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Liberals think conservatives are awful, but the truth is that conservatives don’t do enough awful things to keep liberals supplied. So liberals fill the gap by simply making up slanders against conservatives. (You could analogize this to the surfeit of hate crime hoaxes.)

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The Texans’ Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Australians are constantly being blown away with the growing “nameplate” capacity of wind turbines and solar panels to provide electricity, but electricity from renewables have yet to produce anywhere near their projected capacity due to the intermittency and unreliability of breezes and sunshine.

I have always thought that ERCOT was something one got from moldy bread.

US likely to see a surge of Covid-19 in the fall, Fauci says (CNN)

People are developing trauma-like symptoms as the pandemic wears on (NPR)

5 subtle signs you have pandemic burnout and when to seek help, according to a nurse who specializes in PTSD

UK has detected a new Covid variant. Here’s what we know so far about omicron XE (CNBC)

Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters (CNBC) “Follow the Science!” “Which one?”

COVID cases rise again in half the states (Axios) Oh, goody! Is it time to renew the PANIC?

The new Omicron subvariant XE is getting attention. How concerned should we be? (L.A. Times) Just to be safe, better go ahead and PANIC!

Large Israeli Study Finds That Protection Against COVID From 4th Shot Drops Quickly   That’s a fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

FDA Floats Moving COVID-19 Vaccines To Flu-Like Model  Big Pharma needs a consistent, dependable revenue stream.

Hospital Refuses Father-To-Son Kidney Transplant Over COVID Jab  This is iniquitous.

State Department Memo In Early 2020 Assessed That Lab leak Was Most Likely Origin Of COVID-19

Worldwide Vax Report

ANALYSIS: Nancy Pelosi’s High-Risk COVID Infection Could Wreak Havoc on Democratic Leadership  That would be amusing.

Dem Offices Across Country Remain Closed Due to Pandemic  A step in the right direction.

The Vax and the Klepto-State

‘I turned off the TV’: Law student struggled to watch KBJ hearing (CNN)

Tim Scott hits back at Joy Reid’s criticism: ‘She’s saying a Black man cannot think for himself’  Not and be Really Black. Joy Reid certainly can’t.

BLM’s $6M mansion purchase prompts call for DOJ investigation: ‘Disturbing information’

How advocate tries to be sustainable: Seasonal eating and used books (Washington Post)

Jon Stewart blasts American dream as unattainable for Black people: ‘Turns out to be a fallacy’ Somebody better tell Oprah. And Will Smith.

‘White Men Will Be In The Minority’ Nets Gush Over Judge Jackson

CNN Whines: GOP Senators Weren’t Wearing Ties to Jackson Vote

CNN+ Anchor: GOP Turned ‘Their Backs’ on ‘Achievements of Black Women’  I’m trying to think of some and I’m coming up blank.

CNN Condemns GOP For Not Appreciating Jackson Amidst Ukraine War

America’s ‘Beaming!’; CBS Swoons Like Teens at Boy Band Concert Over Jackson Vote

Former BLM Leader Calls Report On Organization Buying $6 Million Mansion ‘Racist’, ‘Misinformation’

Liberal Double Standard: Ketanji vs. Kavanaugh

Biden Congratulates Michelle Obama On Supreme Court Confirmation  Babylon Bee.

Why the ‘America First’ Politicians Aren’t Convincing Most Republicans (Politico) Rich Lowry, Chief Cuck at National Review, lines up behind the Narrative.

Lawmaker blasts Big Oil CEOs at hearing: ‘You are ripping off the American people’ (CNN) Big Oil executives could say the same about Democrat Senators.

The Trump Organization used to borrow from major banks. Now look who’s lending it money. (NBC)

Sen. Joni Ernst confronts Biden nominee who called her ‘hideous’ on Twitter: ‘I’m calling you out’

It’s not over: Donald Trump could still face criminal charges, says Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (Daily News) Forget street crime, we’re going after Trump!

Mike Lindell Gets Sued at Nightmare Rally With MAGA Election Clerk (Daily Beast)

Mehmet Oz is worth at least $104 million and maybe a lot more, a new report says (Philadelphia Inquirer) And therefore he has RICH PEOPLE COOTIES! Shun him!

