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The movement of demonstrators echoes the fluid collective responses of the animal world, as groups respond to threats and signal across large spaces.

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During the NFL’s Thursday night season opener, fans at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium and the television viewers at home made it clear they are not cool with athlete activism in the workplace. Particularly the Marxist brand of Black Lives Matter activism. That’s unacceptable with the NFL, says sports blogger Tyler Tynes of The Ringer.

The fans in attendance Thursday expressed themselves with boos and those at home did likewise by simply by not tuning in on television. Viewership on television crashed to a 10-year low for an NFL season opener.

Yet in an interview with NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer, The Ringer’s Tyler Tynes urged African American athletes to give the fans even more of what they don’t want.

The blogger in question is, of course, black.

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The government’s determination to  pick your pocket produces all kinds of odd behavior on the part of people determined to resist.

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Imagine a presidential candidate taking an absurdly large number of days off right when the post-Labor Day campaign kicks off? Would that not be big news? Well, you don’t have to imagine this strange scenario very hard because it is actually happening.

The Joe Biden campaign announced that last Tuesday, the first day after Labor Day, would be a ‘lid” day meaning Biden would not only not be campaigning but he wouldn’t be taking any questions from reporters.

Scott Adams reports a delicious rumor that Biden is on dementia medication that makes him incontinent, so they have to limit his time in public. I don’t believe it, but I want it to be true.

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We have the technology.

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When DARPA put money behind the controversial EmDrive in 2018, it looked like a big gamble. Many physicists had dismissed the revolutionary space drive as simply fake science. Now its EmDrive project is greenlit for Phase 2, DARPA told Popular Mechanics in February this year. Meanwhile, other teams are hoping to reach a final demonstration of the technology later this year.

“This is a technology which could transform space travel and see craft lifting silently off from launchpads and reaching beyond the solar system,” says Mike McCulloch, a lecturer in geomatics at the University of Plymouth, U.K., and leader behind DARPA’s EmDrive project. “We can also get an unmanned probe to Proxima Centauri in a (long) human lifetime, 90 years.”

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A research team led by scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Northern Illinois University has discovered a new electrocatalyst that can consistently convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol with very high energy efficiency and low cost.

Because carbon dioxide is a stable molecule, transforming it into a different molecule is normally energy intensive and costly.

But the new process can electrochemically convert the carbon dioxide emitted from industrial processes—such as fossil fuel or alcohol fermentation plants—into a valuable commodity at reasonable cost. Ethanol is an ingredient in nearly all U.S. gasoline and is widely used as an intermediate product in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries.

Unfortunately for the Greenies, alcohol isn’t as energy-dense as gasoline. But they keep trying.

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A rotating globe image showing you the earth in whatever past year you wish.

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In his Boston Herald column today, Howie Carr gets the ball rolling for Dementia Joe, as he calls him. He collects quotable quotes from the past week. Each one is risible, not for its megalomania or falsity, but rather for its incoherence and confusion. As I have been saying, the man has half a mind to be president.

Howie observes: “Practically none of this Biden babbling ever makes the network newscasts, because the ‘reporters’ are all Democrat stenographers with press passes. The campaign seems to permit no questions except from those card-carrying comrades reliably in the satchel.”

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Much fuss has been made in the UK, not least by teachers’ unions, about recommencing physical school attendance. As this issue applies to many countries, I thought it worth highlighting research findings in Europe.

While it is evident that school age children can be infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it is extremely rare for them to become seriously ill with COVID-19, and their risk of dying as a result of infection is almost zero. The relevant issue is therefore how much children’s contribution to the spread of COVID-19 to adults, by themselves or via other children, is affected by school attendance.

Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic!

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Politicians need to have ‘Think It Through: Unintended Consequences’ tattooed on their foreheads.

Not for themselves, because the available evidence suggests that they are functionally illiterate, but as a warning to those with whom they come in contact, sort of a Trigger Warning.

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Truckee, Calif., is a mountain town just northwest of Lake Tahoe. It is sort of an outdoorsy paradise. It has great skiing, mountain biking and hiking opportunities, as well as a river and lakes. It also has some great restaurants and a budding art scene. And if you’re a Bay Area resident in the market for a house, it has another thing going for it: It has a median home price that’s roughly half that of San Francisco, about three hours away.

