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General Motors (GM) and self-driving car company Cruise have asked regulators for permission to deploy the Cruise Origin — an autonomous vehicle (AV) with no steering wheel, rearview mirrors, or pedals.

If approved, it could be on the assembly line within a year.

“The Cruise Origin is among the most innovative vehicles in history: a zero-emission, shared, electric vehicle that has been purposefully designed from the ground up to operate without a human driver,” Rob Grant, a senior VP at Cruise, wrote in a blog post.

You first.

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A development to house the homeless in Los Angeles will cost $837,000 for a housing unit, Nellie Bowles notices in her Friday newsletter for the Bari Weiss “Common Sense” Substack. She writes:

How could they possibly spend that much on a single unit and think it’s good? Easy. California uses its homeless budget as a cash firehose, lining the pockets of untold numbers of contractors and employing every drama major who thinks nonprofits seem cool. It’s the Homeless Industrial Complex. The actual people sleeping on the streets—some 41,000 souls in Los Angeles—are beside the point.

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We’ve gone beyond “the revolution will be televised,” and are in a reality where the the latest European war is live-streamed not just through social media, but on online mapping services without Google or Apple intending it.

The sheer volume of mapping data now available at our fingertips means it was possible for civilians half a world away to see when Russian forces began moving. Specifically, that data pinpointed a traffic jam starting on the Russian side of the border, actively moving into Ukraine in the first few minutes of the Russian and Ukraine conflict.

Just as with any cartography, this information required interpreting. Google Maps did not specifically say that it was troop movements, nor was its satellite imagery up to the minute. During the process of researching this story, we’ve confirmed that Apple Maps presented similar inbound troop movement information — but it wasn’t setting out to do that either.

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Let’s just head over the to the stock market and place some bets….

May I suggest MPLX?

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They’re not as stupid as black people, so they must be oppressors like white people.

“White-adjacent” is the new Hitler.

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It is hard not to be cynical about “the media” these days, especially if you work in it. Spend any significant amount of time reading newspapers and magazines, watching cable news, or following discussions on Twitter, and you notice that a great deal of what is written and broadcast has a drearily predictable quality. Indeed, discrete events seem almost irrelevant except insofar as they can be slotted into pre-existing storylines.

Take the debates surrounding the trucker protests in Ottawa. The mainstream press, by and large, has attempted to assimilate the protests into categories familiar from the Trump years.

According to Politico, “far-Right” truckers, some of them sporting “Confederate and Nazi flags”, have “wreaked havoc on Canadian cities”. In the Guardian, one writer warned that the “siege of Ottawa” was an “astroturfed movement funded by a global network of highly organised far-Right groups and amplified by Facebook’s misinformation machine.” Slate, after dropping the trigger words “militia”, “hate”, “extremist”, and “Nazi”, called the protests an “armed occupation of a G-7 capital”. All linked the truckers with the domestic threat posed by Fox News, the Republican Party, and the American far-Right.

Those were the days.

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So much is being written about the Russian invasion of Ukraine that more on the situation on the ground is unnecessary. Certainly, it is premature for a post-mortem on causes and responsibilities of a conflict that came on so quickly and unexpectedly. But it is not a bad time to think about medium- and long-term consequences of Putin’s dramatic action, and how the West can recover its equilibrium and face up to a new global challenge.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I guessed wrong on this one. I thought Putin would bluff and bluster, and then cash in his chips. I thought the weak Western powers would agree to a partition of Ukraine, with the largely Russian-speaking Eastern provinces going to Russia, along with other considerations, unrelated to Ukraine, that would be more or less secret. But Putin invaded instead, and seems bent on conquering all of Ukraine and perhaps more besides.

What made Putin so bold? A key factor no doubt was the weakness of Western leaders, pre-eminently the doddering Joe Biden. But the West’s weakness is not a function of a few individuals. You likely have seen tweets that contrast recruiting ads for the U.S. Army, featuring cartoons and lesbians, with recruiting ads for the Russian and Chinese armies. The contrast is painful.

