Some Amazon rainforest regions more resistant to climate change than previously thought

Amanpour Cues Guest to Blame Rupert Murdoch for ‘Monstrous’ Climate ‘Denial’

Tony Abbott Warns Britain Not to Mess Up Post Brexit Trade Deals with Climate Activism

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

The left is all about class warfare, but you’d be mistaken if you think the class they want to make war on is the upper class. Quite the contrary: the left is the upper class now, and their longtime critique of “neoliberalism” as a mechanism to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich is ironically accurate, as that is exactly what the left intends to do.

Two pieces of evidence to consider. First, note this piece from the Brookings Institution (the lead author Mark Muro is an acquaintance from my Washington days), about how the small minority of counties Joe Biden won represent 70 percent of the nation’s economic output, while the majority of counties Trump won only account for 30 percent of our economic output.

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High family income, not SAT scores, is your real ticket to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

Well, that or being black (or ‘Black’) … preferably both, as with the Obamas. Having famous parents helps a lot, too, although famous parents are probably going to be rich anyway.

The picture is of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, of which I have fond memories.

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The Ayatollahs in Iran have established a vast network of mosques and other organizations across Europe to export and organize their nefarious activities. We will begin with their network in the most Northern European country, Norway, and in the next articles further examine the situation in other European countries.

Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) reportedly has asked for the imam of the Imam Ali Shia mosque in Oslo to be expelled. The unnamed imam’s expulsion is pending a decision by Norway’s judiciary, but the reason to expel him has been reported as “based on national security interests.”

Who is this Iranian imam in Oslo and why is he considered a national security risk for Norway?

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

The Washington Post claims that the “Black community” is angry over claims of vote fraud by President Trump and his legal team. It’s true that some of the claims of fraud center on precincts that are populated almost entirely by Blacks. However, I doubt that many Blacks care about the Trump campaign’s allegations of fraud and I suspect that even fewer are outraged by them.

The Post cites five Blacks who have expressed displeasure. Four of them are activists. The other is a professor of African-American studies. It’s part of their job to be angry, just as it’s part of the job of Washington Post reporters to dig up people who are outraged by supposed racial slights by Donald Trump.

But the reporters provide no evidence that the grievances of the activists and the professor have any resonance in the Black community. It simply expects readers of the Post to assume they do.

No to Susan Rice  She looks pretty white to me.

New York City Cop Pummeled By Mob, Police Say

“Sinking” Maldives Clear Forests, Pave Beaches, To Construct Four New Airports For Future Tourism!

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska (Wired ‘Science’)

Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax Because roads are paid for by gas taxes and electric cars don’t use enough gas to maintain the roads. So ‘sustainability’ isn’t all that sustainable.

The ACLU And College Professors Are Encouraging Book-Burnings

Georgia’s Floyd County fires election director after finding uncounted ballots

Facebook Denies ‘Science’ – Blocks Danish Study Questioning Efficacy Of Masks 

Rancorous Reid: Joy Floats ‘Sedition’ Charges for Trump Team, Levels Lazy GOP Stereotypes

Stop Donald Trump’s coup. Impeach him again (LA Times)

Mr. President, it’s time to pack (Washington Post)

Donald Trump is still busy trying to bulldoze democracy (The Guardian)

Trump Planned to Break the Census, Just Not This Way (New York Magazine)

Senior GOP lawmakers grow anxious over Trump’s effort to overturn election results (CNN)

Donald Trump considers executive order ending birthright citizenship (Daily Mail) According to ‘various sources’ i.e. nobody who actually knows something.

Kraken Holds Press Conference To Distance Itself From Trump Campaign  Babylon Bee.

CNN Condemns Trump Rallies As ‘Physically Peaceful But Morally Violent’

Hospital CEO says he had Covid and doesn’t need a mask. His staff are appalled. (CNN)

German Parliament Accused of Passing a Covid-19 Enabling Act

Coronavirus in one state (129)

Survey Results: Where Are All the Sick People?

