Carl Bernstein, known to all as the “Worse Than Watergate” guy, seems to be conspicuous by his absence (and his silence) with respect to the Hunter laptop situation.

I hope he’s alright.

FDA pulls Covid antibody treatment because it’s not effective against dominant omicron variants (CNBC)

FDA pauses US authorization for Eli Lilly’s COVID treatment drug (Fox)

Why China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy is finally faltering (NPR)

Monkeypox Vaccine Modeling Study Results Provide Road Map for Vaccination (Pharmacy Times)

The Lying Liars of Pfizer

Rand Paul: Fauci Caused 7 Million People To Die; “We’ve Caught Him Red-Handed, He Won’t Get Away”

We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope. (Washington Post)

Endless debates about soup and paintings serve those who’d prefer we ignore the climate crisis (The Guardian) And endless stunts involving soup and paintings serve those who believe they have a right to disrupt the lives of people who aren’t paying enough attention to them.

How capitalism crushed the environment, according to historian Douglas Brinkley (Boston Globe) How even historians misuse terms like ‘capitalism’ when they’re actually talking about industrialism.

Netherlands reportedly set to forcibly close 3,000 farms to comply with EU mandate

The green tech tussle where America has cash and Europe has rules (Financial Times)

Our US$10 trillion global energy bill dwarfs what’s needed to limit global heating (The Conversation) Shiver in the dark! It’s a moral imperative!

Want to solve climate change? Open more land to solar, industry leader says (L.A. Times) I’m sure he does.

The hidden ocean pollution killing marine mammals (BBC)

Five key ways winter has changed in Washington (Washington Post)

Officials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River (Washington Post)

EU strikes deal to make ships pay for their carbon emissions (Reuterss) Pay whom? Why, the bureaucracy, of course! How will that help ‘climate change’? It won’t! But we’ll get money!

This California city asked where its recycling went. The answer wasn’t pretty. (NBC)

Rising Cost Of European Energy Makes EV Battery Plants “Unfeasible”, VW Exec Says

Giving up on 1.5C climate target would be gift to carbon boosters, says IEA head (The Guardian)

Spending cuts threaten global net zero push, economists warn (Australian Financial Review)

From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction? (The Guardian)

Biden administration paying $75 million to move three tribes affected by climate change

But for the Blizzards, a Climate Utopia? (The American Prospect)

U.S. EPA to propose boost in biofuel blending volumes, EV program -sources (Reuters) Let’s do more of what doesn’t work.

US to raise biofuel mandates for oil refiners (Gulf News)

Forecasting Our Future: Climate change impacting North Carolina’s coast (WXII)

Fossil fuel recruiters banned from three more UK universities (The Guardian)

COP27 Greenwishing: Progressive Discontent

Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles

China signals slight Covid policy easing — but don’t expect sweeping changes yet (CNBC)

China signals ease in Covid policy after mass protests (BBC)

China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of historic protests (Reuters)

What’s happening in China after zero-Covid protests? Here’s what you need to know (CNN) “Here’s what you need to know” is a classic CNN formula, as if you’re too stupid to understand the news.

China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians (Washington Post)

Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession (CNBC) I guess it’s time to PANIC!

‘I never really got better’ — long Covid patients share their struggle with ongoing symptoms and the health-care system  (CNBC) Oops, we’d better PANIC!

The impact of Pfizer?BioNTech’s BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine booster on the maximum oxygen uptake capacity among recreational endurance athletes (News-Medical)

Biden administration prepares to end monkeypox emergency declaration (Politico)

New Zealand government tries to seize guardianship of baby after parents demand unvaccinated blood for surgery (Fox)

China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Repression Is What Happens When You Give All Power to the Scientific-Technocratic Elite

How to fight Covid with light

Executives at ‘fintechs’ made hundreds of millions handing out PPP Covid cash, report says

GOP Senators Say They Will Block Military Funding Unless Vaccine Mandate Scrapped

Salon Admits Pandemic Profoundly Impacted Children – With Caveats, Of Course

California’s carbon-offset forests aren’t trapping much carbon. Here’s how to do better (L. A. Times)

Indonesia puts 100-island archipelago up for auction, sparking environmental concerns (The Guardian)

The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave was a climate change warning (Axios)

Biden Interior rule would limit methane leaks, gas flaring from public lands drilling (CNBC)

US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered (Associated Press)

EPA decision could spell doom for Ohio’s biggest coal plant

Environmental groups issue joint appeal for EU to remove carbon removal methods from climate plans (Fox) Rules are for thee but not for me.

Many forests will become highly flammable for at least 30 extra days per year unless we cut emissions, research finds

Abigail Disney: 125 billionaires control our climate future (CNN) People like Abigail Disney. Of course, if her name weren’t ‘Disney’ nobody would care what she thinks.

U.S. threatens legal steps over Mexico’s planned GMO corn ban (Reuters)

Volkswagen Says EV Battery Plants “Practically Unviable” In EU Due To Soaring Energy Costs

Baby Names to Change because of …. Climate Change

Nuclear power doesn’t count as green in the EU

Biden Administration Paying Climate-Affected Tribes $25 Million to Relocate

NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project

How an early oil industry study became key in climate lawsuits

The return of the horse?

Amazon Deforestation in Brazil Remains Near 15-Year High

Academics Slam Claims Biotech Could Solve the Climate Crisis

Farm seizures planned in the Netherlands

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pushes Amped Up Censorship on CBS Mornings

China Covid: Chinese protesters say police seeking them out (BBC) Hello! Communist dictatorship!

