Is midnight upon us? Doomsday Clock panel to set risk of global catastrophe (The Guardian)

How to read the Doomsday Clock (BBC)

Rising costs of climate crisis must compel Congress to act (The Hill)

A68: ‘Megaberg’ dumped huge volume of fresh water (BBC) Too bad it’s not where people can use it.

The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up

Time Magazine: We Only Have to TRIPLE the Global Renewable Energy Budget to Achieve Green Nirvana

Germany’s New Green Stimulus Plan Won’t Fix The Economy

Leonardo DiCaprio warns: ‘We literally have a nine year window’ to stop climate change – ‘There’s a ticking clock’

The years-long, international effort to save one tiny Mexican fish  Proportion? What’s that?

The New Yorker’s OUTRAGEOUS Climate Nemesis: Refrigerators

Attenborough fibbed about hundreds of dead walrus because he wanted what the WEF wants

Black Homicide Deaths Went Up 53% During George Floyd Era

Virginia Public School Students Made To Play ‘Identify Your Privilege’ Bingo  

M&Ms Makes Their Mascots More Inclusive, Less Sexy

Joy Behar Blames Biden’s ‘White Privilege’ for Trying to Work With GOP

M&Ms Introduces New Trans Character Who Identifies As A Skittle  Babylon Bee.

The eternally unfulfilled dream of Trump’s opponents: This time, they’ve got him (Washington Post)

Jordan Peterson: Why I Am No Longer A Tenured Professor At The University Of Toronto

Jimmy, He’s No Longer President: As Biden Crashes, Kimmel Rants at Trump

Midterm Messaging Alert: Major News Outlets Keep Hiring Journalists Obsessed With January 6

Steve lets go.

Scientists are defending their vaccines, pointing to other shots that have low efficacy rates. Flu shots, for example, often miss the mark. Supposedly, this means our covid vaccines are okay. Their defensive arguments are clearly wrong. The smallpox vaccine has a no-infect rate of 95%. The polio vaccine is 99% effective. Indisputably, there are such things as good vaccines. Covid vaccines have a no-infect rate not far from zero, which, by any reasonable scientific standard, is not high. The best you can reasonably hope for after being vaccinated and boosted is that when you get sick, you won’t have severe symptoms, and they can’t even guarantee that. They used to tell us severe cases were impossible for the once-vaccinated, and a couple of months down the road, they sang a totally different tune.

Right now, there are only two intelligent reasons to get vaccinated. 1. To shut people up so you can get on with your life, and 2. to provide a significant but not huge increase in your chances of avoiding severe symptoms such as death. With Omicron’s dramatically decreased severity, reason 2 is getting weaker by the second. Unless you’re a cast member on My 600-Pound Life, Omicron is not likely to do you in.

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The columnist Katharine Whitehorn was apparently fond of saying: “you can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.” I remembered this as I listened to Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, describe his plans to “make sure that people get their vaccine” at a panel hosted this week by the World Economic Forum.

Bancel wants to make regular COVID-19 booster shots more attractive by bundling them with vaccines against other, more familiar ailments. “Our goal is to have a single annual booster, so that we don’t have compliance issues where people don’t want to get two to three shots a winter, but they get one dose where they get you know, a booster for corona, and a booster for flu and RSV [respiratory syncytial virus].” Skeptics, Bancel reasons, will be more willing to take a COVID shot if it comes conveniently packaged with other shots they might get anyway.

This strategy seems perfectly designed to have the opposite of its intended effect. When surveyed last September, 88% of those who remain unvaccinated against COVID said that that “there’s too much pressure on Americans to get a COVID-19 vaccine.” Almost as many (80%) suspect that “public health officials are not telling us everything they know about COVID-19 vaccines.” If those same public health officials, demonstrating their characteristic humility, now proceed to make second-class citizens out of anyone who resists their new omni-vax—what is likely to be the result?

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…economist Garett Jones recently opined that Trump’s scuttled hopes to release a COVID-19 vaccine a few weeks earlier “likely would have saved at least 100,000 American lives.”

