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Not that ‘journalists’ aren’t predisposed to do that sort of thing.

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An experimental antibody developed by researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands can defeat coronavirus in a laboratory setting, according to a new study published in Nature Communications Bloomberg, which notes that the antibody – known as 47D11 – neutralized the virus in cell cultures.

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The malaria-blocking bug, Microsporidia MB, was discovered by studying mosquitoes on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. It lives in the gut and genitals of the insects.

The researchers could not find a single mosquito carrying the Microsporidia that was harbouring the malaria parasite. And lab experiments, published in Nature Communications, confirmed the microbe gave the mosquitoes protection.

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Some examples of things I hear all the time:

• I don’t understand why team X isn’t working on feature idea Y. It’s such an obvious thing to do!
• Why is bug Z still present? Hasn’t it been known for a really long time? I don’t understand why they aren’t fixing it?
• I don’t get why HR team still doesn’t offer perk W. So many other companies have that!
• I’ve told my manager that we need a process for thing V but it still hasn’t happened!

Of course, why these things never happened is that something else was more important.

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Can they stonewall this long enough to get through the convention? If not, who will they pick?

Can they stonewall this long enough to get through the election? If so, Trump’s second term is going to be awesome.

UPDATE: NY Times Op-Ed: Time to Consider Dumping Biden

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Earlier today, I showed that New York state, the two other states that surround New York City, and nursing homes in the rest of America probably account for around two-thirds of the U.S. coronavirus death total. A focus on New York and nursing homes yields a common denominator: Andrew Cuomo.

Satellites reveal clearest picture of ice-melting in Antarctica

Oil Demand May Never Recover, Green Fantasy Part Deux

The Secret to Making a Liberal Argument Sound Dumb: Pretending Trump Doesn’t Exist  New York Magazine.

Maher and Taibbi Lament Media’s Trump Obsessions Distort Coronavirus Coverage

Journalists Complain That They Can’t Handle Four More Years of Trump  Hey, they could always go get a Real Job — Learn to Code!

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The concept known as “genetic memory” is much less studied and far more controversial than what we know as “regular” memory. Whilst there are a multitude of other examples in animals (see: Gallagher, 2013), according to the decorated psychiatrist and author Dr. Darold Treffert, these mysterious genetic memories may also apply to humans too (Treffert, 2015).

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A group of researchers from University of Toronto Engineering and SickKids Hospital have developed a new way to deliver molecules that target specific genes within cells. Their platform, which uses a modified form of diptheria toxin, has been shown to downregulate critical genes in cancer cells, and could be used for other genetic diseases as well.

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For more than 20 years, researchers have tried with limited success to engineer antibodies into new treatments for bacterial and viral infections. Now, a team of scientists has come up with a new approach: fastening together tiny antibodies from llama blood with a type of bacterial super glue. The interconnected antibodies protect mice from two dangerous viruses, and they could subdue other pathogens.

Faux-conservative cuck Rod Dreher unfurls his true colors.

These thugs have been threatening store employees and owners with violence — for expecting customers to abide by public health guidelines that are no more than an inconvenience, and that lessen the chance that a deadly virus will infect them and/or spread through them.

Idiots. Selfish idiots. They are given the opportunity to ease back into normal life, by shopping, but they’re not going to do the minimum necessary to help the community be safer. So now business owners and other shoppers are going to be more at risk from the virus, because Rights. Man, that ticks me off. Selfish creeps.

If I had Rod Dreher here in front of me I’d be happy to beat the living snot out of him (I’ve met him; I could do it) for being a classic Useful Idiot.

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness, who is certainly not letting the virus get her down.

Steve Sailer.

Because you read iSteve to stay current with all the latest Things, you know that axe-throwing is now a Thing. It’s kind of like bowling, a fun after-work indoor recreation, except with more opportunity for mutilation and disfigurement….

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America’s meat processing crisis, mainly triggered by labor shortages and plant closings due to coronavirus spread, is set to unleash a new wave of automation across plants to ease labor and health woes.

Bloomberg Law reports JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, is preparing to install robots in slaughterhouses to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among human employees working on the production line.

Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Crushed By COVID-19

Study: High End Model Climate Sensitivities Not Supported by Paleo Evidence

Fact check: New White House press secretary makes false claims in first briefing  CNN.

Don Lemon Flip-Flops on Coronavirus Briefings: It’s an Evil Plot Either Way

The case of Gary Lenius

Maher Resurrects Paranoia About Trump Refusing to Leave Office, Tells Holder to Run in 2020

Huntington Beach protesters assail California Gov. Newsom’s order closing beaches

Tensions escalate in California: Cities file lawsuits against Gov. Newsom

Tucker: Totalitarianism doesn’t shock us any more

California releases detailed list of outdoor activities allowed during shutdown  How generous.

Data Privacy Advocates Alarmed By NHS’s New ‘Contact-Tracing’ App

Austrian Cops May Intervene if They See People Kissing

Judge Napolitano: Politicians Are Taking Our Rights Away In The Name Of Public ‘Safety’

Why SARS-CoV-2 Bluetooth contact tracing apps are a tremendously stupid idea

Joy Reid Encourages Celebrity Chef to Cook Up Virus Conspiracy Theory

NYPD Dispatches 1,000 Cops To Stop New Yorkers From Barbecuing On Saturday

Twitter Bans Conservative Owens for Michigan Protest Tweet

Politicians Have Destroyed Markets and Ignored Human Rights with Alarming Enthusiasm

Next in Coronavirus Tyranny: Forced Vaccinations and “Digital Certificates”

“The Whole Thing’s A Farce” – ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Thrive As Texans Flock Back To Shopping Malls

Death Is a Democrat: Florida Fearmonger Stalks Beaches as ‘Grim Reaper’

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Strapped for cash, state governments are plugging holes using unspent gift cards. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.

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Do you know what’s been missing from the government’s response to coronavirus?

You might think– ‘more testing kits’, or ‘honest information’.

Nope. According to at least one county in the US state of Oregon, the biggest issue right now is establishing “safe spaces” where no white people are allowed.

Al Jazeera Climate Change Misanthropy: “Will coronavirus help nature reclaim the Earth?”

NOAA Satellite records second largest 2-month temperature drop in history

As 30 Million Lose Jobs, Robert Redford Sees Environmental Salvation in Lockdown  It always surprises me that people who make their living pretending to be somebody else, no matter how well that is done, seem to think it gives them some expertise in every sphere of human life.

Why Eco-Warriors’ Bid to Ban Natural Gas Appliances Is Wrongheaded

Broadway Star Tells ‘View’: This Lockdown Is a ‘Global Reset’ From ‘Mother Nature’ for ‘Self Care’  I make a point of never taking advice from people wearing pimp glasses.

U.S. officials crafting retaliatory actions against China over coronavirus as President Trump fumes  Washington Post. Fumes!

Trump Reportedly Threatened to Sue Campaign Manager Over Low Poll Numbers  New York magazine. Reportedly!

Jimmy Kimmel Confronts “Dead Inside” Jared Kushner: “What Are You?”  Vanity Fair.

Oregon Man Arrested After Threatening To Kill President Trump

Seth Meyers Slams ‘Conservative Movement’ as a ‘Fraud’

“F**k Trump Supporters” – Rutgers Prof Blames White Conservatives For Using Virus To Kill Black People  Race pimps in the news….

Kimmel Complains, Trump ‘Feeding Wingnuts’ With ‘Conspiracy’ ‘Blaming’ China for Virus

Here Are the BEST Trump Smackdowns of Journalists at Coronavirus Briefings

Politico Claimed Trump Took Credit for Obama Economy, Now Calls It ‘Trump’s Coronavirus Economy’

Democrats and Their Reductio ad Hitlerum Slander

Amanpour: Is Trump a ‘Danger’ to the U.S. and to the World?  Less so than Amanpour, I’d suspect.

Armed vigilantes appear outside Texas businesses to ‘protect their constitutional right to open’  Daily Mail.  Armed! Vigilantes! Pretty scary!

