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Astron Aerospace has introduced the Omega 1, a revolutionary engine with a wild design.

The Omega 1, which is designed to work with a variety of fuels, is compact and powerful with the goal to produce very low or no emissions. It lacks an offset crankshaft, reciprocating pistons, and eccentric shaft, just like a Wankel rotary engine. However, the Omega 1’s design circumvents at least one issue with Wankel engines – exhausts gas overlap.

Eastman Emails Could Provide ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence Against Donald Trump (Newsweek) We hope, we hope, we hope….;

Jan. 6 panel has tough case to make on Trump criminal conspiracy (The Hill)

Tucker Carlson suddenly has questions about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s credentials – I have questions about his (The Guardian) And I have questions about yours, Arwa Mahdawi.

‘People’s Convoy’ Truckers Are Still Very Confused About Their D.C. Plans (Daily Beast) Or perhaps they’re just not ready to tell the Daily Beast.

Barbershop Confrontations, Profane Signs and Despair: Pro-Biden and Alone in Rural America (Politico)  Poor baby. Welcome to our world.

OC Professor John Eastman Called ‘Serpent in the Ear’ of President Trump (Times of San Diego)

Reporter Surrounded, Heckled for ‘Fake News’ as Trucker Convoy Nears D.C. (Newsweek)

Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve (Washington Post) George Will, feeling a lack of love, sucks up to the Cloud People.

Clinging to Masks, Meyers Wonders: ‘How Much of a D**k’ Is DeSantis?

The ironic effort to wave away climate change in favor of ‘clean air’ (Washington Post)

There’s new momentum in Congress for a climate bill, but a lot of questions on what it could include (CNN)

Climate activists deflate SUV tyres in wealthy London neighbourhoods

OECD Climate Plan: Freeze in the Dark until the Green Revolution

Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite out of Our Food Supply  (Wired ‘Science’)

Kamala Harris slammed for focus on Equality Act amid Russian invasion: ‘This is what they care about’

Ukraine invasion: US gas prices jump as oil surges

Biden struggles to improve Americans’ views of the economy (Washington Post) Just the views, not the actual economy.

Ukraine Museums Desperately Working To Preserve Priceless Hunter Biden Paintings  Babylon Bee.

Alleged Russian Spy Worked For U.S. Government News Agency

The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition

Chesa Boudin’s office just released new data on the S.F. district attorney’s charging rates and case outcomes. Here’s what it shows (S.F. Chronicle)

The View Cheers as Extremist Guest Declares Constitution Is ‘Trash’

Democrat Senators Demand That Oil Companies Increase Production  “Make it so!”

“We’re Getting Creamed” – NYC Small Business Owners Struggle To Confront Surge In Shoplifting

I Signed Up to Study Journalism. What They Taught Me Was Activism

FLASHBACK: Walters Derided RT Anchor Who Resigned to Protest Putin Propaganda

These Covid-19 symptoms raise new questions (CNN)

The most alarming COVID symptom you shouldn’t forget (Deseret News)

Biden’s State of the Union unmasks the politics of the CDC

Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages (Nature)

Rep. Roy has a warning for Anthony Fauci for when Republicans take back the House: ‘Look out’

Rep. Roy demands answers from CDC on vaccine data: They ‘owe us the damn truth’

The next variant: three key questions about what’s after Omicron (Nature) Gotta keep up the PANIC!

What health experts say about the ‘natural experiment’ of ditching mask mandates in WA (Seattle Times)

Fauci Agency Knew Chinese Authorities Were Withholding COVID-19 Data In Jan 2020, Documents Show

Race-Baiting NY Times LIES About Zimmerman’s 911 Call: ‘He Looks Black’

Henry Louis Gates: My PBS DNA Show “Finding Your Roots” Isn’t About Race, Which Does Not Exist, It’s About Ancestry!

Holt Badgers Barr on ‘Systemic Racism’ After Former Attorney General Rejects BLM ‘Big Lie’

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Europe is the free-rider continent. For decades its defence has been underpinned by America—leaving it in a supporting role even as war breaks out on its own borders. Economically it has piggybacked on innovation from elsewhere, keeping up with rivals, not forging ahead. Even the feel-good environmental ambitions crafted in Brussels are made possible in part by importing from afar the products once made in carbon-spewing factories Europe shut down long ago. How clever it seems to some. All this money saved and effort outsourced has made it possible to live a fine life while working 35-hour weeks and retiring in one’s prime.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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If biological ageing can be slowed, halted or rewound, are the machine-learning algorithms the best way to measure it? Some experts are unconvinced.

