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7th January 2021
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7th January 2021
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7th January 2021
Big Tech Silences President Trump After DC Riots — Some Indefinitely
Omar, Pressley, & Pritzker Push Impeachment As Lobbyists Float 25th Amendment Counter-Coup
Twitter Has Locked President Trump’s Account For 12 Hours, Threatens “Permanent Suspension” An action they never took regarding a Democrat politician even at the height of the BLM/Antifa rioting. Bias? What bias?
Cuomo, Lemon: ‘Mistake’ Not to Show Trump Supporter Bleed to Death
NBC ‘Historian’ Suggests Police Wanted Violence to Happen, Trump Will Use Nukes
The Return of American Fascism Somebody doesn’t know what ‘fascism’ means.
Joe Scarborough: ‘Arrest,’ ‘Jail’ Trump ‘Today’ Except that they won’t.
House Judiciary Democrats Call On Pence To Invoke 25th Amendment, Remove Trump From Office Except that won’t happen.
Shopify Terminates Trump-Related eCommerce Sites In Response To Riots Action they did not take against BLM/Antifa. Bias? What bias?
Flight Attendants Union Wants To Ban Pro-Trump Mob From Future Flights Action they did not try against BLM/Antifa. Bias? What bias?
FBI Seeking Tips to Identify Members of Mob Who Stormed Capitol Something they’ve never done with the BLM/Antifa mobs. Bias? What bias?
Ignorant Republicans Riot And Don’t Even Get Any Big-Screen TVs Babylon Bee.
Schumer Calls For Trump To Be Removed From Office Immediately Which isn’t going to happen.
Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely
Emily Ratajkowski Criticizes Facebook’s Decision To Ban President Trump From The Platform
After Mob Storms Capitol, Kathy Griffin Re-Posts Scandalous Photo of Her Holding Up Trump’s ‘Severed Head’ i guess it’s safe to be an asshole again.
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7th January 2021
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Financial institutions are pushing back against a proposed rule change that would force them to work with the firearms industry, citing concerns over the legality of the measure.
Introduced by the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in November, the measure would block financial institutions from refusing to do business with companies the banks believe may hurt their image. The rule requires that banks base decisions on financial risk assessment: As long as the numbers are financially sound, banks will be unable to deny services to a lawful business.
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7th January 2021
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Have you ever seen ANY criminal charges filed over BLM/Antifa riots that occupied almost all of last summer, much less ones within days?
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7th January 2021
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That’s kinda obvious.
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7th January 2021
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Nearly 24 hours have passed since yesterday’s chaos on Capitol Hill, which left one individual dead from a gunshot wound, and three others dead from unrelated medical emergencies on the Capitol grounds, and finally the Capitol Police have published a statement.
In it, Chief of Police Steven Sund denounced the thousands of demonstrators who later participated in the storming of the Capitol as criminals, condemning their “criminally riotous behavior.”
I guess that’s why the police let them through the barricades.
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7th January 2021
ZMan sums it up.
Yesterday, Ashli Babbitt was shot in the neck and died while protesting inside the Capitol with other protestors. A group of angry Trump supporters had got into the building and were making a racket. This is not an unusual occurrence. During the Kavanaugh hearings, Democrats organized mobs of screeching women to harass Republicans in the halls of the Capitol. Party media was there to celebrate it as the purest expression of democracy. It was power to the people time.
That was not the case yesterday, according to the media. Instead, it was a direct threat to “our” democracy. This is a bit ironic in that the protests are over the obvious corruption in the election system. The direct threat to democracy is the people demanding their elections be fair and honest. That’s why Ashli Babbitt was inside the Capitol making a racket. Her whole life she had been told this was how citizens angry at their government demand redress when the system fails.
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7th January 2021
Victor Davis Hanson.
The year 2020 witnessed a long series of writs lodged against an America beset with plague, quarantine, recessions, riot and arson, and the most contested election since 1876.
