Funding of climate change countermovement players (2013)

Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions

BBC: Its Important to Let Climate Worriers Talk About Murdering Their Own Children  Anything we can do to help, just call. Feel free to call collect.

Flight-Shaming Catching On In Europe

The CIA Versus Donald J. Trump

How dangerous is Trump? Ask the Kurds  Needless to say, the L.A. Times never gave a shit about the Kurds until they emerged as a stick with which to beat Trump.

Minneapolis mayor: We saw Trump stiffing cities for his other rallies, so we told him to pay up

Anchors Amp Up Trump Outrageousness in Promoting ‘Border Wars’ Book

The Guardian: Google is Financing Climate Deniers

Todd Touts Simplicity of Impeach Narrative, But Frets It Could Take too Long

NBC Political Director Presses Mattis to Attack Trump, General Refuses

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There’s got to be some way we can persuade these morons to secede.

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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.

Freeberg invents a new term.

A grenade is the furthest you can get from any kind of precision instrument. There’s no scope-sighting, no aiming, no plan to adjust for wind, downgrade, muzzle velocity, bullet weight in grains…just an explosive projectile lobbed in at an approximate location. Such people demand and require uncontested control over whatever is happening. Everything in earshot or line-of-site has to be exposed and subject to their frag. They are the last to compromise on anything and the first to ostracize any dissenters who show too much recalcitrance or hesitation to “get with the program.” If you continue with your not-getting-on-board bad behavior, you will find yourself subject to some passionate gossip while your back is turned, sure as the sun rises in the East.

“Grenade Person” is awkward; how about a related construct “Grenado”?

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Presumably bolstered by the fiery claims of Greta Thunberg and the general theme of Climate Week, people on Twitter have been declaring that capitalism threatens humanity. This angst rekindled interest in a Guardian article that ran a few months ago, in which author George Monbiot argued that the very nature of capitalism is “incompatible with the survival of life on Earth.” Not only do such claims ignore the obvious progress of humanity staring us in the face—and the environmental activists are supposed to be the empirical ones in this debate—but even if Monbiot’s worries about the climate were correct, capitalism would still be the best social system to deal with the crisis.

Monbiot is one of the most muddle-headed writers that the Guardian employs, and that’s a high bar.

To begin with, there is no necessary connection between ‘capitalism’ (and I doubt that Monbiot actually understands the meaning of the term) and a need for growth. The fact that they often occur together is Yet Another Instance of the Correlation Implies Causation fallacy. ‘Capitalism’ (i.e. the use of machines to leverage labor by automating production processes, more accurately ‘industrialism’) is a means of production, not a way of structuring economic activity. One can use machines to produce goods from recycled inputs if one desires to do so; not many do because that’s more effort than using fresh raw materials, but it can be done. So Monbiot has his head up his butt in this respect.

His other complaint is that private property (not capitalism, although I’m sure his muddled understanding of ‘capitalism’ includes private property as a feature) somehow constitutes a ‘seizure of common goods’, thereby leading to all sorts of Bad Things. Well, the assumption that all goods somehow belong to everybody in common is certainly an axiom of socialist thought (of which I assume that Monbiot is a practicioner), but still represents an assumption for which neither evidence nor argument is presented. Interestingly enough, two of the Bad Things on his list of the sins of capitalism, ‘immiseration of other people by an economy based on looting’ and ‘translation of economic power into political power’ are both essential characteristics of socialism, the first arising from the necessity of comprehensive theft in order to set up the socialist system to begin with and the consequent dependence on the socialist administrators of the ‘collective means of production’ which historically all socialist governments use to shackle the political activity of their clients — Venezuela being only the most recent example. So Monbiot has his head up his butt in this regard as well.

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Over the last few days, a host of former Obama officials have been repeating this story, which is highly misleading, to say the least. Rice and her colleagues would have us believe that Team Obama created a highly effective plan for stabilizing the Middle East by working through groups like the YPG, and Trump, mercurial and impulsive, is throwing it all away by seeking a rapprochement with Ankara. That’s nonsense.