…Pfizer did not reveal its trial’s favorable results until November 9—six days after the election. The company had originally planned to consider submitting an EUA request to the FDA with just 32 data points; instead it gathered 94, and it waited another 11 days to accrue the requested safety data, plus even more data showing how well the vaccine worked, before making its filing.

Politics kills.

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From the ancient world to modern times, the class of small property owners have constituted the sine qua non of democratic self-government. But today this class is under attack by what Aristotle described as an oligarchia, an unelected power elite that controls the political economy for its own purposes. In contrast, the rise of small holders were critical to the re-emergence and growth of democracy first in the Netherlands, followed by North America, Australia, and much of Europe.

Today the current class of small holders face a threat from two powerful hegemonies, tech and financial interests, and increasingly intrusive bureaucracies. Both favor policies that would force higher population densities, which wouldlikely raise housing costs and lead to lifetime renting for middle income households who would otherwise own their own homes. These forces—one long associated with the right, and the other the left—share a common agenda, though for different reasons.

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Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of us. He didn’t just ask the question, he answered it! And he documented the entire build in a YouTube video which you can see below the break.

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The team, led by Professor Luc Mongeau and Assistant Professor Jianyu Li, developed a new injectable hydrogel for wound repair. The hydrogel is a type of biomaterial that provides room for cells to live and grow. Once injected into the body, the biomaterial forms a stable, porous structure allowing live cells to grow or pass through to repair the injured organs.

“The results are promising, and we hope that one day the new hydrogel will be used as an implant to restore the voice of people with damaged vocal cords, for example laryngeal cancer survivors,” says Guangyu Bao.

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Cancer biologist Yibin Kang has spent more than 15 years investigating a little-known but deadly gene called MTDH, or metadherin, which enables cancer in two important ways — and which he can now disable, in mice and in human tissue, with a targeted experimental treatment that will be ready for human trials in a few years. His work appears in two papers in today’s issue of Nature Cancer.

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An app to (a) plan your food life and (b) order the ingredients for the meals.

Might be worth something.

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A team scoured the human proteome for antimicrobial molecules and found thousands, plus a surprise about how animals evolved to fight infections.

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The Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal of American troops from the country, smashed in the door of a Kabul apartment to arrest a women’s rights advocate and her sisters, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

Tamana Zaryabi Paryani took part in a Sunday protest against the Taliban’s mandate that women wear hijabs, Islamic headscarves. In response, 10 armed men who said they were from the Taliban intelligence department raided Paryani’s apartment on Wednesday.

Yet another reminder that Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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Todd Bensman is senior national security fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. CIS has posted his profile here along with links to his writings. Most recently, Bensman has traveled to Tapachula, Mexico to report on the wave of illegals headed our way from all over the world. His January 17 report from Tapachula is “Mexico’s Duplicitous ‘Ant Operation’ Moved Tens of Thousands to the U.S. Border Sight Unseen — and Will Again Through 2022.” Subhead: “Mexico is now camouflaging mass migration it is supposed to be blocking.”

Bensman’s Twitter feed presents a preview of coming attractions and related reporting. I have compiled most of Bensman’s tweets from Tapachula below in chronological order. His most recent tweet at the bottom is an hour old. I thought readers might find them of interest.

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The US Geological Survey (USGS) and National Park Service (NPS) have committed massive resources toward promotion of the glacier melt narrative at Glacier National Park (GNP). Various USGS and NPS signs, pamphlets, websites and films have predicted calamitous melting of the Park’s glaciers in the near future. During the winter of 2018-19, while the Park’s facilities were closed to the public, government workers quietly removed signs predicting the Park’s glaciers would all disappear by 2020.

Since 2015 the USGS and NPS have prominently displayed data tables on their websites indicating that GNP’s glaciers have been steadily decreasing each half decade. The data table is frequently referenced in news stories to describe the plight of the glaciers as steadily receding.

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Kill mosquitos, de-ice roads – is there anything that beets can’t do?

