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The scientists have created A.I. software that uses a protein’s DNA sequence to predict its three-dimensional structure to within an atom’s width of accuracy.

The achievement, which solves a 50-year-old challenge in molecular biology, was accomplished by a team from DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence company that is part of Google parent Alphabet. Until now, DeepMind was best known for creating A.I. that could beat the best human players at the strategy game Go, a major milestone in computer science.

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From Julia Child to Paul Bocuse to James Beard, some of the biggest names in food history are also people who have professed their love for the same french fry—a french fry that, in no exaggerated manner, birthed an empire. A french fry that no one has eaten in more than 30 years.

McDonald’s original french fries were cooked in beef tallow. For that fact, they were bullied out of production by a well-funded, well-intentioned businessman and self-proclaimed health advocate named Phil Sokolof, who unknowingly dethroned what many fans claim was the greatest french fry to ever meet mass production. “The french fries were very good,” Child said in a 1995 interview, “and then the nutritionists got at them … and they’ve been limp ever since … I’m always very strong about criticizing them, hoping maybe they’ll change.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #433

Slight, beneficial warming from more carbon dioxide!

The Climate Hustle

Claim: Autonomous EVs will Help Solve the Climate Crisis

What A Biden Presidency Means For Cleantech And Energy Startup Funding

Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener  (Wired ‘Science’)

Polar bear habitat update for late November

Climate change is affecting fall foliage, but not in the way you think  (Popular ‘Science’) Not the way they think, either.

Climategate: Another Anniversary (never forget ….)

Michael Flynn Says Coup Against Trump Still In Progress In First Public Remarks Since Pardon

Fearing 2024 Run, MSNBC Pleads: Just ‘Ignore’ Trump!  Good luck with that.

‘Firehose of falsehood:’ How Trump is trying to confuse the public about the election outcome (CNN) Falsehood!

Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election. It was filled with lies (CNN) Lies!

Stelter: Why isn’t anyone intervening with Trump? (CNN) Why isn’t anyone intervening with Stelter?

Twitter Censors Trump, Trump Campaign 325 Times, But Never Biden

Merry Christmas? CNN Relentlessly Mocks Melania Over…Christmas Decorations The very definition of ‘mean-spirited’.

Morning Joe: ‘Desperate’ Trump Might Sell Secrets; Sic FBI on Him?

Sara Haines Says Joe Biden Hiring Women Matters More Than Donald Trump Hiring Women

FALSE: Nets Tout Biden Hiring ‘First, All-Female’ WH Comms Team (Trump Already Does)

As NY politicians eye new taxes on the rich, high earners eye the exits

Norway Criminalizes Hate Speech Against Transgender People… In Private Homes Or Conversations

Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary’s 2016 Votes to Trump

WHO Urges Global Governments To “Manage” All Social Activity

‘Please Don’t Insult Me’: Meghan McCain Criticizes Bill Kristol Over His Support For Neera Tanden

Liberal Media Panicking Over Conservative Exodus to Parler

“High Degree Of Confidence”: Deep-Dive Data Analyst Says More Illegal Votes In AZ Than Biden Margin Of Victory

Activists Demand ‘Justice’ After Black Teens Murdered in Sacramento Mall

Rebellious U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Embarrasses America With Black Lives Matter Protest

9 Dead, 37 Shot In Violent Chicago Weekend

Mother Of Teen Fatally Shot By Police Injured By Gunfire At Son’s Burial

BLM’s National Arm Gave Little To Local Chapters While Reaping Millions, Local BLM Chapters Allege In Statement

Fauci: US May See ‘Surge Upon Surge’ of Virus in Weeks Ahead

‘Surge Upon A Surge’: Anthony Fauci Warns About Post-Thanksgiving Coronavirus Spread

LA County’s Latest 3-Week Lockdown Exempts Protests & ‘Religious Services’

NYC Pub Declares Itself “Autonomous Zone” After Government Tries To Shut It Down  Put up an AntiFa sign and you’re good.

