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The following video from Italy makes it clear that the human traffickers are coordinating with NGO migrant ferries when they transport people to a rendezvous just off the coast of Libya.

Climate-Alarmist Parents Warned Not To Cause ‘Eco-Anxiety’ By Terrifying Children  Too late.

In media coverage of climate change, where are the facts?

The Radical Green Road To Venezuela – Poverty, Misery And Dictatorship

90% Of Plastic Waste Polluting Earth’s Oceans Comes From Asia and Africa

Extinction Rebellion protesters cause ‘carnage’ by ‘gluing’ themselves to A20 exit road near Port of Dover

Do Models Run Hot Or Not? A Process Control View

‘Absurd Medieval Witchcraft’: ‘Hannity’ Panel Deconstructs Climate Change ‘Lunacy’

Watch Climate Activists Try To Explain Why They Use Products Made From Fossil Fuels

The best pushback to the misinformation of @GretaThunberg you’ll find

America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys  When it hits Malibu, I’ll worry.

Panicky NY Times’s Climate Crusade Feeds Kids’ Fears: ‘Our Terrifying World’

Democrat Candidate: One Year Climate Crisis Mandatory National Service for 18-26 Year Olds

CNN’s Don Lemon Discovers True Problem In Justin Trudeau Blackface Scandal – Trump

Dems call for impeachment of ‘criminal’ Trump as new details surface on call with Ukraine

On blaming Trump for Iran’s aggression against Saudi Arabia

Trump Pounces On Biden-Ukraine Scandal As Whistleblower Story Flips On Dems

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I’m surprised it wasn’t made mandatory. (Of course, it might have been. Students skip ‘mandatory’ meetings all the time.)

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More and more women are flocking to plastic surgery to correct a devastating condition known as “resting bitch face”, according the New York Post.

“Resting bitch face” is a condition wherein you look – well, bitchy – due to your normal, everyday facial expression. It’s also sometimes just referred to as simply “being from New York City”.

Maxine Waters, call your office.

Federal Judge Blocks California Trump-Harassment Law Which Demands His Tax Returns

Politico Hypes Roy Cohn Documentary as Latest Tool to Ruin Trump

Federal Judge Blocks California Law That Would Force Trump To Disclose Tax Returns

Chelsea Handler: Trump Is ‘The Pinnacle Of White Privilege’  i guess Chelsea Handler is just chopped liver.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture – Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome

Bizarre: Matthews Argues Trump ‘Is Scared to Death to Lose His Virginity’ on Gun Control

Nearly Every Democratic State AG Is Suing Trump Admin For Nixing California’s Ability To Set Strict Emission Rules

Joe Biden Bragged That, With Barack Obama’s Permission, He Threatened To Withhold Billions in Aid to Ukraine Unless They Fired a Prosecutor Investigating His Son’s Company. And Now, The Deep State Refashions This as a Trump Scandal

Realistic Glossary of Terms for the Climate Crisis/Climate Emergency

How do buildings contribute to climate change?  Payroll deduction, I’m thinking.

UN De-platforms the USA at the New York Climate Summit

Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels Of Plastic Found In Children  Women and minorities hardest hit.

What’s the Environmental Crisis?

Climate Confessions and Liberal Voodoo

Tarawa! And the War Against Sea Level Rise

Enter the Capitalocene: How Climate Change Will Ruin Capitalism

Top 5 Worst Global Warming Propaganda Efforts on TV

Nets Thrilled by Kids ‘Demanding Action’ With Global Youth-Led Climate ‘Strike’

Bernie Sanders Makes A Startling Admission During The First Leg Of MSNBC’s Two Day Climate Forum

The Idolatry of Environmental Extremism

Media Hype #NoFutureNoChildren Climate ‘Movement’

Why Australia, the US and Japan are banned from speaking at the UN’s flagship climate summit

School climate strikers should answer these two questions

Climate strike led by group demanding Britain pay ‘reparations’ for being first to industrialise

