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Overflow lots set up by large retailers this month as temporary staging areas for imported containers have helped bring down congestion levels at the Port of Savannah, and Georgia officials expect further efficiency gains with this week’s opening of two more port-sponsored pop-up sites.

John Stossel.

I’ve reported how Facebook censors me.

Now I’ve learned that they also censor environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, statistician Bjorn Lomborg and former New York Times columnist John Tierney.

Facebook’s “fact-checkers” claim we spread “misinformation.”

In my new video, Tierney argues that the “people guilty of spreading misinformation are Facebook and its fact-checkers.”

He’s right.

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Jussie Smollett says two Nigerian-born brothers – one of whom was his personal trainer, lover, and alleged drug dealer – are “sophisticated” criminals who set him up. The 39-year-old actor is accused of lying to police about being the victim of a racist and homophobic assault. The class-4 felony carries a sentence of up to three years in prison, however experts cited by Fox News think he would most likely face probation and perhaps community service.

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Five percent of active-duty Marines have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, the military branch says.

Vox: It’s Time to Stop Demonizing “invasive” Species

Claim: More Work Required to Study “Settled” Climate Science

“Slow Disaster Playing Out” As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity

Sea Ice Cometh to Hudson Bay: Freeze-Up has Begun

Think Climate Change Is Messy? Wait Until Geoengineering

Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought

Business Insider: ‘Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us — We Need to Get Rid of Cars Completely’

Asian climate variability and dynamics across early-to-middle pliocene warm period provide clues for future climate change

Ghislaine Maxwell portrayed both as scapegoat, predator as trial gets under way (Reuters)

Powerful Variant of Stupidity Identified in Texas (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz tries to be the Left’s Babylon Bee and fails miserably.

QAnon Follower Writes Open Letter to Donald Trump Over Failed Predictions: ‘Tired of It’ (Newsweek) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory (The Guardian) All Trump! All; the time!

Trump Made Desperate Phone Calls on Jan. 6 to Ask How to Stop Biden Win, Says Report (Daily Beast) It’s in a Report, so you know it must be true!

Communist Party cancel culture targets internet celebrities – The Economist

Campus Comedy Explains Importance of Pronouns to ‘Really Dumb Cis Bitch’

The Cynical and Dangerous Weaponization of the “White Supremacist” Label  Glenn Greenwald.

Daily Beast: Anonymous Politico Reporters Lament Young In-House ‘Woke Police’

The Hidden Victims Of Biden’s Border Crisis

Joe Biden, Communist Chinese Stooge?

Why Inflation Is A Runaway Freight Train

USA Today Owner Could Receive Tens of Millions from Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Farce

As omicron threatens US, is Biden up to the task?

Omicron poses ‘very high’ risk of new COVID-19 outbreaks, top global health official warns  (Associated Press) TIME TO PANIC!

Why some researchers think the omicron variant could be the most infectious one yet (NPR) TIME TO PANIC!

More Minnesotans getting booster shots as COVID-19 wave worsens (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) TIME TO PANIC!

All vaccinated adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot because of the Omicron variant, CDC says (CNN) TIME TO PANIC!

Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron (Financial Times) TIME TO PANIC! (KA-CHING!)

UK to offer booster shots to all adults, just three months after their second dose (CNN)

US urges vaccination ahead of Omicron concerns, with experts warning even mild Covid infections risk stronger mutations (CNN) TIME TO PANIC!

NYC reinstitutes Covid mask advisory ‘at all times’ indoors regardless of vaccination status (CNBC) TIME TO PANIC!

Global markets rattled by omicron vaccine worries (CNBC) TIME TO PANIC!

Double Vax Report

Moderna CEO Repeats That Vaccine Won’t Work For Omicron; Antibody Cocktails Also Need Modification (Risk Cracks After Moderna CEO Comments Spark Global Stock Rout)

Oxford University Says “No Evidence” Vaccines Won’t Protect Against Severe Disease Caused By Omicron  Guess they didn’t get the memo.

