Another major HIV vaccine trial fails (NBC)

How are covid-19 symptoms changing? (BMJ)

New study categorizes long COVID symptoms, allowing for earlier detection (Boston.com)

Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts to Rule Out Lab Origin of Covid (The Intercept)

Unredacted NIH E-mails Show Efforts to Rule Out a Lab Origin of Covid (The Nation)

HHS: US Nursing Homes Had at Least 75 Percent Infection Rates First Year of COVID  Thank you, Governor Cuomo.

Big Mystery Donors Fund COVID Conspiracy Nonprofit  I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

CDC Knowingly Left Serious Adverse Events Off Post-Vaccination Surveys, Documents Show

About XBB.1.5: The Dominant and Most Transmissible COVID Variant

Shocking Truth: Vax Didn’t Prevent College Basketball Team From COVID

“What About The Sudden Deaths?”: Pfizer CEO Confronted At Davos Over COVID-19 Vaccine

Prominent CNN Doctor Concedes US Has Been ‘Overcounting’ COVID-19 Deaths

RSV vaccine: Moderna, Pfizer start a new FDA approval race (CNBC)

‘This is the last thing we need:’ Millions of businesses hammered by the pandemic need to start paying back Covid loans (CNN) But … that was Government Money! It’s supposed to be free!

Operation Warp Speed was a huge success. So why is the US turning away from it? (Vox) Because it was Trump’s idea.

Recovering from COVID doesn’t give you bulletproof immunity—’hybrid’ immunity is way better, according to a new WHO study (Fortune)

EU drug regulator has not seen signal of possible Pfizer COVID shot stroke link (Reuters)

How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity (Nature) Really fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Elko County health board to consider banning COVID, flu vaccines (Las Vegas Review Journal)

Fed Chair Powell Tests Positive For COVID; “Is Vaccinated & Boosted, Has Mild Symptoms”

Censored, Fired Vaccination Victims Speak Out Against ‘COVID Cartel’

Video Report: CDC Seeks Ability to Reimpose Mask Mandates

Biden Administration Urges Judges To Lift Stay On CDC’s Airplane Mask Mandate

15 Reasons Completely Unrelated To The Vaccine People Are Dying Suddenly (Babylon Bee)

Inside the Facebook Files: Emails Reveal the CDC’s Role in Silencing COVID-19 Dissent

Can you use an expired at-home COVID-19 test? (The Hill)

Molecular fate-mapping of serum antibody responses to repeat immunization

Biden administration argues CDC has right to require travelers to mask up in appeals court (N.Y. Post)

Russell Brand interviews Fauci whistleblower on Big Pharma corruption, family ties: ‘Meet the Faucis’ (Fox)

Everything you need to know about a new Covid strain spreading across U.S. (NBC)

Moderna says its RNA vaccine was nearly 84% effective in preventing symptoms in adults 60 and older (Fox)

DeSantis calls out ‘biomedical security state,’ seeks to permanently ban mandates on COVID-19 vaccine, masks (Fox)

NY Supreme Court Strikes Down COVID Vaccine Mandate For Health Care Workers

Outlook? Terrifying: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Brookline and Watertown are first to adopt new building code in Mass. that discourages fossil fuels (Boston Globe)

Larry Kudlow: If John Kerry would keep his yap shut, we would all be in better shape (Fox)

John Kerry mocked for speech on WEF’s ‘almost extraterrestrial plan’ to save the planet: ‘Liberal delusions’ (Fox)

Cyclones in the Arctic are becoming more intense and frequent (Science News)

New Bay Area maps show hidden flood risk from sea level rise and groundwater (L.A. Times)

Rising Groundwater Threatens New York City — Researchers to Study How Much (The City)

GE, IHI to develop ammonia-based low-carbon gas power turbines (Reuters)

Jokes about the climate crisis? Why not! Standup champ Lara Ricote targets another taboo (The Guardian)

Explainer: Can the world ‘halt and reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030? (Carbon Brief)

Why your recycling doesn’t always get recycled (National Geographic) It’s all an expensive virtue-signaling scam.

Have we reached ‘peak meat’? Why one country is trying to limit its number of livestock (The Guardian)

‘Extinction crisis’ of sharks and rays to have devastating effect on other species, study finds (The Guardian)

Spokane pushes Legislature to exempt its trash incinerator from cap-and-trade program (The Spokesman-Review) Rules are for thee but not for me.

Video Evidence Suggests Greta Thunberg Detainment In Germany May Have Been Staged  My, what a surprise.

John Kerry backs UAE appointment of oil chief to oversee UN climate talks (The Guardian)

A major oil exporter is hosting a UN climate summit. Opinions are divided (CNN)

Orbit of Doom: The Surprising Connection Between Earth’s Orbital Patterns and an Ancient Warming Event (SciTechDaily)

Why Tech Companies Can’t Stop Talking About Sustainability (CNET) Trying to avoid the witch-hunt.

Warning of unprecedented heatwaves as El Niño set to return in 2023 (The Guardian)

Cement industry accounts for about 8% of CO2 emissions. One startup seeks to change that. (CBS)

Fletcher’s Ice Island: The Air Force’s Arctic research facility that melted away (Anchorage Daily News)

Exxon set to order 5th Guyana oil vessel, sizing up more blocks (Reuters)

8 Sustainable Side Hustles That Will Make You Money and Save the Environment (Entrepreneur)

Eco group slams Davos summit as global elites arrive in private jets to talk climate policy (Fox)

Study: Eating One Freshwater Fish Equal to a Month of Drinking Contaminated Water

Police Detain Greta Thunberg in German Coal Village Protests  Greta needs to have a talk with Mr. Belt.

How long can you use an at-home COVID-19 test once it’s expired? (WCNC)

What we know about the Ohio measles outbreak (The Hill) We know it’s time to PANIC!

New study: Long-term COVID symptoms disappear within first year (CBS) Guess it’s not all that long.

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect those who are vaccinated, officials say (Fox)

Health experts reaffirm booster safety after concerns arise over COVID-19 shots (ABC) Of course they do.

Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate  One might almost think the ‘vaccine’ ineffective.

Super-Rich Thrive as COVID Thrusts Millions Into Poverty  That’s because the rich have the power to push back against being jerked around by the Crust and their minions in government; the poor don’t have that option. Big business employee? You can work from home! Small business owner? You have to shut down! Working class prole? Not only do you have to go to work, but you have to wear a mask as well! Aren’t you lucky?

“Deeply Sinister”: Big Pharma Bullied Twitter To Censor Cheap Vaccine Demands, ZeroHedge Articles

Wokeness Appears to Alter CDC Communication Guidelines

Millions Of Lives Saved By Person Wearing Mask While Walking Alone On Sidewalk (Babylon Bee)

Davos 2023: Climate activists protest over big oil hijacking debate (Reuters) I suspect that the main reason the International Crust hold meetings like that at Davos is to give the Woke fringe some venue in which to blow off steam. It’s not as if any of them care what the protesters have to say.

Davos 2023: Climate activists protest the presence of oil giants at World Economic Forum (Fox) “Shut up!” they explained.

Biodiversity: Fungi are ‘underloved and understudied’ (BBC) We can’t just have a picture of a cute chick; put some glasses on her to indicate that she’s brainy, too.

Ron DeSantis’s ‘New era of environmental stewardship’ (Tallahassee Democrat)

Climate tech roundup: From solar to CES, this week had something for everyone (TechCrunch) Everybody tryin’ to make money off of the greenies.

Breakthroughs in Clean Energy to Watch in 2023 (CNET)

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown (Inside Climate News)

Trapping Millions of Tons of CO2 – Researchers Have Discovered an Arctic Carbon Conveyor Belt (SciTech Daily)

Lost for words: fears of ‘catastrophic’ language loss due to rising seas (The Guardian)

Greta Thunberg joins protests in Germany as thousands gather to object to coal mine expansion (EuroNews)

Lützerath: German police oust climate activists after clashes near coal mine (BBC)

Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste: Solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution (Salon)

U.S. climate envoy Kerry outlines carbon offset initiative for developing nations (Reuters) Who are all for sure going to jump right on that.

Dry stone wallers call for subsidy rise to protect environment (BBC)

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Lets Climate Alarmist Michael Mann Push for More Energy Crackdowns

Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That’s Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves

China leads the quest for small modular nuclear reactors–will the world follow?  Yeah, let’s go steal their tech the way they’ve been stealing ours.

Drying Great Salt Lake Could Expose Millions to Toxic Arsenic-Laced Dust

“Distasteful Masterclass In Hypocrisy”: Elites Swarm Davos In Private Jets To Discuss Climate Crisis Rules are for thee but not for me.

As elites arrive in Davos, conspiracy theories thrive online (Associated Pess) A ‘conspiracy theorist’, of course, is someone who refuses to ignore what the Narrative wants you to ignore.

Youngkin Quashes Construction of Green Energy Plant That Would Have Been ‘a Front for China’

Wyoming Republicans Propose Ban on Electric Car Sales

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Finally, finally after two recent stories about California Congresswoman Katie Porter first pondering and then announcing her bid for the U.S. Senate, Politico has at last gotten around to revealing the already well known embarrassing employee scandal in her office. A scandal almost as embarrassing as pretending it doesn’t exist as Politico absurdly tried to do.

China’s COVID surge prompts CDC to expand a hunt for new variants among air travelers (NPR)

Bivalent COVID Vaccines Likely Thwarted by Immune Imprinting, Expert Says (Medpage Today)

FDA ADVISOR AND VACCINE EXPERT SAYS THERE’S ‘NO EVIDENCE’ NEW BOOSTERS ARE BETTER

CDC Says Stroke Concerns Over Pfizer Jab Warrant Investigation

COVID-Narrative Dissenters File Lawsuit Against Legacy Media Over Coordinated Censorship

Doctor Calls For Withdrawal Of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Following New Research  Hard to ‘follow the science’ when the ‘science’ keeps changing.

How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied?

WHO Appeals to China to Release More COVID-19 Information

We Have Ways of Making You Take the Vax

Multiple Young Athletes And Former Athletes Died Suddenly This Past Month  But it has nothing to do with the vax, no sir.

Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look (Wired ‘Science’)

In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated (Wired ‘Scence’) It’s cheaper just to get the government to twist their arms.

Pentagon “Exploring” Back-Pay For Troops Kicked Out Over COVID Vaccine Mandate

Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

Misinformation on gas stoves is swirling the internet. Here’s what you need to know (S.F. Chronicle) According to the Narrative.

New study links gas stoves with asthma, but lung doctor says don’t throw the stove out yet (NBC)

2022 was 6th warmest year on record for Massachusetts (WCVB Boston)

Ocean heat shatters record with warming equal to 5 atomic bombs exploding “every second” for a year. Researchers say it’s “getting worse.” (CBS)

Move over polar bears, there’s another top predator along the Arctic coast (LiveScience)

New imaging finds trigger for massive global warming 56 million years ago (Ars Technica)

Bulgaria rolls back plans to phase out coal amid fears over energy and job security (Euronews)

New Research Flips Our Understanding of Ice Age Frequency (SciTech Daily)

Scientists reveal Earth’s most detailed recent climactic history (The Hindu)

Federal climate forecasts could help prepare for extreme rain. But it’s years away (NPR)

Burning Man touts sustainability. Now it’s suing to block clean energy. (Washington Post)

Burning Man sues US government to stop Nevada ‘green’ project (N.Y. Post)

Corporate America Reserves the Right to Kill You With Soot Pollution (The New Republic)

We know soot pollution is deadly. The EPA needs tougher standards to protect public health (L.A. Times)

UAE names oil company chief to lead UN climate talks COP28 (Associated Press)

UAE Selects Oil Boss for Climate Talks (Foreign Policy)

Global Warming Is the Front-Page Story of Our Lifetime (The Nation)

Europe’s freakish winter heatwave breaks records (The Economist)

A Big Green Mess In Germany With Coal A Stunning 31% Of Electricity Production

FLASHBACK: Paul Ehrlich, The Media’s Favorite “Doomsday Celebrity”  One can make a very good living out of being demonstrably wrong for fifty years.