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I am writing this column from suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the State Capitol building a mere couple miles away across the Susquehanna River. And in that Capitol Friday there was scheduled by the Republican-controlled State Government Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a hearing as part of the committee’s investigation into the election.

The scheduled witnesses were representatives of Dominion. And lo and behold on Thursday night, the literal night before the hearing, State Representative Seth Grove, the Committee chairman, was notified that, in his words, Dominion had “lawyered up” and backed out of the hearing.

Hmmm. As this is written, this news is nowhere to be found in The Washington Post. It is nowhere to be found in The New York Times. Maybe it will at some point. Maybe.

Much less have either paper assigned a Woodward and Bernstein-style investigation of just what is going on with election fraud in this country and the role of voting system companies in this business.

Hmm. Isn’t this curious.

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Our elite betters wonder why we don’t trust their “scientific” authority, but let’s roll back the tape to this May 15 story from NBC News, which they called a “fact check:”

Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a ‘miracle’ to be right.

Funny how often Trump turns out to be right about something the “experts” dismissed as outlandish and irresponsible. Start with moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Yeah, the violent unrest in the Middle East in the aftermath of that provocative move still hasn’t abated. What’s that? Oh, never mind.

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Law firm Kirkland & Ellis has requested withdrawal from representing Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar in a lawsuit brought forward by the Trump campaign, with Kramer Levin attorney Barry Berke stepping in as a substitute.

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On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, liberal pundit Mark Shields raged at Republican senators for universally rejecting a beating on NBC’s Meet the Press. Shields compared this to “Dante’s great quote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral.”

Shields described the NBC show as an “important forum,” and avoided the obvious notion that under Chuck Todd, Republican Senators get yelled at for bringing “Fox News conspiracy propaganda” into their answers. Any Republican who showed up was going to be browbeaten into condemning the president’s failure to concede defeat.

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On Friday, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi explored the increasing snark in White House “pool reports,” which are supposed to be dry, fairly objective descriptions of presidential movements, but with today’s Trump-hating press corps, no one could possibly be restrained. The headline in the paper was “Waters are getting a bit nippy in White House pool.”

Farhi didn’t quite note that part of the problem is bomb-throwing leftist websites are being granted this supposedly dry task. Expecting objective reporting out of HuffPost is like expecting filet mignon at 7-Eleven.

Leftists Suggest “Re-Education Camps”, “Firing Squads”, & Banning Talk Radio To “Deprogram” 75 Million Trump Supporters

Argentina Approves “Confiscatory” Wealth Tax On Millionaires

PANIC! Brian Williams Frets Over ‘Consequences’ of Young Conservative Judges

Latino Nets Play Down Newsom´s Disregard for His Own Rules

INSANE: Facebook Removed 180 Million Election Posts  Just doin’ their bit for The Narrative.

Michael Moore Assures NBC’s Meyers: Biden Will Sign On to Socialism

Entire State In Australia Forced Into Lockdown Because Of One Man’s Lie To Authorities

Dominion Voting ‘Lawyers Up’ Before Abruptly Backing Out Of Pennsylvania Fact-Finding Hearing

‘They Should Be Afraid’: Robert De Niro Warns Trump Allies To Worry When President Isn’t There

Twitter Censors Parler Partner Dan Bongino for Trump Legal Team News

Facebook Censors Former Senator Jim DeMint for Post About Censorship

Borat, Hulk Use Twitter to Demand Social Media Censor Speech

Biden’s Transition Team Is Stacked With Former Facebook And Zuckerberg Insiders  Making friends with the mammon of iniquity.

Here Are The Executive Orders That Gun Control Groups Want Biden To Enact

Mitt Romney calls Trump’s attempt to overturn Michigan election ‘undemocratic’ (CNN) RINOS ASSEMBLE!

Trump history and behavior suggest destructive mental processes that put America at risk (USA Today)

In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, White House press pool reports are getting snarkier (Washington Post) My, what a surprise.