ZMan surveys a barren wasteland.

In the movie Conspiracy about the 1942 Wannsee Conference, one of the actors tells another a story about a man who hated his father and loved his mother. When his mother died, he did not weep at her grave. When his father died, he was inconsolable, crying like a baby. The lesson of the story was that the man had defined his life by his hatred of his father. When his father was gone, he lost that which gave meaning and purpose to his life. That was why he was crying.

The American Left and their political party are now that man weeping at the grave of Donald Trump’s presidential career. This is, in part, why they cannot let go of the Covid madness, despite their party’s efforts. The mask is a reminder of better times when they had a reason to get up every morning. It is why their party is putting on the insurrection show for them. It is a bit of nostalgia for better times. It is why they hope to reanimate the Trump movement with an indictment.

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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie among other things, in order to create or access online accounts with the agency.

According to KrebsonSecurity, the IRS announced that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log into irs.gov will be through ID.me. Founded by former Army Rangers in 2010, the McLean-based company has evolved to providing online ID verification services which several states are using to help reduce unemployment and pandemic-assistance fraud. The company claims to have 64 million users.

But God forbid we use this technology for voting, that would Threaten Our Democracy.

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Too expensive to fail.

Everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Reason magazine to Planetizen seems to be worried about the future of the St. Louis Loop Trolley. Nearly everyone in St. Louis agrees that it was a failure, but the Federal Transit Administration has demanded that the city keep running it or repay the $37 million in federal funds used to build it.

There is supposed to be a good reason for the federal “claw-back” policy: if local officials know they will be required to fund operations, they might be reluctant to ask for federal funds to build a project in the first place. Unfortunately, elected officials have time horizons measured in election cycles, so they really don’t think far enough ahead to worry about operating costs.

Tyler Cowen.

Economists typically define rationality as the effective use of means to achieve ends — spending your money for maximum enjoyment, for example. That is fine for some purposes, but it fails when it comes to understanding those political leaders, Putin included, who are obsessed with power.

The economic framework doesn’t work well when power is the end itself. While no one can truly know what’s in the mind of Putin, he has ruled Russia for 22 years, a pretty good sign that he cares about power. Putin also grew up in an era — as a KGB agent behind the Iron Curtain — when power was the currency of status.

So how does the quest for power make Putin difficult to deter?

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The following article from a French Christian website concerns the Muslim Brotherhood in France. It was first published in 2020.

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‘Noise concerns’. Uh-huh. Sure, I believe that.

Private jet and helicopter charters into the East Hampton Airport could be a thing of the past as the town’s board is expected to take the public airport under private control by early March, according to Bloomberg.

The move will effectively ban millionaires who rent aircraft and only allow billionaires who own their jets to fly into the airport.

Sometimes it is good to be in the .01%.

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Since being deported from Australia last week, men’s tennis champion Novak Djokovic has returned to Belgrade, where he lives with his family.

Having inadvertently (or not) become the locus of the international debate about mandatory vaccinations, Reuters reported that Djokovic and his wife hold a combined 80% stake in Danish biotech firm QuantBioRes, which is working on developing a cure for SARS-CoV-2.

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And this is from The Guardian, one of the most Islam-friendly news venues in the world.

Just another reminder that Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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Covid may be mutating into a kinder, gentler form, but there is nothing kind or gentle about the measures that Democrats are prepared to impose on those who disagree with them. Rasmussen finds these shocking numbers:

* 59% of Democrats favor legislation that would confine all unvaccinated people in their homes, except in case of emergency.

* 48% of Democrats think the government should fine or imprison individuals “who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.”

* 45% of Democrats would favor requiring unvaccinated citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations.

* 47% of Democrats favor a government program using digital devices to track unvaccinated people to ensure that they are quarantined or socially distancing from others.

It is hard to say which of these measures is most outrageous. Confining people to their homes; tracking them digitally to make sure they do not interact with others; being moved to temporary camps if they are unvaccinated–all of these proposals can fairly be described as fascist, and all are supported by either a majority or near-majority of Democrats.

