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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

4th January 2021

The Great Reset, Part II: Corporate Socialism

China Reportedly Threatens Retaliation Against Hong Kong Activists’ Lawyers

Firearms Prohibited In DC During Pro-Trump Protests, Police Say

CNN Does PR for Warnock in Interview: GOP Attacks On Him Are ‘Out of Context’

Party Of Progress Votes In 298-Year-Old Speaker  Babylon Bee.

Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism  Couldn’t happen to a nicer company.

China excludes elderly from vaccine rollout

DC Police to Contact Rep. Boebert About Bringing Glock to Capitol

230 Google Workers Form Silicon Valley’s First Union To Force Management To Embrace Their Progressive “Values”

NY Assemblyman Defends Bill Permitting Detainment Of Carriers Of “Contagious Disease”

Top 10 Worst Cases of Big Tech Censorship in 2020

Media Skip Mockery of Dem Congressman’s Woke ‘Amen and Awoman’ Prayer

Man Wielding Bat Goes On GTA-Style Crime Spree In Lower Manhattan  Time to leave.

 

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Squatters Issue Death Threats to Archaeologist Who Discovered Oldest City in the Americas

4th January 2021

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The Indiana Jones defense: ‘It belongs in a museum’ trumps any property right you might think you have.

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3rd January 2021

Portland Mayor Slams ‘Antifa, Anarchists’ After NYE Riot

Proposed House Rules Seek To Erase Gendered-Terms Such As ‘Father’, ‘Mother’, ‘Son’, & ‘Daughter’

84 Reps Want To Keep Ability To Carry Guns In Capitol, Say DC Is Unsafe  I know I would.

7 Charged with Felonies in Vandalism to Federal Buildings

Pelosi, Who Just Announced Elimination Of Gendered Family Terms In House Rules, Still Has ‘Mother, Grandmother’ In Her Twitter Bio

McConnell’s Home Vandalized Over Blockage of Stimulus Checks

Facebook Shuts Down Page For GOP Senate Campaigns Just Before Georgia Runoffs  Bias? What bias?

Dramatic Video Shows Unmasked Canadian Cops Bust Illegal Gathering Of Family During New Years

Chuck Todd RAGES at GOP Senator When Confronted on His Liberal Bias

It Took Six Months Of Rioting, Millions In Property Damage For Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler To Escalate Law Enforcement Efforts Against Antifa  Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd January 2021

The triumph of the Trump doctrine

Election Challenges, Then and Now

Remember When The Democrats Challenged The Electoral Vote Count In 3 Elections Over 20 Years?

 

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Scientists Believe US Embassy Staff and CIA Officers Were Hit With High-Power Microwaves – Here’s How the Weapons Work

3rd January 2021

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The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power microwaves, according to a report released by the National Academies. A committee of 19 experts in medicine and other fields concluded that directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy is the “most plausible mechanism” to explain the illness, dubbed Havana syndrome.

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2nd January 2021

Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple

LA Deputies File Suit Against New DA As Judge Defies “Sweetheart” Deal In Gang Murder Case

Gordon Chang: ‘China Has Been Harming Americans’ for Long Time

Vandals Damage Federal Buildings in Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve; 7 Arrested

Proposed House Rules Eliminate Gendered Terms Like ‘Father’ And ‘Daughter’

NYT: Covering the Elites, Or Covering *for* the Elites?

No Mocking CNN on Facebook! Humorless USA Today Fact-Check INTERN Squashes It

Facebook Shuts Down Ad Account For Republican Fundraising Committee 4 Days Before Georgia Runoffs  Bias? What bias?

Black Bloc Protestors Arrested With Molotov Cocktails After Vandalizing Federal Buildings

Seattle Bill Could ‘Legalize Crime’ For Those In Poverty Or With Behavioral Issues

Pelosi’s San Francisco Home Vandalized  The biter bit.

What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

Who Do New Yorkers Dislike More, Gov. Cuomo Or Mayor De Blasio?

AP Warns of ‘Hard-Line, ‘Hard-Right’ Georgia Republicans and Their Socialist ‘Caricatures’

 

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Skepticism and Silence: ‘Cancel Culture’ and America’s Growing Political Crisis

2nd January 2021

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

One of the things that separates 21st-century Americans from previous generations is a loss of liberty that few acknowledge. In particular, Americans have abandoned their First Amendment right to express their opinions, due to fear of what has become known as “cancel culture.”

