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Today in Black Privilege

28th February 2022

Could a Black D.A. finally help reimagine Alameda County’s regressive criminal justice system? (S.F. Chronicle) After all, black good, white bad.

Tucker Carlson condemned for Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Rwanda’ comments (The Guardian) After all, black good, white bad.

Clyburn: supreme court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘beyond politics’ (The Guardian) After all, black good, white bad.

NY Times journalist suggests media concern for Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrates racial ‘biases’  After all, black good, white bad.

Washington Post: Ukraine Enthusiasts Are Racist  After all, black good, white bad.

ABC, CBS Distort History to Mark 10th Anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s Death  After all, black good, white bad.

Federal Court Declares Diversity Initiative At Thomas Jefferson High School To Be Unconstitutional

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

28th February 2022

Omicron variant symptoms: The original omicron symptoms to remember (Deseret News) Don’t let The War distract us from The PANIC!

A National Vaccine Pass Has Quietly Rolled Out – And Red States Are Getting On Board (Forbes)

‘Paper terrorism’: Parents against mask mandates bombard school districts with sham legal claims (NBC)

House lifting mask mandate ahead of State of The Union address (The Hill) After all, it was never serious.

Studies offer further evidence that the coronavirus pandemic began in animals in Wuhan market (CNN) Ignoring, of course, the ones that show it started at the Wuhan Lab.

Parents rally in S.F.’s Golden Gate Park against school masks (S.F. Chronicle)

States where teachers’ unions are strongest are slowest to get back to in-person  My, what a surprise.

FEMA: In Case Of Nuclear Explosion, Maintain Social Distancing And Wear A Mask

After Loving BLM, NY Times Finds Vax Mandate Protests ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Violent’ ‘Disinformation’

Democrats Looking to Bug Out of the War on COVID?

Victims vs. Vectors? The Ethics of Giving COVID-19 Vaccines to Children

 

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#BidenRemorse: The Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

28th February 2022

Clown World.

Psaki avoids question on polls doubting Biden’s ‘mental capacity’ for office

Former Pentagon chief of staff rips Biden over US intel report: ‘It’s a colossal failure of leadership’

Biden approval near record low amid economic frustration: poll (The Hill)

Biden’s confusion over sanctions

Biden Skips Supreme Court Nomination Hearings For Ketanji Brown Jackson Since We Already Know Her Race And Gender  Babylon Bee.

US Trucker Convoy Swells As It Moves Across Country To DC

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

28th February 2022

Romney on Greene, Gosar: ‘I have morons on my team’ (The Hill) If it were your team, Mitt, you’d quit helping the other side score.

With the world watching Putin, Trump targets Trudeau

Donald Trump at CPAC: Five Moments You Might Have Missed (Newsweek) Spin, spin, spin….

Conservatives turn to a new message: ‘God bless the Ukrainian people’ (Washington Post) Continuing the Narrative that ‘conservatives’ were pro-Putin.

Investigate Trump’s mishandling of presidential records (Boston Globe)

The war against democracy finds allies in America First (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Study: Twitter’s ‘Liberal’ Content Turned Voters Away From Trump

MSNBC Slags Kavanaugh, Barrett SCOTUS Resumes as ‘Abysmal, Embarrassing’

Pass the Haterade! CBS’s ‘Magnum P.I.’ Disparages Police with Far-Fetched Anti-Cop Storyline

Sinister: AP Says Republicans Using Trans as ‘Wedge Issue’  No pun intended, I’m sure.

Big Tech Allows Russia State-Affiliated Accounts to Have 38.7M Followers — Banned Trump

Watch: Dem Rep. Suggests Kicking Out Every Russian Student In The US  Eric Swalwell cements his position as being possibly the most putrid Democrat in Congress.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

28th February 2022

Another major retailer in SF’s Union Square to close for good (S.F. Gate)

This Texas mom says she’s moving her family to California to protect her transgender daughter (CNN) I’ll be happy to chip in.

Why Biden should deliver a European history lesson during the State of the Union (Washington Post) Time to push the Narrative again.

More than 600 geographic sites across the US will be renamed, replacing a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for decades (CNN) Down the Memory Hole!

