Risk democracy will come to an end in 2024: Election law expert shares huge concern (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democrcy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Is US democracy in danger? (Washington Post) Sounds like a theme.

The bigger lie threatening US democracy (CNN) Sounds like a theme.

The ‘Big Lie’ Continues To Threaten Democracy (NPR) Sounds like a theme.

Chicago store robbed of $50K in merchandise 24 hours after appearing on local news profile  Bet they won’t do THAT again.

What the January 6 report means for the future of democracy (CNN) Sounds like a theme.

What does it mean to take a public health approach to reducing gun violence? (Philadelphia Enquirer) Twisting language in service to a political agenda for a start.

Hispanic figures reportedly push back on use of ‘Latinx’: Appeases ‘white rich progressives’

Transgender Activists Strategize to Overcome GOP Wins With ‘Race-Class-Gender Narrative’

Could the US be heading towards civil war?

MSNBC: Election Integrity Laws Are Causing A Jan 6th Every Single Day!

COVID Passport Microchip Developer Says Chipping Of Humans Happening “Whether We Like It Or Not”

Hammon Gives UP On NBA Head Job, Takes Her Whine to WokeNBA

Wall-to-Wall: Media Plan AVALANCHE of Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage  Sounds like a theme.

ALERT: Hillary Clinton Is Spreading Lies on Social Media  Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Remember When Latino Media Revered Insurrectionists? We Do.

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According to Saudi Gazette, the Arab Coalition received a distress call from an oil tanker near Yemen after being subjected to “armed harassment.”

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I doubt that it would work, because in the modern world nobody believes in that level of commitment.

Trump would actually do it, so he could threaten to do it and people would believe him. But I doubt that it would work for the current government of Taiwan. (It would be different if they were Japanese, of course.)

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This year, the Biden administration joined many in the United States in criticizing the mass disqualification of 583 candidates in Iran by the Guardian Council. The Iranian elections (like elections in other countries like China and Venezuela) are democratic only in the most artificial sense: You can freely vote from a pre-selected list of candidates.

Electoral disqualification systems are generally anathema to democratic values, but some in the United States are now toying with the idea for the 2022 or 2024 elections. While more modest than the Iranian model, the Democratic calls for disqualification are just as dangerous. What is most maddening is that this anti-democratic effort is cloaked in democratic doublespeak.

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The World’s Best Rice comes in a sturdy, gold-embossed box containing six slender packages. Sold for ¥10,800 for 840 grams (that’s $95 for less than 2 pounds), it’s nearly 30 times more expensive than what you’d pay at a supermarket in Japan. The Guinness World Records named it the priciest rice on the planet in 2016. Japan’s rice milling and processing giant Toyo Rice Corporation, which sells the product mainly to well-to-do customers in Japan, the United States, and Singapore, commands the princely sum by blending several of the top-placed finalists chosen by judges in a blind tasting of the International Contest on Rice Taste Evaluation, the country’s most prestigious rice competition, which takes place each November. The winning batches are stored in temperature-controlled rooms for at least six months before the kernels are milled to remove the tawny outer bran—but never the ultrathin umami layer around the starchy core. The price is justified, Toyo Rice officials say, because you simply won’t find better-tasting short-grain white rice anywhere.

If that’s all you have to eat, you tend to focus on it.

ZMan takes a long view.

Interestingly, the administrative state in modern liberal democracies looks and acts much like the bureaucracy that evolved with the Soviet system. Both were driven by ideology and both were designed to micromanage the life of the people. The fascist systems that sprung up in the interwar years showed the signs of developing an administrative state as well. Like communism and liberal democracy, fascism embraced the rational management of society.

The other not so obvious similarity between liberal democracy and communism is their respective administrative states evolved as a response to democracy. Running a country where everyone has a say can only be done if the overwhelming majority are saying the same thing. Therefore, a primary duty of the state is to train people to hold the same beliefs, to share the same common sense. The administrative state is as much about promoting ideology as administration.

