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On Monday the Department of Homeland Security issued an updated National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin, which purports to summarize the “Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland”. It begins with a paragraph that, read carefully, should chill the blood of anyone who cherishes liberty.

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“Diversity statements” are the latest device the left has come up with to impose and enforce woke conformity in education.

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The future of public transit is nearly empty buses and railcars. Yet President Biden’s American Jobs Plan calls for spending $85 billion on transit. Although transit carries less than 1 percent of passenger travel in the United States, and no freight, this represents 28 percent of the funds Biden proposes to spend on transportation.

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On Friday, January 28, 2022, about 6:40 a.m. eastern standard time, the Fern Hollow bridge, which carried Forbes Avenue over the north side of Frick Park, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, experienced a structural failure. As a result, the 447-foot-long bridge fell approximately 100 feet into the park below. At the time of the collapse, a 2013 Ne?w Flyer articulated bus, operated by the Port Authority of Allegheny County, and four passenger vehicles were on the bridge. A fifth passenger vehicle drove off the east bridge abutment following the collapse and came to rest on its roof on the exposed ground below. As a result, 10 vehicle occupants sustained injuries.

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On September 7, 2021, Warren dispatched a letter to Amazon in which she claimed that certain books sold by the internet giant contained “COVID-19 misinformation.” In her letter, Warren singled out “The Truth About COVID-19”as the most blatant example of “disinformation” about vaccines and treatments being “peddled” by Amazon, even including a screenshot of the book as shown on Amazon’s webpage.

The next day, the Massachusetts senator issued a press release, publicizing her letter to Amazon and posting a link to a copy of that letter on her government website. “Senator Warren is calling on Amazon to take aggressive action to stamp out COVID-19 misinformation,” the press release read.

After Warren issued her press release, national media widely publicized her letter, causing publisher Chelsea Green to immediately fear this would cause booksellers to stop stocking or promoting “The Truth About COVID-19.” Those concerns proved valid. On September 10, 2021, Barnes and Noble informed Chelsea Green via email that it would stop offering “The Truth About COVID-19” as an e-book. Barnes and Noble’s brick-and-mortar stores and most independent booksellers are also refusing to carry the book.

Additionally, while Amazon continues to sell the book, the online giant notified Chelsea Green it would not run ads promoting, or simply including, “The Truth About COVID-19.” Amazon also removed the book from the “medical work” category, where it had previously been listed. Amazon also stopped advertising “The Truth About COVID-19”to users whose purchase history would indicate an interest in the text.

Identify A-ha moments to trigger fast climate action, say UK scientists (The Guardian)

Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane (Nature)

Lawsuit Alleges Illegal Tactics in House Democrats’ Climate Probe of Oil Companies

Wash Post: ‘Climate change is altering the smell of snow’: ‘Its scent is getting stronger’ as temps increase

Nancy Pelosi Spent $500K On Private Jets While Preaching About Climate Change

Sad, @wapo Does Anything for a Headline – ‘Climate change is altering the smell of snow’

Just What Is CH For?

Steve Sailer.

During the Not So Great Reset, many American colleges are discarding or downgrading consideration of college admissions test (SAT or ACT) in order to rely more heavily upon even more easily gamed factors such as My Essay About What I Learned Digging Latrines in Costa Rica on Horace Lippincott Prep’s Annual Holiday College Application Enrichment Trip to the Global South.

I like the old ways better. “Translate this passage from Latin into Greek.” “Translate this passage from Greek into Latin.”

Why the Donald Trump-National Archives story is such a big deal (CNN) Apparently there was head-scratching among the Unenlightened, so Chris Cillizza is here to explain it to you

,‘Joe Rogan watchdog’ exposes host’s ‘most hateful’ Spotify slurs

Joe Rogan and Spotify offer a masterclass in getting rich off the race card (Washington Post) The WaPo would never do that.

Georgia prosecutor says presidential immunity won’t protect Trump (The Hill) It can’t stand up to her Awesome Magical Power as a Black Woman.

Exclusive: FBI probes pre-Capitol riot meeting of far-right groups (Reuters)

Why does anyone care what Ben & Jerry’s, Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Rogan think? (Washington Post) Max Boot lives up to his name.

