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A Japanese scientist named Masanori Fukushima, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, recently caused a major controversy when he appeared on television and upbraided the country’s medical establishment for its dishonesty and negligence concerning the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. He particularly excoriated them for ignoring the evidence of serious adverse side effects, including death, from the vax.

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I understand that once you are worth a billion dollars you get a certificate that can be traded in for a hot blonde chick. Unfortunately for feminists and other proglodytes, the certificates are issued by the hot blonde chicks themselves.

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In these willfully ignorant times, the powers that be seem, in their haste to be politically correct, to forget that America fought its bloodiest war to end human bondage. Almost three-quarters of a million men died, yet the Civil War is being refought with fact-purging propaganda that makes cartoon villains of great American soldiers, while one group of citizens is robbed of their heritage in order to please another.

Apple Threatens To Ban Twitter From App Store, Won’t Say Why: Musk

NY Times Sees Signs of ‘Extremist Violence’: Owning Guns, Not Voting for Liz Cheney

Elon Musk Says Apple Threatening To Yank Twitter From App Store

Disney’s Openly Gay Animated Movie ‘Strange World’ Flops at Box Office

French Fashion House Balenciaga Apologizes for Ad Campaign  But never offers to explain how it happened in the first place.

Walmart’s Walton Family Funds LGBT Events for Kids in Arkansas

‘Woke’ Irish Parliament Installs Tampon Machine in Men’s Bathroom

Wisconsin Children’s Hospital Hiring Trans Activists as Chaplains

China: The World’s First Technate

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Progressive Family Adds New Planned Parenthood Location To Christmas Village Display (Babylon Bee)

Apple Turned Off Protest Communication Tool Right Before Anti-Lockdown Uprising In China

Sweden Seeks To Revoke Permanent Residency Permits In Migrant Crackdown

Lemon on CNN: ‘I Don’t Think We Ever Were Liberal’  I don’t think you ever were either.

Report: New San Francisco Public Toilet ‘Out of Order’ in First 3 Day

Whoopi: Libs Should Leave Twitter Until They ‘Get the Control’  Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Manchin’s side deal on brink as GOP seeks his 2024 ouster (The Hill)

Portland store shuts down, posts blistering note on front door slamming rampant crime: ‘city is in peril’ (Fox) (After 15 Break-Ins, A Portland Business Finally Calls It Quits)

Handgun owners carrying daily in US doubled in 4 years; self-protection cited as main reason: study (Fox)

Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015 (The Guardian) Gee, I wonder why.

Conservative states are blocking trans medical care. Families are fleeing. (Politico) Good riddance.

Free food for all? Absolutely. In this age of abundance, it should be a human right (L.A. Times)

CNN Analyst Says Free Speech Is ‘Nonsense’

IRS Warns Americans To Report Annual PayPal, Venmo Transactions Exceeding $600 Per Year  An excellent reason to stop using PayPal and Venmo.

Sen. Murphy: Defund Police Who Refuse to Enforce Gun Laws

Blank Sheets of Paper Become Symbol of Defiance in China Protests  That’s all you get under a Communist regime.

The Media’s Deranged Hysteria Over Elon Musk’s Promised Restoration of Free Speech  Glenn Greenwald.

Cambridge Dean Goes Full Woke, Claims Jesus Could Have Been Transgender “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”  Gal. 3:28.

“Hitlering Along” to the World Cup

Russian State Duma Passes Law Banning All Forms of LGBT Propaganda

Barcelona: Foreign Nationals Account for Over 75% of Arrests in First Half of 2022

Germany: Left-Globalist Interior Minster to Naturalize 2 Million Migrants

Too fast, too furious: Dangerous street takeovers stymie police, anger neighbors

Brooklyn Democratic Machine Appoints Little Pakistan Residents to Party Posts Without Their Knowledge

Despite Being Election Deniers, These Democrats Romped to Reelection and Stomped Their Opponents

Elon Musk Claims Apple Has ‘Mostly Stopped’ Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands

Twitter Bans Multiple Antifa Accounts After Threats And Attempts To Burn Down Tesla Dealerships  But of course only Republicans engage in political violence.

Over Half of Top Medical Schools Teach Critical Race Theory

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Specifically, white Toyota Land Cruisers.

That white Land Cruiser you saw on the news last night? Chances are it came through here. The back of shot cars seen in every report from war zones and aid programmes to disaster relief and third world development projects? At one time they probably called this home. Around 650 vehicles – more specifically 650 white Toyotas – leave here every month destined for global hotspots. Welcome to Toyota Gibraltar Stockholdings (TGS), the world’s most remarkable car dealership.

“We don’t really think of them as cars,” TGS co-chief executive Jonathan Gourlay tells me. “We’re just giving our customers a tool that does a job, whether that’s feeding children or delivering medicines.” You might think, like me, that the 70 Series Land Cruiser is utterly cool and want one very badly, but cool plays no role here – this is transport at its most fundamental. Simplicity, capability and reliability overrule everything. “If you look back 25 years, there were a few players in this market,” Gourlay continues. “There was Land Rover, there was Nissan and Mitsubishi, but gradually they’ve focused on building what I’d call ‘first world’ vehicles for Europe and North America. But Toyota still builds a 4.2-litre non-turbo diesel. You can’t register a new one in Europe because of its emissions, but it doesn’t go wrong and any mechanic can fix it in the field because there’s no electronics around it. You don’t need diagnostic tools, you just need to know how an engine works.”

I’d be more interested in white Toyota pickups, the ones that appear in the news every night loaded with Turd World anti-aircraft guns.

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This is why people want their own cars rather than rely on ‘public transportation’.

Anything with ‘public’ in front of it means a single point of failure if some labor union or other proglodyte group get a hair up their butts about something.