Kevin Roche.

Love to see what the incandescent Marvin Gaye would make of these times. We are hitting a new fever pitch of tension and craziness. Schools are doing virtual or remote “learning”; parents are at their wit’s end on how they are supposed to cope with children at home and work. Children continue to be deprived of a real education, are being terrified for no reason, forced to hide their faces behind masks, being vaccinated against a virus which is a non-existent threat to them. People are getting tested for having cold symptoms and are isolating and quarantining pointlessly. We are pushing people past the breaking point.

So here is the question. How long are you going to take this crap? When are you going to tell the politicians and the public health experts and the teachers’ unions and all the others who won’t let go of their obsession with this epidemic that enough is enough. How many children have to literally go crazy or commit suicide or overdose on drugs? How many lives ruined is enough for the teachers’ union? It is clear these people have no principles, no shame, no courage, no convictions, only politics and self-interest.

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On the cusp of an absolute glut of liberal-media anniversary coverage of the January 6 riot, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter was cranky. “We live in a world where Donald Trump’s top supporters malign the media for being ‘obsessed’ with January 6.”

You don’t have to be a Trump supporter to see it. The media obsession with January 6 is easily quantifiable. Saying there’s not an obsession is like claiming the media didn’t do enough coverage of Princess Di’s car crash and funeral. The New York Times editorial board posted an article titled “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now,” and the daily media coverage reflects that mentality.

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The ruling Assad clan has been making visible, and some less public, moves to demonstrate their efforts to curb Iranian activity in Syria. There is a lot of that in Syria and not all of it has anything to do with the Assads. Iran does not, and never did, share details of all its operations in Syria with the Assad government. That was how the Iranians operated and the Assads were expected to accept that. The Assads are now attempting the difficult, and often fatal, act of leaving a partnership with Iran.

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The true agenda of what has become known as the “transgender movement” is to abolish sex, according to author and self-declared feminist Kara Dansky.

Dansky, author of the new book “The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls,” not only takes issue with the objective to destroy the concept of sex, but also with the use of the term “transgender.”

The term “transgender” was invented, but the “word has no coherent meaning whatsoever,” Dansky says, adding that “every single person on the face of the planet, all 8 billion of us, are either female or male, and that’s it.”

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China has “standardized” the names of 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state on the border with Bhutan and Burma that the Chinese regime has attempted to claim and aggressively intruded upon for the past few decades. However, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that assigning invented Chinese names to locations in the state won’t alter the fact that Arunachal Pradesh is and always will be an “integral part” of India.

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The Biden administration appears to be heading in the direction of waging a two-front Cold War over Ukraine in Eastern Europe and Taiwan in East Asia, both of which could turn “hot” any day. The imprudence of such an approach should be obvious, but the great danger is that such “crises” could get out of hand before the leaders involved step back from the brink.

The problem with Trump no longer being President is that the ‘invade the world, invite the world’ people are back in charge. If for no other reason, this inclines me to vote for him again (if he runs).

Steve Sailer peers behind the curtain.

Men are just so much more nostalgic and loyal to their heroes than women are to their heroines. Some guy in Uruguay watched Die Hard when he was 13 and now he’ll pay via Video-On-Demand to see an action movie in which a 65 year old Bruce Willis appears for nine minutes.

Do any actresses generate that kind of loyalty among women? Maybe Bette Davis long ago … My father always complained about my mother dragging him to Bette Davis movies. But I don’t recall my mother being that much of a Bette Davis die-hard.

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Everyone knows that millions of people are leaving blue states and moving to red states, but I still haven’t have heard the liberal line on the phenomenon. They have to come up with an explanation other than the obvious one–liberal policies don’t work, and create inferior living conditions–but what is it? I am all ears.

Mark Perry lists the top ten states that are gaining and losing residents (raw numbers, not per capita) and examines the variables that explain the data. This chart sums up his findings.

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It’s not just Elizabeth Warren.

