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More Nigerian leader are admitting the obvious; that Boko Haram violence continues because so many federal officials, military commanders and northern politicians cripple the counter-terrorism effort with corrupt practices. Too many Nigerian see the expensive effort to defeat Boko Haram as an opportunity to make (steal) money. The corruption up these is no secret and there have already been several newsworthy incidents where corruption was revealed or troops openly protested the dishonesty and incompetence of their leaders. Then there was the embarrassing situation of American aid being sought and the U.S. refusing to send any equipment because, based on past performance, it would soon become inoperable, or just disappear, because of the chronic corruption. Generals and politicians tried to depict that as a deliberate insult to Nigeria but most Nigerians agreed with the Americans.

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America did have a mostly free and independent press until the rise of broadcasting in the 1920s. Within a few years, a small group of Republicans, progressives and corporate interests successfully nationalized the airwaves with restrictive licensing that blocked competition, rewarded insiders and squelched dissent.

Over the next few decades, the increasingly powerful medium of radio and then television drowned out the previously broad spectrum of information and ideas—with often three or more diverse choices of daily newspapers in many U.S. cities—and turned free speech into carefully rationed federal broadcasting privileges, their anointed urban newspaper monopolies and a few approved magazines.

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A French startup is poised to solve most of the world’s recycling conundrums with a new process that uses enzymes to break down the most problematic PET plastics (like contaminated black food trays) into a form so pure that it can be used to make clear water bottles that look and act like those made from petroleum.

The company, Carbios, envisions a circular plastic economy where nothing is wasted—and they have the money and backing from major global corporations to make it happen.

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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, controversial from the time it was presented in 2007, proposes that an asteroid or comet hit the Earth about 12,800 years ago causing a period of extreme cooling that contributed to extinctions of more than 35 species of megafauna including giant sloths, sabre-tooth cats, mastodons and mammoths. It also coincides with a serious decline in early human populations such as the Clovis culture and is believed to have caused massive wildfires that could have blocked sunlight, causing an “impact winter” near the end of the Pleistocene Epoch.

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This is what happens when your state is run by Democrats.

No more Napa Valley plonk for you….

Will Celebrity Arrests Save The Environment? Jane Fonda’s Back To Protesting, This Time With Ted Danson

Halloween Climate Scare #6: Pulling Out Of The Paris Accord Dooms Humanity

Climate Journalist Accidentally Makes the Case for Fossil Fuel Powered Industrialization

Halloween Climate Scare #5: We Have 12 Years to Save The World

PolitiFact: Trump’s a ‘Pants on Fire’ Liar to Say Impeachment Is a ‘Coup’

OOPS: ‘SNL’ Mocks Trump ‘Bringing Jobs Back to ISIS’…As News Breaks of ISIS Leader Killed

USA Today Outraged At Houston Astros, But First Focuses On Trump Impeachment

NBC Decries Trump Taking ‘Victory Lap’ After Killing ISIS Leader  Funny, they didn’t complain about Obama doing it for bin Laden.

Jake Tapper Wonders Whether Trump’s Critique Of ‘Coward’ Al-Baghdadi Will Galvanize ISIS

MSNBC Host Guesses ISIS’s Leader’s Killing ‘Only Strengthens Followers’ Ideology’

CNN Complains Trump Shared Too Much, Didn’t Thank the CIA (He Did)

Hillary’s “A Donald Trump Asset” – Bill Maher Urges Clintons To “Go Away”  Can’t say he’s wrong.

“No Proof”: Russia Dismisses Trump’s Baghdadi Victory Lap As ‘Propaganda’

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Most of which are caused by government.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

Freeberg has a list.

It’s been quite a week. I can’t spare a sufficient block of time to get it all captured, but it has not been lost on me that all of the significant events have to do with a socially accepted set of observations going in one direction, while the truth lies in the opposite direction. We as human beings can do this. We possess an ability, unique within the animal kingdom, to lie to ourselves. I did manage to make a list. It isn’t short. It makes me wonder if we’re becoming so estranged from truth and so anesthetized to even the most blatant attempts to deceive us, we may be losing the whole distinction between truth and falsehood.

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California tried respecting Mother Nature by restricting the cutting and clearing and trimming of…pretty much everything…and it didn’t work. Mother Nature bit California in the ass, over and over and over. Fires that could have been small and manageable became conflagrations because of the huge amount of fuel available to them. But this didn’t teach them a damned thing.

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One wonders what they would have said about Himmler had he been a Muslim.