The Biden variant

Oxford Professor: Official Data Shows Face Masks “Made No Meaningful Difference” To Infection Rates  There’s an echo in here….

Federal Court Pauses California School District’s Vaccine Mandate

The WHO Says: The Vax Doesn’t Work, So Mask Up, Everyone!

Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate Could Result in Thousands of Firings. Here’s What That Means for Government Functions.

Santa To Replace ‘Naughty Or Nice’ List With ‘Vaxxed Or Unvaxxed’ List  Babylon Bee.

Teacher Unions, Parents Gird For 2022 Battles

CBS Skips Evidence from Cuomo Investigation, ABC Ignored Fredo’s Role

San Francisco Homeless Insider Tells All

A Tale Of Two Cities: Kenosha Vs. Waukesha Victor Davis Hanson.

UK Bureaucrats Abandon Term “Christmas” Over Fears It May Offend Minorities

This Ohio Democrat Says He’s a Champion of the Working Class. Now, He’s Backing a Tax Break for Coastal Millionaires.

ABC Desperately Tries to Hide Ex-Host Chris Cuomo’s Role in Brother’s Sex Abuse Case

Twitter’s New CEO Said Role Is ‘Not to be Bound by the First Amendment,’ But to Decide ‘Who Can Be Heard’  Understandable, since he’s not American himself.

Will Twitter Censor Images of Riots?

CNN Reviewing Documents Showing Chris Cuomo Was Untruthful To Viewers  What a surprise.

The Media Stopped Talking About Darrell Brooks Because He’s Black and His Victims Are Mostly White

ZMan does some analogizing.

Minority rule is one of those things that on the surface should be rare but is actually quite common in human history. The most common form of minority rule is when one people conquer another and then install their people as rulers. This small ruling class is backed by the conquering power. In the Bronze Age it was not unusual for one city-state to rule over the surrounding city-states. The great leader would rule not only his own people but the people he subjugated.

In medieval times, the family trees of ruling elites were often quite complicated so the duke of some territory might not speak the language of the people over whom he was the ruler. Conquest also played a role. The Normans who were “invited” to conquer Britain did not speak the local language. People were tied to the land, so when a successful ruler conquered new lands, he inherited the people. His descendants would then inherit a kingdom of strangers.

Ruling classes, in general, are a form of minority rule. In South America, most of the countries are controlled by a relatively small number of families that make up the ruling elite of the country. These families trace their origins to Europe, marry amongst each other and keep a tight grip on power. It is why the complexion of the political elite rarely has the same hue as the general public. This demographic realty of ruling elites is true to some degree everywhere in the world.

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In the south (Daraa province) there has been an undeclared war between Iranian and Syrian forces since 2018. Anonymous assassins use pistols and hidden bombs to kill those who work, or worked for government forces or Russia and Syria backed local militias. Russian and Assad forces openly force Iran-backed groups and individuals out of the area. There is no open violence because Iran, Syria and Russia are still officially allies. Near the Daraa/Israel border area Russian and Syrian pressure has prevented Iranian attacks on Israel. Russia and Syria have also been checking locals to see if they are Syrian Shia wearing authorized Syrian army or police uniforms rather than Lebanese Shia using stolen uniform as disguises. This border security operation is a big deal for Syria and Israel and a major embarrassment for Iran, which is why Iran has not cranked up its usual media outrage to complain. Israel will sometimes fire on Iranian forces operating in Daraa, especially near the Israeli border. Israel also shares intel with Russia and Syria about Syrian officers who are secretly working for Iran. The Iranians pay well, and in dollars. Israel will sometimes release evidence of this to the media, so that Iranians back home have another reason to oppose Iranian foreign wars. Negotiations have been underway between Iran and Russia/Syria for over a year but are not making much progress. The covert Iranian violence is just another incentive for Syria to get the Iranian agents out of the area.d

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Ever since Alan Sokal hoaxed Social Text more than 20 years ago, and Peter Boghossian and his two compatriots punked several postmodern journals with total gibberish just a couple years back, you’d think academic journal editors and reviewers would be on guard against similar hoaxes. But apparently not Higher Education Quarterldy (a Wiley publication) which is just out with a howler entitled “Donor money and the academy: Perceptions of undue donor pressure in political science, economics, and philosophy.”