America has a huge “Fake Indian” problem. It’s hard to know exactly how many people, often white leftists, falsely claim to be descended from the nation’s early Indian population, but census numbers show either a massive population boom or a sharp growth in fake Indians.

According to the 2010 census, there were 2.9 million American Indians and Alaskans, and another 2.3 million who claimed to be a combination of Indians and another race or races.

The 2020 census however shows that 3.7 million claimed to be American Indians or Alaskans, and another 5.9 million described themselves as part Indian.

I rather like the term ‘Pretendian’.

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April 16 is Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. The holiday commemorates the date in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, freeing 3,000 slaves in the D.C. area. It has been celebrated in the nation’s capital since 2005.

Because the April 16 holiday this year falls on a Saturday, it will officially be observed on the closest weekday – Friday, April 15 – closing city and federal offices in D.C. That means the tax day deadline is getting pushed back to Monday, April 18 for everyone except residents of Maine and Massachusetts. Residents in those states must file by April 19 since April 18 is Patriots’ Day.

Judge grants relief to Navy SEALs who refused coronavirus vaccine, sued Biden administration

Florida surgeon general blasts ‘testing psychology’ around COVID-19

Gov. DeSantis partly to blame for COVID variants by making it ‘wedge issue,’ Miami Beach mayor suggests

Cloth masks may not protect against omicron, report says

San Francisco now has 3rd highest COVID transmission rate in California (S.F. Chronicle) Gee, those mask and vaccine mandates really work, don’t they?

Starbucks unveils its new employee vaccine policy (CNN) Fully Woke, of course.

The Collins And Fauci Attack On Traditional Public Health

Dr. McCollough Says Outpatient Treatments For COVID-19 Have Been Suppressed

2 Nordea Strategists Suspended For Questioning Vaccines & Criticizing “Lockdownistas”

CDC Admits 61% Of Teens Hospitalized For COVID-19 Had Severe Obesity  All of these mandates totally ignore the risk factors represented by co-morbidities.

Beyond COVID: Biotech And Health Care Trends To Watch In 2022

NYC Mayor Adams Mulls Booster Mandate To Jump-Start Big Apple’s Economy  One of the great delusions of the Crust is that government is in control of the economy and can fine-tune people’s responses to government power-plays; also, they delude themselves that if the government doesn’t do something it will never get done.

DJ Receives Death Threats For Potentially Giving Messi COVID

“Your Kids Are Safer In School” – NYC Reopens Schools As Thousands Of Districts Remain Closed During Omicron Surge

How These Western Countries Suppressed Freedom During COVID-19 Pandemic

They Said They Would Slow The Spread  They lied.

Rand Paul Vows To Bring Fauci To Justice If GOP Wins Back Senate In Midterms

Nets Bury Study Showing Opioids, NOT Covid, Are Top Cause of Death for Young Adults

Rooftop Revelations: What has Black Lives Matter done for our community?

Is Mountain Climbing a Social Construct?

American Dream elusive as ever for migrants crossing the US-Mexico border

How Biden could have prepped for Omicron (Politico)

“Business Is Very Good” – Let’s Go Brandon Store Chain Expands As Biden’s Approval Rating Plunges

3rd Chinese Scientist Pleads Guilty To Stealing Trade Secrets From Drug Maker GlaxoSmithKline

If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift (Washington Post)

Jan. 6 anniversary: Washington Post media columnist urges more ‘pro-democracy’ coverage ‘before it’s too late’

How a Liberal Foundation Bankrolled Abortion Pills in the Name of Population Control

Beverly Hills Residents Panic-Buy Guns Amid Crime-Wave  And hire professionals to use them, I trust. I shudder to think of a Kardashian with a gun.

STUDY: Nets Buried Biden’s Disastrous Polling in December

Governments Admit Using ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ As Tool of Population Control

Fox’s ‘The Cleaning Lady’: Illegal Immigrant Aids Crime Boss to Prevent Deportation

New York Prosecutor Drops Sex Crime Charges Against Andrew Cuomo  Welcome to the Crust! Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail!