DOJ Moves to Investigate Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Stash of Presidential Documents (Daily Beast)

Boycotting Disney and Oreos: The red flags that MAGA is a cult (Salon)

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The $35 Chipolo Card Spot sounds like a great solution to fears of lost or stolen wallets, but there are some caveats. Although it’s the size of a credit card, it’s as thick as three cards. It doesn’t support Ultra Wideband precision finding that enables the Find My app to points you in the right direction with an exact distance. Also—most disappointingly—the battery isn’t replaceable and has an estimated life of only 2 years. Chipolo offers a 50%-off replacement discount and recycles the dead unit, but that’s still annoying and wasteful. Currently, the Chipolo Card Spot is sold out and not shipping until May.

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The university bureaucracy has been hijacked for political grudge matches and personal vendettas.

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More than 80 years ago, the Hindenburg Zeppelin LZ 129 exploded and crashed as it approached landing at Lakehurst New Jersey on May 6, 1937.

The behemoth 250-meter long vessel rigid airship had been in service for just under a year. At the time, numerous such vessels had been produced and employed with relative commercial success between the 1900s and the late 1930s. But the dramatic, fiery explosion of the Hindenburg spelled the end of dirigibles as a mode of transport.

The problem with the Hindenburg was a design flaw that is known and can be avoided. Nevertheless, popular mythology has panicked the public about hydrogen dirigibles ever since. This might not prove a problem with cargo craft.

According to the company’s promotional video, the new vessel uses “green hydrogen” for propulsion and with it the company hopes to transform air freight and shipping worldwide.

Using liquid hydrogen and fuel cell technology, the H2 Clipper is claimed to “operate efficiently at service ranges from under 500 to well over 6,000 miles” and travel at 175 mph. It would be able to “deliver goods directly from a factory in China to a distribution center in the U.S. in less than 36 hours.”

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One of the most worrisome trends reported by the Secure World Foundation and Center for Strategic and International Studies is the increase in the number of countries seeking to develop counterspace capabilities.

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Epic Games announced on Monday a new app called “RealityScan,” which will let anyone use the iPhone camera to scan objects and turn them into high-fidelity 3D models. The app was developed using technologies from Capturing Reality, a company specializing in photogrammetry that was acquired by Epic in 2021.

As the company explained, capturing real-world assets can be tricky since this usually requires advanced equipment. However, more creators and hobbyists are embracing 3D photogrammetry, and for these people RealityScan makes the whole process much easier.

We have the technology.

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“It is the first domestic commercial unit with zero direct and indirect emissions. Currently, there are already units that use the same technology as ours, which is aerothermal energy, but they do not use a natural fluid such as propane in it. For this reason, our pump can heat homes being totally respectful with the environment, without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Furthermore, its high energy efficiency allows it to be classified as renewable energy, by pumping energy from the environment,” underlines José Gonzálvez, Director of the Thermal area at the University Institute for Research in Energy Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

Among its advantages, the heat pump developed by the UPV and Saunier Duval can also generate hot water for heating at temperatures of up to 75ºC with very high energy efficiency, something that is not possible with conventional heat pumps. Additionally, it can be installed not only in newly built buildings, but also to replace gas boilers in existing buildings. And it also allows the application of anti-legionella treatment without requiring external support.

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Promising new research has raised the possibility of treating type 2 diabetes without drugs. Across three different animal models researchers have demonstrated how short bursts of ultrasound targeted at specific clusters of nerves in the liver can effectively lower insulin and glucose levels.

Reporting in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, a team led by GE Research, including investigators from the Yale School of Medicine, UCLA, and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, demonstrated a unique non-invasive ultrasound method designed to stimulate specific sensory nerves in the liver. The technology is called peripheral focused ultrasound stimulation (pFUS) and it allows highly targeted ultrasound pulses to be directed at specific tissue containing nerve endings.

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A weapon, you will note, that we did not have when space flight was a monopoly of the government.

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The fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi vowed to fight a Turkish court’s decision Thursday to move the trial of 26 Saudi suspects in the gruesome 2018 killing to Saudi Arabia, a ruling that human rights groups fear will spell an end to the case. Hatice Cengiz, who has been relentlessly ampaigning for justice in the years since Khashoggi’s murder, said Thursday that her fight “is not over.”

As The Washington Post reported, the decision Thursday marked “a stunning reversal by Turkey, which in the years after the killing of Khashoggi… went to extraordinary lengths to publicize the Saudi government’s role in the plot.” The report said: “More recently, though, [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s government has tried to improve ties with the kingdom as Turkey weathers one of its worst economic crises in decades,” the Post noted.

Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested (The Guardian)

First on CNN: Americans are far more likely to say climate crisis is a threat after facing recent extreme weather (CNN) Which is why the constant drumbeat in the Narrative Media.

Antarctic sea ice reaches second lowest level in 44 YEARS as scientists warn melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could cause global sea levels to rise up to 10 feet  (Daily Mail)

Pinterest announces ban on all climate misinformation (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘disagrees with the Narrative’.

Pinterest bans misinformation about climate change (CNN)

European Environmentalists Have Made Energy Independence Impossible

3 Recent Examples of Government Environmental Extremism

Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years

Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls

Woka-Cola and Bill Nye Teach World to Greenwash

Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise breakthrough in energy density

Murder at the gas pump; Hopewell Police identify suspected Wawa killer

Citing Racial Discrimination, Black Leaders Target Roe v Wade

British Slave Masters & Owners are Long Dead

Woke Medicine’s Got A Tricky Operation: Grafting ‘Systemic Racism’ Onto Hard Science

Opposing Sexual Abuse of Children is the New Hate

Latest Black Lives Matter Financial Scandal

NY Times Reporter Decries GOP ‘Assault’ on Judge Jackson — Worse Than Thomas in 1991??

Democrats Grill Fossil Fuel Executives About Price-Gouging (Huffington Post) ‘Price gouging’ is one of those smear-phrases, like ‘black market’ and ‘windfall profits’, used by the ruling class when they’ve decided to incite the mob against a target group.

Should Philadelphia have a wealth tax? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Sure, if they want all of the ‘rich’ people to leave.

Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy. Then they tried. (Washington Post) It is easy: Two X chromosomes. Next question….

Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time

Mayor Adams breaks ground on ‘inclusive’ Brooklyn office building, local politician raises gentrification concerns Gentrification Cooties are, of course, to be avoided at all costs. Our slums must remain slums!

California math wars get ugly: Accusations of racism and harassment ignite battle between Stanford and Cal profs  Barbie voice: “Math is racist!”

Woke Disney vs. Walt’s Disney: Is political corporate model sustainable or just goofy?

Get outta town: Why majority of New Yorkers would rather be anywhere else

New Yorkers Say: Get Me Outta Here!

Bill would create ‘no-fly’ list for unruly passengers (Washington Post) Yet another reason not to fly.

LA County votes to suspend official travel to Florida, Texas over parental rights, transgender laws  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

How fear consumed American theatre  David Mamet.

Huge Spike in Domestic Migration from Urban Cores

How Much Living Space Does $1,500/Mth Get You In The US?

‘Disinformation’ Conference Confronted With Hunter’s Laptop, MRC Poll

While You Were Distracted By Will Smith, The International Elitists Met At The World Government Summit

FAA, Do Your Damn Job

Oreos Gone Woke: Is Nothing Off Limits to LGBT Left?  Hint: Nope.

Democrats’ Approach To Rising Gas Prices Reveals Their Economic Illiteracy

NYT’s Top Editor Orders Reporters To “Meaningfully Reduce” Twitter Usage As Musk Joins Company’s Board

Protecting Elites? Twitter ‘Safety Mode’ Initially ‘Autoblocked’ for @TeamPelosi, Claimed ‘Error’

Prodigal Son Breaks News To Dad That He Spent His Entire Inheritance On Gender Studies Degree  Babylon Bee.

Murphy Under Fire for Pushing To Lift Sanctions on Top Iranian Terror Group

College Freshman TORCHES Stelter/CNN at ‘Disinformation’ Conference

California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software  When Wokery meets Science, Science loses.

Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump’s Lie-Filled Sarah Palin Endorsement (Daily Beast) Lie-filled!

New Revelations Raise Pressure on NASA to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope (‘Scientific’ American)

America’s culture wars distract from what’s happening beneath them (The Guardian) Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

These reforms might prevent the next coup attempt (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is a reliable tool for the Narrative.

SE Cupp: Matt Gaetz’s pathetic stunt falls flat (CNN) If you’ve never heard of S.E. Cupp, you’re not alone.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ugly accusation points to a dangerous trend in the GOP (CNN) Ugly!