Flu continues to spread across the U.S., infecting millions, CDC reports (NBC)

Flu season continues to intensify in the US, and holiday gatherings could make it worse (CNN)

White House health officials: up-to-date vaccines key to move on from Covid (The Guardian)

Pfizer CEO Blasted By UK Pharma Watchdog For “Disgracefully Misleading” Statements On COVID Vaccine

Twitter Flooded With ‘Porn’ Bots to Block China Protest Footage

New COVID Variant XBB Emerges in the US  So it’s back on board the PANIC!

Poll: Plurality Believe COVID-19 Pandemic Will ‘Never End’  Not while there are apparatchiks hungry for power.

Study: Next Major COVID Variant Could Be More Dangerous  So you need to continue the PANIC!

Only 28% Of Americans Are Worried About COVID Anymore; New Poll Finds

Authoritarianism Without Authority

Are Masks Useful After All? Not Likely.

Twitter Stops Enforcing COVID-19 Misinformation Policy

Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster

PBS Welcomes CCP Hack to Praise Zero-COVID Policy, Trash Anti-Xi Protestors  Statists of a feather flock together.

China doubles down on harsh COVID controls and tries to end protests  Hello, Communist dictatorship! Which one of you is Dr Fauci?

COVID was such a golden opportunity for the authoritarian left

Docs on NBCNews.com: Permanent Mask Mandates Good for Mental, Physical Health

Puerto Rican towns sue Big Oil under RICO alleging collusion on climate denial (Reuters) Except that ‘climate denial’ isn’t a crime. (Yet, anyway.)

Anti-deforestation push putting other ecosystems at risk: study (The Hill)

Sustainable palm oil puts grasslands at risk (Nature)

Rising sea levels could swamp the US coastline by 2050, NASA predicts (Live Science) Call me when property prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard start going down rather than up.

Rowan Williams urges wealthy to stump up cash for climate fund (The Guardian)

Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change (Minnesota Public Radio)

EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy (Nature)

COP27 climate summit missed chance for ambition on fossil fuels, critics say (Reuters)

The myth of plastic recycling

Goldman Prime Finds Hedge Funds Massively Piling Into Energy Stock Shorts

Canadian Banks Slammed For Continued Fossil Fuel Investments

UK Power Prices Skyrocket As Wind Generation Collapses

London Mayor Unveils “Crippling” Vehicle Emission Charge For All Of London, Despite 80% Opposition

The Creeping Radicalization of ‘Climate Activism’

Claim: Green Terrorists are Planning Major Attacks

The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?  Hint: Nope.

‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity (The Guadian) I have no idea who Jaron Lanier is, although from his picture I suppose he identifies as black.

Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic? (The Guardian)

Fauci pushes back on Pence remarks: ‘I don’t align myself with anybody’ (The Hill)

‘Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells (Wired)

‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature? (The Guardian)

A treaty to end the age of plastic (Al Jezeera)

Criticism mounts of ‘climate killer’ modern art museum in Berlin (The Guardian)

London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover entire city

Climate change: Could centuries-old wheat help feed the planet? (BBC) I didn’t know the planet was hungry.

The world can’t recycle its way out of the plastics crisis (Boston Globe)

Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment? (Washington Post) I’m glad they have nothing more important to worry about.

Food waste is contributing to climate change. What’s being done about it? (PBS)

The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough (Financial Times)

Bison proliferate as Native American tribes reclaim stewardship (The Guardian) The same Native American tribes that used to drive buffalo herds over cliffs?

“There’s No Emergency” – Dissident Climatologist Dr Judith Curry on Climate Change

US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World

Germany Tees Up Windfall Tax On Solar And Wind  Oil companies: Welcome to the ducking stool!

Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself

An Inconvenient Tree: Is Climate Change Driving Worse Floods?

Climate Hoax Exposed — Again

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as anger over China’s COVID curbs mounts (Reuters)

Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy (CNN)

Growing Protests In China Over Zero-Covid Restrictions (NBC)

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’ (Al Jezeera)

MIT Finds Indoor Humidity “Sweet Spot” To Reduce Spread of COVID-19 (SciTechDaily) Well, if you’re under water, it’s hard to spread COVID, that’s true.

Fauci emailed friend saying masks were ‘ineffective,’ pushed for mandates anyway, Missouri AG says (Fox)

Journalists reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic relied on research that had yet to be peer reviewed (CNN) Not that it would have mattered.

China Reports 3rd Consecutive Daily Record for New COVID Cases

Omicron BQ Variants, Dangerous to Immunocompromised, Dominant in US  Gee, if only we had a vaccine….

‘Forgetful’ Fauci Could Not Recall Key Details Of COVID Crisis Response During Deposition: Louisiana AG  Well, you know, the guy IS getting old….

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as Anger Over China’s COVID Curbs Mounts

Another Study Finds Heart Inflammation Higher After Moderna Vaccination Versus Pfizer

‘People Aren’t Listening’ ABC Frets Americans Refusing COVID Boosters   Well, that’s what happens when people HAVE BEEN LIED TO REPEATEDLY FOR TWO FARGIN YEARS.

Is the “Pandemic” Over? Maybe, Maybe Not

How Effective Is the New Covid Vaccine?

An engineering marvel just saved Venice from a flood. What about when seas rise? (Washington Post)

The environmental impact of Black Friday (DW)

Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret (Gizmodo)

Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021? (Inside Climate News)  Let not a year go by without a witch-hunt!

Coal bounces back (Politico)

Earth Might Be Experiencing 7th Mass Extinction, Not 6th – “A True Decrease in the Abundance of Organisms” (SciTechDaily) “Ya can’t tell your extinction without a scorecard!”

Dream homes and disasters: Is the government ready to confront climate risk? (Politico)

These Are the Most Sustainable Cities in the World The ones you want to avoid.

