The Last – And Only – Foreign Scientist in The Wuhan Lab Speaks Out

FDA Adds Warning About Heart Inflammation To COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines

Scientist recovers coronavirus gene sequences secretly deleted last year in Wuhan

Deleted gene sequences confirm coronavirus circulated before Wuhan seafood market

Why most people who now die with Covid in England have been vaccinated I’ll be sure to rush right out and get one of those vaccinations.

BLACKOUT: As Cuomo’s Many Scandals Live On, TV News Goes Silent

Daily Beast Journalist Says Normal Life Feels Like A “Horror Movie”

Make-A-Wish Foundation Says It Won’t Help Terminally-Ill Kids Unless Their Entire Family Is Vaccinated

‘Fact Checking’ Virologist Who Worked At Wuhan Lab Is Suddenly Open To Lab-Leak Hypothesis

Sydney Enters 2-Week Lockdown As Closed Border Fails To Keep “Delta” Out Of Australia

‘And Which Version Of Dr. Fauci Am I Speaking To Right Now?’ Asks Nervous Therapist  Babylon Bee.

Scientists Obfuscated Source Of COVID-19-Like Virus Stored At Wuhan Lab

Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005

A $26 Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area From Rising Seas Sounds like a waste of money to me. Houston is 50 miles from the sea.

Engineers can disrupt climate change

WATCH: Extremist Professor Says US Needs ‘Down Payment’ of ‘Trillions’ to Fight Climate Change

What Corals Can Tell Us About Climate Change

A New Push to Make Ecocide an International Crime

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Disgraced U.S. Olympian Gwen Berry tried this morning to tweet her way out of the doghouse by claiming she loves America. She has a strange way of showing it, as she turned her back on the flag at last week’s U.S. Olympic track and field trials. Former NFL player Jack Brewer appeared on Fox News Monday and slammed woke athletes like Berry for their disrespectful “garbage” behavior.

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The U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division, headed by the new, radical assistant attorney general Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice Department claimed the state’s recently enacted election reform law, SB 202, violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like a press release drafted by the Democratic National Committee instead of a serious lawsuit by an apolitical Justice Department.

My, what a surprise.

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Seth Dillon here, CEO of the Bee. I wanted to give you a quick update, as a lot has happened in the past few weeks that impacts our business—some positive, some negative. I’ve got a lot of ground to cover, but I’ll try to break it up into pieces and keep it brief.

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Usually the word “hacking” implies breaking into someone else’s data, but farmers are having to hack their own farm equipment just to keep it running, reports Freethink. Companies like John Deere won’t license out the software necessary to diagnose and fix their increasingly complex farm equipment, forcing owners to source that software online.

The fight over “right to repair” doesn’t just extend to totaled Teslas—it affects what makes it onto your dinner table, too. Crops won’t schedule themselves around a 40-mile repair trip to a specific company’s dealership. Mother Nature does not care about John Deere’s terms of service. Farmers say that they need to be able to repair their own ag equipment on their own terms—either themselves or through independent mechanics—as they have always done.

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The White House held a press conference on June 24 to announce a bipartisan infrastructure deal. It was going to be an easy win for the left, with more money, power, and control for Washington.

Instead, President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., all decided that this wasn’t good enough, and now the deal is on life support.

In separate statements, the three leading Democrats demanded that any bipartisan infrastructure bill be accompanied by a partisan spending package passed with the maneuver known as reconciliation.

The contents being discussed for reconciliation are a socialist wish list: upwards of $6 trillion in spending on the biggest expansion of the welfare state in generations, radical Green New Deal programs, massive amnesty for illegal immigrants, federal micromanagement of the economy, and more.

To make matters worse, it would be coupled with massive tax hikes that would kneecap the economic recovery.

Democrat cunning and Republican pusillanimity are no match for Democrat greed.

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Each year, Apple becomes more involved in the health and fitness industry. It’s become a major player with products like Apple Watch and AirPods and services like Fitness+ and Research. Currently, Apple has working out, mental health, women’s health, heart health, blood oxygen measurements, and even hearing covered. But they’re missing one very important component of the healthy life story, and that’s nutrition and cooking.

To complement the Fitness app, Apple should create a nutrition-focused one. I think it’d be called something along the lines of “Apple Kitchen,” and it’d have an accompanying service called “Apple Kitchen+.”

