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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
19th September 2021
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18th September 2021
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17th September 2021
Climate-Crusading Billionaires To Take Their Private Jets To Davos Again Next Year
Two Large Polluter Nation Leaders Skip Climate Change Follow-up My, what a surprise.
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16th September 2021
World’s Biggest Battery In California Overheats, Shuts Down
Still waiting for two thirds of polar bears worldwide to disappear due to lack of summer sea ice
After Two Recalls, GM Finally Just Tells Bolt EV Owners: “Don’t Park Your Car Within 50 Feet Of Another Car”
Renewable Britain Undersea Cable Failure Sends Electricity Prices Soaring
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16th September 2021
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Bullshit. No ‘computer or data scientist’ ever put his life on the line while sitting at a desk pounding a keyboard. There’s a reason we honor warriors.
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15th September 2021
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14th September 2021
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14th September 2021
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It’s been nearly a week since a former field organizer for the Washington State Democrats was found guilty of terrorist attacks and violence against a railroad carrier; and so far, the liberal TV networks have not given the story a solitary second of airtime.
In December of 2020, antifa “activists” Samantha Frances Brooks and Ellen Brennan Reiche were indicted on terror charges after placing disrupting cables (or shunts) on train tracks near Bellingham, Washington. This caused a train carrying hazardous materials to decouple from some of its cars, which, according to authorities, could have led to a dangerous derailment in a residential area.
Yet despite the media’s professed interest in domestic terrorism stories, they refuse to give this one any coverage whatsoever. None of the liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) or broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have breathed so much as a word about this story as of September 14.
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13th September 2021
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12th September 2021
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11th September 2021
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9th September 2021
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7th September 2021
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6th September 2021
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6th September 2021
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Another My Safari Among The Dirt People thumb-sucker in the New York Times.
I suspect that they give these assignments to new staff members from Flyover Country to make sure that their heads are in the right place, like a Communist self-criticism session.
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5th September 2021
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5th September 2021
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It was seven years ago that Rolling Stone magazine ran the 9,000-word cover story on an alleged rape at the University of Virginia that turned out to be a complete hoax. (File it next to Dan Rather’s Texas Air National Guard story.)
Well, it looks like Rolling Stone has done it again. I don’t know what’s up with the controversy over the use of ivermectin, normally a drug treatment for de-worming horses, as a COVID treatment, but Rolling Stone has a long piece up claiming that an Oklahoma hospital is having to treat large numbers of ivermectin overdoses, and denying hospital beds for patients with other medical needs.
There’s only one problem with the story: It is almost certainly fake news.
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4th September 2021
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4th September 2021
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It isn’t easy to assemble the entire Squad in one place, but reportedly it happened today in Minneapolis. The Squad held a press conference to demand that President Biden revoke the permit to construct Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement pipeline. As usual, the activists’ claims are hysterical.
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One of the ironies here is that Line 3 will replace an existing pipeline. It incorporates modern anti-leak technologies and will be much better for the environment than the existing line. Nonetheless, Congresswoman Omar deems the pipeline a threat to wild rice.
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3rd September 2021
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2nd September 2021
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1st September 2021
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Reporters like to imagine themselves as the nation’s most powerful defenders of democracy, and on occasion, project themselves as enforcers of political civility. If all that were true, then they might report critically on violent extremists of any ideological stripe, who find their joy in bringing anarchy and disorder. Sadly, some violent extremists are more celebrated than scorned.
On August 25, Reuters investigative journalist Aram Roston profiled Nicole Armbruster, a self-proclaimed “anti-fascist” who is putting her “body on the line” against fascism and racism. They call this “rare insight” into this movement, but instead, it’s just letting a violent radical activist explain herself.
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31st August 2021
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31st August 2021
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30th August 2021
Democrats face big decision on agriculture in climate change fight
New Generation of Climate Models: Increased Snowfall Will Offset Sea Level Rise From Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet
How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets Note: An ‘education scholarship’ of $50,000 will last one and a half semesters at one of the Ivy League schools.
A program that pays farmers not to farm isn’t saving the planet (Politico) If the government would quit subsidizing food prices, the price would drop to where half of the people now farming couldn’t afford it and would have to do something else, thereby producing the same effect as paying people not to farm. Most government programs are merely expensive (to the taxpayer) ways of trying to fix the bad effects of earlier stupid government programs.
County Supervisors Blame Bad Policies – Not Climate Change – For California Wildfires
Update On The International Efforts To Save The Planet Through Climate Litigation
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30th August 2021
The Guardian.
Needless to say, this is not ‘the end of phone calls’, merely the end of phones ringing in public and disturbing the peace. I’ve kept my phone on vibrate for the last 20 years because disturbing other people when I get a call isn’t one of my values.