UPDATE: 400 Groups Urge Congress to Block Rail Strike

This is why some people can only do Starbucks work. Guarantee she (he? it?) had tatoos, piercings, and oddly-colored hair (what there was of it).

Abortion rights: French parliament votes to include right in constitution (EuroNews)

Joe Biden has a chance to rebalance America’s judiciary (The Economist) ‘Rebalance’ meaning ‘turn more to the Left’.

Socialist-backed Caban wants to make it harder for NYC businesses to fire workers (N.Y. Post) And so businesses will be more reluctant to hire people. Jobs lost! Businesses ruined! Win-win!

Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Helped Libs Win Elections

California Mulls Ban On All Gas And Diesel Truck Fleets  That’ll turn it into a Turd World country over night.

Emboldened Biden, Dems Push Ban on So-Called Assault Weapons

Kari Lake’s Campaign Sues Arizona’s Maricopa County Over Election Issues

On Second Thought, Chris Licht Wants CNN To Stay Librul!

Reefer Madness: Demand For Illegal Pot Soars In California Due To High Taxes

DC Think Tank Scrubs Chinese Policy Experts’ Profiles After CCP Ties Revealed

CNN Is Mute as Biden Still Doesn’t Understand Meaning of ‘Semi-Automatic Weapons’

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The complex biochemistry that sees coca plants make cocaine has been unpicked and replicated in a relative of the tobacco plant. Recreating the process by modifying other plants or microorganisms could lead to a way to manufacture the stimulant or produce chemically similar compounds with unique properties.

What could possibly go wrong?

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A new government in Italy was elected partly because of promises to do something about the people smuggling from North Africa used corrupt North African governments. Italian gangsters and EU (European Union) countries far from the Mediterranean back NGOs (non-government organizations) which operate boats to take the illegal migrants directly to European (mainly Italian) ports where the migrants are deposited and claim asylum. According to EU rules that means they can stay, often in Italy. This becomes a problem for local Italians who are not prepared to absorb so many migrants, who become an economic burden for Italy and contribute to a rising crime rate.

The new government in Italy refused to allow an NGO “rescue boat” to unload its 230 passengers in Italy. For a while the NGOs were able to land their illegal migrants in Malta, which lies between North Africa and Italy. Malta joined the EU in 2003 and found that EU rules obliged it to accept illegal migrants from North Africa who were picked up by NGO rescue boats and taken to the nearest EU nation where they were they could claim asylum. This was quite a burden for Malta, with a population of only half a million. In contrast Italy has 60 million and France 65 million. In 2015 Malta began refusing to allow the NGO boats to land, so the NGO boats took their passengers to Italy, The EU criticized Malta but did not try to force Malta to accept the illegals. At first Italy went along with accepting the illegals but eventually that became a political issue in Italy and now the NGO boats must take their passengers to France, which protested when 230 illegals were landed at a French port. The NGO boats are sponsored by EU members far from the problem, mainly Norway and Germany. Most EU members would prefer that all these illegals land in Italy, where most of the migrants will stay and become a problem for Italy but not the rest of the EU nations.

But you will soon be replaced by robots if you keep this shit up.

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Broadly speaking, the recent electoral tremors have been based on an education split, graduates voting for the status quo, non-graduates seeking to overturn it. In Brexit, 29 of the 30 areas with the highest proportion of graduates voted Remain, while the cohort overall split 57%-43% compared to 48%-52% for the country as a whole. Hilary Clinton won graduates by 11% while losing non-graduates by 7%. By the 2020 election, the gap had widened to 14% and 15% respectively. In the recent French election, there was an almost linear relationship between education level and voting, with President Macron winning the run-off votes of 78% of higher degree-holders, 63% of degree-holders, 53% of those with a baccalaureate, but just 44% of those with no qualifications.

The commentator David Goodhart attempted to explain these data by introducing the notion of “Anywheres” and “Somewheres”. The former are those who do well at school, go to good universities before progressing to well-paying jobs in big cities or overseas. The latter, leaving school with few or no qualifications, find the university route blocked so are forced into low-paying jobs in their hometowns with little or no opportunity for progression. The modern globalised world works for “Anywheres”. It does not for “Somewheres”. To Goodhart, Brexit and the other political upheavals of recent years represent an attempted revolution by a group who finds itself in a world which no longer caters to its needs.

D.C.’s downtown is comatose. Here’s how to revive it. (Washington Post) The chief way would be to change the far-left policies of the one-party Democrat administration, something that the Washington Post won’t mention and the D.C. city government wouldn’t consider.

Elon Musk ‘dismantles safety work at Twitter,’ makes employees ‘cry:’ Washington Post report (Fox) Poor iddle babies.

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky (The Nation)

Salt & Straw co-founder says ‘I can’t stay here’ if Portland HQ employees aren’t safe (Oregon Online)

Salt & Straw could be moving out of Portland…for their own safety (KOIN)

Muslim, Christian parents sue Ohio school board over transgender bathroom and locker room policies (Fox)

The SF Police Dept is requesting permission for their robots to use deadly force

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

Top Arizona Election Official Moved To ‘Undisclosed Location’

Brussels Announces Plan to Curtail Illegal Migration in Mediterranean 

NPR Presents Laughably Pathetic Thanksgiving Food Substitutes Due to Inflation

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations (The Nation) It is doubtful that FDR knew anything more about ‘capitalism’ than The Nation does.

BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters’ identities

Fired Twitter Moderator Reveals “Worries” Over Platform’s Free Speech Future

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The common person, equipped with a superb neural system as the result of millions of years of animal evolution, cringes at large structures (i.e. buildings) that communicate a psychological threat. There are sound medical reasons for not ignoring such a negative reaction, since experiencing long-term stress is known to generate pathologies in the body.