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It is now well-established that the spike protein factories created by the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus do not remain at the site where they are injected. It is not yet clear whether this is due to improperly administered injections — which might be entering blood vessels rather than remaining intramuscular — or if the migration occurs no matter whether the injection is intravenous or not.

A team of German pathologists asked BioNTech (Pfizer) for information about the components of the company’s “vaccine”. They didn’t get much of an answer to their questions, but there is some interesting analysis in the report below.

Climate change is intensifying Earth’s water cycle at twice the predicted rate, research shows (The Guardian)

Earth’s Water Cycle Is Changing Dramatically, And Much Faster Than We Predicted (ScienceAlert)

Virtual reality increasingly used to convey climate urgency (KOAT Albuquerque) I.e. Narrative propaganda.

Government climate advisers say cut fossil fuels to lower energy bills (BBC) Because ‘renewables’ are so cheap and cost-effective.

How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom (Washington Post)

Engineered microbes put waste to good use — and help the climate (Nature)

Claim: 10% Chance YOU Suffered a Climate Catastrophe Last Year

Sea Level Rise Will Be Catastrophic—and Unequal  (Wired ‘Science’)

Clarence Thomas refuses the clear and obvious path forward (CNN)

Kinzinger rips House Republicans’ ‘damn awful’ anti-Biden tweet (The Hill) RINOs assemble!

Trump spoke. Will Republicans follow him on Russia? (CNN)

Trump Fears Putin Is Too Distracted by Ukraine to Help Him with 2024 Campaign (The New Yorker)

Gov Abbott Ordered Price Gouge During Outages: Former Texas Energy Chief (Newsweek) Who was fired for dropping the ball during the Great Freeze of February 2021. An unimpeachable source.

Trump claims investigations into him are politically motivated. That is a lie. (The Guardian)

Four Things to Look for in Donald Trump, Ivanka, Don Jr. Court Testimonies (Newsweek) Just so you’ll know what the official Narrative is.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Republicans want a ‘White Christian autocracy’

AOC outrages LGBTQ advocates over suggested post office renaming

Once again, Trump appears to evade a legal trap (Washington Post)

Facebook did not label posts from top climate change deniers, report says (Reuters)

NY Times Ad Snuggles Up to Cancel Culture: J.K. Rowling a Transphobic ‘TERF’

CNN Declares GOP, Not Biden, Is The One Playing Identity Politics on SCOTUS Pick

CNN Journalists, Vindman Blame January 6 for Russia Invading Ukraine

Washington Post Speed Slams Iowa Governor Chosen to Deliver GOP Response to SOTU

Never Trumpers play 4D chess over Russia — and lose

Is Ukraine the Fault of Jared Kushner?

Minnesota middle school students given tips for BLM protests, White students told not to speak

Charles Payne: We control our destiny when we stop accepting crumbs in the name of so-called social justice

A new fund seeks to close the racial wealth gap by helping Black families buy homes in metro Denver

Nature: Time for Affirmative Action in Publish or Perish

Senate Candidate Hired Dem ‘Dark Money’ Lawyer While Campaigning Against Money in Politics

CEO of World’s Largest Publisher Funds Campaign to Force Critical Race Theory Into Schools

Kaepernick To Provide Free Autopsies To Expose ‘Bias’

San Francisco school board recall prompts media reckoning over woke weariness: ‘Progressivism gone wild’

Wauwatosa clerk finds unopened absentee ballots; race results could change (WISN Milwaukee) How … convenient.