Joy Reid: US democracy ‘already in decline’ (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

A California lawyer tweeted what she saw in immigration court. The DOJ demanded she delete it

CNN Warns of SCOTUS ‘Unraveling Minority Voting Rights’

‘Boom!’ CNN’s Avlon Excited By Unlikely Scenario That Could Kick Trump Off Ballot

‘The View’ Bashes FL Parental Rights Bill: Just as Harmful as Anti-CRT Bills!

GiveSendGo founder rips ‘authoritarian’ Big Tech after GoFundMe seizes Canadian trucker’s cash

Canadian lawmakers grow increasingly uneasy about economic impact of truckers protesting vaccine mandate

‘Now is not the moment’ to drop mask rules, CDC director says as states end mandates (Washington Post) Exactly! It ought to have been done six months ago.

QAnon Flags Fly Onscreen After Fox News Describes Anti-Vax Truckers as ‘Mainstream’ (Daily Beast)

You should plan for the next major COVID-19 variant now, expert says (Deseret News) You know they’re going to find one – or make one up.

YouTube Removes, Then Restores, Video of Mom Fighting Mask Mandates in School

Hospitalization: Vaxed or Unvaxed, Makes No Difference

Austrians Being Stopped Randomly By Authorities And Forced To Prove They Are Vaccinated

10 Most Absurd Excuses From Democrats Caught in Mask Scandals

Why remdesivir, a highly effective COVID treatment, is a last resort for providers

King Felipe VI of Spain has Covid  He was fully ‘vaccinated’, of course. Fine vaccines ya got there, bubba.

Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ Raises $7 Million On New Crowdfunding Platform

CNN ‘Doctor’: “The Science Has Changed” So Lift COVID Restrictions

STUDY: CensorTrack Documents Over 800 Cases of Big Tech Censoring COVID-19 Debate

Big Tech Censored Dozens of Doctors, More Than 800 Accounts for COVID-19 ‘Misinformation,’ Study Finds

CDC Spreads Misinformation On Masking, Not Science

Truckers Block Critical US-Canada Bridge For Third Day, Alternate Routes Become Congested

New York To Ditch Indoor Mask Mandate While LA County Warns Its Could Remain For ‘Weeks Or Months’

Report: Ineligible Labor Unions Received Over $36 Million in Federal COVID-19 Relief Loans

Fauci Talks Fourth Dose, Eventually Ending Restrictions In US

Sweden Declares The Pandemic To Be “Over”

“They Will Not Silence Me”: Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Was Pressured Not To Reveal It’s Mild

Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory

The surprising liberal consensus emerging about Biden’s Supreme Court decision (CNN)

Leo Terrell hammers Biden admin plan to distribute ‘smoking kits’: ‘How does this achieve racial equality?’

Biden Admin Funding Free Crack Pipes To Promote ‘Racial Equity’

Nets Ignore BLM Arsonist Receiving Light Sentence from Biden DOJ

Nets Skip Report White House Obstructed Efforts to Plan Afghan Withdrawal

Border Patrol Union: Lucky If We Seize 5 Percent Of Fentanyl Pills Coming Across Border

Hunter Biden Arrives At White House In Fake Mustache And Glasses To Receive Free Crack Pipe Babylon Bee.

Hunter Biden Tried To Broker Energy Deal With China’s State-Owned Oil Company: Emails

Members Of Congress Demand Report On Border Patrol Officers Accused By President Biden

DANGER ZONE: How Will the Nets React to Biden Cratering to the 30s in Polling?

Senate Republicans Vow To Block Iran Deal As Finish Line In Sight

Biden Admin Issues New Masks With Holes In Them So You Can Smoke Your Free Government Crack Pipe Babylon Bee.

ICE Deportations Down 70 Percent in 2021 Under Biden

Psaki Says Everyone Will Have To Show Proof Of Vaccination Before Receiving Free Crack Pipe  Babylon Bee.