The study purports to demonstrate that “right wing” money is having a significant effect in pushing colleges to the right.

The first sign this is a hoax is that the article says the two authors, Sage Owens and Kal Avers-Lynde III, are on the economics faculty at UCLA, but I can find no record of their existence at UCLA or anywhere else, and no record of other publications by either author. I believe they do not exist. My suspicion is that the “authors” may be conservatives, or at least anti-leftists, who decided to see whether an article that flatters the deep biases of academia could get past peer review and into print.

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For a long time, I sympathized with Dr. Anthony Fauci. There he was, trying to deal with a pandemic caused by a virus no one knew much about. Sure, he was often wrong about pandemic-related matters, but so were plenty of others, on both sides of the political spectrum and in between, who opined on these subjects. Everyone was shooting in the dark.

But at some point — possibly because of all the attacks on him, some of which were over-the-top, possibly because of a personality flaw or maybe old age — Fauci decided to cast himself as Mr. Science. Criticize him, and you’re anti-science.

In fact, Fauci is a career bureaucrat, not a scientist in any strong sense. Indeed, a true scientist would never view himself as science’s representative and try to win arguments based on such a claim.

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A boat full of puir wee African bairns has finally been unloaded at a Sicilian port, thanks to the timely arrival of a storm at sea, which raised the tear-jerk quotient high enough to force the Italian authorities to allow the landing.

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Both climate change hysteria and Covid hysteria are based on two things, and in neither case except by the most inaccurate understanding of the word can these things be described as science.

The ‘science’ foundation for both is actually computer modelling. Computer modelling is a modern form of fortune telling. It can probably get fairly accurate results in a very short time span with very few variables and many historical examples to feed into the analysis. I’ll give it that much.

If you want to know how a crowd of people fleeing a fire are likely to react in a small building, it can probably do the job for you. With about the same accuracy as a human fireman (sorry, fire fighter) who has been in the job more than three weeks.

The map is not the territory.

“Slow Disaster Playing Out” As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity

Maine Researchers Breeding a Global Warming Resistant Potato  Or at least that’s what they claim. KA-CHING! I suspect that it’s also Organic and Sustainable….

Claim: Climate Change is Making One of the World’s Strongest Currents Flow Faster

Green Technologies Have A Glaring Problem Of Scale  The problem being that they don’t.

Time to Ban Self-Driving Cars?

Jussie Smollett Criminal Trial Begins Monday For Alleged Hate-Crime Hoax

Mass Shooting Incidents Up ~160% Since 2014

Media Frantically Prepares Exciting New News Stories In Hopes Of Making Everyone Forget About Waukesha Terrorist Attack  Babylon Bee.

After Shamelessly Pushing Smollett Nonsense, Cowardly GMA Ignores New Trial

Reality Remains Undefeated

Chicago Reports 40 Tragic Bullet Accidents Over Weekend  Babylon Bee.

Jussie Smollett Finally on Trial Nearly 3 Years After Prominent Democrats Embraced Obvious Hate Crime Hoax

MSNBC Compares Banning Abortion to Banning Interracial Marriage  Gotta get race in there somewhere.

Omicron Covid variant poses ‘very high’ global risk and is likely to spread, WHO warns (CNBC) TIME TO PANIC!

Omicron variant poses ‘very high’ global risk, ‘unprecedented number of spike mutations’: WHO TIME TO PANIC!

Explainer: How worried should we be about the Omicron variant? (Reuters) TIME TO PANIC!