Chuck Todd, MSNBC Historian Hope That Unlike Trump, Biden Can Be Like Lincoln  Assassinated?

‘Undemocratic Action’ — Romney Sounds Off On Trump For Not Providing Enough Evidence Of Widespread Voter Fraud  RINOS ASSEMBLE!

AP DC Chief Julie Pace: ‘For Trump, Sowing Post-Election Chaos Is the Goal’

Hysterical CNN: ‘Mad King’ Trump Will ‘Scorch the Earth’ of America  He will certainly scorch the earth of CNN.

White House Announces Pfizer Will File For Emergency Use Authorization For Its Coronavirus Vaccine Friday

CDC Forecast Projects Death Toll Rate Between 276-298K Over Next 3 Weeks

This young ER doctor had to tell Covid-19 patients when it was time to say goodbye to their families. Then the virus knocked him down

A Dallas woman was stuck in Peru when the borders closed due to COVID-19. Now she’s stuck with the bill

The Left Politicizes COVID: Irony Abounds

Coronavirus in one state (128)

Tyson Suspends Officials Over Betting Pool on COVID-19 Infected Workers

Rising Up – Anti-Lockdown Protests Spread Across Europe

German Doctor Raided By Armed Police During Live YouTube Stream

Finland’s Prime Minister Warns COVID-19 Will Trigger A Populist Backlash

WHO Rejects Gilead Remdesivir Drug Trump Took to Treat COVID-19

South Australia Revokes Draconian Lockdown After Revelation One Person Lied To Contact-Tracers

US-Canada Border Closure Extended, Wyoming Imposes Restrictions On Public Gatherings: Live Updates

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Says Residents May Be Wearing Masks ‘To The End Of 2021’

CDC Director Says School Is ‘One Of The Safest Places’ For Children, Data Supports In-Person Learning

Up To 20% Of COVID-19 Infections Asymptomatic, Far Less Likely To Transmit Virus: Study

Religious Leaders Fighting COVID-19 Restrictions

Biden Says He Discussed National Mask Mandate With Governors During Meeting

Dr. Fauci Says Vaccine Skeptics Pose A Serious Threat To Public Health  How is this news?

McEnany Smacks Down Liberal Reporters as ‘Activists,’ Injects Dose of Reality on Vaccines

WHO Advises Against Remdesivir, The Drug Used To Treat Trump

Geraldo Rivera Suggests Naming COVID-19 Vaccine ‘The Trump’

The (High) Cost Of Lockdowns: A Preliminary Report

Danish study finds face masks provide limited protection to wearer

Apple hires Intel’s head of diversity to fill same role starting 2021  Note that nobody ever hires  white male, no matter how Woke, as their ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ person.

Violent gang member, repeat offender gets 40 years for shooting girlfriend

NBC Gets Upset Deputies Didn’t Let Teen Run Them Over With Car

Joyless Potpourri: Reid Mangles Facts, Attacks McEnany, Implies Susan Rice Criticism Is Racist

Going Soft on Reverend Wright’s Acolyte

Man Pleads Guilty To Helping Set Minneapolis Police Precinct Ablaze During Floyd Unrest

Maryland Gov Spent $9.46 Million On Coronavirus Tests From South Korea That Couldn’t Be Used

DC Mayor ‘Punished’ Demonstrators Who Wrote ‘Black Preborn Lives Matter’ Because Their Speech Was Pro-Life, Attorney Says

New footage reveals Netflix faked walrus climate deaths

Climate change and ‘atmospheric thirst’ to increase fire danger and drought in NV and CA

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Think about the times you’ve been told to “trust the science.” Two occasions should come to mind immediately: when discussing climate change and when talking about the Wuhan coronavirus.

There’s a lot of science being done on the subject of climate change. There’s a lot of science being done on the subject of the coronavirus. Let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that the vast bulk of this is “good” science — that it’s being conducted by competent people acting in accordance with the techniques and standards of science. That’s almost certainly a safe assumption.

You still shouldn’t “trust the science.”