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Most people know that HR 1 creates enormous new opportunities for Democratic urban machines to cheat. But even more horrific is that the legislation would also make it almost impossible to challenge even absurdly obvious bogus registrations. In essence, the bill outlaws investigating and reporting cheating if done by private citizens.

A massive dump of late bogus registrations cannot be challenged without “personal knowledge.” Systematic research by a team of non-government parties that conclusively proves a registered voter has moved and registered in another state or is deceased that cannot otherwise be supported by a sworn affidavit of “personal knowledge” cannot be accepted and acted upon by authorities. And the accuser can be fined or jailed if the accusation cannot be verified under the revised rules.

Study: Global Warming End of Snow Threatens Winter Olympics

How Exxon is using an unusual law to intimidate critics over its climate denial (The Guardian) The swine!

Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists (The Guardian) Sounds like a Narrative.

Scientists say current level of chemical pollutants are dangerously high for humanity and the planet (The Hill) Sounds like a Narrative.

A hot year in North America … and the world (Washington Post)

These Are The World’s Largest Nuclear Power Producers

75 Years On, the Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking  (Wired ‘Science’)

UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment

CBS’s Nate Burleson Ties Massive Volcano, Tsunami to Climate Change

Two More Contributions On The Impossibility Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar And Batteries

Probe Clears Law Clerk, Judge in Racism Allegations by Media, House Democrats

CDC: Blacks Died 36% More Often by Homicide in the Year of the Racial Reckoning

Louisiana Senate candidate smokes marijuana in campaign ad

Los Angeles police ID Shawn Laval Smith as suspected killer of Brianna Kupfer

Institutional Sociopathy

North Carolina Dem Ditches Far-Left Fundraising Group After Receiving Establishment Support

Wearing a Chanel Face Mask, He Yelled, “Black Lives Matter”, and Threw the Burning Box

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Two trains that Wisconsin purchased for a failed high-speed rail project were sold to Nigeria on Tuesday.

The governor of the West African country’s Lagos State visited Milwaukee this week to buy the trains, which had sat unused since 2012. Nigeria plans to use the trains for a metro system under construction.

Wisconsin originally purchased the trains in 2009 from Spanish manufacturer Talgo as part of a plan to construct a high-speed rail line connecting Milwaukee and Madison. Months later, the Obama administration granted Wisconsin $810 million to pay for the rail line.

But the project soon fell apart, according to Wisconsin Public Radio, after the state elected Republican governor Scott Walker, who campaigned on scrapping the rail line.

If you haven’t read Pirsig, now would be a good time to do so.

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I’m sure you are somewhat familiar with the self-driving cars levels of automation, perhaps following Tesla’s claims of offering “full self-driving” capabilities, later downgraded to level 2 (out of 5) of autonomy. These automation standards, published in 2014 by automotive standardization body SAE International as “Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to On-Road Motor Vehicle Automated Driving Systems”, are useful to quickly address what we mean by self-driving capabilities. But cars are not the only thing that is getting automated, kitchens are being automated too!

Steve Sailer.

Rembrandt never left the Netherlands in his life, but the recent Rembrandt in Amsterdam exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada still managed to obsess, in the style of our times, over slavery, colonialism, and racism.

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And not one of them has a government ‘sell-by date’ sticker. Outrageous!

Knicks Fan Yells ‘Shut The F— Up’, Others Laugh As New York Mayor Speaks About Dr. King (Newsweek) A black guy talking about a black guy to people watching a sport played by black guys – who could object to that?

King Would Be Expelled From the Civil Rights Movement Today  Not Woke enough. Sorry.

Nevada Cops Shoot White Guy With Diploma From Elite University

The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Sharpton Argues Black Trump Supporters Are Pawns Used To ‘Sell Racism’  I guess they’re Not Really Black.

