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The bill includes funding to remove culverts, built under roadways to allow streams to flow through, reports the Northwest News Network, which is part of Northwest Public Broadcasting.

The issue is the stream flows inside culverts that are built wrong can be too swift or too shallow for fish to navigate, according to the Fish Passage Culvert Program in Snohomish County, Washington. The organization, which works to restore aquatic habitat by replacing county-owned culverts that prevent fish migration says the culverts also can create waterfalls, which keep the salmon from moving upstream.

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A team of materials scientists from Yanshan University in China has discovered the critical proportion of crystallized and amorphous carbon needed to create a glass with remarkable properties that won’t weaken under intense pressure.

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Founded in 2014 by Easton LaChapelle when he was just 18 years old, the company is poised to become a leader in the prosthetic arm industry. Their True Limb device costs less than $8,000 and it’s even cheaper for children, priced at about $4,000.

True Limb is both functional and realistic-looking, serving as a mirror image of the amputee’s opposing limb, even down to the fingertips. And while the prosthetic arm is 60-90% cheaper than traditional prosthetics, many users say it’s far superior to market alternatives.

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Say this much for Jimmy Carter: it took him more than three years for his presidency to implode completely. By the end of 1979, we had high inflation, an energy crisis, American hostages in Iran, a geopolitical rival that held us in contempt and thought it has the wind of history at its back, prompting dangerous adventurism (including, ironically, in Afghanistan).

It’s only taken Joe Biden about six months to arrive at a comparable destination.

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‘Hey, we screwed up our own country – can we come in and screw up yours, too?’

Jake Davison, Suspected Mass Shooter, Said He Was an American, Trump-Supporting Virgin (Daily Beast)

‘Jeopardy!’ Host Mayim Bialik’s Ugly History of Shaming Weinstein’s Victims and Being an Anti-Vaxxer (Daily Beast)

Matt Gaetz’s week just got way worse: Wingman reportedly hands over “thousands” of files to the feds (Salon) Funny how we don’t even have a name for this alleged accuser.

The reckoning may have finally come for MAGA governors. But at what cost? (Washington Post) Oh? What ‘reckoning’ is that?

San Francisco salon owner who exposed Pelosi talks about losing her business a year later

Jen Psaki reminds Fox News reporter of Trump’s plan to inject “poison” into Americans as COVID cure (Salon) Which is a lie spread by Narrative Media.

CNNers Revel in Paul’s YouTube Ban For….Saying What CNN Said a Week Ago?

Nasty Colbert Denigrates DeSantis: ‘Doesn’t Care if His Voters Live or Die’  What a mind-reader!

Facebook To Scan Prayers For Misinformation Before Passing Them On To God  Babylon Bee.

Joy Reid: ‘Homicidal’ Republicans Don’t Believe in ‘Staying Alive,’ Don’t Want Citizens to Live

MSNBC LUNATIC: ‘Radicalized GOP is Greater Threat than Al-Qaeda and ISIS’

Flight from White: Number of Hispanics Who Identify as White-Only Dropped 53%

More Flight from White: I am Middle Eastern. Not White

The Gratuitousness of Calling Karens White

Washington Post: ‘Field of Dreams’ So White!

College Professor: ‘America Only for White People’

BLM narrative induces Blacks to resist vaccine

Afghanistan likened to fall of Saigon as officials confirm Taliban take Kandahar (The Guardian)

Taliban Capture Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Herat: Embassies Getting Staff Out

Arrests Along US-Mexico Border Hit 21-Year Monthly High

Taliban Sweep Across Afghanistan’s South, Take 4 More Cities

State Dept. Refuses To Meet With Iranian-American Regime Opponents

Biden’s Afghanistan Predictions Were All Wrong  My, what a surprise.

Mitchell Rips Biden Flack on Afghanistan: ‘People Are Being Beheaded’

DEA Agents Told to Stop Saying ‘Mexican Cartel’

Taliban Near Gates of Kabul as US Preps to Fly Out Thousands

Bikers At Sturgis Rally Put Up ‘Happy Birthday Obama’ Sign So COVID Can’t Spread  Babylon Bee.