That’s because when we’re talking about public policy — and that’s what we’re always talking about when people tell you to “trust the science” — we’re talking about a lot more than just science.

Take climate change policy. Science can make predictions about temperatures and sea levels 80 years from now (though how well it does that is open to debate), but science doesn’t make predictions about economics 80 years from now, or about national boundaries, or populations, or the pace of technological change, or human rights, or any of the myriad other things that have to be considered when creating public policy.

So when the politician tells you to “trust the science” about climate change, he’s also telling you to trust all the other “experts” who think they can predict the future 80 years from now, all the economists and sociologists and population experts and futurists, and to believe that they all know better than you how you should live your life.

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Send it a voter registration form, already filled out for Biden.

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In recent weeks, Fox News has been losing audience, as some viewers have become disenchanted with the network’s increasingly Trump-skeptical tone. Morning Joe has been a beneficiary of this trend, beating rival Fox & Friends in the ratings for the first time in almost 20 years.

Joe Scarborough et al. thus have an interest in encouraging Fox News to continue down the path that has benefitted Morning Joe. And thus it was that on today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist lavishly praised FNC personalities who have criticized the efforts of the Trump team to contest the election results. Scarborough and Geist singled out FNC’s Kristin Fisher, playing a long excerpt of her takedown of yesterday’s press conference featuring Rudy Giuliani.

It’s all because Fox has decided to join the Corporate Media, and is thus losing viewers.

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has demanded white people go to the back of the queue when a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available.

Fashionable Minorities are already at the head of the line when it comes to jobs — how long before they get preferential treatment for health care?

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

(Scott Johnson)
I think that voter fraud had a lot to do with the outcome of the electoral results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. It’s a staple of Democratic Party politics. Democrats have long protected illegal voters like they are a core constituency of the party, as I believe they are. The vast expansion of mail-in voting predicated on the COVID-19 epidemic considerably widened the playing field, to say the least. So the Trump campaign’s allegations of fraud are certainly plausible. Have they got the goods?

The Trump campaign legal team held a 90-minute press conference advertising the fraud claims supposedly at the heart of lawsuits now on file. I watched the press conference live yesterday. Full video is posted here on YouTube and here on C-SPAN.

We seemed to be in the territory of “a conspiracy so immense.” Where are the lawsuits in which the affidavits cited by Rudy Giuliani are actually filed? Where in the lawsuits on file is the evidence that the voting machines were manipulated as attorney Sidney Powell described? I’m not clear on that.

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

Nearly three months ago, I wrote a post about Joseph “JoJo” Rosenbaum, the convicted child molester whose attack on Kyle Rittenhouse precipitated the shootings during the Kenosha riot that left Rosenbaum and another rioter dead, wounded a third rioter, and has Rittenhouse facing murder charges as a result. At that point — just three days after the incident — there was not much background information available. However, in October, while my mind was focused on the presidential campaign, the Washington Post published a very detailed report on who JoJo Rosenbaum was, a report that also included important background on the other dead rioter, Anthony Huber, and details of events preceding the shooting.

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Watching the election shenanigans roll on, it seems that the ruling class may have created an expensive problem while trying to solve the Trump problem. The wholesale election fraud has created a very expensive problem for them. They cannot sit back and let Trump’s lawyers find examples of fraud or use those examples to overturn one of the disputed states, as that creates a big problem for them. Joe Biden becomes the Pretender Biden for most of the country.

On the other hand, the only way to prevent any of this is to double down on the shenanigans in all of these states. That means threatening judges, lawyers and election officials. It means more midnight capers to alter the rules and results. In other words, the way to prevent Trump from establishing his claims is to prove another set of claims. They will convince a large number of people that the whole system is rigged and controlled by thugs and crooks.