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Natural Fiber Welding uses an innovative process to treat cotton and make it behave more like synthetic fibers.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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The Freedom Convoy in Canada has grown beyond just the truckers. Farmers on their tractors have joined in, and the movement enjoys widespread popular support. From my vantage point here in the Sunny South, the moment looks ripe for a general strike in the Frozen North.

The window of opportunity is a narrow one, however. The current push against the Trudeau regime cannot be maintained indefinitely, and Baby Doc has yet to roll out his big guns to try and crush what he considers a seditious rebellion. The globalists who pull his strings will want those unwashed upstarts suppressed at all costs — if they succeed, the dominos will start to fall all across the West, and who knows where that might lead?

Hammer tech.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Andrew Luger is President Biden’s nominee for United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Luger’s nomination is pending in the Senate, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has placed a hold on it until Luger responds to critical questions raised by the responsibility of the Minnesota office of the U.S. Attorney for the sentencing memo recommending leniency for Montez Terriel Lee’s arson/murder committed in the course of the George Floyd riots of 2020. I have embedded McConnell’s February 8 letter to Luger at the bottom of this post.

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Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.

I guess you merely have to identify as ‘disabled’.

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There are many reasons why an industry can become concentrated within a narrow geographic region. Externally generated increasing returns to scale i.e. a firm becomes more productive simply by being near other firms producing the same thing, is an observation that goes all the way back to Alfred Marshall. That’s the story of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, not to mention a million other micro-industries. The story of journalism, however, is different, because it is not the capital or labor market opportunities, but specifically the labor itself that is concentrated in a narrow location. The “Writer living in Brooklyn” Twitter/LinkedIn/Muckrack bio is a cliche at this point for a reason. But why are they all in Brooklyn? And why do I get the sense that I can summarize at least half of them as White children of the upper-middle class who paid full-freight for an English-adjacent degree from an expensive liberal arts college?

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As The Counter notes, “In the early months of the pandemic, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted quickly to loosen rules governing how child nutrition programs had to operate. Gone were the strict nutrition guidelines, the group dining requirements, and the in-person inspections. Instead, the agency focused on cutting red tape as part of a broad effort to keep snacks and meals accessible to hungry families while mitigating the spread of Covid-19.”

In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.

These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.

Delta CEO Asks DOJ To Enforce A National “No Fly” List For Unruly Passengers

National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago (Washington Post) Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

The GOP’s gerrymandering scheme backfires (Washington Post)

‘Dismantling Democracy’ to save it: How Democrats rediscovered the joys of rigging elections (The Hill)

Amy Coney Barrett’s Long Game (The New Yorker) Crxiticizing Barrett for what they praised Ginsberg for doing.

Donald Trump quietly making millions from coffee table book (CNN) Making millions! Quietly! The swine!

The RNC turns into an Orwellian horror show (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin goes full Narrative.

The Bengals are in the Super Bowl but their owner remains reviled

Trump Tells Joe Rogan To “Stop Apologizing”

CNN’s Fanone Claims History Will ‘Take A Big Shit’ on Pence’s Head

Vile, Far-Left Site Obtains Sinema’s Social Security Number, Journalists Yawn

MSNBC Warns of Canadian ‘Insurrection,’ Threat of Plinko & Pizza Ovens

Pelosi Shares ‘SHOCKING’ MSNBC Warning: GOP Will End Democracy In 2022  In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Biden Cabinet member resigns after admitting to ‘disrespectful’ behavior toward colleagues

You Might Not Like It, but Hunter Biden’s Shenanigans Are Real News (Daily Beast)

Watch GOP Ad Yanked From Airwaves Due to Images of Illegal Border Crossings

Biden DHS Declares Heightened Terrorism Threat Due To “Mis-, Dis-, & Mal-Information”

The White House Now Says It Never Really Wanted Lockdowns

State Department Impeding Investigation Into Hunter Biden, GOP Senators Claim

16 States File New Challenge To Biden Admin’s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

World’s glaciers contain less ice than thought – report (Reuters)

World’s biggest companies accused of exaggerating their climate actions (CNBC) Gee, I wonder why?