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Author Claims Warming Oceans Will Cause Traffic Accidents

Ten Topics That Americans Googled More Than Climate Change

EXTREME: MSNBC Hypes Simulated Hangings By Climate Protesters

Climate Activists Continue To Protest After Amazon Signs ‘Climate Pledge’

Liberal Billionaires Help Bankroll Youth Climate Strike Partners

Democratic Candidate Tim Ryan Says We Should Provide ‘Family Planning’ Worldwide to Fight Climate Change

Climate Strike: Meltdown Edition

NY Times Thrilled With Children’s Climate Crusade: Send Us Your Protest Sign Pics!

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Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame.

Denver communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks.

Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages.

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When the story first broke last spring, we wrote that the first round of indictments had to be the tip of the iceberg, because over time, those in the government crosshairs would sing like a bird—and boy, have they ever.

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When it doubt, just make shit up.

(And they complain about Trump….)

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Houellebecq argues that the social structures which maintained Western hegemony by checking the societally harmful excesses of this competition, namely religion and the family unit, have been gradually lost to individualism and the market. Without any institutional checks on this competition, a growing number of individuals have been left behind. The recognition that one has lost out leads to despair and resentment, emotions which further destabilise society. For Houellebecq, this widespread “atomisation” of society is the principle cause of a perceived decline of the West. His evidence for this demise is the declining birth rates in Western countries. Unlike other broadly right-wing figures, however, Houellebecq is sceptical that the social stabilising force of Christianity can be called upon anytime soon, and he accepts the decline of religion’s influence over society as a logical consequence of scientific progress.

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Liberals who view our meritocracy as a fraud aren’t entirely wrong about their ability to game the system at various stages. It is possible, I take it, to leverage “privilege” to get one’s three year-old into a fancy pre-school program. Indeed, as has been confirmed recently, it’s possible through bribery, in effect, to get one’s 18 year-old into a fancy college (although it’s not clear how widespread this practice is).

Where these liberals (and not just liberals) go wrong, I think, is in hugely overestimating the advantage they bestow on their kids through manipulation. Actual merit will have a vastly greater say in determining ultimate success — success as adults — than will successful parental manipulation of various admissions processes.

An Overview of the Islamization of Europe

Netanyahu: Israel Might Launch Full-Scale Gaza War “Before The Elections”

Furious US Slams Iran’s “Web Of Lies” Over Oil Delivery To Syria

An Islamic Party for Sweden

Second British-Australian woman jailed in Iran is identified as Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Boko Haram is back, and with better drones than the Nigerian military

Kashmir flashpoint risks nuclear war, says Imran Khan

Salafist Madrassas in the Netherlands

“We Can Do This For 100 Years”: Taliban Threaten More Violence After Trump Kills Peace Talks

More than 120 migrants stopped in past week as French camp closures fuel rise in Channel crossings

Qatar-Funded Group Engages In ‘Propagandistic Activities’ While Divvying Out Millions To US Schools, Experts Say

Pakistan Warns Of “Accidental War” With India On Line Of Control

When Muslims Oppress Gays, It’s the Fault of the Jews

Women make up 54% of new students entering Iranian universities

Saudi Arabia: Iranian Weapons Used To Attack Oil Sites

Paedophile jailed for Rotherham child abuse has sentence extended for trolling victim 

Italian police arrest three men accused of torturing and raping migrants in hellish Libya camp

A Moroccan Journalist May Be Jailed For An Abortion She Denies Obtaining

“It Is Ours!” Indian Minister Says Islamabad About To “Lose Pakistani-occupied Kashmir”

‘Low-Flying’-Missiles Used In Aramco Attack Were Launched Inside Iran: Report

Ashraf Ghani narrowly avoids Taliban bomb in worst violence since collapse of US negotiations

U.S. Islamist Leaders Met with Senior State Dept. Official About Kashmir

Erdogan Wants To Create ‘Refugee City’ After Threatening To Flood Europe With 1M Syrians

Saudi Arabia Says It Has “Material Evidence” Tying Iran To Aramco Attack

The Self-Pity of a Geezer-Beater

Alleged ISIS Sympathizer Nabbed By FBI In Alabama After Saying He Would Kill A U.S. Soldier

Iraqi Immigrant Who Sabotaged Plane Denied Bail After Violent ISIS Videos Discovered on His Phone

Is Sweden Going Under for the Third Time?

