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In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of publications, which concludes that female physicists don’t face more career obstacles than their male colleagues. The journal says it will also simultaneously publish critiques of the paper, which one member of the journal’s editorial board says is “flawed” and contains “unsubstantiated claims.”

Go against the Narrative, and you’re in for a rough ride.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

How nuclear power will drive our energy future’

California NOT “fighting climate change”, climate change NOT driving wildfires – claims are propaganda

Are wind turbines killing whales?

Here’s How State Regulators Played A Role In California’s Rolling Blackouts, Wildfires

Nigel Farage Exposes Extinction Rebellion’s Plan to Topple Representative Democracy

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular

Sea Level Rise ‘Alarmist Agitprop’

Exposing The Bogus “97% Consensus” Claim Over Climate Change ‘Science’

Steve Sailer.

But of course Race Does Not Exist so whatever these scientists may think they have found is some sort of illusion, probably triggered by White Privilege or something.

Steve Sailer.

This is all about Daylight Saving Time, believe it or not.

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Sheryl Sandberg, once the human face of Facebook, the would-be feminist warrior whose “Lean In” philosophy was meant not just to reshape Big Tech but the American workplace and feminism itself, has been revealed as just another digital overlord.

The façade began crumbling last November, when The New York Times published a devastating exposé depicting Sandberg as the likely architect of an anti-Semitic smear campaign against George Soros in the wake of his attack on Facebook and Google at the 2018 World Economic Forum.

That story, of course, followed the revelations of rampant and promiscuous data sharing, the turgid response to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar — largely incited by false posts on the platform — and, of course, the company’s role in allowing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Yet Sandberg is still COO of Facebook. Why?

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The concern is that AI has gotten so good that we’ll be able to create videos of important people saying all sorts of nutty things, which will lead to a total breakdown in our ability to trust important institutions. The problem here is that world leaders already say incredibly nutty things. Making a fake video of Donald Trump saying something outrageous is superfluous, like photoshopping a picture of Jeff Bezos so he’s holding a twenty dollar bill.

The other problem is that the media suffer from an intellectual autoimmune disorder, and relentlessly hype up minor misstatements into full-blown hysteria. If you’re at all partisan, you can think of examples of The Other Guys doing this. Every educated person knows that “cling to guns and religion” was a sympathetic remark from a churchgoer, except of course for the educated people who know that Mitt Romney’s “47%” line was a rhetorical flourish about people who pay no Federal income taxes.

Academics Demand More Time Off From Work to Save Planet From Climate Change

Climategate: Nearly ten years later

Climate change will break the housing market, says David Burt, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis

Activists sail four weeks across Atlantic for climate change summit — then learn it is canceled

Desperate Efforts to Drag the Climate Change Drought Narrative Back on Track

Greta Thunberg Begs For Help After Traveling Halfway Around The World ‘The Wrong Way’

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Like the ethanol-in-the-gas mandate, an illuminating example of special interests hijacking government power to help themselves and screw everybody else.

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Change would particularly affect children, say signatories, who want permanent standard time

The Other McCain lays it out.

Why did Hillary Clinton lose in 2016? It wasn’t just because working-class white men didn’t vote for her — a majority (53%) of white women also voted for Trump — but also because Hillary failed to generate the level of turnout among black voters that Obama got in the two previous elections. In other words, after Obama, some black voters have decided they won’t vote for white Democrats any more. That’s why candidates like Beto O’Rourke and Kirsten Gillibrand never caught on this cycle, and it’s why the likely nomination of Elizabeth Warren in 2020 will almost certainly be a disaster for Democrats. Does anyone think black voters are going to be excited about the fake Cherokee Harvard professor? In a desperate (and misguided) effort to win in 2020, Democrats and their media allies have doubled-down on identity politics, with feminists promoting an angry anti-male message and LGBTQ activists promoting insulting and offensive rhetoric against heterosexuals. Democrats are now the “Drag Queen Story Hour” party and the Angry Fat Woman party, and I don’t think that message will resonate with Middle America.

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The study published earlier this week ignores most of the archaeological record.

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Bill Walton recently welcomed Star Parker and Winsome Sears to his video podcast for a discussion of why so many black Americans continue to vote for the failed liberal agenda. Here is a transcript of their conversation, edited mostly only for style and clarity.

The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea.  Washington Post.

Rising seas are a much bigger danger than experts thought  Washington Post.

Shocking New Maps Show How Sea Level Rise Will Destroy Coastal Cities By 2050 Forbes.

Extended Forecasts are Not Reliable

Delingpole interview on the success of polar bear conservation & failed survival models

The Snow will all have gone from Australia by 2050 – Really?  I don’t think ‘snow’ when I think Australia.

Climate change sparks ‘hunger crisis’ from Angola to South Sudan  More likely corruption and kleptocracy.