Bill Gates: Nuclear Power and Fake Meat can Save Us from Climate Change

Electric car makers put the brakes on UK production because they are too expensive to sell

Biden Calls For Two Weeks Of Not Cooking On Gas Stoves To Flatten The Curve (Babylon Bee)

Average EV fast-charging costs soar above petrol

COVID Vaccines Are “Obviously Dangerous” And Should Be Halted Immediately, Say Senior Swedish Doctors

How Accurate Are At-Home COVID Tests With The XBB Subvariant? (Huffington Post)

Why Rapid COVID-19 Test Results Are Getting More Confusing (TIME)

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations. (Nature)

J&J slashes production of its unpopular COVID-19 shot

The Dystopian Roots Of California’s COVID-19 Misinformation Law

We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem. (Washington Post)

Brett Giroir to Newsmax: Gottlieb Censoring Natural Immunity Is a Bad Look

FDA Adviser Says Young And Healthy People Shouldn’t Get Latest COVID Boosters

European Parliament Poised To Ban Pfizer Representatives

Time to branch out? Trees put lawns in the shade when it comes to tackling climate crisis (The Guardian)

Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme on Record (Science Alert)

A possible carbon-capture milestone in the fight against climate change (CBS News)

Swiss company that counts Microsoft as a customer says it’s removed CO2 from the air and put it in the ground (CNBC)

More homes using heat pumps as cheaper, greener alternative to fossil fuels (PBS)

Most Schools Burn Fossil Fuels for Heat. Here’s Why That’s a Problem (Education Week)

‘A new industrial age’: The coming renewable-energy boom (Al Jezeera)

IEA says clean energy manufacturing set for substantial growth as world enters ‘new industrial age’ (CNBC)

Why humans should worry about national parks’ effect on animals, plants (Deseret News)

The US was poised to pass the biggest environmental law in a generation. What went wrong? (Vox)

Five Climate Questions for 2023 (Mother Jones)

Oil companies sue Los Angeles over ban on oil and gas drilling (CNBC)

A Giant Leap Towards a Greener Future: Breakthrough in Sustainable Ammonia and Fertilizer Production (SciTech Daily)

Celebrity Who Travels On Private Jets And Collects Luxury Sports Cars Says You’re The Reason For Climate Change (Babylon Bee)

How much should people worry about Covid’s newly-dominant XBB.1.5 variant? Our medical analyst explains (CNN)

Why Rapid COVID-19 Test Results Are Getting More Confusing (TIME)

Childhood vaccinations in the U.S. fall again, leaving kids at risk for preventable disease (NBC News)

Seniors shrug off White House urgent pleas to get vaccinated as new variant spreads (Politico)

Should you wear a mask on flights? WHO issues new recommendations as COVID variant spreads (Euronews)

WHO officials recommend mask-wearing for travel in light of XBB.1.5, stop short of endorsing travel checks (The Hill)

Disagreement Among Progressives Over Whether The Vax Is The Literal Body Of Fauci Or Just Symbolic (Babylon Bee)

Military To End Vax Mandate Now That All The Conservatives Have Been Weeded Out (Babylon Bee)

Pfizer Reportedly Working On Vaccine To Counteract Gas Stove Emissions (Babylon Bee)

Oceans are melting Greenland’s glaciers 100x faster than originally thought; new report finds (KXAN)

The past 8 years were the world’s warmest, report finds (Axios)

Ocean heat hit another record high in 2022, fueling extreme weather (CNN)

Saudi Aramco bets on being the last oil major standing (Financial Times)

Breakaway iceberg raises concerns over Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ (New Scientist)

Biden administration announces largest-ever funding opportunity for addressing environmental equality (The Hill)

This is the climate change ‘scam’ that’s making agenda-pushers ‘loaded’: Jimmy Failla

On Possible Ban, CNN’s Weir Compares Gas Stoves To Idling Cars

Why the Biden Administration Is So Interested in Your Gas Stove

Absurd Scenes As Police Clash With Climate Protesters Barricaded In Abandoned German Village

Mammoth Mountain Closes Because Of Too Much Snow  Gotta love that global warming.

Omicron XBB.1.5 does not have mutations known to make people sicker, WHO says (CNBC)

Coronavirus ‘chimera’ made in lab shows what makes omicron seemingly less deadly (Washington Post)

COVID-19 symptoms have evolved. Here’s what to look out for now (Deseret News)

Long COVID: Biden Extends Public Health Emergency for Pandemic  Of course he does. Keep that gravy train going.

Science! Study of Monkeypox in Women Used 47% Biological Dudes

Deadline Passes For Pfizer To Submit Results Of Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation Study To US Regulators  Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

New, more transmissible COVID-19 subvariant XBB.1.5 on the rise (ABC)

Pentagon formally drops COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops

Meet MGen, a new STI going around that no one is talking about (Salon)

Some newly mailed Covid tests from the government expire imminently — even with extensions (NBC News)

Moderna CEO says COVID moving into endemic stage

Parent group wants mask mandate back at Boston Public Schools (Boston Globe) Forcing people to do things your way is what Taxachussetts is all about.

WHO meeting to decide on COVID emergency set for Jan. 27 (Reuters)

Biden team eyes end of Covid emergency declaration and shift in Covid team (Politico)

Report: Biden’s COVID-19 Emergency Extension Might Be Last

More US schools institute mask mandates as COVID cases rise (ABC News)

Sen. Sanders to Moderna: Don’t Hike COVID-19 Vaccine Price

Scientists to Expand COVID Genomic Sequencing to Better Track Flu, RSV

House COVID Panel to Focus on Origin, Pandemic Funding  They can’t do much, with the Senate in Democrat hands, but at least they can get the word out.