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I’m Starting to Notice a Pattern …

1st January 2021

Steve Sailer.

It’s New Year’s Day, when we gather round to read local newspaper accounts of their murderously record-setting 2020.

Urban murder is a booming business.

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1st January 2021

Portland Rioters Attack Federal Courthouse With Molotovs On New Year’s Eve

De Blasio Dances With Wife In Times Square After Shutting It Down To The Public For New Years

A Broken Glass Rerun

‘Everyone Hates You’: Meghan McCain Flames Bill De Blasio Over ‘Private Party’ In Times Square

 

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31st December 2020

As Anti-Cop Protests Continue, Americans Are Murdering Each Other In Record Numbers

David March: Democrats Outraged as Republicans Do the Exact Same Thing They Do

The Threat of Authoritarianism In The U.S. Is Very Real, And Has Nothing To Do With Trump: Greenwald

Enough Already With Using Cartoons and Cookies to Sell LGBTQ Agenda to Kids

It’s Interesting How The Violent Riots Of 2020 Ended Right After The Election

British PM Johnson’s Father Applying for French Citizenship

Transgender Terrorism: Seattle Antifa Weirdo Charged in Firebombing

2019 Teacher Of The Year Calls Rand Paul’s Neighbor-Attacker A ‘Hero,’ Suggests Mitch McConnell’s Neighbors ‘Step Up’

Twitter Refuses To Flag Ossoff’s False Accusation That ‘Kelly Loeffler Campaigned With A Klansman’

Georgia Judge (Sister Of Top Democrat) Reverses Order To End Voter Roll Clean-Up

‘2020 Will End as One of America’s Most Violent Years in Decades’

 

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30th December 2020

Poll: Vast Majority Of Republicans Say Trump Should Be Model For GOP

‘Senseless,’ ‘Appalling Precedent’: Environmental Activists Sue Trump Over Dishwashers

Will Big Tech De-Platform A Citizen Trump?

CNN’s Jim Acosta roasted for saying covering Trump was ‘nonstop national emergency,’ ‘might merit hazard pay’

UN Says President Trump’s Pardon Of Blackwater Contractors Convicted Of Killing Iraqis Violates International Law  Oh? What law is that?

 

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30th December 2020

Georgia Judge (Sister Of Top Democrat) Orders End To Voter Roll Clean-Up

DC Hotel Cancels Proud Boys’ Reservations Ahead of Protest

Charlie Baker Vetoed A Bill Lowering The Age Teen Girls Can Get Abortions, But Democrats Made It Law Anyways

Murder Surged In New York City During 2020, And Police Suggest Defund The Police Might Have Something To Do With It

Michigan Governor Vetoes $220 Million In Unemployment Funding, Calling It A Tax Break For Big Business

Donors Fueling Bid to Recall California Gov. Newsom

Portland Homicides Reach Highest Level In 3 Decades After Gun Violence Task Force Disbanded

China Jails 10 Hong Kong Democracy Activists for Up to Three Years

Hollywood Fights to Free Muggers and Killers – and Lock Up Those Who Steal Their Movies

‘Coup Attempt’: Klobuchar Goes After Hawley For Objection To Electoral College Certification Process On January 6

Wealthy Celebrities Flock to Georgia to Help Elect Two Left-Wing Democrats

Homeless Antifa Group Occupies Tacoma Motel

 

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Argentina Legalises Abortion in Landmark Moment for Women’s Rights

30th December 2020

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Ponder the corruption of a world in which letting mothers kill their innocent unborn children is hailed as a ‘landmark moment for women’s rights’.

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Miscellania

30th December 2020

Severian does a little wandering.