CNN Is Already Fear Mongering About Christmas: ‘We Just Can’t Do’ It

Fox News’ Janice Dean Warns That Cuomo’s Nursing Home Failure ‘Could Happen Again’

What No One Is Saying About The Lockdowns

Why Is All COVID News Bad?

New COVID-19 Research Provides Deep Insights Into Transmission and Mutation Properties of SARS-CoV-2

As a food writer with covid, I worried I’d lose my sense of taste. It turned out to be much worse.

Man arrested for refusing to wear mask on Delta flight from Salt Lake City

A day in the life of the Covid Physician

The San Francisco 49ers Are Banned From Playing Home Games Because Of Coronavirus Restrictions

UTEP Vs. Southern Miss Canceled Because Of Coronavirus

Moderna Applies For Emergency COVID Vaccine Approval In US & Europe

England’s Covid-19 infections down 30% during national lockdown – survey

No one who got Moderna’s vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19  Severe!

Dr. Fauci Finally Confirms That Children Don’t Catch Or Transmit COVID-19 In Large Numbers

REPORT: Police Fire On Prison Riot Over COVID-19 In Sri Lanka, 8 Dead

Warp Speed Leader: ‘Lot of Disease, Lot of Deaths’ Still Coming

Los Angeles Restaurant Refuses To Close, Takes Jab At Governor Newsom With ‘The French Laundry’ Sign

Eric Clapton, Van Morrison Produce Anti-Lockdown Song, Clapton Calls Lockdowns ‘Deeply Upsetting’

The Covid Science Wars

Pope Francis Says Covid Vaccine Will Now Be Required To Enter Heaven  Babylon Bee.

Tequila Bar Reportedly Registers To Become A Church To Skirt Around Coronavirus Restrictions

Groundhog Day – COVID & “The Science”

‘Today’s Flat Earthers’: Florida Governor Mocks Advocates For School Closings, Says Public Schools Will Remain Open

Bar Owners Declare It An ‘Autonomous Zone’ After Being Fined, Stripped Of Their Liquor License For COVID-19 Violations

Pandemic Unemployment Numbers Have Been Inaccurate And Benefits Improperly Distributed, Report Finds

Public health officials expect COVID-19 cases to spike like never before  (Popular ‘Science’)

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Ocasio-Cortez objected to the state’s offer of tax credits to Amazon, the bulk of which would be paid out over a ten-year period conditional on Amazon’s reaching hiring and salary targets. While ad-hoc tax incentives are a sloppy and ineffective means of attracting businesses, the specific policy questions here are less salient than the hostility towards business voiced by Ocasio-Cortez and her coterie.

The state never revoked the tax credits, and Amazon could have proceeded apace. Amazon’s management chose not to because they didn’t want to be in close proximity to lawmakers intent on kneecapping them at every turn.

The city’s unemployment rate now stands at 13.2 percent, nearly double the 6.9 percent national rate.

Democrats aren’t about employment. They don’t want people to be employed. They want people to be dependent on government handouts, handouts controlled by blueneck politicians, handouts in return for dependable Democrat votes.

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It’s always fun when the brave journalists of the Washington Post put on their pith helmets and venture forth to do some anthropological reporting from the hinterlands. You never know what kind of hair-raising stories they’ll file about sky god-worshippers in podunk hamlets over an hour’s drive from decent artisanal cheese.

For example, education reporter Hannah Natanson Nov. 29 article describes the horrors of teaching about the presidential election in “West Virginia’s deep-red McDowell County, where some 80 percent of the votes went to Trump in the November election.” They’re also, she is careful to point out, 90 percent white.

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a famous military commander with some interesting information management habits. But he died about 200 years ago (1821), long before computers, the internet, and electronic communication.

So what could we possibly hope to learn from his life about handling email in our digital age?

Turns out, quite a bit.

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The entire police force of Pine Ridge, South Carolina, quit their jobs in protest of alleged micro-management by the city’s mayor in October, according to The State.

The Pine Ridge Police Department’s interim police chief, Lt. Vincent Silano, the only full-time police officer for the town of 2,000, resigned on Oct. 13 of this year, The State reported. The department would normally have three full-time cops.

Silano cited “the constant impediment of police matters and micro-managing at the hands of Mayor Robert Wells” in his resignation letter.