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Nerves in a healthy spine transmit signals from the brain to the legs. But after an injury to the spine, those signals are weak or nonexistent. The muscles in the legs may be healthy enough to walk, but without the brain signaling them to move, they remain immobile.

The new implant can help patients walk again by acting as a signal booster. A computer carried by the patient triggers the electrical impulses.

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have created a material that “is stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys,” the university announced.

The researchers hope their compound could lead to better, more sustainable plastics in the future. Currently, the material shrinks while drying, making printing anything large out of it difficult.

So, as it turns out, it’s actually a plant-based plastic, so the headline is a lie. That’s ‘journalism’ for you.

Joel Kotkin considers the long-term effects of the Pandemic Panic.

Personally, I think that the greatest achievement of the Panic was to underscore the separation between people who work with their fingers from people who work with their hands, a gap that will have serious effects on down the road. On the other hand, it demonstrated that people who work with their hands are the ones who make the rest of the machine chug along, so maybe they will be more likely to get the respect that they deserve. (No, I’m not holding my breath.)

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With all the frightening things that are happening in the world right now, we thought we would focus on something truly magical: Namely, fungi. Last summer, we wrote about the use of psilocybin to treat depression in The Growth of the Psychedelic Industry. While an effective treatment for something that causes so much pain to so many is awfully exciting, it turns out that mushrooms are good for a whole lot more. Aside from aiding mental health, those tasty little pizza toppers are being used to create environmentally safe packaging and construction products, consumer goods, and even cleaning up one of the biggest messes humans have ever made.

Now, we aren’t saying that we’ll be getting a shipment of MeUndies inside a portobello mushroom, but rather what can be done with mycelium, which is the root structure of mushrooms. It consists of a network of branching, interconnected fine threads which can be grown into any shape and has no size limit. The Armillaria ostoyae mycelial network in Oregon occupies around 2,400 acres or roughly 1,665 football fields and is the world’s largest known organism.

San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as most unaffordable housing market in America, report says (S.F. Gate)

NBC reporter insists Biden canceling Keystone Pipeline made no difference on US dependence on foreign oil

Republicans, energy experts say Keystone XL cancelled by Biden would have helped lessen need for Russian oil

Progressive policies lose steam amid primary wins (The Hill)

Media coverage of Ukraine shows it’s time to rethink what we know about Africa (CNN)

Illinois Democrat Michael Madigan indicted on federal racketeering, bribery charges

MRC, Allies Warn Governors About Biased NewsGuard’s Pact with Teachers Union

Noah Yawns As Abrams Absurdly Compares Herself to Zelenskyy  If Zelensky were a morbidly obese ugly black female.

Former Top Democrat In Illinois Charged With Public Corruption

Iowa Bans Male-Born Athletes From Participating In Female Sports At Schools

Maskless Dems Take Flight

Climate change must be adapted to as well as opposed (The Economist)

All Floridians will find their lives changed by rising and warming seas (Gainesville Sun)

Rising seas: Florida farmers, vulnerable to salt, should seek sustainable methods (Palm Beach Post)

UN report paints dire picture of the Gulf of Mexico’s future (Associated Press) When did a U.N. report ever NOT paint a dire picture?

Environmental groups sue TotalEnergies over climate marketing claims (Reuters) Good times to be a lawyer.

TotalEnergies target of lawsuit to test ‘greenwashing’ in advertising (Financial Times)

The Climatistas Are Lying Again

NY Times Front Page Fear-Mongers a ‘Harrowing Future’ Without Climate Action

BARF: Jamie Lee Curtis Writes Climate Change Comic Book About ‘Mother Nature’ Seeking Revenge Against Humanity

Misinformation about Sea Level Rise

The Pause Lengthens Again: No Global Warming for 7 Years 5 Months

The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter

Bald Eagle ‘Takings’: Biden’s Interior Department Protects Big Wind

Donald Trump Could Face Criminal Charges After Explosive John Eastman Emails Revealed (Newsweek) We hope, we hope, we hope….