I remember the last time a Literally Hitler was turfed out of office. It was 2009, and President Sort-of-God was all set to lead us into the Age of Aquarius. The seas stopped rising, the planet began to heal, and, of course, race relations were never again a problem. All that aside, the real fun was watching the dawning horror in the Left’s eyes as they realized, as a rapper might’ve put it, that presidentin’ be hard, yo. After eight years of blaming every conceivable thing on Literally Hitler, now they’d have to confront the fact that they were in charge, and their coalition of weirdos-who-hate-each-other — previously unified solely by their mutual hate of Literally Hitler — would begin demanding incompatible things. One wonders how the very sane and totally not hysterical young lady who proclaimed her houseplants to be “a tiny national park that Donald Trump can’t destroy” will fare under the Bidenreich?

The link is to David Thompson’s excellent takedown of the original Salon piece, but if you click on it — the Salon piece — you’ll see that it’s illustrated with a stock photo of a very White person. Your houseplants are now safe from the Bad Orange Man, Sugar Tits, but how do you think you, personally, are going to fare under Komrade Kamala? I remember some very sad young wymyns learning some shoulda-been-obvious lessons the last time we put an Angry Negro (if that isn’t redundant) in the big chair. They learned nothing, of course — if they were capable of perceiving the obvious consequences of their actions, they wouldn’t be Leftists — and I don’t expect you will, either… but it’ll be fun watching you suffer.

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29th December 2020

Anti-America, Anti-Trump, ‘Anti-Racist’: The 5 Most Politically-Biased Courses Of 2020

What We Get Wrong About America’s Crisis of Democracy (The New Yorker)

Rich Americans hurry to move money now

Nets Hide Fact Dem Warnock Oversaw Camp that Abused Kids for Years

KILEY: We Are Winning The Fight To Recall Governor Newsom

Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Lockdown Policies Discriminated Against Places Of Worship

iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers, says report

Leftist GA Dems Ossoff and Warnock Get Millions from NY & CA

Shootings in Portland, Oregon, Have More Than Doubled This Year

 

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People Smugglers Forcing Women and Children to Steer Boats Across Channel in Bid to Avoid Arrest

29th December 2020

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There have been a record 8,300 people arrive in small boat this year.

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28th December 2020

CBS Puts a Positive Spin on Illegal Immigration Numbers for 2020

Beware: New Civics Mandates Will Be Woke

Scottish Feminists Succeed in Scrapping Transgender Hospital Policy

China Sentences Citizen-Journalist For Challenging China’s State COVID-19 Narrative

Biden Coronavirus Adviser Celine Grounder Says He Will Invoke Defense Production Act To Surge Vaccine Production

The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump  Glenn Greenwald.

Democrat Governors Freed the Criminals and Killed the Elderly

Spain Plans Registry For Those Who Refuse COVID Vaccine

Former NY Gov. Pataki: State Has Been ‘Horribly Misgoverned’

Biden COVID Advisor Urges More “Genomic Surveillance” Necessary To Stop Mutant COVID Strains

Appeals Court Blocks NY Governor’s Limits on Religious Gatherings

 

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Most Nets Skipped: ABC, Fox Show Video of Cop Shot by Handcuffed Suspect

28th December 2020

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While Fox News Channel has run a number reports on a manhunt for a man who shot a police officer during an arrest in Pennsylvania, the other networks have mostly ignored the story in spite of there being video of the shooting. It must not match the narrative when police officers are endangered by suspects. They prefer to harp on suspects endangered by police.

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The Mob Comes for Prof. George

28th December 2020

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The woke totalitarian mob has come for Professor Robert George at Princeton. The offense he committed was in the form of a poll question posed via Twitter.

 

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27th December 2020

Girl Scouts Rebuke Boy Scouts in Escalating Recruitment War

Amazon Hires Lobbying Firm Connected To Biden’s Top White House Adviser

Bernie Sanders Dodges Jon Karl’s Question On Whether It Was ‘A Mistake’ To Turn Down Original Stimulus Proposal

Illegal Immigrants In Virginia Can Apply For Driver Privilege Cards Starting Jan. 1

A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You

Norway outlaws hate speech against trans people  “Hate speech” meaning anything that a possible victim construes as criticism.

California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M  Your tax dollars at work.