Left Fears Twitter’s Ad Ban Will Remove ‘Climate Change’ Ads  Wouldn’t that be a shame.

Andrew Cuomo: ‘We Didn’t Have Hurricanes’ Before Climate Change  Are we sure Fredo is the dumb brother?

Watch As MSNBC Hosts Let Gov. Cuomo Claim Tornadoes Didn’t Exist Before Climate Change

Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots and #COP25 climate conference cancellation

Extinction Rebellion protester cleared of criminal damage after arguing her home was under threat from climate change

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Concur. I have never understood the disgust with which the Cool Kids have treated Comic Sans.

It’s a typeface. Like any typeface, it has its uses. Such uses are a matter of personal taste.

I’d much rather save my ire for people who put colored text on a black background, or who use lightweight microscopic sans serif fonts on a web page. Now THEY need to go to jail.

Ace of Spades is incredulous.

I’ll take Things That Do Not Appear in Jake Tapper’s Twitter Timeline for $600, Alex.

Escape from model land

Global Warming Fraud Off Global Cooling Fraud Back On

New York’s Anti-Trump AG Is Preparing To Grill Rex Tillerson About Exxon’s Supposed Climate Sins

ECB Official: Can Use Portfolio To Combat Climate Change  

The “Oil Age” is doing just fine, Bloomberg New Energy Finance notwithstanding

Record Low Temps, Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal, Threaten To Wreck Rest Of Harvest Season  Gotta love that Global Warming.

BOO! Halloween climate scare: featuring @ClimateofGavin and @GretaThunberg

Here’s How Poor Land Management Is Leading to Bigger California Fires

The Tragedy of GlobalEcoGuy, Climate Change Planetary Saviour

Farmers sue German government over climate change failures

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While trying to receive holy communion at South Carolina’s St. Anthony Catholic Church, former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden was denied by the church’s reverend, citing Biden’s support for abortion. The liberal media were once floored by Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment but welcomed his buckle to political pressure and their radical demands. So, it’s no wonder ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the religious rebuke of Biden

End of Discussion: MSNBC Declares CA Wildfires Caused by Climate Change, Nothing Else

Mother Nature, Not Global Warming, is Causing the Wildfires in California

L A Times blames state’s fires & blackouts on nebulous “climate change” – hides Democrats huge failures

California’s Man-made Power Outages

Climate Scientist in Hot Water over Climate Drought Link Statements

California Faces 72 Hours Of Hell As “Devil Winds” Turn Current Wildfires Into Unstoppable Infernos

New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates  Looking forward to it.

NBC & CBS Scare Viewers With Climate Panic: Millions Will Be Underwater!  Yeah, but they’re all in the Turd World, so who cares?

Climate change scientists say rising seas will flood three times more people than previously thought  Sure, I believe that.

Babylon Bee.

Deprived of luxuries like power and freedom, more and more Californians are being forced to run extension cords over to their neighbors in adjacent states.

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Officials who run former President Ronald Reagan’s library in California use goats to eat dried brush and grass around the building that often act as accelerates for the state’s ferocious wildfires.

Nearly 300 goats mauled their way through the dry grasses around the Simi Valley library, the Los Angeles Times noted in a report Wednesday. The report laid out the efforts firefighters are taking to prevent the so-called Easy Fire from torching the 40th U.S. president’s monument.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution.

Max Blumenthal is Sidney Blumenthal’s kid and a certified proglodyte hack, so read it with that in mind.

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Oh, ya think?

That works more often than you might think.

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And about time, too.

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Kanye found the Red Pill somewhere.

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Father Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church confirmed Monday afternoon that he had denied the presidential candidate Holy Communion because of his stance on abortion. Biden, a lifelong Catholic, had attended the church’s 9 a.m. Mass.

This is huge. I cannot recall another instance of this happening in the modern (last 60 years) Catholic church.

Next: Pseudo-Catholics Pelosi and Cuomo?

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The new project, the Google News Initiative North American Innovation Challenge, announced 34 news projects to be funded on Oct. 25. Twenty-nine of these projects were located in the states, while the other four were in Canada. One of the projects was unlisted. The first name on the list for the U.S., The Dallas Morning News, ran editorials announcing its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Beto O’Rourke for Senate in 2018.

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Typically, the projects were city daily papers or newsletters that promoted Democrats over Republicans.

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Researchers think they have, for the first time, discovered the ‘cradle of humanity’ where the first modern humans evolved before spreading across the globe.

They are believed to have flourished in the prehistoric Makgadikgadi–Okavango wetland, just to the south of the Zambezi River.

A study of DNA records and migration patterns has proven, scientists say, that the genetic root of all modern humans comes from that region 200,000 years ago.