Queensistan: A Big Islamic Terror Problem in Trump’s Old Neighborhood

GOP Rep’s Bill Would Redirect Palestinian Aid To Israel, If State Department Can’t Certify Money Not Going To Terrorists’ Families

Hezbollah Operative Scoped Out Times Square, Statue Of Liberty For Possible Terrorist Attacks, Prosecutors Say

Sharia Creeps Into the Schools of Cupertino

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For the last several years, we have been covering the grade-changing scandal in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS). Administrators, teachers, and parents continue to come forward about the widespread fraud that allows children to graduate, even though they’ve missed school or failed classes.

The problem is not just that they aren’t learning anything, but that they’re getting the same credential as those who have, a credential that is used for employment and further education decisions.

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Proteins are essential for every living cell and responsible for many fundamental processes. In particular, they are required as bio-catalysts in metabolism and for signaling inside the cell and between cells. Many diseases come about as a result of failures in this communication, and the origins of signaling in proteins have been a source of great scientific debate. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Göttingen has actually observed the mobile protons that do this job in each and every living cell, thus providing new insights into the mechanisms. The results were published in Nature.

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Well, we can hope.

One advantage of an MSR, Moltex says, is safety: Gases aren’t produced and the reaction takes place at atmospheric pressure, so the explosive release of any radioactive material isn’t possible. Moltex says its SSR is an evolution from the MSR, allowing for the technique to be used without radical new development.

‘This is science’: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg she wants action, not praise

The Climate Circus Comes to Town Again

Why 100% Renewable Energy Is Less Realistic Than a Unicorn

Climate Concerned India’s Coal Imports Surging

Climate Confessions

Doomsayers

Century-old ship logs show how much ice the Arctic has lost  Have they looked under the couch?

GOLDSTEIN: Feds scrapped 100 years of data on climate change

Government That Wants You To Take Climate Change Seriously Invites Foreign High School Kid To Testify Before Congress

Birds Are Vanishing from North America  Women and minorities hardest hit.

The Climate Faith

The world is striking for climate action on Friday, and teens made it happen  Which underlines what a stupid idea it is.

CNN’s Don Lemon Bashes Trump While Defending Trudeau After ‘Brownface’ Controversy

Don Lemon And CNN Panel Praise Trudeau For ‘Brownface’ Apology, Diss Trump

Democrats Smell Blood After Whistleblower Says Trump Made Troubling ‘Promise’ To Foreign Leader

Joe Scarborough Frets Over Trump and McConnell Shaping Courts for ‘Next 50 Years’

The Real Reason for Trump Derangement Syndrome  Victor Davis Hanson.

Pelosi Unloads On Nadler; Tells Him To Drop ‘Moby Dick’-Like Impeachment Obsession  Nadler looks like a Batman villain.

Adam Schiff Threatens To Sue Trump Administration Over Mystery Whistleblower Complaint

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Picaridin formula repels mosquitos, biting insects, and ticks.

Not guaranteed effective against Members of Congress.

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Then they also ought to ban photos of women in skimpy costumes because they promote rape.

But of course that’s not going to happen.

(Somebody ought to adopt the old Gordon Liddy ‘Staked & Packed’ idea of posting photos of women in skimpy costumes toting automatic weapons. That ought to make some heads explode.)

ZMan does a deep dive.

In the social realm, there are hidden taxes that are not really hidden, as they are experienced every day, but no one thinks of them as taxes. For example, people living in Lagos on the Chesapeake are well aware of the tax. This is the daily cost of insulating yourself from crime and mayhem. It may be a direct tax like alarm systems or bars on the windows. It can also be an indirect tax, like the two hour commute from one part of the suburbs to another. Time is just another form of money.