“Their Careers Are Over”: Cornell Student Reps Targeted For Opposing Efforts To Defund/Disarm Campus Cops

 

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25th December 2020

South Asian Group Targets Perdue for Mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ Name  I am not making this up.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Complains About Rudolph, The Misgendered Reindeer

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Slams GOP ‘Jerks’ After Rubio, McConnell Get Vaccine

BBC Publishes Cringe Guide For “Talking To Conspiracy Theorist Relatives” At Christmas

 

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24th December 2020

British Government Contracts Firms To Make COVID “Freedom Passports”

The ‘Squad’ Managed To Tank Democratic House Races — And Gain Influence

While Congress Squabbles over $2k, They Packed the Stimulus Bill with Pork

CNN: Amend Constitution To Prevent Trump Or Anyone Like Him Having Power Again

 

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Contrast Between New York And Florida

24th December 2020

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Florida shows us all what basic competent state government looks like. The extreme lack of competence in New York is simply shocking.

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23rd December 2020

Rich Americans Scramble To Move Money Ahead Of Biden Tax Hikes

Cuomo Enacts Automatic Voter Registration To Ease New York Voter Sign Up  Automating future vote fraud.

Losing Democratic Candidate Who Is Asking House To Intervene In Election Was On Chinese Payrolls, Financial Disclosures Show

Omar, Tlaib and AOC Demand Facebook Remove 100% of ‘Anti-Muslim Content’

The Top ‘Owners’ Of America’s President-Elect Joe Biden

Google Warned Scientists About Disclosing AI Research on Race, Gender, Facial Analysis

Gavin Newsom Appoints First Latino California Senator, Gets Slammed For Reducing Black Women ‘From One To Zero’  Except that Jumbalaya Harris isn’t black.

New Jersey Challenges New York Tax on Residents Working Remotely

Spotify Employee Accused of Deleting Joe Rogan’s Alex Jones Interview

Miracle: Government Feeds Five People With Just 2.3 Trillion Loaves And Fishes  Babylon Bee.

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Says Police Will Visit UK Travelers To Confirm They’re Quarantining

Blackburn: House Democrats Used Stimulus Bill as ‘Pathway to Socialism’

REPORT: Cops Quitting At ‘Unprecedented’ Numbers In Portland

NJ Joins New Hampshire in Commuter Income Tax Case

 

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On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission

23rd December 2020

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But the line between satire and sincerity has become blurry on this issue. Last Thursday, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), widely considered to be the world’s most prestigious medical journal, published an article entitled Failed Assignments—Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates, arguing that (in the words of the abstract) “sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people.” The resemblance to Titania McGrath’s 2018-era Twitter feed is uncanny. Two of the authors are doctors. The third, Jessica A. Clarke, is a law school professor who seeks to remake our legal system so as to “recognize nonbinary gender identities or eliminate unnecessary legal sex classifications.”

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Woman Charged For Making Threats Towards Republican Official’s Family Over Election Results

23rd December 2020

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A woman was charged with making a threat of violence against a Republican election official in Michigan, federal authorities announced Wednesday.

Katelyn Jones, 23, allegedly sent threatening photos and messages to Monica Palmer of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, the FBI wrote in a court filing cited by the Associated Press (AP). Jones reportedly sent Palmer graphic photographs of a dead woman’s naked, bloody body and threatened the safety of Palmer’s family.

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22nd December 2020

DeBlasio Mocks Fox, Doubles Down On ‘Mission To Redistribute Wealth’

Tech Billionaire Who Bankrolled Numerous Disinformation Projects Linked To $620,000 Donation To Fusion GPS’s Legal Fund

CNN’s Stelter: Right-Wing Media Guilty of ‘Radicalization’

‘Blueprint for Positive Change’ Exposes the Left’s Plans for Conservatives

Spending Package That Included The Coronavirus Stimulus Increases Illegal Streaming Penalties  Because you can’t let a crisis go to waste (unless it’s taxpayer money, then it’s okay to waste).

Cartoons Are the Left’s New Weapon to Target Your Kids

Amazon’s surveillance drones violate FCC rules

Welfare for Journalists

China Using WeChat App to Suppress Dissidents, Justify Arrests

Twitter Refuses To Say Why It’s Promoting A Chinese Tech Group That Allegedly Tracks Uighers

 

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21st December 2020

Romney: GOP Has Strayed From Placing Importance on Character of Its Leaders  Fuck character if it means the guy can’t get anything good done. Like Mitt.