The hegemony of the architecture-industrial complex — consisting of building financing, global construction, media-certified “star” architects, real-estate speculators and a machinery of architectural education resolutely stuck in dogma and ideology — crushes public opinion. It has managed to silence the occasional protesting voices for decades.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now capable of judging what sort of buildings and environments are good for our health and psychological wellbeing. The tests are ridiculously easy to perform. We finally possess a set of powerful tools that are ready to finish off a century of absurdly inhuman architecture.

A useful Fake News list

Pompeo says head of teacher’s union is the ‘most dangerous person in the world’ (The Hill)

How Money From Gates And FTX Bought Scientific Silence

NY Times Celebrates Elderly Biden’s Robust Health; Demanded Details From McCain

John Fetterman Disavowed ‘Dirty’ Corporate Money. Then Came Sam Bankman-Fried.

Texas High Court: Harris County Can Count 2K ‘Later-Cast Votes’

Illinois Has Created No Net New Jobs In 20 Years

Colorado club shooting suspect is nonbinary, attorneys say (Axios)

Suddenly, the Media Become Scandal Deniers

Colorado Gay Club Shooter Identifies As “Non-Binary” With They/Them Pronouns  Live by diversity, DIE by diversity.

Heritage’s Kara Frederick: TikTok Is a CCP ‘Spy App,’ Must Be Banned

TikTok CEO: Content Moderation (Censorship) Is a ‘Top Priority’

Court Blocks New York From Restricting Gun Carry on Private Property

Georgia Supreme Court Affirms Law Banning Abortions After 6 Weeks

WH Gives Dem Supporters Holiday Talking Points for Handling Conservatives  Speak loudly and slowly and they will eventually agree with you.

Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF To Speak Alongside Zelenskyy, Yellen

Elon Musk Finds Closet Full of Wokeness at Twitter HQ  My, what a surprise.

New Disney CEO Promises To Make Child Grooming Slightly Less Obvious (Babylon Bee)

San Francisco’s Perverse Incentive to Identify as Transgender

Appeals court halts depositions of 3 Biden administration officials in social-media censorship suit (Politico)

Scammers are targeting Californians’ Middle Class Tax Refund payments. (ABC) When the government hands out money, crooks are there with their hands out.

Smotrich says human rights organizations are ‘existential threat’ to Israel (Times of Israel) Because they’re pro-Muslim and anti-Jew.

Walton Family Funds LGBT Initiatives, Opposition to Arkansas SAFE Act

‘The View’ Mixes in Some Old Fashioned Heresy During Its Usual Ranting (RedState)

Report: Maricopa County Election Head Hiding Out Amid Alleged Death Threats  Funny how systems that worked perfectly well Monday night had become broken by Tuesday morning. Isn’t that amazing?

Maricopa County’s Election Dysfunction Was More Widespread Than Officials Said, Memo Claims

Balenciaga sparks outrage over ‘depraved’ ad campaign with toddlers, teddy bears in bondage

GAME OVER: The FCC Greenlights Univision’s Sale of 18 Radio Stations to ‘Radio Soros’

Emmanuel Macron Comes Clean: “We Need A Single Global Order”

Virtue Signals vs. Noise

Scarborough: GOP Probing the Hunter/Joe Biden Scandal Translates to ‘Lose Big’ in 2024

Democrats Sue To Block Election Recount In New Hampshire

FBI Director Admits 70% of Post-Roe Violence Is On Pro-Lifers, Media Misconstrues

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Despite massive and systemic problems with for-profit Medicare plans denying care to seniors while costing the government more than $7 billion annually in excess fees, the leading advocacy group tasked with protecting older Americans is welcoming the privatization of the national health insurance program — while earning as much as $814 million annually from insurers advertising the plans.

The state of affairs lays bare a conflict inside AARP, the major advocacy organization for Americans 50 and older, over how to approach the regulation of Medicare Advantage, the for-profit version of Medicare.

Everybody I’ve talked to who uses Medicare Advantage likes it a lot better than straight Medicare.

Arizona AG Launches Investigation Into Maricopa County ‘Election Irregularities’

Layoffs mount, and Main Street still can’t find any workers to hire for open jobs (CNBC) Why work,  when the government will give you money?

Democrats dissing Mayor Adams could lead to next Rudy Giuliani, Al Sharpton says (N.Y. Post) That would certainly solve the crime problem.

‘You do not have the right to ban books’: Meridian library officials respond to threats (Idaho Statesman) Except that they’re not ‘banning’ books; they’re merely saying don’t have them in the public library.

France brands Italy’s refusal of migrant rescue ship a ‘nasty gesture’ (EuroNews)

The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started (Huffington Post)

Empty Classrooms, Abandoned Kids: Inside America’s Great Teacher Resignation (N.Y. Times) Kids, Schmids: It’s all about the benefits.

FedCoin: It Starts With A Trial Run

Not So Fast Elon: Europe Warns Musk He Must Hire Hundreds Of Moderators To Limit Free Speech

Gun Sales Skyrocket After Oregon Passes Measure Restricting Gun Rights

ZERO Dissent: NPR, PBS Air Totally One-Sided Interviews with New Trans Legislators

House GOP Leader: ‘Anti-Semitic’ Rep. Omar to Be Off Committees

Just Kidding! CBS News Resumes Twitter Posts After 40-Hour Tantrum

COP27 is leaving huge loopholes for greenwashing (Quartz)

House GOP expected to eliminate climate crisis committee (The Hill)

Cop27 live: ‘deeply worrying’ climate talks may be close to breaking down, campaigners warn (The Guardian)

Climate talks grow tense as U.S. resists Europe’s plan for aid (Politico)

Fashion brands grapple with greenwashing: ‘It’s not a human right to say something is sustainable’ (The Guardian)

Achieving a swift reduction in global coal emissions is the central challenge for reaching international climate targets (IEA)

Charts: How much will coal’s transition cost? (Mining.com)

Monterey Bay desalination project is approved despite environmental injustice concerns (L.A. Times)

COP27 Fail: John Kerry MIA as Delegates Demand the USA Pay for “Loss and Damage” GIVE US MONEY!