Medical Apartheid in Hungary: No Jab, No Healthcare

40% Of Bused-In Migrants Covid-Positive — While Biden Admin Using Texas Airport To Disperse Illegals Throughout U.S.

Leaked Video Shows Hundreds at Camp for COVID-19-Positive Illegal Immigrants

Watch: Parents Make Threats After School Board Mandates Elementary Children Mask Up – “We Will Find You”

Philadelphia Mayor Puts Vax-or-Mask Mandate Into Effect

New Studies Suggest Lambda Variant Could Be Vaccine-Resistant

Here We Go Again… WHO Announces The “Marburg Virus”

Oklahoma Sued Over School Mask, Vaccine Mandate Ban

Infection-enhancing antibodies recognize both the original and Delta

Hear why Trump supporter says he won’t get the vaccine (CNN) Because, as we all know, only Trump supporters won’t get the vaccine.

A parent sent their child to school after a positive Covid-19 test. More than 80 students may have been exposed, officials say (CNN)

Jason Isbell’s request for proof of vaccination, negative COVID test for fans leads to cancellation of show in The Woodlands

Don’t Panic, But Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You’ve Been Told (New York Magazine) Stoking the fear.

27 people on board Carnival Cruise Line ship test positive for COVID-19 (USA Today)

YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video

In Win for Landlords, US Supreme Court Lifts New York’s Pandemic-Related Eviction Ban

AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible

How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says

Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize original strain and Delta

SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance

Don Lemon: ‘People Don’t Know What to Believe’ on COVID Because ‘BS’ ‘Attacks on Journalism’  Of course it couldn’t be because ‘journalism’ and its government overlords have lied to them early and often.

Could This Be Our First Effective, Inexpensive, Widely Available Outpatient Treatment for COVID-19? Not of Dr Fauci has anything to say about it.

Danish WHO Chief Says Covid ‘Patient Zero’ Was Likely Wuhan Lab Worker

Masking Emotions: Face Masks Impair How We Read Emotions  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Three Broward County Educators Died of COVID-19 in 24 Hours

Father-Son Tourists Arrested For Entering Hawaii With Fake Vaccination Cards

School Board Meetings Now Being Held In Football Stadiums To Accomodate All The Angry Parents  Babylon Bee.

The “media bias” no one talks about: Democracy vs. authoritarianism (Salon) Oh, WE talk about it all the time; it’s just Narrative Media (like Salon) who won’t talk about it, and get it wrong when they do.

Nets Hype Britney Spears, Ignore Border Crisis Worsening in July  I guess they know their audience.

France’s Macron to Boycott UN Racism Conference Over Anti-Semitism Concerns

Obama vs. the Neocons Over Iran

Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy (NPR) ‘News literacy’ for NPR mens ‘obey the Narrative’.

He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?  Because at any one time you can find hundreds of people ‘predicting’ stuff on all sides of any question. If we could figure out beforehand who was right and who was wrong, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

Tragic Consequences of the Vax in Hungary, Part Two

‘The Lorax’ Warned Us 50 Years Ago, But We Didn’t Listen (NPR) Surely we’d all be better off if we took our policy advice from children’s books and Swedish teenagers.

Peak Oil—Facts and Fictions

Proterra Prepares to Cash In on Democrat Spending Blitz

Swedish Politician Who Called UN Climate Report “Scare Propaganda” Forced To Resign From Party

Holocene Antarctic CO2 Variability or Lack Of

It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record  And if it’s Official, it MUST be true, right?

Scientists Rename Climate Change ‘COVID’ So Americans Will Immediately Give Up All Their Rights To Fight It  Babylon Bee.

Climate Alarmists Dub ‘Doomsday’ Scenario ‘Trump World’ – No Mention of China, India

Politico: Cannabis Restrictions are Raising CO2 Emissions

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Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe released a new ad promoting his goal of “growing Virginia’s economy”—but the workers pictured in the ad are in Florida.

The new ad from McAuliffe, who is running for his second term as governor, includes stock footage sold by Getty Images of a diverse pair of workers in Florida, a Washington Free Beacon investigation found. The “workers walking through metal fabrication shop stock video” was shot in Florida in February 2019 and can be purchased for $170.