In fact, the close relationship with the YPG was a quick fix that bequeathed to Trump profound strategic dilemmas. Trump inherited from Obama a dysfunctional strategy for countering ISIS, one that ensured ever-greater turmoil in the region and placed American forces in an impossible position.

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The poor face typhoid and other debilitating diseases that were eliminated in civilized nations. People poop in the street for lack of indoor plumbing.

Instead of meeting the basic sanitation needs of its cities, the corrupt, one-party government squanders billions on an unneeded high-speed train. It will never be built but contracts are awarded to political insiders for work that will never be done. Because of this corruption, President Donald John Trump wants to curtail U.S. aid to the land.

Elsewhere in this nation state, electricity is a luxury as the power has been cut off to hundreds of thousands of citizens in preparation for a natural disaster.

Steve Sailer.

I first noticed this trend with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ hilarious bestseller in 2015, where blacks are “black bodies” and whites are “people who think that they are white.”

In other words, I guess, TNC wants to imply that blacks are authentically black, but whites all have a touch of the tar brush.

This just seems childish and moronic, but it appears a lot of people are getting into this kind of thinking now. After all, race is just a social construct, so we get to say whatever we feel, so we just spew random insults at whites, such as implying that they suck because they are part black. Which, logically, is self-defeating, but TNC didn’t get his Genius Grant for being logical, now did he?

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Politicians on both sides of the aisle insist that they can trust the American people. Since I have also believed there are reasons to have faith in our citizens, I always silently nod in agreement at these words. But this morning, I asked myself: What does that statement even mean?

At first glance, I assume that those of us who make this remark believe that ultimately citizens will learn/recognize/figure out the truth of a complex political situation. But do we really believe they will make that effort? Do we honestly think that the American people will get through the maze and hyperbole of the information they receive from the media to get to the “truth”?

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The public has demonstrated that even though it doesn’t trust the media, it continues to go to them for information. The public insists that it can weigh all the information and come to a legitimate conclusion, even though it doesn’t actually read the original sources or trust those who publicize this information. As long as the Left continues to control its message, we need to worry about the 2020 election.

Frankly, I don’t trust the American people.

I don’t either.

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Demonstrating once again her laser-like focus on representing the interests of her constituents in Queens, AOC flew to Denmark recently on an airplane that burned an enormous amount of fossil fuels. This no doubt thrilled those who live in her congressional district, who have plenty of time to follow their congressperson’s heroic exploits closely because they don’t work at an Amazon distribution center. AOC believes that it’s all about her constituents – it’s not about her, as you can tell from her statements to those assembled in Copenhagen….

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I have a question: Would the Usual Suspects be so excited about this if he were white? Or Asian?

Matt Taibbi.

’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score.

The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast?

When the KGB in 1991 tried to reassume control of the crumbling Soviet Union by placing Mikhail Gorbachev under arrest and attempting to seize Moscow, logistics ruled. Boris Yeltsin’s crew drove to the Russian White House in ordinary cars, beating KGB coup plotters who were trying to reach the seat of Russian government in armored vehicles. A key moment came when one of Yeltsin’s men, Alexander Rutskoi – who two years later would himself lead a coup against Yeltsin – prevailed upon a Major in a tank unit to defy KGB orders and turn on the “criminals.”

We have long been spared this madness in America. Our head-counting ceremony was Election Day. We did it once every four years.

That’s all over, in the Trump era.

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In the course of “preserving the commons for all of the people,” a frequently stated mission of national parks and protected areas, one class or culture of people, one philosophy of nature, one worldview, and one creation myth has almost always been preferred over all others. These favored ideas and impressions are at some point expressed in art. And it is through art that our earliest preconceptions and fantasies about nature are formed.

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In its 92-year history, the Strand, a New York institution and one of the world’s largest independent bookstores, has endured everything from the Great Depression to the explosion of Amazon.