King Charles: Foie gras banned at royal residences (BBC) The monarchy goes Woke.

Climate Change Weekly #453: Climate Catastrophism Is Worse Than Climate Change

Why misinformation didn’t wreck the midterms

Gov. Hochul faces backlash by calling Buffalo ‘thundersnow’ storm a ‘major disaster,’ but shuns migrant crisis (New York Post)

Moms Clean House in SC

Dem Senator and Wife Under Scrutiny in Federal Corruption Investigation  Again.

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Cronies Gave $300k to House Committee Members Investigating Him

Workers Bolting Twitter After Musk Takeover

Twitter Reinstates Banned Users Griffin, Peterson; No Decision on Trump Yet

Don Lemon Doubts There’s Any ‘There, There’ In House’s Probe of Hunter Biden

CNNers Annoyed Jeopardy! Contestants Don’t Know Who Justice KBJ Is

Bill Would Block Taxpayer Funding of Teachers Unions

Election denier Hakeem Jeffries could replace Pelosi as House Dem leader

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Last January, I posted on the endemic burglaries of freight trains in East Los Angeles. A huge fraction of merchandise imported from China comes in through the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and then is loaded onto trucks or trains. At a slow point in the tracks, the goods get looted in vast numbers.

There was some discussion in the comments of the likely ethnicity of the crooks.

Turns out they’re all ‘Latinx’.

San Francisco launches guaranteed income program for transgender people (Fox)

Prominent Democrat voices support for border wall as Philadelphia rages at Abbott over migrant bus

Chuck Schumer Calls For Amnesty For Illegals Because Americans Are ‘Not Reproducing’

Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Democrat-Controlled State’s New Gun Law

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Bury FTX CEO’s Massive Donations to Dems  Gee, I wonder why?

Leftists Blame Everything on So-Called ‘Misinformation’: Midterm Election Edition!

WSJ: Meta Insiders Caught Selling Account Access to Hackers

Crypto Fraud Exposes Woke Capitalism As A Scam

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Patients at North Carolina-based Atrium Health get what looks like an enticing pitch when they go to the nonprofit hospital system’s website: a payment plan from lender AccessOne. The plans offer “easy ways to make monthly payments” on medical bills, the website says. You don’t need good credit to get a loan. Everyone is approved. Nothing is reported to credit agencies.

In Minnesota, Allina Health encourages its patients to sign up for an account with MedCredit Financial Services to “consolidate your health expenses.” In Southern California, Chino Valley Medical Center, part of the Prime Healthcare chain, touts “promotional financing options with the CareCredit credit card to help you get the care you need, when you need it.”

As Americans are overwhelmed with medical bills, patient financing is now a multibillion-dollar business, with private equity and big banks lined up to cash in when patients and their families can’t pay for care. By one estimate from research firm IBISWorld, profit margins top 29% in the patient financing industry, seven times what is considered a solid hospital margin.

Funny thing how people who work at NPR seem to think that certain class of people ought to work for free. In the old days that was called ‘slavery’; I suppose it’s no surprise that Democrats are in favor of it.

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Organized retail crime is when dozens of criminals descend on a store and loot it. Store employees are almost always told not to interfere, and police rarely do anything. In California, theft has been more or less legalized up to $950. It is a misdemeanor, which means it is rarely prosecuted. Major retail chains have closed their operations in San Francisco, among other cities, because they were helpless against teams of organized looters.

Looters don’t consume the stolen property themselves, they sell it on Amazon or other services. This is why it is “organized retail crime.”

UPDATE: Shoplifting Costs Target $600 Million More This Year

Oregon voters approve permit-to-purchase for guns and ban high-capacity magazines (NPR)

Oregon sheriffs won’t enforce new gun law: ‘Infringes on Second Amendment’ (Fox)

Gunderson to stop making railcars in Portland; future of barge operation uncertain (OregonLive) Time to leave.

Illinois’ hospital safety ranking drops again, with one Chicago hospital earning an ‘F’ (Chicago Tribune)

Twitter fact-checks Sen. Warren’s student debt claims (Fox)

Kevin Costner says it’s ‘OK’ if he loses fans over political views (The Hill) Just so long as the Cool Kids like me.

Austrian mayor defies Vienna and orders migrant tents to be dismantled (EuroNews)

Texas governor calls for investigation into Houston-area elections (The Hill)

Teachers union infuriates parents with ‘astonishing’ tweet: ‘Trying to gaslight Americans’

How Brexit Britain went awol in the struggle to defend liberal democracy (The Guardian)

NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go

Top Biden DOJ Official Working for Law Firm Defending Hunter Biden  One hand washes the other.

UC Berkeley Calls Cops on Protest Against “Jewish Free Zones”

WEF’s Klaus Schwab Gives Speech To G20 On The “Need To Restructure The World”

Arkansas AG: New Law Banning Gender Transitions for Minors Will Protect Kids  Electing Republicans has consequences.

“Organized Crime” Looters Steal Astounding $400 Million In Goods From Target Stores  Get Woke, go broke.

