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And they deserve every penny of it.

To be honest, I’ve lived in college dorm rooms that were worse.

And in barracks that were better.

Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches  Never seen green sand.

Individuals can’t solve the climate crisis. Governments need to step up

WashPost Promotes Maggots as Food of the Future

Climate Expert Reminds People To Rely On Reputable Sources After Journo Blames Hurricanes On Global Warming

Claim: Northern States to have Global Warming by 2050

Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief Of Staff Admits What The Green New Deal Is Really About ?— And It’s Not The Climate

Intelligence aide, blocked from submitting written testimony on climate change, resigns from State Dept.

Bombshell Claim: Scientists Find “Man-made Climate Change Doesn’t Exist In Practice”

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Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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I’m sure you always suspected it. I know I did.

Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel.

If you’ve ever watched Chris Cuomo on CNN, you may have wondered, How did this guy get a TV show? He can barely speak English. There are nights when Cuomo emits entire paragraphs that mean nothing at all, just pure gibberish. Cuomo went to Yale, which has famously high admissions standards. Is Cuomo a secret genius? Does he have some amazing talent that’s invisible on TV? Maybe he speaks flawless Urdu or has a deep grounding in particle physics.

Actually, it turns out he has an even more impressive qualification: His father, Mario Cuomo, was the governor of New York. If you want to get into a top American college, the most effective credential of all is to have a parent who’s a well-known Democratic politician.

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Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors wrote a few criticisms of our proposal to sell Gold Cards through a market-based program that I’ve called an immigration tariff. An immigration tariff is an attempt, based largely on Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker’s idea to sell visas, to create a market-based visa that accounts for many of the most trenchant criticisms of liberalized immigration The idea is simply to create a new visa called a Gold Card without numerical quotas or caps. The Gold Card would supply permanent legal residency and work permission, but cannot be used to naturalize –like a green card lite. The government would then sell those Gold Cards for a price set with three goals in mind. Those goals are to make sure that the Gold Card is a net-fiscal windfall for the federal government, to outcompete human smugglers, and to create a more flexible immigration system that responds to the U.S. market demands.

If entrance into the United States has value, as all will admit, and if the United States is in need of more revenue, as everyone is aware, then I see no reason why visas to enter the United States ought not to be sold for whatever the market will bear.

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Two summers ago on a visit to Budapest, I asked the spokesman for the Hungarian government about the growing problem of migrants coming into doesn’t have a migrant problem because they don’t have welfare programs. So, he said, migrants continue their travels to other European countries that do.

What a great idea!s

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Time to shake the box again.

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A lot of people are very excited about moving to a four-day work week.

Can’t say I see what the fuss is about.

ZIKA:  Climate Change Threat?

Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction

Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism.

Is it better to avoid washing your clothes?

Carbon-Saturated Oceans Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

University of Minnesota: Zimbabwe Food Production Declining Because Climate Change  No, it’s because Africans.

Climate Expert Reminds People To Rely On Reputable Sources After Journo Blames Hurricanes On Global Warming

ZMan is not optimistic.

The coalition of the ascendant loves to talk about the glorious future in which they are in complete control. They just assume that everything will be like it is today in a material sense, except they will get to divvy up the goods of the vanquished among themselves, like pirates sharing out a captured treasure. America will just be a swarthier version of what it was in the 1950’s. It is the assumption of people who have fully consumed the multicultural propaganda used to create the coalition of the ascendant.

This vision of the future is no doubt a driving force behind the race radicalism of people like Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. It assumes things about people that are not true. The old gag about Magic Dirt Theory is a joke among dissidents, but people like Rashida Tlaib think it is real. She thinks if her people move here, displacing the heritage stock, nothing changes but the complexion. Her people will suddenly stop acting like her people and take on the habits of our people, but with more color.

How A Grocery Store’s Plan To Shame Customers Into Using Reusable Bags Backfired

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

“Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy”… Aeuhhh???

BBC Faces Legal Challenge As Viewers Raise Thousands To Tackle ‘Bias’

The wrong kind of trees: Ireland’s afforestation meets resistance

MSNBC and CNN Are Trying to Spin the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Against Trump

Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome

Martin Armstrong Blasts “More Insanity From The Climate Group” Without Supporting Evidence

David Attenborough likens concern over plastic pollution to the abolition of slavery  Disposable straws have nothing to lose but their chains.

Climate craziness of the week: seriously “ducked up” science

U.S. Has Its Wettest 12 Months on Record – Again

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The couple’s earnings from the books and speaking engagements were paid through so-called S-Corporations, which the campaign described as “a common method for taxpayers who have outside sources of income to consolidate their earnings and expenses.”

One of the benefits of laundering your income through an S-corp is that you avoid Self Employent Tax (i.e. Medicare and Social Security).

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The Memory Hole is alive and well.

Remember: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

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Anything that didn’t eat them first, I expect.