California’s Democratic Party set out to ban fossil fuel and police money. It didn’t really do either (S.F. Chronicle)

Why Is The Left Ignoring Ukrainian Gun Rights?

New York’s Governor Boosts Chinese Companies Under US Sanctions

MI6 Chief Faces Backlash For Saying Ukraine War Is About LGBT Rights

AZ Teacher Recorded Pushing Brave New Trans World

Nets Fretted Over ‘Staunch Conservative’ Court Choices, Skimp on Liberal Labels for Dem Picks

An Actual Psaki Show? CNN, MSNBC Jockeying to Poach White House Press Secretary  Riding along the revolving doooooooorrrrrr….

One of the Senate’s Richest Members Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Stock Trades  A Democrat of course.

Woke Medicine at the AMA

Tech Guru Who Worked With Clinton Campaign Pleaded the Fifth in Durham Probe

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

28th February 2022

Thinktank linked to tech giant Canon under pressure to remove ‘dangerous’ climate articles (The Guardian) Dangerous! They don’t support the Narrative!

Psaki pushes renewable energy to stop dependence on foreign oil instead of increasing US production

Psaki says calls to enhance US oil production are a ‘misdiagnosis’ (The Hill)

Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling (The Guardian)

What is the IPCC climate change report – and what will it say? (The Guardian) It will say it’s time to PANIC!

Climate change: UN report to show true scale of impacts (BBC) According to the Narrative, that is.

Biofuels may not be as green as we’ve been told  It was all a scam from the start.

York County town with most rapid sea level rise in Maine prepares for future flooding (WMTW Portland)

Earth Matters: New nuclear reactors on U.S. agenda; Facebook still lets climate denial slide (Daily Kos)

At Statehouse rally, protesters call for legislation to combat climate change (VTDigger)

Britain’s Steel Industry Hammered by Climate Change Taxes

How Biden’s Fed Nominee Could Transform Central Banking To Fit the Left’s Climate Agenda

As War Rages in Ukraine, UN Warns of Climate Change’s Impact on Mental Health  Yes, if you believe the ‘climate change’ hysteria, your mental health is in question.

UN Climate Report: Send Money, “Delay Means Death”  Astonishing how many U.N. reports boil down to ‘send money’.

 

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Decarbonisation Tech Instantly Converts CO2 to Solid Carbon

28th February 2022

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Australian researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries.

The “bubble column” method starts with liquid metal being heated to about 100-120C.

Carbon dioxide is injected into the liquid metal, with the gas bubbles rising up just like bubbles in a champagne glass.

As the bubbles move through the liquid metal, the gas molecule splits up to form flakes of solid carbon, with the reaction taking just a split second.

“It’s the extraordinary speed of the chemical reaction we have achieved that makes our technology commercially viable, where so many alternative approaches have struggled,” Chiang said.

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Why Some Parents Choose to Continue Homeschooling After Pandemic

28th February 2022

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Sandra Kim, a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, started homeschooling her three children in the summer of 2020.

She doesn’t necessarily have a problem with public schools, Kim says, but realized her children—Yenna Elizabeth, now 13, Emily, 10, and Teddy, 8—could do more.

The Virginia mother’s second grader, Teddy, now is doing higher-level math and her fourth grader, Emily, is writing essays, which normally wouldn’t have happened until sixth grade.

“Homeschoolers also do really well in college because they learn executive functioning skills from being at home,” Kim says.

In other words, factory-model government schools (Thank you, Prussia!) aren’t the best choice for your kids.

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Putin’s War Tests China’s Nuclear Pact With Ukraine

28th February 2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order raising the alert status of Russia’s massive nuclear forces this week in the midst of an invasion of neighboring Ukraine is presenting a test of a 2012 agreement that calls on China to provide a nuclear deterrent umbrella for Kyiv.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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India’s Tech Sector Has a Caste Problem

28th February 2022

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The conventional wisdom is that ‘primitive’ societies, as they become more industrialized and affluent, will in turn come more and more to resemble the Enlightened West. Well, it ain’t necessarily so.

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Thought for the Day

28th February 2022

Best Way To Make Money - Dilbert by Scott Adams

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Effortless Personal Productivity

28th February 2022

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I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.