One simple graph shows why we need to study ways of reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth (CNBC)

This firm is working to control the climate. Should the world let it? (Washington P0st)

Biden says US can’t ‘wall ourselves off’ as his Delaware beach house adds new barrier (Fox)

Coming soon: Beef, coffee, and chocolate, without a side of environmental destruction (Vox)

Biodiversity: Rising tide of extinctions on Madagascar (BBC)

Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows (The Guardian)

Population growth is a key driver of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss (The Guardian)

Conservations argue feds aren’t doing enough to protect rare plant from cattle (NBC)

‘Is There Something More Sinister Going On?’ Authorities Fear Extremists Are Targeting U.S. Power Grid (TIME)

We must act now to protect the electric grid from drones (The Hill)

Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms (NPR)

Relentless rain, record heat: study finds climate crisis worsened extreme weather (The Guardian)

U.S. greenhouse emissions show signs of slowing — but not quickly enough (NBC News)

‘Mineral’ is the newest Alphabet company with a focus on sustainable agriculture

Renewables to surpass coal as global electricity source in just 2 years (Electrek) Yeah, sure.

Ozone Layer Recovers, Limiting Global Warming: UN Report

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit About Big Oil Conspiracy

Net Zero Will Lead To The End Of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist

Vaccines are not making COVID strains like ‘Kraken’ stronger. Here’s how the four shots battle variants  (Fortune)

XBB.1.5, the latest COVID-19 variant, will probably infect everyone. What you should know. (Des Moines Register)

21 SC counties need public masking again as COVID cases spike, CDC says. Here’s where it’s worst

South Carolina: Health officials say all but 2 counties have high or medium levels of COVID-19

CDC warns of rising strep throat infections among children (PBS)

Mainland Chinese citizens are eager to travel — for the West’s mRNA Covid vaccines (CNBC)

TWITTER FILES: Pfizer Director Pushed Twitter to Censor COVID-19 Vaccine Debate

Where’s The Woodward And Bernstein Of The COVID Scandals?  Pushing the Narrative.

FDA Deviated From Normal Process In Pfizer Vaccine Approval, Documents Show

Some inconvenient truths about the energy transition (The Hill)

In Iceland, start-up founders invent new ways to tackle environmental crises (Washington Post)

English farmers turning to cultivating nuts as climate heats (The Guardian)

Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption (CNBC)

Earth’s ozone layer on course to be healed within decades, UN report finds (The Guardian)

The ozone layer is on track to recover within decades as harmful chemicals are phased out, scientists report (CNN)

Environmentalists Hate the EPA’s Proposed Biofuel Standards (Mother Jones)

England will ban single-use plastic plates and cutlery for environmental reasons (NPR)

Clarified: Which technologies will help us fight climate change? (NBC)

World’s new largest wind turbine sweeps 10 football fields per spin (New Atlas)

This simple tweak could slash carbon emissions from U.S. military vehicles (Washington Post)

Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops

Norway expects jump in oil output and gas near record highs (Reuters)

New variant XBB.1.5 is ‘most transmissible’ yet, could fuel covid wave (Anchorage Daily News)

Newest COVID-19 variant XBB.1.5 spreading (KOAT New Mexic0)

NYC teachers accused of filing fake COVID vaccine cards must be returned to their jobs (N.Y. Post)

Thailand U-turns on COVID vaccination rule for visitors (Reuters)

Most people who ended up with long COVID started with a mild case, new study shows (CBS News)

Why the new omicron variant is being called ‘Kraken’ (Deseret News) Trying to start a PANIC!

China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-COVID (N.Y. Post)

Will Media Follow New CDC Language Guidelines?

CDC Finally Releases VAERS Safety Monitoring Analyses For COVID Vaccines  Now when it doesn’t matter.

Nearly 90 Percent of People in China Province Infected with COVID

YouTube Censors Doctors, Heritage Foundation Expert for ‘Medical Misinformation’ on COVID-19

This Censorious Pfizer Board Member Was A Major Influence On Lockdowns

Twitter Files 13: Pfizer’s Dr. Scott Gottlieb Lobbied for Censorship

Chubb review recommends new integrity body for Australian carbon credits scheme (The Guardian)

Australian review finds no problem with carbon offset programme (Reuters)

Coastal residents on climate change: “The ocean’s coming for you” (CBS News)

Green tech vies for limelight at major gadget convention in Las Vegas (Times of Israel)

On this flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real (L.A.Times)

H-bombs or chicken bones: the race to define the start of the Anthropocene (The Guardian)

Climate change is making some homes too costly to insure

US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears (Bloomberg)

Restoration of the Ozone Layer Is Back on Track, Scientists Say (N. Y. Times)

Do Google Search Options Conceal Climate Data that is Contrary to Government Alarmists Propaganda?  Of course.

‘Holy grail’ wheat gene discovery could feed our overheated world (The Guardian)

Flies are taking over thanks to climate change — while moths and other pollinators disappear (Salon)

World’s largest offshore wind farm will clear unexploded bombs (Electrek)

Moscow to mobilize 500,000 new conscripts, Kyiv military intelligence says (Politico)

Scientists study how wavy jet stream plus ‘extra warmth’ fuels extreme weather (Financial Times)

Trudeau wants Alberta to spend budget surplus on carbon capture incentives

Never-opened $300 million-plus biofuels refinery facing foreclosure in southern Oregon (Oregon Live)

Oatly, Shell and Coca-Cola: Why are climate activists taking companies to court? (Euronews) It’s all part of the witch-hunt.

YouTube Bans Heartland Institute’s Channel Just Before Live-stream with Climate Scientist Judith Curry

If we all cycled like the Dutch, global emissions would drop 700M tonnes  And if we all walked barefoot like the aborigines, they’d drop even further. NEWS FLASH: We aren’t Dutch.

