Antarctica’s colossal Thwaites Glacier is melting fast — and scientists may have discovered why  No doubt Trump has something to do with it.

Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why

Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse

Obama: California’s Wildfires Are An Example Of How Climate Change Is ‘Changing Our Communities’  ‘Climate change’ is apparently the NewSpeak term for ‘stupid Democrat government’.

The Guardian Celebrates the Rapid Greening of Climate Activist Europe

Dems Unveil 2021 Agenda to Tackle Climate Change as Wildfires Rage on West Coast  I guess their ides is ’cause more of it’.

Claim: Historical climate fluctuations in Central Europe overestimated due to tree ring analysis

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Yeah, that Postal Service is sure a poster child for government efficiency. They ought to have no problem delivering mail-in ballots on time and correctly.

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Well, when you’re state is descending into anarchy….

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Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the center, blamed conservatives for being the real source of America’s modern violence. Her September 3 op-ed ran in the MIT Technology Review specifically targeted “right-wing adversarial media-makers like Elijah Schaffer and Andy Ngo.”

Her piece, “How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets,” condemned conservatives for using social media as a “machine to spread a narrative of lawless rioting.” Donovan smeared the uptick in use of video to condemn the violence of rioters as “the rise of riot porn.”

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Which they are, of course, so long as they obey the law in getting here.

Trump, of course, contrary to DemLegHump Media lies, doesn’t oppose immigration, merely illegal immigration.

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In Portland, the police are leaving the force. More have left in the last month than in the whole of the previous year. A backlog in paperwork probably conceals that many more have filed for retirement. The reason for this lies in the cowardly, detestable, and fickle political leadership of the city, which has refused to do anything as the city is torn apart by rioting. Politicians running against the current mayor are, if anything, even crazier than he is. The front runner is avowed Antifa.

The police chief there, Jami Resch, resigned amid criticism of her department coming from the city council. It seems they didn’t like Resch’s attempts to crack down on rioting.

One wonders what will be left of Portland in another year or so. The fact that they are poised to elect an Antifa member as mayor bespeaks a city-wide suicide pact.

It was a nice city — while it lasted.

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It’s been a little over a month since former president Barack Obama blessed the increasingly popular notion of doing away with the Senate filibuster. “If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American,” he told the congregants at John Lewis’s funeral, “then that’s what we should do.”

And just as Obama had no compunction about using this alleged relic of Jim Crow — as a senator he took to the floor more than once to defend the practice as a vital tool in preserving constitutional checks and balances and genuine debate — Democrats have no problem using it whenever it suits them.

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Hey,  we really need more of these people in the U.S.

Although….

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It’s their way or the highway.

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Yeah, that doesn’t seem well-calculated to produce a good result. And Bob Woodward, the guy who claims to have interviewed Casey while Casey was in the hospital in a coma? Worst possible choice.

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acebook vowed to crack down on political violence and election interference, but the result is far less than advertised. The platform allows Antifa organizations to organize and share content in apparent conflict with Facebook’s official policies.

Facebook had removed two left-wing extremist news sources — It’s Going Down and CrimethInc. That was part of the platform’s new “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” policy to crack down on groups the platform said are “tied to violence.” However, Facebook has refused to take action against two other controversial leftist pages — Rose City Antifa and Adbusters.

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An Army sergeant major who rescued around 75 hostages from being executed by ISIS fighters in Iraq will be awarded the Medal of Honor on Friday, the U.S. Army announced on Tuesday.

Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne ran through a burning building and enemy gunfire with a pair of bolt cutters to free the hostages during a rescue mission, according to the Army.

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The toll lockdowns have taken on human life and human rights has been incalculable. Increases in child abuse, suicide, and even heart attacks, all appear to be a feature of mandatory stay-at-home orders issued by politicians who now rule by decree without any legislative or democratic due process. And then, of course, there is the economic toll on employment, which will feed negative impacts into the longer term. The economic burden has fallen the most on the young and on working-class families, whose earners are least able to work from home.

 

Victor Davis Hanson.

Almost daily, Greek and Turkish aircraft and ships fight mock battles over disputed oil and gas rights in the eastern Mediterranean.

Since the loss of much of the Christian Balkans to the Ottomans in the 15th century, Greece and what would later become modern Turkey have been rivals, outright enemies and often at war.

Mutual NATO membership and shared Cold War fears of Soviet Russia did not stop the two from almost going to war after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Still, the current escalation seems weird. Most territorial claims and disputes over borders were settled almost a century ago, and the two countries have had mass population exchanges.

Why, then, does the divide still run so deep?

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Plenty of room in Texas. The air is breathable, too, and we have plenty of electricity.

Victor Davis Hanson.