I’m not sure that this works — but it might.

What he calls ‘low-filter mode’ is what I call ‘mindlessly mechanical mode’: Just pull your time horizon up to your chest and take things one minute at a time. I developed this when I was a kid, washing dishes or running a handpress–you just zone out and let your mind wander while your body goes on autopilot. It helps to make boring stuff less burdensome.

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Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy

28th February 2022

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Bibliotherapy is premised on the idea that books can be healing tools. It can occur in individual or group settings, though the main distinction is between clinical bibliotherapy, where texts, including fiction and nonfiction, are recommended by a clinical therapist, and nonclinical bibliotherapy, as practised by a facilitator such as a librarian. Though not a stand-alone clinical practice in Canada, clinical bibliotherapy is a method used by professionals who already have certification in counselling, therapy, and clinical therapy and want to help patients seeking an additional outlet. Nonclinical bibliotherapy can’t replace professional help for patients with mental illnesses; instead, it is often used in conjunction with other forms of clinical therapy.

I must confess that I have often thought that some people with problems would profit greatly by being whacked up side the head with a Funk & Wagnalls … but I’m sure that’s not what these guys have in mind.

Ah, well.

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Rationing Begins in Germany

28th February 2022

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During the early stages of the “pandemic”, I experienced instances of rationing in supermarkets. The most prominent examples were toilet paper, hand soap, and hand sanitizer, but rice, pasta, and other foodstuffs were also affected. The consumer was advised that there would be a limit on the number of each item that he could purchase on any given trip to the grocery store.

Last week I noticed the same thing with butter. Customers were told that they could only purchase one (or two) items of each butter product sold by the store.

Similar rationing has now appeared in Germany. According to the following report, the war in Ukraine will only make matters worse.

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There’s Just Something About Starlink

27th February 2022

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Elon Musk now has Starlink satellites operating over Ukraine, reestablishing much-needed internet communications after damage from the Russian attack. It may not have occurred to very many people before these events, but in some ways, SpaceX is an actual military power in space. When you have close to 2,000 maneuverable satellites in low earth orbit, you’re in a position to do…very interesting things.

I’ll just bet.

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

27th February 2022

Trump Arrives for CPAC as Investigations, Jan. 6 Probe Close In (Newsweek)

The strange Republican world where the big lie lives on and Trump is fighting to save democracy (The Guardian)

Trump’s adulation for Putin has gone way too far (L.A.Times)

Calls to expel Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene after speech at white nationalist event (The Guardian) Free speech? Not here!

Liz Cheney calls out fellow House Republicans for associating with White nationalist event (CNN) Except that it wasn’t a ‘white nationalist event’.

Putin’s “useful idiots” abound in MAGA world (Seattle Times)

Has Clarence Thomas’ wife crossed a line? Yes, and then some (L.A. Times) Free speech? Not here!

Yahoo Boosts WH Flack: Trump, Putin ‘Two Nauseating, Fearful Pigs’ Who Hate America

Stephanopoulos Obsesses Over Trump While Putin Attacks Ukraine

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

27th February 2022

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis on Sun, 27 Feb 2022

COVID-19 symptoms: Which COVID-19 symptoms should you expect now? (Deseret News) Anything to keep the PANIC going.

Studies reveal new ‘stealth’ omicron variant is 30% more transmissible. Should California be worried? (S.F. Chronicle)

Pfizer Vaccine Modifies DNA In as Little as 6 Hours: Study

New Zealand High Court: Vaccine Mandate Not “Demonstrably Justified”, Breach Of Rights

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

27th February 2022

Confidence in California public schools declines sharply; a third give L.A. a D or F (L.A. Times)

Migration to California has plummeted — from every state. The decline was especially extreme for one region (S.F. Chronicle)

LA Is Spending Up To $837,000 Per Unit To House The Homeless

The Clinton Campaign’s Two-Pronged Plan To Create The Trump–Russia Collusion Narrative

LOL: NBC’s Mitchell Says ‘We’re Not Democrats, We’re Journalists’  But she repeats herself.

