Today in Black Privilege
16th October 2021
Seattle School Cancels Halloween “Pumpkin Parade”; Says It “Marginalizes Students Of Color”
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16th October 2021
Seattle School Cancels Halloween “Pumpkin Parade”; Says It “Marginalizes Students Of Color”
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16th October 2021
#EmptyShelvesJoe Trends On Twitter Amid Supply Chain Snarls
Here’s The Truth Behind Biden’s 24/7 Port Operations Pledge
Aluminum Shortages Next As “Magnesium Supply Dries Up”
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16th October 2021
Blame Government, Not COVID-19, for Supply Chain Collapse
Cities, Police Unions Clash as Vaccine Mandates Take Effect
4 In 10 TSA Employees Remain Unvaccinated As Deadline Looms
Baltimore Police Union Head: ‘Don’t Give City Your Vaccine Status’
Huge Dock Worker Protests In Italy, Fears Of Disruption, As Covid ‘Green Pass’ Takes Effect
German State Allows Food Stores To Ban The Unvaccinated
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16th October 2021
Want proof that the Biden administration is really the second incarnation of the Carter administration? We have runaway inflation, Americans trapped overseas, a member of the first family who tried to do business with Libya and a president begging the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC Plus) to increase oil production. It’s like the 1970s all over again.
Gas prices have risen $1 a gallon since Joe Biden’s election, while crude oil prices have doubled since November to $83 per barrel — and some analysts predict they could rise by another $10 before the end of the year. Natural gas prices have shot up more than 150 percent in the same period, which means winter heating bills for the half of American homes that use natural gas are projected to be 30 percent higher than last year — 49 percent higher in the Midwest.
This is the result of deliberate policy choices. Biden has made clear his intention to tax and regulate the fossil fuel industry out of existence. During the 2020 campaign, he declared, “I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.”
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16th October 2021
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16th October 2021
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Europeans are looking forward to a cold, dark winter. Natural gas is scarce and expensive, and the “green” energy in which European countries have invested many billions of dollars can’t produce reliable electricity. So panic is starting to set in.
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16th October 2021
For a generation, the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors in California handled more than 40 percent of all container cargo headed into the US and epitomized the power of a globalizing economy. Today, the ships—mostly from Asia—still dock, but they must wait in a seemingly endless conga line of as many as 60 vessels, sometimes for as long as three weeks. These are the worst delays in modern history, and the price per container has risen to as much as 10 times its cost before the pandemic. The shipping crisis is now projected to last through 2023.
A pandemic-driven shortage of parts and labor has combined with a congested transport system to create an inflationary spike, with shipping rates doubling on some routes. Prices for everything from soybeans to natural gas have soared as supplies take longer to produce and arrive, and this high inflation is wiping out wage gains in the US, the UK, and Germany. The chaos on the ground may not disturb the lifestyles of the tech and financial elites, but it is hurting the middle and working classes, the groups most threatened by surging inflation.
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16th October 2021
Let’s hear it for The Religion of Peace.
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15th October 2021
Ohio Schools Freak Over Critical Race Theory, Dump Anti-Racism Reforms (Daily Beast)
Nike boss says he murdered 18-year-old while in teen gang He won’t get fired, and he won’t go to jail.
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15th October 2021
US to Restore Full Pension of FBI Deputy McCabe, Fired Under Trump The Crust take care of their own.
YouTube Censors Popular Comedian for Suggesting ‘Trans People Pose a Rape Threat to Women’
Anti-Trump Neocons Led By Ex-CIA Operative To Back Democrats In Midterms
Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money (Salon)
Apple removes popular Quran app, reportedly at China’s request
MSNBC Fake News: Missouri Pro-Life Law Will Prevent Cancer Screenings!
Instagram: Science Proving Male Athletes’ Advantages Over Women Is ‘Hate Speech’
Soros Drops $1 Million on Anti-Police Effort in Austin
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15th October 2021
Biden continues newfound presidential tradition, turns back on reporters and exits without taking questions
US Rejoins UN Rights Council Days After Council Endorsed Anti-Semitic Hate Fest
As Border Crisis Mounts, First Lady Boosts Group That Helps Illegals Avoid Arrest After all, she’s a doctor.