Like a lot of other vacation destinations — the Hamptons, Cape Cod, Aspen and so on — the Truckee housing market is booming during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s up over 23% since last year, according to data from Redfin, a real estate brokerage. Truckee is part of a trend that realtors and journalists are calling “Zoom towns,” places that are booming as remote work takes off.

Yeah, but you’re still in California, with California taxes and dysfunctional California politicians.

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Well, for a start, we could quit calling it ‘science’.

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I wonder what would happen to all those stacks of containers in rough weather?

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I doubt they’ve removed Gavin Newsome’s claim that it was Climate Change.

No Exit: VMWare Joins Growing Group Of Tech Cos Threatening To Cut Employees Wages For Leaving San Francisco

‘Need Something Different’: Portland Mayor Bans Tear Gas Usage By Police Amid Over 100 Days Of Rioting

Maryland to Add LGBTQ Content to Public Schools’ History Curricula

‘You Look At Me Like I’m Making This Up’: Bill Maher Fires Back When Former CNN Journalist Downplays Violence

‘Unbearable Screams’: Uighurs Accuse China of Crimes Against Humanity

Facebook Under Fire For Keeping Antifa Page While Eliminating Far-Right Groups

Australia’s Anti-Lockdown “Freedom Walk” Results In Arrests After Clashes With Police; “Big Event” Planned For Sunday

David Hume, a Notorious Confederate General, Gets Canceled

Californians Begin Painting Lamb’s Blood On Doorposts Just To Be On The Safe Side  Babylon Bee.

With new security law, China outlaws global activism

Blitzer to Fauci: Who should we trust, you or President Trump?

MSNBC Tries to Pin 190,000 Deaths on Trump: ‘More Damaging Than Nixon Tapes’

‘That’s Not True’: Bret Baier Pushes Back On Tim Murtaugh’s Claim That Trump Said Same Things To Public As He Said To Woodward

Harvard Prof Uses 9/11 To Blame Trump For COVID Deaths

Sunny Hostin: ‘Inappropriate’ ‘Crass’ to Question Biden’s Mental Fitness–That’s Not What She Said About Trump

CNN’s Harwood Cynically Uses 9/11: Important to Remember Trump Is Terrible on COVID

Chuck Todd Exploits 9/11 to Whack Trump as Dangerously Downplaying the Virus

Schiff Touts Whistleblower Complaint From DHS Official He Previously Accused Of Lying To Congress

Brian Watt: ‘Obvious Fascist Dictator’ Bringing Peace to the Middle East

Oh No! The President Visited San Francisco And Now No One Can Find Him!  Babylon Bee.

Trump downplayed the threat from COVID-19. Here’s how we could’ve fought back harder.  Popular ‘Science’.

Frustrated California Governor Gavin Newsom Surveys Fire Zone, Rips “Ideological BS” Around Climate Change & “Absence Of National Leadership”

The Dirty Dozen Tests Of Global Warming Science

Jane Fonda on Climate Change: “Just get rid of us Homo sapiens ASAP and things will restore themselves.”  How about we get rid of Hanoi Jane instead?

Combating the Tyranny, Waste, and Economic Devastation of ‘Green’ Agenda With Free Enterprise

‘Party Of Science’ Leader Pelosi Mocked For “Mother Earth Is Angry” Comments

California Governor Blames Climate ‘Emergency’ for Huge Wildfires

Climate Change Financial Risk: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Edition

Climate Scientists Admit Clouds are Still a Big Unknown

State of Delaware Lies About Willie Soon (as a scientist)

Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power ‘only option’ says former spokeswoman

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If Biden gets elected we’ll all be eating ramen. It’s best to be prepared.

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One little discussed fact about refugees and asylees (don’t ask me to remember the difference) is how frequently they take long vacations back home in the Mother Country where their lives are supposedly in danger.

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Scott was the blogger at SlateStarCodex until the New York Times decided that they were going to dox him.  (Increasingly, ‘journalist’ is becoming a synonym for ‘egregious asshole’.)