War-torn Sierra Leone rebuilds, sacrificing its only protection against sea level rise (L.A. Times)

Date set for first youth-led climate trial in U.S. history A find example of Spanking Deficit Disorder.

February 5, 2022: A Day Without Global Warming

Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane

BBC: Top Liberal Companies Exaggerating Climate Action

What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been?

NYTimes Indulges Lefty ‘Climate Anxiety’: ‘Disposable Diapers Made Her Anxious’  Only indolence stops her from using cloth diapers – and having to was them – as my mother did.

National Audubon Society Sues Bay Area Wind Turbines

New York BLM co-founder blasts Mayor Adams for reinstating ‘failed’ police policy: He doesn’t have a plan

Andrew Yang apologizes for tweet saying Joe Rogan isn’t racist because he works with Black people

The white nationalist threat to antiracist medicine in Boston (Boston Globe)

How many African American patents were there in the Golden Age of Innovation?

The Ilya Shapiro Case Exposes Georgetown’s Racism Double Standards

Hollywood Race War: Bloods vs. Skins

84 Percent of Warnock’s Large Donations Came From Outside of Georgia

Democratic Donor Calls for Affirmative Racism in Aspen Ski Resorts

Crazy Rich Asians Star Awkwafina Canceled for Speaking Like Black People

Vegas Cops Have Video of Saints’ Kamara Savagely Beating Man

MSNBC Doc On Criticism, ‘It’s a Tough Time to Be A Scientist’ Especially if you buck the Narrative.

Fact check: Vaccine-related misinformation about Trudeau, tennis players and microchips swirls on social media (CNN) Who looks to CNN for facts?

James Carville: I want to punch ‘piece of s–t’ unvaccinated people in the face  Well, I’d like to punch POS James Carville in the face – so I guess that’s fair.

The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us. (Washington Post) Yet another reason to PANIC!

Obama spotted maskless, surrounded by masked construction workers at new Hawaii mansion

Watch: Rand Paul Warns COVID Mandates Have “Always Been About Growing Government Power Over Your Lives”

ABC, NBC Bemoan ‘Insurrectionist’ Freedom Convoy ‘Occupying’ Ottawa

Thunder Out Of China: The Lab-Leak Theory Strengthens

Just Who, Exactly, is Requiring Me to Take This Shot?

‘Freedom Convoy’ Protests Are Spreading Throughout World As Truckers Lead The Fight Against Mandates

White House Launches Effort To “Recalculate” US COVID Hospitalization Numbers

Unmasking CDC’s Latest Mask Study: How Government Gets It Wrong Again

Pfizer Quietly Adds Language Warning That ‘Unfavorable Pre-Clinical, Clinical Or Safety Data’ May Impact Business

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YourFonts.com is an online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font!

And the swastika armband to prove it.

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Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic of the emerging regime of techno-feudalism, and the folly of El Salvador’s Bitcoin-heavy negotiating tactics with the IMF. Luckily, we have found this person in Yanis Varoufakis, the prominent economist, politician, and public intellectual, who is also former Greek finance minister. Yanis was kind enough to grant us an extensive interview, which provides a panoramic (and, at times, rather critical) view of what is going at the intersection of money, macroeconomics, and the digital.

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Here, in a 50-acre plot near the Barlow shopping complex, Nguyen grows rare varieties of heirloom wheat like Sonora, the first wheat variety cultivated in North America and the base for Mexico’s original wheat tortillas. Hulking seven feet above the ground are tall stalks of Wit Wolkoring, a Sonora descendant that’s particularly drought-resistant.

These are cultivars that “you won’t find in a seed catalog,” Nguyen said. Each of the dozen-odd grains that Nguyen has grown confer different advantages — the Chiddam Blanc de Mars is perfect for baguettes, the Sonora can be cooked like rice — but what they all share is an adaptation to California’s North Coast. These are hardy, survivor grains, selected to withstand an increasingly hostile climate.

So when Global Warming finally arrives, we’ll have Gourmet Wheat to fall back on. (Well, rich people will–you? Not so much….)

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I think what is happening overall is brinkmanship by a number of parties, which is not uncommon in geopolitics, and it is unlikely anything significant happens.