Svalbard walrus thrive in the face of sea ice decline, mocking predictions of future catastrophe

Do you have COVID XBB.1.5? Symptoms doctors say to look for in new, ‘crazy infectious’ variant (PennLive)

Maryland doctors warn of contagious new COVID variant (CBS Baltimore)

The ‘Kraken’ COVID variant has competition at the top—‘Cerberus’ is running neck-and-neck in the U.S. (Fortune)

New fast-spreading COVID-19 variant with creepy nickname: What we know (Oregon Live)

RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots ‘up like a rocket’ (NPR)

How has COVID-19 accelerated the growth of Moderna?

FDA Deviated From Normal Process in Pfizer Vaccine Approval, Documents Show (Epoch Times)

The CDC Puts Itself In Charge Of Language Too

Fear Of COVID Is The Opiate Of The People

Will Universities Ever Admit They Were Wrong About COVID Policy?  No.

Scientists Report a Dramatic Drop in the Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice (Inside Climate News)

New Technology Creates Carbon-Neutral Chemicals Out of Thin Air (SciTech Daily)

California’s deadly floods won’t break the megadrought (Vox)

New York City Greenery Absorbing All Traffic Emissions on Many Summer Days (Yale Environment 360)

With stroke of his pen, Gov. Mike DeWine defines natural gas as green energy (Cleveland.com)

Thinning of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NASA)

More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists (The Guardian) Well, that’ll make ’em sit up and take notice.

The world’s torrid future is etched in the crippled kidneys of Nepali workers (Washington Post) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

A new climate reality: Less warming, but worse impacts on the planet (Washington Post) Mere facts won’t stop the Narrative.

We’re finally getting close-up, fearsome views of the doomsday glacier (Popular ‘Science’)

Biden Admin Issues Climate Directive for Federal Agencies

‘60 Minutes’ Exhumes Environmental Doomsayer, 90, for New Round of Scaremongering

Green EU: The Massive Gas Field Nobody will Touch

Friday Funny: Paul Ehrlich Discredits the Peer Review Process  They ought to get him together with Carl ‘Worse Than Watergate’ Bernstein and Laurence ‘Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!’ Tribe.

Green Energy Revolution? Oil Use Growing at a Million Barrels per Day Per Year

COVID Is Doing Something to Our Sleep, And Even to Our Dreams (ScienceAlert)

WHO: Anti-Vaccine Activism Is Deadlier Than Global Terrorism

More Than a Million Students Fled Public School During Pandemic, Report Finds

Nearly 80% Of COVID Cases Among International Arrivals In South Korea Are From China

Rolling Stone.

Among the major factors in McCarthy losing over a dozen speakership ballots, people familiar with the matter say, was the severity of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s enmity toward the Republican leader. Gaetz’s intense and personal distaste for McCarthy has been an open secret in Washington political circles for years, so much so that Gaetz and McCarthy’s colleagues would argue it isn’t even a “secret” at all.

But Gaetz’s hatred curdled into something even more powerful after it was revealed in early 2021 that the MAGA congressman was the target of a federal investigation into the sex trafficking of a minor. (No charges were filed against Gaetz, but his “wingman” Joel Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in prison.) McCarthy, in Gaetz’s opinion, failed to mount a forceful enough defense on his behalf. According to two sources familiar with the matter, Gaetz has been furious at McCarthy for the perceived lack of support ever since — despite the fact that McCarthy did not strip him of any committee assignments during the probe.

What goes around, comes around.

New Covid strain is the most transmissible yet, WHO says (Politico)

New COVID omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in US: Health experts reveal why (Fox)

What the great reopening means for China—and the world (The Economist)

Meet the biology professor who named the surging ‘Kraken’ COVID variant. He has more to help make sense of Omicron’s ‘alphabet soup’ (Fortune)

Pentagon Scrambles to Prep New COVID Rules as Vaccine Mandate Nears End (Defense One)

The Guardian view on Europe’s heatwave: the door is closing – but there is a way out (The Guardian)

Record Heat Has Turned Europe’s Ski Season Into a Slushfest (Mother Jones)

Four Big Things to Expect in Clean Energy in 2023 (Inside Climate News)

A new world energy order is taking shape (Financial Times)

Comedians made some hilarious jokes about climate change. Were they right? (Washington P0st)

Climate crisis: 4 reasons for hope in 2023 (The Hill)

Manchin’s Favorite Federal Offshore Fossil Fuel Lease Sale Flops (Gizmodo)

New Legislation Would Fund Wyoming Fight Against Closing Coal-Fired Power Plants (Cowboy State Daily)

EU ban on deforestation-linked goods sets benchmark, say US lawmakers (The Guardian)

Here’s how the EU’s new rules could finally turn the tide on tropical forest loss (Reuters)

Amazon deforestation may shrink Himalayan snow and Antarctic ice (New Scientist)

Study: Two-Thirds of Glaciers on Track to Disappear by 2100

Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Prices To Asian Markets Amid Sluggish Demand

Meet The Eco-Movement That’s Hoping For Humanity’s Extinction

Taliban and China firm agree Afghanistan oil extraction deal (BBC)

China And India Are Buying Up Russia’s Arctic Oil

Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a 6th Mass Extinction Event

The Wind Power Mirage

Extreme Weather Events Declining

How the Media is Funded by ‘Green Investors’ to Promote ‘Climate Change’

You Wicked Planet Wrecking Coffee Drinker – Think of the Climate Impact!

Why everyone is going to need a heat pump (Washington Post)

Farming Destroyed Brazil’s Rain Forests. It Could Also Save Them (TIME) Except that there is plenty of rainforest left, they just want to scare people.

Welcome to a new year on a warming planet, now with 8 billion people (AZCentral)

Shadow Carbon Pricing: The Unexpected Costs of Fossil Fuel Opposition (Energy Institute at Haas)

Lowest sea ice on record powers ocean gyres as a heat source that is poised to take out W Antarctica (Daily Kos)

New York Times essay says you should mate with short people to save the planet (N.Y. Post)

New York Times mocked for essay on short people being better for the planet: ‘Ridiculous’ (Fox)

Eelgrass: the endangered marine plant vital to keeping climate stable (The Guardian)

Pa. lets polluter resume drilling in protected zone, outraging Dimock residents in fracking’s ‘ground zero’ (Philadelphia Inquirer)

‘Boys will be boys’: why consumers don’t punish big polluters for greenwashing lies (The Conversation) Perhaps because they just don’t give a shit?

Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us (The Atlantic)

Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren’t higher  It’s easy to be ‘green’–if you’ve got the green….

Wash Post: ‘Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence’  Climate Change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Europe Experiences a “Climate Change” Heatwave

Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It (Wired ‘Science’) Evidence is not proof, and climatology is not a science. SCIENCE works every time; it’s not a creature of statistics and probabilities.

Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?  No.

Tim Robbins Says COVID Has Become A “New Religion”

What to Know About the New XBB.1.5 Variant (TIME)

New COVID omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in US: Health experts reveal why (Fox)

Fla. surgeon general used ‘flawed’ vaccine science, faculty peers say (Washington Post)

UF says no ‘standing’ to review Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s COVID-19 guidance (Fox) Gee, that’s not what the Washington Post said.

Hamlin’s collapse spurs new wave of vaccine misinformation (Associated Press) Well, if Fauci & Co. hadn’t lied to us so early and often, perhaps that wouldn’t now be a problem.

German doctor jailed for illegally issuing mask exemptions (Associated Press) Thank God you don’t live in Germany.

Debunking claims that Western media is “exaggerating” Covid-19 in Shanghai (France 24)

Anthony Fauci didn’t get the hero’s sendoff he deserved. So it goes in the world of public health (S.F. Chronicle) He deserved to be tarred and feathered.

Experts urge domestic action against winter COVID surge (The Hill) All aboard for the latest PANIC!

Life is getting shorter in America, and the CDC is to blame (Fox)

Health Care Workers Cry Foul On FDA Claiming It Didn’t Prohibit Ivermectin For COVID-19

Zero COVID Ends But Zero Sense Continues

Whitlock Skewers NFL, Big Pharma For Ruling Out Vaccination Harms

New COVID Variant XBB.1.5: What It Is, Symptoms and What You Should Know (NBC) The first thing you should know, of course, is to PANIC!

Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US (CNN)

America’s health care focus shifting in 2023 (Axios) Finding new reasons to PANIC!

‘Not business as usual’: Health lobbyists brace for Bernie Sanders (Politico)

‘Twitter Files’ Reveal How the Left Uses Big Tech to Create an Illusion of Scientific Consensus and Stifle Debate, Especially on COVID-19

As China Retreats From COVID Lunacy, Lunacy Returns To The US

California Bill To Punish Doctors For ‘False’ Covid-19 Information Goes Into Effect

Let’s Discuss The Real COVID Infection Fatality Rate

John Kerry: rich countries must respond to developing world anger over climate (The Guardian)

4 reasons to give up defending fossil fuels (The Hill)

Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth’s wildlife running out of places to live (CBS)

Noise pollution is a menace to humanity – and a deadly threat to animals (The Guardian)

’60 Minutes’ Makes Fake News About Humans Ruining Earth

A Mad Rush To Build More EV Factories, But Where Are The Minerals?

‘60 Minutes’ Peddles Fake News About Humans Overrunning Earth

How We Came to Know and Fear The Doomsday Glacier

Climate Alarmists

‘Extreme event’: warm January weather breaks records across Europe (The Guardian)

Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe (Washington Post)

Unlike past campaigns, today’s concern for the Great Barrier Reef is stuck in neutral (The Guardian)

How agriculture hastens species extinction (CBS)

The Wildlife Charities Scamming Millions

Convicted Climate Activist: “we need … a different form of democracy”

Paul Ehrlich Claims Vindication for his Climate Catastrophe Prediction

Discredited ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts “End Of The Civilization We’re Used To” On 60 Minutes

NY Times Op-Ed: ‘Mate With Short People To Stop Climate Change’

Maine School Secretly Gender-Transitioned 13-Year-Old Girl

Elon Musk teases Fauci Files will be released this week on Twitter (Fox)

Musk says Twitter employees had ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack channel (The Hill)

Once-favored Covid drugs ineffective on Omicron may be putting millions at risk (Politico)

Free telehealth consultation available for Paxlovid COVID-19 treatment

The Astonishing Way COVID Could Actually Help Us Cure Cancer (Daily Beast)

How COVID Vaccines Cause Cancer (Epoch Times)

COVID-19: France, Spain, and UK Latest To Test Travelers From China

David Stockman On The Parallels Between The COVID Hysteria And The Salem Witch Trials

‘You Can Protect Yourself’: Zeke Emanuel Tells MSNBC Viewers To Mask Up As New COVID Strain Spreads ‘Very Rapidly’ (Daily Caller) And don’t forget to PANIC!

The hidden underwater forests that could help tackle the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Meet the renewable energy source poised for growth with the help of the oil industry (Politico)

Antarctic Sea ice extent hits a new record low, possibly heading to set the most significant negative anomaly ever observed in the satellite era (Severe Weather Europe)

Hungry and on the march as the climate heats up: Termites in Australia (Washington Post)

Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth’s wildlife running out of places to live (CBS)

The extinction next time

Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange (Wired)

5 doable resolutions for US climate policy in 2023 (Vox)

US response to the climate emergency: key moments of 2022 (The Guardian)

California offshore wind promises a new gold rush while slashing emissions (NPR)

That whooshing sound is windmills shredding tax dollars (Hot Air)

‘Instead of living in fear of climate catastrophe, I’ll do something about it’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023 (The Guadian) Virtue-signal like a … well, you know.

These robots crawl all over wind turbines so humans don’t have to (Elektrek)

Brace yourself for mountains of pain and misery under Gov. Hochul’s zero-emissions fantasy plan (N.Y. Post)

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change (Salon)

Environmentalists Are Killing People  And they’re good with that.

Supply Chain Issues, Rising Costs Threaten Wind Power Buildup

Swiss National Referendum Will Limit Population To 10 Million Through Strict Immigration Control, To Save Environment

The Net Zero Road to Nowhere

MSNBC Lets Environmental Alarmist Michael Mann Tie Blizzard to Global Warming  As he does.