Severian continues his deep dive.

Before turning to look at effective propaganda, let’s address an important objection from Anonymous White Male:

Oh, they always have a capital-T version of the truth, and they pretend to believe it. But, that capital-T truth is constantly changing. Sort of a fungible propaganda. Remember, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Oh, damn! This is Monday. Remember Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

I hate to sound like Ulynaov’s mini-me, but that’s the kind of “bourgeois objectivism” we need to get over, comrade. They don’t “pretend” to believe it, they DO believe it, with all their hearts and souls… and yet, they don’t believe it, because they can’t. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia today, and we must act like it, if we are to survive… and yet, the very act of “acting like it” entails knowing that we could easily have always been at war with Eurasia tomorrow, and acting like it. I can’t explain it, but somehow it must be both true and not true, simultaneously.

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A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials — materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures — may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials.

The researchers have fabricated an ultralight material made from nanometer-scale carbon struts that give the material toughness and mechanical robustness. The team tested the material’s resilience by shooting it with microparticles at supersonic speeds, and found that the material, which is thinner than the width of a human hair, prevented the miniature projectiles from tearing through it.

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Nizar Banat had been arrested by PA forces who broke into a relative’s house where he was staying in the early hours of Thursday and hit him repeatedly with a metal rod before arresting him, according to Banat’s family.

Banat’s death has sparked three days of protests in the occupied West Bank and calls from the international community for an inquiry.

On Saturday, Palestinian security officers lined the streets and blocked protestors by hitting them with their fists and with clubs, Reuters video showed.

There are no civil rights under Islam.

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) rescinded a 2018 job offer to run its Dallas-Fort Worth chapter at least in part because the candidate was a Christian.

A year earlier, the staff at CAIR’s New York chapter was so concerned about the behavior of National Litigation and Civil Rights Director Lena Masri, that they debated whether they had an obligation to report her to the state Bar.

In both cases, staffers expressed concern about the harm that could result if these incidents became public. Now they have, but only because CAIR has sued a former employee-turned relentless critic for defamation.

ZMan pulls back the curtain.

The Right is festooned with housebroken rebels. This is a legacy of Bill Buckley, who defined the opposition to the Left within the bounds of the acceptable. It was the Left, of course, that decided what was acceptable. Over the last 70 years, every great purge was led by the Buckley crowd. The Birchers, paleocons, populists, immigration patriots and so on were denounced and purged by Conservatives, after the Left decided they were no longer allowed in polite company.

In the current age, the contrast between the swelling hordes of people outside the bounds of the acceptable and the so-called conservatives is glaring. It was not always so, which would explain why so-called conservatives carried on as if they were rebels trying to topple the system. In the 1990’s, for example, Conservative Inc. could plausibly argue that the paleo remnant turning up at Ross Perot rallies or Ron Paul events were just a noisy minority, not the real alternative to the Left.

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The New York Times reports that crime is starting to worry “progressives” — not the phenomenon, but the politics of it. I don’t know whether progressives in general are worried, but the ones at the Times sure are.

This Times article focuses on the success of Eric Adams in the Democratic mayoral primary. The Times frets that the winner of the race (at least in terms of the popular vote) “focused much of his message on exposing progressive slogans and policies that he said threatened the lives of ‘Black and brown babies’ and were pushed by ‘many young, white and rich’ people.” That’s hitting awfully close home for the New York Times.

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We have written many times about the sad decline of the City of Minneapolis. Perhaps the number one villain of the story is City Council President Lisa Bender, who famously said on television that calling 911 when someone breaks into your house “comes from a place of privilege.” It is remarkable that such goofballs can be elected to public office.

Minneapolis’s Uptown district has been devastated by riots and general lawlessness since career criminal Winston Boogie Smith was apprehended by law enforcement and fired at officers from his Maserati. They fired back and killed him. He is now being canonized as a hero and a victim of police brutality. A second no-go zone in Minneapolis has been established as a tribute to Boogie.

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My favorite sentence in the following video from Italy begins with: “A policeman shot a convicted foreign felon in the groin…” I know it’s naughty of me, but I can’t help but feel a frisson of glee when I hear about a violent culture-enricher getting his just deserts in that particular fashion.