It is a cruel irony, then, that having survived against the odds, the latest potential threat to the third-generation family business comes from an organisation whose purpose is supposed to be to protect.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) announced in June that it had granted the Strand’s home – an 11-storey building between Manhattan’s Greenwich and East Villages – landmark status, despite vocal opposition from its owner who warned it would “destroy” the popular store.

‘Landmark status’ is a favorite proglodyte tool for confiscating somebody’s property without the compensation required by the 5th Amendment. It is quintessentially fascist.

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If you see a telepresence robot, break it — it won’t know why.

Climate Protest Fury: “they should be doing is getting off their a*** … instead of blaming everybody else”

Extinction Rebellion protests: Belgian princess ‘arrested in Trafalgar Square’

PG&E gas employees wined and dined just before mass power outages

Ignore Climate Hysteria: Brazil Set To Post Record Harvest

Extinction Rebellion protests: Activists accuse group of failing to prepare members for being arrested

Vancouver has ‘coldest Oct. 10 in 123 years’ as temperatures tumble across B.C.  Gotta love that Global Warming.

Another Newsweek Conspiracy: ‘Greta Thunberg Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize’ By Big Oil

Will Jane Fonda Getting Arrested Save The Environment?

“Never Seen This Before” – Protester Spits In Face Of Trump Supporter During VICE Interview

17 Former Watergate Special Prosecutors Pen Op-Ed On Why Trump Should Be Impeached

Guess Who Else Trump Is Colluding With  Slate.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics  Politico, so it’s mostly anti-Trump.

HuffPost Hammers ‘Vicious’ Trump Rally, Silent on Violent Protest

Trump Could Be Impeached Based On A Parade Of “Whistleblowers” That Won’t Even Testify In Person

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In case you haven’t been keeping track of the behavioral sink that is modern Britain, they have a bit of a drug problem.

Children as young as nine are being recruited by county lines gangs as they increasingly target middle class “clean skins” to run drugs, the crime chief for Britain’s biggest children’s charity has revealed.

County lines gangs “exploit children and teenagers to take drugs from urban centres to country towns.” (No, I have no idea where they got that name — I suppose it’s a British thing.)

Ms Gradwell cited one case of a middle class child whose parents had disciplined him by “grounding him” at home and taken away his mobile phone.

So sophisticated is the intelligence networks of the gangs that he was identified and befriended. “The young lad got chatting with a gang member who offered him his spare phone,” said Ms Gradwell.

“They got friendly, then the next stage was: ‘I gave you a phone when you most needed it, now can you do me a favour and drop this package off.’”

After a series of similar jobs, he started getting a cut of the money, at which point the gang set up a “mugging” in which the drugs were stolen from the child. “He could not pay for them and became indebted,” said Ms Gradwell.

How long before this trick shows up in De Blasio’s New York City?

Steve Sailer.

Washington Post headline:

No refugees allowed? Trump’s plan to give states and cities a veto prompts an outcry.

The president’s executive order is unprecedented in the history of U.S. refugee resettlements, a system that has long had bipartisan support. Advocates fear ugly debates if politicians try to restrict who can move in.

By Griff Witte

For some reason, none of the 12,900 residents of Malibu, with its 21 miles of coastline, were available for comment about how awful it would be if the citizens of states and localities would be allowed to debate whether to allow themselves to be targeted by private organizations planning upon influxes of outsiders.

The Washington Post’s new slogan is: Democracy Dies in Debate.

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So the victim, an illegal alien from Honduras, wants a green card, but is surprised that the judge set his/“her” attacker free? Oh, and the United States can’t even enforce our own border — because that would be racist — but yet we’re supposed to be enforcing “hate crime” laws?

Megan McArdle.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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it had to happen.

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Plenty of room in Texas, y’all. But leave your Blue State attitudes up north.

Beto ‘Very Concerned’ Trump Won’t Leave Office If He Loses

As Suspected, Fake “Whistleblower” Worked For Biden When He Was Vice President

Chuck Lorre: Trump ‘Lackeys’ ‘Surrendered Their Dignity and Integrity’

Anti-Trump Riot in Minneapolis

‘Daily Show’ Correspondent Shocked That Focus Group of Trump Voters Still Support Him

Minneapolis Mob Targets ‘Nazi’ Trump Supporter, Attacks Him

Morning Joe: Trump ‘Would Throw His Family Under the Bus’ If Needed  Nice projection you got there, Joe.

Singer Rihanna: Trump Is the ‘Most Mentally Ill Human Being in America’  I guess I missed where she got her medical degree.

CNN Ties Hate Crime to Supreme Court, Invites Trump Bashing

Nets Horrified By Trump Attacking Dems, Impeachment at Rally  Who saw that coming?

Robert De Niro Slams Trump As A ‘Gangster,’ Says ‘Can’t Wait To See Him In Jail’  I predict that De Niro will see the inside of a jail cell before Trump.

Woke Golden State Warriors Coach Gives China Another Pass, Rips Trump

MSNBC Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story on Trump’s Minneapolis Security Controversy

Climate Alarmists Superglue Themelves To Street, Get Arrested After Bringing Times Square To Standstill  How to make friends and influence people.

L A Times conceals colossal irrelevance of state’s “cut climate emissions” schemes

Extinction For Thee, But Not For Me

The Ghost Forest of the Delmarva Peninsula… Because Climate Change

Global cities sign Clean Air Cities Declaration, pledging to fight air pollution crisis

Extinction Rebellion London: BBC Broadcasting House ‘locked down’ by protesters

Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering

How I changed my mind… about global warming

The Lights Went Out in California: That Was the Plan All Along

Climate Change Activists Perform a Dance Known as “I Don’t Have a Job and Nothing Better to Do with Myself and I Still Live in My Mom’s Basement”

Ocasio-Cortez Says Her ‘Dreams Of Motherhood’ Are ‘Bittersweet’ Because Of Climate Change  I will accept climate change if it means that AOC doesn’t reproduce.

Some Californians Are Buying Gas-Powered Generators To Power Electric Vehicles During Blackouts  Preppers Unite! You have nothing to lose but your civilization!

Steve Sailer reads this stuff so that you don’t have to.

hen should you start talking to your kids about race, religion and social class?

At six months, experts say.

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Not for the weak of stomach.

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Local authorities arrested Antonio Ulises Perez, a 38-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, in Oklahoma County in September on the suspicion that he raped a woman. However, the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office did not honor a detainer request ICE lodged and allowed him to be released Wednesday, according to a Thursday ICE press release. Ulises Perez then immediately traveled to the woman’s house, ICE said.

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These guys sound like Texans.

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A stateless people comprised of a large number of Sunni Muslims is being bombarded by a country with an overwhelming military advantage. It’s the kind of thing that normally has American Islamist groups organizing protests and lighting up social media feeds.

But this time the aggressor is Turkey’s authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man who has positioned himself as a defender of violent Palestinian terrorists like Hamas, and as a patron for Muslim Brotherhood leaders who sought refuge from Egypt’s military rulers. He is bombing Kurdish targets in northern Syrian and has sent his troops into the country.

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Live by the woke, die by the woke.

“Whine, little snowflake, quiver, quiver….”

Rare Fox News Segment Details Saudi State Sponsorship Of 9/11 Attacks

“World Take Note!” – Genocide Of Christians In Nigeria Escalates

Jihadi “Youths” Are Grandfathered In

Iraq protests: Powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demands government resign as toll rises close to 100

Turkey threatens solo army operation into northeast Syria

Iran Foils “Israeli-Arab” Plot To Assassinate Its Top Military Commander Soleimani

Iraq’s government pledges social reforms as death toll rises to more than 100 in six days of protest

In Huge Blow, Iran Confirms China Has Exited Crucial $5 Billlion Gas Project

KFC Comes To Jihadist Stronghold Of Idlib?