NPR Guides Triggered Liberals: How to Cope with ‘Stressful News Cycle’ of Ukraine War

Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

27th February 2022

Brookline wants a fossil fuel-free future. With latest ruling, the AG says: Not yet (again). (Boston Globe)

Healey rejects Brookline’s limits on gas hookups in new buildings (Boston Business Journal)

One way to combat Russia? Move faster on clean energy (L.A. Times)

Fossil fuel companies are trying to exploit this war for their gain. We can’t let them (The Guardian)

‘No Single Greater Action We Can Take Than Removing These Dams’: FERC Releases Environmental Document for Review (Lost Coast Outpost)

Biden should put climate change front and center in State of the Union (The Hill) Forget the war! Forget inflation!

Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest level since measurements began in 1979 (The Guardian)

Climate change pushed out of spotlight amid conflict, economic trouble (Axios) Except in the Narrative Media, of course.

The big idea: how can we adapt to life with rising seas? (The Guardian)

It might feel cold today, but the trend for winter in the West is warmer (Deseret News)

Putin’s Best Friend in the West: Environmentalists

White House Publishes a Reading on Countering Climate Denialism

Germany mulls extending nuclear plants’ life-span  I should think so.

 

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#BidenRemorse: The Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

27th February 2022

US energy dependence threatens national security, experts warn, as GOP calls on Biden to reopen Keystone XL

Former White House Physician Says Biden Is Not Cognitively Fit To Deal With Russia Crisis  But you knew that.

ABC’s Jon Karl: Biden’s Polls are ‘Truly Grim’, the ‘Lowest of His Presidency’  And he’s still got three years to go.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

27th February 2022

Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson could face scrutiny for overturned decisions

Jussie Smollett files motion to throw out his guilty verdict for staging hate crime

Reflecting on the power of affirmations for Black History Month (NPR) Wishing will make it so!

Judge Rules That Asians Can’t be Denied Equal Protection of the Laws to Benefit Blacks at Thomas Jefferson High School. But Are Whites Asian-Adjacent Enough to Possess Civil Rights Too?

NYT: Racist European Countries Are Letting in Ukrainian Refugees Instead of SubSaharan Muslims

 

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Know Your RINOs!

27th February 2022

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming

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How Ikea Tricks You Into Buying More Stuff

27th February 2022

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The reason I don’t buy more Ikea stuff is that going there is a full-day exercise and I just don’t have that kind of time.

Plus I sold my van so I have no way to get all of that crap home.

But I do have nine ‘Billy’ bookcases in my library.

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The Blessings of St. Javelin

27th February 2022

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Help Ukraine

27th February 2022

Links to various projects.

Since I don’t see one, here is a link to International Orthodox Christian Charities, my favorite.

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Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare and Underground Operations

27th February 2022

Online book.

The Swiss have put the most thought (and preparation) into being the hedgehog of international relations.

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It’s an Ill Wind That Blows Nobody Any Good

27th February 2022

Lockheed produces the Javelin anti-tank missile.

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Ukrains

27th February 2022

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Hubris Exposed

27th February 2022

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In recent weeks, even in states that have long insisted on the necessity of strict COVID mitigation strategies, the masking regime is crumbling. Following the lead of red states such as Texas and Florida, officials in heavily Democratic areas of California, New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere are finally acknowledging that it’s time to return to normal and rescind many mandates.

The transition won’t be easy, particularly regarding masks, which for many people now serve as talismanic objects signaling one’s public health virtue. It’s difficult for many people to recall that at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, even the experts were inconsistent and lackadaisical about recommending that people wear them. “There’s no reason to be walking around with masks,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes in early March 2020.

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Fusion Tech Is Set to Unlock Near-Limitless Ultra-Deep Geothermal Energy

27th February 2022

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MIT spin-off Quaise says it’s going to use hijacked fusion technology to drill the deepest holes in history, unlocking clean, virtually limitless, supercritical geothermal energy that can re-power fossil-fuelled power plants all over the world.

