Climate change crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth’s weather patterns become wilder (CNN)

DeSantis proposes plan to fight rising seas without any ‘left-wing stuff’ (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Climate Change May Make Hurricanes Hit Sooner and Last Longer (Wired ‘Science’)

Alarmists Say the Funniest Things! Hawaiian “Blizzard” Edition

What teens think about White privilege, discrimination and how their generation will treat people when they grow up (Washington Post) Or, at least, what they OUGHT to think.

How making $300,000 in San Francisco can still mean you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck (SFGate)

‘I thought I was a free man’: the engineer fighting Texas’s ban on boycotting Israel (The Guardian)

Fallout from parents-as-terrorists letter puts NSBA in funding freefall

Hundreds of college professors blast ‘woke’ math movement

Whoopi, Joy Lecture Media: You’re Underselling Biden’s Good News!

COLLUSION: Media Outlets Meet With White House To ‘Reshape’ Coverage of Biden Administration

Censoring History: YouTube Age-Restricts YAF Video About Socialism’s Victims

Hundreds Of Mathematicians, Scientists, Sign Open-Letter Against Social-Justice-Based Curriculum

California School District: ‘Write Your Own Hex Poem, Cursing That Person’

S.F. made parklets permanent — but added so many rules that many restaurants plan to tear them down

As millions fell into poverty during the pandemic, billionaires’ wealth soared (CNN) Hey, ‘billionaires’ didn’t cause the lockdowns that destroyed the economy. They didn’t originate the mask mandates and concentration camps for the unvaccinated.

Here’s what pleading the Fifth is and what it means for the January 6 committee (CNN) Because CNN readers are too stupid to figure out the politically correct position without having it explained to them.

Here are 22 new laws Californians must start following in 2022

Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language (Politico)

Far right is using Twitter’s new rule against anti-extremism researchers (Washington Post) There is no right but the ‘far-right’, and the Narrative Media will hunt them down.

Chicago Public Schools’ New ‘Gender Equity’ Restroom Policy Ignores Biology, Invades Students’ Privacy

Dem Rep Bans Staffers From Using ‘Latinx’

“They Don’t Care…They Just Do” – Chinese Economist Explains President Xi’s Crackdown

Looters Target California Pot Shops, Steal $5 Million Of Product

Energy Experts Dismiss Liz Warren’s Complaints: “It’s Econ 101, Not Rocket Science”  Not that she could handle either.

You Won’t Be My Neighbor: Opposition to High Density Development

De Blasio Unveils Latest Plan To Get More People To Move To Florida  Babylon Bee.

Nearly 600 Scientists, Mathematicians Rip California’s Math Curriculum Plans

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The Biden administration plans to push the Supreme Court to dismiss a school-voucher case on a technicality, fearing that a ruling that allows state funds to go toward religious uses will throw open public coffers to religious schools.

The Biden Justice Department during oral arguments on Wednesday will press the Court to dismiss the case. The plaintiffs have a leg up heading into the argument because the Court said in decisions from 2017 and 2020 that religious groups can’t be excluded from public benefits because of their religious identity.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Democrats have painted themselves into a corner on the number one issue of the day, crime. They tolerated and in many cases glorified the George Floyd riots as legitimate protests against oppression. They sympathized with criminals rather than law enforcement, arguing that America doesn’t have a crime problem, it has a law enforcement problem. They attacked law enforcement at every turn, actively trying to defund the police in some jurisdictions. And Democratic Party legislators and prosecutors effectively legalized theft in some cities and states.

To no sane person’s surprise, both violent and less-violent crime have exploded. Riots, arson, assault, homicide, carjacking, have all skyrocketed. And criminal gangs have taken advantage of the moratorium on law enforcement in a number of cities by organizing the mass looting of stores like Walgreen’s, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Apple, and so on.

San Francisco crime surge prompts city to suspend cannabis tax to help dispensaries versus drug dealers

Surprise surprise! The supreme court is coming for women’s rights after all (The Guardian)

What comes next after the Supreme Court’s signal on abortion rights (CNN) Signal!

14-Year-Old Girl Jailed for Escaping Arranged Wedding Ceremony in Mexico (Daily Beast) The Turd World lives up to its name.

Students are fed up with racist slurs and bullying. Now they’re walking out of class (CNN)

Biden Gets Standing Ovation at Kennedy Honors After Trump Boycott (Daily Beast)

Gun capitalism — not ‘ghost guns’ or other trends — is to blame for gun violence (Washington Post)

A right-wing ‘local-control’ movement is spreading in California fire country (SFChronicle) Right-wing!

‘Historical accident’: how abortion came to focus white, evangelical anger (The Guardian) White! Evangelical!