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Because cheerleading is not governed by the N.C.A.A., its participants can sign lucrative endorsement deals that would lead to punishment for most college athletes, including soon-to-be N.F.L. and N.B.A. millionaires.

Sounds fair to me.

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One of the recurring questions amid the year’s countless BLM protests and associated riots has been why instead of burning and looting innocent businesses, the angry mob does not target the source of all wealth, income and social inequality – not just in the US but the world – the central bank, i.e. Federal Reserve (located at 2051 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20418 for those unaware).

Yet while US protesters and rioters still need guidance what buildings to burn down, their French peers are finally catching on.

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I am an immigrant and a naturalized citizen. I came to this country at the age of ten, grew up in a blue-collar immigrant household, was raised around primarily Central-Eastern European and Hispanic working-class immigrants, and ultimately married another immigrant. So, according to the left, I represent a demographic that should support open borders and unchecked mass immigration (both legal and illegal), both out of self-interest and for moral reasons. I see things differently, however, and opt for national sovereignty, secure borders and common-sense immigration policies that benefit the United States and its people.

This stance often elicits shock, anger and sneering from leftists, including pro-illegal alien advocates, cheerleaders for increasing already historically high immigration levels and the radical purveyors of divisive identity politics that attempt to pit immigrants against natives. Many foreign born people who don’t buy into the open borders insanity and believe that rational limits make sense are no doubt eye-rollingly familiar with the hostile reactions.

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In 2020, officeless workers learned to doze off between Zoom calls. Maybe now we can admit that the post-turkey crash is nothing to be ashamed of.

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“Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not provide a mechanism for the legislature to allow for expansion of absentee voting without a constitutional amendment,” McCullough wrote.

She also noted that “petitioners appear to have a viable claim that the mail-in ballot procedures set forth in Act 77 contravene” the state’s constitution.

The Hill puts some shine on The Narrative.

The “diploma divide” is now a defining feature of American politics. You can see it in the network exit poll: Democrat Joe Biden carried college-educated white voters by 35 percentage points; non-college whites were virtually tied. Non-college white men — Trump’s “base” — voted 70 percent for Trump.

As a result, two conflicting patterns now define American politics. The wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. That has been true for nearly 100 years. At the same time, the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic. That trend has been building since 1980.

Students invariably ask, “What happens to people who are wealthy and well educated?” The answer is, they’re “cross-pressured” — pulled in different directions. If they vote their economic interests, they vote Republican. Those who give priority to their typically liberal cultural values vote Democratic. These differences created one of the most conspicuous features of the 2020 campaign: the battle for the suburbs, where a lot of educated, higher income white voters live.

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FYI- Our Mandarin speaker confirmed the translation is accurate.

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The corporate consulting firm reported bogus numbers and flailed in a project at Rikers Island. Today, assaults and other attacks there are up almost 50%.

‘I Don’t Think He’s Conceded He Lost The Iowa Caucus To Ted Cruz’: Kasie Hunt Says Trump Hates ‘Loser’ Label

“Washington Is Exhausted”: Swamp Gears Up For Post-Trump Power Orgy

CCP Imposes Tough New ‘Social Credit Score’ Rules

Cops Refuse to be the Thanksgiving Police

Police chief escapes from Washington D.C.

MSNBC’s Velshi and Nikole Hannah-Jones Say Biden Must Adopt Radical Leftist Policies

REPORT: Saints Fined $500,000 And Lose A 7th Round Draft Pick For Players Celebrating While Not Wearing Masks

Liberal Bias of Wikipedia Called Out in 5 Studies

Michael Eric Dyson: Trump Is Claiming Election Fraud In Major Cities Because They’re Primarily Black  No, I think it’s because they’e primarily Democrat … oh, wait….