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Now that the Senate has passed a $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” framework bill, it will now move on to fill in the details of the spending package. The bill would provide green cards–essentially amnesty—to millions of illegal immigrants, in addition to the “free” community college, subsidized child care, housing, health care, and other budget-sinking welfare benefits.

Because amnesty is unlikely to get the 60 votes it needs to pass in the Senate, Democrats are using the wholly inappropriate budget reconciliation bill as a vehicle to jam amnesty through with only 51 votes.

To “limit” the total trillions of dollars spent and to entice senators concerned with the price tag, like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to vote yes, Democrats will limit the amnesty to mostly illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. as children.

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Note that the drone was not in Iranian airspace at the time.

This is not a pissing contest into which they wish to enter.

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Usually it’s the other way around.

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enny pinching sounds like a good thing to do. Especially for important life decisions like money, education and life partners. Now I’m not here to tell you we should never slow down and assess a situation closely, but rather that it’s easy to do this in situations where it’s not appropriate. The reason it’s often not appropriate is because we almost never have access to the amount and kind of information that would make penny pinching an effective life strategy.

Any time we look into the details of something we are making a big assumption about how information maps to the future. We are assuming information can be tallied up and summed into some final answer that best tells us what to do in a given situation. But this isn’t how information works in complex situations. Under complexity information does not move from input to output as a linear sum of its parts.

Information works in nonlinear and highly opaque ways. The way information gets used under complexity is multiplicative, where bits of information interact with other bits of information in ways we will never know. We know this because this is a fundamental property of complex systems and thus situations. The causal chain that links inputs to outputs cannot be known.

The poor pinch pennies out of necessity, and they tend to raise their children to do the same. It is interesting to watch people who grew up poor and are now comfortably off resist spending money as if they didn’t know where their next meal was coming from. I suspect that most of the Hoarding Old People were of this stripe.

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Every one of us could write a whole library’s worth on that, so I’ll just pick one that is at least a gateway into all the rest: Stop enabling mental illness.

I love the delightfully appositive nature of the phrase ‘goofy-hippy-shit’. It comes in so handy….

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Oh, yeah, like that’s going to work.  The very people who loudly proclaim that race is ‘a social construct’ are going to construct you into their favorite oppression-race every time you diverge from the Narrative. Guaranteed.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Revolutions are often driven by events, but they are always, at some level, driven by ideas about how society ought to be organized. Since the beginning, radical revolution is about a small group of intellectuals who flatter themselves by claiming to represent the interests of the people. Their holy mission is to reorganize society for the benefit of the people, even if it means killing many of those people. This week begins an exploration into the ideas that motivate our current radicals.

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Pelosi on Thursday announced that the new maximum staff pay rate will be $199,300 – a higher salary than the $174,000 earned by most members of Congress, Politico first reported. Lawmakers in leadership positions earn more.

“As Speaker, I have been proud to take steps to ensure a diversity of experience and talent among staff, so that the halls of Congress at every level, truly reflect those who we are honored to serve,” Pelosi said in the letter, The Washington Post reported.

Pelosi also said the pay increase “helps ensure parity between employees of the House of Representatives and other employees of the Federal Government.”

Since most Congressmen are millionaires anyway, and seldom depend on their salaries for living expenses, this means more cushy high-paying jobs to distribute among the party faithful (and their offspring).

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Hezbollah continues to develop its arsenal with a continued focus on precision guided munitions, and both Israel and Hezbollah watch for any change in the rules of engagements along the Blue Line.

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Morocco and Turkey have the European Union by the short hairs. “Do as we say, or we’ll send you more migrants” has become a major element of their foreign policy.

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Perhaps because such men aren’t interested in women who worry about finding a man who makes as much as they do.

I’ve never once heard a man say ‘Gee, I hope to find a woman who makes as much as I do.’ If that had been my priority, for example, I’d still be single.

Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem (Politico) Imagine if Trump had said that, about anything, what the reaction would have been.