House Democrats Won’t Schedule Vote on Bill to Sanction Chinese Slave Labor

How ‘Science’ Went Woke

Politico Skips Fake News Basement Quarantine Stunt When Listing Chris Cuomo’s Problems

Brian Williams Berates Dems From Left: Lack ‘Guts’ to ‘Pack or Alter’ SCOTUS

Shots Fired: CNN’s Brian Stelter Unleashes Potato-Gun On Chris Cuomo

Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges

“They Were In Uniform With Multiple Weapons”: San Francisco Restaurant Defends Booting Cops

MSNBC Uses Dem Attacking Pro-Life GOP to Peddle Misinformation on Guns, Abortion

MSNBC Hysteria: Racist Pro-Lifers Attacking ‘Democracy’ by Denying Women Their ‘Abortion Care’!

Americans Keep Moving to the Suburbs

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s has been widely reported in the last few days, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has publicly called for the repeal of the Nuremberg Code (Mark Steyn’s commentary on the topic is particularly trenchant).

The Code was established after World War Two to address the issue of medical experiments conducted on human beings without their consent. It has been violated by Western countries in the years since, notably by the CIA with its MKUltra program, but that was secret and unofficial — no country has so far publicly abrogated the Nuremberg Code.

Ms. Von der Leyen appears to be on the verge of changing all that by making the Corona “vaccine” mandatory for all citizens of the European Union. She acknowledges that her proposal requires the abolition of the Nuremberg Code, which, if it happens, will indeed be an historic moment.

All right, so her husband is in the vaccine biz, and she’s pals with Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer. So what? What does any of that matter, when we could be saving lives by forcibly injecting millions of people? Just think of the puir wee bairns!

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Minneapolis’s Uptown district is two miles or so south of downtown; its center is the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street. Until recently, it was one of the city’s principal entertainment and dining centers. No longer. The George Floyd riots, followed by Winston Boogie Smith riots and a persistent spike in both violent crime and property crime, have devastated the area. I don’t know who goes near Uptown now; I once lived nearby but wouldn’t dream of going there now.

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When criminals rule the streets, normal people stay away. That is the situation today in Minneapolis. The city’s depleted police force, under attack by anti-law enforcement Black Lives Matter ideology and thus ravaged by retirements, disability claims and difficulty in recruiting, can’t begin to cope with unprecedented levels of crime and disorder.

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Americans have not ended democracy as such. We have instead allowed powerful persons and institutions to simply ignore it. The FBI, EPA, Twitter, universities, large corporations, and your local county school board increasingly follow their own ideological ends even if (or maybe especially if) it contradicts popular will and culture. The tiresome and obligatory comparisons to the fall of the Roman Empire miss the mark in many ways. Perhaps the better comparison is to Florence under the Medicis.

Trump rails against Meadows for revealing Covid test cover-up – report (The Guardian) Except that there was no ‘coverup’.

Meadows doubles down on debunked election fraud claims and whitewashes January 6 riot in new book (CNN)

Lin Wood Says He’s ‘Exposing the Enemy Within’ by Attacking Prominent Right-Wing Figures (Newsweek)

Trump Social Media Blows Deadline, Still Claims $1 Billion Commitment From Secret Investors (Huffington Post) Blows! Claims! Secret!

Oh NOW, Brian Stelter Admits Cuomo Violated Media Ethics ‘Many Times’

America Is One Gut Punch Away From Throwing in the Towel on Democracy (Daily Beast) You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

SF brunch spot asks 3 San Francisco police officers to leave, citing their ‘multiple weapons’ (SFGate)

SF Restaurant Faces Backlash After Refusing Service to 3 Officers That Made Staff ‘Uncomfortable’

A discomfort with Western liberalism is growing in Eastern Europe (NPR) Gee, I wonder why?

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/04/1058834216/a-discomfort-with-western-liberalism-is-growing-in-eastern-europe

Biden is right that global democracy is at risk. But the threat isn’t China. (Washington Post)

‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: Los Angeles Residents Stunned As Violent Crimes Creep Into Wealthier Communities  Lie down with socialists, get up with crime.

Poland’s Beef With The EU Exposes The Dangers Of Political Centralization

Crime blotter: Rare Apple Store smash-and-grab in Santa Rosa

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Our Hungarian correspondent László sends this report on media propaganda designed to prepare its gullible audience for an increase in the number of fatalities for certain medical conditions that just happen to be known side effects of the experimental mRNA treatment that is intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

California To Cut Water To Cities And Farmland Amid Persisting Drough

Citizens Continue To Exit High-Tax US States

Loudoun County schools charge mom $36,000 to respond to open records request on ‘sexual assault,’ ‘rape’

‘Wokeness’ Battle Engulfs Prominent NYC Museum After Ex-Employee’s Rant (Daily Beast)

National School Board Association fallout continues as half of US states push back against organization

Biden’s Democrats Are a Joke and So Are Trump’s Republicans—Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? (Daily Beast)

Former Netflix Employee Wants Dave Chappelle to Donate Cash to Trans Charity (Daily Beast) I’m sure it does.