 

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Thought for the Day

27th February 2022

Gym Membership

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Today in Black Privilege

26th February 2022

After decades of lobbying, supporters say they have the votes in the House to pass a reparations bill (Washington Post)

Nets Gush Over Biden’s Radical Supreme Court Nominee

Harwood Declares Criticism of Jackson As Liberal to Be Not Substantive

CNN’s Coates on Jackson: ‘Almost A Legal Deity,’ Hope She Gets Due Process

NY Times’ Stolberg: ‘Political Blowup Over Crack Pipes…Racist Undertones’

Dave Chappelle, Clarence Thomas Highlight Week of Cancel Culture Fails

NY Times Unloads on FL’s Black Surgeon General For Resisting Covid Hysteria

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

26th February 2022

White House spokesman calls Trump, Putin ‘pigs’ who ‘hate what America stands for’ (The Hill)

“Don’t Say Gaetz” Law Protects Florida’s Kids from Matt Gaetz (The New Yorker)

Kimberly Guilfoyle, fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., meets and clashes with Jan. 6 committee (NBC)

New dark money group reminds NCGA lobbyists they can donate unlimited money (WRAL News) In the Narrative Media, ‘dark money’ means ‘pro-Republican’. George Soros, for example, cannot be ‘dark money’.

Believe It or Not, Ron Johnson Used to Be Normal (Daily Beast) For sufficiently left-leaning values of ‘normal’.

Hillary Clinton repeatedly suggests Donald Trump, Republicans enabling Putin aggression during MSNBC interview No mention of her years as Secretary of State, of course.

GOP’s Gerrymandering Called Racist, but ‘Obamamandering’ Just Politics

Vox Mourns ‘Imperiled’ New York Investigation of Trump

FLASHBACK: When Russia Invaded Ukraine in 2014, NBC Whined That Trump Called Obama ‘Weak’

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

26th February 2022

Fossil Fuels Get $6 Trillion in Subsidies Annually (The Nation) Really? Really?

Experts – once again — tell Senate panel that California’s key climate change strategy is flawed (CalMatters)

Code red on sea level rise (NJ.com)

U.S. environmental enforcement activity has dropped, study shows (Reuters)

Washington’s benchmark glacier is shrinking (KING5.com)

Alaska worries for its salmon run as climate change warms Arctic waters

African countries spending billions to cope with climate crisis (The Guardian)

New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise (SFist)

This is what S.F.’s climate apocalypse could look like, according to hit video game ‘Horizon Forbidden West’ (S.F. Chronicle)

These African heritage sites are under threat from rising seas, but there’s still time to save them (CNN) Using YOUR money, of course.

One New Coral Reef Study Wipes Out Four Climate Alarm Narratives In One Fell Swoop

The True Cost Of The Green Energy Boom Is Now Being Realized

 

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#BidenRemorse: The Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

26th February 2022

Biden’s latest border moves spur criticism that he’s continuing wall construction (Texas Tribune)

A majority says Biden’s first year was a failure, a new poll finds (NPR)

Democrats Demand Biden ‘Do Something’ As Pump-Prices Set To Top $4 “In The Next Few Weeks”

Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Faces Array of Ethics Questions

62% Of Voters Say Putin Wouldn’t Have Invaded If Trump Were President; Poll

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

26th February 2022

Omicron’s lasting mysteries: four questions scientists are racing to answer (Nature)

Beyond Omicron: How vaccines, transmission will shape the next variant (MedicalNewsToday) Just so long as we all PANIC!

The pandemic has taken a toll on children’s mental health. An expert weighs in (CNN) The pandemic? Or the PANIC?

How bad is ‘Red COVID’ in California? (S.F. Gate)

Growing Number Of Experts Call On US Govt To Recognize Natural Immunity

Masks Still Required For Air Travel Despite CDC’s New Guidance

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

26th February 2022

Hundreds of people are living in NYC subway stations and tunnels, MTA says

Changing lives – and changing culture – through restorative justice (13WHAMTV) ‘Restorative’ justice? That’s a new one. What’s net, ‘reparational justice’?

Of the best states to live in, California is #48 (CBS)

University of Maryland’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Chief Has History of Anti-Semitic Statements

Look back in anger: Clinton dirty tricks edition

Gundlach Is Moving DoubleLine’s $134 Billion Money Management Arm To Florida, From California

 

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In Kharkiv Region, the Russian Invaders Are Using Internationally-Banned Butterfly Mines

26th February 2022

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As they did in Afghanistan.