DC Council Lowers Sentences for Gun Crimes as Homicides Surge

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Faces Impeachment Vote

Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro Charges His Own Former Campaign Consultant with ‘Wide Scale’ Voter Fraud

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Vote To Impeach Philly’s Soros Prosecutor

Boebert Colorado Race Rests With ‘Cured’ Ballots  I predict that this will wind up another Democrat-stolen election.

Katie Hobbs Projected To Win Arizona Governor’s Race With 108% Of Precincts Reporting  (Babylon Bee)

Goat yoga to homeopathy: is alternative medicine just pseudoscience? (The Guardian)

Why White Christian Nationalism Isn’t Going Away (TIME) For one thing, the Narrative Media are obsessed with it.

‘Campaign season’ kept Kathy Hochul from getting NY aid for $600M migrant tab: Eric Adams (N.Y. Post) Of course, politicians can’t do their jobs while running for re-election.

Canada’s expansion of immigration sets a model the U.S. should follow (Washington Post)

The Secret Injustice: Circumcising Infants is Wrong (Harvard Crimson)

Doctors Finally Join the Labor Movement (The Nation)

Joe Manchin Projected To Retain Control Of The Senate (Babylon Bee)

New Solution To Holiday Singleness: Marry Yourself

10 Exciting New Pronouns To Try Out Today (Babylon Bee)

Senators reach deal on changes to marriage equality bill, teeing up first vote this week (CBS)

Infant Baby Burned To Death In Phoenix Homeless Camp  As opposed to a non-infant baby, I guess.

Parental Rebellion Pays Off: Conservatives Win School Board Seats

How Democrats Quietly Meddled in G.O.P. Senate Recruitment (N.Y. Times)

Iran protests: Tehran court sentences first person to death over unrest (BBC)

When Protecting Criminals’ Rights Comes At The Expense Of Victims

Voters Worry About Election Cheating, Don’t Trust Mail-In Voting

RNC Member: GOP Must ‘Adapt or Die’ to Ballot Harvesting

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Alone: Some of History’s Greatest Monsters Were Democratic Megadonors

Co-Opting Toronto’s Public Education System in the Name of Social Justice Activism

Meet the New AOC: NPR, PBS, MSNBC, CNN Gush Over 25-Year-Old Socialist Maxwell Frost

FTX Was Registered with and Licensed by the CFTC, Which Failed to Regulate FTX  Elizabeth Warren’s totalitarian brain-child and its massive failure.

Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing  (Wired ‘Science’) From the Narrative point of view, at least.

‘The weirdest election I’ve ever been a part of’: How the GOP almost blew the House (Politico) Pushing the Narrative that the election wasn’t stolen, perish the thought.

Democrats Meddled in Republican Primaries. Good. (Washington Monthly) The mask comes off.

Meyers, Handler Express Thanks For Their ‘Platform’ To Push Abortion

Dems Meddled in GOP Senate Recruitment to Create Election Chaos  My, what a surprise.

Hiring Police Officer Problems in Portland  Gee, I wonder why?

eRaced: Guy Wins Prestigious Women’s Cycling Event

Lady Bits AND Man Bits? No Bits? When Typical Trans Surgery Is No Longer Enough

Judge Overturns Georgia’s Ban on Abortion After 6 Weeks

Canada set to put into effect medically assisted suicide for the mentally ill I don’t think Josef Mengele has much attention to spare where he’s at, but if he does, he’s probably smiling.

Nevada’s Vote-by-Mail System Is a Total Disaster

UPDATE: Uncle Fester John Fetterman Wears Suit to Capitol, Looks Terrible

Ariz. Votes to Offer Migrant HS Graduates In-State College Tuition Rates

Relationship Among FTX, Ukraine, And Democrats Sparks Speculation

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Remember orphanages? Orphanages used to be good places. Places that created a home for the homeless, structure for the parentless, love for the abandoned and lost. Alexander Hamilton was an orphan. His widow, Eliza, was rightly praised for founding the Orphan Asylum Society, the city’s first private orphanage, a home for hundreds of children.

And then, along the way, the orphanage, like so many institutions that are born with the best of intentions, became corrupted. It turned, over time, from its primary mission, and, slowly became a place for the administration and staff to assure their own futures. When the full weight of the inhumanity of orphanages became clear to all, they were phased out in favor of foster care and other approaches. (Note that Hamilton’s orphanage continues, in a different form, today).

And, of course, everyone who was forced to read Dickens in school (and, like Hillary Clinton, has never had an original idea or ounce of curiosity) thinks that it’s still 1840 England and orphanages are still the hellholes he described … much like the people who think this is still 1858 and blacks are still slaves.

We have seen this trend across virtually every institution that was designed to care for others. Public schools were once truly excellent. Then, as the institutions aged, they sought to do what all bureaucracies do over time: perpetuate themselves and maximize power. Teachers’ Unions are now about the teachers, not the students. And in recent years, we have seen the corruption of the once great institution of public schools extend to include the promotion of transgenderism and grooming. The question of whether students are being treated kindly is laughably distant from reality: today’s children are being brutally used and manipulated to promote and expand specific ideologies.

Much like schools in totalitarian states like Soviet Russia and Communist China. Or any Muslim-majority state anywhere.

ZMan peers behind the curtain.

Starting somewhere in the middle of the last century, American corporations decided that they needed to invest in developing their managers. Historically, American business relied on nature and the tools of society to cultivate their workforce. The workers would get a basic education in the public schools. Natural talent and upbringing would sort the workforce the rest of the way. The best and brightest would naturally rise through the ranks to populate the management layer.

This was slowly replaced in the 20th century with a new model where senior management implemented programs to train their people, but also cultivate the sorts of people who would become managers. In the back quarter of the 20th century leadership training became popular in corporate America. Managers would receive the same sorts of leadership training officers in the military receive. Developing the next generation of corporate leaders is now a hundred billion dollar industry.