Tesla Has Officially Moved Its Headquarters To Austin  Otherwise known as ‘California on the Prairie’.

Stephen Colbert Stands Up For Authoritarianism In Roe v. Wade Rant  My, what a surprise.

???????Wall Street Firms Tell Employees To “Dress Down” As Violent Crime Rages   Blue State Blues.

Smash-and-grabs lead to several changes in San Francisco’s Union Square

New York Crime Figures Return To “The Bad Old Days Of The 1980s”

NYT: In a Nonbinary Pronoun, France Sees a U.S. Attack on the Republic

Buzzfeed Union Strikes, Investors Get Cold Feet As SPAC Debut Looms  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Colbert Smears Supreme Court Over Abortion: ‘Less Trusted’ Than CNN

AOC’s Ugly Delegitimization of Supreme Court

Dramatic Music, Slow Motion, a Trailer: ABC’s Gross Repair Job to Save Baldwin

Mom Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit Filed by Teachers Union When She Looked Into Content of Lessons

Parents Across Country Sue Schools Over Clandestine Gender Transitions

Student Shatters Women’s Swimming Records After Switching From Men’s Team

Report: Yale Law Dean Signed Off on Condemnation of ‘Trap House’ Email—Then Threw Her Colleagues Under the Bus

More Unhinged CNN Rants on ‘Terrifying’ SCOTUS Abortion Arguments  Terrifying!

Four Problems With the Left’s Hypocritical Plan to Give Wealthy Constituents a Bigger SALT Deduction

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Every silver lining is surrounded by a cloud.

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With a loss of health care workers from stress, burnout, and vaccine mandates, hospitals are scrambling to keep beds open and retain licensed health professionals.

Unfortunately, national professional associations are threatening licensed health professionals with disciplinary action or loss of licensure for questioning recommendations from government agencies, especially the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A recent position statement released by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and supported by seven other major nursing associations and organizations is a symptom of a new virus— intellectual conformity.

It is crunch time for humanity. We need everyone to start leading like a woman (The Guardian)

New study links major fashion brands to Amazon deforestation (The Guardian) And certainly white supremacy is in there somewhere.

Bill Nye ‘Science Guy’ roasted for ‘insanely demented’ TikTok video with President Biden

Dr. Oz announces bid for US Senate seat in Pennsylvania (CNN)

Progressive Elves Stage Walkout In Protest After Rittenhouse Added To ‘Nice’ List Babylon Bee.

Axios Warns Overturning Roe Could Mean 200-Mile Abortion Trips

Taxpayers Paid Big Money for Dem Attempt to Overturn Election Results

FBI Warns California Genetics Company Likely Shares Americans’ Health Data With China  My, what a surprise.

DNC Chair Shuns Pro-Life Democrats as Supreme Court Reconsiders Roe

Guess Who’s Seated Next To Anderson Cooper For CNN’s On-Air Cuomo Suspension Announcement

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Plastics, part of modern life, are useful but can pose a significant challenge to the environment and may also constitute a health concern. Indeed, exposure to plastic-associated chemicals, such as base chemical bisphenol A and phthalate plasticizers, can increase the risk of human cardiovascular disease. What underlying mechanisms cause this, however, remain elusive.

A team led by Changcheng Zhou, a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, now raises the hopes of solving the mystery. In a mouse study, the researchers found a phthalate — a chemical used to make plastics more durable — led to increased plasma cholesterol levels.

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Texas’ Land Commissioner George P. Bush, the grandson of former president George H. W. Bush, announced on Monday that the state’s General Land Office (GLO) had reached an agreement with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to build Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s border wall.

A release announcing the agreement said construction of the wall would begin in Starr County, an area that sits along a portion of the border near the southern tip of Texas. The land being utilized for this portion of the wall is a farm tract owned by the GLO, the release said.

Teacher Unions, Parents Gird For 2022 Battles

CBS Skips Evidence from Cuomo Investigation, ABC Ignored Fredo’s Role

San Francisco Homeless Insider Tells All

A Tale Of Two Cities: Kenosha Vs. Waukesha Victor Davis Hanson.

UK Bureaucrats Abandon Term “Christmas” Over Fears It May Offend Minorities

This Ohio Democrat Says He’s a Champion of the Working Class. Now, He’s Backing a Tax Break for Coastal Millionaires.

ABC Desperately Tries to Hide Ex-Host Chris Cuomo’s Role in Brother’s Sex Abuse Case

Twitter’s New CEO Said Role Is ‘Not to be Bound by the First Amendment,’ But to Decide ‘Who Can Be Heard’  Understandable, since he’s not American himself.

Will Twitter Censor Images of Riots?

CNN Reviewing Documents Showing Chris Cuomo Was Untruthful To Viewers  What a surprise.