Joy Behar suffers dramatic fall on ‘The View,’ face-plants in front of audience  Life imitates art.

WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin roasted for complete flip-flop on Rubio’s State of the Union response: ‘Shameless’

Donald Trump cuts off his nose to spite his face in Arizona (CNN) Chris Cillizza indulges in some wishful thinking.

Former AG Barr said Trump became enraged after being told election fraud claims were nonsense’  (NBC) This is news?

Son testifies about texting with his father after January 6 and turning him in to the FBI (CNN) Just like in the old Soviet Union.

Jon Stewart rips ‘dishonest propagandist’ Tucker Carlson for Putin comments (The Hill) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Twitch has a new policy that will ban ‘harmful misinformation superspreaders’ (The Verge)

How the Hell Is Trump 43-0 vs. Campaign Finance Watchdogs? (Daily Beast) Perhaps because there’s no there, there.

Hillary Clinton “Disappointed” Crypto Exchanges Aren’t Banning Russians  Because Hillary’s all about banning people.

J6 Committee Accuses Trump Of Committing Federal Crime

Twitter Locks Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s Account for Defending Women’s Sports

Watch: Man Ordered To Leave Televised Q&A For Expressing ‘Wrongthink’ On Russia

ABC’s ‘The Conners’ Disparages Responsible Gun Owner and Pushes Anti-Gun Agenda

“Resounding Win”: Judge Blocks New York Attorney General’s Attempt To Dissolve NRA

Parsippany’s Hindu Service Society Celebrates Black History Month You, too, can pretend to be black.

“I Have The Biggest D**k In Chicago”: Mayor Lightfoot Accused Of Berating Staff  Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she IS the biggest d–k in Chicago. (BRAAAAAAAINS!)

Reid: Tucker Is Racist for Asking to See Judge Jackson’s Test Scores

Washington Post: Black History Month Is Over, and I Can Finally Breathe

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The following Italian article discusses a phenomenon that the media normally shy away from: the increase in Jew-hatred fueled largely the by the growing Muslim population in Western countries.

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

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As Russia’s invading forces pivot to siege warfare around Ukraine’s big cities, Moscow is likely to resort to scorched-earth tactics previously unleashed on the cities of Aleppo in Syria and Grozny in Chechnya.

In those conflicts, Russia deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure—including hospitals, schools, public markets, power plants, and water supplies—to deprive the armed opposition of popular support and to push refugees into neighboring countries.

The Russian bombing campaign in Syria—which began after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2015 military intervention to prop up the regime of Syria’s Bashar Assad—pulverized Aleppo, a stronghold of anti-Assad resistance.

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I wonder if that would work for the United States.

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A man was killed on Sunday night after the Tesla he was driving stopped in the middle of I-70 in Independence, Missouri, causing two vehicles to crash into it, police said. Police still are not certain what caused the vehicle to come to a stop in the center lane.

Hammer tech.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Say hello to Frank Abrokwa, 37, who has been arrested in New York City more than 20 times since 1999 and those of my readers who are good at math will immediately realize that this means this perpetrator has been perpetrating at least one crime a year since he was 14. Other of my readers may be wondering, “What kind of name is Abrokwa?”

The answer is Ghanaian. There is apparently a shortage of career criminals in New York, so they’re importing them, and turning them loose to terrorize the citizenry. But I don’t feel sorry for the citizens of New York, because they voted for these policies.

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The war between Ukraine and Russia will make the world’s hunger crisis even tougher to fight. The countries – one of which has traditionally been called Europe’s bread basket – are two of the world’s major suppliers of staple grains like wheat, and a protracted crisis increases the likelihood of supply interruptions and higher food prices for many people — including those who can least afford them.

Gallup data offer insight into the populations most likely to suffer from a prolonged disruption: People in countries reliant on wheat from Ukraine or Russia, where large segments of their populations were also struggling to afford food before the war broke out. Many of the countries on this list, including Egypt, Turkey and Kenya, are also dealing with political instability and conflict, situations only made worse when populations go hungry.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Turd World is that they breed until they can no longer feed themselves, and then come crying to more intelligent nations about their ‘humanitarian crisis’.

A wise man once said that a ‘humanitarian crisis’ is only a crisis for humanitarians, so they ought to be obliged to pay for fixing it.