Biden Admin Blocks Bipartisan Lawmakers From Accessing Afghan Evacuee Holding Site
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15th October 2021
The climate disaster is here (The Guardian)
4 More New Reconstructions Affirm The Medieval Warm Period Was ‘Warmer Than Today’
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15th October 2021
This Republican candidate just got caught between Trump and a hard place (CNN)
Jimmy Kimmel Laughs at Trump for Telling Republicans Not to Vote (Daily Beast) Except that he didn’t; he merely warned that they might not. Guess Jimmy doesn’t read so well.
Woke activists try and fail to cancel Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood for decades-old Academy Awards quip
Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At
U.S. Supreme Court rejects case involving Trump-aligned lawyer Eastman (Reuters) Trump-aligned!
Republicans Are Rehabilitating the Participants in Trump’s Attempted Coup (Salon) Attempted coup!
Politico Attempts Hit Piece on ‘American Sheriff’ Mark Lamb
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15th October 2021
A large explosion tore through a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killing at least 35 people, the second week in a row that militants bombed Friday prayers and killed dozens of worshippers from the minority sect.
Let’s hear it for The Religion of Peace.
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15th October 2021
I suspect that we can presume that the perpetrator is not a Conservative.
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15th October 2021
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15th October 2021
French schools on Friday were paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class.
Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was murdered on Oct. 16 last year near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. The attacker was in turn shot dead by police.
I love that phrase ‘beome radicalized’, as if he had caught some virus going ’round. “He became radicalized, nothing he or anybody else could have done about it.”
I notice that nobody ever converts to Christianity and then starts killing random people. I guess there’s nothing about Christianity any more that ‘radicalizes’ people.
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15th October 2021
If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media are the most hostile to covering – hostile to the point of wishing it had never existed – it might be this: teenage boy describing himself as “gender fluid” accused of raping a girl in a high-school bathroom.
This is a story that any liberal media outlet would want to spike, censor, ignore, squelch, and bury six feet underground. It’s a vivid illustration of what liberals consider a false stereotype. They assume automatically, ideologically, this could never happen — that a sexual predator would proclaim himself gender-fluid and enter a bathroom or locker room to commit a sex crime.
It’s a right-wing “lie” that suddenly became real.
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15th October 2021
A single exchange may decide the Virginia governor’s race. At one point during a September 28 debate, Republican Glenn Youngkin slammed his opponent, former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe, for vetoing a 2017 bill that would have allowed parents to remove their children from courses studying sexually explicit material. McAuliffe shrugged off the criticism. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” he said.
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14th October 2021
Former California state lawmaker indicted on federal bribery charges
Is NASA Going Back to the Moon to Erase Stain of Only White Men Having Walked There?
During Great Awokening, White-Black NAEP Test Score Gap Grew by 20%
A Different Approach to Anti-Racism
Chicago Art Museum Fires Unpaid Volunteers For Being White
Seattle School Nixes Halloween Parade for Fear It ‘Marginalizes Students of Color’
Shareholder alert focuses on reverse discrimination by Lowe’s
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14th October 2021
Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web They don’t seem all that reluctant to me.
McAuliffe boasts he’ll ‘build education’ in wake of saying parents should have little say
Mark Robinson Exposes the GOP’s Problem With Its Base (New York Magazine) And of course New York Magazine knows all about the Republican base.
San Francisco’s self-inflicted ‘organized retail crime’ problem isn’t going away
Kowtowing to Snowflakes: Facebook to Remove Content That Bullies Celebs
TV News Blacks Out Parents Confronting Lib School Board That Allowed Alleged Rapes
FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked
Transgender Bathroom Policies Open Doors for Sexual Predators
Joe Rogan Crushes CNN Over Ivermectin ‘Horse Paste’ Propaganda, Gets Gupta To Concede They Lied
Even Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ Not Safe: Performer Accuses Play of Anti-Trans Bias
Instagram took down post with figure from paper showing male advantage in sports
Truckers Warn Federal Regulators Of Drug-Testing Bottlenecks
Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
‘The View’ Gives Katie Couric a Pass for Protecting RBG From Woke Left Of course they do.