What was strange was not so much the anarchist Left’s efforts in the present to wipe away the past to recalibrate our Animal Farm future. What was odder were both the absurdities of the complaints against American civilization, and the unwillingness or inability of Americans to rebut them and defend their own culture.
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7th January 2021
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7th January 2021
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n fact, more than 1 in 10 people that grew up with English as their first language are said to have dyslexia, with wide consensus pointing towards a person’s genetic history as the leading cause. One, it would appear, is either born dyslexic or not.
So, how then have we ended up with the phenomenon that some people who speak both English and another language can be dyslexic in one, but not the other?
The answer, it seems, is hidden in the characteristics of a language and its writing system.
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7th January 2021
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MATERIALS SCIENTISTS have long sought to emulate biology’s trick of joining materials that have wildly different properties into seamless functional units with no weak points, in the way that bones, connective tissue and skin are joined into limbs. Conventional manufacturing techniques, in which components of different composition are first created, and only then fitted together, make such emulation hard. However, three-dimensional (3D) printing, which permits materials to be blended as they are applied to a growing structure, offers a way to do this in principle. And a group of researchers at America’s Army Research Laboratory and Texas A&M University, in College Station, now think they have turned principle into practice.
The materials they are interested in are called interbonding polymer networks, and those they have lighted on in particular share the same underlying chemistry. A simple polymer is a molecular chain, the links of which are called monomers. Interbonding polymer networks involve a second set of monomers that form chemical links with the first. Crucially, these second monomers are symmetrical molecules, so both ends can make such links. This means they can bind polymer chains together by forming cross-links at numerous places between chains, to create a structure resembling a net. The physical properties of this net will depend on the density of cross-links. And that density is under the control of the chemists doing the mixing.
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7th January 2021
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So for the new study, researchers at Tohoku and Osaka City Universities set out to find a new catalyst that could break plastics down at lower temperatures. The team found that combining ruthenium and cerium dioxide worked most effectively, creating a catalyst able to recycle polyolefinic plastics at just 200 °C (392 °F).
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7th January 2021
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According to Ryan Field, a nurse from the Erie County Medical Center is getting his ticket, and he won’t be going to because he has to focus on his State of the State speech. His speech is scheduled to take place January 11.
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7th January 2021
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National Review cuck confirms that the Capotol riot was a put-up job by Antifa.
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7th January 2021
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A law enforcement official told NPR that the alleged shooter of the woman was a senior U.S. Capitol Police officer and that she was unarmed.
Betcha there won’t be any riots because of this. She was the wrong color.
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7th January 2021
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That article is not about today in Washington, that’s about 9 years ago in Madison, from the Wisconsin State Journal…
These kind of mob actions in Madison went on for months in 2011. But they’ve disappeared down the memoryhole because the mob was Democratic. So, therefore, they were the Good Guys, not the Bad Guys. It’s hard to remember facts that contradict The Narrative.
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6th January 2021
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6th January 2021
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6th January 2021
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6th January 2021
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6th January 2021
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6th January 2021
Steve Sailer.
The results are now in on The Establishment’s vast gamble of declaring 2020 to be the year of the Racial Reckoning. Did sacralizing Black Lives Matter as our culture’s highest value even succeed at saving black lives?
No.
My new data shows that elites’ frantic push since Memorial Day for Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE) got thousands more Americans murdered in 2020 than in 2019.
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6th January 2021
The Other McCain.
Mail-in voting has proven to be an unbeatable trick for Democrats, who captured both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia in Tuesday’s runoff, thus making Chuck Schumer the de facto Senate Majority Leader.
It happened almost exactly as predicted last night. At 11 p.m., Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler held small but significant leads. Then the metro Atlanta counties of Fulton and DeKalb suddenly reported gigantic batches of ballots, which gave Democrats the victory — Jon Osoff by about 16,000 votes, Raphael Warnock by about 50,000.
The machine-like precision of this operation was wondrous to behold. Give Democrats unlimited mail-in ballots, and they’ll do it every time.