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Within the space of one hour, Univision chose to omit mention of a protest (yet again), while giving the Democratic vice-presidential candidate celebrity treatment during a PR stint that included an ´unannounced´ visit to a Venezuelan restaurant in an effort to attract Latino voters.

As you can see from the following video that compares the Telemundo and Univision reports on Harris´ trip to South Florida, Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart did acknowledge that “outside, there were also protesters with pro President Trump posters.” What he did not say was that the group, from Latinos for Trump, was there on behalf of Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans who suffered the hardships of socialist and communist regimes.

All is not well in the coalition of the fringes.

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Whence the story that Robert Mueller’s maleficent miscreants wiped their government phones? Judicial Watch strikes again, as the organization explains in this press release.

The press release announces that Judicial Watch received 87 pages of records from the Department of Justice that show senior members of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them. The Department of Justice has posted the documents online here. Politico’s story doesn’t mention Judicial Watch, but let’s give credit where credit is due.

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“Wonder Woman of History,” hitting shelves Dec. 1, celebrates real life female “superheroes” in comic book form. The young adult graphic novel embraces some of the most abrasive figures on the modern Left, including two Congresswomen known for behavior evoking anti-Semitism.

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Among the featured women include Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, comic Tig Notaro, actress/singer Janelle Monae, Beyonce and gun control devotee and Parkland High School shooting survivor Emma Gonzales.

Who’s missing? Anyone remotely right of center. Think Candace Owens, Nikki Haley, Condaleezza Rice or Kellyanne Conway, to name just a few.

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For generations now, the mass media has referred to itself as the echo chamber or the media echo chamber, at least with regards to politics. A favorite politician or pundit says something pithy or useful and the media repeats it verbatim until everyone is sick of hearing it. After the 2010 midterms, Barak Obama used the word “shellacked” as in his team was “shellacked”, and the media repeated it every hour for days as if it was wisdom sent down from the heavens.

This was an insight the Clinton crime syndicate figured out how to use to their advantage back in the 1990’s. They would come up with some slogan they wanted to get the media repeating. They would then have their mouth pieces repeat the line over and over in their media appearances. The media would get the hint and then start repeating the slogan over and over. What they essentially did is weaponize the natural conformity of the mass media and use it as a propaganda organ.

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In the hands of Democratic politicians, climate change is like systemic racism in the sky: You can’t see it, but it’s everywhere and it’s deadly.

 

Steve Sailer looks into the nooks and crannies so you don’t have to.

Kamala Harris was born an anchor baby: neither of her parents were a United States citizen when she was born in California in 1964. It’s interesting to look at how the two main search engines respond to a search for this fact.

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A Democrat bureaucrat finally said what we all have known to be the truth: the Wuhan virus limitations that Democrat politicians and bureaucrats have imposed on Americans will go away after the election because that was the plan all along.

As 2019 ended, the Democrats knew that Trump was cruising to re-election. He’d kept his base because he kept his promises about the wall, trade deals, the military, abortion, and our Second Amendment rights. Best of all, he’d supercharged the economy with tax and regulation cuts. The surging economy enticed other Americans who had not voted for Trump in 2016 to contemplate voting for him in 2020.

The Democrats’ troubles continued in 2020. In January, their impeachment imploded. Worst of all, the Democrat primary candidates did not excite the base. The only passion was for a spittle-flecked, wild-haired old communist, and the Democrats knew that, even in 2020, nominating a communist was a bridge too far. The Wuhan virus was an extraordinary and unlooked-for blessing for the Democrats because they used it to destroy Trump’s economy.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning. Personally, I don’t think that there are enough Democrats who have the wit to look that far ahead. But that’s me.

Steve Sailer.

Some tiny percentage of the population are hardcore arsonists who like to start fires, the bigger the better. It seems plausible that the 100+ days of Antifa riots in Portland has attracted arsonists to Oregon who enjoy practicing their fetish with impunity and has excited local firebugs.