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Across the last couple of weeks of January, the Internet in North Korea was observed to be down. The blackout of Kim Jong-un’s internet connectivity, although intermittent, was hugely disruptive with reports suggesting an “attack against North Korean servers took the entire country off the internet.” The timing of these attacks coincided with the latest bunch of missile tests, the internet blackout just mentioned coming the day after the fifth such test took place. It should come as no surprise, then, that suspicion for the takedown fell upon nation states in the west. In particular, the U.S. Cyber Command was thought to be a primary suspect.

But what if it were not a coordinated nation state military response? What if a single hacker, out for revenge, was behind the attacks? Well, guess what, that does indeed seem to be the case. In an interview with Wired magazine an American hacker, identified only as P4x, claims to be person behind the blackouts. Wired has seen the evidence to back up the claims.

According to the Wired article, P4x wanted to send a message to the North Korean government. “I want them to understand that if you come at us, it means some of your infrastructure is going down for a while,” he told Wired.

The Republican Party is enabling Trump’s politics of violence (CNN) Which only exists in the fantasy world of the Left.

Republican criticism of RNC resolution to censure Cheney, Kinzinger grows (Newsweek) More accurately, RINO criticism.

The Supreme Court Is Democracy’s Enemy Now (Daily Beast ) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

WaPo slammed for ‘morally bankrupt’ column using colleague’s death to push censorship, drag Joe Rogan

WaPo report details use of ‘burn bags’ for Trump documents (CNN) duh-duh- DUH…. ‘Burn bags’ are usually employed by the government to dispose of classified documents that are being gotten rid of. These guys need to get out more.

Trump’s incendiary Texas speech may have deepened his legal troubles, experts say (The Guardian) They have to include ‘incindiary’ so you’ll know what to think.

NY Times’ Latest Assault on Rival Joe Rogan: Stop Him, ‘Our Health Is at Risk’

The Revolution Has Come For Joe Rogan

What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Jan. 6

Rumble CEO Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million “To Make The World A Better Place”

Scientists Conclude Dire Climate Change Models Were Wrong, Now What?

Stacey Abrams Says She Doesn’t Have To Wear A Mask Because She’s A Governor  Babylon Bee.

CNN Panel Claims Abrams Mask Hypocrisy Was An Honest Mistake  Yah, sure, you betcha.

Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint  (Alabama’s News Leader) How is this news?

Awkwafina issues statement addressing accusations that she has used a ‘blaccent’ (CNN)

New Orleans Saints’ Alvin Kamara arrested on battery charge during Pro Bowl weekend in Las Vegas

Teacher Made White Elementary School Children Apologize To Black Kids For Their Skin Color

‘The Dismantling of Race-Conscious Admissions Would Deal Another Blow to Equity in Science’

Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’  Because you know black folks can’t be equal without ‘free’ crack pipes.

‘Black-ish’ Spinoff ‘grown-ish’ Argues Felon Should Go Free Because He’s an Illegal POC

Network Super Fans of Stacey Abrams Ignore Her Maskless Hypocrisy

NBC Black History Month Promo Skips Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott  Guess they’re Not Really Black.

AUDIO: Toyota Ad Says Kaepernick Anthem Protest Was ‘Sign of Respect to the Military’  Uh, I don’t think so.

Um, What? Charles Barkley Says It’s Exhausting Being Black  I imagine so, when every waking moment is spent worrying about your skin color.

Trend Alert: Democrats Keep Flaunting Their Faces In Front of Masked Children

CBS Lines Up Dems to Smear Florida Election Fraud Investigators as Racist ‘Goon Squad’

Biden officials say those questioning US approach to Ukraine are spouting Russian disinformation The new McCarthyism.

Russia Might Invade Ukraine “As Soon As Tomorrow”: White House

Ex-CIA Officer Asks: What Happens When America Experiences Real War With A Superpower?

Who’s Truth-Mangling? WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Helps Jen Psaki Take Fox News Out of Context

Ukraine & NATO Agree Threat of Russian Invasion ‘Low’ – But US Continues “Apocalyptic” Rhetoric  They need a distraction.