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction (The Guardian)

NY Times Profiles ‘Compassionate,’ ‘Uplifting’ Activist Who Wants Humanity to Die Off

COP-27: A Window into How the UN Keeps the Poor Poor

Barbados Proposes Rich Countries Provide $1Trillion to Fund Climate Action  GIVE US MONEY! Meanwhile, we’ll be busy running the secretive banking and money-laundering operations for which we are famous.

China’s Urumqi to ease Covid lockdown amid public anger over deadly fire (CNN)

COVID protests erupt after deadly Chinese fire (Reuters)

Deadly Xinjiang fire stokes discontent over China’s covid restrictions (Washington Post)

Now-censored videos appear to show China’s zero-Covid measures delaying response to deadly fire (CNN)

Protests erupt in Xinjiang and Beijing after deadly fire (Reuters)

White House battles pandemic fatigue in vaccine push (The Hill)

Hotels Seek Millions from San Francisco Over COVID Homeless Program

The Journalist-Run, Intelligence-Linked Operation That Warped British Pandemic Policy

Climate advocates see a path forward in the farm bill: Lining farmers’ pockets (Politico)

How to be a sustainable parent (BBC) Make your children out of recycled plastic.

For Many, the Global Warming Confab That Rose in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage (Inside Climate News)

After decades as a nuclear powerhouse, France makes its play in offshore wind (CNBC)

Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all (The Guardian) George Monbiot wrings his hands and gives us clickbait.

One crop uses more than half of Utah’s water. Here’s why. (Salt Lake Tribune_

Could hemp be a key tool in fight against climate change? (The Guardian) Especially for aging hippies.

US Naval Academy breaks ground on seawall project to protect campus from rising sea levels (WTOP)

Rolls-Royce calls for formal funding talks over small nuclear plants (Financial Times)  Because nothing happens without the government paying for it.

EPA floats sharply increased social cost of carbon (Energy Wire)

Sustainability Democrats propose narrow permitting reform effort on electric grid, community involvement (The Hill)

How One Woman Pulled Anchor and Set Sail in a Solar-Powered Tiny Home

Biden Allocates $1.1 Billion To Keep California’s Nuclear Power Plant Operating

Climate Change Activists Paralyze Berlin Airport

Berlin Airport Closed By Climate Activists Glued To Runway

Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations

A wave-powered prototype device is aiming to produce drinking water from the ocean

The “Biohome3D” House Is 3D-Printed, Fully Recyclable and Made of Natural Materials

Whales dying from consuming plastics  Think of it as evolution in action.

Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars  Sometimes the old ways are best.

Eastern Canadian Arctic Has Much More Sea Ice Than Usual While Svalbard Polar Bears Deal with Less

Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill a million Americans (CNBC)

WHO to rename ‘Monkeypox’ to ‘MPOX’ at Biden admin’s request (Fox)

Measles now an imminent global threat due to pandemic, say WHO and CDC (Reuters) Then I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Understanding and neutralising covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (BMJ)

Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why. (Washington Post)

Fighting COVID Tyranny in Canada

Fauci: I’m a Bureaucrat, Not a Scientist  “I am the bureau!”

The challenge of tracking methane emissions and why they are higher than publicly reported (PBS)

How tide has turned on UK tidal stream energy as costs ebb and reliability flows (The Guardian)

Etihad’s ‘Greenliner’ shows a glimpse of a more sustainable future for aviation (CNN)

Manchin’s permitting deal is a major setback for environmental justice (The Hill) Ah,  yes, the famous proglodyte ‘X justice’ buzzphrase.

Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don’t most forecasts mention it? (NPR) Maybe they don’t buy the Narrative.

America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading (Wired ‘Science’)

Biden administration approves $550M for community-based clean energy (The Hill) SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!

U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year’s End (‘Scientific’ American)

Whole Foods temporarily drops gourmet grocery item, cites environmental concerns (The Hill) No lobster for you.

Climate activists are on the right side of history (The Guardian)

Young people just got a louder voice on climate change — and could soon be shaping policy (CNBC) Yech, all we need are more Greta Thunbergs.

New Visa Card Features Personal Carbon Emissions Tracker

How China, the world’s top polluter, avoids paying for climate damage (Washington Post)

You’ll Hear Ever More About How Billions Will Need to Move North Due to Climate Change

Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” campaign – popular in Europe; has anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?

Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor  I want a nuclear-powered car.

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The recent mass shooting in Colorado Springs is the 601st mass shooting in 2022. There have been four mass shootings since then, but you likely haven’t about them. You probably didn’t hear about most of the previous 600 shootings, either. Why is that? Because the left is keeping secrets. Let’s talk about what they don’t want you to know about mass shootings and why, so you can dominate your commie relatives at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

Fauci pleads with Americans to get COVID shot in final White House briefing (Reuters) One last lie … before you go….

Fauci urges Americans to get Covid shot, as study finds new booster is best yet (The Guardian) It still doesn’t prevent you from getting the disease nor from passing on the disease, so ‘best yet’ is a relative term….

Omicron variant BQ.1.1 found to be resistant to all monoclonal antibody treatments (MedicalXPress)

New List of the Most Dangerous Pathogens Will Include ‘Disease X,’ the Likely Next Pandemic (Gizmodo) Get in on the ground floor of the new PANIC!

California Workers Win $125,000 After Vaccine Discrimination Lawsuit

WHO Plans to Rename Monkeypox ‘MPOX’: Politico

UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses

Video Report: HHS Again Pushing Mask Mandates

A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost (New Scientist)

Watch: Dr. Scott Atlas Sums Up Fauci’s Legacy Of “Massive Harm”

Vaccinated people now make up a majority of covid deaths (Washington Post) Really fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Ice Cube Confirms He Lost $9M Film Role for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

Pfizer CEO claims 400% price hike on COVID vaccines will be “free” (Ars Technica)

What to know about the spread of COVID-19 BQ variants, flu in U.S. (CBS)

5 big reasons why kids are getting sick and flooding ERs — and ‘immunity debt’ isn’t one of them (Insider)

“Grade-A Gaslighting”: FDA Says Anti-Ivermectin Campaign Was ‘Just A Recommendation’

‘Keep Your Mask On’: Whoopi Claims ‘Nobody Got Sick’ While Wearing Masks  I would certainly encourage her to wear a mask.