Joe Biden Appears To Outperform In Counties Using Dominion Or HART Voting Machines: Data Analyst

More Censorship! Abdul-Jabbar: Conservatives Deserve Backlash, Cancellation

Big Tech’s Stealth Push to Influence the Biden Administration  They have learned the Microsoft Lesson: You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

25 Times Big Tech Claimed They Censored Conservatives by Mistake

Rich Americans Who Fear Higher Taxes Hurry to Move Money Now

Affluent Families Ditch Public Schools, Widening US Inequality  That’s because public schools aren’t worth shit, and anybody who can avoid them does.

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 543 Times, But Never Biden

Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea

Report: Fishing Boat Captain Publicly Executed In North Korea For Listening To American Radio

Twitter Plans to Censor Posts on COVID-19 Vaccines It Deems Misinfo

How Chinese Honeypots Are Used In Spy Operations

 

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Texas Suit Challenges Legality of DACA

21st December 2020

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According to the Journal, Texas and 8 other GOP-led states will ask a federal court Tuesday to deem the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful.

The Trump administration tried to end the program back in 2017, but faced legal hurdles. This summer, the Supreme Court determined the Trump administration did not follow proper protocol to end the program.

Texas filed its legal suit against DACA in 2018. The Journal reports the case was put on hold as other lawsuits attempting to stop the Trump administration from ending the program made their way through the courts.

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Russian Agent Tricked Into Revealing Plot to Poison Navalny

21st December 2020

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One of the Russian agents who followed opposition leader Alexei Navalny before he was poisoned in August was tricked into revealing details of the operation in a phone conversation with Navalny himself, CNN reported on Monday.

Konstantin Kudryavtsev, the agent who belonged to an elite toxins team in Russia’s Federal Security Service, apparently thought he was speaking to an official in Russia’s National Security Council, but instead was talking to Navalny himself, who almost died in the operation.

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20th December 2020

Protect Election Integrity – Censor Anyone Who Questions the Election

CNN’s Tapper Fails to Press Buttigieg on Pothole Blunders as Mayor  They all focus on what he is rather than what he’s done.

WaPo Publishes Cartoon Depicting Republican Lawmakers As Rats Who Tried To ‘Subvert The Constitution’  As opposed to the Democrat rats who are already doing so.

Former Wisconsin Judge: ‘Our Court System Has Been Deeply Intimidated by the Left’

MSNBC Paints Georgia Runoff System as Racist, Ignores California

 

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19th December 2020

China Lies About Its Wrongdoing on COVID, Spying, Global Aggression, Pollution, and More

FLASHBACK: Remember When Celebs Rejected the 2016 Election and the Media Cheered?

What Debra Messing’s HATE Reveals About the Censor-Loving Left

California plan for a wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days/year in the state  Not content with shooting themselves in one foot, they are now starting on the other. (I doubt that this will pass constitutional muster.)

Facebook, Twitter Revert To Pre-Election News Feed Algos After Their Preferred Candidate Wins Election

Washington Post Reporter Admits Most Latinos Dislike the Term ‘Latinx’

The 12 Days of Wokeness

 

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Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular

19th December 2020

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Take what happened with spinal fusion, an operation that welds together adjacent vertebrae to relieve back pain from worn-out discs. Unlike most operations, it actually was tested in four clinical trials. The conclusion: Surgery was no better than alternative nonsurgical treatments, like supervised exercise and therapy to help patients deal with their fear of back pain. In both groups, the pain usually diminished or went away.

The studies were completed by the early 2000s and should have been enough to greatly limit or stop the surgery, says Dr. Richard Deyo, professor of evidence-based medicine at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. But that did not happen, according to a recent report. Instead, spinal fusion rates increased — the clinical trials had little effect.

This ought to break you of any impulse to trust what medical professionals say.

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The Long Shadow of the Identity Politics ‘Constitution’

18th December 2020

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Some governing areas fall neatly under easily recognized policy umbrellas. Relations with other countries come under the auspices of “foreign policy,” and when those relations break down and things end in a shooting war, then the “defense policy” folks come to the forefront.

Not so with one of the most important areas of life today: identity politics.