However, it looks like the cop is going to face legal action for using “excessive self-defense”. In this clip Silvia Sardone of the Lega expresses her solidarity with the vigilant officer who put a dangerous felon out of action, at least temporarily.

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A Somali immigrant murdered three women and wounded six more in Wurzburg, Germany on Friday. Initial news accounts expressed puzzlement over the murderer’s motivation, but most now acknowledge that “Allahu Akbar” provides a clue.

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At a moment the clock is said to be winding down toward a nuclear deal in Vienna, with both sides expressing increased frustration that things are dragging on too long, Tehran is playing hardball with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Once again it’s over access to the country’s nuclear sites according to prior arrangements: “The speaker of Iran’s parliament said on Sunday Tehran will never hand over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites to the U.N. nuclear watchdog as a monitoring agreement with the agency had expired, Iranian state media reported,” Reuters writes Sunday.

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Researchers had previously thought that a human signaling protein, called interleukin 11 (IL-11), may help livers damaged by acetaminophen toxicity — but this new study found just the opposite.

“This discovery could have implications for treating drug-induced liver failure, which can cause death if a liver transplant is not possible,” Duke-NUS professor of cardiovascular medicine and IL-11 expert Stuart Cook said in a statement.

A global context for Man-made Climate Concerns

Happy Birthday, Global Warming: Climate Change At 33

Flesh-Eating Parasites May Be Expanding Their Range as Climate Heats Up  I wonder whether the COVID vaccine will take care of that?

Ocean Plastics: Don’t be Sucked In

Did Legal Gun Sales in 2020 Really Contribute Much to the Racial Reckoning’s Murder Surge?

NYT: Pesky 14th Amendment Hinders Biden’s Plans to Give Tax Dollars to Blacks for Being Black

Scare talk on steroids

Hammer Thrower Gwen Berry Turns Away From US Flag During Anthem at Olympic Trials

New York Times Soft-Pedals Biden’s Discriminatory ‘Push for Racial Equity’

Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be “Right-Wing”?

Losing The Plot On COVID

Bill Maher WHACKS Google, Facebook For Banning All Lab-Leak Questioning

YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative  YouTube is becoming a Communist front.

More Police Officers Have Retired Or Quit In The Past Year Than Ever Before, New Survey Shows

No Space Left to Run: China’s Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

Bill Maher Diagnoses Liberal ‘Progressophobia’

It’s only $6 Trillion: ABC Pressures Manchin to Move Left, Bring GOP With Him

Yet More Olympics “Activism”: Medalist Turns Back To Flag During Anthem At Trials

‘Comedian’ Seth Meyers Mangles ‘Astroturfed Moral Panic’ on Teaching Critical Race Theory

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Classified Ministry of Defence documents containing details about HMS Defender and the British military have been found at a bus stop in Kent.

One set of documents discusses the likely Russian reaction to the ship’s passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast on Wednesday.

Another details plans for a possible UK military presence in Afghanistan after the US-led Nato operation there ends.

The government said an investigation had been launched.

Well, that’s all right, then.

The documents, almost 50 pages in all, were found in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent early on Tuesday morning.

A member of the public, who wishes to remain anonymous, contacted the BBC when he realised the sensitive nature of the contents.

Note: The BBC. Not the Ministry of Defence. (If you had found classified documents behind a bus station, would you have notified the Washington Post rather than the DOJ?)

This is why we can’t ever have nice things.

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A Portland police officer, an 18 year veteran of police work, shot and killed a man that threatened him with a modified screwdriver.

There is of course some outrage, after all it’s Portland, coming from a city council member. Portland officers don’t wear bodycams because the Bureau doesn’t have the money to purchase them. Why is that, you might ask. Because their budget has been cut. There is, however, a short video from a nearby security camera.

Candidates seeking employment as a Portland police officer have to undergo background checks, as well as a psych evaluation but City council members do not.

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The Trump administration effectively pushed China enough that the question in Congress is no longer whether to push, but just how hard, according to a pair of think tank experts.

“Under Donald Trump, the beltway’s view of China shifted from one of relative complacency to one verging on alarmism,” Quincy Institute’s East Asia program director Michael Swaine and Advocacy Director Marcus Stanley co-wrote for Business Insider on Sunday, promoting a gentler approach to China as proposed in the House versus the Senate.

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Notice how nobody is developing meat-based vegetarian food. Guess why that might be.

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A talk by Glenn Loury, econ prof at Brown.

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Forbes magazine now being fully Woke, it’s unfortunate that millions of jobs are threatened but it’s the ‘income inequality’ that really burns their butts.

By definition, half of the population is below average in intelligence. If you think about some of the 100 (average) IQ people you know, you’ll realize that this means that a lot of our population are mentally slow (compared to the rest). Most employers don’t like having slow thinkers on payroll because they take extra effort to train and manage, and longer to do most tasks; so, if one can purchase a machine that will do the same work with less managerial effort, that’s a win. Plus they don’t require (government-mandated) benefits or take off sick or have family emergencies or join unions. Really, there’s very little downside to replacing unskilled or semi-skilled labor with robots — except politically.

The Crust doesn’t mind replacing workers with robots because (a) they’re part of the class profiting thereby (Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg) and (b) it increases the size of the Underclass dependent on government for their livelihoods and so reliable votes for the Party of Free Stuff (Democrats). Dimwits are by their nature Low-Information Voters, Joe Biden’s base.

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It is an acknowledged legacy of any president’s career that, once they leave office, they will seek to make a lot of money from a book deal. In the case of most incumbents of the White House, the subsequent memoir will be well-written (often with the aid of a handsomely remunerated ghostwriter), insightful (insofar as classified details can be revealed in the lifetimes of participants) and front-loaded in terms of sales. It is hard to imagine that many people today will be rushing to purchase Jimmy Carter’s Keeping Faith, or even George W Bush’s Decision Points.

Yet, in the case of the Oval Office’s most notorious recent occupant, there is already controversy on a hitherto unimagined scale. Donald Trump has announced, in his usual quiet, low-key way, that he is working on a memoir of his time as President. In a statement last week, he claimed that “I’m writing like crazy, and when the time comes, you’ll see the book of all books.” He also stated that he had already turned down two lucrative deals “from the most unlikely of publishers”, but did not name who they were, only stating that “I do not want to do such a deal right now”.

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Talk about a First World problem….

Next step: Pop him one and drag the body outside.

Researchers Find COVID-19 Virus Was “Highly Human Adapted” – Exact Origins Still a Mystery  It’s not a mystery to some of us.

CDC says roughly 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid breakthrough infections after vaccination

Bank Guard In India Shoots Patron For Entering Without Face Mask

Surgeon Fired From College Of Medicine For Voicing Concerns About COVID Shots For Kids

FDA Adds Heart Inflammation Warning to Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines

GOP Senators Want CDC to End Mask Mandate on Airplanes, Transit

SARS-CoV-2 reactive T-cells likely present due to prior exposure to flu viruses

‘No Substantial Outbreaks’ After Researchers Track Sports, Music And Clubbing

‘You Were Wrong About A Lot Of Sh*t’: Maher Blasts Big Tech, CDC Over Lab-Leak Censorship

Red states are dangerous to Americans’ health (Washington Post)

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Criticized for Separating Critical Race Theory From Intersectionality

Biden branded a racist for saying Latinx are scared of getting vaccinated over fear of deportation

OANN Presenter’s Calls for Mass Executions in U.S. Excites QAnon Supporters (Newsweek) I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

At the Border, Politico Replaces Republicans ‘Pounced’ With ‘Seized’

“Blow Up Republicans”: UNC (Wilmington) Professor Triggers Firestorm With Call For Killing Conservatives

Ken Cuccinelli to Newsmax: Biden Border Strategy Aimed at Future Dem Votes

Mika Covers for Biden’s Weird Whispering Act: He Was ‘Practicing ASMR’

Report: Biden Administration May Lift Sanctions Against Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Turmoil erupts in school district after claims that critical race theory and transgender policy are being pushed

Corrupt NYT Skips Dem Crime Crisis: ‘Opportunity to Beat GOP on Law-and-Order’

Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’  Time to leave.

Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children “Or Else Leave EU”  Time to leave.

Masks Required in Philly’s Naked Bike Ride  Be All the Pervert You Can Be — so long as you conform to the Narrative.

TikTok’s Chinese Parent Company Has Unlimited Access to American Data

“Enough Is Enough”: Los Angeles Sheriff Urges State Of Emergency On Homelessness

Climate Scientist: “Politics Is Now The Battleground For Climate Change”  As it always has been.

Bjorn Lomborg: “Climate Change Coverage Ignores the Heavy Impact of heat on cold deaths”

Career criminal who shouted racial slurs at Asian cop is arrested by feds

New Jersey home commandeered by ‘sovereign citizens’ of Al Moroccan Empire’

George Floyd statue vandalized in NYC, 4 suspects sought

Heritage Action calls on MSNBC’s Joy Reid to retract ‘false’ claim that group wants to defund military

Othal Wallace Manhunt Focuses on Atlanta; Reward Now $200,000

Restaurants Are Now Adding ‘Equity’ Charges to Customers’ Checks to Fight Oppression

DA: No Death Penalty for Black Immigrant Who Murdered at Least 18

Othal Wallace Arrested at Black Militia Compound in Georgia  But, of course, as we all know, the REAL problem is White Supremacy.

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The only person who actually died at the January 6th protest was an unarmed veteran, shot by a Capitol policeman.

Similarly the name of every officer involved in a shooting that has tickled the antennae of the Black Lives Matter movement and its fellow travelers has been made public, in some cases forcing the officers and their families to flee their homes so as to avoid hostile protesters. Yet the officer who shot Babbitt remains unidentified and, as far as we know, employed by the Capitol Police.

Why is that?

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The shots were fired at 1 p.m. on a Sunday, in spite of a heavy police presence at the scene. A 44-year-old shop owner was killed by a bullet to the head. The murder victim was a hard-working man who was trying to make a better life for his family. Now he is dead: another victim of Sweden’s gun-violence epidemic.

They make it sound as if it’s just another disease, that you can catch by not wearing a mask or social distancing enough. The key is in the one word you won’t see: ‘Muslim’. These aren’t Swedes murdering Swedes; these are immigrants, almost all Muslim, murdering Swedes and each other. Reading the article makes that pretty plain to any one of even average intelligence.

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For the past five months The Spectator World has been running an anonymous column called Wokeyleaks by a disillusioned social-justice warrior from within the entertainment industry. Wokeyleaks provides an encrypted email address (wokeyleaks@protonmail.com) to which whistleblowers can leak stories about the most shocking and ridiculous aspects of woke culture.

So far, we’ve covered the woke hypocrisy of corporations such as Youtube, Microsoft and Mercedes Benz who tweet their undying support for Gay Pride Month in the West, while staying shamefully silent about gay rights on their Middle Eastern accounts. We’ve covered the British spy agencies who are woke-policing their employee’s conversations and the billionaire attendees at the Saudi Aramco-sponsored World Economic Forum, who fly into Davos on their private jets to chat about climate change. We’ve even had a leak from a whistle-blower within the defense company Northrop Grumman where arms dealers are being given microaggression training so that no one gets triggered while they flog bombs to brutal regimes.

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Three years ago, a small group of academics at a German university launched an unprecedented collaboration with the military – using novels to try to pinpoint the world’s next conflicts. Are they on to something?

If it works, then they are; if it doesn’t, then they aren’t.

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Portland housing advocate Leon Porter estimates that there are 1.5 million bedrooms in Oregon alone that no one is sleeping in, either because the home is vacant or because it’s simply a guest room in an occupied house.

If just 1% of those rooms were rented out, every homeless person in the state could have a roof over their head — and homeowners might get some much-needed financial relief as well.

One of the funniest parts of the movie REAL GENIUS was when Mitch called home and told his parents that he wanted to quit college and come home, and they informed him that they had rented out His Room. The funny part was that nobody does that any more, especially middle class parents like Mitch’s.

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What, did you think they were actually Catholic? You must not read the newspapers.

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Let’s check out Biden.

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Paper is cheap. Paper is universal. Paper doesn’t run out of battery. Paper doesn’t vanish into the shadow realm when I close the window. Paper can do anything I can do with a pencil. Paper lets me turn back pages in the notebook and scan over for things that have yet to be done. Honestly I wish I had started using paper for this sooner.

Sometimes the old ways are best.