Authorities Looking Into Oregon Report That Falsely Claims Sky-High Child COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates

What Reopening? China’s Covid Restrictions Are Actually Tightening

The Truth About Ivermectin

One in Four Workers Still Fear Catching COVID-19 at Work  Giess we’re still on for the PANIC!

First on CNN: White House kicking off six-week Covid-19 booster push  Trying to stick it to everybody.

HHS Report Recommends Return of Mask Mandates to Fight ‘Long COVID’

New York Times Triples Down on Pandemic Fear-Mongering

Eco regulations force massive coal plant to shut down, sparking community uproar (Fox)

The big takeaway from Cop27? These climate conferences just aren’t working (The Guardian) THEY’E NOT GIVING US MONEY!

EPA quietly pushes expensive carbon tax (F0x)

A costly new climate rule is coming for federal contractors (Federal News Network)

Larry Kudlow: Biden’s climate reparations scam is a terrible idea (Fox)

India’s Jindal wins bid to build Botswana’s 300 MW coal power plant (Reuters) The Turd World doesn’t seem too impressed by the ‘climate crisis’.

Environmentalists push Hochul to help ‘canners’ with 5-cent increase in bottle deposits (N.Y. Post)

Why advocates want to expand New York’s bottle deposit law (Spectrum News)

Start-up aims to make zero-emission hydrogen a commercial reality (Financial Times)

Oslo, Norway’s unique approach to curbing carbon emissions

Colombia signals rethink on pledge to curb oil and gas exploration (Financial Times)

Is Earth a self-regulating organism? New study suggests our planet has a built-in climate control (Salon)

COP27 Is a Down Payment on Disaster

Here’s how deep geothermal drilling might be clean energy’s future

The Washington Post Props up Fake Meat Company That ‘Vows’ to ‘Help Save the Planet’

Farcical COP27 Debacle Ends In “Tears And Frustration” As Furious Eco-Delegates Realize Who’s In Charge

World Cup Stadiums and the “Green” Movement Supports Exploitation of Cheap, Disposable Workforces.

The EV Boondoggle

Costs of Wind and Solar Energy Are Skyrocketing

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If you’ve been to a mainstream bookstore or library in the past few months, you’ve probably encountered a “Banned Books” display. These high-visibility collections serve as totems of progressives’ defiance in their latest imagined controversy: the belief that conservatives are banning books related to LGBT issues from public school libraries. “Banned Books” displays usually feature some traditional texts that may have been pulled from schools at some point in their publication history (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc.). But the recent wave of sexually-explicit LGBT titles are always positioned so prominently that a person can only assume that the displays are in reaction to right-wing prudes trying to force their retrograde views on an increasingly progressive populace.

But are LGBT books being “banned”? Not really. Every library curates its collection, making careful choices about their holdings in the limited space they have. While it’s true that many schools decided to pull titles like Gender Queer, This Book is Gay, Flamer, Let’s Talk About It, and All Boys Aren’t Blue from the shelves, this is not a “ban.” These books remain widely available in bookstores and public libraries that are unaffiliated with schools.

So why are leftists pretending otherwise? The claims of “bans” allow LGBT activists to frame routine decisions about which books are appropriate for a school library as evidence of “hate,” discrimination, and “exclusion.” Certainly, some books are being excluded—but this doesn’t mean that LGBT students are. The trendiness of LGBT identity among impressionable young adolescents suggests that there are social rewards from belonging to this category. In fact, schools take pains to include those students, a reality underscored by the open promotion and celebration of LGBT groups in classrooms.

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants (NPR)

Cold and flu season impacts small businesses (KATU)

As measles outbreak sickens more than a dozen children in Ohio, local health officials seek help from CDC (CNN)

Stanford professor who challenged lockdowns and ‘scientific clerisy’ declares academic freedom ‘dead’ (Fox)

Vaccine Breakthrough Could Finally Bring COVID to Its Knees (Daily Beast)

Are urgent care centers hurting America’s family medicine practices?

They Will Lock You Down Again

China’s Guangzhou Locks Down Millions in ‘Zero-COVID’ Fight  No matter how bad it was here, it’s ten times worse in a Communist dictatorship.

Sam Bankman-Fried & The Pandemic Industrial Complex

Canadian Bank Donates $500,000 For Transgender Surgeries On Kids

COP27 summit agrees on landmark climate ‘loss and damage’ fund, but does little to encourage rapid cuts to fossil fuel use (CNN) GIVE US MONEY!

The road to low-carbon concrete (Ars Technica)

Environmental groups oppose pipeline expansion in Pacific NW (Seattle Times)

Triggered by Musk, CBS News announces it’s suspending all Twitter activity out of ‘abundance of caution’ (Fox)

Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska? Here’s what experts say (Tacoma News-Tribune)

Analysis: India power binges on coal, outpaces Asia (Reuters)

Five crucial issues in fight to save planet – and what Cop27 did about them (The Guardian) Not a f—g thing.

US shamed as the ‘colossal fossil’ of Cop27 climate summit by campaigners (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Beware the false hope of recycling (Nature)

‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists (The Guardian)

Indigenous activists “seen, not heard” at COP27 (Axios)

Hoover Dam Brings Electricity to 1.3 Million—It’s At Risk of Shutting Down (Newsweek)

How to build a net-zero chalet (Financial Times) And of course we can all afford a ‘net zero chalet’.

Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition (Nature)

‘No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

AP COP 27 Article Grossly Misrepresents Global Energy and Emissions Reality

Methane: Much Ado About Nothing

As Green Policies Cause Energy Prices To Explode, Deforestation In Europe Accelerates

Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated COVID shot shows strong response against BQ.1.1 (Reuters)

Pfizer says omicron booster is better against new subvariants like BQ.1.1 than old shots (CNBC)

Flu variant that hits kids and seniors harder than other strains is dominant in U.S. right now (CNBC)

Never Forget! Here’s Some Of The Dumbest COVID Restrictions

Group Calls On Authorities To Investigate CDC Over Misinformation About Child COVID Deaths

Lawsuit Claims Massachusetts Installed COVID-19 ‘Spyware’ On 1 Million Devices

The Maskparade Charade

As bivalent booster uptake crawls, Pfizer and BioNTech start early-stage pan-variant trial (Endpoints Newz)

Why Did Flu Season Start So Early This Year? (‘Scientific’ American) What started early was the PANIC!

Big Pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO’s draft pandemic rules (Reuters)

G20 Pushes Vaccine Passports For All Future International Travel

Association between Vitamin D supplementation and Covid infection and mortality “Among VA patients, vitamin D₃ and vitamin D₂ supplementation reduced the associated risk of COVID-19 infection by 20% and 28%, and COVID-19 infection ending in death within 30-days by 33% and 25%.”

Covid-19 rebound may be more common in people who take Paxlovid, early study suggests (CNN)

Support for Paxlovid Treatment in Older Patients; the Silver Lining to Amoxicillin Shortage; and an App Eases Cancer Fear (Medscape)

Tyson Foods ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees (Fox)

Fauci’s Pandemic Leadership Needs To Be Investigated: Dr. Scott Atlas

Before FTX collapse, founder poured millions into pandemic prevention (Washington Post) Nothing is easier than spending other people’s money.

The Road To Totalitarianism (Revisited)

Fired For Declining Vaccination, Ex-Washington State Coach Files Suit

NYC Halts Monkeypox Vaccine Van Program

U.N. publishes draft COP27 climate deal (Reuters)

Fight over aid for climate losses divides UN talks (Associated Press) GIVE US MONEY!

Can the world feed 8bn people sustainably? (The Guardian)

The world’s population has reached 8bn. Don’t panic (The Economist) Don’t take off your shoes!

Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel risks endangering net-zero goals (Nature)

What happened at Cop27 on day nine? (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

Pols who push electric cars ignore basic math and physics (N.Y. Post)

Climate Change Conference Walks Back 1.5-Degree Limit Goal

COP27 — Colombia Claims an Absurd $800 Billion a Year “Loss and Damage”  GIVE US MONEY!

“Green” Energy Circles the Drain

Extinction Rebellion Activists Have Worn Out Their Welcome And The Public Is Angry

Bureaucracy Is Blocking the Green Energy Revolution  (Wired ‘Science’) All in on ‘climate change’.

COP27 Climate Virtue-Signaling Boondoggle Ends In Failure, Leaves Out Fossil Fuel Pledge

UN Climate Summit Wants Climate Green Indoctrination in Schools

FLASHBACK: Founder of Climate Group Vandalizing Famous Paintings Said Holocaust was ‘Normal Event’

Impose climate tax on fossil fuel giants, media groups urge (The Guardian)

Rich countries are trying to hit pause on climate summit’s key issue (CNN) GIVE US MONEY!

Cop27: Paris agreement architects demand deal for nature – live (The Guiardian) Climate panic theater.

NASA Study: Rising Sea Level Could Exceed Estimates for U.S. Coasts (NASA) Call me when real estate prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vinyard start going down.

Rich nations stick to coal phase-out as China builds new plants (Reuters)

COP27: Talks on carbon market rules off to slow start (Reuters)

Decarbonization of US aviation sector ‘within reach’: study (The Hill) Just stop flying Easy peasy.

COP27: Oil pollution in Egypt threatens one of world’s few thriving coral reefs (BBC)

Biggest rainforest nations form triple alliance to save jungle (CNN)

Africa: The Place where Claims Renewables are Cheaper Go to Die

Welcome to COP27. Thank You for Not Protesting  (Wired ‘Science’) A reminder that protesters would get nowhere without the complicity of ‘authorities’.

Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel

Wrong Again: Al Gore Nobel Lecture Edition

CNN Hypes Dopey Global Warming ‘Name Change’ of ‘The Office’ Actor

Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 2

COVID in California: Newer variants cause more symptoms, study says (S.F. Chronicle)

BA.5 May Not Be the Dominant Variant Much Longer. Here’s Why and What That Means (NBC)

New round of free COVID tests available ahead of the holidays (CBS) Free to the user, that is, not free to the taxpayer.

U.S. FDA authorizes Roche’s monkeypox test (Reuters)

Australia recommends against fifth vaccine dose as fresh COVID wave builds (Reuters)

Europe faces ‘cancer epidemic’ after estimated 1m cases missed during Covid (The Guardian)

Sick with a new Omicron variant? Be prepared for this symptom, new study says (Fortune)

Moderna’s Spikevax carries higher risk of myocarditis than Pfizer’s Comirnaty, study says

NBC Pushes ‘Tripledemic’ Fear Mongering – Claims Children At Risk During The Holidays

Watch: NBC News Advises Parents To Keep Kids Away From “Unvaccinated Individuals” Apparently being unvaccinated is a communicable disease.

Moderna says new Covid booster better against omicron BA.5, triggers immune response against BQ.1.1 (CNBC)

CDC map puts 7 states in worst category for flu activity (The Hill)

As flu hospitalizations surge in the U.S., the Southeast is the hardest hit (CNBC)

CDC now tracking BN.1, the latest new COVID variant on the rise (CBC) Time to PANIC!