There are some stunning indications that the supposedly satanic racist Donald Trump could be polling in some surveys around a 35-40 approval rate among Latinos and 20–30 percent among African Americans. Other polls are more equivocal but suggest an unexpected Trump surge among minority voters.

If those polls are accurate and predict November voting patterns, then Joe Biden could lose the popular vote as well as the key swing states by larger margins than Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College losses in 2016.

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The Washington Free Beacon’s David Rutz has compiled another SUPERcuts video, this one to document the media’s in-kind contribution to the Biden presidential campaign. The Beacon has posted the video under the headline “Media take it easy on Biden,” though that doesn’t quite capture the self-abasement of the “reporters” involved.

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A new podcast from The New York Times suggests that “Nice White Parents” are the reason for failures in the education system. The podcast, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Mary Clare Amselem, cites “examples of parents getting involved in the day-to-day operation of the school, and paints this involvement as an affront to public schooling,” implying parental involvement is somehow detrimental.

Too Much CO2 Has an Unnerving Effect on The World’s Trees, New Study Finds

Sceptical covid-19 research and sceptical polar bear science: is there a difference?

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet

Roker Hails Climate Hysteria of Left-Wing Loon Jane Fonda

AFR: We Must Reduce CO2 Emissions to Prevent Bats Passing new Coronavirus Diseases to Humans  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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National Review cuck Ramesh Ponnuru thinks that criticizing his own side somehow makes him a model of probity.

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National Review cuck Dan McLaughlin illustrates why ‘movement’ conservatism is just a lawn jockey for the proglodytes.

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Funny how Spencer’s endorsement of Biden doesn’t get the 24/7 coverage that, say, an endorsement of Trump would have. Wonder why that is.

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What could be scarier than a Democrat politician? (Nobody has enough money left to buy treats.)

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Apparently they have no problem with human rights violations that don’t occur in America.

UPDATE: ABC News Relentlessly Promoted Mulan, Buries Filming Near Brutal Chinese Camps

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A new jobs report was released last Friday, showing signs of a return to the employment miracle that occurred within the Hispanic community prior to the COVID outbreak. While Telemundo reported factually on these huge gains, Univision returned to form with a report that could best be described as active disinformation.

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Just waiting for the Pandemic Panic to be over.

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South Korea has made it official and is building one or more aircraft carriers for its F-35B stealth fighters. A 30,000-ton LPX II “amphibious ship” was added to the 2021-25 defense spending plan. LPX II would be similar but superior to the Japanese DDH “F-35B carrier” and would be able to carry up to 20 F-35Bs. While the designation LPX II indicates a larger amphibious ship, the LPX II will be built as an aircraft carrier, without facilities for carrying marines and their equipment. For several years South Korean defense officials have discussed building one or more 30,000-ton ships that look like the Japanese DDH (destroyer helicopter carrier) and are modified to handle a dozen or more F-35Bs.

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Michael Anton remarked in our podcast last Saturday that he hasn’t seen any hispanics in the videos of protests and riots going on around the country, and I’ve been remarking that out here in California, we’re hearing nothing but crickets from the hispanic community about the whole “Defund the Police” and Black Lives Matter protests. It’s almost as though hispanics may be wondering why Democrats are talking exclusively about black interests, and don’t buy the whole intersectionality/”people of color” boilerplate, still less the trendy academic term “Latinx” that surveys shows 98 percent of actual hispanics don’t use and don’t like.

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The salon owner accused of “setting up” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is thanking supporters who have contributed $300,000 to a crowdfunding account set up to help move her business after she received threats.

Plenty of room in Texas. You could go to Austin; it would feel like you never left California.

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While the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were stoking fear of any coronavirus vaccine produced under Trump’s presidency, they blacked out the nationwide outrage at ABC-owner Disney for giving a “special thanks” to the operators of China’s Uighur concentration camps in the credits of their new movie Mulan. It was a missed opportunity for their competitors at CBS and NBC.

The Libertarian magazine Reason put it best in describing the disturbing situation with Disney’s praise for the murderous Chinese regime. “The new Mulan movie is facing a barrage of criticism—and promises to boycott—for filming near Chinese concentration camps and then thanking the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the privilege,” wrote Elizabeth Nolan Brown.

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Six months into the pandemic, some traditions will still not be upset by a virus. As approximately half of K-12 schools are only offering online instruction, parents will still know little, if anything, of what their children are being taught in school except by accident—or unless they ask.

Recent fallout from such asymmetric information comes from Wylie, Texas, where a cartoon associating police with the KKK went from classroom to living room to the press room and on to the governor.

At Cooper Junior High, eighth-grade students were assigned to write about a political cartoon that depicts slave owners, then KKK members, and then police in corresponding panels. Furious parents, who only learned of the assignment because their children told them, contacted the school and wrote angry statements on social media.

Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott said the teacher responsible for the assignment should be fired.

The solution is to avoid sending your kids to a government school.