Joe Biden’s Secret Constitutional Weapon (Politico)

Congress passed up inheritance taxes to fix wealth inequality (Washington Post)

‘We can’t make it rain’: California farmers left out to dry as US government allots no water (The Guardian)

A New Level of Transit Incompetence

UK Pushing To Kick Russia Out Of SWIFT, But Germany Says No

Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person

Murder Victim’s Mother Has Questions for One of Virginia’s Progressive Prosecutors

Mapping The De-‘Squaw’-ing Of America’s Derogatory Place Names

Joy Behar Frets Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Will Harm Her Vacation Plans

The Woke American Medical Association

Feminist Insists Abortion Is ‘Pro-Child’

“Mark It Zero”: UBS Triggers Margin Calls For Wealthy Clients By Calling Russian Bond Collateral Worthless

CNN Admits Biden’s Sanctions ‘Not Enough’ to Stop Putin’s Invasion

CBS Grills Secretary of State Blinken While ABC, NBC Throw Softballs

Kamala Harris ?? Rapists?

Biden Approval Rating In Ukraine Drops To 0%  Babylon Bee.

Joe Biden is no Jack Kennedy

“He’s Probably Sleeping Right Now”: Trump Slams Biden’s Slow Response To Russian Attack

Biden Announces He Will Move To Unfollow Putin On Twitter  Babylon Bee.

Blacks Saying Bye-Bye to Biden

Against omicron, vaccine protection was much weaker, CDC data shows (Washington Post) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

New studies bring BA.2 variant into sharper focus (CNN) And more prospects for PANIC!

Soon only one U.S. state will still have an indoor mask mandate (CBS) Hawaii, even bluer than California.

These COVID-19 symptoms are worrying doctors right now (Deseret News)

How Eisenhower Predicted Fauci

SARS-CoV-2 contains part of a patented genetic sequence

German insurance company data reports significantly higher vaccine side effects

German Health Insurer Reveals ‘Alarming’ Underreporting Of Vaccine Side-Effects

‘You live in a city for culture, for sex, and to marry well. If those don’t apply to you, don’t live in a city.’

— Tyler Cowen

And that about sums it up.

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All of which naturally puts one in the mind of Ross Douthat. The thoughtful columnist and last person on earth able to regularly smuggle conservative opinions past the New York Times admittedly isn’t a natural fit for the Epstein fiasco. But Douthat a few years ago wrote an essay that seems worth revisiting today.

The piece, “Why We Miss the WASPs,” is an attack on the modern American conception of meritocracy. Far from being democratic, Douthat argues, the meritocrats have become their own kind of aristocracy, except lacking in the virtues that formed the bedrock of the old WASP aristocrats: piety, service, noblesse oblige. America’s reverence for eminences like George HW Bush is thus more than just gauzy nostalgia; it’s a yearning for the better moral stewardship of an elite gone by.

The left considered Douthat’s point. They stroked their chins. And then they came to a carefully reasoned and penetrating conclusion: Douthat was a racist. For even entertaining the idea of the virtuous WASP, Douthat was said to have convicted himself of the same prejudices held by those WASPs. In a follow-up column, Douthat tried to make clear that he was aware the old elite could be bigoted, that this wasn’t what he was advocating for. “If I had the magic wand to conjure a different elite,” he quipped, “it would be a multiracial, multilingual Catholic aristocracy ruling from Quebec to Chile.” (He’ll first have to get past my ideal elite of a global governing network of Episcopalian folk choirs.)

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A joke about education in Soviet Russia:

– My wife has been going to cooking school for three years.
– She must really cook well by now!
– No, they’ve only reached the part about the Twentieth Communist Party Congress so far…

Maybe it’s not so much funny as telling; but what it is telling of is the hijacking of a non-political activity — cookery, but it may as well be biology or history or maths — for a political end.

Steve Sailer.

Swedish prime minister Magdalena Andersson announces Sweden won’t take in as many Ukrainian blonde women refugees as it took in Muslim military age men in 2015.

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To young people living in democracies, authoritarianism may seem like a long-forgotten part of their country’s history. For as long as they can remember, their fellow citizens have had the right to voice their opinion and to organize freely, political parties have competed in meaningful elections, and the legislature and courts have checked their governments’ actions.

But these experiences are far from universal. Many countries are not democracies; and almost all countries that are democratic are younger than a lifetime. This means that for most people, life under authoritarianism is either their current experience, or they remember a time when it was.