Michigan Republicans OK Tougher Voting Rules; Gov to Veto The Wicked Witch of the North is not pleased.
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14th October 2021
Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect (The Guadian) Don’t you just love that term ‘vaccine hesitant’?
TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
Chaos In Texas As Employees Fired For Refusing To Get Vaxxed Demand Their Jobs Back
For poor countries, lockdowns cost more lives than they save
Paradigm Shift? Aussie Cop Quits, Refuses To Enforce COVID Tyranny, Says “Majority” Of Cops Feel The Same
Dem Lawmakers Demand Moderna Share Vaccine Recipe To “Expand Global Access”
YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports
Chicago Police Union Head Urges Members To Defy Vaccine Mandate, Warns Force To Shrink 50% This Weekend
Harnessing the benefits of UVA light treatment in Covid-19 patients
Rep. Hartzler to Newsmax: ‘Tragic’ for Military Members to Quit Over Vaccines
Watch: Fauci Claims No “True Basis” In Concerns Over Long-Term COVID Vax Side Effects
Front Runners in COVID-19 Antibody Drug Race
A Question for Mandated-Vaccination Advocates
Joe Rogan Presses Sanjay Gupta on CNN Lying About Him Taking ‘Horse Dewormer’
911 System In Jeopardy Amid “Crippling Labor Shortages”: Association President You will have noticed that none of these labor problems occurred before politicians went Full Fascist with vaccine mandates.
Pandemic Wiped Out Entire Savings Of 20% Of US Households No, the panic wiped them out.
Italy’s Mandatory Health Pass Not Boosting Jabs as Hoped, Data Show
FDA Endorses Lower-Dose Moderna COVID Booster
Navy Sets Dates to Discharge Sailors Who Refuse Vaccine
New antibodies may lead to a norovirus vaccine
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14th October 2021
Republicans would “rather end democracy” than turn away from Trump, says Harvard professor (Salon) And of course a Harvard Professor knows everything there is to know about Republicans.
Is Trump’s power over Republicans starting to slip? (BBC) All Trump! All the time!
Capitol Rioter Decides to Represent Himself in Court, Accidentally Admits to Two New Felonies (Daily Beast)
Candace Cameron Bure Reveals How Donald Trump Made Her Time on ‘The View’ Stressful (Newsweek) Poor baby.
Federal judge holds DC jail in contempt and says it violated US Capitol rioter’s civil rights (CNN)
Trans Netflix staff to stage walkout over Chappelle special (LA Times) A significant part of its workforce, I’m sure.
NASA Advisor Quits Over Space Telescope Named for Homophobic Administrator (Gizmodo)
25 years of Fox ‘News’ is nothing to celebrate. No company has done more to inflame partisanship and the pandemic. (Washington Post) Oddly enough, I would have said the same thing about the WP.
Capitol Riot Panel Subpoenas DOJ Deputy Who Pushed Trump’s Election Lies (Daily Beast)
New Database Documents Campus Cancel Culture
PolitiFact POUNCES on Rick Scott Over Merrick Garland’s Angry Parents Probe
UK Judge Says Ring Doorbell ‘Violated’ Woman’s Privacy
‘There have to be consequences:’ Judge ups sentences for Capitol rioters But not Antifa or BLM.
Instagram Censors Evolutionary Biologist For Post Pointing Out Men Are Physically Stronger Than Women
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14th October 2021
The Amazon rainforest is losing 200,000 acres a day. Soon it will be too late (The Guardian)
A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world (Washington Post) The phrase “My DC apartment” tells you everything you need to know.
Growing Climate Solutions: Climate-Smart Agriculture
Energy crisis is a ‘wake up call’ for Europe to ditch fossil fuels (CNN) I suspect most people would say the exact opposite.
Coal is ‘king’ as gas prices soar, Total CEO says — and it’s backfiring on cleaner energy goals (CNBC)
USDA needs to put climate solutions before industry profits (The Hill)
Coal Shortages Threaten Blackouts for 2.7 Billion Chinese and Indians
Macron Says Small Nuclear Reactors Will Be A Part Of His “France 2030” Energy Plan
Inconvenient Tornado Data Disappears
Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse
IRS Agents Bust 7-Year-Old For Getting More Than $600 Worth Of Birthday Presents Babylon Bee.