“Afghan capital may fall within weeks” as Taliban” fighters advance across country (BBC)

Fear and resentment reign in Afghanistan as the Taliban overruns more cities (CNN)

The Biden administration’s response to the Taliban offensive is delusional (Washington Post)

Biden’s infrastructure bill is chock-full of anti-white racism (New York Post)

Dems shudder at ‘Kamala 2024’: Devine

“Couldn’t Have Asked For A Better Partner”: Joe Biden On Kamala Harris

‘Our Hands Are Completely Tied’: See Border Patrol Union Chief’s Take on Border Crisis

President What’s-His-Face? Nets Devote Seconds to Biden’s Role in Afghanistan DISASTER

DACA: Degenerate Arsonists? Come Aboard!

US Forces Being “Rushed” to Kabul Airport as Embassy Evacuation Underway

Taliban Seizes US Weapons and Military Equipment as Afghan Takeover Accelerates

Governor Abbott Sets Kale Trap To Catch Texas Democrats Babylon Bee.

AOC, ‘Squad’-Backed Group Hails Convicted Cop Killers

Dana Gush’s Hourlong CNN Valentine for AOC

Loudoun County School Board Approves Transgender Privileges

Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party

New Batman Comic Reveals that ‘Robin’ Is LGBTQ  Who didn’t know that about Batman and Robin? His ‘ward’? C’mon….

Newsom Cracking Under Recall Pressure, Networks Ignore

NAACP Calls for DOJ Probe of Texas Dem Arrest Warrants

Poll: Majority of Democrat Voters Prefer Socialism to Capitalism  But you knew that.

Twenty Organizations Write Letter ‘Demanding’ YouTube to Ban ‘Misgendering’ and ‘Deadnaming’

MyPillow Guy’s ‘Cyber Expert’ Admits They Have No Proof of Election Hack (Daily Beast)

California dad killed his kids over QAnon and ‘serpent DNA’ conspiracy theories, feds claim (NBC)

Utah governor responds to constituent demanding he change ‘obscene’ last name (The Hill)

Trump’s Favorite Dictator Fueling New Pro-Hitler Movement (Daily Beast)

“They are laughing at you”: Scathing new video attempts to burst the right-wing media bubble (Salon)

Judge refuses to toss out Dominion defamation suits against Powell, Giuliani and Lindell (Politico)

Federal prosecutors came to suspect Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg lied, and considered charging him with perjury (CNN) The mind-readers at CNN are on the case!

Donald Trump Faces Wealth Investigation Over Purchase of Golf Courses (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Donald Trump Calls $3.5T Budget Plan ‘Assault on Our Nation’ After Measure Clears Senate (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Fani Willis, DA Investigating Donald Trump, Seeks $115K-a-Year Assistants (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Gannett Bans Crimethink About Crime in Its Newspapers

How Will the Press Spin Thursday’s Census Announcement of a Declining Number of Whites?

Joy Reid: Not Only Are Conservatives Terrorists, But They Want to Kill Your Kids with Covid

Washington Post attacks Facebook for insufficient censuring of conservatives

Fluvoxamine seems to work against Covid-19

CONFIRMED: Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard Birthday Bash a Super Spreader Event  But only the Right People got the disease, so that’s okay.

FDA poised to OK 3rd vaccine dose for immunocompromised people

The Delta Variant Isn’t As Contagious As Chickenpox. But It’s Still Highly Contagious (NPR) So the CDC lied to us yet again.

How Will the Coronavirus Evolve? (The New Yorker)

Sturgis Rally Bikers in South Dakota Are Unvaccinated, Unmasked, and Coming for America (Daily Beast)

Ron DeSantis Says Teachers Who Ask Kids To Wear Masks Will Be Thrown Into The Gator Pond  Babylon Bee.

“People Are Genuinely Trying To Make An Informed Decision” – Why Vaccine Giveaways & “Freebies” Don’t Work

Salon Owner Who Outed Maskless Pelosi Headlines ‘Save Our Paychecks’ Event

Moderna Vaccine Significantly More Effective Against Delta Variant Than Pfizer

Newsom Announces Nation’s First Vax-Or-Test Rule For All Teachers And Staff

YouTube Denies Sen. Paul’s Mask Science, Suspends Him  People keep forgetting that he’s an actual medical doctor.