NY Mag Sells ‘Price Controls’ to Fight Inflation

Andrew Cuomo Skates On Breast-Fondling Case After Albany DA Drops Sexual Assault Charges

Cuomo won’t be charged by New York for undercounting nursing home deaths  Welcome to the Crust! Nobody gets fired,  nobody goes to jail!

Politico Revels in Democrat Plan to Politicize January 6 Anniversary to Federalize Elections

Veteran Journo Resigns From CBC, Pens Scathing Indictment Of Canadian Narrative-Shaping Industry

DNC Staffers Unionize With Major Democratic Party Donor

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Blue rhetoric toward Red America—unquestionably the target of the above outburst—has been unrelentingly punitive since at least 2015, and increasingly so in recent months. As one illustration, when offered the opportunity to “walk back” the above statement, the White House doubled down, and its media allies followed suit. Clearly, they’re committed to this kind of talk.

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Chuck Schumer all by himself should be enough to turn an honest person off to politics.

Chuck Schumer is every Nazi’s caricature of Jews made flesh. The ADL ought to be picketing him every day.

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Amir Assadollahzadeh won a medal at the World Club League Championship in Norway in November, but because he did not wear a t-shirt honoring the late Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani after his victory, he was viewed as a rebel by his authoritarian government (the shirt he chose to wear honored the healthcare workers in Iran who worked through COVID).

There is no Muslim-majority nation that has either democracy or what we Americans would consider basic human rights. None. Not one.

Examine the statements and records of Muslims elected to the Congress of the United States. Start with Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, and Raisa Tlaib. Do we want such people to have influence over our laws and public policy? I think not.

The distinguishing characteristics of Muslims in government is corruption and oppression. This is universally true.

ZMan, who is not fluent in French.

One of the iron laws of the universe is that whatever the America Left is warning about is usually something they are plotting. Alternatively, whatever they are accusing others of doing is something they have already done. The Russian collusion stuff is the most recent example of this. They accused Trump of plotting with a foreign government, the Russians, but we learned it was official Washington all mobbed up with the Ukrainians, Chinese and anyone else with extra cash.

Of course, for the last year the ruling class has been yammering about the insurrection and the ongoing threat to “our” democracy. Meanwhile, they have been dragging people off to secret dungeons, harassing citizens for their politics, throwing people off social media and all the things we associate with a thug regime. Go back further and they spent four years claiming the 2016 election was rigged and then committed massive election fraud in the 2020 election.

This is how you can discern the future in regime rhetoric. Regime-ology, like Kremlinology in the Cold War, is becoming a skill in this age. You read the regime organs like the Washington Post or New York Times not for the literal content, but for the esoteric content, the stuff between the lines. In order to be prepared for what they will do next, we have all been forced to be Straussian. Of course, we also have the opposite rule of liberalism to guide us.

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What is the greatest danger in 2022? Global warming? Inflation? The pandemic? A major war? My answer is the tyranny of the thought police — because, without the ability to engage in free thought and discussion, solutions to the other problems are unlikely to be found.
The tyranny of the thought police caused the impoverishment and loss of basic liberties of billions of people who were — and many still are — under the yoke of communist leaders for decades. It is a basic characteristic of mankind to try to control the speech and thoughts of others. Those who voluntarily sign on to religious orders or organizations such as the communist party agree to abide by the group’s rules. If people have a choice as to what to believe and say, and when they find themselves in disagreement with the other members or leadership of the group, and if they can voluntarily resign, there is no problem.
But what happens if people find themselves as members of a group without their free consent, and the penalties for disagreement or withdrawal are severe? When Martin Luther expressed his very public disagreement with the Catholic hierarchy, in part, by nailing 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517, he set in motion what would become the Reformation, whose unintended effect was a series of civil wars which ultimately claimed the lives of a third of the population in some parts of Europe.