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6th January 2021
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The FBI and FAA are investigating an audio threat, broadcast on air traffic control frequencies Monday, that threatened to fly an airplane into the U.S. Capitol to avenge the death of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, CBS News reports.
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5th January 2021
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Nature often offers promising inspiration for biomimetic man-made materials. In a new report now published in Advanced Science, Faheng Wang and a team of scientists in advanced materials, engineering and science in China developed new cement materials based on unidirectionally porous architectures to replicate the designs of natural wood. The resulting wood-like cement material showed higher strength at equal densities, alongside multifunctional properties for effective thermal insulation, water permeability and easy adjustment for water repulsion. The team simultaneously achieved high strength and multifunctionality to make the wood-like cement a promising new building material for wood-mimetic designs with high performance. They presented a simple fabrication procedure to promote better efficiency during mass production with applications suited across other material systems.
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5th January 2021
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Delgado had approached the victim at a bar restroom Labor Day Weekend Sept. 2, 2019, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. Delgado kept punching the victim after he inquired what the wording on the hat meant, which caused the victim to fall to the floor, Hermosa Beach police Sgt. Robert Higgins said, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
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5th January 2021
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My, what a surprise.
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5th January 2021
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5th January 2021
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5th January 2021
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5th January 2021
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5th January 2021
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards repeatedly have seized ships in international waters off Iran’s coast as a means of taking hostages to use as bargaining leverage in disputes with foreign countries or companies.
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During their first day back in session, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans refused to acknowledge and seat a Democratic state senator who is facing a contested election over his small margin of victory.
Republicans and Democrats began to have a yelling match Tuesday after Republicans refused to allow Democratic Pennsylvania State Sen. Jim Brewster from Allegheny County after his win was certified by the state but is being contested by his opponent, CBS Pittsburgh reported.
Finally, Republican elected officials are getting their thumbs out of their asses and starting to play hardball.
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The Post went on to explain that Team Biden is worried that “easing up too quickly on Trump’s enforcement system could trigger a new migration surge at the border.” No kidding.
But it turns out that Biden’s campaign promises are enough to trigger a “migration surge at the border,” now that he is about to become president.
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5th January 2021
Steven Hayward at PowerLine.
“Respectable opinion” holds that gridlock in Washington is a terrible thing, because it means Washington “can’t get anything done.” To the contrary, gridlock is the next best thing to having constitutional government! Put a little more seriously, gridlock has replaced the separation of powers as a chief constraint on the impetuosity of central government, and it is precisely the separation of powers embedded in the logic of the Constitution that Progressivism openly set out to destroy more than a century ago.
Progressives have been largely successful in this object through the gradual and insidious concentration of power in the administrative state, but funny thing—the voters don’t seem to like it too much, and continue to vote for “divided government,” when they aren’t in fact voting for Republican presidents—starting with Nixon—who promised to challenge this state of affairs, but who then usually fell short of mounting an effective challenge once in office. (More on this point some other time.)
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5th January 2021
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The Trump administration seized $7 million in Iranian assets after busting a money-laundering operation and plans to use the funds to pay victims of state-sponsored terrorism and their families.
Department of Justice officials took the funds from an American citizen and three Iranians attempting to circumvent American sanctions on Iran in a global criminal effort. Kenneth Zong and three unnamed Iranians are believed to have helped launder $1 billion in Iranian assets worldwide between 2011 and 2014, according to a Department of Justice press release.
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5th January 2021
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Her name was Hanako Abe. Raised in Fukushima, Japan, she lived through the devastating 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster and emigrated to America to attend university. After graduation in 2018, she settled in San Francisco and worked in commercial real estate. She posted a smiling selfie on Instagram Thursday, announcing her excitement for a new year she would not live to see. Shortly after 4 PM Thursday, she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking in the SOMA district of San Francisco, just 27 years old. Another woman, Elizabeth Platt, 60, was killed alongside Abe.