It’s Official: It’s OK to Be Racist if You’re the Left Pushing COVID-19 Mandates

Despite Dem Theatrics Over ‘Voting Rights’ And Racism, Most Blacks Strongly Support Voter ID

‘Shouldn’t Be Mentioned’: Denzel Washington Has Grown Tired of Hollywood’s Diversity Obsession

A grave week for civil rights, democracy and a presidency (CNN) Sounds like a Narrative.

California weighing proposal that could double its taxes  Time to leave.

Single-payer health care advocates rip Gavin Newsom for ‘flip-flop’ (S.F. Chronicle)

Autocracies outdo democracies on public trust – survey (Reuters) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

New book challenges Civil War’s old myths (Washington Post) Let’s re-write history according to the Narrative.

RINO ALERT: Romney on election reform: I never got a call from the White House  They only called people who wouldn’t vote their way anyhow.

WEF’s Schwab Gives China’s Xi Propaganda Platform Against “Hegemonic Bullying… Cold War Mentality”

San Francisco Walgreens Introduces New Frequent Looter Rewards Punch Card  Babylon Bee.

CBS Helps Dems Exploit MLK Day to Rally for Federal Election Takeover

Through the Colonial Lens: How Mainstream Media Narratives Erase Hindu Voices

CUNY Professors Sue To Break With Anti-Semitic Union

Ireland to Launch Universal Basic Income Program for Artists  Ireland is a great place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.

Irony: NY Times Frets Over Media Censorship in Serbia, Cheers U.S. Big Tech

Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS   Fortunately, you can still write a check — or can you?

Union Pacific Considers Rerouting Trains Around Los Angeles Amid Railcar Theft Spike

That Explains A Lot: Top NBA Investor Says He Doesn’t ‘Care About the Uyghurs’

CBS Commiserates With, Puffs Up Elizabeth Warren on Voting

State Superintendent Won’t Approve Curriculum Telling Disabled Preschoolers to ‘Deconstruct Whiteness’

Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News

AOC Called Out As “Fake Progressive” By Anti-War Protesters At Her Office

CBS Changes Tune on Train Looting, Finally Mentions Soft-on-Crime LA Policies

The U.S. is divided over whether nuclear power is part of the green energy future (NPR)

CDC’s suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called ‘unrealistic’ (CNN)

The renewable energy source Democrats hope will break out (Politico)

Imagine Electric Vehicles in Bad Weather

China Coal Production Hits Record To Avoid Energy Crisis  Things you won’t read in the Narrative Media.

Humanity Has Turned Land Itself Into a Menace (Wired ‘Science’) Four legs good, two legs bad.

A Project to Count Climate Crisis Deaths Has Surprising Results (Wired ‘Science’)

Apple Suppliers Struggling to Meet Environmental Goals  Goals? Say rather ‘requirements’. ‘Goals’ are not strict. If it’s strict, it’s a requirement.

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When the authorities let the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct headquarters burn following the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day 2020, all hell broke loose. Thugs from all over the state made their way to the Twin Cities to participate in the orgy of riots, destructions and looting that spread throughout the Twin Cities.

One such participant was Montez Terriel Lee, Jr. Lee came up to the Twin Cities from Rochester to get in on the action on May 28. Equipped with a gasoline can for the occasion, Lee was part of a small group that broke into the Max It Pawn Shop on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. They looted the pawn shop. Lee poured out his gasoline and ignited a fire that consumed the shop.

Videos captured the action. Lee was proud of it. Filmed outside the shop as it burned, Lee commented: “Fuck this place. We’re gonna burn this bitch down.”

Bystanders knew someone had been caught in the fire. Two months later the authorities found Oscar Lee Stewart, Jr. in the charred remains of the pawn shop.

You can read about the Felony Murder Rule here.