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Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent for Christians in the West. Many of us will give up sweets or video games or online shopping. Some intrepid souls will even give up coffee. I tried that last year, but my priest reminded me that my wife didn’t choose “dealing with a crabby husband” as her penance, so I found another penance.

It’s a little different for our brothers in the East. Their season of fasting begins on Meatfare Sunday and ends on Pascha (Easter). They’ll give up meat… then dairy… then fish…then wine… then oil. They’ll go from eating three meals to two, and then from two to one — and their one meal is basically just a peanut butter sandwich and carrot sticks. The most devout won’t eat at all from Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday.

Matched by the pre-Christmas Nativity Fast and the summertime Peter and Paul Fast. Oh, and every Wednesday and Friday throughout the year.

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Ceuta and Melilla are two Spanish enclaves on the North African coast that share a border with Morocco. Both of them experience repeated attempts by large groups of migrants to force the border fence and gain access to Spain, and thus to the European Union.

For the last few days Melilla has seen thousands of migrants attempting to cross the fence, and hundreds of them have succeeded in getting through.

I guess the Spanish don’t have any machine guns. Perhaps the Ukrainians could spare one or two.

Or they could just give give the two ‘enclaves’  back to Morocco. Just a suggestion.

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The Russians reportedly have launched multiple assassination attempts against Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. So far none has succeeded.

Movie of the Week: The Hitman’s Bodyguard, with Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds.  Highly recommended.

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By now, my colleagues in the media may have convinced you that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “transformative” event, a challenge by a reactionary dictator to the “liberal international order,” if not an end to one historical epoch and the beginning of a new one. The world has turned upside down, nothing will again be the same, blah, blah, blah.

When millennials make such apocalyptic observations, I can understand. Like Founding Father Thomas Paine, they assume that each day marks the “birthday of a new world.” But what about baby boomers like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, who were in high school in 1956 during the so-called Hungarian Revolution, which was very much like what is happening in Ukraine today?

Back then, popular resistance against Russian military power was applauded in the West and encouraged by Voice of America and the CIA, while American officials and pundits predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. The brave Hungarians and their Western supporters even had their own Volodymyr Zelensky-like hero, Imre Nagy, Time’s Man of the Year in 1956, who led the struggle against the Soviets and ignited hope that the good guys might win and the world might begin anew.

Had he followed these events, young Friedman would have later learned about the tragic end of the Hungarian uprising, which was repressed by the Soviet military and which killed 2,500 Hungarians and compelled 200,000 Hungarians to seek political refuge abroad.

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I like the fact that they can do that sort of thing pretty easily these days.

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When I was growing up, the USSR and Communist China formed the original Axis of Evil. Then, in later years, the “Sino-Soviet split” changed the geopolitical calculus. Now, it seems that a Russian-Chinese alliance may be re-forming.

Sarah Hoyt.

There are many descriptions for politics, one of them being that it’s what people do, instead of smashing each other’s skulls open with a club.

For the record, I’m instinctively the club (wooden, heavy) kind. Partly because I hate and despise mean girls and their cliques. I think life would be much easier if people who have trouble with other people got in a fist fight.

I’m also aware that’s not the way to run a society, unless you have a codified way to go about fist fights, and their resolution, afterwards. Which societies used to, mind you. But that too is politics.

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According to Vladimir Putin, there are Nazis lurking in the Ukrainian government. This, says Putin, is why Russia must invade: to “strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.” It is an outlandish claim, intended to justify Putin’s raw aggression. Anyone who attempts to frustrate his designs is, in Putin’s twisted account, a Nazi.

Watching this effrontery from Europe and America, observers are astonished that a rapacious autocrat would lie openly while enacting territorial conquest. Westerners think Putin is acting just like—guess who?—Hitler. And so images of the Russian president with the trademark moustache have been all over Twitter. So has the hashtag #putinhilter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky encouraged the comparison when a Russian strike hit the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial in Kyiv: “what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…”

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Western Society has reached a level of absurdity beyond comprehension. A University in Scotland has put a warning label on Ernest Hemingway’s great short novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

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The Israeli manufacturer of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is suing the company because he says it cut off his 35-year contract after he refused to participate in its “illegal” Israel boycott.