Home Insulation Makes Little Difference To Energy Consumption–New Study  Depends on how much you have.

New COVID variant XBB.1.5 rapidly spreading in US, CDC data shows (N.Y. Post) Guess we’d better PANIC!

CDC reports a new strain of omicron taking over in the U.S. (NBC)

Exclusive: Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs in U.S. in January (Reuters) Thank you, Joe Biden.

COVID-19 Vaccines and Fever: Scientists Have Discovered a New Potential Link (SciTech Daily)

Autopsies Show COVID-19 Virus in Brain and Elsewhere in Body (Neuroscience News)

Maryland biotech advances COVID-influenza combo vaccine (WTOP)

Under Covid Siege, Chinese State Media Seek to Reassure Public

15 Million Americans Set To Lose Medical Coverage As Public Health Emergency Ends

The U.S. passed a historic climate deal this year — here’s a recap of what’s in the bill (CNBC)

Here’s what Anthony Fauci’s wife actually does at NIH (Fox)

EPA issues new rule to strengthen water protections in the U.S (NBC)

EPA issues clean water rule that repeals Trump administration changes (CNBC)

2022: A year of environmental milestones (U.N.) I think they mean ‘millstones’.

A Pivotal Year for the Health of the Planet and its People (U.S. Dept. of State)

Think those bags are recyclable? California says think again (L.A. Times)

‘I am an optimistic person’: the scientist who studies climate catastrophes (The Guardian) So long as I keep predicting catastrophe, I’ll be well paid.

Human hair recycled in Belgium to protect the environment (Reuters)

How ocean wind power could help the US fossil fuel industry (The Guardian) I don’t think they mean using wind power to pump oil.

How Did EVs Handle America’s Arctic Blast?  Poorly.

Global Holiday Chaos: Long Queues as Tesla Drivers Overwhelm Charge Points

2022 Same Shit, Different Year: 55 Years Of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

COVID variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 40 percent of cases in the US: CDC (The Hill)

Travel nurses took high-paying jobs during Covid. But then their pay was slashed, sometimes in half. (NBC) What, no ‘windfall profits tax’ on nurses, like on oil companies?

China steps up Covid variant monitoring as countries impose entry curbs (Financial Times)

Covid: England to require negative test for arrivals from China (BBC)

CDC warns of future surge in diabetes among young Americans (The Hill) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Congressional report: U.S. FDA broke own protocols in approving Biogen Alzheimer’s drug (Reuters)

FDA criticized for working too closely with biotech company to approve Alzheimer’s drug (PBS)

8 infectious diseases that made a comeback in 2022 unexpectedly — and illnesses that could surge in 2023 (Insider) Which means you’d better PANIC!

Vaccine-Evasive Omicron Subvariant on the Rise  Just to be safe, we’d better PANIC!

Newsbusters.

Well, isn’t this rich. Republican Congressman-elect George Santos has been caught flatfooted, lying about all manner of things — his education, job history, religion, his mother’s death and more.

The lib media has, but of course, gone crazy with this. Doubtless, beyond the lying itself, this focus on Santos is partially driven by the battle to elect the next GOP Speaker of the House. Embattled GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy needs every vote he can get – and that would include a Santos vote, presuming Santos does not resign before the election on January 3rd. Something that as this is written appears unlikely.

But there’s more here than meets the eye.

Over there at The American Spectator, columnist (and colleague) Scott McKay has noted – correctly in my view – something very curious. How was Santos able to tell these lies and get away with it in his election? Says Scott: “He realized that Stupid Woke America values ‘diversity’ over competence or merit, and so he fed Stupid Woke America what it wanted.”

If I were Congressman Santos, the first assignment I would give to my staff would be to list all of the various ‘lies’ the Narrative Media accuse me of telling, then dig into the records of every Democrat member of Congress and post a list of those who did the exact same thing without any complaint from the Usual Suspects. (One might start with Alcee Hastings, who was impeached and removed as a Federal judge for bribery and then went on to a ‘distinguished’ career as a corrupt black Congressman, re-elected again and again by the stupid black people of his district.)

Newsbusters.

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and on December 15 announced The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Quote of the Year.

Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2022 into eight additional categories (The GOP Will End Democracy Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award;The Media Heroes Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Craziest Analysis Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

How can coral reefs deal with climate change? Get better roommates (NPR)

‘Climate change before our eyes’: Sounding the alarm as Mt. Rainier glaciers quickly fade (KIRO)

Here’s why the U.S. electric grid isn’t running on 100% renewable energy yet (CNBC)

We must change how we think to solve the plastic waste crisis (The Hill)

Higher king tides expected as sea levels are predicted to keep rising (KING5)

Green hydrogen: Fuel of the future has ‘big potential’ but a worrying blind spot, scientists warn (Euronews)

CNN Ignores Deadly Blizzard in ‘Top 10 Climate Stories of 2022’

BlackRock, State Street Admit Signing Net-Zero Pledges They Don’t Act On

W. Hudson Bay polar bear population decline stories are unethical and ignore critical caveats

Harvesting human pee and DIY fertiliser: top conservation issues in 2023 (The Guardian)

Terrawatch: the rise and bigger rise of Mediterranean sea levels (The Guardian)

Big coal miners’ profits triple as demand surges (Financial Times)

Too pricey for naughty children’s stockings: Cost of coal soars in 2022 (Colorado Springs Gazette)

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves (The Guardian) George Monbiot transgresses.

Do wood burners cause pollution and is it worth buying one? (Eastern Daily Press)

The mission to return jaguars to the US: ‘We aren’t right without them’ (The Guardian)

10 signs we got closer to climate disaster in 2022 (LiveScience)

Exxon sues over EU fossil fuel ‘windfall tax’ (Politico) Let’s go plundering/The better way to tax!