Team Biden’s extending the COVID emergency again — to expand the welfare state (N.Y. Post)

NBC Suggests Parents Stay Away From ‘Unvaccinated Individuals’ To Protect Children From Illness That Doesn’t Have Vaccine  I guess being unvaccinated counts as a disease in itself.

Pfizer And Moderna To Investigate Their Own Vaccines For Myocarditis Risks

‘It’s Coming Back!’ The View Panics Over COVID, Whoopi Got It AGAIN

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A writer for the proglodyte Brit tech site The Register actually drinks the Kool-Aid while we watch.

Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home.

Except that you don’t get to sit at the Cool Kids table by treating your employees well, but by pledging allegiance to the Narrative. You don’t actually have to do anything, just say you will.

I’ll believe it when I see him pass out the checks. And I want to see how much the hottie for whom he dumped his (lovely and talented) wife will wind up with.

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The Wuhan Coronavirus is the most dangerous and deadly disease in history — until it isn’t. When it becomes politically expedient for COVID-19 to disappear, then suddenly it is no longer mentioned.

A potent, broadly protective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (Nature)

COVID-19 Mortality In England “Extremely Rare” Among Under-20s: Official Study

White House to seek more covid funding in lame-duck session (Washington Post)

Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins

Germany warns its delegation of Egyptian spies at COP27 (Reuters)

COP27: Fears of compromise on key 1.5C global temperature issue (BBC)

Degrowth: A dangerous idea or the answer to the world’s biggest crisis? (CNN) The world’s biggest crisis is socialism. ‘Degrowth’ won’t do anything to solve that.

Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air (CNET)

The great climate migration has started. Are Bay State communities ready? (Boston Globe)

Mexico’s Pemex to work with EPA to bring down methane emissions (Reuters)

Germany to pull out of fossil fuel treaty (DW)

GMO skeptics still distrust big agriculture’s climate pitch (FRANCE 24)

Al Gore helped launch a global emissions tracker that keeps big polluters honest (NPR)

Australia risks being a ‘state sponsoring greenwashing’ if it relies on carbon offsets, expert warns (The Guardian)

How to slash carbon emissions while growing the economy, in one chart (Vox)

The British right’s hostility to climate action is deeply entrenched – and extremely dangerous (The Guardian)

‘Vaccination-style’ intervention needed to solve energy crisis, UK energy boss says (CNBC) More totalitarianism!

How human composting could reduce death’s carbon footprint (CNN) And, more importantly, erase the memory of those who have gone before.

Carbon offsets are making a comeback at COP27 (Quartz)

Climate Religion: Egypt’s Mount Sinai to receive ‘Climate Justice Ten Commandments’ during UN summit – Interfaith ‘Climate Repentance Ceremonies’

Why Climate Models Don’t Work

The BBC Defends Special People Flying Private Jets to COP27

Bezos Will Reportedly Spend Bulk of $124 Billion Net Worth Fighting ‘Climate Change’  Good luck with that.

Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks underway (NBC)

The comparative risk of myocarditis, pericarditis, and myopericarditis between BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 second doses (News-Medical)

University of Missouri scientists find viral mutations that help monkeypox spread (NPR)

New COVID variants are sending immunocompromised people like me back to solitary confinement (S.F. Chronicle)

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted on Twitter for dancing maskless around masked school kids (N.Y. Post) Rules are for thee but not for me.

Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England (Nature)

Protection From 4th Dose Of COVID Vaccine Wanes Completely Within Months: Study  Fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Some countries have resisted 1.5°C goal in COP27 text, US says (Reuters)

UN climate talks reach halftime with key issues unresolved (Associated Press)

To save the Congo basin rainforest, end the conflict in the DRC (Al-Jezeera) Easy to say; hard to do.

Canada, Nigeria target oil and gas methane emissions with new laws (Reuters) Oh, well, passing a law will certainly fix things.

Barcelona students to take mandatory climate crisis module from 2024 (The Guardian)

Report: Greenland ice sheet shows extensive inland thinning, faster sea level rise (AccuWeather)

India seeks COP27 deal to ‘phase down’ all fossil fuels (Reuters)

What is the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty? (The Guardian)

The biggest wild card in the climate crisis (CNN)

COP27: UAE and Egypt agree to build one of world’s biggest wind farms (Reuters) A great opportunity for graft.

To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness, Rainn Wilson Legally Changes Name To ‘Booby McBoobface’ (Babylon Bee)

Four HUNDRED Private Jets Attended the COP27 Climate Conference Rules are for thee but not for me.

Pakistan “Has No Option But To Ration” Nat Gas Supply This Winter

The Economist.

Since, in the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’, I have to agree.

‘Like Vegas, but worse’: Sharm el-Sheikh fails to charm Cop27 delegates (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Egypt’s human rights abuses overshadow COP27 conferenc (DW News)

Nineteen years after the ‘fart tax’, New Zealand’s farmers are fighting emissions (The Guardian)

Greenwashing COP27: Coke Is It (The Nation)

Is China doing enough to combat the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

What role does nuclear power play in the U.S. effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions? (NPR)

Rivers are drying up, but it’s not too late to help. Here’s where to start (CNN)

Hurricane Nicole a ‘warning shot’ over sea level rise, expert says (WPLG)

There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming (The Guadian) George Monbiot pushes the Narrative.

In Egypt, host of COP27, a small step toward green energy (Associated Press)

Republicans tout benefits of fossil fuels at climate talks (Associated Press)

Greenhouse gas emissions could be ‘three times higher’ than oil and gas producers claim (EuroNews)

Sotomayor rejects plea from NYC workers who lost their jobs due to COVID vaccine mandate (Fox) The ‘wise Latina’ is just another proglodyte statist.