Greta Thunberg Warns Vancouver: ‘Change Is Coming — Whether You Like It Or Not’

A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling

Does the Climate System Have a Preferred Average State? Chaos and the Forcing-Feedback Paradigm

Kamala Harris Pulls Out Of Second Step Presidential Justice Forum Because Trump Got An Award

COLEMAN: For The Sake Of Democracy, Courts Must Declare Trump Vulnerable To Prosecution

PBS Pundit: If Democrats Win Trump Counties, These Voters ‘Wouldn’t Be Racists’

FLASHBACK: That Time Scarborough Predicted Trump Would Not Run in 2020

Andrea Mitchell Tars DOJ Probe as ‘Widely Denounced Conspiracy Theory’  Widely denounced among Democrats, perhaps.

NY Times, MSNBC Race to Slime Barr and Durham

HBO’s Real Time: ‘All-Out Dictator’ Trump Is Like Nazi Goebbels

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uman-like robots, which have the ability to accrue abilities, skills and knowledge the same way humans do, will in future be able to perform and take over every task that can be done by human beings.

I must confess that I’d much rather deal with a robot than with an illiterate, innumerate, inarticulate, unintelligible Person of Color. Heck, I’d even pay for the privilege.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.

After learning of the team’s dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.

The team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.

First World problem.

Babylon Bee: Billionaire Bruce Wayne Criticized For Punching Down

Billionaire Bruce Wayne has come under fire for the way he dresses up as a bat and beats up alleged criminals. Many refer to his activity as “punching down” since the people he attacks tend to be citizens in the lower class.

“Bruce Wayne is a white male with billions of dollars,” said Gotham activist Pamela Isley. “He is one of the most privileged people in existence. And who is he attacking? People below the poverty line he says are ‘muggers.’ And he also often punches mentally ill clowns. The sickest thing is that he seems to think we should praise him for this.”

Isley then went on to say that, if anything, Wayne should be the one who is punched for having such an unequal amount of wealth in Gotham and that the only time he ever punched up was the time he fought Superman.

Wayne made one public statement while in the guise of Batman, saying in a gravelly voice, “I don’t need anyone to thank me, but all those who would prey on the good citizens of Gotham should fear me. I am vengeance. I am the night. I am… Batman! And if you pass a wealth tax, I’m moving.”

“Where does he get those wonderful toys?” — Jack Nicholson as The Joker

A very good question. One of the most attractive aspects of Batman is his “wonderful toys”, which he would not have if he weren’t a billionaire In Real Life. Without the Batplane, the Batmobile, the Bat Signal, the Bat Cave, and his Utility Belt, Batman would be rather a pathetic figure — some mentally deranged orphan who sneaks through the shadows in a strange costume (a fact that a number of non-superhero movies, like KickAss, have underscored).

And ponder, if you will, the sort of crimes that Batman fights: Crimes against the person (mugging, assaults, kidnappings) and crimes against property (armed robbery, cracking banks, hijacking trucks, making off with gold from the Fed, hat sort of thing).

And consider what falls off his radar: Drugs? Not so much. Money laundering? Uh, no. Insider trading, ponzi schemes, pump-and-dump? (Hey, we got Wall Street right here!) Sorry. International arms trade? Trade sanctions violations? Antifa thugs beating on harmless protestors? A bit beyond the scope of the old Utility Belt.

Most of us would love to be Batman — but I suspect that we would all settle for being Bruce Wayne. I know I would.

(And don’t get me started on Tony Stark and Iron Man….)

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General Michael Flynn still awaits sentencing. Meanwhile his new lawyer, Sidney Powell, is tormenting the prosecutors and the FBI, uncovering corruption in the FBI and the Department of Justice that, she credibly alleges, included the framing of General Flynn.

UPDATE: FBI Entrapped Flynn With Manipulated Evidence As Clapper Allegedly Issued ‘Kill Shot’ Order: Court Docs

The Birthplace of Flying Shame and Greta Thunberg Warms to Nuclear Energy

Police Chief: Climate Protestors are Forcing the Diversion of Crime Investigation Resources

No More Cooking With Gas: Environmental Activists Going After the Appliances Consumers Love

“Apocalypse Near” – Pentagon Warns Climate Change Could Cause US Military Collapse Within 20 Years

National Trust to use ‘augmented reality’ headsets to show how climate change will destroy their properties unless climate change is addressed

Tiny beetle named after climate activist Greta Thunberg   Annoying far beyond its size.

PG&E Crashes To All Time Low Over Fears It Will Be Blamed For Latest California Inferno

‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas

Schumer Announces Plan To Nix Virtually Every Gas Powered Vehicle In The Country

Naomi Oreskes Accuses Climate Scientists of Fitting In with the Consensus

Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter

California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days

Halloween Climate Scare #7: Syrians Are Fleeing Due to Climate Change

Trump Primary Challenger Says He’d Vote For Joe Biden ‘In A Heartbeat’  RINO Bill Weld.