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The CEO of office messaging app Slack announced in June that he and his wife made large donations to organizations leading the “defund the police” movement, less than a year after Slack expanded its partnership with a company manufacturing robot security guards.

Trump pushes misleading claim China is stoking protests to help Biden win election  CNN.

At home on Labor Day, Trump wages rambling attack on Biden  CNN.

Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed CNN.

Trump, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service Washington Post.

Trump’s White House rally fails to evoke adulation from stony-faced reporters  The Guardian. I don’t think that was the intended audience.

New York Times Lies About Trump Banning ‘Racial Sensitivity’ Training

Stupid! Brian Stelter & Guest Pretend ‘Write a Letter to the Publisher’ is a THREAT

Stephanopoulos Badgers Sanders to Accept Disputed Atlantic Trump-Trashing Tale

Shameless NBC Tries to Sell Books for Trump-Trashing Felon

Joe Biden Says ‘The Only Person Calling To Defund The Police Is Donald Trump’  Such an outrageous lie that I can’t believe even Joe Biden would utter it.

‘Defend That!’: Joy Behar Scolds Sarah Sanders For Taking Offense At Personal Attacks While Defending Donald Trump

Gov. Cuomo: Trump ‘Trying to Kill’ NYC  Actually, it’s Cuomo who’s trying to kill NYC, along with deBlasio.

Colorado Secretary of State Threatens Trump With Prosecution  Weeel, there’s this little matter of jurisdiction….

‘View’ Spews Lies: Trump’s ‘Encouraging Violence;’ We’ll Be ‘Safer’ With Biden in Charge!

Tennis Star Osaka’s Mask Bears Trayvon Martin’s Name

‘Beethoven was black’: why a century-old idea still has power today

Outrageous moment BLM protesters scream ‘f**k the white people’ at elderly outdoor diners  Sounds like somebody wants a race war.

Black Woman to Lead Louisville PD for First Time

NYT, Deadspin Defend Black Lives Matter Protest at Kentucky Derby

8-Year-Old Killed, 2 Adults Wounded During Chicago Shooting

Anti-White Auto Zone Murderer Put in Cell with a White Man, Then Beats Him to Death

Virtually Insane: School Sends Police To Home After Child Shows A Clearly Fake Gun During Online Class  The kid was black, of course.

‘How About A Word For His Victim?’: Megyn Kelly Unloads On Kamala Harris For Saying She’s ‘Proud’ Of Jacob Blake

‘Senseless’: 51 Shot, 10 Dead In Bloody Chicago Labor Day Weekend, Child Among The Dead

Billionaire Hedge Fund Chris Rokos’ Firm Pledges Money to Fight Racial Injustice

‘We Bike Too’: A New NYC Club of Black and Brown Cyclists Takes the Streets

Apple Launches ‘Oprah’s Book Club’ Podcast  Black women are SO oppressed — just ask Michelle Obama.

Why White Lives Don’t Matter  I’m not inclined to listen to insults from fat ugly black women.

How an Islamic Terror Sheikh Ended Up Selling Meth in Orange County

ESPN, CBS Sports Go Heavy On White Guilt During Weekend Programming

Joe Prude, Brother Of Daniel Prude, Says Cops Are ‘Some Cold-Blooded … Killers’ Who ‘Assassinated’ Brother

UK: Zephaniah McLeod has been charged with the murder of Jacob Billington following Birmingham Stabbings

Meet Five ‘Extinct’ Species That Have Returned to Life

Advanced New Spacecraft Will Monitor Sea Level Rise and Atmospheric Temperature With Extreme Precision

Bill McKibben Talks Up the Alleged Climate Change Extreme Weather Link

“What is Happening in Leipzig is Not a Protest”

Los Angeles Protesters Chant ‘Blue Lives Don’t Matter Here’

Seattle Police Recover Molotov Cocktails Outside Police Union Building  But they were mostly peaceful.

State Republican Party Headquarters Building Vandalized With Anti-Police Graffiti  I guess all cops are Republicans.

1,000 Georgians Voted Twice in State Primary  Those were the ones they caught — how many did they miss?

College Defends Course On ‘How To Overthrow The State’ That Requires Freshmen Write Their Own Manifesto

Protests Erupt As Police Shoot Man Who Was Just One Gun Away From Being Unarmed

‘We Don’t Target Businesses’ Says Protester Who Screamed At Diners In Pittsburgh  Except for driving away their customers….

Entire Rochester Police Command Resigns

Rochester Police Leaders Retire in Wake of Calls for Change

Twitter Allowed ‘Deceptively Edited’ Video of Trump to Go Viral

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The available evidence indicates that they are seriously lacking in expertise when it comes to making Molotov cocktails.

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I agree.

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A fat ugly black woman? Surely that can’t be right.