Future Sea-Level Rise May Be Much Higher Than Thought – Ice Loss in Greenland “Vastly Underestimated” (SciTech Daily)

THE CURSE OF COP27

EU Needs $460 Billion Investment To Maintain Nuclear Power Capacity

U.S. COVID public health emergency to stay in place (Reuters)

Ancient Viruses Trapped in Permafrost for Thousands of Years Are Waking Up (Newsweek) Time to PANIC!

The Real Story Behind RSV & The So-Called “Tripledemic”

Coal miners slam Biden as White House walks back ‘shut down’ pledge: ‘Trying to destroy the country’ (Fox)

Here’s what happened on day 4 of the U.N.’s COP27 climate talks (NPR) GIVE US MONEY!

The inconvenient truth of Herman Daly: There is no economy without environment (The Conversation)

‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson changes name to bring awareness to climate crisis Oh, and, incidentally, to himself.

African nations tell COP27 fossil fuels will tackle poverty (Reuters) But still, GIVE US MONEY!

Europe scrambles for African gas

Homes are collapsing into the ocean in Florida. Here’s what’s behind the dangerous situation (CNN)

Exclusive: U.S. blocks more than 1,000 solar shipments over Chinese slave labor concerns (Reuters)

Here are 3 dangerous climate tipping points the world is on track for (NPR)

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future. (Vox)

How dash for African oil and gas could wipe out Congo basin tropical forests (The Guardian)

Congo Basin, world’s second-biggest rainforest, now reported to be facing rapid destruction (The Globe and Mail)

COP27: nuclear boss doesn’t expect surge in waste recycling (Reuters)

EPA to consider adopting stricter locomotive emissions rules in response to California regulators (Fox)

‘It takes more and more’: Camargue under threat from rising seas – photo essay (The Guardian)

Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7b, with worse to come

Bloomberg Claims Tropical Storm Nicole Made Stronger by Climate Change

The Warming that Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas

Washington State Ban on Natural Gas Heating Is All Cost, No Benefit

Democracy Dies in Climate Panic

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increased in 2022 as Crises Roiled Energy Markets (N.Y. Times)

Biden Announces Restrictions on Methane Emissions at COP27 (Wall Street Journal)

The Dirty Secrets inside the Black Box Climate Models

Glacier Saga

NYT Essayist with Soros Ties Pushes ‘Climate Reparations’ for ‘Third World Corruptocrats’

Senator Malcolm Roberts Challenges the Aussie Government to Prove CO2 is a Problem

Flu and colds are back with a vengeance — why now? (Nature) Because we need another PANIC!

4th COVID shot boosts antibodies for 13 weeks, Israeli study finds (Times of Israel)

‘We’re Not Permitted To Make The Connection’: Social Worker Shares Aftermath Of COVID Vaccine Injury

UK Man Sent To Prison For 6 Months For Serving Snacks At Club During Lockdown

Supreme Court’s Sotomayor Denies NYC Workers’ Bid To Halt Vax Mandate

6 Takeaways From House Freedom Caucus’ COVID-19 Hearing

Covid-19 Public-Health Emergency Status to Stay in Place (Wall Street Journal) They get so much power from the PANIC!

Could Barbados blueprint be a Marshall Plan for the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

New Study Indicates That We Are at a Catastrophic Ocean Warming “Tipping Point” (SciTechDaily)

EXCLUSIVE US, EU plan new pledge targeting oil and gas methane emissions – document (Reuters)

Growth of renewables puts them on par with nuclear in US (Ars Technica) Yeah, over-regulated and not financially viable without political subsidies.

Time for rich nations to face hard climate truths at Cop27 (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Weatherwatch: ‘spicier’ Arctic Ocean is causing alarm (The Guardian)

Serious concerns raised in NZ about environmental impact of major productions including Amazon’s Rings of Power (The Guardian)

Energy crisis: ‘My energy efficient home didn’t keep my family warm’ (BBC)

What Is Greenwashing, And Why Should It Really Annoy You? (IFLScience)

Explainer: Decoding COP27: the many shades of green bonds (Reuters)

Economic growth no longer means higher carbon emissions (The Economist)

German chemicals giant stockpiles coal to keep producing (Financial Times)

Extensive inland thinning and speed-up of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (Nature)

Melting Greenland ice sheet adds more to sea-level rise than previously thought (New Scientist)

COP27 Invited an Accused Narco-Terrorist – John Kerry Shook His Hand

Fossil Fuels for Africa! African Energy Chamber at COP 27  GIVE US MONEY ANYWAY!

The Latest COVID-19 Variants Can Evade Vaccine Protection, According to New Data (TIME)

MHRA grants approval for second Pfizer/Biontech bivalent Covid-19 booster vaccine (News-Medical.net)

Bird flu is a huge problem now – but we’re just one mutation away from it getting much worse (The Guardian)

Here’s what happened on day 3 of the U.N.’s COP27 climate talks (NPR) GIVE US MONEY!

Who should pay for climate change damage? (BBC) GIVE US MONEY!

Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim (The Guardian)

Sinking Pacific island nation issues historic call for treaty to phase out fossil fuels (CNBC)

COP27 Countries band together to keep forest promise (Reuters)

Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice (Wired)

Face it: Electric cars don’t do much of anything for the environment (N.Y. Post)

COP27: Polluters must pay for climate change, poor nations tell rich (Reuters) GIVE US MONEY!

Don’t get fossil fooled: EVs really are better for the climate (The Driven)

COP27 – Corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing – U.N. expert group (Reuters)

World’s ‘most potent greenhouse gas’ escaped during work on UK windfarm (The Guardian)

Amazon destruction woes overshadow Brazil’s farming advances (Financial Times)

Automakers, foreign governments seek changes to U.S. EV tax rules (Reuters)

Kuwait says to become carbon neutral in oil and gas by 2050 (Reuters)

Ex-Obama advisor says global events are overshadowing climate change efforts: ‘We are not acting swiftly enough’ (CNBC)

New Research Showing U.S. Warming is Exaggerated by 50 Percent

Climate Victimhood Comes to “Corruption House Number One”

COP27: A Meaningless Ritual for China and India

US Climate Envoy Kerry Announces New Carbon Market  GIVE US MONEY!