France Says it Has Killed Senior Al-Qaeda North Africa Operative in Mali

Beheading Of French Teacher And Nice Church Terror Attack Linked, Officials Say

NYTimes: Israeli Operatives Killed al Qaeda’s No. 2 Leader in Iran in August

Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Austria

European Union To Increase Border Security After Wave Of Extremism Attacks

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark: We Will Never Surrender to Your False and Deceptive Freedom of Speech

The Traitor Class Has Sold Germany Out to Islam

The Insanity That Resides in Germany Knows No Borders

The Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands

Shocking Images: Fleeing Armenians Burn Own Homes Rather Than Leave Them To Azerbaijanis

The Hollywood Reporter Calls For More Muslim Inclusion In Hollywood  Because Muslim is a ‘race’ and you can tell who’s a Muslim just by looking at them, I guess.

Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Angers Turkish Officials By Meeting With Orthodox Christian Leader With Emphasis On Religious Freedom  They obviously want the Rum Millet to stay in its’ dhimmi lane.

Two Wounded After Rockets Impact Near US Embassy In Iraq

En Route to the Promised Land

ISIS Terrorist Who Authored ‘Effective Stabbing Techniques’ And ‘How Does A Detonator Work’ Released In Oregon

Geert Wilders: “A Monster Called Islam”

The Netherlands’ Most Wanted Man is Safe in Turkey

Iran Is Already Warming Up To Biden, Suggesting Cancelling Sanctions And Rejoining The Nuclear Deal

Adviser to Iran’s Leader: US Attack Risks ‘Full-Fledged War’  Which Iran will lose, even against Joe Biden.

US-Led Coalition Against ISIS Will End With Troop Withdrawals, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Says

President Emmanuel Macron Issues Charter To French Muslim Leaders Prohibiting Foreign Interference, Political Islam

Political Islam is Given a Seat at the German Table

Joel Kotkin.

With the election of Joe Biden, the environmental movement has now established suzerainty over global economics. Gone not only is the troublesome Donald Trump but also the Canadian skeptic Steven Harper. Outside of those dismissed as far right, there is virtually no serious debate about how to address climate change in the U.S. or Western Europe outside the parameters suggested by mainstream green groups.

In reality, though, few electorates anywhere are ready for extreme policies such as the Green New Deal, which, as its widely acknowledged architect, Saikat Chakrabarti, has acknowledged, is really a redder, more openly anti-capitalist version of the Great Depression-era original.

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What did they expect? To be catered to by somebody that they spend all of their days calling a Nazi? I’m surprised he didn’t spit on them on the way out.

If I were Trump I would revoke all White House ‘press corps’ credentials and just e-mail statements to the respective publicans’ editors.

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In many ways, slow-growing suburbs encased in regulatory amber function the way greenbelts or urban growth boundaries are supposed to.

James Somers.

I wish my high school biology teacher had asked the class how an embryo could possibly differentiate—and then paused to let us really think about it. The whole subject is in the answer to that question. A chemical gradient in the embryonic fluid is enough of a signal to slightly alter the gene expression program of some cells, not others; now the embryo knows “up” from “down”; cells at one end begin producing different proteins than cells at the other, and these, in turn, release more refined chemical signals; …; soon, you have brain cells and foot cells.

An amazing voyage. Read the whole thing.

Black legislator skates on conspiracy to damage monument charge

Hate in Their Hearts: Reid, Panel Denounce Trump’s ‘Mobutuism,’ Peddle Lies About the GOP

Atlanta Mayor Vows ‘Top to Bottom Review’ of Policing

Sacramento Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis

DC Mayor Sued Over Arrest of Advocates Who Wrote Pro-Life Messages on Sidewalk

USA Today Uses All-Black NFL Officiating Crew To List Racial Grievances

50 Cent Says Lil Wayne ‘Got Paid’ To Support Trump Before Election

Kaepernick Calls for Release of Philly Cop Killer

Judge Halts Federal Execution of Man in Texas Teen’s Killing

“I’m Not Ruling Out” A Trump Re-Election – JPM AM CIO Fears ‘Remote Risk’ Of “American Horror Story”

Variety: Hollywood’s Anti-Trump Crusade ‘Driven by Patriotism,’ ‘Pure Love of Country’ Actually, it’s just mindless conformity.

