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Or maybe they’re just incompetent.

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More suspicious details have surfaced over the past few hours as investigators take the first hard look at the circumstances that caused a Boeing 737 to plunge out of the sky minutes after takeoff.

Bloomberg reports that foreign investigations into what happened will undoubtedly be hindered by the regime, particularly amid rising tensions with Washington. Meanwhile, more evidence as emerged to suggest that the jet was a victim of a misfiring of Iran’s missile defense system.

As theories multiplied, the Ukrainian embassy in Tehran amended an earlier statement on its website, in which it ruled out terrorism. Instead, it offered ‘no comment’ on possible causes.

UPDATE: Group Speculates Ukrainian Jet Crash Was a ‘Shootdown Event’

UPDATE: Tehran Plane Crash Appears To Be “A Shootdown Event,” Experts Say

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Trump Continues Provoking White Supremacists of Color Into Attacking Jewish People

“War Crimes” Hysteria on the Left

‘Just A Joke’: George Lopez Walks Back Offer to Assassinate Trump for Iran

Left’s Impeachment Drive Fueled by ‘Rage Instead of Reason,’ Says ‘Witch Hunt’ Author Gregg Jarrett

Trump Slams Democrats, Media For Describing Terrorist Soleimani As “Wonderful Human Being”  I guess they held his funeral in Charlottesville.

The Horror: WashPost Turns to SPLC, CAIR Over Trump Jr. AR-15 Cross Pic

Ro Khanna Claims There Were No Embassy Protests Or Dead American Contractors Under Obama  Benghazi? Where’s that?

Could The Senate Actually Dismiss The Trump Impeachment Before A Trial? Everything You Need To Know

McConnell prepares to move forward on impeachment trial rules without Democrats – POLITICO And who could blame him?

We now know: CNN won’t come clean

Elizabeth Warren’s baseless “wag the dog” accusation

WashPost Fact Checker Wails the Trump Beat Is ‘Incredibly Depressing’

Prince Charles will fly round the world to launch summit bid to save the planet

Climate Alarmists Winning the War of Words, Despite Evidence that Nothing Unusual is Happening

Urban Transit Is an Energy Hog

Colbert and Jane Fonda Push Climate Alarmism — Only 10 Years Left!

Greenland Ice Core CO2 Concentrations Deserve Reconsideration

Rest Easy, World. Vogue Editors and Celebrities Are Here to Save the Environment.

Australian Police Charge Several People For Intentionally Setting Bushfires, Activists Blame Climate Change

US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop in 2019

Obama-Era EPA Chief Becomes Head Of One Of The Country’s Largest Enviro Groups  Regulatory catch-and-release.

Teen Firefighter Charged With Setting Some Australian Wildfires

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That’s not who we are.

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Sandmann sought $275 million from CNN over their coverage of the confrontation he and his classmates had with an elderly Native American man while visiting Washington, D.C. on a school trip in January of last year. The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington on Tuesday, according to a local Fox affiliate.

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Hunter Biden is not the only Child of the Crust who has been well-placed in no-show jobs.

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Newsweek libels Dennis Prager. Read The Whole Thing.

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Hammer tech.

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A massive contribution to the DNC would probably give them the most bang for their riyal.

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Apparently Soleimani’s funeral killed more people than his execution.

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At Power Line, we sometimes refer to the Washington Post as an adjunct of the Democratic Party. To an even greater degree, the Post is an adjunct of official Washington — the cadre of career bureaucrats and former officials who consider it their God given right to set policy, regardless of what elected officials desire. (There is, of course, considerable overlap between official Washington and the Democratic Party).

Thus, it’s not surprising that a few minutes after I read Steve’s post called “Trump’s sin: Conducting foreign policy without permission,” I read this Washington Post story called “Trump is short on advisers, allies as he faces Iran crisis.” In this article, the Post argues, in essence, that Trump is committing the sin of conducting foreign policy without permission.

John Hinderaker has some fun.

As you undoubtedly know, the Babylon Bee is America’s leading satire site. It gently mocks contemporary leftism, something that leftists can’t abide. Humor is, after all, a powerful tool. So the Left–specifically, the Democratic Party–is out to get the Bee. That’s not funny!

I must confess that I sometimes can’t tell whether a Babylon Bee article is real or satire. The Left is just that crazy sometimes.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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A GAO study released in early 2019 detailed ongoing, critical problems in recruiting, training and sustaining front-line and support personnel across all services and at all levels and, purportedly, the Pentagon has no comprehensive strategy to address them. Given millennials’ attitudes toward the military, this situation will likely worsen.

Jobs Americans Won’t Do? This sounds like a job for ILLEGAL MEXICANS!  Duh-duh-DUH.

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Two men in the Tesla and one woman in the car that was struck were all taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Meanwhile – stop us if you’ve heard this one before – the Tesla’s battery then began “exploding on scene”, prompting a hazardous materials team to show up. Photographs show the front end of the Tesla completely destroyed and ravaged by flames.

