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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

I’ll bet the bars have swastikas on them. Just sayin’.

‘Morally Bankrupt Ego Maniac’: Hollywood Filmmaker Ron Howard Bashes Trump Ahead Of Golden Globes  Put a sock in it, Richie.

The Trump tax cuts in action: Socialism for the rich  The only time you’ll ever hear a bad word about socialism in the Washington Post.

ABC Touts 2020 Dem Fundraising, Skips How Trump Beat Them All

Joe Biden Pans Trump’s Decision To Target And Kill Iran’s Top Military General

Trump Defends The USA, Liberals Outraged

Donald Trump raises $46 million amid Republican backlash to impeachment

The Soleimani assassination proves Trump is a reckless warmonger

Hustler Magazine Under Fire for Trump Assassination Christmas Card

Rep. Omar Vows To ‘Step In And Stop Trump’ After Soleimani Killed  Good luck with that.

Trump Eliminates Some Of World’s Top Terrorists In Just A Few Months  For which, of course, he is castigated in the press.

Wired Lists Trump First Among ‘Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade’

Catching the Alarmists in a Baldfaced Sea Level Lie

Amazon Reportedly Censors Employees Over Environmentalism

Climate Hysterics Wrong Again

Protests Follow German State Broadcast Showing Kids Singing About Grandmas Being “Environmental Pigs” For Eating Meat

Models Confirm “The Day After Tomorrow” Was Bad Science Fiction

Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate, workers say

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Born in obscurity, frustrated in youth, the dictator rises through accident, patronage or anything except merit to blossom into a fully fledged evil-doer, desperate for the respect and admiration that are wrung from the populace only by skilled PR manipulation. Often feigning modesty, he soon generates a cult that he personally develops. Women and even brave men feel overcome in his presence; schoolchildren chant the praise of the father of the nation; artists and writers deify the great leader. Dictators generally come equipped with an ideology, but since they have no principles, only a lust for power, the process of propagation turns it into a mockery.

Any resemblance to Barack “The Magic Negro” Obama is, of course, purely coincidental.

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A Chinese airline passenger who threw coins into a plane engine while boarding in a bid to ensure a safe journey has been ordered to pay 120,000 yuan (£13,115) in compensation to the airline.

Twenty-eight-year old Lu Chao, who was flying with Lucky Air, was ordered to pay the fine after the airline had to cancel the flight to search for the coins.

China went straight from ancestor-worship to Communism, so they’ve never really known a reason-based social system.

Couple that with all of the endangered species being killed for ‘traditional Chinese medicine’ and it becomes clear that China is in many respects really rather primitive.

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In June of this year the China Tribunal delivered its Final Judgement and Summary Report.1 An independent committee composed of lawyers, human rights experts, and a transplant surgeon, the Tribunal was established to investigate forced organ harvesting on the Chinese mainland. These rumours have haunted the country for years—lurid tales of the fate suffered by members of the banned Falun Gong religion after being taken into police custody. Their organs, so the rumours go, are cut from their bodies while they are still alive, and then transplanted into waiting patients.

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Would it be too  much to hope that it’s Chuck Schumer?

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And no doubt will promote a very expensive and totally ineffectual government program to do that.

At your expense.

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Looks like a terrorist to me.

UPDATE: Iraqis Celebrate In Streets, Praise Trump After Soleimani Death Yeah, some ‘genius’.

UPDATE: NBC Sees ‘More Dangerous World’ After Death of ‘Iconic’ Iranian Terrorist  Makes you wonder whose side they’re on.

UPDATE: New York Times Journalist Offers “Eulogy” To Killed Iranian Terrorist Leader  He still looks like a terrorist.