Greta Climate Case Thrown Out by the United Nations
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14th October 2021
Leaked Border Patrol docs show mass release of illegal immigrants into US by Biden administration
Biden WH to Allow Former Taliban Civil Servants Into US
FLASHBACK: 1 Year Ago, Big Tech, Media Buried Hunter Biden Scandal
CENSORED: ABC, CBS, NBC Spent an Entire Year Hiding Hunter, Aired Only 18 Minutes On His Scandals
Biden’s Supreme Court Commission to Issue Draft Materials Ahead of Final Report
Over 94,000 Illegal Immigrants in Southern Texas Released Into US With Notices to Report, Documents Show Which they won’t dol as we all know perfectly well.
Jonathan Turley: Time for Special Counsel to Probe Hunter Biden Scandal
Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Gratuitously Polarize, Impede Private Sector Labor Market
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14th October 2021
While other water generators based on similar technology require high ambient humidity and low temperatures to function effectively, Veiga’s machines work in temperatures of up to 40 Celsius (104F) and can handle humidity of between 10% and 15%.
A small machine can produce 50-75 litres a day, and be easily carried on a trolley, but bigger versions can produce up to 5,000 litres a day.
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14th October 2021
Created by Brazilian developer Alan Pégoli, ‘Laundry Lens’ launched a year ago and it’s really simple to use. Just point your camera to the tag on the clothes you want to wash and it will say whether you should take some caution when using the washing machine, iron, or drying it clean.
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14th October 2021
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and stop expecting printers to “just work” because that would make sense in a world where a touchscreen supercomputer fits in your shirt pocket. Like most things in life that you have no control over, you’ll be happier if you accept printers for the janky money pits that they really are.
Most of you are going to hate something about any printer that you buy, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Instead of fighting it, try to reframe the issue in your mind: You’re not buying a printer because you’re supposed to have one at home. You’re buying a printer because it’s (just barely) less inconvenient than going to a copy center.
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14th October 2021
Because why not?
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14th October 2021
If you purchase a Framework Laptop, you’re buying both a capable computer right now and a promise of something remarkable in the future. Cracking the Framework Laptop open for the first time, you’ll find a well-organized and well-labeled set of parts, every one replaceable. If the promise works out, you have an heirloom laptop that’s repairable and upgradable for a decade. If Framework—the company making the Framework Laptop—fails, you might replace it in a few years, as you would any other laptop.
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14th October 2021
A vehicle was stolen on Tuesday in broad daylight in Albuquerque outside a venue where a progressive prosecutor backed by left-wing financier George Soros was speaking about rising crime in the area.
Bernalillo County district attorney Raúl Torrez (D.) is struggling to reverse a prolonged spike in murders and non-fatal shootings in Albuquerque. Torrez is also a candidate for New Mexico attorney general, with a campaign keyed to a left-wing “smart on crime” approach that advocates harsher gun control measures with greater investment in diversionary programs and consumer protection.
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14th October 2021
(I detest people who use ‘should’ in place of ‘ought’. Just sayin’.)
It seemed like double the work—to write 80,000 ish words by hand and then have to type it—am I right? Wrong. In fact, those who swear by it say you end up revising less since you write more carefully with a pen, so although you do have to transfer it to the computer, the work you’ve already done likely puts you a step, or perhaps a draft, ahead.
There’s other benefits too such as an increase of creativity in how using the pen stimulates your brain. (I worry today’s students miss out on this when they take notes on their computer instead of in a notebook.) You also remember what you write down better than you do when you type it. (This is another reason students should drop the computer.) Writing your novel longhand helps you to keep moving down the page too. It’s more aggravating to cross through words than to delete words with the push of a button. And when you cross through a word, it’s still there for you to see. Perhaps when you revise, you’ll like your first instinct better, but when you delete a word on the computer, it’s gone forever. Writing longhand helps you to choose words more carefully and move down the page at a better pace.