NYC Electric Garbage Truck Plans Hit Wall After Trucks “Conked Out” Plowing Snow After Just Four Hours

Geoengineering Startup Begins Releasing Sulfur Particles Into Atmosphere In Attempt To ‘Stop Climate Change’

How The New Cold War Solved Global-Warming

“How Dare You?”: Greta Thunberg Loses Her Cool at Ex-Kickboxer’s Automobile Collection  Apparently Greta is an expert in penis size. Who knew?

Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmosphere despite warnings

The Climate Struggle Literally Hit Home in 2022 (Wired ‘Science’) For sufficiently Woke definitions of ‘home’.

US will require COVID-19 testing for travelers from China (Associated Press)

U.S. records 100 million Covid cases, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it (CNBC)

White House sees light at the end of the monkeypox tunnel (Politico)

As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ is anything thta doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

‘Life Turns Lonelier’ — New York Times Sends Page-One Sympathy Card to Mask ‘Holdouts’

Hydroxychloroquine lowers Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias risk

Read it.

Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, urged doctors at state medical boards to pressure Big Tech to stifle “medical misinformation” right after he declared that there is no “scientific or medical dispute” about the benefits of using experimental drugs and surgeries to force male bodies to resemble female bodies or vice versa.

Levine, the assistant secretary of health at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, presented an extremely dubious worldview as the established position of science, and acted as though no rational person would dare dissent.

Read it.

“Politics and the English Language” addressed the jargon, double-talk, and what we would now call “spin” that had already distorted the discourse of the mid-20th century. “In our time,” Orwell argued, “political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. … Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. … Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Those are the sentences most cited whenever a modern leader or talking head hides behind terms like “restructuring” (for layoffs), “visiting a site” (for bombing), or “alternative facts” (for falsehoods). In his essay, Orwell also cut through the careless, mechanical prose of academics and journalists who fall back on clichés—“all prefabricated phrases, needless repetitions, and humbug and vagueness generally.”

These objections still hold up almost 80 years later, but historic changes in taste and technology mean that they apply to a new set of unexamined truisms and slogans regularly invoked less in oratory or print than through televised soundbites, online memes, and social media: the errors of reason and rhetoric identified in “Politics and the English Language” can be seen in familiar examples of empty platitudes, stretched metaphors, and meaningless cant which few who post, share, like, and retweet have seriously parsed. Consider how the following lexicon from 2023 is distinguished by the same question-begging, humbug, and sheer cloudy vagueness exposed by George Orwell in 1946.

With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ (Washington Post)

California has to become carbon-neutral by 2045. What does that mean for natural gas? (Sacrament0 Bee)

Liberal media made slew of dubious claims about climate change, year-end report finds (Fox)

Controversial activist Steven Donziger is a folk hero to the left, a fraud to Big Oil (The Hill)

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution (Inside Climate News)

Brutal Christmas storm: Is it climate change — or just weather? (The Hill)

Fact check: What’s the link between global heating and extreme weather? (ABS-CBN News)

Carbon credit groups seek to expand investor appeal (Financial Times) You can’t run a grift without marks.

South African Energy Contractors Accused of Stealing Coal and Shipping it to Europe

The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future

Local health departments working to restore trust as they fight vaccine misinformation (NBC) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ is anything contradicts the Narrative.

Thousands of workers were fired over vaccine mandates. For some, the fight goes on (NPR)

US To Require Negative COVID Tests After “Extremely Irresponsible” China Reopens Borders

Watchdogs Need More Money to Find Stolen COVID Aid: Report  You’ve heard that it takes money to make money? Apparently it also takes money to find money.

Ex-Twitter Employees Ran ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack Channel

The Case for Wearing Masks Forever (New Yorker) How will you signal your virtue without wearing a mask?

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For decades, progressives have focussed their attention on the restriction of free speech. This is crucial when you favour emotion over facts, because it helps to deny the others access to, well, facts. Since the 1990s, political correctness has shrunk the ever-narrowing boundaries of ‘acceptable speech,’ under the guise of not causing offense, naturally. Fast-forward 30 years, and such compassion has morphed into ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crime’ laws, for anyone brave enough to test such matters out in court. For those who doubt the seriousness of the matter, Europe is currently awash with such sham trials—the latest being the investigation and possible 3-year imprisonment of filmmaker Tonje Gjevjon, for the crime of saying that “Men cannot be lesbians.”

More recently, the Left have shifted tactics, infiltrating the lexicon with political alternatives to existing words which require no updating. Consider the rivers of ‘neopronouns’ (e.g. ‘ze’ and ‘zir’), which lend ill-warranted authority to the notion that biological sex is not binary; aided and abetted by the fact that one in five of us already know someone who uses these newly invented pronouns seriously. Or how about the umbrella term ‘people of colour,’ which purports to be an inoffensive term for non-whites, but is in fact heavily-loaded to secure priority status without having to earn it. This is perhaps best exemplified by the outraged objections of ‘racism’ to legitimate criticism of Meghan Markle (a woman you’d be hard-pushed to pick out of a Downton Abbey line-up), while identical criticism of Prince Harry goes unchallenged.

Biden admin pushed to bar Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation,’ files show (N.Y. Post)

Twitter Files expose government influence on suppressing COVID messages that contradicted WH (Fox)

Why our worst fears about Covid in 2022 weren’t realized (NBC) Because people learned to stop buying Crustian bullshit.

Medical Staff on Frontline of China’s COVID Fight Say Hospitals Are ‘Overwhelmed’

Long COVID Continues to Baffle Scientists  Follow the science! — around in circles….

‘Twitter Files’ Release: How Platform Rigged COVID Debate

China ‘Interested in Offensive Bioweapons’ Since 2005, Rep. Says

The Daily Chart: Masks Forever?

Oil Jumps After China Scraps Inbound Quarantine, Will Reopen Borders Effectively Ending Zero-Covid Regime

Merck’s COVID-19 Antiviral Drug Doesn’t Reduce Hospitalization Or Death In High-Risk Vaccinated People: Study

Experts Warn of Likely Spike in Respiratory Viruses After Holidays  Get ready for another PANIC!

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S. (Washington Post) Perhaps if people hadn’t be lied to so much they wouldn’t have ‘vaccine hesitancy’.