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29th August 2021
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28th August 2021
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Just a reminder: all talk of any insurrection, any danger to the Republic, any danger to life and limb during the mostly peaceful protest on January 6th is a hoax, brought to you by the same folks who brought you the 2020 Election Hoax, Russian Collusion Hoax, the First Impeachment Hoax, the Second Impeachment Hoax, the “Fine People” Hoax, the “No Wu Han Lab” Hoax, the Lafayette Park Gas Hoax, the George Floyd Hoax, the Jussie Smollett Hoax, the Covington Catholic Kids Hoax, the Trayvon Martin Hoax, countless variations on the Systemic Racism Hoax, not to mention the Global Warming Hoax, the Silent Spring Hoax, the Kinsey Report Hoax. It is an unbroken pattern going all the way back to Walter Winchell reporting that there is no famine in Ukraine.
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28th August 2021
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27th August 2021
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26th August 2021
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25th August 2021
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25th August 2021
The New York Times is not afraid to tackle the hard issues.
You can get cotton bags pretty much everywhere. How did an environmental solution become part of the problem?
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24th August 2021
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23rd August 2021
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23rd August 2021
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Why is a ‘wealth gap’ a bad thing? Nobody says, nobody cares: It Just Is.
Why is ‘income inequality’ a bad thing? Nobody says nobody cares: It just is.
Since when are ‘wealth gap’ and ‘income inequality’ the same thing? Nobody says, nobody cares: They Just Are.
The one common thread to the supposed solutions is action on the part of government, because, as we all know, if government doesn’t do it, it won’t get done.
Modern journalism is about as deep as a coat of paint. And they wonder why newspapers can’t make any money….
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22nd August 2021
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That’s right, those beasts don’t even need a driver, they just climb up the sidewalk by themselves and run over people.
In the proglodyte playbook, no individual has agency; therefore access to ‘dangerous’ objects must be curtailed lest our civilization fall. You’re too stupid to be responsible for your own actions, Comrade, so we must make your decisions for you.
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22nd August 2021
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22nd August 2021
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“Follow the Science!” “Which one?”
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21st August 2021
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21st August 2021
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It was obvious to any sentient observer in 2020. In defending himself on Afghanistan, Joe Biden fumbled his words, made weird comments and generally didn’t seem up to the job of being president. And the media pretended there was nothing to see. This week Newsmax host Greg Kelly took the problem head on from a media perspective.
Afghanistan, Kelly observed with accompanying quite vivid video, “is a full blown disaster.” Which is most decidedly true.
After a video montage of Biden doing his bizarre kissing and hair-smelling routines, Kelly zeroed in again on Biden’s competence — and the media.
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21st August 2021
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CNN gushing over a Democratic president didn’t start with Joe Biden Biden or even Barack Obama. You have to go back all the way to Bill Clinton to see the birth of the cable channel’s love affair with liberal presidents. It was 20 years ago this week that CNN produced a syrupy, vomit-inducing valentine to Bill Clinton comparing him to, yes, Elvis Presley. Then-senior political analyst Bill Schneider gushed over the two “brothers under the skin.”
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20th August 2021
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19th August 2021
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18th August 2021
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18th August 2021
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Four summers ago, the network evening news shows obsessed over Donald Trump Jr. attending a brief and ineffective meeting with Russians in Trump Tower in 2016. He hoped to get “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, but nothing came of it. ABC, CBS, and NBC offered viewers more than 62 minutes of coverage energetically speculating over collusion with the Russians in just four nights in July.
On August 11, the Daily Mail of London reported “Hunter Biden claimed Russians stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Las Vegas hotel room.” Coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC? Nothing. Zero. The story underlined this alleged theft “would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers — the first abandoned at a Delaware computer store and the second seized by federal agents.”
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17th August 2021
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17th August 2021
Joseph Bernstein in Harper’s tries to push an increasingly shabby narrative.
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours of work and turn on his television and know where he stood in relation to his wife, and his children, and his neighbors, and his town, and his country, and his world. And that was good. Or he could open the local paper in the morning in the ritual fashion, taking his civic communion with his coffee, and know that identical scenes were unfolding in households across the country.
Over frequencies our American never tuned in to, red-baiting, ultra-right-wing radio preachers hyperventilated to millions. In magazines and books he didn’t read, elites fretted at great length about the dislocating effects of television. And for people who didn’t look like him, the media had hardly anything to say at all. But our man lived in an Eden, not because it was unspoiled, but because he hadn’t considered any other state of affairs. For him, information was in its right—that is to say, unquestioned—place. And that was good, too.
And then things went to Hell because the Establishment gatekeepers lost control of the gates. Pity Party!
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16th August 2021
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15th August 2021
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