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The European Union has led the way in transitioning from fossil fuels to “green” energy, i.e. wind and solar. But that effort has hit a snag: wind and solar don’t work, and energy costs in the EU are skyrocketing. Now a Reuters report suggests that the EU may be thinking about jumping ship.

Joel Kotkin is not afraid to ask the interesting questions.

Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths.

But what do they have to show for it? Not as much as they might have expected. Rather than a Bolshevik-style assumption of power, there’s every chance this institutional triumph will not produce an enduring political victory, let alone substantially change public opinion.

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On Monday a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship has been highjacked by Iran-aligned Houthis off Yemen’s coast in the Red Sea, according to statements by the Saudi coalition.

The vessel was taken near the western Yemeni port of Hodeidah, accused by the Houthi military which controls much of the country’s north of conducting “hostile actions” as it “entered Yemeni waters without authorization” overnight.

Donald Trump Is Hiding His January 6 Records to Avoid ‘Prison Time,’ Says Former National Archivist (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

Republicans aim to sow outrage, Trump-style, with an eye on 2022 midterms (The Guardian) As opposed to, say, Democrat attempts to sow outrage, Pelosi-style, which is okay

.Dallas Morning News ripped for ‘utterly classless story’ on Ted Cruz’s teenage daughter

Anti-Vax Leader Traveling Country With Guns, Flamethrower, and Fake Badge in Quest to Arrest Dem Governors (Daily Beast) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one

January 6 committee gets inside Trump’s West Wing wall of obstruction (CNN)

.A year after Jan. 6, violence still seen threatening U.S. democracy, and some say force can be justified (CBS)

Prince Andrew Faces the Week That Could Destroy Him (Daily Beast) Certainly if the Narrative Media have anything to say about it.

Stelter: The story of January 6 keeps getting bigger (CNN)

Twitter ‘permanently suspends’ Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal Twitter account permanently suspended over COVID-19 ‘misinformation’

Donald Trump Planned to Stoke Unrest, Call Out Troops, General Milley Feared (Newsweek)

In 2021, Texas politics took a sharp right turn (Houston Chronicle)

NY Times Veteran SCOTUS Scribe Still Loves Abortion, Loathes Justice Amy Barrett

Joe Rogan Joins GETTR In Anticipation Of Censorship On Twitter “Getting Even Dumber”

‘End Of Our Democracy’: Liz Cheney Says Trump Should Never Be Allowed To Run For President Again

Dem staffers quit jobs due to Jan. 6 events, says Washington Post

WashPost Media Columnist: We Haven’t Obsessed Over 1/6 or Trump Enough

Twitter Suspends Grabien Media For Quoting Congressman

Facebook Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 24 Hours

Facebook Bans Conservative Children’s Book Publisher

Rand Paul Says Goodbye To YouTube

Biden Wants to, in His Words, ‘Eviscerate the Senate’

Morning Joe Hails Biden’s ‘Christmas Miracle: The White House That Saved Christmas’

Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s ‘Openness’ to Women’s Rights

Popular Supreme Court a threat to democracy? Liberals panic over latest poll

New voting maps, and a new day, for Virginia (Washington Post) Out with gerrymandering, which is what Republicans do! Let’s do this new process, which is Democrat gerrymandering in a Clever Plastic Disguise!

There’s a new tax rule for US small business owners. What to make of it? (The Guardian) More IRS snooping, although the Guardian won’t actually come out and say it.

After 8 long years of misery, de Blasio tried to inflict still more pain on NYC

The debacle of defunding the police is coming home to roost

The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare  Yup – no more U.S. to leech off of.

Public University Offers Professors Cash To Go Woke

6 in 10 Americans say U.S. democracy is in crisis as ‘The Big Lie’ takes root

On CNN, Conservative Brutally Mocks Vain AOC Claiming Republican Critics Want to ‘Date Her’ She dates herself … to 1917.