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I thought that legalizing marijuana was supposed to end drug violence…?

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A decade ago, researcher and scholar Joseph Henrich, together with psychologists Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan, published a landmark paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled, “The weirdest people in the world?”1 No, the target of the label “weird” were not the Araweté horticulturalists of lowland South America, where mothers-to-be seek sex with multiple men in the belief that semen from multiple fathers is needed to form the fetus.2 Nor were they the M?ori of New Zealand, who have been known to collect and preserve the heads of enemy chiefs they killed in battle as trophies of war, (the mokomokai.) The target of the weird label was Western people. More specifically, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic, or WEIRD.

WEIRD was not meant as a pejorative, but as an apt description of this group of psychologically peculiar people, who are distinct from the majority of humanity both now and throughout human history.

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As I have said from the beginning.

Still not ruling out ‘nefarious plot’….

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How National Socialist of them.

John Hinderaker of PowerLine.

I noted here that U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow has written to the Mayor of the City of Seattle, suggesting that “critical race theory” or “white privilege” training that the city recently imposed on its employees likely violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race. Paul added that the Department of Justice has also sought information about the same training sessions from Seattle, on the same ground. Seattle’s “white privilege” training was no different from what many companies and units of government have inflicted on their employees, and if it was illegal–as I think it was–the illegality is widespread.

Steve Sailer.

In 2020, the Peaceful Protesters have made a big leap upward in looting techniques. Instead of just ransacking the Korean-run liquor stores in their own neighborhood like during the 1992 Rodney King riot, looters have targeted rich people’s shopping districts such as Fifth Avenue in NYC and Santa Monica, CA.

From the Santa Monica Lookout, here’s one of the first news articles I’ve read on the new techniques employed by looters and how the cops are (finally) responding.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #422

Jane Fonda: “If we don’t cut our fossil fuel emissions in half by 2030, … democracy … will become impossible.”  Two questions: What is the connection between fossil fuels and democracy? And since when did Jane Fonda have any expertise in either area?

Air conditioning technology is the great missed opportunity in the fight against climate change

“You B*stards Sacked Me”: When the climate sceptics arrived

Recalling EPA’s Gold King Mine disaster – Part 1

@CNN beclowns itself over Siberian craters supposedly caused by ‘climate change’

Civilization May Need to “Forget the Flame” to Reduce CO2 Emissions

Extinction: The Facts – An Attenborough guide to nature’s destruction

Greenland Ice Sheet Already Reached Tipping Point 20 Years Ago  So why isn’t New York under water?

Worldwide renewable energy could do more harm than good

Monitoring the Arctic Heatwave: Alarmingly High Temperatures, Extreme Wildfires and a Significant Loss of Sea Ice

This sustainable neighborhood of the future is designed to manage both climate change and pandemics

Extinction Rebellion Attacks Democracy, blockades the Free Press

Extreme precipitation events have always occurred, but are they changing?

Environmental Disaster: Northern Europe Deforestation Up 49% Due To Effort To Meet “CO2 Targets”!

NPR Analyst Says Trump’s Not Reaganesque When He Complains About Pro-Biden Media Bias  Who gives a shit? Certainly not NPR — since when do they bother about when somebody is being ‘Reaganesque’?

MSNBC Slaps Facebook Around for Allowing Too Much Free Expression by Trump and His Fans

California Democrat compares Trump to rise of Hitler in Germany

Trump referred to Marines buried at cemetery in France in crude and derogatory terms, a former senior administration official says  CNN.

CNN’s Cillizza Sides with Anonymous Atlantic Tale, Skips Over the Moustache Man

Chuck Schumer And Bernie Sanders Want A Contingency Plan In Place For If Trump Refuses To Leave Office  How about a contingency plan if Joe Biden starts drooling during the debates?

Todd Has a Problem With Mail-in-Voting: Disqualifying Ballots Could Help Trump

Shades of Dan Rather in Jeffrey Goldberg’s anti-Trump hit piece

‘This Never Happened’: Sources Close To Trump Rally To His Defense Over Atlantic Story

Trump’s bad marriage with the military has finally exploded  Washington Post. Certainly the DemLegHump Media are giving it a good try.

The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets ‘losers’ is just the beginning  I have no  doubt.

Shocking Revelation in NYT: Critics Said the President’s Move Was a Transparent Play for White Votes

CNN’s Bash CONSPIRES With Schiff to Push Wild Russia-Trump Theories

CNN Host: ‘Sadly,’ Michael Cohen Allegations Might Not Hurt Trump

‘Stop Using My Image’: Wounded Vet Says Trump Never Called Him ‘Loser,’ Demands His Face Be Taken Off ‘Propaganda’

US Ambassador To France Denies Atlantic Story, Says Trump ‘Has Never Denigrated Any Member Of US Military’