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These Solar Panels Are Thinner Than a Piece of Paper

26th February 2022

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Smartwatches have a reputation for losing battery power at the worst time — like in the middle of a jog. The all-day sync drains the power quickly.

But imagine being able to power up while you run: with a built-in, ultrathin solar panel, a Fitbit or any wearable device could keep a constant charge by just soaking up the sun.

 

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Cognitive Load Theory and its Applications for Learning

26th February 2022

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Why is learning effortful? Why do we struggle to learn calculus but easily learn our mother tongue? How can we make hard skills easier to learn? Cognitive load theory is a powerful framework from psychology for making sense of these questions.

Cognitive load theory, developed in the 1980s by psychologist John Sweller, has become a dominant paradigm for the design of teaching materials. In this essay, I explain the theory, some of its key predictions, and potential applications for your learning.

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At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself

26th February 2022

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For all the recent improvements in artificial intelligence, the technology still cannot take the place of human beings in situations where it must frame its perceptions of the world in words that people can understand.

You might have thought that the many apparent advances in speech recognition would have solved the problem already. After all, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive, but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t understand or react to the environment around them.

To bridge this communications gap, our team at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories has developed and built an AI system that does just that. We call the system scene-aware interaction, and we plan to include it in cars.

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Thought for the Day

26th February 2022

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Russian-Manufactured Armored Vehicle Vulnerability in Urban Combat: The Chechnya Experience

26th February 2022

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An interesting analysis. Of course, it’s twenty years old.

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

25th February 2022

Why Donald Trump can’t stop praising Vladimir Putin (CNN) Chris Cillizza can apparently read minds.

Russia invades Ukraine: What you need to know (Washington Post) Hint: It’s all about Trump.

North Carolina officials reject Cawthorn claim that Constitution’s insurrectionist ban no longer applies (Politico)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Violence Needed To ‘Stand Up’ To Trans People (Newsweek)

Local Canadian convoy support builds on years of disinformation (The Hill)

Former Minneapolis officers found guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights (Washington Post)

Trump, the Saudis, and Mar-a-Lago’s boxes of U.S. secrets: A recipe for disaster? (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Now is the time to remember what Fox’s own lawyers said about Tucker Carlson (Washington Post)

Donald Trump’s Detention Club convenes for Putin’s Ukraine invasion (CNN)

Fact-checking Sen. Rick Scott’s claims his new plan does not raise people’s taxes (CNN)

Scott’s agenda spurs backlash from Democrats, GOP alike  (The Hill)

Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on (L.A. Times)

Trump Wanted Lindsey Graham to Take Out Mitch McConnell. Graham LOL’d (Daily Beast)

The Mysterious Right-Wing Group Funding the Trucker Convoy (Daily Beast) Mysterious!

German Federal Minister Wants Kindergarteners To Be Educated About “Right Wing Extremism”

Mitt Romney Blames Trump’s “America First” Policy For Russian Attack On Ukraine  Of course he does. No situation is so unrelated that it can’t be blamed on Trump.

Bank Account Deplatforming Is Cancel Culture’s New Weapon

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

25th February 2022

‘Defeated Fauci-ism’: Florida issues new COVID mask guidelines that ‘buck’ CDC (Tallahasee Democrat)

CDC to significantly ease pandemic mask guidelines Friday (Associated Press)

As ‘stealth omicron’ advances, scientists are learning more (Associated Press) Keeping the panic alive.

New omicron subvariant has new COVID symptoms (Deseret News)

‘Follow The Data’, They Said, And Then They Hid It

US Vaccination Rates Collapse As Omicron Subsides

Portland Downtown Devastated by COVID

CDC Finally Ditches Indoor Masking Guidance For Majority Of US (Including Schools)

 

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Today in Black Privilege

25th February 2022

New Jersey’s vast racial wealth gap is no accident (NJ Star Ledger)

Black-owned South Philly deli vandalized with white supremacist graffiti  Jussie Smollet must be out on bail.

350.org Outted As White Supremacists?