As vile as it gets: J.D. Vance goes full ‘great replacement theory’ (Washington Post)

Stephanie Grisham: When you ‘call Republicans’ names ‘they double down and vote for radicals’ (The Hill)  Well, then. stop doing that.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid claims Trump would be prosecuted by DOJ if he was a Democrat: He’s ‘untouchable’

MSNBC silent as Joy Reid continues pattern of controversial and bizarre remarks

Morning Joe Welcomes DNC Chair Calling Tom Cotton ‘Little Maggot-Infested Man’

US Senators, Governors Call on Yale Law To Punish ‘Vitriolic Mob’ That Disrupted Free Speech Event  Prediction: Nothing much will happen, after a period of handwavium on the part of the Powers That Be. The sordid fact is that most of the faculty at YLS are Wokerati, which is why the affirmative-action admits think they can get away with this shit. The tragic fact is that in twenty years this will be the applicant pool for Supreme Court nominees. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

ouncilmembers want Mayor Jim Kenney to be more aggressive in spending Philly’s federal pandemic relief (Philadelphia Inquirer) You can’t buy votes without spending money.

Anti-Vaxxers Charge Followers to Join Fake Fauci ‘Grand Jury’ (Daily Beast)

Two Biden Cabinet members among string of positive Covid-19 cases after elite Gridiron dinner

Fauci tells Chris Wallace of ‘painful’ messaging under Trump (The Hill)  He was so oppressed.

CDC director clears up confusion on 2nd Covid boosters

Vaccine Effectiveness Is Fading  To the extent that it was effective at all.

“Pushed To The Brink Of Collapse”: Leaked Recording Of Shanghai CDC Expert Describes Chaos Behind Lockdown Measures

Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

Bill Introducing ‘Mandatory Vaccination’ For All Germans Over 60 Expected To Pass  Time to leave.

Congressional Republicans Move To Abolish All COVID Restrictions

HHS Secretary Dodges Lawmaker’s Questions on Requiring Toddlers to Wear Masks

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A renewable energy firm that conspired with former president Barack Obama to maim and murder hundreds of majestic bald eagles has finally been brought to justice.

ESI Energy, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to three criminal counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The company will serve five years probation and was ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution for its role in the deaths of at least 150 eagles that were slashed to pieces by its wind turbines.

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A mass shooting in Tel Aviv Thursday evening left at least two dead and at least eight more wounded, sending a central district into chaos as police hunted for possibly multiple attackers who fled.

What’s being widely reported as a terrorist attack targeted a bar on Dizengoff Street, which is typically on the weekends a crowded nightlife area. “As the street filled with ambulances and rescuers, police carried out searches for a gunman thought to have escaped, going door to door and telling people to stay inside and lock their doors,” The Times of Israel reports.

Avoid religions that make a virtue of killing innocent people.

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Late last month, Donald Trump filed suit against the conspirators who conceived and propagated the falsehood that he had colluded with the Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Like most of Trump’s ventures, the suit is ambitious, even grandiose. Trump is suing, among others, Hillary Clinton, the DNC, Marc Elias, the international law firm Perkins Cole, Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, ABC, and other yet to be named media corporations. He is suing them for, among other things, injurious falsehood, computer fraud, theft of trade secrets, malicious prosecution, and violation of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) act.

Most people can’t push back effectively when the Woke Mob comes for them because they can’t afford to pursue their formal legal remedeis. Trump, however, has deep pockets and doesn’t take shit from anybody.

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It’s hard to Follow The Science when they’re just making it up.

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Canada will ban most foreigners from buying homes for two years and provide billions of dollars to spur construction activity in an attempt to cool off a surging real-estate market.

The measures will be contained in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter, asking not to be named because the matter is private.

All oligarchs, all the time.

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BLUF: Widows Just Sucks compared to Linux.

Anyone who isn’t forced to use Windows at work has no excuse. None.

I just sold all of my Microsoft stock. Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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“[N]ow we’re in a serious tech competition with China and they’re not waiting for our democratic timeframes,” DIU Director Mike Brown said. “[…] There’s a reason the US innovation ecosystem is the envy of the world and we need to make this the envy of the military.”

ZMan points out that there is nothing new under the sun.

The video of former president Obama visiting the White House recently made clear that the current president is not really in charge. Joe Biden was seen staggering around the reception looking for anyone to acknowledge him. It was possible he had no idea where he was at the time. Biden’s increasingly deranged public rantings suggest he is reaching his expiry date. The question being quietly debated in Washington is when and how he will be removed from office.