Because it has been normalized over several generations, no one notices the contradiction in these programs. All of the people subject to this training are in positions where no one would want leadership. These are administrative jobs filled with people tasked with following the rules. They may be required to supervise others who are also tasked with following rules. These are not positions that demand leadership, but rather roles that demand obedience.

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Perhaps it’s time to do a John Galt.

The culture wars are pushing some teachers to leave the classroom (NPR) Especially the Woke ones, I hope.

US midterm results: Why Democrats winning control of Senate matters (BBC)

All Our Institutions Are Controlled by Democrats

The Power Dynamic Behind the 2024 Narrative

NYT: Police Defunding and Homeless Meth Addicts Fuel a Bike Theft Crime Wave in Liberal Burlington, VT,

CNN’s Bash Asks Pelosi if ‘Political Violence’ Had Impact on Midterms

Biden Adviser Anita Dunn: ‘Congress Needs to Codify Roe V. Wade’  Unfortunately, that would be unconstitutional.

“Please Tell Me What I’m Missing Here”: Swalwell Appears To Embrace Medical & Legal Malpractice Over Parental Rights

CENSORSHIP BUDDIES: Bush And Obama Hold ‘Disinformation’ Conferences

Self-Described Sex Symbol AOC Is “Absolutely” Afraid For Her Life

Journalism Tops List Of ‘Most Regretted’ College Majors

“Lack Of Humanity” – France Threatens Italy With “Consequences” Over “Stubborn Refusal” To Accept Migrants

“Hotel Britain” Must End To Deter “Asylum Shopping”, UK Immigration Minister Says

Get Woke, Go Broke: Disney Edition

Tens of Thousands Protest Mexico President’s Left-Wing Election Overhaul

STUDY: 47 Liberals, ZERO Conservatives on Late Night During Fall Campaign  My, what a surprise.

Rasmussen Reports: Most Voters Say Cheating Will Affect Election Results  Pretty obvious, really.

Gettysburg College Halts ‘Tired of White Cis Men?’ Event

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Hypothetically speaking (not purely, I had anecdotal awareness of at least one occurrence a few election cycles ago), one can use ballots sent to addresses in multiple states to vote more than once in an election.

Who would know?

So, what is to prevent some wiseguy from registering in every state that automatically pushes ballots to addresses, unless removal is explicitly requested by the voter? (I supported one such case last Tuesday as an election officer here in the Old Dominion).

As far as I can tell this is Moral Hazard writ large. If there is no substantial means of detecting such fraud, and the Demsheviks can’t be arsed to enforce laws on non-conservative perpetrators anyway, then we can be relatively confident that ballot boxes will be stuffed, stuffed, and stuffed.

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Bernie Sanders fits right in.

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Briefly, for the uninitiated: In D&D a group of players collaboratively play out a story in a world created by a Dungeon Master or pre-written source material, rolling dice to simulate chance as their characters travel through the game and encounter various challenges—like the aforementioned wyverns. Characters are assigned specific abilities, and a complex set of rules, arbitrated and enforced by the Dungeon Master, standardize the game. Typically the DM spot would be determined by seniority of experience with D&D or other role-playing games—the person who’d played the longest would run the game. Alternately, it would be the person in the friend group who is the best with logistics and plan-wrangling. Back in the day, game shops would have physical bulletin boards featuring players or DMs looking to pair up.

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Playing the role of Dungeon Master can be a rewarding job but it is sometimes thankless, and always taxing. D&D can be overwhelming to any new player; this is especially true for a DM, who needs to know all the rules, adjudicate them, create or manage the story, plan logistics for their group, and cater the experience to what each player wants. The amount of effort involved makes it inaccessible for new players and difficult for experienced ones to sustain long-term.

All of which has conspired to make it harder to find people to actually run the spiking number of campaigns. “I think a lot of DMs just want to sit back and let other people run a game,” one Dungeon Master on hiatus from running campaigns told me. “There’s a DM shortage in the tabletop community like there’s a top shortage in the LGBTQ community.”

To quote Stacy McCain: Nobody ever lived as a knight and role-played being a marketing consultant.

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What have we forgotten? It’s a good question to ask ourselves this Remembrance Sunday. Forgetting is not just a question of missing friends’ birthdays or failing to send Christmas cards to second cousins. There’s a deeper, almost metaphysical form of forgetting, when we forget the inward meaning of an outward sign.

The tragedies of everyday life are made up of such forgettings. One day a woman looks up and forgets to see the man she loves in the face of her husband. A man breaks a window and rifles through a cash register. He has forgotten what it was to be a child who felt a fearful awe at the fault of breaking the law, innocence is the easiest thing to forget. A student sits alone in his room, staring at a screen, he has forgotten the joy of leaving the house in the morning, the smell of the air, the wave of sound and light that carries you from your doorstep into the world.

Tradition, made much of on the Right, decried on the Left, is in its true sense nothing more or less than remembering. We cannot and should not seek to arrest movement and change, which is the nature of life, and those who forget the past are as guilty of this as those who cling to it. Tradition looks Janus-faced to past and future in the same gesture.

Progressives, on the other hand, are like sociopath Scarlett O’Hara: “Tomorrow is another day.” This is what made Fleetwood Mac’s Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow the perfect song for Bill Clinton and indeed for the modern Democratic Party in genereral: Yesterday’s gone. Yesterday’s gone.

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“Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together,” Barney Frank once said. The sleazy former congressman was echoing Rousseau’s idea of the General Will.

To leftists, the state was the central unifying principle and the thing that brought us together.

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America didn’t just become a world power by economic and military power, but culture. And when we were done, much of the world wanted to be an American, as it had once wanted to be Greek or English. We conquered the world without intending to or even realizing it.