ZMan does some analogizing.

Minority rule is one of those things that on the surface should be rare but is actually quite common in human history. The most common form of minority rule is when one people conquer another and then install their people as rulers. This small ruling class is backed by the conquering power. In the Bronze Age it was not unusual for one city-state to rule over the surrounding city-states. The great leader would rule not only his own people but the people he subjugated.

In medieval times, the family trees of ruling elites were often quite complicated so the duke of some territory might not speak the language of the people over whom he was the ruler. Conquest also played a role. The Normans who were “invited” to conquer Britain did not speak the local language. People were tied to the land, so when a successful ruler conquered new lands, he inherited the people. His descendants would then inherit a kingdom of strangers.

Ruling classes, in general, are a form of minority rule. In South America, most of the countries are controlled by a relatively small number of families that make up the ruling elite of the country. These families trace their origins to Europe, marry amongst each other and keep a tight grip on power. It is why the complexion of the political elite rarely has the same hue as the general public. This demographic realty of ruling elites is true to some degree everywhere in the world.

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Both climate change hysteria and Covid hysteria are based on two things, and in neither case except by the most inaccurate understanding of the word can these things be described as science.

The ‘science’ foundation for both is actually computer modelling. Computer modelling is a modern form of fortune telling. It can probably get fairly accurate results in a very short time span with very few variables and many historical examples to feed into the analysis. I’ll give it that much.

If you want to know how a crowd of people fleeing a fire are likely to react in a small building, it can probably do the job for you. With about the same accuracy as a human fireman (sorry, fire fighter) who has been in the job more than three weeks.

The map is not the territory.

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The two accrediting bodies for American medical schools say that meritocracy is “malignant” and that race has “no genetic or scientific basis,” positions that many doctors worry will lower standards of care and endanger lives by discouraging vital genetic testing.

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits all medical schools in North America, is cosponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association for Medical Colleges (AAMC)—the same groups that on Oct. 30 released a controversial guide to “advancing health equity” through “language, narrative, and concepts.”

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I have lived in the Twin Cities metropolitan area since 1974, roughly half that time in the city of Minneapolis and half the time in the suburbs. As everyone knows, Minneapolis is in a steep decline due to out of control crime that began with the George Floyd riots. How bad is it?

I don’t ever recall hearing the word “carjacking” in connection with the Twin Cities until 2020, when such crimes exploded, and carjackings in Minneapolis have again risen steeply in 2021. Minneapolis resident Steve Taylor created this map on Maps.co. The yellow pins indicate carjackings in 2020, while the red pins show carjackings in 2021.

Philadelphia Ties Its All Time Homicide Record After Murder In Broad Daylight This Week

NY Times Asks: Why Do Blue States Suck?

Suffolk eyes preserving land in environmental justice areas (Newsday) More of the ‘environmental justice’ trope.

Canada’s indigenous health expert Carrie Bourassa loses job when ancestry claims prove false

San Francisco guard, a former cop, shot and killed protecting news crew covering a smash-and-grab

The ‘Visible Deterioration’ in American Democracy Is Just the Start (Daily Beast)

Notre Dame Cathedral slammed over rebuild plans turning it into ‘woke theme park’

Wisconsin senators warn in rare joint statement outsiders may try to exploit Waukesha tragedy for ‘political purposes’ (CNN) Oh, as the Narrative Media did with Rittenhouse?

Antifa Member Who Took Axe To Senate Office Given Probation And His Axe Back

San Francisco TV Reporter Cautions Against Use of Word ‘Looting’

LAPD Targets “Follow-Home” Robbery Crime Wave

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Many psychologists wrongly assumed that coercive attitudes exist only among conservatives.

Steve Sailer.

Although the Floyd Effect (2020 – ?) is much more national than the Ferguson Effect (2014-2016), it also features local hotspots, such as Louisville, home to the late Breonna Taylor. Last year’s 173 murders was a record for Louisville and this year it’s even worse:

New York Taxpayers Paid $9.5M In Cuomo Legal Fees So Far

With extreme gerrymanders locking in, Biden needs to make democracy preservation job one (The Hill) Good luck with that

How US gun culture stacks up with the world (CNN) Not that anyone at CNN knows shit about ‘gun culture.

Los Angeles-area looters target Home Depot, Bottega Veneta stores on Black Friday: reports

California smash-and-grab crew steals hammers, tools from Home Depot

Woman with spina bifida sues mom’s doctor for millions, says she never should have been born

Liberal dark money juggernaut raises $1.6 billion to flood left-wing groups with cash, tax forms reveal

Behind the loud pushback against progressive district attorneys across the country (NPR)

Aggressive gerrymandering may make elections far less competitive, experts say (NBC) Boy, that’s a puzzler.