ZMan looks at recent history.

At the end of the Cold War, the American empire was at the height of its global influence and power. The verdict of history was that it had the best economy, the best military and the best political culture. Thirty years on and no one looks at the American economic model with envy. China is viewed as having the best economy. While the military has amazing weaponry, its culture is looked upon as increasingly bizarre. Of course, the political culture has become coarse and unstable.

The sharp decline in the competence of the Global American Empire is where the decline is most evident. The place to start is the blunders in the Bush years, where they miscalculated at every step in the crusade against Islam. One can argue about whether they should have anticipated the 9/11 attacks, but the response was poorly conceived and poorly executed. Like a sports team that takes a far weaker opponent lightly, the empire survived the encounter with Islam. It did not win.

The Obama years brought new failures. The administration started with the goal of resetting relations with Russia, which had been soured by the behavior of the Bush administration in the Russo-Georgian war. They sent Hillary Clinton to cackle with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Obama administration ended with Hillary Clinton’s election team manufacturing a smear campaign and conspiracy theory around the now famous Russian collusion hoax.

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In 2016, a rape survivor voluntarily provided her DNA to San Francisco law enforcement officers so that her attacker might be brought to justice. Five years later, the sample she provided led police to connect her to an unrelated burglary, according to San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin. The woman faced a felony property charge, but Boudin dropped the case, saying the use of her DNA was a violation of her Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures.

No, it isn’t. She voluntarily gave up the sample, which is in law the same as consenting to a search. Boudin is just looking for excuses to let criminals off in cases where it will make him look good. (I doubt that the victims of the burglary were consulted. Nobody cares about the victims unless they belong to a Fashionable Minority.)

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Until recently, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum tended to avoid the light, preferring to work behind the scenes discreetly inserting alumni from their Young Global Leaders program into positions of power in various governments, corporations, and non-profits.

Recently, however, the machinations of Herr Schwab and his cronies have become more and more open. As various national leaders — including those installed by the WEF, most recently Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau — faltered in their attempts to impose one or another aspect of the New World Order, the WEF has weighed in on events with a clear attempt to impose the Global Governance model on what were formerly nation states.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Centers for Disease Control is a federal bureaucracy and, like all government agencies, is political. CDC employs scientists, but the idea that it is some sort of ivory tower representing “science” is ridiculous.

We are reminded of this fact by an article in the New York Times that Steve referred to briefly earlier today. The article is headlined, “The C.D.C. isn’t publishing large portions of the Covid data it collects.”

10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint (Washington Post)

What is black carbon? The latest way humans are causing changes in Antarctica (CNN)

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

Survey: Most concerned about future extreme weather, only half taking steps (KOAT Albuquerque)

Innocent drinks ads banned over environmental claim (BBC)

Tension and trade-offs between protecting biodiversity and avoiding climate change (The Hill)

Climate activists spend millions for friendly Associated Press ‘news’

Most schemes to capture and reuse carbon actually increase emissions (New Scientist)

Disinformation for profit: scammers cash in on conspiracy theories (The Guardian)

Pentagon approves 700 National Guardsmen and 50 tactical vehicles ahead of possible trucker convoys in DC (CNN)

Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? (Washington Post)

Republicans Support Democracy in Ukraine as Long as It Does Not Spread to U.S. (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz thinks he’s funny but he’s not.

DeSantis’s latest brilliant Florida pandemic idea? A mask-shunning, vaccine-skeptical, ivermectin-promoting surgeon general. (Washington Post) Of course, he’s Not Really Black.

Canadian MP posts about ‘single mom’ locked out of bank account over Freedom Convoy donation

Colorado Is Again Trying to Compel a Wedding Vendor’s Speech. Supreme Court Has a Chance to Defend Freedom.