Claim: Climate Change Threatens Sharks

Guardian: Rein in Advertising to Save the World from Climate Change

Internal Multidecadal and Interdecadal Climate Oscillations: Absence of Evidence Is No Evidence of Absence

COVID Antibody Drugs From Regeneron, Eli Lilly Raise Concerns About Supply Shortages

Cause of Death: A Primer

The State-Sponsored Torture of Our Children

Paul Weston on Mass Testing and the New Lockdown in the UK

The Strangely Unscientific Masking Of America

Havens Garden Defies Shutdown Order

Science, Minnesota Style

Lysol Is Making More Sanitizer Than Ever. In Pandemic America, It’s Not Enough

L.A. County’s new stay-home order is the strictest in California. Here’s how it works

NYC bar in COVID-19 hotspot refuses to shut down after state yanks liquor license

1 In 13 Of All US Nursing Home Residents Have Died Of COVID-19  Thank you, Governor Cuomo.

Johnson Tries to Win Over UK Tories as Covid-Law Revolt Grows

Macron “Very Shocked” Over Filmed Police Beating Of Black Man For Not Wearing Mask

Chinese Government Stepping Up Propaganda To Change COVID Origin Story

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

Spectator USA has posted Patrick Basham’s column “Reasons why the 2020 presidential election is deeply puzzling.” Subhead: “If only cranks find the tabulations strange, put me down as a crank.” I’ve asked our friends at Spectator USA to make the column accessible, but at the moment it is behind their (semipermeable) paywall. Basham is not a crank. He is founding director of the Democracy Institute and was an adjunct scholar with Cato’s Center for Representative Government.

In his Spectator column Basham first spells out anomalies in the stated results of the 2020 presidential election. He observes, for example, “President Trump received more votes than any previous incumbent seeking reelection. He got 11 million more votes than in 2016, the third largest rise in support ever for an incumbent. By way of comparison, President Obama was comfortably reelected in 2012 with 3.5 million fewer votes than he received in 2008.”

The anomalies may be just that, but Basham then turns to nine peculiarities that “lack compelling explanations[.]”

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In the aftermath of reports that an illegal alien stabbed several people, killing two, at a church in San Jose, California, the liberal media have ignored the role that sanctuary policies played in allowing the alleged perpetrator, Fernando Lopez Garcia, to stay in the country in spite of an ICE detainer and other recent arrests which should have triggered his deportation.

Glenn Greenwald.

Whether or not one agrees with these two lawmakers on every issue, having members of Congress questioning and objecting to highly consequential foreign policies is inherently healthier than full-scale agreement or fear-driven acquiescence. Dissent strengthens all democracies. That is why I have relentlessly defended Congresswoman Omar, even in the face of less-than-ideally-phrased proclamations, from what I regard as bad faith accusations of bigotry and a lack of patriotism (just as I denounced moronic claims that Trump was a “traitor”): bad faith accusations of bigotry or treason are often designed to demonize attempts to question pieties and ostracize those who do it.

For that very reason, I was quite surprised to see that late Friday night, Congresswoman Omar, in response to something I wrote, defended not only former CIA Director John Brennan — who as Obama’s CIA Director presided over the bombing of numerous countries including Somalia — but also The Logan Act. The Logan Act is nothing more than an unconstitutional attempt to criminalize foreign policy dissidents, like her, and is so dangerous in the hands of the CIA, FBI and federal prosecutors precisely because it lacks any clear definition or meaning.

Despite this, Congresswoman Omar depicted that ancient statute not as what it is — an impossibly vague and overly broad attempt to criminalize the core Constitutional right to dissent — but instead as some kind of specific, precisely defined, and well-established precedent, the contours of which are clearly established and easily applied. None of that is true.

Carter Page Sues Comey, DOJ And Others For $75 Million Over Crossfire Hurricane Abuse

Muslim Brotherhood Would Use a Biden Presidency to Advance “Congressional Jihad”

Art Critic: Republicanism Needs to ‘Isolated and Snuffed Out’

‘Historically strange’ spike in incomplete Nevada voter files, casinos as ‘home’ But remember: All allegations of vote fraud are Baseless!

Nevada district has 13K jump in voter files missing key info, more casinos as ‘home’ since 2016 But remember: All allegations of vote fraud are Baseless!

Can a CEO tax strike a blow to inequality? In Portland, the answer is elusive  I.e. no, but they can’t say that because it would go against The Narrative.