UPDATE: Washington Post: Terrorist Mastermind Suleimani Was a “Revered Military Leader”

US Forces Kill Qassem Soleimani, Leader of Iran’s Terrorist Quds Forces UPDATE: ATTACK WAS PROMPTED BY TERRORIST THREAT THAT SULEIMANI HIMSELF WAS OVERSEEING

Iraq: Rockets Fired at Baghdad Airport; 4 People Killed

Islamic State Films Gruesome Beheadings In “Message To Christians All Over The World” 

Raped in the Name of Allah and the Koran in the Banlieues

Somalia suicide car bomb attack rocks capital, leaving at least 78 dead

US Contractor Killed, Troops Hurt in Iraq Rocket Strike

UN condemns human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

Muslims to lose property for opposing Narendra Modi’s new Indian citizenship law

Three of Abu Hamza’s sons arrested on suspicion of £1million scam with the ‘help of a bank worker’

US carries out ‘defensive strikes’ in Iraq and Syria against Kataib Hizbollah 

U.S. Military Says Somalia Airstrikes Killed 4 Militants

Iraqi Militias Vow “Strong Response” To US ‘Occupiers’ Imminent After Airstrikes

Will It Be War? US Airstrikes Hit Iran-Backed Militias As Pentagon Warns More Military Action Coming

Culture-Enriching Knife Fight in a Church in Saxony

Watch: Apache Gunships Attempt To Disperse Iraqi Mob As Kataib Hezbollah Flags Erected Over Embassy Walls

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that trash cans had ‘generations’.

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The drive to widen applicants at universities has led to a sharp increase in dropouts, claim experts following new analysis.

Two thirds of universities and colleges have seen an increase in the proportion of students dropping out in the last five years.

A new analysis shows that in some cases, non-continuation rates have risen by more than five percentage points.

Experts have said they believe the sharp increase is due to universities admitting more students “who can’t cope”.

The proglodyte push to get everyone into college flies in the face of the demonstrated fact that not everyone is capable of doing that level of work. But proglodytes are firmly convinced that everybody is equal and so everybody is equally capable of doing college-level work, so they set their victims up for failure.

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The private firm, which provides neighbourhood policing to residents, firms and shops, says it has set up a new prosecution unit after its teams have apprehended shoplifters, pickpockets and drug dealers only to be told by officers called to the scene to release them.

The former senior Metropolitan police officers who run the My Local Bobby service blame cuts in police numbers which meant officers were reluctant to spend time and valuable resource investigating and prosecuting minor offences.

A breakdown in law enforcement is the first step on the road to being a ‘failed state’.

UPDATE: Tens of thousands of thieves are escaping justice, Telegraph analysis reveals

UPDATE: Just one in 100 thieves being charged in parts of Britain – How good is your police force at solving crime?

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And another one bites the dust.

UPDATE: WHAT?! WashPost Gushes Over Reportedly Killed Iranian Leader as ‘Most Revered’

Victor Davis Hanson.

The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate, and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow.

Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable—even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.

At the very time Maddow was reassuring viewers that Christopher Steele was believable, populist talk radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Steele’s allegations simply could not be true. Maddow was wrong. Her less degreed critics proved to be right.

All the credentials in the world won’t help you if you are a congenital fool.

Whenever you encounter somebody playing the credentials card, remember Rachel Maddow.

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Some victims are more equal than others.

DiGenova: Comey And Brennan Were ‘Coup Leaders’

Trump Jr., Others Lampoon Liberal Media As ‘Trump’s Benghazi’ Fails To Unfold

On CNN, Linda Ronstadt Likens Trump to Hitler, Mexicans ‘the New Jews’

MSNBC Blames Trump For Embassy Crisis in Iraq

WashPost Wildly Claims Vindman ‘Falsely Accused’ of Anti-Trump Plot with Whistleblower

By Bombing Hezbollah, Trump Is Bombing ‘War Heroes’ Says MSNBC Guest

Biden: Trump Puts Future of Planet ‘at Risk’

NBC & ABC Only See Republicans ‘Vulnerable’ on Impeachment

Trump Impeachment Sees Dems Haunted by Clinton-era Remarks

Glacier National Park quietly removed ‘Gone by 2020’ signs in 2019—Update

Unprecedented and Worrying Rise in Sea Levels Poses Serious Threat to Coastal Cities

CNN Climate Expert: “Shouting into the apocalypse”… because climate change

JoNova: Aussie ABC Disappearing Evidence They Helped Climate Activists Campaign Against Controlled Burns

Noam Chomsky on the Climate Crisis  Jeez, is he still alive?

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It’s not just the New York Times and the Washington Post that are lying about the attacks on our embassy in Baghdad, but they certainly are at it in a remarkable fashion. Below is one notable example in the Washington Post to kick off the new year.

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Cue exit of good teachers from California schools.

The bad ones will stay, of course, because they’re only there for the paycheck.

No teaching will get done.