White House Investigation: Biden Science Adviser Traumatized Subordinates

82nd Airborne troops begin to arrive in Poland

Biden To Set Free Would-Be 9/11 Hijacker

Climate change: Top companies exaggerating their progress – study

Trump failed fossil fuel-reliant communities — Build Back Better invests in them (The Hill)

How a fight over transgender rights derailed environmentalists in Nevada (Politico)

U.S. flooding losses will spike 26 percent by 2050 due to climate change, researchers say (Washington Post)

A decision made behind closed doors may set clean energy back by two years (Boston Globe)

The IPCC CO2 Climate Narrative: A “Behemoth On Clay Feet” …Ready To Collapse

Crisis for the Climate Models?

Technocrats Demand Meat Tax To Fight Climate Change

Facebook’s “Climate science center” Hypes “97% Experts Agree” Climate Alarmist Propaganda

California’s no-bid contract with Kaiser triggers concerns

Democratic Sen. Manchin endorses Republican Sen. Murkowski for re-election

AOC heading to Texas to campaign against Democratic colleague

S.F. planned to compel more people into drug and mental health treatment. So far, only two have been helped (S.F. Chronicle)

Need a Laugh? Guest Says CNN ‘Part of Firewall That Saved Democracy’

“How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji

“A Disaster In Plain Sight” – Why San Francisco Is Doing Nothing To Curb Brutal Fentanyl Crisis

Xi-Putin Olympics Summit Is Explicitly – And Primarily – Anti-US

Nobody Cares: Olympics Opening Ceremony Hits The Trees, Dies

(Almost) Everything Wrong with the Ruling Class in One Picture

Now That’s a Darn Shame. Nobody Watched ‘Genocide Olympics’ Opening Ceremony

ESPN Panelist Compared U.S. Cops, Voter ID To Chinese Oppression  Uh, not even close.

How China Spies on Nations Throughout Western Hemisphere

EU lawmakers unfazed by Meta’s threat that it would pull out of Europe

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Now more than ever, it’s necessary to highlight the importance—and prevalence—of armed citizens who rely on their Second Amendment rights when the government can’t or won’t be there to protect life, liberty, or property from violent criminals.

For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous month’s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed—or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accounts here from 2019, 2020, and 2021.)

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The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs. ‘It’s handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.’

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Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid.

But you don’t need more stats. You don’t need more numbers about how the tent encampments are exploding. Or about the amount of money that the city is paying for each person doing drugs on the sidewalks. You need to see it.

I’m serious. Everyone in San Francisco should make a trip downtown. Walk around. And do not avert your eyes to the people dying slowly on the streets.

Think of it as evolution in action.

(How many people remember that Progressive were the original eugenicists?)

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Neil Young, who now looks more decrepit than Joe Biden, was once a channel projecting the cultural confidence to declare himself a seeker for a heart of gold. Now he takes a stand on behalf of Big Pharma, pseudo-scientific hygienic mandates, and the unquestioned authority of the state against a podcaster who offers conversation and consideration of received wisdom.

 

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In January, the networks went silent on Critical Race Theory in schools. It’s role in education was not mentioned on any of the network morning or evening shows.

But if you think the threat of CRT is gone, you are sadly mistaken. For much of last year, especially as Virginia prepared for a governor’s election with CRT being a focal point, ABC, CBS and NBC repeatedly told us that it was “not taught in schools.”

But January brought us “Privilege Bingo.” That’s right, Fairfax County, Virginia public schools apologized after students were forced to play this vile game in order to “identify your privilege.” The twisted version of Bingo included “white,” “male,” “Christian,” “cisgender.” In a new low, it also had a space marked “military kid.”

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NIMBYism writ large. It is somehow more important for astronomers to have an unimpeded view  of the sky than that the Unwashed Masses get the benefit of satellite services (like Starlink Internet service).