France legislated that parking lots for 80 cars must be covered by solar panels

Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change May Finally Get Their Due (Wired ‘Science’) GIVE US MONEY!

IPCC’s 1990 Predictions Were Even Worse Than We Thought

Bloomberg News Gives Platform to John Kerry to Declare ‘War’ on Climate Change as Midterms Wind Down

Why this could be a nasty flu season (S.F. Gate)

Flu Season Is Hitting US Earlier And Harder In 2022 (TODAY)

COVID cases are on the rise again this autumn. Here are the symptoms to look out for (Fortune)

Biden warned staffing shortages sparking exodus of emergency room physicians, nurses (The Hill)

Covid, flu, RSV: Here are the best masks and masking methods for protection against the ‘tripledemic’ (CNBC)

Researchers compare the risk of myocarditis between Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines (News-Medical)

Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly

Climate change threatening ‘things Americans value most,’ U.S. report says (Washington Post)

Report: Drastic changes needed for U.S. to stymie climate change’s effects (Axios)

World faces ‘terminal’ loss of Arctic sea ice during summers, report warns (The Guardian)

COP27: Loss of Arctic summer sea ice ‘inevitable’ within 30 years — report (Reuters)

COP27: Which countries will push to end fossil fuel production? And which won’t? (The Conversation)

Human rights case overshadows start of COP27 climate change summit in Egypt (PBS)

‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world (The Guardian)

They used to call California ocean desalination a disaster. But water crisis brings new look (L.A. Times)

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Herzog at COP27 summit: ‘Middle East is on the brink of catastrophe’ (Times of Israel) GIVE US MONEY!

EXCLUSIVE COP27: IMF chief says $75/ton carbon price needed by 2030 (Reuters)

Wanjira Mathai: ‘We’re only at a 1.2C world. Can you imagine how much worse it will get?’ (Financial Times)

NIST Breakthrough: Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks (SciTech Daily)

Matt Ridley: Green Zealots are Threatening Real Conservation

Macron Urges US, China To Pay Their “Fair Share” For Climate Change

Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice

Victims of the Faux Climate ‘Crisis’. Part I: Children

“We Are On A Highway To Climate Hell” But What Does Europe Really Want: Environmentalism Or Neoliberalism?

New Greta Thunberg Thermostat Scowls At You When Turning The Heat Up  (Babylon Bee)

Viral load dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants following multiple vaccine doses and previous infection (Nature)

Study identifies a potential pharmacological target for treating COVID-19-associated heart failure (News-Medical)

Quack COVID Group America’s Frontline Doctors Is Suing Its ‘Rogue Founder’ Simone Gold (Vice)

New mRNA vaccine for flu and COVID-19 enters human trials

Novavax Says Omicron Shot Shows Strong Immune Response

COVID truth and reconciliation

Leaked docs: Ugandan gov expects Ebola will escape control, 500 deaths by May  But they’re just Africans, so who cares?

Uncovering COVID-19’s Origin Just One of Many Pandemic Questions for Congress to Answer 

CDC Warns of Serious Infections From Dentists’ Water Lines

Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid, Veterans Affairs study finds (CNN)

Do new Covid ‘Scrabble’ variants make omicron boosters pointless? Here’s what experts say (CNBC)

New Corona “Cases” Mean Two More Years of Totalitarian Rule in New Zealand

WATCH: Whitmer Bails on Interview When Questioned About Pandemic Record

COP27: delegates weigh ‘climate compensation’ for poor nations impacted by global warming (Fox) GIVE US MONEY!

Question of compensation for poor on COP 27 agenda (Reuters)

Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing (Associated Press)

Exxon faces $2 billion loss on California oil property sale (Fox)

Climate crisis: past eight years were the eight hottest ever, says UN (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Fareed asks climate scientist about ‘surprising good news’ (CNN)

Analysis: Brazil’s Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap funding at COP27 (Reuters) GIVE US MONEY!

Climate activists block private jet runway at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam (CNN) Shoot a few and that would stop.

Against climate doomerism

“No More Drilling”: Climate Crusader Joe Biden Announces the End of Oil and Gas

Flakes On A Plane: Hundreds Of Climate Protesters Block Private Jets At Amsterdam Airport

Europeans Are Burning Trees to Keep Warm

Vietnam Gas Stations Start To Close Due To Widespread Shortages

UN: $2 Trillion Per Year Required for Climate Development  GIVE US MONEY!

Climate Expert Bjorn Lomborg Debunks Lancet’s Climate Doom Report: ‘Deliberately Deceptive’

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On Friday NBC’s Today show reported a story bearing on the assault on Paul Pelosi. Within a few hours the network deep-sixed the story with the comment that “it did not meet NBC News reporting standards.” We posted the memory-holed story via Twitter and noted NBC’s retraction here.

How did the story fail NBC News reporting standards? They didn’t say.

The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi spoke to “people at the network.” He mocks anyone who reiterated the story despite NBC’s mysterious “retraction.” Farhi’s story ran under the headline “NBC retracts erroneous Paul Pelosi story that fueled conspiracy theories.” Subhead: “People at the network said the ‘Today’ show report was based on ‘unreliable’ information from a source who was unnamed in the story.”

Note that Farhi’s sources (assuming they are plural as he says) remain unnamed in his story.

If NBC didn’t publish stories with ‘unnamed sources’ they wouldn’t have anything to publish.