There is also an emotional cost that comes with living around so much vibrancy. When you live in a place like Lagos, around the tax, you can never relax. Life in diverse areas is a constant struggle between two species that were never meant to occupy the same ecosystem. The fragile peace is a source of stress, because it is so fragile. You know that the cost of that peace is tolerating the endless inconveniences. The pale face just assumes maintaining the peace is his burden alone.

It is not just the anxiety of living in constant danger. The tax shows up in a million little ways in your daily life. If you go into a lunch place in certain parts of town, you can expect to see a local struggling to order from the menu. The inculcated sense of entitlement means they will waste time ordering odd things that slow up the whole process for everyone. In the grocery store, shoppers will pick checkout lines, based on the assumed tax in each option. Everyone tries to be a tax dodger.

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Our language is full of interjections and verbal gestures that don’t necessarily meananything beyond themselves. Most of our words – ‘baseball’, ‘thunder’, ‘ideology’ – seem to have a meaning outside themselves – to designate or stand for some concept. The way the word looks and sounds is only arbitrarily connected to the concept that it represents.

But the meanings of other expressions – including our hmms, hars and huhs – seem much more closely tied to the individual utterance. The meaning is inseparable from or immanent in the expression. These kinds of expressions seem to have meaning more how a particular action might have meaning.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that World Cup 2020 even had a Migrant Worker Problem.

Furthermore, I’ll bet you don’t even care. (I know I don’t.)

In extenso, I challenge you to find an Amnesty International report that isn’t ‘damning’.  Go on. I dare ya.

Audacious Epigone runs the numbers.

It has been funny to watch Woke whites caterwauling over Joe Biden’s alleged racism with increasing frequency and intensity.

Meanwhile, he remains at the top of the polls of because of his thus far unshakable black support and, to a lesser extent, his support among Hispanics and Asians.

In the latest YouGov poll, taken after the third debate where Biden made another unforgivable remark about something or other having to do with how black parents raise their parents, Warren is beating Biden among white primary voters but he is crushing her among non-whites in general and blacks in particular (where he beats her 47% to 11%) and as a consequence has a six-point edge overall:

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The future of nuclear power has long been part of the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, built in the 1950s, is the second-largest university reactor in the United States. But it’s small — operating at just 1% of the energy of the recently closed Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

Trump impeachment hearing opened by Congress for first time

Abdul-Jabbar: If Anthem, MAGA Hats Allowed At Ballparks, Sports Leagues Must Allow Political Acts

Brian Williams Asks Snowden If Trump White House Is a National Security Threat

MSNBC’s Mystal Brags He Dreams About Ramming Car Into Trump Building Lobby

Anti-Trump Protesters Verbally Abuse Reporter

‘America Was Never Great!’: Communist Group Burns American Flag As Trump Visits

Brave Resistance Hero Flips Off The Sky To Defeat Trump

‘Reboot’: CBS Admits Climate Accord Signees Not Living up to Commitment

If You Put Junk Science In, You’ll Get Junk Science Out

Only 38% Of Americans Believe Humans Mainly Responsible For Climate Change

If Sir David King is scared about global warming, we needn’t worry

Fossil Fool Divestment Achieves New Level of Really Stupid and Futile Gesturing!

“Scientific” Predictions About Humanity and Resources

Getting Religion: NBC Solicits Confessions of Climate Change Sins

Climate Protestor Thieves get a Free Pass from a French Judge

Blowing-up asteroid to block out Sun could stop global warming – it’s happened before, say scientists 

In Pakistan’s warming mountains, farmers fish for a new living

How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’

Climate claims and weather predictions.