The fact that this question has been normalized since before he was installed in the position speaks to how much things have changed in America. No one really thinks Joe Biden is in charge of himself or the executive branch. It is just assumed that he is a place holder who will be replaced in his first term. Every president represents a coalition of elite interests, but none have been viewed as a figurehead. This is a big change that in time will be seen as an inflection point.

There is plenty of speculation about the when and the how the real decision makers will remove Biden from office. Maybe they have a Lee Harvey Oswald in training, one of those Trump loving white supremacist from their mythologies. That would justify another round of state sponsored terrorism. Maybe they just force him out due to poor health in the hope of making him a sympathetic figure. Of course, who replaces him is another fun question to ponder.

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I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion on inflation, as a result of an increased supply of money in the system. Some have suggested that the stimulus checks increased the supply of money which may have, in part, led to inflation. I’m curious, if the government instituted a universal basic income, would this lead to inflation?

PhD in econometrics speaking, here’s my handy guide to macro-economics:
– The main variables of interest are (aggregate) real production / income (GDP/GDI), unemployment and inflation (arguably in that order)
– Nobody knows much wrt the causes, effects and future trajectories of any of these. Not professional Ivy League economists who publish in journals like AER, QJE, JPE or Econometrica, nor traders getting paid millions at hedge funds or prop trading desks, nor fringe bloggers, gold/crypto-bugs or neophytes from different fields (traditionally from physics, but probably increasingly from CS/AI/ML). Especially beware when they sound very sure of themselves, often using correct wonky economic jargon or details like the plumbing of money flows. Top academic economist are at least (usually) somewhat honest that they know very very little.
– Even if someone did know anything, 3rd parties like you or I can’t distinguish the Real Truth from quackery.
– The root cause of this knowledge deficiency is the inability to run proper controlled experiments. Pretty much no theory about macro-economics is convincingly testable/falsifiable, except banal trivialities like we can’t make everybody rich by sending everyone a $10M check. This will not change in our lifetime, if ever.
– All the writing on macro-economics is story-telling and catering to their specific audiences. Academics write foremost for other academics to gain a position at a prestigious faculty (and incidentally to influence politics). Crypto-bugs write to sell you crypto-coins. Fringe bloggers like Shadowstats write to get newsletter signups and ad-dollars. Most of them employ the effective mechanism that the reader is initiated to advanced/semi-hidden knowledge, which makes the reader feel better about themselves.
Given this, the answer to your question is: maybe, maybe not, who knows?

The YCombinator Hacker News site often has more than the tech-related stuff you might expect. Highly recommended.

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These tiny satellites uncover daily images of climate change, Chinese labor camps, and hidden government areas – and make them publicly available.

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Former French intelligence chief Pierre Brochand warns that unless Europe and France radically change their policies on mass immigration, civil war could break out, asserting, “all multicultural societies are doomed.”

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On March 18th, the New York Times published “America Has a Free Speech Problem,” an editorial wrapped around a poll, asserting roughly 80% of the country withholds opinions over fear of “retaliation or harsh criticism.” The piece prompted outrage from Twitter’s moral police — “arguably the worst day in the history of the New York Times” cried blue-check analyst Tom Watson — some of whom claimed the article did so much to legitimize right-wing propaganda about speech suppression that the entire Times editorial board should resign or be fired.

A day before the Times editorial, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article by author and longtime professor Laura Kipnis called “Academe is a Hotbed of Craven Snitches.” My first question upon reading this disturbing piece was why the excellent word “craven” isn’t used more by writers. The second, after digesting the content — a litany of horrific scenes of students, administrators, and academics destroying each other’s careers and reputations, often over consensual, legal sexual encounters — is how anyone familiar with even a fraction of what Kipnis writes about could quibble with the notion that America has a “speech problem.”

Mitt Romney’s historic flip on Ketanji Brown Jackson (Washington Post) How is this ‘historic’? Romney is a Famous RINO. If he gets a chance to score for the other team, he takes it. How is this a ‘flip’? People have been predicting his vote (and that of RINOs Collins and Murkowski) since the nomination was made.