CNN’s 2022 Resolution: Make Everything an Attack on Democracy

Heroes of Liberty Editor Says Facebook BANNED Advertising for Patriotic Kids Book Publisher

Here Comes the Stacey Abrams Media Rebrand

Tur Fears ‘Next Election Won’t Be Fair,’ Hopes for 2024 ‘Contingency Plan’

A pediatrician’s advice to parents of kids under 5 on omicron, travel and daycare (NPR)

January 2 coronavirus pandemic and Omicron variant news (CNN)  Come here for your official Covidian Narrative talking points.

Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic (AP) No one can be allowed to escape the PANIC!

CNN Story Perfectly Captures The Mass Covid Neuroticism Of 2021

Coronamadness in Italy

English Secondary School Pupils Asked To Wear Masks In Classrooms

Watch: Dutch Police Use Attack Dogs Against Anti-Lockdown Protesters

Dr. Fauci Warns CDC Might Change Quarantine Guidelines Yet Again

Ivermectin Goes to Court

Infection Experts: We Will “Never” See The End Of Coronavirus  Oceania has always been at war with COVID.

FDA Approves Pfizer Booster For 12-15 Year Olds, Dismisses Risk Of “Mild” Heart Inflammation

Chicago Teachers Prepare To Strike Over Return to Classroom  Time to leave.

New COVID-19 Variant With 46 Mutations Discovered In Southern France  And here it comes.

Federal Court Hands Victory to Opponents of Vaccine Mandates

LA County Teachers Now Have To Wear ‘High-Quality’ Masks: Health Department

Popular Bay Area bakery Third Culture closes Colorado locations over lack of sales, ‘racist behavior’ (S.F. Gate0 Guess Colorado isn’t quite Blue enough.

Antonio Brown walked away on his own terms Sunday. That should embarrass the NFL.  Don’t hold your breath.

Antonio Brown is no longer a part of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after he takes off jersey and leaves sideline mid-game, coach says (CNN)

The Heartbreaking Note Left With Abandoned Infant in Alaska (The Dayly Beast) Poor little Teshawn.

New York school cites 19th century reason for banning ‘Jingle Bells’ over Christmas

Race Discrimination In Covid Treatment: It Isn’t Only New York

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Lately, in the last couple years especially, there has been a surge of fact checking services. Instagram and Facebook use these services to warn users of “misinformation” and “falsehoods”, and many other media cite these services as credible sources. For a long while, these warnings on IG and FB were of little matter to me and sometimes they would even pop up on completely irrelevant posts that the algorithms would detect as “misinformation” to my amusement. However something I saw recently finally tipped me over the edge.

I saw Dr. Peter A. McCullough speak on Joe Rogan’s Podcast and so I went to his Wikipedia page to see what his credentials were, and to see a general summary of his work. First two sentences are a quite basic, innocent summary of the man, however the third sentence (which also shows up in the little information box when you search his name on Google) is where things take a turn for the worse. The third sentence reads: “During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough promoted misinformation about COVID-19, the COVID-19 vaccine, and COVID-19 treatments.” Now, they cite 3 sources for these claims, and I have gone through all 3 of these in detail. The first 2 are not quite as egregious (and maybe even sinister) as the 3rd one1 so I will be focusing on that to make my point. The first claim of his that they analyze is “Once an individual recovers from Covid-19, they have robust, complete and durable immunity with a negligible risk of ever getting Covid-19 again.” Their so-called debunk of this claim quotes the WHO “The World Health Organization (WHO) states that infected people without symptoms can still transmit the virus.” Notice how these statements have absolutely nothing to do with each other, McCullough is discussing recovered individuals, and WHO currently infected individuals. Coming from the world’s oldest news agency calling this negligence would be underplaying their malice. This is an obvious attack on a scientist nonetheless in order to discredit him and his knowledge.

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Dr. Robert Malone blows up the COVID Narrative.

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The media made their fair share of nasty comments and skewed remarks in 2021, but there were also instances where reporters (or entire networks) deliberately misled their audiences.