Avi Zinger, an ice cream maker who has produced and distributed Ben & Jerry’s in Israel since 1987, filed the lawsuit against Ben & Jerry’s and its parent corporation, Unilever, in U.S. federal court on Thursday, alleging breach of contract and wrongful termination.

Zinger’s legal complaint outlines a decade-long pressure campaign by anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) activists against Ben & Jerry’s that he says led to the company’s decision to cut ties with him.

Kamala Harris mocked for offering ‘word salad’ explanation for buying Russian oil

‘Drop In the Bucket’: NBC Pours Cold Water on Biden Energy Plan

Veep thoughts by Kamala Harris

Chesa Boudin takes swipes at San Francisco Mayor London Breed in New York Times interview (S.F. Gate)

Why I couldn’t wait for Black History Month to end (Washington Post)

Utah lawmakers try to bring back pre-Civil War America (Salt Lake Tribune)

Florida is already seeing climate change. New global report says it could worsen (Miami Herald)

Climate change is already displacing people in Oregon. A UN report warns of more to come (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

End drilling in California waters to protect the coast and climate (L.A. Times)

UN: Droughts, less water in Europe as warming wrecks crops (Associated Press)

UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia (Associated Press)

Why are Republicans fighting to pollute the air we breathe? (The Hill) Well, as it happens, they’re not.

What the UN climate report predicts for NYC (Gothamist)

‘Rising Risk’ special reexamines alarming NYC flood predictions, climate change (WABC-TV)

The Great Climate Change Debate – Karoly vs Happer

Shellenberger: The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin

Climate Prediction: Australia will become Drier but with More Rain

Wouldn’t Nuclear Winter Stymie Global Warming?

Ukraine Is in an Environmental Crisis Too  (Wired ‘Science’)

‘It’s Un-American’: DC Business Owners Suffer From 2 Years of Emergency Mandates

A highly changed coronavirus variant was found in deer after nearly a year in hiding, researchers suggest (CNN)

COVID-19 toes might not be a COVID symptom after all (Deseret News) But it doesn’t matter, just so long as you PANIC!

Here’s proof the pandemic culture wars were never about the pandemic (Seattle Times)

Ron DeSantis just yelled at high school students for wearing masks (CNN) The swine!

CBS, NBC Lie About Ron DeSantis ‘Admonishing’ Kids to Take Off Masks

How should you decide whether to keep wearing a mask? Our expert weighs in (CNN)

Media’s ‘weapon’ Fauci no longer politically useful in Democrats’ tough reelection bids: Sexton

China Considers Possibility Of Abandoning “Zero COVID” Policy

Early COVID-19 Treatment Sacrificed to Promote Vaccine, Dr. Peter McCullough Says

Human toxicity from Covid-19 rapid home test kits

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On Tuesday, prolific author Brandon Sanderson surprised fans like me by announcing that he had written 4 extra books (beyond his normal publishing obligations) during the pandemic. Even more of a surprise was the Kickstarter campaign he launched for those books, which has raised over $18 million in less than 48 hours.

Can’t say he isn’t worth it.

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If and when they work. I’m not holding my breath.

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Too bad it’s going to be an electric car. Otherwise I’d be tempted to buy one. Even a hybrid would tempt me, but a totally electric car is not in my future.

ZMan examines Plucky Little Ukraine.

Imagine one day you wake up to see that some people, but not all, just the beautiful people, are now wearing flowerpots on their heads. You first see it on the television while making coffee. Then you see people with the flowerpot things while on your commute into the office. They are not wearing actual flowerpots, but hats that look like a pot holding a shrubbery. Not only are they wearing these ridiculous hats, but they are also acting like it is perfectly normal.

This is the world most Americans woke up to last week when news broke that the Russian army had crossed into Ukraine. Suddenly, as if they had received orders from the hive queen, all of the beautiful people were Ukrainian nationalists. They were all saying “keev” as if they had developed some new mental disease. They were sporting Ukrainian flag lapel pins. At the Biden state of the union show they were dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

This is not just a partisan marketing campaign either. The mouth breathers of conservatism are right there with their masters on the Left waving the yellow and blue of their new homeland. The same people who were wearing the angry face about being called a Putin shill a few years ago are now calling anyone skeptical of this new fad a tool of the evil Vladimir Putin. The same people who tell us nations no longer matter now sound like white nationalists in their support of Ukraine.