South African doctor who first spotted the omicron Covid variant explains the symptoms (CNBC) NO NEED TO PANIC!

Japan to bar all foreign visitors over Omicron variant (Al-Jazeera) TIME TO PANIC!

NIH chief: COVID vaccines will ‘most likely’ protect against Omicron mutations NO NEED TO PANIC!

Fauci says U.S. should prepare to do anything and everything to fight the omicron variant (CNBC) TIME TO PANIC!

Israel to Ban ALL Foreigners For 14 Days Over COVID-19 Omicron Variant (Daily Beast)

WHO criticizes travel bans on southern African countries NO NEED TO PANIC!

UK set to expand COVID vaccine boosters amid omicron fears (Washington Post) TIME TO PANIC!

Couple who traveled to South Africa arrested for ‘fleeing’ Amsterdam quarantine hotel (CNN)(

Omicron Variant: Here We Go Again!

Bury my Heart at Howard Springs

Omigod it’s the omicron

Fines, Forced Vax — But Maybe No Piano Wire

62% Of Swiss Citizens Vote To Keep Covid Vaccine Passports

Could One Shot Kill the Flu?

Sens. Cruz, Paul Blast “Astounding Authoritarian” Fauci For “I Am Science” Claim  Like an SNL skit: ‘I’m science, and you’re not.’

Japan Joins Growing List Of Countries Closing Borders As More Omicron Cases Detected Globally

Top South African Doctor Confirms No Evidence Omicron Variant More Harmful Than Delta As G-7 Pushes “Urgent Action”

Watch Live: Biden Promises US Will Develop Boosters Targeting Omicron Variant  Hey, Big Pharma doesn’t work for free, you know

Media Says Rise In Soccer Players Suddenly Collapsing Is Just A “Coincidence”

No Severe Omicron COVID-19 Cases Among Vaccinated People: Top Israeli Expert

How Much Lower Can Higher Education Sink?

Why Crime Is Out Of Control In San Francisco

Wokeness claims a museum

James, NBA Ignore Disappearance of Chinese Athlete, Denounce U.S. ‘Vigilantism’

Fact-Checking the Fact Checkers

Thieves Continue to Raid Container Trains

CNN Pushes More Gun Control After Record Homicides in Philadelphia

COVID’s Bad? Inflation’s Bad? CNN’s Brian Stelter Argues That’s ‘Feelings Over Facts’

‘Social and Emotional Learning’ New Way for Educators to Sneakily Indoctrinate Kids

Complete Madness In The Biden Administration: Energy Policy

U.S. Vote on Palestinian Refugees Raises Discomfort in Israel

With Kamala Harris looking unelectable, the Democrats are considering the nuclear option

The “Nuclear Option” for Kamala?

NYT Columnist: Harvard, Media Execs Talk About Suppression of Anti-Biden ‘Misinformation’

Biden Admin Withholds Report on Illegal Immigrant Population

Fauci Burns Ted Cruz for Wanting Him Prosecuted: ‘What Happened on Jan. 6, Senator?!’ (Daily Bast)

Arizona university students demand administration to ‘withdraw’ Kyle Rittenhouse: ‘killer off our campus’ And the witch-hunt starts in earnest.

He “Should Pay For His Crimes”: ASU Students Demand Expulsion Of Kyle Rittenhouse

The Persecution of J.K. Rowling at the Hands of the ‘Oppressed’

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

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Somebody ought to point out to him that thereby he will automatically become a racist and a white supremacist. If he doesn’t take care, he may wake up one morning having voted for Trump.

ZMan reviews the Covidian Panic.

Since the Great Panic began almost two years ago, the question on the minds of the curious has been how long will it last? Panics are not new in human society and they are not new to recent times either. The satanic panic that started in the 1980’s never really ended completely. The “face on a milk carton” meme is still with us, despite the fact few people remember is started in a panic. That was close to half a century ago, suggesting panics never really end.