“This News Is False”: China Caught Fabricating Non-Existant Swiss Biologist To Refute COVID Origin Story

A Pandemic of Cultural Enrichment in Europe

A Psychological Pandemic

Macron Says Showing Police Your Papers To Visit A Cafe Is About “Freedom”

The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs

UN Globalists Arriving In UK For Climate Summit Won’t Face COVID Restrictions Imposed On British Citizens Rules are for thee but not for me.

COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free

Australian Capital Canberra Enters 7-Day “Hard” Lockdown, Joining Melbourne And Sydney

LA To Require Vaccination For Indoor Spaces, Including Restaurants, Bars, Gyms, Stores  Time to leave.

Southwest, American, Delta Airlines Rejecting Employee Vaccine Mandates

“My University Ignores COVID Natural Immunity & Blames People Like Me For Outbreaks”

Parents Recorded Threatening Experts Over Tennessee School Mask Mandate

Fauci Confirms “Likely, Inevitable” Everyone Will Need COVID Vaccine Booster Shot

Parents Push for Mask-Free School Openings Amid Decline in Reading Scores and Speech Development  This is whaat happens when you depend on the government.

Tyson Employees Walk Off Job To Protest Vaccine Mandate

Under New Eviction Moratorium Rules, Capitol Hill Rioters Allowed To Reside In Nancy Pelosi’s Office  Babylon Bee.

“Wakeup Call”: Pfizer Vax Only 42% Effective Against Infection In July

San Francisco First Major US City to Mandate Full Vax for Indoor Activities

With a closer look, certainty about the ‘existential’ climate threat melts away

Welcome to the ‘plastisphere’: the synthetic ecosystem evolving at sea (The Guardian)

John Kerry family jet already emitted estimated 30 times more carbon in 2021 than average vehicle does in year

White House Gives in to Liberal Push to Stall Nuclear Modernization

CNN MELTDOWN: Climate Report Is ‘Code Red for Humanity’

CNN Demands School Kids Wear N95 Masks in School

Atlanta mother alleges Black students were assigned to elementary school classes based on race Yeah, it’s called ‘affirmative action’.

Mother Files Complaint Against Atlanta School For Segregating Classes By Race  The principal who did this is black.

Neighborhood ‘Karen’ Filmed Asking Black Woman To Remove Her ‘Tacky’ Tigger Flag (Huffington Post)

World War Hair Rages on

BLM Chicago Shares Fabricated Email Threat From Police Union President

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They created a solar-powered, fully automated device called ‘SmartFarm’ that is equipped with a moisture-attracting material to absorb air moisture at night when the relative humidity is higher, and releases water when exposed to sunlight in the day for irrigation.

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Two years ago, a fire devastated Paris’ iconic Catholic cathedral. An archaeologist outlines the unprecedented research scientists are now undertaking to make the most of the disaster.

Babylon Bee.

Back in 1850, the Union voted to make California the 31st state. But now Americans are taking an unusual step: holding a recall election to undo this and kick California out of the United States.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Be careful what you wish for….

ZMan looks within.

Psychiatry has fallen out of fashion as it has become obvious that you cannot talk someone out of mental illness. In fact, it sounds primitive and superstitious to think that talking about your troubles with a shaman can help cure them. There are people still clinging to things like Freudian psychoanalysis, but people with some knowledge of the human science know it is quackery. In fact, the entire enterprise of talk therapy is just pseudoscience, like astrology or tarot card reading.

Even so, Freudian quackery had a big impact on the West. It was tangled up with larger assaults on the culture, like the attack on the family. Instead of relying on the culture to cope with the inevitable struggles of marital life, women were encouraged to seek psychiatric help, which preached a form of women’s liberation. This encouraged the adoption of divorce, which swung a wrecking ball through society. It is fair to say that Freud was one of history’s great monsters, as well as a quack.

Which sums up very nicely my views on psychology and psychoanalysis.

