney should have been alive to see this day.

Joel Kotkin.

When Britain’s Jews go to the polls next week, they do so at an uncomfortable moment. For the first time in at least a half century, their community—roughly 330,000 citizens—has become a major, if unwelcome, political issue. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is a long-standing ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terrorist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, and a fierce opponent of Israel’s right to exist, so the prospect of him becoming Prime Minister has made Jews nervous. As the New York Times suggests, British Jews are “Labourites practically by birth,” but many of them are likely to vote Conservative this time around.

Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Joel Kotkin.

Whether in Europe, East Asia or the Americas, this new middle-class rebellion may be seen as what one Marxist publication called “a strike against the rising cost of living.”

Although the leftists identify this more with protests against things like subway fare hikes, in the latest uprising the key has been those things, notably energy and housing prices, which threaten to “proletarianize” the living standards of the not long ago decently comfortable.

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The purpose of their Saturday article by David De La Fuente was to shame the Democrats into including “candidates of color’ at their next presidential debate but a big take away from the story was that it basically described Steyer as a scam artist.

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The headline is a lie; the author doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does about what is “good” and “bad” about automation, merely what he has been taught about what might be good or bad about automation. Articles like this make me itch.

Here’s What Happens When A Stoner Crashes A Climate Protest

Climate Protesters Burn Oil By Holding Up Traffic In D.C.

Climate Models Have Not Improved in 50 Years

2019 the Third Least-Chilly in the Satellite Temperature Record

Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise  BBC. Women and minorities hardest hit.

“Bewildered” Climate Scientists: Aussie Politicians are Still Not Listening Gee, I wonder what the reason for that might be….

The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

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If the NATO summit this week marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation in 1949 was meant to be a resounding celebration, it backfired spectacularly, more as a resounding farce. Amid all the pomp and ceremony afforded by an official reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the British Queen, the two-day gathering descended into squabbling, sneering and back-stabbing.

For an organization that declares its mission to be about “maintaining peace and security”, the infighting between NATO leaders showed an organization virtually at war with itself.

The reason for NATO expired with the old Soviet Union. In any case, there is no longer any excuse for including Turkey in a “North Atlantic” treaty organization.

David Brooks, NYT.

Or doesn’t, as the case may be. (Some might say that he still is, only not as much. But I won’t go there.)

My socialist sympathies didn’t survive long once I became a journalist. I quickly noticed that the government officials I was covering were not capable of planning the society they hoped to create. It wasn’t because they were bad or stupid. The world is just too complicated.

Actually, it because a lot of them are bad or stupid. Let’s face it, the cream of the crop don’t go into government service. Visit a local government office if you don’t believe me.

UPDATE: Join the Crooks and Liars, Get a Government Job!, by Audacious Epigone

Go ahead – try it.

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No indication whether this is Trump’s fault, but I’m sure it is.

Steve Sailer.

An article in The Diplomat that is relatively informative by the standards of the genre, argues that the rise of pale-skinned Koreans has made Southeast Asian women even more obsessive about whitening their skins….

CNN Hypes Going to ‘War’ Against Climate Change

Birds are shrinking due to climate change, scientists claim

UN’s Agenda 2030 Translator: How To Read The UN’s New Sustainable Development Goals

The Anti-Greta

Majority of climate simulation models have accurately predicted global heating since 1970s, study finds 

Another year, another carbon emissions record

Hot PBS Take on Fox: ‘Helping to Destroy the Planet’

Climate change could boost British crops, pioneering field trial shows 

Mason scientist develops game to arm users against climate change ‘fake news’

Some Facts About Energy

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And Justin Hammer Elon Musk laughs all the way to the bank….

Babylon Bee.

Why not? They’ve tried everything else.

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This is why a lot of us don’t feel like panicking over ‘climate change’.

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Cory Booker moans that the Democrats are “spiraling towards a debate stage that could have six people with no diversity whatsoever.” This statement is flatly false. The six Dems who have locked up places on the debate stage are Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Tom Steyer.

Well, let’s look at the numbers.

Looks like blacks and Latinx want the Old White People. Whose fault is that?

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Isn’t it appalling the racism that black people have to undergo in modern Amerika?

Claim: Delaying Climate Action Could Threaten Democracy

Democrats fly to Madrid to conceal Paris Agreement’s colossal failure from Americans

“How dare you!” Will Happer “calls methane ‘irrelevant’ to climate”.

Disaster prevention is better than cure, says UN emergency chief   

Europe facing extreme heat every two years as watchdog warns EU will miss 2030 targets

Big Tech CEOs Support Paris Climate Agreement, Opposing US Gov’t

Are Stagnant Academic Standards Related to Fear of Climate Change?

Climate Change Hits Property Prices  Does it?

Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change

Climate Crisis: “We have got to reduce the manufacture and use of Milk Formula”  And the crises just keep on comin’.

Please Send Cash: UN Demands $29 Billion for 2020 “Extreme Weather” Humanitarian Aid Programmes

Ace of Spades gives no quarter.

A bad time for the Trump administration to be tightening welfare requirements.

They do indeed.

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Earlier this year, President Trump began grousing about endless wars and publicly mulled removing U.S. military forces from Syria. Then, in mid-October, he abruptly ordered military advisers to leave northern Syria, a predicate to a complete U.S. skedaddle. Trump’s critics cratered. Syria’s civil war is a dirty, fractious bloodbath where regional and global powers collide amid homicidal tribes. With the U.S. gone, Turkish forces would slaughter Kurds.

Ah, but in late October, American commandos killed the truly evil Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was hiding in a Syrian village not far from the Turkish border. The Pentagon had spent months planning the raid. Alas, The New York Times reported Trump’s withdrawal decision “disrupted the meticulous planning and forced Pentagon officials to press ahead with a risky, night raid …”

Funny how we don’t hear about any genocidal massacres of Kurds over there. Maybe CNN just forgot to report that, busy as they were with impeachment and all.

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Nate Silver observes that the six candidates who have qualified for the December Democratic primary debate are all white.

Funny how that works.

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Somebody call Margaret Sanger and get her thoughts.

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Apparently that’s a Bad Thing.

Yet another instance of a know-it-all with ‘credentials’ trash-talks people who live their lives the way they want to live rather than the way the ‘expert’ wants them to live. Such people are the backbone of totalitarianism.

Joel Kotkin follows the news.

When she first announced her run for the White House, Elizabeth Warren seemed a breath of fresh air — a brainy and relentless campaigner for the middle class, willing to take on tech and other oligarchs. As an old colleague who met with her told me, she seemed very much “an old-fashioned New Deal Democrat” focused primarily on addressing the massive inequalities that hurt our society and families.

But rather than focus on basic issues that appeal to a wide number of Americans, Warren’s campaign has morphed into something of an intersectional nightmare. The notion of intersectionality holds that progressives must embrace the demands of any of the various strains within the progressive Democratic Party. You cannot just be an economic progressive but must also endorse every demand of militant greens, the Bernie Bro socialists, the professional race hustlers or the extreme feminists.

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Hammer tech.

Steve Sailer.

Having followed school test score statistics since 1972 and noticed that almost nothing ever changes other than that Asians are now pulling away from the field and American Indians have suddenly collapsed, I’m alway struck by the flat learning curve of public school policymakers. They constantly go through a cycle of

A. Raising academic standards, only to discover, to their shock, that blacks and Hispanics are hit hardest,

B. After which they lower standards to increase Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE), only to discover to their shock that Asians and whites won’t go to the dumbed down schools.

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I can’t say I expected it to be the International Committee of the Fourth International that effectively ripped the New York Times’s ‘1619 Project’ apart.

Charlie Cooke is one of the few writers at National Review still worth reading.

“There is something about Trump that convinces people that anything is possible.”

— Scott Adams

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As if it weren’t common knowledge.

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Trump kicks ass.

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Earlier this year Nicole Davis arrived at one of the San Antonio, Tex., offices of the audiology practice she co-ownsready to see the day’s patients. But upon entering her office, Davis says she quickly noticed a noxious odor that smelled like paint thinner. Her eyes started burning. By noon, she felt nauseated and dizzy, with the burning sensation spreading to her nose and throat. Her mouth went numb. Co-workers in the building told Davis that they felt ill, too. By the evening, she says, she was vomiting.

Two days later, Davis received an e-mail from an employee for a construction firm that was doing work that week on municipal pipes below street-level near the building. The employee apologized in the e-mail for Davis’s “recent experience,” and attached a technical document describing the hazards and health risks associated with materials used to make plastic in the pipe project. The e-mail and attachment do not state that the work caused the odor or Davis’s reaction.

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Joel Kotkin.

Earlier in this decade, cities—the bigger and denser the better—appeared as the planet’s geographic stars. According to Benjamin Barber, author of the 2013 book If Mayors Ruled the World, everyone would be better off if the ineffective, aging nation-state were replaced by rule from the most evolved urban areas. This, Barber argues, would provide the “building blocks” of global governance run by a “parliament of mayors.”

In reality, the validity of the “back to the city” meme was never as pronounced as its boosters believed. And now it seems, if anything, to be reversing—first demographically, then economically—as workers and key industries seek more affordable and congenial environments. Furthermore, many elite urban centers are diverging, sometimes radically, from national norms which produces a political conundrum. As big city politics shift ever further to the left, particularly on climate and “social justice” issues, not only are they becoming toxic to the middle class, they are becoming places many avoid rather than models that invite imitation.