In this view, America is not a country where the individual is the main agent—one who, because of his very existence possesses individual rights derived from his creator and/or his human nature.

Instead, it’s one where membership in official categories (based on sex, race, etc.) is the identity that matters when it comes to rights, responsibilities, and everything else.

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17th December 2020

‘Squad’ Member Cori Bush Wants Biden To Grant Clemency To Everybody On Death Row

‘Inappropriate Content’: PA Attorney General Tells His Kids ‘To Avert Their Eyes’ When MyPillow’s Mike Lindell Is On TV

Paris Mayor Says It’s ‘Absurd’ City Has Been Fined For Hiring Almost Exclusively Women

BIZARRO WORLD: Journalism Award Named After Dan Rather?

And now, the Dan Rather Medals

Report: Zuckerberg Money Used in Violation of Federal Election Law

Biden Names As “Climate Czar” Former EPA Chief Blamed For Flint Water Crisis

Anti-Cop Climate Sparks NYPD Exodus 

Ninth Circuit to Nevada: You can’t treat churches worse than casinos

“The State Has Provided No Evidence”: San Diego Judge Nukes Newsom’s Lockdown For Strip Clubs And Restaurants

When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed

GAO Asks Court to Compel New Mexico AG to Stop Stonewalling in Discovery, Provide Answers to Questions About Work with Activists and Activist AGs

DC Mayor Backs Down Following Catholic Church Lawsuit, Eases Restrictions On Churches Ahead Of Christmas

Despite Being Closed, San Diego Schools Descend Into Wokeness

Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms

Transgender Ohio Residents Can Change Birth Certificates, Judge Rules

Vogue Fawns: NBC Anchors ‘Won the 2020 Election Coverage’

CNN Silent on Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Andrew Cuomo

Poll: Literally The Only Political Demographic That Mostly Does Not Take Pride In Being American Is ‘Progressive Activists’

 

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16th December 2020

Politicizing Business: From CSR to ESG

Speaker Pelosi Says Masks Required to Speak on House Floor

LGBT Activist Calls For All Children To Be Put On Puberty Blockers

Pelosi: House Members “Will Not Be Recognized Unless They Are Wearing A Mask”

Facebook Gives In, Allows Some Political Ads After Leftist Whining

Andrew Cuomo Continues His Assault on the First Amendment

Border Officials Fear Rush of Illegal Immigration

Biden’s Reported Pick For Energy Secretary Boosted ‘Pee Tape,’ Kavanaugh Gang Rape Conspiracy Theories

Ninth Circuit Rules Church Attendance Limit In Nevada Unconstitutional

 

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Cornell Student Government Removes 2 for Not Voting to Defund Police

16th December 2020

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The Student Assembly on Dec. 8 removed Annie Gleiberman for voting against a resolution to disarm the university’s police department, saying she condoned “acts of racism, physical aggression, and emotional violence” by voting against the resolution.

And when a fellow executive rep, Morgan Baker, said she wouldn’t vote for it either — becoming a procedural block because a unanimous vote was needed — members temporarily removed her to get to a unanimous tally, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

Training to be proper Inner Party apparatchiks.

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Google’s YouTube Shuts Down Dilbert Creator Scott Adams

16th December 2020

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Google-owned YouTube shut down Dilbert Comic strip creator Scott Adams on Friday, stripping a video off the platform from the podcaster’s channel without warning.

“Google (YouTube) just shut me down,” Adams wrote on Twitter featuring a screenshot of the message from YouTube. “The video they deleted is no different from all of my other content. I assume they’ll come for the other videos soon.”

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15th December 2020

Democrats Have a Problem. ‘Workers, Wages, Weed’ May Be the Answer.  (New York Magazine) I guess ‘Bread and Circuses’ doesn’t cut it any more.

Michigan AG Accuses Republicans Supporting Trump Lawsuits of Violating Their Oaths of Office Like being called ugly by a frog.

Doomsday bunker firm says Covid has fuelled 2,000% rise in interest with customers terrified of government

The Proud Boys really thought they could terrorize our city. As if. (Washington Post) It was really Antifa!

Forensic auditors find shocking 68% error rate in one Michigan county’s votes

Calls for Alex Jones to be Arrested after Speech about Removing Biden (Newsweek) Gee, nobody called for the arrest of people who wanted to remove Trump.

Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong

Wall Street firms, demonized by Cuomo, de Blasio, ramp up NYC exodus plans

Recall Gov. Newsom Campaign Gains Traction In California

N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record

Where’s Hunter? Biden Scandal Still AWOL from Network News

NY Times HATES Half of America: Friedman Slams GOP as ‘Cancer,’ ‘at War With Democracy’  But you knew that.

MSNBC: You Know What We Need? More Andrew Cuomo Leadership!

Rogue US Attorneys Coming to a City Near You?

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Church, Bars State From Restricting Worship

AOC, Omar, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals

International Criminal Court Says It Won’t Investigate China For Detention Of Muslims

Chinese Spy Assigned To Date Eric Swalwell Begs To Be Sent To Labor Camp Instead  Babylon Bee.

Convicted Murderer Illegally In US Released Onto Streets Despite ICE Detainer

Vote Machine Company Threatens Legal Action Against Conservative Media

Facebook Unbans Political Ads In Georgia, But Only For ‘Authorized’ Advertisers

 

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14th December 2020

After 105 Years, Cleveland Will Drop ‘Indians’ From Baseball Team Name

Stacey Abrams Brags She Has 1.2 Million Absentee Ballots for Ga. Runoff

Human Rights Campaign Wants Christian Schools to Abandon Beliefs or Lose Accreditation

Portland Autonomous Zone Removing Barricades After Mayor, Police Chief Apologize

Pennsylvania Sheriff Switches Party Loyalty To GOP Over Democratic Lockdowns, ‘Socialist Agenda’

Crucial Logs Missing From Some Michigan Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report

More, Please! Facebook Staff Quit Over Lack of Censorship: Report

WSJ Editor Defends Op-Ed On Dr. Jill Biden After Receiving ‘Coordinated’ Backlash From Media, Democrats

CBS Analyst Jamelle Bouie: More Dems Should Compare GOP to Child-Killing King Herod

NBC Rushes to Defend Jill Biden, After Years of Cheap Shots at Melania

This Is How it Works on CBS: Democrat Interviews Democrat About Democrats Winning Senate

 

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Facebook Too Scared of Hindu Extremists to Remove Their Content?

14th December 2020

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The Wall Street Journal reported that “Facebook fears” violent retribution if it kicks Hindu extremist groups off the platform.

Facebook is famous for censoring peaceful conservatives, but has been slow to censor anti-Christian extremists. “Dozens of religious extremists burst into a Pentecostal church outside New Delhi in June, claiming it was built atop a Hindu temple,” The Wall Street Journal (The Journal) reported Dec 13. The group allegedly attacked the pastor and “installed a Hindu idol in protest,” an attack for which Hindu organization Bajrang Dal reportedly claimed responsibility. The Bajrang Dal video that summarized and took responsibility for the incident has been reportedly “viewed almost 250,000 times on Facebook.” The logic for why Facebook would allow such content to remain sadly gives extremist groups a clear message that violence will help them get their way.

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13th December 2020

1 Shot in Violent Protests in Washington State

 

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12th December 2020

DC Archbishop Sues Mayor Muriel Bowser For ‘Arbitrary, Unscientific And Discriminatory’ Restrictions Ahead Of Christmas

Cuomo Charges Up To $10,000 For Tickets To Celebrity-Packed ‘Virtual Birthday’ Party  Sometimes it is good to be of the Crust.

Ric Grenell to Newsmax TV: CMU Students, Faculty Tried to ‘Cancel Me’

Not Identifying Sex on Birth Certificates Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine

‘Unhinged’ Dem Rep. Urges Pelosi To Block 126 Republicans From Congress For Supporting “Insurrection Or Rebellion”

 

 

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RIP Charley Pride

12th December 2020

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One of the great voices in country music has been silenced.