Biden’s popularity drops to LOWEST point in his term as COVID and economy fears rise, new polls show

Poll: Voters Believe Biden Will Renege, Raise Taxes on Middle Class

Biden Nominee Praised Movement to Defund Police in Interview With Chinese State TV

Bidenomics: A “That 70s Show” Rerun

Biden Admin Decision to Hide Info About Palestinian Terrorism From Congress Broke Law, Watchdog Says

Why Trump can’t resist running in 2024 (CNN) As if CNN had any clue.

Don’t Buy the Democrats’ Undemocratic Push to Remake America (Daily Beast)

Virginia teacher resigns at school board meeting, denounces ‘highly politicized agendas’

This governor had some harsh words for those who continue to question the 2020 election results (CNN)

Oregon Suspends Need For High School Graduates To Be Proficient In Reading, Writing, & Math

Arsonist Gets Almost 9 Years for Setting Fire to Minneapolis Phone Store

Gavin Newsom Goes Captain Queeg

Cancel Culture, Wokeness Will Destroy Our Country

Colbert Brutalizes Brian Stelter Over CNN’s Lack of Ethics on Cuomo

MSNBC’s Hasan Cries for Cuomo: ‘Sadder Day for Democracy;’ Only ‘Consequences’ for Dems

CNN Swoons Over ‘Glamorous’ AOC, Bemoans ‘Fox News Version’ of Her

Portland Homicides at Highest This Century, Near All-Time Record

Canceling The Constitution: Biden Hailed For Violating Rule Of Law To Extend Eviction Moratorium

Meet Chesa Boudin, the Rogue Prosecutor Wreaking Havoc in San Francisco

Nets Salivate Over Dems Trying to Waste Trillions on Socialism

Facebook Shuts Down Anti-vaccine Influencer Campaign

Texas governor appeals for out-of-state help to fight latest Covid wave (The Guardian)

Two ERs in Texas have SHUT DOWN due to surge in COVID-19 patients as state sees cases rise (Daily Mail)

CDC rule prohibits cruise ships based outside of United States from returning for 14 days

NY Assemblyman Kim Plans to Hold Cuomo Accountable for Nursing Home Deaths

‘He Doesn’t Care’; Joy Reid, Guests: Ron DeSantis Is MURDERING Floridians With Covid

Swiss Police Threaten To Stop Enforcing COVID-19 Rules

Delta Fears Ignite Anger Ahead of New US School Year

YouTube Suspends Sen. Rand Paul for Posting Anti-Mask Video

Texas Counties Win Court Orders Overriding Governor’s Mask Ban

Dr. Jha: Unvaccinated People Leading to Spike in Childhood COVID Cases

CDC Forced To “Adjust” Sunday’s Florida “Record” COVID Count Lower By Almost 50% After State Health Department Cries Foul On Data  CDC is a government agency. Government agencies cannot be depended upon to tell the truth at any time. Not ever. Never. When they do, it’s usually coincidental.

West Virginia College to Fine Unvaccinated Students

More Dangerous Side Effects Potentially Linked To mRNA Vaccines, EU Warns

CDC Urges COVID Vaccines During Pregnancy as Delta Surges

Study Finds The Most Highly-Educated Americans Are Also The Most Vaccine-Hesitant

Macron Warns Virus Is ‘Not Behind Us;’ Urges Vaccination

Pentagon: ‘Most Troops Will Respond Positively’ to Vaccine Mandate  An obvious lie. If they would ‘respond positively’, they wouldn’t need a mandate.

Everything For the Corona, Nothing Outside the Corona

CNN Medical Propagandist: Kids In Schools Need Industrial Grade Masks, Weekly Tests  Perhaps put  chip in them to constantly monitor their status.