Canada Unfreezes Some Pro-Convoy Accounts as Anti-Convoy Crowd Sues for Damages: Report

Lead Prosecutors Abruptly Quit Trump Investigation

NY Magazine: Parents ‘Tyrants’ for Not Wanting Trans Agenda In Schools

Trudeau Revokes Emergency Powers Act

Why L.A. D.A. Gascón reversed himself on sentencing of woman who assaulted 10-year-old (L.A. Times)

Gascon slammed for reversal on trans child molester Tubbs case: ‘Utterly incompetent’ or ‘lying’?

Gascon recall: Nearly 98% of Los Angeles prosecutors voted in support of effort to oust DA

Trans “Woman” Gets Cocky About Reduced Sentence For Molesting Child

The upside of inflation? It reduces America’s enormous wealth gap (L. A. Times) The way to get equality is for everyone to be equally poor.

Tucker Carlson: What’s happening to truckers in Canada reveals the future of the United States

Joke’s on them: how Democrats gave up on rural America (The Guardian)

Nearly one-third of NYC bus riders aren’t paying the fare Guess what happens when you defund the police?

What price British democracy when a rich elite has the government’s ear? (The Guardian) George Monbiot is the Robert Reich of Britain.

Speech Therapists Raise Alarm Over CDC’s New Childhood Development Guidelines

‘People Are Dying’: Law Enforcement Pins Colorado Overdose Spike to Dem-Passed Law

In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously

Critical Race Theory Makes Its Way Into Mandatory Trainings At Top US Medical Schools, New Database Shows

A New Dem Bill Would Make ‘Tent Cities’ Permanent Fixture

China Calls US ‘Culprit’ For Ukraine Tensions, Vows To “Eradicate” Taiwan’s “Secessionist Regime”

Prophetic HuffPost 2014 Warning: ‘Why Canada Will Become a Dictatorship Under Trudeau’

Opposing child gender transitions is ‘intolerant’, says college president

The War on Parents Continues

CNN En Español Ratchets Up Its Demonization of Election Integrity Laws

Richard Epstein: Halt the EPA’s Takeover of Energy Markets

Swalwell Cozied Up to Lobbyist for ‘Putin’s Pipeline’ While Accusing GOP of Enabling Russia

Secret Teacher Portals Reveal ‘Pronoun Surveys,’ ‘Black Lives Matter Curriculum.’

As Omicron cases fall, doctors anxiously await possible surge of dangerous child complication MIS-C (CNN) Anything to keep up the PAN(C!

Indonesia relies heavily on China’s Sinovac vaccine. A new wave of infections puts it to the test (CNBC)

Omicron won’t be the last coronavirus variant to haunt us (L.A. Times)

Omicron continued to disrupt work and families’ lives even as Covid-19 cases dropped (CNN) Mainly because of the Narrative Media PANIC!

Virginia school board member storms out of meeting over maskless saga

COVID in California: S.F. cites growing disparity in vaccination among kids 5-11 (S. F. Chronicle)

This map shows how San Francisco neighborhoods experienced the omicron wave differently (S.F. Chronicle)

‘We don’t count’: The Californians who can’t return to normal as COVID fatigue grips state

How Government Is Adding to, Not Solving, Labor Shortages in Health Care and Elsewhere

British Government Reaches Conclusion on COVID Origins  Hint: Lab leak.

Jim Boeheim: Carrier Dome Mask Mandate Is ‘Crazy’

Trudeau Explains He Just Needs Two Weeks To Slow The Spread Of Freedom  Babylon Bee.

New Zealand’s COVID-19 Related Crackdown on Economic Freedom Lingers On

Harvard Student: We Are ‘COVID Sheep’

122 Countries On Track To Miss COVID-19 Vaccine Goal

Watch: Bill Gates Sardonically Compares Wearing A Mask To Wearing Pants

Apply the 2% way to systemic racism (Boston Globd) He’s so oppressed.

Martinsville story puts white privilege on full display (Indianapolis Star) Martinsville is a town in Indiana halfway between Indianapolis and Bloomington.

Why Kentucky should use the Jefferson Davis Historic Site to teach about slavery (Courier Journal)

Way to Go, ‘White Supremacists’!