Joe Biden Says Trump Protects White Supremacists. The Record Tells A Different Story

Secret Service Interviewed Eminem Over Anti-Trump Lyrics  You know what young white males are like….

New Details Emerge About Anonymous Trump Tell-All Book

CNN Hails Biden Attack on Kushner ‘Credentials,’ Ignores Hunter’s Lack Thereof

CBS’s King Prompts Bruce Springsteen to Bash Trump: ‘Frightening Time’

Washington Nationals Snub POTUS, Invite Prominent Anti-Trump Chef To Throw First Pitch At World Series

Hillary Clinton Appears To Take A Veiled Shot At Trump During Rep. Cummings’ Funeral

Babylon Bee.

n an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.

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As NewsBusters has previously reported, ABC World News Tonight was the only network newscast to report on the latest developments in the scandal surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill’s relationship with one of her staffers; which has led to a probe from the Congressional Ethics Committee. Like CBS and NBC, MSNBC completely ignored the news about Hill. While the other left-wing cable network, CNN, aired a report on the Hill scandal, anchor Brooke Baldwin and reporter Kyung Lah had a very hard time hiding their admiration for the freshman Congresswoman.

Well, she does represent California.

UPDATE: #ThreeToo: Remember When Alcoholic, Pot-Addled Throuple-Threat Young-Underling-Seducer Katie Hill Attacked Lindsey Graham For Defending Brett Kavanaugh By Asking, “What are you afraid of? What’s in your past?”

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Think of it as evolution in action.

I shot the deer and the deer won;
I shot the deer and the … deer won.

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MEGHAN MARKLE has been named as one of the most powerful black people in the UK, joining a host of other famous faces.

Find the black person in this picture:

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

The Other McCain follows this stuff so you don’t have to.

Can someone please point out to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez that she is from New York City, a community wholly dependent for its existence on food and other products imported by truck, by rail and by ships? How long could New York City exist without fossil fuels? A week, at most?

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Last year something weird happened. I started to notice every other cold recruiter email opener has the word “impressed” in it. Obviously at first I was flattered that strangers were impressed by my experience. But then everyone started using this exact word in the same way and it started to feel really bizarre and fake.

Believing what a recruiter says is the first mistake.

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With its whirring rotary blades and extendable cutting arm it would not look out of place stalking the streets of a futuristic urban dystopia.

But Edinburgh University’s new robot has actually been developed to pootle sedately around the garden, pruning rose bushes and trimming topiary.

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Most Americans now take it for granted that universal education is a good thing, including in particular “higher education.” To be sure, only about a quarter of American adults have a bachelor’s degree, but even so, it’s commonly thought that the more of us who go to college, the better. A citizenry, after all, needs to be educated and informed, able to debate the important issues of the day, as opposed to just asserting their biases—the natural, and frequently vulgar, instinct of mankind.

Yet it is trite but true that all life is trade-offs, so it’s worth contemplating whether fulfilling the university mission, and maintaining academic standards, are compatible with the presence of a massive number of persons of average and of below-average intelligence in academia. There is also an important gender issue here: Men and women are different; those differences are not just social constructs; and as university bureaucracies increasingly are dominated by women, it seems clear that, as in the cases of the family and the workplace, the gender equality experiment is hardly an unmixed good in academia.

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Today we’re seeing clear evidence of genetic differences between classes: causal differences. People with higher socioeconomic status have ( on average) higher EA polygenic scores. Higher scores for cognitive ability, as well. This is of course what every IQ test has shown for many decades.

It’s driving regional migration in the UK: people with higher scores in depressed areas (like mining towns) are leaving for London, leaving those towns even more depressed.

There is ongoing decline in those polygenic scores, as observed in other studies and as predicted by demographers and science-fiction writers many years ago.

Actually, ‘conundrum’ would be a better term than ‘dilemma’.

Steve Sailer.

A big chunk of American society has gone nuts over “gender” ideology, which wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t trying to do terrible things to children.

Salvini is Gone, and the Flood of Migrants Resumes

US-Brokered Ceasefire In Syria Already Shattered By New Turkish Airstrikes

ICE Deports Convicted Terrorist Who Tried To Bomb New York City

Muslim Hockey Coach’s Claim To Be The Victim Of A Racist Text Comes Under Question  Sorry, but Muslim isn’t a race.

The Great Replacement: An Introductory Course

France Foils “Sept. 11-Style” Terrorist Attack

Revealed: Woman killed during jihadi prison attack worked for British charity boss

Erdogan Vows To ‘Crush Heads’ Of Kurds If They Don’t Withdraw 

Groucho Marx Redux: “Who Are You Going To Believe, Me Or Your Own Eyes?” Islam Isn’t Responsible For Islamic Terrorism? Huh?