Atlanta Mayor Says Trump ‘Will Eat His Own Children If He Found It Prudent’  There is no limit to the nonsense Never Trumpers will emit.

CNN Mirrors Biden’s Doom & Gloom: Trump Is Endangering the Country  He’s certainly endangering their country.

‘Blood Is On His Hands’: Whoopi Goldberg Says She’s Never Seen A President Who ‘Didn’t Care Whether People Lived Or Died’

Romney Says Trump’s ‘Lame Duck Period’ Is More Dangerous Than His Transition Process  RINOS ASSEMBLE!

NBC Hides Radical Trump-Hating Rant From Ta-Nehisi Coates

Live updates: U.S. death toll nears 250,000 in wake of deadliest day since early May

All Houston-Area Residents Alerted to Avoid Holiday Gatherings

‘EcoHealth Alliance’ Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement On “Natural Origin” Of SARS-CoV-2

Slovenia Backs Hungary & Poland In Standoff With Brussels That Is Delaying COVID Relief

“We Are The People” – German Protesters Clash With Police Over New Coronavirus Restrictions    

Vaccines – Too Little, Too Late?

Labor Market Losing Steam as COVID-19 Rages  More accurately, as Pandemic Panic rages.

Police Reportedly Spray Anti-Lockdown Protesters With Water Cannons In Berlin, Germany

Empty Desks: Coronavirus Robs US Classrooms of Teachers  Not that anybody will notice, with the schools closed.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Irony Abounds As The Left Politicizes The Coronavirus

Top Pathologist Claims COVID-19 Is “The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated On An Unsuspecting Public”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton Censored for Tweet about Mask Study

Coronavirus in one state (127)

Vance Richards: COVID Theater: Gubernatorial Edition

The COVID Feedback Loop

Kansas Governor Issues Mask Mandate Starting Just Before Thanksgiving

The number of people dying is not the same as in any other year

‘Severe Immunization Crisis’: Millions Of Children Are Not Getting Routine Vaccinations This Year, Data Shows

NFL Quarterback Matthew Stafford’s Wife Calls Michigan A Dictatorship Amid Coronavirus Restrictions

WHO Says A Person Dies From COVID-19 Every 17 Seconds In Europe

The CDC says not to travel on Thanksgiving  Pretty much good advice even without a pandemic panic.

Punxsutawney Announces Extraordinary Measure For Famous Groundhog Day Celebration

Philadelphia Mayor Seen Drinking Indoors Before Announcing Ban On Indoor Dining

FACT CHECK: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims Moderna And Pfizer ‘Were Not Involved In Operation Warp Speed’

A Cuomo Thanksgiving

Butterball Releases Turkey With Biden-Harris Logo So You Can Just Say Your Thanksgiving Gathering Is A Political Rally  Babylon Bee.

Rep. Paul to Newsmax TV: Fauci Will ‘Keep Us Masked Until End of Time’ Unless Vaccine Released

‘It’s Supposed To Be A Free Country’: Restaurant Refuses To Follow State Mask Mandate

“Take action” or face a grim future, warns climate scientist after a year locked in Arctic ice

An Enormous Iceberg Is Headed for South Georgia Island—Again (Wired ‘Science’) What happened to the last one?

Researchers found signs of human pollution in animals living six miles beneath the sea (Popular ‘Science’)

Stossel Column: The Climate Hustle

Nets Cover-Up Dem Newsom’s Elitist Dinner Party Breaking COVID Rules

Gavin Newsom’s dirty French Laundry

Social media hypocrisy has huge implications for liability

Private Schools Chart Own Path as de Blasio Shuts NYC System  This will sort out the kids who are actually out to get an education from the ones who are using schools as a day-care system.

CNN to MSM: Refuse to Report on Trump Election Challenges!