The Real Climate Crisis Is Not Global Warming, It Is Cooling, And It May Have Already Started

How Lord Monckton’s Conundrum can be used to calculate maximum climate sensitivity to CO2

Climate Stalinism

Claim: Climate Change is Killing People in Somalia  How can they tell?

European Commission report hypes EU’s globally irrelevant, costly & unsustainable lower emissions schemes

Is it climate socialism – or eco-fascism?

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NBC tries to make this self-serving coward the hero here, unappreciated by people who just aren’t smart enough to understand how good he is.

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I have no confidence that anything I write here will persuade readers to increase or decrease their average tip. To me, the range of answers raises a larger question: Why are we still crowdfunding worker salaries when tippers so clearly do not know what the hell they’re doing?

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People in many of the world’s most advanced nations — including the United States, the euro area and Japan — are holding more of it than ever.

In the U.S., for example, currency in circulation stood at an estimated $1.76 trillion as of late September, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s about 8.2% of gross domestic product, up from just 5.6% before the 2008 financial crisis and close to the highest level in at least 36 years.?

If people need less cash to pay for stuff, why do they want to hold so much of it? The answer, it seems, is that they’re turning to currency as a store of value.

Of course, the $100 bill is also the most frequently counterfeited.  Just sayin’.

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Fantasy worlds are defined by limits: much is unknown in these worlds, and the unknown either resists being known, or it is left in peace. These are fabled lands that no one has visited and lost empires known only through inscrutable ruins. Withholding an America-like landmass seems to be part of that. We live in an age of information overload and complete transparency, and fantasy worlds offer the succor of not knowing. Or of knowing only at great effort and consequence. One thing that is true for so many fantasy continents I’ve looked at: you can’t circumnavigate them. It isn’t all there for you to gawk at, for you to possess it whole. You are never a tourist in them. Exploring one part of a world commits you to never being able to explore others. The part that you choose defines you as a particular kind of person.

The Campaign Cartographer people have a tool called Fractal Terrains which will allow you to create an infinite number of imaginary worlds with the press of a button.  Unfortunately, their tools only work on Windows — an understandable constraint considering that they’re out to make money, but a disappointment nevertheless.

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America did have a mostly free and independent press until the rise of broadcasting in the 1920s. Within a few years, a small group of Republicans, progressives and corporate interests successfully nationalized the airwaves with restrictive licensing that blocked competition, rewarded insiders and squelched dissent.

Over the next few decades, the increasingly powerful medium of radio and then television drowned out the previously broad spectrum of information and ideas—with often three or more diverse choices of daily newspapers in many U.S. cities—and turned free speech into carefully rationed federal broadcasting privileges, their anointed urban newspaper monopolies and a few approved magazines.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

Freeberg has a list.

It’s been quite a week. I can’t spare a sufficient block of time to get it all captured, but it has not been lost on me that all of the significant events have to do with a socially accepted set of observations going in one direction, while the truth lies in the opposite direction. We as human beings can do this. We possess an ability, unique within the animal kingdom, to lie to ourselves. I did manage to make a list. It isn’t short. It makes me wonder if we’re becoming so estranged from truth and so anesthetized to even the most blatant attempts to deceive us, we may be losing the whole distinction between truth and falsehood.

Greta Thunberg Warns Vancouver: ‘Change Is Coming — Whether You Like It Or Not’

A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling

Does the Climate System Have a Preferred Average State? Chaos and the Forcing-Feedback Paradigm

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uman-like robots, which have the ability to accrue abilities, skills and knowledge the same way humans do, will in future be able to perform and take over every task that can be done by human beings.

I must confess that I’d much rather deal with a robot than with an illiterate, innumerate, inarticulate, unintelligible Person of Color. Heck, I’d even pay for the privilege.

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Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.

After learning of the team’s dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.

The team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.

First World problem.

The Birthplace of Flying Shame and Greta Thunberg Warms to Nuclear Energy

Police Chief: Climate Protestors are Forcing the Diversion of Crime Investigation Resources

No More Cooking With Gas: Environmental Activists Going After the Appliances Consumers Love

“Apocalypse Near” – Pentagon Warns Climate Change Could Cause US Military Collapse Within 20 Years

National Trust to use ‘augmented reality’ headsets to show how climate change will destroy their properties unless climate change is addressed

Tiny beetle named after climate activist Greta Thunberg   Annoying far beyond its size.

PG&E Crashes To All Time Low Over Fears It Will Be Blamed For Latest California Inferno

‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas

Schumer Announces Plan To Nix Virtually Every Gas Powered Vehicle In The Country

Naomi Oreskes Accuses Climate Scientists of Fitting In with the Consensus

Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter

California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days

Halloween Climate Scare #7: Syrians Are Fleeing Due to Climate Change

Babylon Bee.

n an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.