Using chemical analysis of pottery fragments and animal bones found at one of England’s earliest medieval villages, combined with detailed examination of a range of historical documents and accounts, the research has revealed the daily diet of peasants in the Middle Ages. The researchers were also able to look at butchery techniques, methods of food preparation and rubbish disposal at the settlement. Dr Julie Dunne and Professor Richard Evershed from the University of Bristol’s Organic Geochemistry Unit, based within the School of Chemistry, led the research, published this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

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No! No! That will only encourage them!

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Tucker Carlson described the fact that politicians — particularly Democrats — manage to get their children into elite Ivy League schools at an astonishingly disproportionate rate compared to the general public as “the real college scandal.”

The Fox News host included several examples during a segment on Monday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” including the Cuomo, Gore, Clinton, and Obama families, and juxtaposed the legality of that with Hollywood figures and others currently in legal trouble for trying to bribe their kids’ way into some of the same schools.

Seriously – is anybody surprised by this?

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Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett is unlikely to return thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire sex offender who was arrested Saturday on charges that he engaged in sex trafficking of underage girls.

“I’m pretty sure she’s not,” Plaskett’s spokesman, Mike McQueery, told CNBC when asked whether the Virgin Islands delegate would return the contribution to Epstein.

Virtue-signaling only goes so far, after all.

CNN Calls for the Elimination of the US Nuclear Arsenal, Because Climate Change

Big Government Is Not the Answer to Climate Change

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #366

Educating kids to debate alarming climate claims

Ocasio-Cortez Blames Republicans For DC Flooding

‘Doc Brown’ Wants Climate Change in Back to the Future Sequel  Of course he does.

Trump Administration Touts Record On The Environment  Why not? It’s not as if anyone will believe them.

We can plant trees to save the planet. But it’s harder than it sounds.

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The robots are coming, oh no, oh no….

Damned straight.

ZMan does some deconstruction.

As America becomes majority-minority that old formula can no longer work. In the current Democrat party, blacks make up a majority of primary votes in some states. It’s not enough for candidates to promise them free stuff. More important, the loyalty of those tribes to the whole is transactional. Their first loyalty is to their tribe and their loyalty to the cause of the party is conditional. That means identity politics within the party is an endless negotiation to redress of past grievances.

Climate Extremists Plan to Attack Airport with Small Drones

Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost  Can Godzilla be far behind?

Global greening is happening faster than climate change, and it’s a good thing

Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically  Women and minorities hardest hit etc.

RIP Climate Skeptic Christopher Booker

Wine comes to islands of Brittany with the help of climate change as heatwave boosts chances of vintage year in France

Call for green burial corridors alongside roads, railways and country footpaths  Sounds stupid to me.

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The zero-sum bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to mistakenly view certain situations as being zero-sum, meaning that they incorrectly believe that one party’s gains are directly balanced by other parties’ losses. For example, the zero-sum bias can cause people to think that there is competition for a resource that they feel is limited, in situations where the resource in question is actually unlimited and freely available.

This is behind all of the hair-on-fire bloviation about ‘wealth inequality’. The unconscious substrate of this worry is the conviction that if person X has more, then person Y (or many persons Y) therefore have less.

if you give person X $10 and person Y $2, there are dimwits who will argue that person Y is somehow worse off, even when it is objectively obvious that person Y is actually better off.

Many of these dimwits work for the news media.

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Decentralised blockchain technology will not just destroy industries and reinvent others; it will destroy and reinvent political systems and the mere idea of a political system. In this post I will argue that, not only will this happen inevitably, but when it happens, it will not be messianic, but a worldwide catastrophe.

Whom would you rather have in charge of the country? Politicians? Or rich people?

Freeberg has a bone to pick.

All of this is leading up to a salient point though, more important than all the rest of that. The mind behind the debacle. He’s been taking to Twitter to defend his work, and although he’s a humble dedicated creative type who takes the criticism in stride and is busying himself with seeing how he can channel it to make his future efforts better…

No. No he isn’t. To my knowledge, he hasn’t been doing that at all. You M-U-S-T like his work, dammit! If you don’t, then YOU are the problem.

It isn’t just Rian Johnson who has been doing this. It’s the default behavior now among filmmakers. “Here is how I re-imagined it, and if you don’t like it then go screw yourself.” Female-led action movies, as Matt Walsh has noted, are ensconced in this special exalted status in which you are required to like them. Even if a contrary leitmotif has emerged that you shouldn’t be allowed, due to your gender and your race, to watch them.

THE COST TO SOCIETY OF RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM

The Carbon Tax Scam

The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant 1T trees  Well, then, we’ll get right on it.

CNN: Climate Change (fly) on Collision Course with US LNG Exports (windshield)

Adding 1B hectares of forest could help check global warming  Plus, you get a pony.

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Sand and gravel are being extracted faster than they can be replaced. Monitor and manage this resource globally, urge Mette Bendixen and colleagues.

Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

The latest hair-on-fire crisis that needs to be ‘monitored and managed globally’, i.e. more trans-national government.

Two words: Sahara Desert.

You’re welcome

UPDATE: Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand

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Manufacturers such as Westinghouse Electric Company and Framatome are hastening development of so-called accident-tolerant fuels that are less likely to overheat—and if they do, will produce very little or no hydrogen. In some of the variations, the zirconium cladding is coated to minimize reactions. In others, zirconium and even the uranium dioxide are replaced with different materials. The new configurations could be slipped into existing reactors with little modification, so they could be phased in during the 2020s. Thorough in-core testing, which has begun, would have to prove successful, and regulators would have to be satisfied. In a bonus, the new fuels could help plants run more efficiently, making nuclear power more cost-competitive—a significant motivation for manufacturers and electric utilities because natural gas, solar and wind energy are less expensive.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

A giant heat dome over Alaska is set to threaten all-time temperature records  Has anybody checked with Alaskans to find out whether that’s a good thing?

To keep temp at 1.5ºC: “No new fossil fuelled infrastructure, anywhere, ever”

Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear

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I’m a sucker for these ‘divvy the states up anew’ schemes.

British eco researcher drowns off coast of South Africa after yacht hit by storm  ‘Eco-researcher’ gets a yacht? I’ m in the wrong business.

If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever  “if”. “could”. If an asteroid hit the earth, we’d all die.

Hidden Costs of Energy Mandates

Solar Power Triumph: Los Angeles Announces The End of Fossil Fuel

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Trump ‘Hijacked’ the Fourth of July  Yeah, how dare the President make a big deal about the 4th?

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Intersectionality is a game that everyone can play.

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What is it with Democrats and their kinder gentler conscription schemes?

Did they learn nothing from the Peace Corps and its variants?

ZMan looks at the Brave New World.

Every day, we are told the artificial intelligence is not a science fiction fantasy, but a reality of modern life. Crimes are solved using AI and the military is supposedly using it to fight the forever wars. Microsoft regularly runs ads explaining that thanks to AI, the modern world will run just fine without white people. IBM goes further, claiming their artificial intelligence robots are already running large swaths of the world. The robot revolution is here and humans are being replaced with machines.

The target audience for these ads is a question, as the people watching television are not the people deciding whether to use IBM or Microsoft for the artificial intelligence requirements. It’s an example of how the custodial state has evolved. These ads are not about moving product or even improving the image of the firms. It is about conditioning people to the idea that they are wards of the state. Not only will they have no role in how their world is managed, they should not even bother thinking about it.

The Netflix series PERSON OF INTEREST is of relevance.

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Environmentalists ought to be pleased.

I bet it would survive Global Warming just as well.

The “Magic Wand of Fudging” Produces Global Warming

Debunking 3 doomster stories about energy & climate

Deserts ‘greening’ from rising CO2

Resolution and Hockey Sticks, Part Deux: Carbon Dioxide

Climate models are fudged, says climatologist – Video  But you knew that.

Snyder: The Earth Strikes Back – 10 Signs That Nature Has Turned Against Humanity  Women and minorities hardest hit etc.

Severian looks at knowledge.

We Normals think of “science” as a process.  I’m not going to go full Vox Day here and start making up words, but when we say “science,” we mean it almost like a verb.  “Science,” for us, means something like “functioning as a scientist, doing science, science-ing” — that is, testing a theory against the bedrock of Reality.

The PoMos, by contrast, use “science” like a noun — “science” is whatever the community of scientists say it is.  It’s not a process, it’s a thing, a body of “knowledge” handed down like Scripture.  That’s why they love the idea of “falsifiability.”  It’s why the phrase “the science is settled!” makes sense to them.  Actually doing science — behaving as a “scientist,” science-ing — is, to them, a process that we Normals would call “hermeneutics.”  Hermeneutics is the interpretation of scared texts.  The Bible doesn’t contradict itself all over the place.  Nor was Karl Marx wrong in every prediction he ever made.  Rather, the apparent contractions are all perfectly consistent in the light of the Higher Truth.

ZMan pulls on a thread or two.

Not so long ago, both political parties in the West had a strong hold on their members and controlled access to their ballots. If you wanted to be a Democrat, a Tory or a Christian Democrat, it required you to be a member of those parties. You had to be in good standing with party leaders. There was plenty of internal party politics, as that’s the point of party politics, but the parties themselves had firm borders. If you wanted to be in the party, it meant adhering to party rules and supporting the party.

Look around today and that’s no longer true. In the United States, both parties are devolving into loose affiliations of power centers. The Republicans have no control over the message, as members regularly contradict one another in public and they can barely perform the basics as a party. The Democrats are close to flying apart as the various tribes within the party put loyalty to the tribe ahead of the party. They may nominate for president someone who is technically not in the party.