‘Bad Leadership’: Detroit Businessman Blasts Gretchen Whitmer’s Economic Policies

Large Mob Of Looters Hit Minneapolis Best Buy, California Home Depot On Black Friday

From Thanksgiving to Waukesha: The Liberal Media Censor History

Public ClimateBall

Flash Mob Looting “Will Continue” Across Country: Former Police Commissioner

Hillary Bemoans Lack Of Media “Gatekeepers” And Spread Of “Disinformation”

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Bhutia Busty is said to house the original manuscript of the Bardo Thodol or The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist teaching composed in the eighth century by Guru Rinpoche, the Indian saint who brought Buddhism to Tibet. A kind of pilgrim’s guidebook, the teaching is intended to help the dead navigate the “bardo” after-death journey to rebirth and has enjoyed great popularity in the West since it first appeared in English translation in 1927.

I assume that ‘don’t trust Chinese Communists’ is part of it.

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Hammer tech.

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That essential discipline was ditched in the 20th century as part of “architectural education”, because it did not fit in with the nihilism of Modernism’s total rejection of the past. The dismal results can be seen on all sides. Students nowadays have virtually no feeling for how buildings are put together, or how ornament (a dirty word today) was once an integral part of architecture rather than plonked on as an afterthought. They simply do not understand the importance of context (another dirty word, as Modernism demands the tabula rasa).

FEC: Foreign Nationals Can Contribute to American Ballot Initiatives

Wikipedia Contemplates Deleting Article On Communist Mass Killings

The Sorry State of Political Apologies

Why SFPD’s Union Square takeover is scarier than a few burglaries

America’s democracy is failing — and the world knows it

Seth Rogen is slammed for ‘privileged’ response after shrugging off Los Angeles crime

This tax would make wealthy corporations pay their fair share (CNN) What is ‘their fair share’? Nobody seems willing to say.

Suspects escape after Apple Store smash-and-grab by teens is caught on camera on Wednesday in California

Ukrainian President Says Imminent Russia-Backed Coup Plot Uncovered

CNN Analyst Has ‘No Idea’ What’s Behind Smash & Grab Robbery Wave—Then Supplies Answer!

Liberal Actor Seth Rogen Criticized for Justifying Rampant Theft in California

Professor Who Defended Pedophiles Announces Resignation  No doubt ‘it’ has a well-funded gig lined up somewhere in LiberalLand.

Narrative Shift: Watch As US Health Officials Move Goalposts To Undisclosed Location

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Media Tells Americans To Perform COVID Tests, Check Vaccine Status Of Thanksgiving Dinner Guests

LA firefighter accused of wiping butt with vaccine mandate letter that was handed to him

Former WHO Director Warns Making Vaccines Mandatory Could Cause Riots

Italy Bans Unvaccinated From Cinemas, Restaurants and Sports Events

Another Professional Soccer Player Suddenly Collapses In The Middle Of A Game

Belgium First European Nation To Confirm Spread Of “Nu” Variant

Pfizer CEO Warns New Vaccine To Combat Heavily-Mutated Coronavirus Could Take 100 Days  KA-CHING!

Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529

A Scared Nu World: Here’s What We Know About The New COVID Strain

The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis “The qualitative synthesis indicated that vitamin D deficient individuals were at higher risk of COVID-19 infection as compared to vitamin D sufficient patients.” I take a vitamin D3 supplement.

Black Friday Bedlam Means Kiss The Taper Goodbye

Oh Joy! Another Covid Variant ‘B.1.1.529 has a spike protein that is drastically different to the one in the original bug that the vaccines are based on, according to the UK Health Security Agency, which is raising some concern about how current jabs will perform against it.’

New York ER Closes As Employees Refuse To Comply With Vaccine Mandate  Mandates Kill!

26 More Cases Of Heart Inflammation Linked To Pfizer Jab

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If you went up to any random group of people and mentioned that behind their seemingly normal elementary school was a tale of Prussian Kings, Rockefeller interests, and theories of social control, they would surely look at you as if you were crazy. Well shame on him for not knowing his history! The number of people who have gone through school and yet remain willfully ignorant of how and why they were ushered for years through the system is a glowing testament to the effects of school itself: School works to actively neuter curiosity, impair intellect, halt questioning of the status quo, and restrict deviance form approved norms. Despite what you are instructed to believe, schools harm kids, they do not help them. This is a bold claim, I know, and that is why I have littered the history and analysis below with primary source references and quotations from the men (and they were mostly men) behind our current system of public schooling – their own words are damning enough. For longer and fuller critiques on schooling and its history I would lead the reader to the works of John Gatto, Ivan Illich, Diane Ravitch, and others whom I have relied heavily upon in creating this post. This is certainly a longer-form piece, but I found the extension was necessary to even begin to approach a complete picture of the true behemoth system of schooling we have.