Inside the $6M mansion BLM reportedly bought with donated funds

Family plans to sue S.F. police for allegedly detaining, profiling Black seventh-grader (S.F. Chronicle)

Murkowski, Romney back Jackson, all but assure confirmation (Associated Press)

Reid Guest: GOP Wants Jackson Killed, They Hate Her Because She’s Black

Kimmel Accuses Georgia of Passing ‘American History: White People Edition’

‘Gun Violence’ Update

One of Trump’s favorite news networks just got dropped (CNN)

Voter fraud allegations about Trump aides point to a deeper scam (Washington Post) There is no vote fraud, and if there is it’s Trump’s fault.

The real reason Lauren Boebert and J.D. Vance are attacking Disney and trying to cancel Mickey Mouse (Washington Post) I’ll bet you didn’t know that writers for the WaPo can read minds.

Hannity Doubles Down on Quoting Kremlin Spokesperson: ‘I Told the Truth!’ (Daily Beast)

Angry mom who confronted Adams on toddler mask mandate fired from city job  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Stephen Colbert Ends Ron DeSantis Song With A Biting Question For Floridians (Huffington Post) I have no trouble believing that Colbert bites.

With divisive Supreme Court rulings coming, Barrett says: ‘Read the opinion’ (Politico)

Amber Athey fired after likening Kamala Harris’ suit to UPS uniform  Except that this Brown doesn’t deliver.

Kinzinger says he’s ‘surrounded by a bunch of children’ in Congress (The Hill) So he ought to feel right at home.

House Democrats weigh stronger response to Justice Thomas conflict of interest accusations (NBC)

Ron DeSantis’ Office Delayed Release of Records of Matt Gaetz Associate (Newsweek) Apparently being a Mat Gaetz Associate is now a Bad Thing.

Former police officer goes on trial over Capitol riot (Politico)

Stelter: ‘Fear’ of Elon Musk Buying Twitter Shares, Joining Board

Internal CBS Revolt Against Hiring Republicans

Libs Gush as Disney Employee Fantasizes About Woman Getting Smacked

Biden’s new tax plan would push top individual income rate to highest in developed world “Hi! I’m from the Democrats, and I’m here to tax you!”

Democrats’ dilemma: Back Biden’s Pentagon budget or supersize it (Politico)

Ron Klain solicited money from Hunter Biden for VP residence in 2012, emails show: ‘Keep this low low key’

Defense secretary fires back at Matt Gaetz’s accusation during hearing (CNN)

Your Rising Wages May Make You Feel Better… Until You Try To Buy Stuff

Joe Biden’s gender agenda

Biden Wants $2.6 Billion For Gender Equity Worldwide  Because ‘gender equity worldwide’ is something that American taxpayers ought to pay for.

Wimped Out! AP Concedes Biden ‘Overpromised’ on US Green Energy Savings

Biden Admin Quietly Pushing Anti-Charter Policies, School Choice Advocates Warn

Migrant Surge May Push DHS To Lower Security Standards at Border

Doocy Presses Psaki on Whether DOJ Needs Special Counsel to Probe Hunter’s Corruption

Biden Admin Official Accused of Targeting Whistleblower

When Will Big Tech, Big Media Apologize for Lying About, Censoring Hunter Biden Story?  Hint: Never.

Biden Reportedly Nominating Another Gun-Grabber To Head ATF 

Biden’s Big Immigration Decision Is the Least Popular Move of His Presidency

“Let’s See How We Can Be Helpful”: Joe Biden Wrote Letter To Help One Of Hunter’s Foreign Contacts

Immigration Experts Back Lawmaker in Decrying Biden’s ‘Reckless’ Plan for Border

Kamala Builds Border Wall Around White House To Stop Staffers From Escaping Babylon Bee.

SERIOUSLY? WashPost Columnist: ‘Biden’s Economy Is Extraordinary. But Inflation …’

450GB Of ‘Deleted’ Hunter Biden Laptop Material To Be Released Within Weeks

CDC, under fire for covid response, announces plans to revamp agency (Washington Post) The automatic bureaucratic response to pressure. Prediction: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb believes omicron BA.2 subvariant unlikely to cause ‘national wave’ in U.S. (CNBC)

NIH required immunocompromised woman to remove her N95, highlighting CDC’s conflicting mask guidance (Politico)

Biden is pressured to end mask mandates on public transportation (NPR)

Title 42 dispute threatens to hold up $10 billion COVID relief package (The Hill)

Numerous Health Problems More Likely Due To COVID-19 Vaccines Than Coincidence: VAERS Data Analysis

President Xi Faces An Impossible Dilemma In Shanghai As COVID Outbreak Worsens Despite Lockdown  Boy, those lockdowns really work, don’t they?