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14th October 2021
Vance is a leader within that faction of the right which says the conservative movement’s emphasis on individual freedom, and its commitment to the classical liberal procedures and “norms” of constitutional government, is responsible for its apparent failure to preserve the nuclear family, and for its exclusion from mainstream institutions. He is a pacesetter for this trend, which drew energy from Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. And because Vance represents one possible future for the American right, I was eager to read the transcript of a speech he gave last weekend to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s “Future of American Political Economy” conference in Alexandria, Va. There is no doubting Vance’s smarts—he graduated from Yale Law School in 2013—or his communication skills. But his text left me with questions.
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14th October 2021
Now that Trump has made it profitable, they’ll give it to one of de Blasio’s cronies.
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14th October 2021
A Florida man who is accused of shooting down a federal drone that was being used to search for a burglar has been indicted on charges of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and destruction of aircraft.
Wendell Doyle Goney was formally charged after admitting to authorities that he had used a .22 caliber rifle to shoot down the Lake County Sheriff’s Office drone, which he said was “harassing” him, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.
The incident took place on July 11. Deputies from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office were alerted to a burglary at a 10-acre business property. A law enforcement drone was deployed to assist with the outdoor search but it was soon shot down from the sky by Goney, who resides at a neighboring property, according to the release.
Boy, he sure showed them!
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14th October 2021
But I thought all of the Filthy Rich were Slimy Republicans…?
Maybe Democrats are … lying to us? They wouldn’t do that, would they?
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14th October 2021
Scott Johnson at Power Line.
A law student at Yale is informed by Yale Diversicrats that associating with the Federalist Society is ThoughtCrime. Cleverly, he recorded his conversation with the Powers That Be and shared it with us. Massive backpedaling ensues.
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14th October 2021
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14th October 2021
The quick fix of coal gasification and CO2 storage is all but dead. Projects will continue, and the subsidies will flow if Biden gets his way. But it is greenwashing and greenwasting.
The shiny star to be, Plant Ratcliffe, better known as the Kemper Project, a $6.7 billion integrated gasification power plant, was an experimental boondoggle from the start (mid-2010).
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14th October 2021
Jason Martinez, a nurse anesthetist in Nebraska, has work in two hours. It is 4 a.m. and Martinez is sifting through hundreds of pages of government documents he obtained through a public information request. His wife is worried about his sleep, that is until he starts reading aloud the messages, the snide remarks state bureaucrats and their activist allies made as they wrote a curriculum that would teach the couple’s daughters, aged 13 and 15, about transgender hormone therapy and the merits of abortion. Mrs. Martinez was no longer worried about her husband, but her children.
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14th October 2021
This isn’t a Chicago story. It’s a Democratic Party story.
Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney for Cook County and darling of MSNBC, has managed to increase murders in Chicago to astounding levels even at a time when we’re all getting used to astounding crime figures. Nationwide in 2020, murder and non-negligent manslaughter were up 29.4%, according to the FBI. That’s more than double the previous record of 1968, when murders increased by 12.7%.
Under the careful management of Foxx, murders in Chicago were up 55%. To put this in perspective, last year, there were nearly as many murders in Chicago (population: 2.7 million) as in New York City and Los Angeles combined (total population: more than 12 million).
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14th October 2021
Empty shelves in supermarkets and other stores are due in part to hundreds of thousands of shipping containers waiting to be unloaded at ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and other cities. According to market urbanist Scott Beyer, this backlog is due to a combination of labor unrest and NIMBYism.
That’s certainly true in Portland, whose container port was completely shut down by labor disputes four years ago, and now is just beginning to function again. Moreover, trucks carrying containers out of Portland face some of the worst congestion in the country, partly due to anti-highway groups that oppose congestion relief on the grounds that it might lead people to drive more.
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14th October 2021
A report released Tuesday by the U.S. Air Force paints a chilling picture of evacuation efforts at Hamid Karzai International Airport, including a revelation that a group was planning on hijacking one of the evacuation flights.
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In the report, Lt. Col. Brian Desautels, of the 71st Rescue Squadron, said they had received a tip that a group of five people planned to hijack a commercial plane used in the evacuation during those chaotic two weeks.