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Reporter Dennis Wagner wrote: “Weaponizing of vehicles is a practice sometimes used by terrorists abroad. But the wanton attacks have also surged in the United States. The increase began after the police murder of George Floyd prompted Black Lives Matter demonstrations, which in turn prompted angry or fearful motorists to run over protesters.”

This framing makes it sound like protesters are “peaceful” and not “angry” and pose no threat. Wagner added “A Boston Globe survey identified at least 139 incidents in which vehicles ran into crowds of demonstrators since Floyd’s death in May 2020. Fewer than half resulted in criminal charges.”

Really? The original Globe story appeared on Halloween, by reporter Jess Bidgood, who sounds more like an opinion writer. She began with the usual sympathetic figure, a man who was paralyzed after falling off an interstate overpass while blocking drivers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bidgood was outraged no one was arrested, despite admitting that the red pickup involved felt threatened as “protesters banged on its hood and threw things at the vehicle as it moved in.”

San Francisco police just watch as burglary appears to unfold, suspects drive away, surveillance video shows (S.F. Chronicle)

San Francisco Police Sit and Watch as Burglars Escape (Daily Beast)

Support For More Gun Control Falls, But Partisan Divide Grows

The UK Government Wants to Sequence Your Baby’s Genome  What could possibly go wrong?

Southern California Utility Cuts Power To Customers On Thanksgiving As Wildfire Risks Surge

San Francisco TV news crew’s security guard shot during attempted robbery and reporter’s coverage Ponder living in a place where a TV news crew needs an armed security guard. Time to leave.

California cities rush to limit new law increasing density of single-family neighborhoods  California state politicians think that crowding everyone into high-density housing is the universal panacea.

Trump poll tests his 2024 comeback map (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Donald Trump is running again, part 7,282 (CNN)  All Trump! All the time!

Everything the Media Told You About Kyle Rittenhouse Was Wrong

Five Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ Corrections We Need From The Media Now

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California malls are resorting to barbed-wire barriers after a string of flash-mob smash-and-grab lootings. Previously on “California Voters Are Stupid,” we saw California voters approve propositions to release thousands of criminals from jail and reduce retail theft under $950 to a misdemeanor. (So, basically, the Waukesha mass murderer could have made bail by stealing a couple of TVs from Best Buy without adding to his existing criminal charges.) Then, to compound their stupidity, they elected radical-left district attorneys who think crime is just a symptom of poverty and therefore refuse to prosecute criminals because it’s mean to poor people or something.

You have to be deeply, deeply Californian not to understand how releasing criminals from prison while simultaneously defunding the police will lead to an increase in crime. Retail store owners are running out of options. The police won’t arrest what the DAs won’t prosecute, and the criminal class knows this and knows it can loot stores at will with little chance of being caught and less chance of being prosecuted. (Also, the political class wants you to know you shouldn’t call it “looting” because “Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something.”) So, now they have to barricade their stores and homes with barbed wire and layers of security, which also happens to be a common practice in many of the countries where California’s immigrant populations originated. But that’s only because the governments in those countries are corrupt, and the police cannot be relied upon to protect the citizenry.

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

By now it is obvious to everyone that Covid has become a bizarre mystery cult embraced by those into left-wing politics. There are some exceptions, like the HBD crowd, which was driven mad by Covid. A few dissidents were gripped by the great fear, but most have recovered. The bulk of the people hooked on Covid, however, are the sorts of people who obsess over climate change or check under their beds at night to make sure Hitler is not hiding there.

The HBD people were driven mad by Covid because it was a reminder of their exile and the price they have paid for holding bad ideas. This issue was in their wheelhouse, but their status excluded them from the conversation. If they had been in good standing, this would have been their time to shine. Instead, they were left to jump up and down on the sidelines desperately trying to get the attention of their old friends. This is the agony that comes with exile.

The Covidian proper is someone who traffics in the usual fads. She totes her groceries home in grimy canvas sacks because Gaia supposedly hates plastic. At one time, she had a weird food allergy, maybe a series of them. The overlap between Covidians and Glutenites is near 100%. Of course, she was sure that Trump was Hitler and she was also sure Kavanaugh was going to stuff her uterus full of Bibles. Covid is just the latest stop on the crazy train for her.

Steve Sailer does the Media.

More important, fake narratives are slightly different from plain fake news. Fake narratives don’t lie outright. Instead, they mislead readers into biases that make it hard for them to develop an awareness of the truth.

For instance, a number of media figures sent out tweets last week to the effect that Kyle Rittenhouse had crossed a state line with an automatic weapon to a city he had no connection with and gunned down three black peaceful protesters.

I doubt that they were knowingly trying to convince their readers that Rosenbaum, Huber, and Grosskreutz were African-Americans. Instead, they couldn’t remember the facts because they were inconvenient for the Narrative. They had absorbed from their colleagues’ articles a worldview in which, of course, all that stuff virtually had to be true, so why would they need to fact-check the way they remember the story? That they got so much embarrassingly wrong would imply that their picture of the world is based on low-brow hate and fallacies, and that can’t possibly be: They’re media professionals!