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Increasingly, I’ve been alarmed at the number of people in my own circle who wear their symbols of fear: the mask. They are all smart women, rational under most life circumstances, but refuse to let go of wearing their masks. It is like a comfort blanket, even an amulet, that will protect them from the evil forces of COVID. No matter how much information they receive on the minimal protection that masks provide, they persist. My biggest concern is that these people are living in a hyper condition of fear, and they don’t even recognize it. It’s also interesting that they will sacrifice wearing their masks in certain circumstances. I wanted to explore whether prolonging the donning of masks, which could be practiced for the foreseeable future, might have a permanent negative effect on their well-being. The news does not suggest a bright future.

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The sudden spread of carjackings has cast a net of fear over the Twin Cities. The Star Tribune explored it in the page-one story yesterday by David Chanen: “Carjackings sweep through Twin Cities communities.” Subhead: “Police struggle to keep with the latest crime trend.” In the paper’s hard copy, the headline asked: “Who is stealing so many vehicles?” It answered in the subhead: “Carjacking surge is blamed on armed teens who seize, ditch cars for a quick thrill.”

Chanen purports to be interested in the perpetrators’ demographics. The carjackers are identified as teenage boys. So far as I have been able to tell from video and from the few who have been apprehended so far, the perpetrators have been black. Yet Chanen studiously avoids any mention of race. It is taboo in this context — more taboo than public reference to sex in Victorian England. I wrote our friend Howard Root to ask if he noticed the omission of race from Chanen’s story and, if so, what he made of it.

California and New York are examples of crazy people being governed by socialists. Minnesota is an example of normal people being governed by socialists. In neither case is the result very pretty.

Time to leave. Plenty of room here in Texas. I hear Florida is real nice.

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One week ago, E. O. Wilson—the legendary naturalist and conservationist, and man who was universally acknowledged to know more about ants than anyone else in human history—passed away at age 92. A mere three days later, Scientific American—or more precisely, the zombie clickbait rag that now flaunts that name—published a shameful hit-piece, smearing Wilson for his “racist ideas” without, incredibly, so much as a single quote from Wilson, or any other attempt to substantiate its libel (see also this response by Jerry Coyne). SciAm‘s Pravda-like attack included the following extraordinary sentence, which I thought worthy of Alan Sokal’s Social Text hoax:

The so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.

There are intellectually honest people who don’t know what the normal distribution is. There are no intellectually honest people who, not knowing what it is, figure that it must be something racist.

Scientific American has been a Woke Narrative Media rag for some time now.

Sands of time are slipping away for England’s crumbling coasts amid climate crisis (The Guardian)

The UK city taking a stand on palm oil in the fight against deforestation (The Guardian) It’s not necessary to do anything constructive just so long as you Take A Stand.

How climate change primed Colorado for a rare December wildfire (NBC) The Democrat state government is, of course, entirely blameless.

Are we running out of time to save the Amazon rainforest? (Al-Jezeera)

What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’ (The Guardian)

Six climate trends may shape 2022 across the US (The Hill) Note the weasel-word ‘may’.

New Annual Temperature Data Show No Warming In Tokyo In 45 Years…Hachij?-jima Island No Warming In 71 Years!

European nations walk back their ‘climate ambitions’ as the exorbitant price tag becomes clear

3.. 2.. 1.. Claim: Colorado Wildfires Because Climate Change

Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia (BBC) The way of tyranny is greased by the willing minions who line up to help.

How Body Farms and Human Composting Can Help Communities  (Wired ‘Science’) Another step in the long march to convince l0w-information voters that humans are just another animal, nothing special.

Colorado’s Marshall Fire: Has Funding Needs Corrupted Climate Science?

2021: The Year the Electric Vehicle Batteries Burned

3 omicron variant symptoms you won’t get from the common cold (Deseret News)

COVID-19: As Omicron Spreads, Two New Signs Emerge You May Be Infected With Virus (Stamford Daily Voice)

Eric Adams says “we will not be controlled by crises” in first speech as New York City mayor (CBS) Even while keeping de Blsio’s vaccine mandates in place.