That culture is mostly dead now except as a bunch of corporate properties being beaten to death. The machinery of mass culture is still there, but it has no soul. The $500 million comic book spectacles and the oversaturated autotuned payola music makes money, but much of it performs better around the world than it does in America. The days when it brought us together are long gone. Mass culture now reminds us of how little we have in common.

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AZCentral.com columnist Jon Gabriel wrote: “Friends in Hungary and Brazil asked how their entire nations can count votes in a few hours, while it takes Arizona a week or longer.”

As of early Friday afternoon, America’s voting system has devolved from a global beacon of democracy to an international punchline. A bright neon sign warns: “Don’t try this at home.”

Mechanical breakdowns, baffling “ballot dumps,” and inexplicable pauses in tabulation have buried the Arizona and Nevada senatorial and gubernatorial results in sand.

People keep asking why the ‘red wave’ didn’t happen as expected.

The obvious answer is that the Democrats managed to steal it once again. But, like the puppy who pees on the rug during mommy’s cocktail party, everybody has agreed not to notice. (Guess how many elections where the ballot counting was ‘delayed’ went supposedly for Democrats. Take your shoes off if necessary. We’ll wait.)

How long will normie people put up with it before the smell gets so bad that they have to say something? I guess we’ll find out….

This Republican senator just dropped a truth bomb on his party (CNN) Chris Cillizza pushes the Narrative.

Dubbed torture, ID policies leave transgender people sterile (Associated Press)

A woman who could ‘barely walk’ after years of feeling extremely tired was diagnosed with vitamin B12 deficiency (Insider) Food fads tend to bring their own punishment.

Inadequate US state unemployment systems leave millions vulnerable (The Guardian)

Michigan Town Cuts Library Funding Over LGBTQ-Themed Books

2 More Oregon Counties Vote to Join Idaho

“Anti-Democratic” Just Means “Something The Regime Doesn’t Like”

An Important Victory for U.S. Democracy—and a Warning (The New Yorker) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

LA Turns To A “Mansion Tax” To Try And Solve Its Homelessness Problem  ‘We’ve got a problem!’ ‘Quick, let’s pass a tax!’

Crazy People Are Dangerous: ‘Transgender Influencer’ Arrested After Getting Naked, Causing Disturbance at Miami Hotel

Washington Post: Complaining About Maricopa Vote Delays Is Disinformation

PBS Hails Election As Win For Abortion, Defeat Of Putin, Xi, And Trump

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Engineers are exploring radical new designs for commercial planes that would use less energy and lower emissions. But will passengers be willing to board them?

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It’s my contention that pushing Senator-elect John Fetterman across the finish line in Pennsylvania was the most important goal the Deep State set for itself in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

A Fetterman victory, even more so than the “election” of Joe Biden in 2020, would demoralize what remains of conservative opposition to the progressive ascendancy in the USA.

Those who accept Mr. Fetterman’s win at face value — which seems to mean a large majority of voters — are forced into the realization that most of their compatriots are brainwashed zombies who would vote for a slime mold if it was running as a Democrat. It’s therefore no longer possible for them to view the electorate en masse as a repository of civic virtue.

‘Biden-Fetterman 2024: It’s a No-Brainer!’

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) are calling for Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok to be banned as “potential spyware.”

Elon Musk’s Twitter faces its ‘Titanic’ moment as executives and advertisers flee while trolls run rampant (CNN)

Saying ‘no’ in science isn’t enough (Nature)

Eric Adams now says ‘fears’ of crime are real, Democrats must deal with it (N.Y. Post)

Oakland civil rights attorney confirmed to California Supreme Court, becoming its second LGBT justice (S.F. Chronicle)

Nation Excitedly Anticipates First Funny SNL Episode In Years After Writers Boycott (Babylon Bee)

U-Haul Builds Bullet Train From California To Texas (Babylon Bee)

French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime

Fetterman Realizes American Dream Of Living With Parents Til You’re 50 And Then Getting A Government Job (Babylon Bee)

British Airways Goes Gender-Neutral

Jen Psaki Casually Admits That Dems Peddle Socialism But you knew that.

The Left Wants Parents Out Of The Schools – And To Have Farting Teachers In

Crazed Canada: Transgender Teacher’s Protruding Prosthetics Permitted

Cameras Go Dark At Vote Counting Facility In Key Nevada County

Google: The Ultimate Election Puppetmaster?

Yoel Roth, the Twitter exec who censored The Post’s Hunter Biden exposés, quits in latest mass exodus (N.Y. Post)

Goodwin Compares Election To Surviving The Depression, Winning Civil War, WWII

ABC’s Moran Is Disappointed You Won’t Accept Arizona’s ‘Normal,’ ‘Ordinary’ Vote Counting

Warnock’s Church Faces Subpoena Threat as Georgia Runoff Campaign Kicks Off

Federal Agencies Become ESG Activists

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Bertelsmann, the German giant, which formerly used to put out “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”, has become the leading publisher and distributor of some of the most famous and influential racist woke books.

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Bertelsmann has conquered and gutted American publishing’s crown jewels. The book spines beloved to generations of readers are now just assets to a corporate office in Westphalia which uses them to distribute racist hate across America.

Pennsylvania Reelects Dead Democrat

America’s housing dream is broken (CNN)

California sheriff’s office will no longer patrol during the day due to ‘catastrophic’ staffing (S.F. Gate)

Asteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots! (Washington P0st)

Every Story Is a Science Story (‘Scientific’ American) Especially once science is politicized by the Narrative.

Whitmer vaults into national spotlight with double-digit reelection win (Washington Post) Time to leave.