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The College Board, the organization that runs the SAT exams, has announced that they will no longer be giving SAT subject exams. That will be a problem for home schooled students who want a way of convincing colleges to admit them, especially for ones who hope to be accepted by an elite school. Home schooled students don’t have high school grades or teachers’ recommendations; unless they have some extraordinary accomplishment to show, publishing a novel or winning a national chess championship, they largely depend on objective tests to convince schools to accept them.

The replacement suggested by the College Board in its explanation of the change is the AP exam. Home schooled students take AP exams by finding a local school willing to let them do so. Assuming they can do so, there is still a problem. The AP exam, with a score range of of 1-5, is not nearly as good a way for student to prove his ability as an SAT exam with a score range of 200-800. One percent of students got an 800 on the Literature SAT, 9.3% a 5 on the English language and literature AP. 3% got an 800 on the American History SAT, 13% a 5 on the United States History AP. An 800 on either exam is much stronger evidence of a student’s knowledge than a 5 on the corresponding AP exam.

These Fools Thought a COVID Party Sounded Fun. Now They Are on Respirators. (Daily Beast) Think of it as evolution in action. (Italians….)

“Wait, What?” Even Reuters Tripping Out On 55-Year Delay To Release Pfizer Vax Data

German Politicians Refuse To Rule Out Mandatory COVID Vaccination

Confession and Conspiracism in the Church of Social Justice

Meet the Progressive DA Behind the Waukesha Bail Catastrophe

Beto O’Rourke hears from Texas voter: ‘You lost twice. No means no!’

As two Fox contributors quit over Tucker Carlson, an alarming truth is revealed (Washington Post) The supposed ‘alarming truth’ is a pretended focus on the right on ‘political violence’ (while ignoring the actual violence committed by mobs on the left.) Actually, the alarming truth is that many pretending to be ‘conservatives’ really aren’t.

San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin cares about crime now that a luxury store was looted

100 places in California carry this derogatory name. Now, they may all have to be renamed

Democracy slipping away at record rate, intergovernmental body warns (Reuters)

Best Buy Crashes As Margins Slide Due To “Organized Retail Theft”

Facebook Policy Change Permits HATRED Against ‘White people, Americans and Men’: Report

Facebook Execs Nixed Employees’ Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report  When you hire totalitarians, you get totalitarianism.

Conflict of Interest? WashPost Owner Jeff Bezos Gives Obama Foundation $100 Million

Experts Caution Use of ‘Looting’ in Describing Rash of Bay Area Smash and Grabs  Presumably they want to call it ‘reparations’.

Bitter Much? Colbert Declares Self-Defense Laws Need to Change  Righteous self-defense laws would allow us to shoot Colbert as a threat to our civilization.

Jonathan Turley.

Below is my column in The Hill on the aftermath of Rittenhouse verdict and how the jury functioned as design to rule on the evidence and the law rather than public passions. Many have called for self-defense laws to be curtailed in light of the verdict. We can certainly have that debate. However, this jury was tasked with applying these facts to existing law. They did not have the luxury of reframing the legal standard to achieve their own concept of justice.

Matt Ridley.

If you don’t subscribe to the new newsletter or follow me on Facebook and Twitter, you may not have heard: My new book Viral The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, co-authored with the young and brilliant scientist Alina Chan, published this day last week and is now available to purchase.

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We explore both natural spillover and lab leak possibilities in depth—and share which we determined, over the course of writing it, to be more likely.

Lord Ridley is famous for deep-dive writing on medical subjects (I can recommend his book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters highly).

‘I’m honestly speechless’: CNN commentator reacts to CPAC’s latest move (CNN) Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean shutting up.

SF Mayor, Police Chief Respond After Retail Theft, Vandalism in Union Square (NBC) Wring hands, look deeply concerned.

‘People are freaking out’: From martial arts to high-end locks, S.F. residents are investing in self-protection (S.F. Chronicle) They could just move to Texas or Florida.

‘This craziness’ is not Texas, says Beto O’Rourke as he urges Dallas residents to reject Greg Abbott

Beto O’Rourke stands by infamous pledge to ‘take’ guns from Americans if elected Texas governor

Looting Comes to the Suburbs

NYC Passes Bill To Restrict ‘Racist, Sexist’ Hiring Software

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

University Of California To Permanently Remove Standardized Testing For Admission

CNN Publishes Op-Ed: “Nothing More Frightening Than An Angry White Man”  Oh, yes, there is: An angry black man.