Hammer tech.

Extinction Rebellion activists embroiled in row over whether flying is ever acceptable

Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration Or maybe not.

Golden Globe Awards Hysteria: ‘Climate Disaster,’ ‘Country on Brink of War’

Tom Steyer: “Climate is my Number One Priority”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #393

Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’  I think not,.

Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Deliberately Starting Bushfires  Must be deniers.

FT: “Democracies are ill-suited to deal with climate change”

Trump’s Michael Corleone moment in the Middle East Washington Post.

Democrats Hate Trump So Much They’re Siding With Iran

GOP Raises Tens of Millions off Trump Impeachment

Pelosi: House To Introduce ‘War Powers Resolution’ To Limit Trump In Iran  Which will go nowhere.

Study: Trump Was TV News’s Biggest ‘Outrage’ in 2019

BARR: Look For Democrats To Make Soleimani’s Death The Newest Impeachable Offense

Bruce Ohr Covered Up Anti-Trump Crusade To Distribute Steele Dossier

Yale Psychiatrist Calls On Pelosi To Put “A Mental Health Hold” On Trump

‘Witch’ plots ‘death ritual’ against Trump to stop war with Iran  No, it’s not Pelosi.

Trump’s Sin: Conducting Foreign Policy Without Permission

KASSAM: Democrats Supported Obama Killing Americans With Drones, But Take Issue With Trump Killing Terrorists

Hey, Let’s Go Through the Whole Impeachment Thing Again

‘Iran Could Threaten Trump Hotels’: Ilhan Omar Warns Of War With Iran, Blasts Trump

‘View’ Berates Trump for Strike Killing ‘So-Called Threat’ Soleimani: ‘Distraction’ From Impeachment  In the contrary, the impeachment was a distraction from killing a threat; fortunately, Trump isn’t as easily distracted from what he’s supposed to be doing as those on the Left.

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A team of hydrologists, engineers, and social scientists is hoping to strengthen the water security of Lima and other Peruvian cities through analysis of a 1,400-year-old nature-based system developed by pre-Inca mountain communities. The technique uses a canal system that diverts water from streams to small ponds or spreads it over rocky hillslopes that act as natural sponges. This slows the flow of water down the mountains, preserving it into the dry season.

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While the video doesn’t give a ton of exact details on how it works, we know that it doesn’t capture heat to harvest energy, but rather uses thermoelectric technology to cool drinks quickly. They also have said that it doesn’t use any harmful chemicals or traditional refrigerants like Freon.

If this actually works I can see it as a great time-saver.

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Omar, a Somali refugee, won the ignominious vote over Louis Farrakhan and Richard Spencer.

Quite an achievement, even though Spencer is only anti-semitic in proglodyte delusions.

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Racists are obsessed with race, and they can’t see anything without dragging race into it.

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

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Been waiting for this one.

Babylon Bee.

Colin Kaepernick sent his workout video to Iran after learning they may have recently opened up a position but has yet to receive a phone call.

UPDATE: Former CIA Spook Says Babylon Bee’s Satirical Take On Democrats’ Reaction To Soleimani’s Death Is Duping People

UPDATE: Triggered: CNN Reporter Has the Major Sads That People Like, Share Babylon Bee Articles

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So was Hitler. So was Stalin. So was Mao. And don’t get me started on Lenin….

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And that tells you everything you need to know about Colin Kaepernick.

NY Times: Trump ‘Wags the Dog,’ Pompeo Spreading ‘Misinformation’ on Soleimani

Selective Service Website Crashes Amid WWIII Draft Fears  Whine, little snowflake, quiver, quiver….

Republican AGs Say Bloomberg Is Secretly Embedding An Army Of Anti-Trump Attorneys Inside State Offices

Colin Kaepernick Slams Trump’s Racist “Terrorist Attack On Brown People” In Iran, Twitter Users Respond

NYT: President Trump to Drop Climate Change from Federal Infrastructure Planning

NBC: Trump Starting ‘Religious War’ To Distract from Impeachment

Elizabeth Warren Suggests Trump Took Out Iranian General To Distract From Impeachment  I guess it worked.

Iraq Votes To Expel US Troops As Iranian MPs Chant “Death To America”  I say we take them up on it.

Iranian State TV Announces $80 Million Bounty For President Trump’s Head

NYT: Australia is Committing Climate Suicide

The sad truth about our boldest climate target

German grandmothers protest broadcast of song calling elderly ‘environmental pigs’

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I admire Gates’ philanthropy and respect it. He has done fantastic things for this world. But two of the things he has always demanded of the organizations to which his foundation donates is efficiency and return on investment. There is nothing more inefficient than government. While people are sleeping in tents on 35-degree nights, government agencies devoted to stopping homelessness spent money on a conference that featured a stripper.