Knife Jihad at the Paris Prefecture: The Killer Was a “Known Wolf”

The US-Iran Silent War Is Suddenly Transformed Into An “Iraq Uprising”

Who’s Afraid Of Scandinavia’s Crime Statistics?

In Major Policy Shift, US Pulls Out Of Syria Ahead Of ‘Imminent’ Turkish Invasion

Trump abandons Kurds who fought Isil as he allows Turkish assault on northern Syria

Iraqi army admits using ‘excessive force’ as protest death toll tops 100

Lindsey Graham: ISIS Fighters Have A ‘Second Lease On Life’ Because Of Trump’s Withdrawal From Syria

Top Indian Muslim Group’s Support for Kashmir Policy Challenges Islamists’ Religious Narrative

Taliban commanders released as hopes rise for resumption of US peace negotiations

10,000 ISIS Unleashed: Syrian Kurds Warn Of Mass Prison Break If Turkey Invades

“Swedish” Politician is Exposed as a People-Smuggler

Pentagon tries to row back Trump green light of ‘destabilising’ Turkish assault on Syria  More white Toyota pickup trucks with anti-aircraft guns mounted on the back.

Seven injured in suspected terror attack as lorry rams cars in Germany

9 Injured In Germany After Syrian Migrant Uses Truck In Terrorist Attack

Why Europe Refuses to Take Back Captured ISIS Fighters

Refugee Explosion “Even Greater” Than 2015 To Hit Europe, German Minister Warns

Sweden: One In Four Women Are Afraid To Leave Their Homes

Afghan officials say raid killed top al-Qaeda commander

Iranian women to attend football match freely after Fifa orders end to male-only policy Good luck with that.

2 Dead, Several Injured In German Synagogue Shooting; One Suspect Still At Large

Yom Kippur Shooting Near Synagogue In Germany Leaves At Least Two Dead, Police Say

Mike Pompeo says Iran lied to the UK over oil delivery to Syria  Not really news but a useful reminder.

Amnesty accuses Iran of ‘cynical publicity stunt’ as country lets 3,500 women watch Iran face Cambodia   There’s no pleasing some people.

“Global Terrorist” Released In US-Brokered Taliban-India Prisoner-Swap

Truck Jihad in Limburg an der Lahn

Antifa and the PKK

US Military Gains Custody Of Two British Men Accused Of Involvement In Death Of Journalist James Foley

Denmark to impose controls at Swedish border amid crime wave

Released Terrorist Protests Court-Imposed Restrictions

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It’s an alarming oversight with terrifying implications: The intelligence unit of Paris Police somehow overlooked a radicalized Islamic convert within their own ranks. Last week, the troubled individual in question carried out an attack inside Paris Police headquarters that ended with four victims stabbed to death, while the attacker was shot down by his former colleagues.

WSJ has the full the story of how Mickaël Harpon, the 45-year-old attacker in question, evolved from a quiet IT expert into a disaffected convert to Salafism – a fundamentalist version of Islam that is widely credited as the inspiration for Al Qaeda and other terror groups.

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UPDATE: Chris Cuomo Apologizes For ‘Mine, Too’ Comment After Harris Said Her Pronouns

UPDATE: Pronoun Trouble, by Steve Sailer

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That’s because most panels are designed to supply power to the grid — not directly to houses. During the heat of the day, solar systems can crank out more juice than a home can handle. Conversely, they don’t produce power at all at night. So systems are tied into the grid, and the vast majority aren’t working this week as PG&E Corp. cuts power to much of Northern California to prevent wildfires.

Ancient Mayans caused their own ‘climate change,’ shocking study says

A Statement for Advocates of Climate Stasis

CNN’s Bernstein Trashes ‘Fundamentally Corrupt,’ ‘Increasingly Unstable’ Trump  As predicted.