Is there any connection between the countless examples of arson in downtown Portland and the wildfires in Oregon? ABSOLUTELY NOT says The Establishment.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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I first became aware of the uses of wings in place of sale on boats when it was introduced into the America’s Cup race, but I have no idea when it was developed.

New York high school student arrested for attending in-person classes on remote learning day  I’ll bet he loves Big Brother now, though.

In Latest Setback For Disney, China Censors Coverage Of “Mulan” Over Xinjiang Ties  Communists will be Communists.

Corona “Marshals” Patrol UK Cities To Enforce Social-Distancing

Earth barreling toward ‘Hothouse’ state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows

66 Million Years of Earth’s Climate History Uncovered – Puts Current Changes in Context

Hamburgers are hard on the planet. These cattle ranchers are trying to change that

The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change  Yeah, the smoke from the fires over the Arctic is suffocating.

A new island of hope rising from the Indian Ocean  I guess the hope is that the sea will actually rise as they are always predicting.

New York City residents document sea-level rise in coastal neighborhoods  I guess the only explanation for flooding is ‘sea-level rise’.  I’m still waiting for NYC to be under water.

Pelosi On Fires In California: ‘Mother Earth Is Angry’

The Conversation: “Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial”

How Green Energy Wrecked California

Save the Planet: Stop Riding Transit

Turtles:  Back to the Future!

As Joe Biden Condemns Rioters And Looters, Kamala Harris Continues To Support Group That Bails Out Suspected Violent Criminals

Trevor Noah Gets Serious: Don’t Question Restaurant Rioting for a Good Cause

The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn’t Do

With Vaguely PoC Academic Females, What’s a Scarier Warning Sign: Hoop Ear Rings or a Nose Ring?

NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs And Houston Texans Booed By Fans During ‘Moment Of Unity’

Reporter to Trump: Why did you lie to the American people?  CNN. I’d have responded “Why did you?”

Someone needs to remind Donald Trump that Bob Woodward isn’t president of the United States  CNN. Nor even really a journalist.

Trump told a reporter his biggest secret: that he is a danger to the American people  The Guardian. Except that he didn’t, of course.

Trump Binge-Watched Fox News All Night, Woke Up to Watch More Fox  These people just make stuff up and expect everybody to believe it.

Michigan superintendent rips anti-Trump quiz teacher gave to students as ‘misinformation’

Trump’s tensions with the military grow after reports that he disparaged soldiers, generals  USA Today.

Biden Says He Opposes NAFTA Despite Voting For It, Won’t Give Trump Credit For USMCA

Twitter Will Now Label Or Remove Posts Encouraging Violence If Trump Does Not Leave White House If Biden Wins

Trump Throws Down with Liberal Hacks Karl, Rucker Over Woodward Book; ‘Why Did You Lie?’

NY Times Reporter Kicked Out of Trump Rally in Michigan

Jews, Remember Khaybar!

‘He Must Be Re-Elected’: Bin Laden’s Niece Says She’s A Trump Supporter And ‘American At Heart’: Report

Just What Italy Needs: More Islamic Tourism!

Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State

If You Didn’t Want Islam, You Shouldn’t Have Imported Us!

American Officer Wounded, 3 Somali Special Forces Killed by Car Bomb

Israel Targets Hamas Financiers as Hamas Targets Israeli Civilians

Under Jihadi Siege, Christians in West Africa Are Praying for a Miracle

Alleged ISIS Recruiter Arrested After Making Bomb Threat Against University Of Houston During Zoom Lecture

Afghan vice president survives roadside bomb attack, but 4 others killed  Those peace talks with the Taliban certainly appear to be going well, don’t they?

Bombing In Afghanistan Targeting Vice President Kills 10, Injures More Than 30 Others  It doesn’t matter how much one side wants peace, if the other side wants war, it’s war.