MSNBC Hosts Mock Their Own Kids as Way of Praising Climate ‘Voice for Change’

Telemundo Joins NBC’s Corporate Climate Alarmism

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Dongyuan Li pleaded guilty to two federal criminal charges, one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, for her involvement in a birth tourism business that was based in Orange County, California, according to a press release from the Justice Department.

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Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame.

Denver communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks.

Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages. So, where is Silicon Valley — whose top companies partner with the Southern Poverty Law Center smear machine to de-platform conservatives, pro-lifers and Donald Trump supporters — to stop the open borders left’s escalating hate?

Babylon Bee.

At a panel on climate change held yesterday, the Senate brought in a group of excited third graders for ideas on fighting climate change.

By contrast with the Senators, the children were focused, polite, and full of ideas.

Jean-Louis Gassée.

Moving past a brief apology for the unavoidable wordplay, we take a look at Trump’s simple motto for his 2020 campaign. Even simpler and probably more effective than his 2016 Make America Great Again.

A certified Crustian sounds the alarm for his own side.

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Oh, if only it were that easy….

(Be aware that The Register is run by ‘progressive’ British tech nerds so their knowledge of Orthodox religious practice is pretty superficial.)

Steve Sailer.

In an era obsessed with how white guys down through the centuries have hurt the feelings of nonwhite guys by inventing so much, male creativity increasingly shrinks back to obscure bailiwicks that nobody else cares much about, such as baseball.

Since the 1970s, smart whites and Asians who like working with data have increasingly turned to their safe space: baseball. So far, at least, you can recognize all the patterns you want in baseball statistics without a Twitter mob canceling your career.

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Good. California has been leadig the rest of the country by the nose on auto emission standards for too long. These necessarily become the de facto national standards because auto makers aren’t going to make two types of cars, one that meets California standards and one that doesn’t. (Think of why you can’t buy a non-low-flow toilet any more….)

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If you’ve ever stood in front of your recycling bin—unsure if the trash in your hands is recyclable—and threw it in anyway, this article is for you.

Over on Mother Jones, writer Jackie Flynn Mogensen followed the effects of “wishcycling,” when a consumer commits this trash faux-pas in the hopes that somewhere down the line, their garbage will find its rightful place whether it be with other, similar recyclables or in a landfill.

People who write for Mother Jones are like that.

Roker ‘Thrilled’ By NBC’s Climate Unit, Hypes ‘Crisis’ in Greenland

Board of Supervisors: Albemarle County

The Dim-Bulb Tide of Climate Crisis Alarmism

Guardian Suggests UN is Boosting Greta Thunberg to Undermine President Trump’s Climate Policy

CJR Brags About Putting Climate Agenda in Front of One Billion People

Leading snowboard brand to close all stores in support of the Global Climate Strike – what else is the ski industry doing to combat global warming?

Why today’s renewables cannot power modern civilization

‘Climate Rebels’ Plan To Blockade Traffic To Push For Green New Deal  I’m not sure that inconveniencing people is effective in getting them to support your cause.

D.C. Drowns: NBC Makes Same Hysterical Prediction as 30 Years Ago  I keep waiting and it never happens.

Tim Flannery Admits His 20 Years of Climate Activism are a “Colossal Failure”

Babylon Bee.

Can’t say that I blame him.

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Be careful not to step in the diversity, it’s hell getting that stuff off of your shoes.

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The United States government Tuesday sued Edward Snowden for proceeds from his new book, saying that the former National Security Agency contractor failed to submit his memoir for government review before publication.

“We will not permit individuals to enrich themselves, at the expense of the United States, without complying with their pre-publication review obligations,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said in announcing the lawsuit.

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In a Democratic primary field that looks like the cast of a Christopher Guest ensemble mockumentary, three candidates have established an early lead — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Sanders and Warren represent very distinct visions of the party’s left flank, but not in the way many assume.

Being homeschooled means that you NEVER HAVE TO GO TO THOSE STUPID CLASS REUNIONS.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Raise your hand if you want your health care provided by the equivalent of the Post Office.

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[wicked witch voice] What a world, what a world.