Brazil’s Rainfall Remains Healthy: Susceptible to Natural Climatic Events, Not Anthropogenic Global Warming

Extinction Rebellion to launch ‘Hong Kong-style’ occupation of London City Airport

Australian state proposes two-year prison sentence for possession of Extinction Rebellion ‘human lock’

Back from the dead: Some corals regrow after ‘fatal’ warming

State Birds May Be Forced Out of Their States as the World Warms

State AG’s and activists trying to forge attribution link between weather and climate

BBC Andrew Neil Shreds Extinction Rebellion’s Climate Claims

Exclusive Sit Down With The Daily Caller: Rudy Giuliani Opens Up About Impeachment, Ukraine, Biden And Trump

Nets Excited Joe Biden Called for Impeachment of His Opponent

‘There’s No Need For A Crime’: Chris Cuomo And Matt Schlapp Square Off On Impeachment

Don Lemon Bungles D-Day History Lesson Meant To Ridicule Trump

Ukrainian President Insists Trump Did Nothing Wrong: “There Was No Blackmail”

PBS Gently Lets Hillary Claim She Could Beat Trump…’Again’  A very rich fantasy life.

FACT CHECK: Did Jimmy Fallon Say, ‘Lindsey Graham Is The Closest Thing Trump Has Come To Owning A Dog’?  One that often piddles on the rug.

ABC Shouts, ‘Smear Campaign!’ As CBS Confirms Whistleblower Worked for 2020 Dem

ABC Reporter Urges Ukrainian President to Call Trump ‘Corrupt’

Media Clamor for Impeachment, Ponder Death Penalty For Trump

Behar Demands Trump ‘Resign Already:’ ‘Take Us Out of Our Misery!’  Yeah, Trump has a long history of taking advice from Behar.

CBS Badgers Rand Paul to Get on the Impeachment Train

PolitiFact Shamed! Their Anti-Trump Tweet’s CORRECTED by WashPost Scribe

Too Pro-Trump: MSNBC Mourns Lindsey’s Graham’s Loss of ‘Reputation’  He had a great future as a cuck, and then he blew it.

WashPost’s Marcus Fears ‘Violence’ Against Whistleblower by ‘Deranged’ Trump Fans  Except, of course, is the only violence we’ve seen is by anti-Trumpers.

NeverTrumpers Becoming More Comfortable Admitting That They’re Just Pro-Corporate Democrats

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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A new weapon invented by Chinese scientists uses low frequency sound waves to cause physical distress, forcing rioters, protesters, or anyone else the wielder wants to vacate the area. The new “sonic gun” was developed as a nonlethal weapon system for use by police and law enforcement as an alternative to lethal weapons.

Does it work on AntiFa?

ZMan is on the road.

I was somewhere around Malmö on the edge of the tundra when the drugs began to take hold. I’m not a drug taker, but drugs must have played some role in the decision to turn this quaint Swedish city into the Beirut of the north. A third of the city population is foreign born, according to government reports. Given the nature of the Swedish government, those numbers are most likely wrong. Malmö now has the reputation for being the rape capital of the world, which is entirely due to immigration.

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It’s pretty grim.

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Tempers flared Monday at a meeting of the Oak Park, Illinois, city government as trustee Susan Buchanan told fellow board members to “shut up” while discussing a resolution in support of diversity. What was context of the outburst? Buchanan said, “Why are you arguing what is a system of oppression? You’ve never experienced one, so shut up! I don’t want to hear from you!”

UPDATE: Watch City Diversity Meeting Erupt In Chaos As White Males Banned From Speaking

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This is part of an occasional series of essays that discusses ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred to in the science press and elsewhere as “Wars” – for instance, one essay covered the “Salt Wars1” and another the “Obesity War” — and one which appears most commonly here at this web site: “The Climate Wars”. The purpose of the series is to illuminate the similarities and differences involved in these ongoing controversies, as part of the social culture of science in our modern world.

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Which is an effective threat merely because of self-inflicted fecklessness on the part of Europe and the U.S.