Sidney Powell’s Michigan complaint

Pennsylvania Judge Backs Trump Claims Over Mail-In Ballots, Says ‘Unlikely Constitutional’

Trump’s baseless claims of Georgia voter fraud spark fears among Republicans (The Guardian) Baseless!

President Trump pushes baseless voter fraud claims as more of his campaign lawsuits fail (CBS) Baseless!

‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’: Trump mocked for giving speech at little table (The Guardian)

Trump’s furniture fail: that’s not a desk, Donald – it’s a table for TV dinners (The Guardian) Somebody has a table fetish.

Books on the ‘Climate Emergency’ – Suggested Christmas Reading for Sceptics

Replacing A Coal Plant Takes An Infinite Number Of Wind Turbines

Ocean Temperature Update

The Guardian: Climate Activists Avoid or Regret Having Children  And I would encourage them to do so.

The Biden Agenda: ‘South Minneapolis Is Worse Than I’ve Ever Seen It’

New England Journal of Medicine Pushes Reparations

Crime In My Old Neighborhood

2 Shot, Killed at Northern California Mall on Black Friday

We need a dose of vaccine realism

Pope Francis Criticizes Anti-Lockdown Protesters In New Book 

How Has Coronavirus Impacted America’s Small Businesses? Here’s What The Data Say

New Study Exposes Alleged Accounting Error Regarding COVID Deaths

Study: Covid-19 Mutations are NOT Helping the Virus Spread

Autistic Epigone

10 Hypocritical Dems Who Prattle On About Masks & Lockdowns But Personally Act Like They’re All BS  Which, of course, they are.

Covid: Cases vs Deaths  David Friedman.

Supreme Court’s scientifically illiterate decision will cost lives  (CNN) Scientifically illiterate!

Music Legends Eric Clapton, Van Morrison Team for Anti-Lockdown Single ‘Stand and Deliver’

Germans face a ‘lockdown light’ for Christmas

Lab Issue Causes 1,300 False Positive COVID Tests In UK  Good data will not always translate to good government policy, but bad data will almost inevitably produce bad government policy. And bad data are what we are consistently getting out of the Covidians.

UK Testing Error Wrongly Tells 1,300 People They Have Coronavirus

“A Horrifying Future” – WEF’s Vision For A Post-COVID World

Has Europe Broken The Second Wave?

“Life Won’t Ever Be Completely Normal Again” – Renowned Infection/Immunity Expert Warns COVID Is Not Going Away  I think he’ll be surprised.

UN Dubs Self ‘Trusted’ Pandemic News Source, Teams Up With World Economic Forum To Encourage ‘New Social Norms’

“This Is No Free Country”: Anti-Lockdown Protests Rage In London, Dozens Arrested

NY Gym Owner Rips Up $15,000 Lockdown Fine On Live TV: “We Will Not Comply”

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In 1991, a children’s book called The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem was published. Written by Diane Loomans and illustrated by Kim Howard, The Lovables imparts a simple, nurturing message: You, the tiny child reading this book or having this book read to you, are very special.

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The debate seems to pit two mutually exclusive sides against one another. In the red corner are the 70 employees of the company who have sent anonymous messages to their superiors begging that Peterson’s book not be released and denouncing him as a peddler of hateful bombast. And in the blue corner are Peterson and his publishers, who sold over three million copies of 12 Rules for Life worldwide. It would be politically expedient simply to throw in the towel and cancel publication of Beyond Order, but financially disastrous, not least because Penguin Random House know that another publishing house would pick up the book immediately and make a great deal of money out of it.

David Friedman.

Legally speaking, the victim of the crime is not the person who was beaten up, it is the state he lives in. If Mr. Smith assaults me and the case comes to trial, it will be not Friedman vs Smith but State of California vs Smith. Criminal prosecution is controlled by the state, so crimes the state does not want to prosecute don’t get prosecuted. If Mr. Smith happens to be a police officer, the state knows that prosecuting him, convicting him, and locking him up for a year will make it harder to hire police officers, as well as provoking conflict with the police union. So, most of the time, it doesn’t. A civil case is created and controlled by the actual victim, so in practice civil cases are usually the only way of punishing criminal acts by people the state approves of, such as its employees.