More people will leave California for, say, Texas.

Welcome to the Turd World.

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Beans. Lots and lots of beans.

Joel Kotkin is pessimistic.

Is America about to suffer its Weimar moment, culminating in the collapse of its republican institutions? Our democracy may be far more rooted than that of Germany’s first republic, which fell in 1933 to Adolf Hitler, but there are disturbing similarities.

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“I don’t feel the difference,” Jang, who has been using a 5G-enabled Samsung handset, told the WSJ. In fact, on many days he switches off his 5G service altogether because his connection often drops as his phone pingpongs between 5G and the existing 4G LTE network.

Very disappointing.

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Two women attacked a Jewish man in Brooklyn Wednesday when he tried filming their anti-Semitic slurs, according to law enforcement sources and witnesses who spoke with the New York Post.

They also yelled “F— you Jew” and “I will kill you Jews” when he started filming them.

Police in New York City have gotten at least 12 reports of attacks possibly propelled by anti-Jewish bias since Dec. 13.

The man attacked Wednesday – a 22-year-old Hasidic man – was taunted by two African American women who taunted him with anti-Semitic slurs, per the Post.

People of Color behaving badly … what are the odds?

UPDATE: Liberal Jew: ‘Baseless Hatred’ by Blacks Is ‘Stark Contrast’ to White Supremacy

Steve Sailer.

n the last few years, we’ve all been lectured about how the biggest crisis in K-12 public schools is Segregation: not enough Students of Color go to majority white public schools.

But then there is also the crisis of Integration or Too Many White Students, as the New York Times explained today in an enormously long article about Young Women of Color’s hurt feelings to start off the new decade on a wholly different note from the media obsessions of the last seven years….

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Steve Sailer.

As we’ve all been lectured lately, a great failing of American public schools is that not enough Students of Color go to white-majority schools. This is known as Segregation. We need to bus white students all over the place so that Students of Color won’t be exposed to the sheer hell of going to a school that is majority Student of Color.

The Washington Post follows up on the crisis of Not Enough White Students with a big article about the crisis of Too Many White Teachers. We must rescue Students of Color from the sheer hell of going to a school that is minority Teacher of Color.

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Our long-term Tesla Model 3 broke down on Christmas Day. While parked.
This is the first time we’ve ever had a long-term car suffer a catastrophic failure while parked, and also the first time we’ve been alerted to our being stranded by a push notification from a mobile app.
Although the tow truck was extremely quick to arrive, we’re now in an unknown holding pattern waiting for parts.

Hammer tech.

The Anti-Benghazi

Trump is unpopular in Texas. The state won’t sit quietly. Washington Post. And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The surprising impact that Californians flooding Texas may have on 2020 election

Trump is openly calling for his trial to be as corrupt as possible Washington Post.

Linda Ronstadt compares Trump to Hitler, says Mexicans ‘are the new Jews’

Will Networks Try to Edit Trump Cameos Out of All TV Shows and Movies?

BLM Demands Monthly Checks for Struggling Families

BP Boss: Daughter’s Friends on Anti-Depressants Because of Climate Change

Subsidizing The Epocalypse

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Tyler Cowen has a theory.

Having tracked the libertarian “movement” for much of my life, I believe it is now pretty much hollowed out, at least in terms of flow. One branch split off into Ron Paul-ism and less savory alt right directions, and another, more establishment branch remains out there in force but not really commanding new adherents. For one thing, it doesn’t seem that old-style libertarianism can solve or even very well address a number of major problems, most significantly climate change. For another, smart people are on the internet, and the internet seems to encourage synthetic and eclectic views, at least among the smart and curious. Unlike the mass culture of the 1970s, it does not tend to breed “capital L Libertarianism.” On top of all that, the out-migration from narrowly libertarian views has been severe, most of all from educated women.

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During colonial times, European powers exploited Africa for the vast resources that it possesses. But what China is doing today is actually much worse. Yes, the Chinese greatly desire African resources, but ultimately what they want is Africa itself. But instead of conquering Africa using military force, China is using economics instead. Today, more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms are operating in Africa, and virtually every major road, bridge, railway and skyscraper is being built by the Chinese. As a result, most African nations are very deeply indebted to China at this point. And as you will see below, when those debts go bad that gives the Chinese a tremendous amount of leverage.