It’s all ‘Blood and Gore’ until somebody loses a fortune

California Voters Reject Millionaire Tax To Boost Electric Vehicle Use

Failing Upward: MSNBC Hypes Defeated Dems, Liz Cheney For Higher Office

Soros Prosecutor Botches Another Case, Frees Second Murder Suspect in a Month

ZMan is not happy.

A feature of this age that has slowly evolved to be the centerpiece of our society is the fact that nothing is on the level. The central issue with the last election, for example, is the degree of shenanigans. Few people care about the platforms or people, outside of a few absurd examples. What matters to everyone are the many questions about the integrity of the process. Ours is an age where nothing is on the level and everyone is assumed to be up to something underhanded.

America is a marketplace society and the marketplace has always been the natural hunting ground for people who like to take advantage of their fellow man. This was something the ancient Persians observed about the Athenians. The agora, as far as the Persians could tell, was where Greeks tried to take advantage of their fellow Greeks through deception. Greek democracy was the marketplace applied to the arena of politics, which meant politics was based on deception.

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Yesterday’s Midterms were not a victory for conservative or progressive ideology, but an assertion of the growing power of geography in American politics. It was less a national election than a clash of civilizations.

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So, what is happening in this increasingly inexplicable country? Essentially, there are now two prevailing realities in the US. One is primarily urban, single and, despite some GOP gains in this demographic, still largely non-white. It functions on the backs of finance, tech and the service industries. The other is largely suburban or exurban, family centric and more likely involved in basic industries like manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and energy.

Usually, the media assume these two Americas represent equally viable political economies. But this is increasingly not the case. In population terms at least, red America is now growing far more rapidly than blue America. And this makes it more important politically. Since 1990, Texas has gained eight congressional seats, Florida five and Arizona three. In contrast, New York has lost five, Pennsylvania four and Illinois three. California, which now suffers higher net outbound-migration rates than most Rustbelt states, lost a congressional seat in 2020 for the first time in its history.

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Companies, emboldened by an economic rebound after the nadir of the pandemic, rushed to acquire talent and fill their ranks with skilled middle managers. The Harvard Business Review even wrote that middle managers are more important now than ever (Fortunewrote that story six ways to Sunday as well). But a lurking recession is now threatening the livelihoods of white-collar workers: Those higher-salaried management roles—the jobs once heralded in American society as the key to obtaining the middle-class American Dream—may be axed in waves.

As these jobs vanish in favor of blue-collar workers at more manageable costs, that pipeline to the middle class could be chopped at the knees, reports The Financial Times.

Middle-management jobs typically deal with information flows–gathering and consolidating data for upper management, supervising production processes, performing interim analytics, identifying (and hopefully resolving) production problems, and monitoring employee performance. That sort of thing is more and more being automated, significantly flattening management hierarchies.

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talk about social issues ever, ever again. Instead, they would run solely on their economic message. Asked about abortion? Pivot to jobs as quickly as possible. Your opponent attacks you as a bigot on race or LGBT issues? Talk about taxes. The economy was bad, and voters, they were sure, were eager to hear their message of fiscal restraint and benefits for “job creators.”

The Democrats would be able to say whatever they want on the icky stuff—abortion, gender and sexuality, racism, whatever—but voters would ultimately take a good look at the bad economic indicators and reward Republicans with a landslide victory.

The plan failed miserably. Mitt Romney, the “safe” GOP nominee for president, lost decisively. The economic message had been vague and unmotivating, and the silence on social issues had been suicidal, permitting the Democrats to define the debate however they wanted.

Ten years later, the pony is trying that same one trick, and it’s still not working. RINO Romney declines to support his Republican Senate colleague up for re-election … will he be punished? It is to laugh.

Politics is about morality, not economics. Democrats understand this. Few Republicans do, and they’re not running for election.

Chicago police take two hours to respond after shots fired during attempted business burglary (Fox)

The Christian Nationalist Forces That Terrorized Me as a Child Have Grown Only More Powerful (TIME)

MSNBC takes heat over shock firing of Tiffany Cross as Rachel Maddow called out for silence (Fox)

MSNBC Staffers Worry They Just Handed Tucker Carlson a Win (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

U.S. judge suspends many of New York’s new gun restrictions (Reuters)

Top Dems Warn Party Seen As ‘Extreme’ And Driving Inflation

Who’s Committing Election Violence?

Delaware Professor: Doubting Fetterman’s Fitness Is Embracing Eugenics

Philly Home Depot Workers Reject Union In Lopsided Vote

LATimes Op-Ed Says Press “Failing Americans’ By Treating Both Parties Equally

Houston Man Arrested for Attacking Sen. Ted Cruz at Astros Parade  But of course the Republicans are the ones who engage in election violence.

Elections Need More Transparency. Why Do Some on Left Want Less?

A Cliché of a Stereotype: Kathy Griffin and the Pathetic Fate of Liberal Cat Ladies

ABC News Says “Red Mirage” Will Look Like Big Republican Win, But Vote Count Could Take “Weeks”  I.e. the fix is in.

Fetterman Predicts ‘Dramatic’ Overnight Comeback, Taps Clinton Lawyer To Fight PA Election Law  Late Night is when the ballot stuffers come out to play.

The looming election disaster (Politico) Proglodytes scribblers start losing their shit.

Late Night Hosts Sound The Literal Alarm In Final Election Pitches

Florida to Monitor DOJ Election Observers

“Yup”: Elon Musk Seemingly Confirms Twitter Employees Sold Verification Badges ‘Behind the Scenes’

Calif. Voters Weigh New Tax on Rich to Boost EVs  It will certainly boost emigration of rich people.

NPR Revealed To Be Just One White Woman In New Hampshire Who Does All The Voices (Babylon Bee)