African Union, Covax Refuse To Buy More Vaccines From Moderna As Demand Plummets

Covid: The Aftermath

Deaths in Minnesota by Age Group over Time

Shanghai Residents Rebel As Cases Surge, Lockdown Extended ‘Indefinitely’

CBS Spews Fear Porn Over Axing Vax Mandates, Laments ‘Freedom…to Kill’ People With Virus

IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way (The Guardian)

UN: 18 Nations Have Gone Green on Climate, Raked in Green (U.S. News & World Report)

Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night  Could be big.

Climate change to rule Rays out of St. Pete waterfront stadium? (Tampa Bay Times)

New York to ban natural gas in new buildings: report

The world is on fire. Why is Canada considering massive new oil drilling? (The Guardian)

This Is How the Global Energy Crisis Ends (Wired)

Wind energy needs dramatic increase to hit net-zero goals, new report says (CNBC)

A Game Changer in the Fight Against Climate Change (Newsweek)

The Case Against Closing Nuclear Power Plants (The Nation)

Claim: Global team of scientists determine ‘fingerprint’ for how much heat, drought is too much for forests

Why Renewables Can’t Solve Europe’s Energy Crisis

Reality Cannot Penetrate Into The Fantasy World Of Climate Campaigners

German parliament passes law to ramp up renewable energies, goal is 80% in 2035

Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”

How Climatologists Forgot the Sun Was Shining: Your Questions Answered

Fake Warming Along the Great Barrier Reef

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The media consensus here in the UK is very much that everyone involved in the event is an extremist. Trying to determine that for oneself is rather hard. For one thing, the opinions of the majority of my parent’s generation would now be considered incredibly extreme, as indeed is anyone who upholds even the mildest version of, say, traditional religious ethics and orthodoxy. What is extreme is shifting every year, and you can join the ranks of extremists just by pausing too long on the path of inexorable progress.

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As I watch the work of the Biden Administration unfold, I can’t help but wonder if there is an overarching and hidden lesson that we are supposed to learn. Does anyone remember a time when any administration has made so many disastrous decisions in just over one year? It’s as if we are supposed to learn from all these outcomes that the US has failed, and will continue to fail, at every level.

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Brook Jackson is a whistleblower who has brought her claims to the attention of the British Medical Journal. She was a Regional Director with Ventavia Research Group, a company that Pfizer contracts to perform clinical trials. She has claimed that the company conducted its phase-three vaccine trials with several deficiencies including falsifying data, unblinding patients, and using untrained vaccinators.

She elevated her concerns to her superiors within the company multiple times, including her concern about the quality control department being overwhelmed with problems. Finding her complaints disregarded by her superiors, she emailed a complaint to the FDA. The wheels of government corruption clearly turn quickly; she was fired before the day was out. Fortunately, she has provided receipts, photographs, documents, emails, even audio recordings of management dismissing her concerns.

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On Tuesday Amazon announced deals with Arianespace, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Blue Origin (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ pet project) to launch the majority of its 3,236 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit. “It is the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history,” the web giant modestly proclaimed.

Hunter Biden grand jury witness was asked about deal with Chinese firm – and ‘the big guy’

It’s ‘hard to believe’ Biden didn’t know about Hunter’s business dealings: Brit Hume

Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, ‘What is a woman?’

Kaboom: Doocy Asks Psaki If the WH Supports Kindergartners Learning Sex Ed

Media ‘Caught In A Cover-Up’ Of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Story: Sen. Johnson

White House Won’t Rule Out Pardon For Hunter, James Biden

New York Jet Fuel Soars To Record High As Inventories Plunge

Biden Admin Desperate For Canadian Oil… But Won’t Resurrect Keystone XL Pipeline

0 for 12: The Networks Have Ignored All 12 Kamala Staffers Resigning

In search of “the big guy”

Watch: Biden Babbles And Lies About Being An 18-Wheeler Truck-Driver… Again

Iran Says Nuclear Negotiations Effectively Over, Blames US for Impasse  Some good news for a change.