The missing kid panic changed American society. Prior to that time, it was not unusual for children to walk to school with just the older kids supervising. Kids spent their after-school time playing outside, usually unsupervised. In big cities, kids would ride public transit to school. No one thought it was strange. After the panic, supervised activities became the norm. Video games found a target-rich environment of kids stuck inside by themselves or within earshot of their parents.

That suggests the Covid panic has a long way to go and may never end. That should be obvious at this point. First it was two weeks to bend the curve so hospitals could avoid being overrun by flu patients. That gave way to a regime of total fright with people required to wear amulets reminding everyone of the great fear. The vaccine should have broken the fear, but here we are facing new lockdowns due to the omicron strain, which reportedly attacks the vaccinated for some reason.

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And there’s not a woman in the world who will ever wear it.

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He says that like it was a bad thing….

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The two accrediting bodies for American medical schools say that meritocracy is “malignant” and that race has “no genetic or scientific basis,” positions that many doctors worry will lower standards of care and endanger lives by discouraging vital genetic testing.

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits all medical schools in North America, is cosponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association for Medical Colleges (AAMC)—the same groups that on Oct. 30 released a controversial guide to “advancing health equity” through “language, narrative, and concepts.”

Steve Sailer.

Well, at least, I trust Google to furnish me with all the pro-Biden talking points extant. So, rather than get down in the weeds of whether the New York Post has or has not proved that the MacBook Pro dropped off for repair was Hunter Biden’s, I went looking for recent news articles that included the phrase “Biden denied” that the computer or laptop or notebook or MacBook or whatever in question belonged to Hunter Biden.

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Follow the money.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I have lived in the Twin Cities metropolitan area since 1974, roughly half that time in the city of Minneapolis and half the time in the suburbs. As everyone knows, Minneapolis is in a steep decline due to out of control crime that began with the George Floyd riots. How bad is it?

I don’t ever recall hearing the word “carjacking” in connection with the Twin Cities until 2020, when such crimes exploded, and carjackings in Minneapolis have again risen steeply in 2021. Minneapolis resident Steve Taylor created this map on Maps.co. The yellow pins indicate carjackings in 2020, while the red pins show carjackings in 2021.

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As the chlorophyll wanes, now is the heyday of the xanthophylls, carotenoids and anthocyanins. These contain carbon rings and chains whose electrons become delocalized… their wavefunctions resonating at different frequencies, emitting photons of yellow, orange and red!

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Canadian Maple Syrup Cartel. Sounds ominous, no?

All About Omicron –and Xi

WHO Explains Why It Skipped ‘Xi’ When Naming New COVID-19 Variant Omicron

White Smoke Emanates From Wuhan Lab Chimney Signaling A New Variant Has Been Named  Babylon Bee.

Fauci: Omicron Probably Already In The US

Israel Moves To Ban All Foreigners From Entry Amid Omicron Variant Fears

“The Omicron Variant” – Magic Pills, Or Solving The Africa Problem?

An update on the mask debate

Biden spotted in Nantucket shopping indoors without a mask despite sign mandating them  Rules are for thee but not for me.

Omicron concerns should spur millions of unvaccinated Americans to get their Covid shots, experts say (CNN)

South Africa punished for scientific Discovery

Belgian Prime Minister Says New Variant Heralds Arrival Of “COVID-21”

UK Health Authority Slammed By Watchdog For Misleading Claim That Unvaxx’d Have “32 Times” Risk Of COVID Death

World Medical Association Chair Demands National Lockdowns, Compulsory Jabs, Fears COVID “Variant As Dangerous As Ebola”

A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats: Scott Atlas Exposes The Real COVID Disaster

Omicron Is “Extremely Mild” Says Doctor Who First Discovered Strain As Numerous Mutations “Destabilize” The Virus  Won’t stop the Usual Suspects from panicking, though.