Pompeo Tells Israel It Has “Fundamental Right” To Attack Iranian Targets In The Region

Number of children of British Isil fighters trapped in Syrian camps doubles to 60

Turkey’s Web of Islamist and Terror Support Only Magnifies India’s Kashmir Challenge

‘There Will Be Ethnic Cleansing Of The Kurdish People From Syria,’ Kurdish Leader Says  Turks are good at that. Ask the Armenians.

Is ISIS Back?

Bankrupted by “Refugees”, Germany Prepares for War

Hamas Supports Erdogan’s Brutal Attack on Syrian Civilians

Iranian beauty queen pleads for asylum in the Philippines

Shamima Begum appeals against loss of British citizenship but Home Office suggests plight is her ‘own fault’

Islamic State Targets Teens By Spreading Propaganda On Chinese-Owned TikTok

Islamists’ Power Expected to Rise with New Tunisian President

Iraq Urges UN To Kick “Unauthorized” US Forces From Country  If we invade them a third time, do we get permnent possession?

Car Bombs Rock Northern Syria After “Hundreds” Of ISIS Prisoners Escape

Father of first woman to die fighting against Isil launches legal campaign to repatriate her body from Syria

Bomb attacks are now a normal part of Swedish life

British man who fought Isil is first to be convicted of terrorism charge

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The U.S. Army recently had some paratroopers carry freeze-dried plasma (FDP) kits in their rucksacks during a parachute jump. This was to verify for the FDA that the FDP kits can survive a parachute. That was really no problem because FDP does not require refrigeration and, like an MRE (freeze dried Meals, Ready to Eat), contains no liquid. It comes in a plastic bag ready to be mixed with an accompanying bag of sterile water. Both are packaged in a hard plastic container built to handle rough treatment in a combat zone. The FDP kits carried by these paratroopers was the new American-made FDP. Since 2012 SOCOM (Special Operations Command) troops have been using French FDP kits, which have been used by the French military since 1994. SOCOM medics have used the French FDP over twenty times since 2012 and that saved the lives of several American soldiers. The American FDP is expected to get final FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) approval by 2020.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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MSNBC has assiduously branded Rachel Maddow over the last decade as the foremost brainiac on cable, what with the nerdy glasses and high-top sneakers and over-the-top gushing when Maddow appears on other shows and the hosts are left dazed by the sheer immensity of her cognition. So when Maddow says something really dumb, it can’t be because she’s dumb, on that all liberals will agree, nor that she’s lazy or indifferent. Which leads to only one other conclusion — her default tendency to mislead.

Scott Adams keeps telling me that she is very smart but I see no evidence of it.

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A Republican would already have been hounded into resigning by now.

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Still waiting to see Brennan, Clapper, and Comey behind bars.

UPDATE: DoJ Opens Criminal Probe Into Spygate, Journalists Angrily Uninterested

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A street in downtown L.A. will soon be repaved, but the road won’t be quite the standard asphalt road we’re used to. Instead, it will be covered with a material made, in part, from recycled plastic bottles. The plastic is a key in a new process for street paving: For the first time, the city will be able to grind up the existing road and fully recycle it in place, using the plastic to actually make the pavement stronger than it was before.

How will Funding Climate Science Help Prevent Coral Bleaching?

Climate Change May Cause Poorly Maintained Bridges to Collapse  Or they may collapse anyway.

She Would Have Stood a Better Chance Against Polar Bears

NASA May Have Faked Climate Data Says Retired Top UK Govt. Scientist

How more organic farming could worsen global warming

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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.?

Feel the Bern….

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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.?

Feel the Bern….

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Not a parody, so far as I can tell.

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Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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The dire conditions under which black residents live in Chicago seem like an insurmountable problem. Gang violence, drugs, poverty, and a poor educational system are endemic in certain areas, and the city’s Democratic leadership does not seem interested in addressing these issues. Of course, the primary issue in Chicago is arguably the outrageous homicide rate.

Most of the violence is related to gang activity. But Chicago is unique among similarly afflicted cities in that its gang violence problem is not just the result of poverty or cultural issues. One of the worst aspects of these homicides is that very few cases are solved, meaning most of the criminals responsible do not face justice.

If you get the urge to shoot somebody, do it in Chicago.

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You pretty much know that the leftist hive of Teen Vogue would exclude conservatives in its survey of youth politics when the synopsis of each young person from 16 to 24 featured is prefaced by the sentient being’s preferred pronouns. Preferred pronouns, of course, are one of the easy symbols to recognize that any such article would act as if conservative or Republican youth would be considered to be creatures from another world thus not even within the Teen Vogue realm of being considered for attention.

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Putting the “men” in menstruation.

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It’s not enough to be black, you have to be the right kind of black.