Cops hunt for person wearing creepy 17th-century plague doctor costume  After all, we can’t have people wandering around in creepy costumes.

Our Dress Rehearsal for a Police State  Real Clear Politics.

The Pandemic Road to Serfdom  Joel Kotkin.

Swiss Health & Tranquility Law Sparks “Desperate” Snitching To Counter Lockdown-Deniers

Germany Considering “Coronavirus Cards” To Allow Immune Citizens Freedom Of Travel  ‘Your papers please!’

‘Full Of $hit’ – Swedish City Spreads Manure On Parks To Stop Crowds Gathering

The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis

Sen. Kennedy: If Lockdown Continues ‘The Economy Will Collapse’ And People Will ‘Stop Complying’

Michigan Gov. Whitmer Extends Lockdown, Grabs More Emergency Powers And Executive Authority  If you live in Michigan, it’s time to move.

Blue States Become Laboratories of Despotism

Big Tech’s Big Brother Moves

“No Place For Such Weapons In Canada” – Trudeau Announces Ban On Assault-Style Rifles 

Teen Vogue Teaches Kids: ‘Reopen Protests Are Motivated By Racism’

‘A Bedrock Principled Right’: Louisiana Attorney General Urges Governor To Reopen Churches

Newsom “Put Politics Over Data” With Beach Closure Order, Newport Mayor Says

New CDC criteria points to Apple and Google contact tracing system as a ‘preferred’ choice  The Deep State has spoken.

Ace of Spades puts the boot in.

Joey Fingers should also be forced to answer questions about Lucy Flores and Amy Lappos and D.J. Hill and Caitlyn Caruso and Ally Coll and Sofie Karasek and Vail Kohnert-Yount.

And of course Tara Reade.

Kevin Williamson shoots some fish in a barrel.

I’ll get into this at more length later, but there’s a problem with Joe Biden’s naming Chris Dodd to run his vice-presidential search beyond the obvious waitress-sandwich stuff.

The Democrats talk a pretty good “diversity” game, but think about what that really looks like in a party where the bosses are rich and white and the voters are less affluent and less white. Joe Biden, an eternal party hack and white-guy visitor from the age of black-and-white television, pledges to name a woman to the VP spot. Okay — which woman? The woman recommended to him by Chris Dodd, eternal party hack and white-guy visitor from the age of black-and-white television.

The obvious conclusion to be drawn from the various contortions now underway by the Democrats and their mouthpieces in the national ‘press’ is that it’s all bunkum; what they say they do not mean, and what they mean is the same old shell game they always play when it comes to electoral politics. The only surprise is that their shenanigans are as successful as they continually prove to be — one would think that their ‘base’ would eventually wise up to the fact that they are being fleeced and refuse to submit to it.

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Given her history, I can’t think of a single antibody that Madonna wouldn’t test positive for.

Palestinian Lies Never Die; Wikipedia and Google Keep Them Alive

Off the Coast of Libya With an ECHR Lawyer on Speed Dial

The Yodeling of the Muezzin is Heard in Lleida

Easy Guide to Sharia Law

Jeff Goldblum Slammed for Calling Out Islam’s Treatment of Gays On ‘Drag Race’

Israel Arrests Hamas-linked Cell Plotting Numerous Bombings

Oil Spikes After Bomb-Laden Tanker Truck Detonates In Northern Syria, Killing At Least 34

ICE Deports Pakistani National Who Attempted To Launder Money From Al-Qaida

Jeff Goldblum’s Legitimate Question about Islam

Coronavirus Lockdowns Haven’t Slowed Jihadists

ISIS Vehicular Jihad in Colombes

Germany Bans Hezbollah, Conducts Raids On Mosques And Homes With Suspected Links

The News From Spain

I Wanna Hold Your Hand Grenade

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Finally, the evening newscasts of ABC and CBS broke their silence on the rape accusation against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While their respective morning newscasts had already covered the topic, Thursday night was the first time NBC News had dared to give it airtime. The contrast was stark in how they covered the accusations of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, where their mission was to sink his nomination. This time, they were walking on eggshells as they gingerly came to Biden’s aid.