Putin’s Inflation? Homegrown Modern Monetary Theory Is To Blame

White House Plans To Extend Student Loan Moratorium (Again) As Midterms Loom  The Party of Free Stuff wants to buy your vote!

Biden’s FEC Nominee Sued Georgia Over Stacey Abrams Election Loss, Blamed ‘Unreliable’ Voting Machines

Biden’s ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids Order Shows That the Left Is All In on the Culture War

5 Biden Transportation Potholes Making Motorists’ Lives Miserable

Merrick Garland ‘Failing the People’ Over Donald Trump, Joaquin Castro Says (Newsweek)

Biden called Murdoch the ‘most dangerous man in the world,’ new book alleges (CNN)

District Of Columbia Lacks Standing To Sue Oath Keepers And Proud Boys For Jan. 6, Defense Attorney Says

#AppleToo founders in legal battle accusing each other of harassment  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Sexist Kimmel Accuses Female Sen. Blackburn of Trying to Set Women ‘Back 50 Years’

Cancel Culture Is Helping Marxists Achieve Their Revolution in the West Without the Bloodshed

Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list (BBC) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an Official List.

XE Variant: What to Know About the New Hybrid Strain First Identified in UK

XE variant of COVID: What is known so far about the newly discovered strain

Mask-Wearing Has Left A Generation Of Toddlers Struggling With Speech And Social Skills

Beijing Dispatches Military To Shanghai As Expanded Lockdown Triggers More Unrest

Eerie Drone Footage Shows Deserted Shanghai Downtown As Lockdown Extended 

Introducing ‘COVID XE’: New Mutant Strain Found In UK As WHO Warns It’s More Contagious Than Omicron

CNN Journalist Shuns Airline Mask Mandate in First Class  Rules are for thee but not for me.

NIH Working To Keep Taxpayers In The Dark by Stalling On Fauci Docs: Transparency Advocate

It’s not too late to stave off the climate crisis, U.N. report finds. Here’s how (NPR)

‘It’s now or never’: World’s top climate scientists issue ultimatum on critical temperature limit (CNBC)

‘Superblooms of fungus’: Climate change is making valley fever worse (L.A. Times)

White House details ‘immense’ risks of climate change for federal budget (The Hill)

Nevada toad declared endangered at site of geothermal plant (Associated Press)

Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels?

We’re Not Even Close to EVs Being as Cheap as Gas Cars, Mercedes Says

It’s Now or Never for The Planet! ABC & NBC Panic Over Climate Change

Worried About Climate Change? Come Borrow Some Money!

Wrong, Denver Post, Fires and Floods Aren’t Increasing

‘It’s Now or Never’: CBS Hypes ‘Dire Climate Report,’ Demands End of Fossil Fuels

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First Light Fusion (First Light), the University of Oxford fusion spin-out, today confirms it has achieved fusion. The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has independently validated the result.
This is the first time fusion has been achieved using the unique targets developed by First Light, and the corresponding projectile technology. First Light’s mission is to solve the problem of fusion power with the simplest machine possible. Projectile fusion is a new approach to inertial fusion that is simpler, more energy efficient, and has lower physics risk. First Light has achieved fusion having spent less than £45 million, and with a rate of performance improvement faster than any other fusion scheme in history.

If fusion power becomes commercial, who will the climate change Nazis have to hate on?

ZMan.

For the most part, generational politics are a self-defeating enterprise, because you end up attacking your allies. It is hard to attack people about whom you know little, but it is easy to find fault with those you know well. Every generation strains against its parents and every generation strains to teach its children. This is why it has been encouraged among the majority populations in the West. It is an effective way of keeping a natural majority from forming up in opposition to the ruling elite.

That said, there is something useful to thinking generationally. Oswald Spengler relied upon a form of generational politics to put forth his theory of history. Of course, we have the old adage, “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”. This describes the inability of grandchildren to manage the wealth passed down to them from their grandparents and parents. This is Spengler’s argument in a nutshell. A civilization rises, accomplishes what it can and then falls into decline.

We are witnessing the end phase with the Global American Empire. It is not exactly a three generation cycle, but the basics are right. One theory of American history says the empire was founded at Gettysburg. That would mean the current generation of rulers is the fifth or sixth generation. On the other hand, some argue the Second World War is the founding of the empire, so that mean the third generation is in charge. The concept still works and is closer to the old adage.

The more things change, the more they’re the same thing, as the Frogs like to say.