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/02/06

Larsen B Embayment Breaks Up (NASA)

A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution (WIRED)

A solution for rooftop solar needs to reflect California values (CalMatters)

Marin Voice: Mixing profit motive with critical service is wrong for solar energy (Marin Independent Journal)

Climate change is altering the smell of snow (Washington Post)

Visualized: a third of Americans already face above-average warming (The Guardian)

How “Climate Actions” Actually Kill People, Not Save Them

15 EU states subsidise fossil-fuels more than renewables

New German leader proposes a ‘climate club’ of leading economies that would punish free riders like Australia

Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of climate-change variables

Union Pacific to Buy 20 Battery-Electric Locomotives

SMH: Young People want Climate Action More than Money

Exclusive: Newly obtained records show Trump and Jim Jordan spoke at length on morning of January 6 (CNN) How nefarious.

Jim Jordan ‘Trying to Hide’ Something on 1/6 Trump Call, Suggests McGovern (Newsweek)

Donald Trump Supporters Tricked Into Backing Bible Ban in Schools in Prank Video (Newsweek) How juvenile.

Trump’s January 6 pardon pledge baffles some attorneys (CNN) Perhaps because he made no such ‘pledge’.

MSNBC’s Cross Says Russia Threatening Ukraine Because Trump Undermined Democracy!

More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos’ superyacht  Just because.

The Fed is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again (The Guardian) Robert Reich

‘Dismantling Democracy’ to save it: How Democrats rediscovered the joys of rigging elections (The Hill) Jonathan Turley.

Obama, Holder slam GOP states for gerrymandering, but silent as Democrats do the same thing

California liberals seethe after Democratic legislature kills single-payer (Politico)

A San Francisco sixth-grader was enrolled at a public middle school but never showed up. She got A’s anyway (San Francisco Chronicle) Schools get Federal money for every student they have enrolled. Hence they are highly motivated to cheat.

CNN’s Cillizza Hails Dem ‘Redistricting’; Earlier Denounced GOP ‘Gerrymandering’

Biden Admin Restores Sanctions Waiver In Key Iran Deal Breakthrough

My Biden problem — and ours

200,000 Black men fought in the Civil War. Some lawmakers want to give them the Congressional Gold Medal. (Washington Post) Some black lawmakers. 160 years isn’t too old for virtue-signaling.

Black Republican excluded from Black Caucus of Virginia legislature  Guess he wasn’t black enough.

Marilyn Mosby’s reckoning

Have You Heard of ‘The CROWN Act’?

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Having failed to sufficiently capitalize on mass shootings and other gun violence, Democrats are now supporting an end-run effort to cripple manufacturers and distributors of firearms by challenging their existing immunity from lawsuits, and then seeking to hold them liable for crimes committed with their products.

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Scientists recently printed teeny tiny microbots in the shape of different animals, like fish, crabs, and even butterflies. But the coolest thing with these bots is that they don’t stay in one shape — they can morph into different shapes because they are 4D-printed.

4D printing works the same as 3D printing, the only difference is that the printing material allows the object to change shape based on environmental factors.

In this case, the bots’ hydrogel material allows them to morph into different shapes when they encounter a change in pH levels — and cancer cells, as it happens, are usually more acidic than normal cells.

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Additive manufacturing of food is a method of creating three-dimensional edible products layer-by-layer. While food printers have been in use since 2007, commercial cooking appliances to simultaneously cook and print food layers do not yet exist. A key challenge has been the spatially controlled delivery of cooking energy. Here, we explore precision laser cooking which offers precise temporal and spatial control over heat delivery and the ability to cook, broil, cut and otherwise transform food products via customized software-driven patterns, including through packaging. Using chicken as a model food, we combine the cooking capabilities of a blue laser (??=?445?nm), a near-infrared (NIR) laser (??=?980?nm), and a mid-infrared (MIR) laser (??=?10.6??m) to broil printed chicken and find that IR light browns more efficiently than blue light, NIR light can brown and cook foods through packaging, laser-cooked foods experience about 50% less cooking loss than foods broiled in an oven, and calculate the cooking resolution of a laser to be ~1?mm. Infusing software into the cooking process will enable more creative food design, allow individuals to more precisely customize their meals, disintermediate food supply chains, streamline at-home food production, and generate horizontal markets for this burgeoning industry.

We have the technology.