CBS ‘Couldn’t Help But Be Moved’ By Jackson Nomination, Her ‘Very Large Cheering Squad’

Federal Judge Rules Virginia School’s Race-Driven Admissions Policies Unconstitutional

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

25th February 2022

Americans want to fight climate change with nature (The Hill)

Feds rescind license extension for Florida nuclear plant (Asscoiated Press)

Fossil Fuel Industry Emitting 70% More Methane Than Official Numbers Show (Gizmodo)

Why Methane Is a Large and Underestimated Threat to Climate Goals (Yale Environment 360)

Black carbon pollution from tourism and research increasing Antarctic snowmelt, study says (The Guardian)

Soot is accelerating snow melt in popular parts of Antarctica, a study finds (NPR)

Wild animals seen at Beijing 2022 show success of environmental protection efforts (Global Times)

A New Study Has Found The Year When Sea Level Rise Truly Began Accelerating (Science Alert)

Sea levels have been rising since the American Civil War. The reason? Coal (Salon)

Will California go big on climate action? Here’s what lawmakers want (L.A. Times)

Santa Barbara’s Monique Limón and Steve Bennett Co-Author Bill for Climate Change Accountability (Santa Barbara Independent)

Greenland Melting From the Bottom Up (Weather.com)

First on CNN: Climate groups launch pressure campaign aimed at Biden ahead of State of the Union (CNN)

UC Berkeley students are now considered pollution under California environmental law (S.F. Chronicle)

White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay (Washington Post)

John Kerry fears Russia-Ukraine war will distract from climate change

Mid-winter polar bear sea ice habitat is abundant & within range of long-term average

Special Report: Digital Brownshirts Attacking Free Speech on Climate Change Boosted by Liberal Media

John Kerry Orders Emergency Airdrop Of Solar Panels To Ukraine To Offset Carbon Emissions  Babylon Bee.

 

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#BidenRemorse: The Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

25th February 2022

Reporters call out Biden for claiming no one expected sanctions to prevent Russian aggression

Putin was playing Biden all along (Politico)

Jimmy Carter says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ‘threatens security in Europe and the entire world’ (CNN)

China blames U.S. for inciting Ukraine conflict

Biden Admin Freezes New Oil And Gas Drilling Leases Despite Recent Court-Ordered Injunction

Nets HAMMER Biden on Failure of Russian Sanctions to Prevent War

CNN Analyst Admits Biden’s Russian Sanctions Are Pointless

Biden’s Appeasement of Putin Was Years in Making

What happened to Tough Guy Joe Biden?  Apparently he’s slept since then.

Biden Orders Astronauts On ISS To Eat All The Freeze-Dried Ice Cream And Not Leave Any For The Russians  Babylon Bee.

Of Course Vladimir Putin Invaded Ukraine Under Joe Biden’s Watch

China shared U.S. intelligence on Ukraine crisis with Russia

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

25th February 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 25, 2022

Steve Jobs’ heir reportedly eying Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco House seat (S.F. Gate)

Steve Jobs’ son Reed Jobs has no interest in Nancy Pelosi’s House seat: report

Moderate Democrats are still deluded about how to win (Washington Post)

Pack of robbers steal $500,000 in goods from NYC store Time to leave.

Facing climate and social justice crises, older people are getting back into the protest battle (Boston Globe)

Nets Skip Ukraine Expanding Gun Rights Before Invasion, Handing Out Guns

How Henry Cuellar Used Campaign Cash To Fund a Private Plane  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Patreon blocks Ukrainian volunteers charity account

Audiences Reject Woke Television: Many Leftist Shows Cancelled in 2022

MSNBC: Biden’s Deeply Liberal SCOTUS Pick Is ‘Middle of the Road’

The Gender Wage Gap: Fact or Fiction?

Hostin: Criticism of Biden SCOTUS Pick ‘Based on Race, Not on Qualifications’  When her primary qualification is her race, they are the same.

Putin Withdraws From Ukraine After Celebrities Threaten To Sing ‘Imagine’  Babylon Bee.

 

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Americans Will Now Be Required to Identify Ukraine on a Map Before Posting Opinion on Ukraine

25th February 2022

Babylon Bee.

Works for me.

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