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Thought for the Day

12th December 2020

Rubes® for Dec 12, 2020

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11th December 2020

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Imposes New Lockdowns, Bans Indoor Dining, Large Gatherings

Grassley Blasts MSM Over Hunter Biden Hypocrisy

“Free Speech Is Being Weaponized”: Columbia Dean And New Yorker Writer Urges More Censorship

ABC, CBS Wave GOOD-BYE to Corrupt Hunter Biden, Drop It After a Day; NBC Footnotes It

Party of Science: Celebs Back Native Rep. for Cabinet Position to ‘Honor Mother Earth’

NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandatory COVID Shot For All Kids Without Exemption

New York City to Ban Indoor Dining Again  Apparently the NY economy is not yet sufficiently destroyed.

New York Must Raise Taxes Regardless Of Whether It Receives Federal Relief, Gov. Cuomo Says  Time to leave.

YouTube Accidentally Deletes CNN Russiagate Coverage While Banning Outlandish Conspiracy Theories  Babylon Bee.

Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company in Departure Notes

New Hampshire Governor Blasts Defiant Maskless Republicans

Gavin Newsom Aides Privately Worry About Forced Special Election Possibility, Report Says

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database Tops 1,300 Cases

 

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10th December 2020

America has an authoritarian voter problem (Washington Post)

Media Largely Ignores Report Of Swalwell’s Involvement With Suspected Chinese Spy

Cover-Up: ABC, CBS Barely Cover Hunter Biden Probe, Ignore Business Deals in China

U.N. Commissioner Blames ‘America First’ For Human Rights ‘Setbacks’

Don’t Let COVID-19 Lockdowns Become a Permanent Power Grab  Ben Shapiro.

VIDEO: Media Done with ‘Unity,’ Want ‘Trump Apologists’ Jailed

MSNBC’s Tyler Accuses Georgia Governor, Secretary of State of Voter Suppression in Runoffs

Portland Autonomous Zone Is ‘Stockpiling Weapons,’ Has Armed Patrols, Police Say

Fox News Reporter Gets Shooed Away After Asking Jill Biden About Hunter News

Setting Up A Siege? Antifa Has Armed Guards, Stockpiled Weapons At Portland Autonomous Zone

‘We Are Not Crazy’: California Restaurant Defies Outdoor Dining Ban

 

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Face Mask-Wearing Florida Robbers Escape Detection by Blending In

10th December 2020

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South Florida is reportedly seeing a rise in robbers who’ve exploited the coronavirus pandemic by blending in — walking into banks wearing face masks just like everybody else and raising no red flags.

Five bank heists were done by the same mask-wearing robber, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

My, what a surprise.

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The Woke Managerial Revolution Goes to School

10th December 2020

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College campus safe spaces, speech codes, and woke witch hunts may be coming to a high school near you.

Charles Fain Lehman chronicled in The Washington Free Beacon how school districts and private schools around the country are adopting woke, “anti-racist” policies based on critical theory ideologies once ensconced in the ivory tower.

Schools are adding the Pulitzer Prize-winning but factually challenged 1619 Project, to their curriculum. The 1619 Project was aimed at reframing American history as being rooted in slavery rather than the ideas of liberty from 1776.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

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9th December 2020

What an Actual Socialist Makes of Republicans’ Anti-Socialism Hysteria  (New York Magazine)

‘They demolished my house for this?’ Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled (The Guardian)

The rank hypocrisy of the Texas AG’s election case (CNN)

Here’s a list of crimes on LA’s new DA’s do-not-prosecute list

New Los Angeles DA announces end to cash bail, the death penalty and trying children as adults

Noncitizens and illegal immigrants found in North Carolina voting and jury pools

‘Yellow Privilege’: College Residence Adviser Anonymously Distributes Document On Asians As Oppressors

Portland Police, Protesters Clash in Broad Daylight

YouTube To Delete Content That ‘Undermines’ 2020 US Election Results  Managerial fascism on the march!

Portland Mayor Authorizes ‘All Lawful Means’ To End Autonomous Zone After Banning Non-Lethal Munitions During Months-Long Unrest

Twitter’s Dorsey Donates $15M To Mayors’ Universal Income Program

Portland Police Attacked In Broad Daylight After Antifa Erects New ‘Autonomous Zone’

New EU legislation proposes 30% ‘European content’ minimum for Apple TV+, Netflix

New Yorker’s Steve Coll: Free Speech ‘Is Being Weaponized’ Against Journalism  Because ‘journalism’ is So Very Special.

Buying power: how China co-opts the UN

 

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