Charlie Hebdo Attack Victim Testifies That Terrorists Yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ Then Began Shooting

‘Unbearable Screams’: Uighurs Accuse China Of Crimes Against Humanity, File International Court Complaint

Acting Brotherhood General Guide’s Arrest a Major Blow to the Group

Christian In Pakistan Sentenced To Death For Insulting The Prophet Muhammed

Houthi Drones, Missiles Strike Saudi Capital; Iran Eyes Israelis In UAE

Iran Tells UAE It’s “Now A Target” In Response To Any Israeli Aggression Due To Peace Deal

Huge blast rocks Jordan military base in Zarqa

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Something I wanted to talk about in the show, but I got long winded on other stuff, so I had to skip it, is something I talked about with a friend this week. That is, why is it that so many people have gone crazy all at once? There’s always been partisanship and fierce debates between liberals and normal people. People have always had heated debates about current events. Today, we have lots of people who seem to live in an alternative reality from the rest of us.

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A recent blog post by investor and stand-up comedian James Altucher (mentioned here) arguing that New York is dead forever attracted the hostility of many New Yorkers. Fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld wrote a New York Times op-ed calling Altucher a “whimpering putz.” Mayor De Blasio, naturally, agrees with Seinfeld.

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With all due respect to these people, they missed Altucher’s point. New York as a city will survive. But New York as an ideal, a place that builds wealth and fulfills dreams like nowhere else in America, will not. Not to put too many words in Altucher’s mouth, what is really dead is the idea that New York City or Manhattan densities are necessary have a healthy economy and diverse culture.

Altucher pointed out that the pandemic has taught high-income people that they don’t need to deal with the congestion, high costs of living, homeless people, crime, and other stresses of the densest city in America. The things that made New York attractive are disappearing: lots of restaurants are permanently closed; lots of entertainment businesses promise to reopen next year, but no one knows if they will.

The Other McCain reports.

This whole interview with Brett Baier of Fox News is a disaster for T.J. Ducklo, who is exactly the type of testosterone-deficient soyboy you’d expect to be National Press Secretary for Joe Biden. When Baier raised the issue of Biden’s declining mental acuity — which is highly relevant to his fitness for office — Ducklo went into a complete meltdown.

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If time was measured in news cycles, it has been roughly 17.765329 years since professional football has graced our screens. But, defying all of the odds, and media narratives, the NFL season returned for its first game of the season Thursday night.

The game itself was surprisingly high quality, considering the lack of a pre-season due to COVID-19. Reigning Super Bowl Champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, took the field against a traditionally high-powered Houston Texans team.

That was not what caught the eyes of most people who tuned in, however.

The NFL has the same problem as the NBA: Most of their audience, and certainly the more profitable part, are white, while their ‘equipment’ are mostly black.

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The average cost of building a single unit of housing for the homeless in Los Angeles has risen to $531,000, according to an audit from the city controller, who recommends that L.A. rehab motels and open dormitory-style buildings to save money and get people off the streets quickly.

Controller Ron Galperin, in a report due Wednesday, also cited two projects whose costs soared to nearly $750,0000 per unit and assailed delays that he said have driven city-funded homeless construction expenses up from initial projections of $350,000 a unit.

Nearly four years after voters approved Proposition HHH, only three projects have opened, construction has not started on three-quarters of the planned units, and many projects may “never come to fruition,” said Galperin, adding that the delays began before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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LANGUAGE WARNING: Improper use of the technical term ‘privilege’.

The so-called revolutionaries who were busted for rioting at a New Afrikan Black Panther Party rally took a break from their yacht club lives and modeling careers to be a part of the mayhem.

The seven “comrades” — including wealthy Upper East Sider Clara Kraebber — had their mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday, days after their arrests for smashing storefront windows in the Flatiron District.

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Because God forbid anything should happen in California without being regulated.

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Like almost all narco submarines this vessel was not actually a true submarine. Instead it is more of a ‘semi-submersible’ or what is called a low profile vessel (LPV). This means that it runs as low in the water as possible which makes it very hard to detect. Just how low can be seen in the Coast Guard video, note how the waves wash over the front of the boat.

These vessels are most active in the Eastern Pacific, coming up from Colombia. This is why San Diego based Coast Guard cutters seem to get the lion’s share of them. They are built in secret ‘artisan’ boat yards hidden in the myriad of jungle estuaries which lead to the sea. Narco submarines can also be found in the Caribbean and, increasingly, in the Atlantic.

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Guess he won’t do that again.