US faces domestic air travel meltdown: FAA warns it could be forced to cancel flights if Omicron hits its 14,000 air traffic controllers and warns to prepare for MORE delays (Daily Mail)

Reflections On Another Year Of Covidian Lies & How The Truth Will Ultimately Prevail

They grew up surrounded by racism. But early on they chose a different path (CNN) More accurately, they chose a more fashionable target for their racism.

The Ugly History of New Year’s Is Too Real for White Republicans (Daily Beast) I’ll bet you didn’t know that New Year was racist.

Prospects for 2022—Terminus for the Race Denial Bus? or Institutionalized Jim Snow?

Black Print

New York to discriminate on basis of race in covid therapeutics access

Nutty Professor Ranted John Madden Built a ‘Digital Plantation’ with Video Game

Chicago Reports 797 Murders For 2021, Most Of Any US City jBRAAAAAAAINS!

CNN’s Anderson Cooper uncomfortable as Andy Cohen savages Bill de Blasio to welcome in 2022

The Steal review: stethoscope for a democracy close to cardiac arrest (The Guardian) Pushing the Narrative is always good for a book deal.

Andy Cohen Goes on Epic Drunken New Year’s Eve Rant Against Bill de Blasio: ‘Sayonara Sucka!’ (Daily Beast) Not just a rant, but a drunken rant.

The cruelty of Trump’s Jan. 6 press conference (The Hill) If you don’t have anything to write about, trash-talk Trump.

Prepare for Right-Wing U.S. Dictatorship Before 2030, Scholar Urges Canada (Newsweek) Hey, we’ve already got a left-wing dictatorship.

Ron DeSantis accompanied wife to cancer treatment while critics claimed he was ‘missing’

Did Gallup End ‘Most Admired’ 74-Year Polling Tradition to Avoid Trump Placing First?

Twitter PERMANENTLY Suspends One of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Accounts

Glenn Greenwald Slams ‘Dystopian’ MTG Twitter Ban In Epic Thread

Looney Tunes: CNN’s Stelter Agrees Says Trumpism Is ‘Moving Toward Fascism’  Obviously, he means a different one than the one we already have.

New York Times Notable Books: Churchill’s a Nasty Drunk, Ted Kennedy’s a Hero!

Media Company Suspended On Twitter For Quoting Lawmaker

MSNBC Panel: Biden An ‘Albatross’ Around Democrat Necks In the Midterms!

Biden Wants To ‘Woke’ Up Your Doctor

“A Scandal-Free Biden Administration”: The Media Celebrates A Year Free From Political Scandal And Press Scrutiny  Ignoring Afghanistan. And COVID.

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Yesterday, I had to take an antibody test in order to get into the studio in Austin. The good news is that my natural immunity from my last round of COVID is robust – with IgA and even IgM Antibodies present.

This brings me again to one of my biggest issues with the public policy response. Natural immunity equals or trumps immunity from the genetic vaccines, because the natural immune response is broad (against the all 29 proteins of the SAVS-CoV-2 virus) and appears to hold up better against Omicron. This sustained and robust natural immunity also applies to children. We all know it. Why won’t our government and the main stream media admit it?

Why is it that the CDC website that lists 146 million people having already had COVID-19 in the USA has not been updated since October 2, 2021? A quick, back of the napkin calculation projects at least another 20-30 million have had COVID since then. Bringing the number of people who have had COVID to around 170 million. Well over half the people in the USA.

They never will, so long as Big Pharma holds their purse strings. KA-CHING!

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I am not making this up.

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Paul Pelosi has proven himself a prolific stock trader, so much so that social investing app Iris allows users to track their trades and be notified every time he makes a purchase so that they can do the same.

‘Every single stock she [Pelosi, through her husband] has bought in the last two years has gone up significantly,’ Christopher Josephs, cofounder of Iris, told Yahoo.