Al Franken Back on CNN, MSNBC

South Australia Police: ‘You Cannot Leave The House To Walk The Dog Or Exercise’

‘How *Do* You Deprogram 75 Million People?’ CA Democrat Wants ‘Post WWII’-Type Re-education For Conservatives  How about Re-Education Camps? That’s traditional for Communists.

NRA Presents Biden With Prestigious ‘Gun Salesman Of The Month’ Award  Babylon Bee.

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Google made waves recently by announcing its new program, “Google Career Certificates,” a collection of courses designed to help participants get qualifications in high-paying, high-growth job fields without attending university.

The courses should take about six months to complete, and will cost a fraction of a traditional college education.

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President Donald Trump’s legal team held a press conference Thursday afternoon, explaining the alleged evidence of voter fraud they believe would have impacted the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The press conference was led by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was joined by Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, lawyer Sidney Powell, and lawyer Joe Digenova. Giuliani, explained that they believe there is “direct evidence” to show there was voter fraud in the presidential election.

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Cancel culture is a black hole that is swallowing corporate America. The zeitgeist of social awareness and virtue signaling has spread far beyond the realm of adolescent Instagram posts to the point where corporate titans now have joined in the effort to push woke capitalism.

Don’t be fooled. Principles are hardly the reason companies are altering their marketing faces to appeal to progressive America.

Current social justice platforms are accelerating the growth of cancel culture and empowering consumers to hold businesses accountable for their social stances. It is not about supporting social justice—companies either are trying to get ahead or simply survive the judgment of cancel culture.

To be fair, some nonprofits make decisions based on their devotion to supporting just causes. But for larger nationwide corporations, appealing to social justice movements has little to do with idealism.

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Since Krugman has historically been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME he makes a prediction about the effect of something on business, I am greatly encouraged.

(This ought to tell you something about the people who give out the Nobel Prizes, as well.)

Glenn Greenwald.

The Trump era has engendered numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological allies are now adversaries, and long-time political enemies are now in full-fledged coalitions. These shifts are not temporary or Trump-dependent but enduring, because they are grounded in shared core beliefs about the defining debates shaping our new politics and how to consolidate real power: call it the Lincoln Project Syndrome.

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have demonstrated that the CRISPR/Cas9 system is very effective in treating metastatic cancers, a significant step on the way to finding a cure for cancer. The researchers developed a novel lipid nanoparticle-based delivery system that specifically targets cancer cells and destroys them by genetic manipulation. The system, called CRISPR-LNPs, carries a genetic messenger (messenger RNA), which encodes for the CRISPR enzyme Cas9 that acts as molecular scissors that cut the cells’ DNA.

The Other McCain is fed up.

Nothing annoys me quite so much as people who presume me to be so ignorant of political philosophy that they must tutor me. Sometimes this happens in the comments (you know who you are) whenever I use the word “liberal” to mean, roughly, whatever Democrats believe this week.

I know how he feels.

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A new bioinspired material is here to overtake petroleum-based plastics. A team led by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) reports a method to manufacture materials with similar structure as nacre from wood-derived fiber and mica, with adaption to mass production, good processability, and tunable coloration.

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Their initial refusal to vote placed the Board in a 2-2 deadlock, putting in jeopardy the state’s ability to certify Joe Biden’s win. Hours later, the two flip-flopped and agreed to certify. Now, they’re taking it back.

“I rescind my prior vote to certify Wayne County elections,” wrote Monica Palmer in a sworn affidavit, who along with fellow GOP board member William C. Hartmann refused to certify the election on Tuesday. The two fell under intense pressure from the left – with Palmer claiming that her family was threatened (via Just The News). The two were also doxxed over social media.

“The comments made accusations of racism and threatened me and members of my family,” continues Palmer’s affidavit, addimg: “The Wayne County election had serious process flaws which deserve investigation. I continue to ask for information to assure Wayne County voters that these elections were conducted fairly and accurately. Despite repeated requests I have not received the requisite information and believe an additional 10 days of canvas by the State Board of canvassers will help provide the information necessary.”