Africa’s Oldest DNA Is Helping Address Science’s Racial Bias  (Wired ‘Science’)

A “Tragedy Of Capitalism”? BLM Faces Growing Questions Over Millions In Donations

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Law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology during investigations has blossomed in recent years thanks in no small part to a booming surveillance industry built on the back of an ever-expanding buffet of publicly available biometric data. The limits on where and how that technology can be used though remain legally murky and are constantly evolving. Now, it appears at least some law enforcement agents are flirting with the idea of using facial recognition at otherwise seemingly benign traffic stops, a potential loosening of the tech’s use that has legal and privacy experts on edge.

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What’s happening in Massachusetts mirrors a broader battle over who has the “right to repair” increasingly complex electronic products — from iPhones and farm tractors to the family car.

About 75% of Massachusetts voters sided with the auto repair industry in 2020 by passing a ballot initiative that’s supposed to allow car owners and their preferred auto shops to more easily peek into a car’s trove of online data. Automakers have been fighting it in court ever since.

And two of them, Subaru and Kia, said that rather than run afoul of the new law, they would disable their wireless “telematics” systems from new models in the state. Car buyers and dealerships have been feeling the effects.

The Hyundai system is called BlueLink and it allows one to do some amazing stuff. I don’t use even a third of it, but it’s nice knowing that they’re available. The ability to remotely start and de-ice the car is worth a lot in winter. This strikes me as just dog-in-the-manger attitude on the part of the manufacturers.

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Anti-Semite Rashida Tlaib will target admin’s failures to deliver policies on far left’s wish list.

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While most people are fast asleep, some ultra-introverts are going about their lives, reveling in the quiet and solitude. They challenge a core assumption of psychology: that all humans need social connection.

I must admit that it sounds attractive. Not quite a post-apocalyptic world, but as close as we can reasonably come in this life.

ZMan breaks it down.

The West is now reorganizing away from these sorts of positive purposes to an entirely negative purpose. Antifascism is becoming the organizing ethos of the ruling elite and that naturally means the government. By fascism, they mean a collection of ideas and concepts they think are integral to fascism. Things like racial discrimination or opposition to men wearing dresses. The point of the state is to eliminate all of these precursors to fascism from human society.

What we are seeing is the evolution of the first anti-state. Instead of being organized around a set of aspirations linked to the nature, culture and history of the people, the state is organized around exterminating ideas and concepts associated with the nature, culture and history of Western people. In order to eliminate these things from humanity, the state must use every tool at its disposal. It also means leveling existing society in order to rebuild the antifascist state from scratch.

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Beware of writing critical things about Eileen Gu, a teenaged skiing triple-medalist at the Beijing Olympics. You’ll be accused of racism.

Gu was born and raised in San Francisco, but after competing for the USA, she decided in 2019 that she was going to ski for communist China, where her mother grew up. The most pronounced irony of this flip-flop is how she’s cashing in by straddling the two countries.

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A statue of the controversial king Leopold II in Brussels could be removed and melted down as Belgian authorities consider how to deal with the country’s past colonialism. The bronze statue, from the 19th century, is located in the centre of Brussels, close to the Royal Palace.

A group of historians, architects and other specialists, commissioned by the Brussels regional government, has come up with two suggestions on what can be done with the statue. The statue could be melted down and turned into a monument to those who died during Leopold II’s brutal rule of the Belgian Congo. The alternative suggestion is to create an open-air statue park to house the work, along with other controversial monuments to figures of the colonial past.

Or they could smear it with bird poop and put up a sign saying Black Lives Matter.

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Countries all over the world signed agreements with the pharmaceutical companies that manufactured the experimental mRNA treatments intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. Those agreements were kept secret, although they were known to indemnify the manufacturers from any liability for harm caused by their “vaccines”.

Various details of the agreements have leaked, and the entire unredacted contract between the European Union and Moderna has now been exposed.