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Bill Gates is worth $110 billion. If the government took half of his wealth, he is still filthy stinking rich beyond any of our wildest dreams for ourselves.

Compare and contrast that to a mom and dad who have both worked really hard their whole lives. Let’s say they’ve denied themselves some indulgences because they wanted to provide for themselves and their families, so they could have something for their kids. They’ve invested, they’ve been diligent, and they’ve worked tirelessly. Over the years, they accumulated $1 million or $2 million. Now you want to take half of that? They go from having their own little piece of the American Dream to wondering why they denied themselves those indulgences for all those years, if the money was just going to government anyway. The $1 million they lose out on is a lot different than the $50 billion Gates would lose.

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As one of the primary consumers of environmental resource, the building industry faces unprecedented challenges in needing to reduce the environmental impact of current consumption practices. This applies to both the construction of the built environment and resource consumption during its occupation and use. Where incremental improvements to current practices can be realised, the net benefits are often far outstripped by the burgeoning demands of rapidly increasing population growth and urbanisation. Against the backdrop of this grand societal challenge, it is necessary to explore approaches that envision a paradigm shift in how material is sourced, processed and assembled to address the magnitude of these challenges in a truly sustainable way, and which can even provide added value. We propose to develop a structural substrate by using live fungal mycelium, functionalise the substrate with nanoparticles and polymers to make a mycelium-based electronics, implement sensorial fusion and decision making in the fungal electronics and to growing monolithic buildings from the functionalised fungal substrate. Fungal buildings will self-grow, build, and repair themselves subject to substrate supplied, use natural adaptation to the environment, sense all what human can sense.

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If you don’t know what an Eruv is, go look it up.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder that Trump is far from being the worst liar in politics.

Steve Sailer.

The Roman Catholic friends Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton were among the few writers in English in the first half of the 20th Century to predict the return of Islamic enthusiasm in the second half of the 20th Century. It’s interesting to evaluate their forecasts.

The Other McCain is on the case.

In case you didn’t already know, “incel” means “involuntary celibate,” i.e., a loser who can’t get laid. A “normie” is an average, normal guy who may or may not be getting any action, but who is not tuned into the Great Conspiracy Wavelength Frequency by which the incel gained awareness of his existential hopelessness. Incels consider “normies” even more disgusting than “Chads” (the apex predators of the sexual ecosystem), and basically want all normies to die….

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your county.

2004 Climate Apocalypse Prediction Bites the Dust

1.5 degrees Celsius: the sad truth about our boldest climate change target  Vox.

Scientists detect “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on weather  CBS.

Meat Loaf: Greta Thunberg has been “Brainwashed”  I’ll do anything for climate change, but I won’t do that.

Greens Pushing Hard to Blame Aussie Climate Policies for Bushfires

Hijacking Australian 2019 Bushfire Tragedies to Fearmonger Climate Change

Own A Home? You’re Responsible For California’s Wild-Fires

CNN Hints Climate Skeptics to Blame for Australia Wildfires

Australian Police Say Arsonists & Lightning To Blame For Bushfires, Not Climate-Change

New York Times Reveals America’s Weapons-Makers Drive Trump-Impeachment

Trump plunges toward the kind of Middle Eastern conflict he pledged to avoid  Washington Post

This is the bombshell Trump’s team didn’t want revealed  CNN. Loserthink: mind-reading.

Lou Dobbs: ‘Utterly Irrational’ For Trump To Share Intel With Democrats Who Support His Impeachment

ZMan points out what everybody’s thinking.

This is a problem that all outsider politics faces. The weirdo problem was not unique to the alt-right. Anyone who has attended a Libertarian Party event knows that movement has had a weirdo problem for generations. The environmental movement has had a similar problem. Most people are happy to support conservation efforts, for example, but when they see some nut dressed as an elf, demanding everyone give up their cars, they assume he and the movement are crazy.

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If you’ve ever eaten Irish cooking, you’ll know why. (There’s a reason you see a lot of Irish bars and no Irish restaurants.)

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

In sailing, rock climbing, construction, and any activity requiring the securing of ropes, certain knots are known to be stronger than others. Any seasoned sailor knows, for instance, that one type of knot will secure a sheet to a headsail, while another is better for hitching a boat to a piling.

But what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now.

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed.

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After a U.S. airstrike in Iraq killed Iran’s top military commander, members of a coalition of Iraq-based, Kurdish Iranian militias say they are ready to go to war against Tehran.

“We accept the U.S. military as a liberation army. In the event of war, we will return to our country and fight with our people against dictatorship,” Hirsch Yousefi, 20, said of the Islamist regime in Iran

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ess than 24 hours after a US drone shockingly killed the leader of the top Iranian military leader, Qasem Soleimani, resulting in equity markets groaning around the globe in fear over Iranian reprisals, the US has gone for round two with Reuters and various other social media sources reporting that US air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad, have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday.