Aussie Acting Prime Minister: “Hell Will Freeze Over Before I Start Listening to the Greens” on Climate Change

Massive “Doomsday Glacier” May Be More Stable Than Initially Feared

Ice Follies

Covid Problems Disrupting UN Climate Negotiations

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President Joe Biden might have intended to draw red lines on enemies attacking the 16 infrastructure targets in America, but he left space and undersea targets off the list to be attacked and gave enemies our dearest targets, according to former White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow.

Putin will spend his first week in Moscow laughing himself sick.

Biden is more stupid than I ever dreamed that even a Democrat might be.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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The EU is an American creation, as much as a European one. In the middle of the 20th century, there were more European federalists in Washington than in Brussels. Senators bashed out resolutions declaring: “Congress favours the creation of a United States of Europe.” The Marshall Plan, a torrent of post-war funding for the crippled continent, came on the condition that European countries meld themselves together. George Kennan, an American diplomat, summed up American policy: “We hoped to force the Europeans to think like Europeans, and not like nationalists.” Forget Jean Monnet. When it comes to naming founding fathers for the EU, the list should start with President Harry Truman.

One could as accurately say that it is the creation of the old Soviet Union, which isn’t round to blame any more.

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Usman Khan may well enter history as the jihadi who killed “de-radicalisation”. His murder of two Cambridge criminology graduates, Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, near London Bridge in 2019 cast the loftiest aspiration of British counter-terrorism, the wish to change terrorists’ minds, as hubris.

California Launches Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Pass

Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Alarming Possibilities

Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with Covid-19  YouTube has an explicit mention in its Terms of Service that you can’t publish anything positive about ivermectin or you will get de-platformed.

Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge  Hey, it’s for your own good.

Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

Why Has “Ivermectin” Become A Dirty Word?  Matt Taibbi.

China Arrests Hong Kong Journalists for Violating Law That Was Praised in New York Times Op-Ed

NY Times Freak Out: ‘Ultraconservative,’ ‘Right Wing’ Southern Baptists

14 States Side With Christian Wedding Photographer Against NY’s Public Accommodations Law

9 Careers More Appealing Than Being A Police Officer In 2021  Babylon Bee.

Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Atlantic Magazine Writer Admits Voter ID Does Not Suppress the Vote

CNN Fails to Link Liberal Policies to Surge in San Francisco Shoplifting

‘Big Brother’? San Jose Requires Gun Purchases To Be Videotaped   Time to leave.

Biden Environmental Appointee Faces Conflict of Interest Scrutiny on Hill

Family Of Top Biden Officials Find Jobs Across Administration Despite ‘No Nepotism’ Pledge

IRS Denies Tax-Exemption To Texas Religious Group Because Prayer, Bible Reading Boost the Republican Party  Well, we like to think so.

Washington Examiner: Climate activists invest in property on beaches they say are disappearing

What it is like to be a climate realist

15 Years After Lauer’s BOTCHED Apocalypse Prediction: ‘Countdown to Doomsday’

15 Years After Lauer’s BOTCHED Apocalypse Prediction: ‘Countdown to Doomsday’

The Dark Side of Solar Power

Jemele Hill Documentary Promotes ‘Fear of a Black Quarterback’

FAKE NEWS: Joy Reid Claims Republicans Want to Ban Talk of Juneteenth, Slavery

Crazy Colbert: Build a Wall Around Texas and Florida!

Andrew Yang Denounced for Stigmatizing the Criminally Insane,

Jon Stewart, The High Priest Of Cultural Liberalism, Reprimands His Flock

Bill Maher rips Lin-Manuel Miranda for ‘In the Heights’ diversity apology: ‘This is why people hate Democrats’  Well, one of the reasons, anyway.

Bill Maher: Woke Liberals Have A Bad Case Of ‘Progressophobia’

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The Rapid Response Team of the Portland Police Bureau has endured over 150 nights of rioting. Not protests, riots. Riots that have not only destroyed the city’s reputation but have physically destroyed different neighborhoods in the city. Almost every member of the team has sustained injuries. Channel 2 News released a 14-point memo sent to the PPB Chief:

At the top of the list, Clark said nearly every team member had been injured during the protests last year.

“The injuries received ranged from multiple members with broken bones, torn ligaments and cartilage, traumatic brain injuries, hearing damage, damaged eye sight, lacerations, and burns,” he wrote.

He said members felt that bureau directives were being interpreted retroactively, leading to members being disciplined for policy changes that had not been in place when the officer acted during a protest.

Who has the George Soros prosecutor in Multnomah County started to prosecute? He’s searching for police officers to prosecute. He’s contacting attorneys whose rioting clients are suing the city. Some PPB officers allege he’s investigating police officers in hidden backdoor investigations. He does appear to be involving outside attorneys in the investigation of PPB officers.

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Anybody can run a Tesla on battery.

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Middle income families are lashing out against Joe Biden’s punitive new tax plan that would claim a large chunk of the amount someone leaves to their kids when they die just because it has gone up in value over the course of their lifetime.

The harsh new tax – dubbed Biden’s ‘death tax’ – is hidden in his American Families Plan and it’s receiving ferocious backlash. It proposes that when someone dies, any asset they leave behind that has appreciated in value by more than $1million since the time they bought it should be taxed.

The tax rate would go as high as 40% – double what it is now – and it applies to how much the asset has appreciate. So someone who inherited a house their mother and father paid $250,000 for but that’s now worth $2.5million would have to pay tax on the difference.

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The wealthy have been fleeing the city all pandemic long, to lower-tax, lower-cost-of-living and lower-crime alternatives. That means big trouble ahead for those left behind, as the top 2 percent of earners supply 51 percent of New York’s income tax take.

Add in middle-class flight, and all the young upstaters leaving for lack of job opportunities, and you see why New York is one of just seven states to lose a House seat after the 2020 Census.

UPDATE: Young NYC homeless people to get $1,250 each month in city-backed study

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The realization that Rush’s show – which had continued since his death with guide hosts and taped Rush playbacks on various topics – was now, in fact, irretrievably over and never to return was both poignant and a tad unnerving for his fans.

Rush was a year younger than I am. I feel as if I ought to be making funeral arrangements, you know, just in case.

The Other McCain does the reporting that American media won’t do.

In case you didn’t see this story already, the fake “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones attempted to destroy the career of a Ph.D. student at Florida State University who only wanted to help get Florida’s COVID-19 death totals accurately counted. The word “psychopath” is now being widely used to describe the woman who was the subject of “Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day” a couple months ago. Because I am a professional journalist, however, I would hesitate to use the clinical term “psychopath” because I have no credentials to make such a diagnosis and it might be construed as defamatory. Nevertheless, I have previously stated my opinion that Jones is “deranged, demented, daft, wacky, bonkers, non compos mentis, off her rocker, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

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Two arrests have been made. Oddly enough, the 17-year-old arrested appears to exactly match the “vague” description provided by the police that the UT Football News refused to publish “as it is too vague at this time to be useful in identifying the shooter and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes.”

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News stories indicate that the event was the result of a dispute between two individuals who had engaged in previous violent confrontations.  The identity and demographics of the second suspect have not been released as “they” is a juvenile.* And I have a hunch that we all can make a pretty accurate guess as to “their” demographics.

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In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City.

Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible. Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media. Hundreds were arrested.

But a review of NYPD data by the investigative team at WNBC, the NBC owned station in New York, shows that a large percentage of the cases — particularly in the Bronx — were dismissed, and that many convictions were for counts like trespassing that carry no jail time.

That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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Feminism, micro-aggressions, and Wokeness. Nowadays, you strike up a friendship by trading pre-nups.

The Register keeps you up to date.

With no one onboard to fix it, the craft has been directed to slowly return to base, where it’s hoped it can be repaired.

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A Chinese subsidiary of the Japanese camera company Canon installed AI-powered cameras that only let employees enter office rooms if they were smiling. The cameras were trained to detect if people were grinning happily or not, according to a report on surveillance in the workplace in China by Nikkei Asia.

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Have you ever notice that nobody is trying to make fake vegetarian products out of meat?

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When Deer Park resident Brandon English got home from work on Wednesday, his house was hot.
“(My wife) had it cranked it down at 2:30,” English said. “It takes a long time for this house to get cool when it gets that hot.”
English’s wife and their daughters decided to take their afternoon nap earlier in the day.
“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”
Without anyone touching it, they said their thermostat was changed while they were sleeping, making their home unbearably hot.
“Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” English said. “She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly.”
His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

I don’t want a Smart Home. I want a home that will do what the hell I tell it to.

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Thank God. I look forward to the day when I don’t need to explain what I want to a person whose first language is not English over a bad audio system.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Ben Thompson’s newsletter Stratechery is a must-read for followers of the tech sector.

Here he does a deep dive into the proposed tech legislation currently before Congress.

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Ebrahim Raisi, a cleric who serves as chief justice of Iran, is reported to be Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s favored candidate to win Friday’s presidential election, which most international observers see as a sham given the regime’s decision to disqualify any candidate viewed as a moderate. Raisi, who served as deputy prosecutor of Tehran in 1988, sat on a four-man panel that oversaw the killings of nearly 1,000 political prisoners. In an August 1988 audio recording, members of the commission can be heard defending the executions, arguing in support of killing 200 additional prisoners, and even laughing about their efforts to expedite the murders.

Parent Group Calls On Teachers’ Union Head To Denounce Anti-Semitic Statements

UN ‘Political Declaration’ on HIV/AIDS Prioritizes ‘Sexual Rights’ Over Sexual Health

Chicago mayor declares racism a public health crisis BRAAAAAAAINS!

Why Republicans Could Never Tell Their Voters the Truth About Obamacare (New York Magazine) ‘Truth’ in this case (as always) being The Narrative.

Ohio quadruplets celebrate graduating from Yale University

Racial Ratios in Property Crime Arrest Rates

Deadspin Slams NBC For ‘Vanilla’ Football Broadcast Team

Legislators in California Push for $300 Million Hydrogen Plan  As we are fortunate in not getting all of the government we pay for, so we are fortunate in that California is wasting their money on this bullshit rather than further invading the rights and liberties of citizens.

Models In Turmoil: Underestimation Of Satellite-Based Cloud-Aerosol Interaction “Hampering Climate Change Projections”

“Clean” Energy Exploitations

Sulfur enhances carbon storage in the Black Sea

California and Texas Greenouts: Renewables aren’t reliable to power the grid

Greta’s Movement Is Imploding

Jordan Klepper Gets Into Heated Confrontation With MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell (Daily Beast)

 Republicans are running on nihilism (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is a one-trick pony.

Books by one of Britain’s most famous children’s authors branded racist (Washington Post) Enid Blighton.

Marjorie Taylor Greene And Matt Gaetz Slammed by Gab Users Over Juneteenth Vote

Another Trump Narrative Collapses: Why the Media Jumps to Conclusions

Manchester Arena Bombing Inquiry Finds Security Guards’ Fears Of Being Called “Racist” Prevented Jihadist Capture

NYT: Cops Are Retiring en Masse (But Do NOT Blame the Racial Reckoning)

NPR’s Ritual Shaming of Tom Hanks

Macy Gray Equates U.S. Flag With ‘Confederate Flag’, Demands New One

Illegal Tells Fox News They Didn’t Hear Kamala’s Message ‘Don’t Come’

Biden’s ‘death tax’ threatens to hit New Yorkers especially hard

Ex-Trump Doctor Requests Biden Take Cognitive Test

Biden Lies Overseas

Covid-segregated schooling

NFL’s Big Brothers Coerce Vaccinations With Draconian Threats

Beijing Retaliates After EU Excludes China-Made Vaccines From Digital COVID ‘Passport’

“Giant Mistake” – CDC Delays Emergency Meeting On Post-Vax Heart Inflammation Due To Juneteenth  Anti-racism trumps public health, apparently.

Nets Censor Damning Report on Andrew Cuomo’s Death Toll

White House Officials Brush Off Questions On Whether US Will Meet Biden’s Vaccine Goal

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My critique boiled down to four main points: First, I doubted we would improve our overly complex, balkanized health-care system with yet another major program that would make it even more complicated. Second, I feared committing more than $100 billion to new spending every year, at a time when we hadn’t even figured out how to pay for existing entitlement programs. Third, I worried that having the government subsidize even more of our medical bills would lead to price pressure, particularly on pharmaceuticals and medical devices, which in turn would reduce incentives for innovation. And fourth, I simply didn’t believe many of the claims supporters were making — explicitly or implicitly — about Obamacare dramatically reducing health-care costs or bankruptcies or infant mortality, or improving life spans.

Eleven years on, that first worry seems overblown. Our system is still a Rube Goldberg-esque kludge, but not noticeably more so than in 2010. As for the effect on innovation, well, Pfizer and Moderna just brought two new cutting-edge vaccines to market in less than a year. And while I’m certainly worried about a fiscal crisis, Obamacare is the least of our worries, since no politician in either party appears to believe that government spending and government revenue have any relation to each other, or ought to.

On the fourth point, however, I think that my predictions have largely been vindicated. And that this is one major reason the others haven’t been.

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Cue hysteria by Eco-Nazis.

Cue shakedown by government bureaucrats.

Cue lawsuits by The Usual Suspects.

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And Oregan has SO many people who would benefit society by being composted….

For example, everybody living west of the Hood River County – Klamath County line.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Happy Juneteenth everyone! Officially, this long tradition dating back to Monday is celebrated on Saturday, but the ruling regime has declared the preceding Friday as a day off for our hardworking civil servants. The rest of us, of course, will have to continue slaving away at the salt mines, but the people who really make this country work will get the day off to celebrate the people who built the country. Even as we toil, we should take a moment to think about both groups.

In a way, the ridiculousness of this new holiday fits perfectly with the absurdity of modern liberal democracy. The show this week is mostly about how the system is nothing like it is claimed. Instead of bringing the citizens into the decision making process, it systematically excludes the majority. This new holiday is a great example of how it works. Exactly no one wanted it. Few even heard of it. The people have many higher concerns, but they are ignored in favor of this novelty.

Peggy Noonan.

I started the new year with a bang, at a gathering in the Washington home of a European diplomat.

Which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about Peggy Noonan. You can read the rest of the article if you want, but I suspect you won’t learn anything that colors outside of The Narrative.

A pity. She used to be a journalist.

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Three people have been found dead and two remain missing after a group of tubers floating along the Dan River in North Carolina went over a dam, local authorities said on Thursday.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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In the wake of the apparent honor killing of Saman Abbas, interviews were conducted with Muslim men in Italy about what they would do if a woman under their control were to try to become “Westernized”. The answer: She must be killed.

Gosh, I never would have expected that…

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A Loudoun County, Va., middle schooler whose family asked that he not be exposed to transgender-themed lessons that go against their faith was placed in a small room adjacent to the dean’s office during that class the next day rather than an alternate lesson, according to the parents.

“[The boy’s mother] wasn’t happy about the fact that he was put in this isolation room,” said Brenda Tillett, president of Standup Virginia, a nonprofit that fights for parental rights and education, law enforcement and safe communities and election integrity. “I think that is giving a child a mental message that they’ve done something wrong because they’re placed in isolation.”

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Iran is in the final phase of its presidential “selection” Friday to determine who will succeed Hassan Rouhani, who is term-limited from running again. The process is more of a selection than an election because Iran’s theocratic leaders hand-pick the candidates who are allowed to run.

NPR throws its dress over its head.

Missouri has new a law that claims to invalidate all federal gun control laws — and prohibits state and local cooperation with enforcement of those laws.

Gov. Mike Parson signed the bill, known as HB 85 or the Second Amendment Preservation Act, into law Saturday at a gun store and shooting range called Frontier Justice.

The law declares federal laws and regulations “that infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment … must be invalid in this state.”

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An IRS official denied tax-exempt status to a Texas group that encourages church members to pray for state and national leaders, regardless of their party affiliation, because it benefits “the private interests of the [Republican] Party.”

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Following the criminal indictment of a fellow officer, the entire Portland Police Rapid Response Team made the unanimous decision to resign, according to police sources via Portland news outlet KXL.

Buyers of Hunter Biden’s Art to Stay Anonymous An obvious bribery/money laundering scheme.

Trump On Biden-Putin Meeting: “It Was A Very Good Day For Russia”

Lawless EEOC chair issues garbage gender guidelines

Americans Are Increasingly “Fleeing” California And New York For Florida And Texas

What Biden knows about being a superpower that Republicans don’t (Washington Post)  As if Jennifer Rubin would know.

The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower

John Cusack Rant: America Is ‘F**king Awful’  Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

DNC CNN: Don’t Worry, We’ll Keep Lobbying for Gun Control!

Hong Kong Police Raid Newsroom Of Pro-Democracy Paper, Arrests Executives

Iran’s Sham Election

Prediction: The Riots Are Returning to Portland

Big Brother: Facebook Introduces New Censorship Tools for Group Administrators

Corden Sympathizes With Newsom: ‘How Annoyed Are You’ By Voter Recall?

The Hits Keep Coming in Portland

Judge Rules Christian Baker Jack Phillips Must Make ‘Gender Transition’ Cake

Who are the 14 House Republicans who voted against a Juneteenth holiday? And why? (USA Today)

Fox News trying to claim that Tom Hanks was ‘canceled’ is proof of its utter desperation (Washington Post)

Teacher defends pushing critical race theory on students, calls opponents racist

Jimmy Kimmel Turns Marjorie Taylor Greene Into Hitler (Daily Beast)

Top U.S. admiral bristles at criticism of ‘woke’ military: ‘We are not weak’ (Washington Post)

Column Explains How Tom Hanks Could Be Anti-Racist — Not Just Non-Racist (NPR)

Republicans are afraid of history (Washington Post)

Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community

MSNBC Defends Radical Racial Propaganda, Tars Critics as Dangerous

CBS Warns of Church ‘Weaponizing’ Communion Against Biden