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As I got to know these people, I had many conversations during which I tried to advise them on how to avoid these difficult circumstances in the future. I was often surprised to discover that they already knew full well what it would take to avoid these circumstances in the future. But they had no intention at all of modifying their behavior for the simple reason that they preferred the inconvenience of arrest to the discipline of managing their own affairs.

And it wasn’t even a matter of the money. The modest payment plan for their traffic citations, which would have been acceptable to the city, could have often been funded for less than they spent in one week on cigarettes. To say nothing of the money they spent on weed.

It also wasn’t the case that they robotically went about their lives without an explicit point of view about their choices. They almost always had a very well-developed worldview that informed their choices and, more to the point, they were conscious of what it was and could readily articulate it.

Many people are criminals because they prefer to be criminals. They have a choice and they make it. Society is not to blame; their circumstances are not to blame; nothing extrinsic is to blame — they are.

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I could wax on about how bad things are going to be, or how we oughta this, and we oughta that. Yes, yes, I agree, academically.

But in reality, we aren’t going to do a damned thing, and that’s the best outcome we may realistically hope for. I’ve said since the first term of the Obama administration that we are no longer capable of doing things, because we are always just one election away from internal Marxist sabotage at the top. And now that the deep state shenanigans are plain for all to see, they are emboldened, rather than cowed by the sunlight.

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America is more like Texas than it is California or New York, whether Democrats admit it or not.

Court ruling on social cost of carbon upends Biden’s climate plans (Washington Post)

Garland expected to roll back elements of DOJ program to combat Chinese spying

Never Fear, Kamala’s On the Case!

The dirty little secret of Donald Trump’s massive fundraising (CNN) Chris Cillizza is All Trump! All the time!

Fact check: Debunking more false Fox claims about the Canadian convoy protests (CNN) False claims!

‘Something Went Wrong’: Trump’s Twitter Knockoff Suffers Bumpy Launch (Daily Beast)

J.D. Vance’s attack on Gen. Barry McCaffrey is obscene. It’s also not unusual for today’s GOP. (Washington Post) And it’s All Trump’s Fault.

‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections (The Guardian)

Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin, and 49 other Senate cowards (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Rittenhouse Launches The Media Accountability Project to Sue for DEFAMATION

Kyle Rittenhouse To Sue Whoopi Goldberg, Other ‘Celebrities, Politicians And Athletes’ For Calling Him A Murderer  And I hope he squeezes every nickel out of them that he can.

Harvard Law Prof Says Tucker Carlson Guilty Of “Treason” For Criticizing Biden Over Russia

Morning Joe Blames Trump For Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank—for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence

Celebs Backed BLM Fund That Bailed Out a BLM Assassin

DOJ’s interest in housing discrimination lawsuit underscores the bias many Black homeowners have faced for decades (CNN)

Too Much Personality: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Is Like Trump if Trump Were Also Black, Vegan, and Maybe Gay

‘I Am an Overcomer,’ Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears Says. ‘Many Black People Are Overcomers.’

I Advised a Student to Not Publish Evidence of Reverse Racism  It is a measure of how far our discourse has degenerated that racism against white people has to be characterized as ‘reverse’ racism.

CBP Promotes Veganism for Black History Month

The View LIES About Justice Thomas’s Wife Being ‘Part of the Insurrection’

More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries (NPR) And sparking PANIC!

Health Officials Warily Eye Rising New BA.2 Omicron Strain (Huffington Post) And surely want you to PANIC!

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell held maskless ball after reimposing mask mandate

ABC, CBS Ignore Report CDC is Hiding COVID Data from Public

30% Of People In India Believe COVID Is A Myth

Against the Covid ‘new normal’

Prominent UK Lockdown Advocate Admits He Got It Wrong

Federal Government’s Long, Shameful Record of Failures in Battling COVID-19

Public Health Scotland Stops Releasing COVID Data To Protect The Public From Reaching Bad Conclusions

There shall be no data but “the data” [covid]