Doomsday climate study debunked by researchers

Washington Post ripped for story on world’s ‘dread’ about Americans celebrating Thanksgiving

A Thanksgiving marked by surging covid-19 cases and questions about a leading vaccine candidate (Washington Post)

Ohio Walmart shopper arrested, allegedly brandished brass knuckles after refusing to wear mask

CNN Cues Doc to Slam SCOTUS Ruling on Churches and COVID as ‘Absolutely Crazy’

CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION DAY 259 UPDATE: The Circus Continues Forward

FT Credits Trump’s ‘Warp Speed’ for COVID Vaccines

Toronto Restaurant Owner Arrested For Opening, Defying COVID-19 Lockdown

Suspected North Korean Hackers Targeted COVID Vaccine Maker AstraZeneca

Charles Payne Criticizes Professor Who Hopes He Gets COVID-19

There’s No Reopening Plan For Closed NYC Schools, de Blasio Says

College Administrators Are Not Letting the COVID Crisis Go to Waste

The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

Macy’s criticized for calling Black sorority a ‘diverse dance group’ during Thanksgiving Day Parade

Pro Tip: Skip Out On Black Friday Deals And Just Hold Out For The Next Peaceful Protest  Babylon Bee.

‘Strongly biased in favor of liberals’: Psychologist says Google manipulated content ahead of election that swayed votes

YouTube Removes All Cooking Videos Featuring Recipes That Serve More Than 6

Portland Rioters Cause Thousands Of Dollars In Damage On Thanksgiving Night  Time to leave.

‘F*ck Ur Thxgiving’: Portland Rioters Damage Multiple Buildings In Holiday Unrest  Time to leave.

Gretchen Whitmer Pops Out Of Turkey To Inform Family They Have Exceeded Maximum Number Of Guests  Babylon Bee.

Trump says for first time he’ll leave office if Electoral College votes for Biden (CNN) Of course he will. The only people who ever believed otherwise are the Trump-is-Hitler crowd.

Comedians Buy Trump 2024 Website Domain to Call President a ‘Loser’

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Developer Alexander Graf has successfully virtualized the Arm version of Windows on an M1 Mac, proving that the M1 chip is capable of running Microsoft’s operating system (via The 8-Bit).

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Today the richest 40 Americans have more wealth than the poorest 185 million Americans. The leading 100 landowners now own 40 million acres of American land, an area the size of New England. There has been a vast increase in American inequality since the mid-20^th century, and Europe — though some way behind — is on a similar course.

These are among the alarming stats cited by Joel Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, published earlier this year just as lockdown sped up some of the trends he chronicled: increased tech dominance, rising inequality between rich and poor, not just in wealth but in health, and record levels of loneliness (4,000 Japanese people die alone each week, he cheerfully informs us).

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Multiple statues of historical, often colonial, figures were torn down on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, and vandalized with red paint and graffiti, Fox News reports.

A Spokane, Washington, police report says that a statue of President Abraham Lincoln was vandalized with paint, while multiple colonial statues were toppled or defaced in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I thank God that I live in a Republican area, where proglodyte ‘activists’ dare not tread.

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A Venezuela judge convicted and immediately sentenced six U.S. oil executives who had been charged with corruption and have been detained for more than three years.

The judge sentenced each of the six executives to eight years imprisonment on Thursday evening, The Associated Press reported. The executives, who work for Houston-based and Venezuela state-owned oil company Citgo, had been lured to the South American country in November 2017 for a business meeting, but were jailed instead.

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Iran accused Israel and the U.S. of organizing the assassination of one of its top nuclear scientists on Friday and vowed revenge, sharply escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf in the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the head of research and innovation at Iran’s Ministry of Defense, and was also viewed internationall as the head of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He was killed close to the Damavand campus of Islamic Azad University, about 60 kilometers east of central Tehran, Iran’s Tasnim news reported.

“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet. Iran’s army also accused the U.S. of bearing responsibility. Curiously, Trump retweeted a New York Times report on Fakhrizadeh’s killing without commenting.