FEE Journalist Says TikTok Censored Pro-Rittenhouse Video for ‘Harassment’

It Hurts Their Feelz: Colorado Kills Term ‘Sex Offender’

ABC Won’t Blame San Francisco’s Liberal Policies for ‘Brazen’ Robberies  Of course not.

Runaway Crime in the Suburbs

Soros-Stooge Chesa Boudin Suddenly “Outraged” As Wave Of Shoplifting Gangs Sweeps Bay Area

Joy Behar Panics: Rittenhouse Verdict Means ‘Any Nutcase Can Come and Shoot Me at a Protest!’  I’d be happy to volunteer.

Bezos ‘Greases’ Way Into Dem Establishment With $100 Million Obama Donation  Money talks.

Read it.

Hammer tech.

Self-Defenestration in Zalaegerszeg

Chuck Throws COVID Muck: Right-Wing Media ‘Misinformers’ Have ‘Blood on Their Hands’

She Died of the Vax, But Relax: It’s a Very Very Rare Outcome

Disney World puts COVID-19 vaccination policy on hold for employees

US Covid infections rising again as upper midwest sees biggest jump (The Guardian) Fine vaccines you got there, bubba.

Navy Shipbuilder Backpedals On Vaccine Mandate After Flood Of Employees Threaten To Quit

The weirdness of government variation in Covid-19 responses

NIH Director Demands COVID ‘Conspiracists’ Be “Brought To Justice”

“We’ll Never Give Up” – Protests Erupt Across World Over Gov’t COVID Tyranny

Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning  “We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.” The mRNA ‘vaccines’ are composed of only the spike proteins of the Coronavirus, attempting to trigger an immune-system response without the danger of having the actual virus around. But since the spike proteins themselves are pathogenic and increase the risk of myocarditis, anyone who uses an mRNA ‘vaccine’ is voluntarily exposing himself to serious cardiac trouble.

Austria Freak Out: Lockdown EVERYTHING! Meanwhile ‘Unvaccinated’ Africa Still Not Impacted

RFK Jr. Defames Dr. Fauci (But Truth Is an Absolute Defense)

Fauci Says Babies, Toddlers Eligible For COVID Jabs In Q1 2022

Portland Crowd Eggs Justice Center, Clashes With Sheriff’s Deputies After Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

Joy Reid compares Kyle Rittenhouse’s ‘male white tears’ to Brett Kavanaugh’s

Trump’s ire grows as DeSantis’ popularity with Republicans takes off (CNN) Ire! All Trump! All the time!

What the democracy watchers worry about (Axios) Mostly Republicans, it would appear.

What to make of the intelligence failure over the Steele Dossier? (The Hill) It wasn’t an ‘intelligence failure’, it was a Democrat smear campaign.

The Bonnie and Clyde of MAGA World (Politico) Except for the, you know, robbery and killing parts.

ABC Pushes Families of Rittenhouse’s ‘Victims’ to Sue Him in Civil Court  Witch-Hunt Phase 2.

GoFundMe To Allow Rittenhouse Fundraisers After Acquittal  Very white of them.

CBS Still Peddling LIE Rittenhouse Crossed State Lines With Rifle  They’re just not interested in truth. It has absolutely no value to them.

Rittenhouse 2.0: Threats Of New Litigation Fly In Aftermath Of Verdict  Traditionally, when a defendant gets off that the Establishment wanted convicted, they spin up a civil rights suit by the DoJ. I expect Führer Merrick Garland to try something like that. They also find a supporter with deep pockets to fund civil suits against the defendant on any pretext that they think they can sell to a jury. It’s going to get ugly for Kyle Rittenhouse.

Fighting “Information Disorder”: Aspen’s Orwellian Commission On Controlling Speech In America

Canada Spends $1.2 Million on Curing Cancer Through Decolonization

US media’s inaccurate reporting on Rittenhouse had real consequences internationally: Greenwald

CNN Says Biden Is To Thank For Falling Gas Prices Days After Saying It Was Out Of His Control

“They Laughed At The Parents” – Leaked Audio Reveals How California Teachers Recruit Kids Into LGBTQ Clubs

Politico Fusses Rittenhouse Verdict Pushed Democrat Spending Bill ‘Out of the Headlines’

Shots Fired As Flash Mob Raids Nordstrom In Upscale California Town  The underclass are organizing raids.

Illinois Pension Shortfall Surpasses $500 Billion, Average Debt Burden Now $110,000 Per Household  Promise public employees the moon in return for their votes, and let somebody else worry about how to pay for it all — I give you the modern Democrat party.

“Nobody Likes A Snob”: Bill Maher Slams AOC, Other ‘Woke’ Democrats For Being Out Of Touch With ‘Most Of America’

Los Angeles to ban wood-framed construction  Time to leave.

The Weakness of Conservative Anti-Wokeness

Biological Female Prisoners Sue California After Officials Altered Complaints Over Trans ‘Male’ Sex-Offenders