A Fearstorm Is Upon Us

New Variant Hysteria Comes From Same Institution That Popularized Lockdowns, Previous COVID Scares

Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’  That won’t stop the Panic, of course.

Philadelphia Ties Its All Time Homicide Record After Murder In Broad Daylight This Week

NY Times Asks: Why Do Blue States Suck?

Suffolk eyes preserving land in environmental justice areas (Newsday) More of the ‘environmental justice’ trope.

Canada’s indigenous health expert Carrie Bourassa loses job when ancestry claims prove false

San Francisco guard, a former cop, shot and killed protecting news crew covering a smash-and-grab

The ‘Visible Deterioration’ in American Democracy Is Just the Start (Daily Beast)

Notre Dame Cathedral slammed over rebuild plans turning it into ‘woke theme park’

Wisconsin senators warn in rare joint statement outsiders may try to exploit Waukesha tragedy for ‘political purposes’ (CNN) Oh, as the Narrative Media did with Rittenhouse?

Antifa Member Who Took Axe To Senate Office Given Probation And His Axe Back

San Francisco TV Reporter Cautions Against Use of Word ‘Looting’

LAPD Targets “Follow-Home” Robbery Crime Wave

New migrant caravan heading to US, increasing concerns about the spread of omicron COVID variant

ABC/NBC Most Concerned With How Omicron Variant Hurts Biden’s Agenda

Biden’s “Strategic” Oil Reserve Release Will Mostly Go To China And India

Hillary: “Americans Just Don’t Appreciate What Joe Has Done For Them”  Higher gas prices, supply chain screwups, massive inflation, massive government porkbarrel spending — Oh, I think they know.

If Merrick Garland Doesn’t Charge Trump and His Coup Plotters, Our Democracy Is Toast (Daily Beast)

US Christian right group wages culture war with books, cartoon and nature doc (The Guardian)

Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl review – a tyrant’s last stand (The Guardian)

Some Jews see antisemitism and white nationalism becoming less fringe since the 2017 Unite the Right rally (Washington Post)

Enthusiastic Idiocy vs. Infrastructure Optimization – Two Strategies for an Energy Transition

The Wire Criticises the “Deep Adaptation” Climate Doomsday Narrative

He spent almost 50 years alone at 10,000 feet. His hobby helped shape climate research in the Rockies. (Washington Post)

Australia’s spy agency predicted the climate crisis 40 years ago – and fretted about coal exports (The Guardian)

Fourth-generation dairy farmer warns economic woes, climate change regulations could end family farms

Weather Lulls: Germany Forced To Burn 20% More Coal, The Very Energy Source That’s To Be Phased Out  Reality is what sticks around even after you quit believing in it.

The Profound Junk Science of Climate

Back to Busing in Minneapolis

CNN Legal Expert Surprisingly Slams Low Bail on Waukesha Mauler

New York Times Spins Waukesha Massacre, Fears Could Hurt Bail Reform Nationwide

Security Guard For TV News Crew Killed While Covering Organized Looting In Oakland

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Many psychologists wrongly assumed that coercive attitudes exist only among conservatives.

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Maybe the driver just didn’t like camels. Hey, it could happen.

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Hey, you broke it, you bought it.

Be careful what you wish for….

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I find this mildly disturbing.

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These chants had such long tradition — more than ten centuries — because they probably touch deep in one’s very soul and spirituality, and brought a marvellous sense of inner peace. Music knows neither area, time nor language. If you wish, allow yourself to escape your busy life for a while, and re-connect with yourself. Close your eyes, and let the ancient sounds of Monks carry you away.

There is nothing more relaxing than Gregorian chant.

Steve Sailer.

Although the Floyd Effect (2020 – ?) is much more national than the Ferguson Effect (2014-2016), it also features local hotspots, such as Louisville, home to the late Breonna Taylor. Last year’s 173 murders was a record for Louisville and this year it’s even worse:

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Follow a watershed to the sea.

A lot starts in Wyoming.