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14th October 2021
Joe Biden may present himself as a ‘working-class hero’, a claim reiterated recently in the leftist American Prospect, but increasingly America’s workers are showing signs not of common cause but disquiet. Hollywood workers just announced a large-scale strike, some of whom blame their hard times on the ‘disruption’ to their industry wrought by tech firms, which are distinctly hostile to unions. There’s also increased tensions at Disneyland, as well as numerous organising efforts targeting Biden’s oligarch allies like Amazon and Starbucks.
One possible cause for the unrest lies with inflationary pressures that have cancelled out any income gains for most people outside the oligarchic elites. The sad economic reality of today – real wages are in decline – contrasts uncomfortably with the far better performance for working people under the pre-pandemic Trump administration.
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14th October 2021
Steven Hayward at Power Line.
Katie Couric is out with a memoir from her Morning Show days that apparently dishes on everyone. I have no idea because I haven’t read it and I’m not going to. But the indispensable New York Post has a scandalous story today containing an excerpt from Couric about how she suppressed a comment by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about athletes kneeling for the National Anthem because it ran contrary to the left’s narrative.
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14th October 2021
Tom Veal is delightfully dyspeptic today.
Yesterday I wished readers a Happy Human Sacrifice Abolition Day. Today let me expatiate on the increasingly common practice of treating history as a court room and our ancestors as either the accused in the dock or their innocent, wholly meritorious victims.
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14th October 2021
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m, sure surprised.
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13th October 2021
Maxine Waters raises eyebrows with bizarre post claiming Twitter hacked: ‘I know who has done this’ Mad Maxine is on the warpath.
Twitter says no signs U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters’ account was hacked
Can Blacks Squeeze $137 Million Out of Duluth Schools?
Latest SAT Score Averages by Race
Black Professor: Blacks Who Reject Critical Race Theory Being ‘Erased’
DC City Council Member Who Claimed Jews Control the Weather Announces Run for Mayor
Most Undergrads Have Encountered CRT in the Classroom, Survey Finds
Does Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings Apply to Bow-and-Arrow Massacres in Norway?
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13th October 2021
This climate change contrarian gives us an important reminder about science in general (Washington Post)
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized (The Guardian) Welcome to Fantasyland. Still waiting for the seas to, you know, actually rise.
Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe (CNN) Still waiting for New York to be under water. Still waiting for real estate in Malibu to get cheaper.
Scientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a giant climate-crisis blind spot (CNN) Yeah, still can’t see this crisis actually happening.
UN Tells Greta Thunberg To Pound Sand Over Climate Complaint
Beijing Liberalizes Coal-Fired Power Prices To Combat Energy Crunch Don’t they know that we’re all going to be under water in a week or two, a month at the outside?
NASA Is Preparing for the Ravages of Climate Change
Sky News Doomsday Climate Report Flooded with Misleading Sea Rise Claims
Prince Charles Adds to His List of Climate Last Chances
Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online There’s a switch.
Climate Clock Fear-mongers live countdown clocks.
Extreme heat is broiling people in developing cities – Science – AAAS
Here is The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The “Crusade” Against Climate Change
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13th October 2021
1 sentence that sums up Joe Biden’s mounting political problems (CNN) “Let’s go, Brandon!”
Not Going Away: NY Post’s Nelson Irks Psaki by Daring to Ask About Corrupt Hunter Biden
White House Says Biden ‘Proud of His Son’ for Art Sales I have no doubt.
Watch: $100 Million Border Wall Discarded In Field While Biden Still Pays Contractors To Not Build It Want to know where your tax money goes? Voila!
Get curious with the Shamala video
Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon
Docs Show Biden Admin Opening Border, Handing Out Work Permits
Joe And Hunter Biden Shared Bank Accounts, Paid Each Other’s Bills
Now A US Govt Official Is Telling Us That Supply Chain Nightmares Could Potentially Last For “Years” Duh – when you shut down the supply chain with lockdown mandates, this is what happens.
Vaccine Mandates Aren’t Biden’s Only Job-Killing Scheme
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