The driver, Troy McAlister, was intoxicated and driving a car he stole in Daly City two days earlier, from a woman he met on a dating app. Paroled in April after serving time for armed robbery, McAlister had been arrested several times since his release for various crimes including car theft, most recently on December 20. (He may in fact have been fleeing his latest burglary when he struck the women last Thursday, according to police). But none of these recent arrests resulted in any new charges brought by District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office.
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5th January 2021
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Totalitarian movements throughout history have long understood the criticality of conscripting the general population into participating in a myriad of small fictions, or lies. That’s probably because a powerful tool for controlling entire societies is the moral humiliation of the individual. Over the longer term, such participation in lies can even have the effect of bringing the individual’s actual perception of reality into conformance with the requirements of the state.
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5th January 2021
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Both videos after the break are in Russian, but the video and auto generated subtitles are enough to get the main points across. The bolt is an M42 size with a 40 mm pitch, with grooves cut in both directions to allow left-handed and right-handed nuts to be threaded. The large pitch means that instead of a single continuous groove like a normal bolt, ten separate grooves need to be cut for each threading direction to cover the bolt surface. Since this was all machined on a manual lathe, a dial indicator was required to maintain accurate spacing. It took [Oleg] four painstaking attempts to get it right, but the end result looks very good. Instead of a fixed cutter, he used a trimming router mounted on a custom clamp.
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5th January 2021
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Big Tech has been on a rampage against what it considers to be misinformation about COVID-19. But a trusted source like a medical journal should be safe, right? Wrong.
Twitter has flagged the link to a study from the European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences as “potentially spammy or unsafe.”
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5th January 2021
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Pretty sad that this has to happen.
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A new congresswoman from Colorado, Rep. Lauren Boebert, has rallied 83 other representatives to counter an effort by Democratic legislators to prohibit politicians from carrying firearms in and around the Capitol.
Boebert, a vocal supporter of gun rights, rallied lawmakers to oppose a measure by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., to prohibit carrying a gun throughout the Capitol grounds. Huffman garnered support from 19 other House members and said in a mid-December letter that “current regulations,” which allow concealed firearms for politicians, “create needless risk.”
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5th January 2021
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Fortnite developer Epic Games is moving its Cary, North Carolina headquarters across town to a large shopping mall, the company announced. It’s planning to convert the 87-acre Cary Towne Center into its new home base by 2024.
Once development is complete, Epic says the site will include recreational and office space, “customized from the ground up to accommodate its long-term growth.”
Actually, I’m surprised that more big companies don’t do this. So many malls are going broke, especially during the Pandemic Panic, that they can be had for fire-sale prices. Plenty of parking, plenty of space for amenity stores to suit your employees, there’s just no down-side.
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5th January 2021
RINOS ASSEMBLE!
[Racist] Don Lemon’s panel Monday night bashing Republicans crumbled into chaos as two commentators turned on each other for having worked for Republicans in the past.
The host, along with “CNN Republicans” turned reliable sycophants for Democrats — Amanda Carpenter, Ana Navarro and Anthony Scaramucci — were venting about Trump voters in Georgia telling CNN that they believed the election was stolen. Carpenter complained Republicans in general had been “radicalized” by “right wing media”
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“What is happening is these people from the blue states — much like Texas and much like the other red states that have controlled their taxes and have maintained the high quality of life and that have created jobs — people are moving in from the blue states and then bringing their politics with them,” he continued. “It is not hard to understand at all what’s happening in the state of Georgia.”
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But they’re not hostages, oh no, perish the thought….
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5th January 2021
The Other McCain blows the whistle.
In 1998, University of Wisconsin historian David Henige published Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate, in which he examined how, during the late 20th century, academics began arguing that the indigenous population of the Western hemisphere before the arrival of Europeans was much larger than previously estimated. This origins of this argument can be located rather precisely, with the 1966 publication of an article by Henry F. Dobyns in the journal Current Anthropology. Dobyns cited evidence that the native population had been devastated by pandemic diseases — particularly smallpox but also influenza, diphtheria and other contagions — brought to the Americas by European explorers and colonists.
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