Oklahoma Coaches Claim They Can Discipline Players Over Viewpoints

Out for Blood: WH Reporters Lobby Biden, Psaki to Punish DeSantis on Covid

The con is winding down (Washington Post)

Dan Rather Disputes Chuck Grassley’s Defense of Trump: ‘Conspiracy to Destroy’ Democracy (Newsweek)

Follow the money: Understanding the deep roots of Donald Trump’s coup attempt (Salon)

Trump asked his AG about legal strategy to overturn election, Rosen tells senators (Politico)

Dominion Voting Systems Sue Right-Wing News Outlets For Billions (NPR)

Dominion Voting Systems sues Newsmax and One America News for ‘barrage of lies’ targeting the company (CNN)

Stephen King Comes Up With Illuminating New Way To Rip Ron DeSantis (Huffington Post)

Nickname Terror Halted: Valparaiso U. Ends Crusaders’ Oppressive Reign

Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined

Paging Greta Thunberg – China Restarts Coal Mines To Keep Up With Power Demand

Regenerative farming shift could reduce UK climate emissions, say experts (The Guardian)

Don’t buy the latest climate-change alarmism

The ocean is about to flip a switch that could permanently disrupt life on Earth: study (Salon)

‘Green Fraud’ author: Goal of UN climate change report is to ‘scare everyone’

Aussie PM Pushback Against UN Code Red Climate Declaration: “I won’t be signing a blank cheque”

Tipping points, Attenboroughesque narratives of climate doom and dying polar bears

Crazed CNN Journalist Bill Weir Hypes ‘Climate Kids’ Lawsuits to Save Earth

What is Good for the Climate Geese is NOT Good for the Ganders

Dallas restaurant owner receives backlash after a viral video alleges racial discrimination

Proposal calls for renaming part of I-35 in Fort Worth after Atatiana Jefferson

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President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India. Assuming the Senate confirms him, Garcetti, who would leave office early (his second term ends in December 2022), might find India familiar in certain respects. Like Mumbai or Delhi, Los Angeles now has massive homeless encampments throughout the city, even increasingly in posh neighborhoods like Brentwood and throughout the middle-class strongholds of the San Fernando Valley. Late last week, as Garcetti prepared to leave town, homeless advocates, angered by a city ordinance against indiscriminate camping on city streets, vandalized Getty House, the mayor’s official residence.

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The Islamists now control 65% of Afghanistan and have taken or threaten to take 11 provincial capitals, a senior EU official said on Tuesday. Faizabad, in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, on Wednesday became the eighth provincial capital to be seized by the Taliban.

All gateways to Kabul, which lies in a valley surrounded by mountains, were choked with civilians entering the city and fleeing violence elsewhere, a Western security source there told Reuters. This made it hard to tell whether Taliban fighters were also getting through, the source said.

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Three classes in particular at the academy are being taught with what critics say is the goal of social engineering and politicization of the 4,294 cadets: “Social Inequality,” “Military Leadership: Leading Inclusive Teams,” and “Politics of Race Gender and Sexuality and Diversity.” West Point also offers a seminar on diversity and inclusion that features images of Black Lives Matter protesters.

“All of those classes are primarily focused on teaching our nation’s young men and women Marxism in the name of ‘social equality,’” the military official told The Washington Times, speaking on condition of anonymity.

These are not Marxism but rather Progressivism, which, although they are fellow-travelers in the modern world, are actually distinct. Nevertheless, it is a disturbing thing.

“Those niggers will vote for us for the next hundred years.”  — Lyndon B. Johnson, signing welfare benefits legislation.

Guess he was right.

ZMan goes back to first principles.

One of the few things that libertarians get right is that the foundation of Western civilization is private property. They claim this is a universal reality, which is clearly incorrect, but it is true with regards to Western civilization. The assumption that a man owns the produce of his labor is the main difference between Europeans and the other people of the world. It forms the foundation of law and the logic of political organization, in addition to being the bedrock of Western economic systems.

What libertarians get wrong is that you can create a society where government only protects private property and does nothing else. As with so many things, they get the causal relationship backwards. Like everything else about human society, the concept of private property is downstream from biology and culture. Therefore, the primary reason to have a state is to defend the people and their way of life. Private property is one attribute of Western people’s way of life.

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The British Newspaper Archive (BNA) has over 44 million newspaper pages, mostly British and Irish titles, ranging from 1699 to 2009, or just under 10 per cent of all newspapers held by the British Library. Currently, around half a million pages are being added to the BNA every month.

At the moment, access to the service requires a subscription, as that helps fund the cost of scanning and recording each newspaper added to the online archive. To open up more of the archive for researchers though, one million pages have been released for free, with a commitment to release a million more each year for the next four years.