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In Austria the negotiations with Iran to revive the 2015 treaty that ended sanctions (if Iran halted work on nukes) are not going well. There have been eight rounds of talks since the new, hardline Iranian government took power in August 2021. This was the result of the 2020 national elections which were rigged, as they traditionally are, so the new president would be Ibrahim Raisi, an infamous mass-murderer and recognized war-criminal. Putting Raisi into such a public position is another example of how desperate Iran is to make clear to opponents in Iran, Yemen, Iraq and elsewhere what they are up against. Raisi insisted that Iran would not negotiate with the West until the 2018 sanctions were first lifted. Nations seeking to negotiate a new peace deal with Iran discovered that Raisi had the support of the religious dictatorship in Iran as well as the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) for this desperate, “all or nothing” negotiating strategy.

A cautionary tale about our times.

It’s not just Maytag. Most ‘name brand’ appliances are crap these days, partly due to government regulations and partly due to the fact that people just make crap these days.

The trouble began very slowly in the ’80s, with a gradual lessening of quality, almost too small to notice. The real problem began with the advent of the Neptune, an over-featured, under-engineered product. There was nothing wrong with Neppies that couldn’t be fixed, but Maytag management of the time took the stance that they were going to make consumers pay for Maytag’s design mistakes. Control boards, wax motors, and boot kits galore were installed at the expense of consumers who had not a damned thing to do with their design. The Neptune became the subject of successful class-action suits, and one of the most prominent subjects for consumer “horror stories” on the Internet. As the word about Neptune got around, Maytag’s formerly enviable reputation got trashed in the process.

When my first wife died and I moved to a new house, I bought Neptunes because I trusted the Maytag brand. Foolish me.

If you can afford it, buy Bosch. If you can’t, you’re pretty much out of luck.

The Antiplanner speaks truth to Narrative.

In both cases, the homes were built close to one another so that, if one house caught fire, the radiant heat from that fire would ignite its neighbors. For years, state and local fire officials have encouraged people who own homes near public lands to make their homes firewise, meaning the roof and certain other parts of the houses are nonflammable and vegetation and other materials that could generate enough radiant heat to ignite the wooden walls of the homes are kept more than 100 feet away.

Firewise principles only work when homes and other structures are at least 100 feet apart. Otherwise, if one ignites, its neighbors are likely to catch fire as well. To protect against wildfire, I told the Independence Institute, cities should surround themselves with low-density development. Unfortunately, the anti-sprawl zoning codes in California and other cities do not allow for such low-density development. In guarding against sprawl, a problem I don’t even think is real, planners have made their cities more vulnerable to the very real problem of wildfire.

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If you’ve been around the computing industry lately, you’ve probably brushed against the term SBOM at some point or another. By now, it is common knowledge that a Software Bill of Materials is becoming an increasingly expected requirement from software releases. Reading through blog posts and social media, there still seems that some confusion persists about what an SBOM can/could do for your project. This post tries to lay down some basic facts about SBOMs and how they can help you and your project become a better citizen of the global software supply chain.

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The hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn, another post-industrial English town where Muslims make up a third of the population and Pakistanis account for over 10 percent, dead, and his Jewish hostages set free.

Back home, the Blackburn Muslim Community page announced that “Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world” and prayed that Allah “bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise”.

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The jab is a vaccine, or at least that’s what it’s called, but it really isn’t. It is not a vaccine as vaccines were once understood. It is an invasive genetic delivery therapy and consists of an injected mixture containing nanocarbon fibers, lipids, and strands of mRNA designed specifically to reprogram a cell’s DNA, its genes, and its purpose. Instead of say, assembling within a scaffold of proteins designed to contract on command (example: muscle cell), the formerd muscle cell is reprogrammed by the mRNA to give up its duties and madly make COVID spike proteins until it burns out.

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Historically, vaccines for viral infections have been incredibly effective.  Small pox?  Eradicated.  Polio?  Virtually eliminated.  Chickenpox, the mumps, the measles, rubella, whooping cough?  Gone.  In the public mind, viral vaccinations are miraculous.  So, when this new mRNA technology was elevated to “vaccine” status, the CDC and NIH effectively tapped into the public’s vaccine goodwill.  But this new “vaccine” wasn’t a vaccine at all.  It was gene therapy, both unproven and unapproved.  The definition change is an old-fashioned bait and switch.

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No one who watches politics has any doubt that Joe Biden is barely, if at all, running the country. That fact has been true from the beginning of his presidency, and probably long before. Many of us are assuming that Ron Klain with several cohorts in the administration are the ones in charge, making the shocking and ill-conceived decisions for Biden; Biden is just a figurehead. Let me explain why we have effectively, if not formally, become an oligarchy, and the implications of that structure.

A more accurate term would be ‘managerial state’.  If you haven’t read Burnham, now would be a good time to do so.

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The question is: why all this now? Russian fears of Nato encirclement are as old at the organisation itself. According to Vladislav Davidzon, Ukrainian-American author of the original and superb From Odessa with Love, the reason is simple. “High oil prices mean Russia is flush with cash,” he tells me. “After having had a very good 2021, the Kremlin sees this as a decisive moment. They see a weak American president in the White House who has continually talked tough but constantly signalled that he wants a quiet reset of policy.”

He continues: “As soon as Biden took office, the Kremlin started testing him with the initial buildup early last year. Everything since then has confirmed their belief. The Russians think they will never have a better opportunity to reorder things in their favour.”

As coal use surges, America finds it’s hard to unplug from carbon (The Hill)

Six in 10 Americans ‘alarmed’ or ‘concerned’ about climate change – study (The Guardian)

As electric rates rise, gas-fired power emerges as both scapegoat and savior

How to Prepare for Climate Change’s Most Immediate Impacts (Wired) First, stop reading the Narrative Media.

Voting rights are essential for environmental justice and climate action (The Hill) Sounds like a Narrative.

Giving nuclear power a second look to fight climate change (Seattle Times)

Want to Derail the Energy Transition? Take Fossil Fuels Out of the Mix. (Foreign Policy)

Claim: “Organized Labor”, “Moderate Democrats” Impeding Californian Climate Efforts

Anti-Science? Climate Skeptic Dr. Roy Spencer Says Google Demonetized His Website

Climate Alarmists Conceal Global Temperature Anomaly Measurement Declines Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2

European Union Fiddling Their Own Rules to Fund the Climate Revolution

Maxine Waters attacks Manchin and Sinema over voting bill, says they ‘don’t care’ about Black people  Congresswoman Bitter Beer Face only has one card to play, and she’s going to play it.

The very racist 1894 fair that almost ruined San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park (S.F. Gate)

A New York school district has apologized for a middle school Spanish assignment that some parents are calling racist (CNN) And that’s all it takes.

Small majority in NY think minorities have the same opportunities as white New Yorkers (CBS)

Abusing MLK Day: ‘The View’ Falsely Claims Teaching His Legacy Now Outlawed

Sharpe: Brady Gets Away With Poor Sportsmanship Because He’s White

MSNBC Blowhard: Manchin, Sinema ‘Are the White People’ MLK Jr. ‘Warned Us About’

Liz Cheney’s Wyoming Nemesis Is an Oath Keeper Who Was at Capitol Rally (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Trump’s Arizona Speech Proves His Shock Comic Act Has Jumped the Shark (Daily Beast)

A pro-business retired cop sparks liberal revolt in first few weeks as mayor (Politico)

CNN White House reporter: Republicans nationwide are trying to ‘steal elections’  Reporter? Say rather shill.

Attack, attack, attack: Republicans drive to make Biden the bogeyman (The Guardian) Gee, that never happened under Trump, did it?

Bitcoin millionaires are moving to Puerto Rico for lower taxes and island living (NBC) Plus you can be around Puerto Ricans all the time! What’s not to like?

Leftists Call For Boycott Of Joe Rogan And Jordan Peterson  Of course they do.

Big Tech Thugs and Their Allies

‘270 Doctors’ Called Out Joe Rogan – But Vast Majority Of Authors, Signatories Are Not Medical Doctors

AP Touts Jill Biden’s ‘Healing Role,’ Trashed Melania Trump’s ‘Marketing Ploy’