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Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary, 2,000 Mules, raises serious questions about possible skullduggery in the 2020 election, involving absentee ballots across multiple states. But neither the liberal media, nor election officials, nor law enforcement seem to have much interest in investigating that potential wrongdoing. The reaction has largely boiled down to “nothing to see here!” or else to so-called “fact checks” that criticize the technology used to analyze the problems the film documents, rather than actually use the information D’Souza presents to investigate the credibility of the claims being made.

But that is par for the course these days when it comes to potential election fraud, or even proven fraud. A recent article in the Washingtonian says that that the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, a national tracking system for potential fraud, is a “highly controversial tactic.” So just tracking and reporting cases where individuals have actually been convicted of election fraud in a court of law, is now “highly controversial.”

The media’s refusal even to address or examine the issue is quite a change from the days when the Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for in-depth investigation of the Miami mayor’s race in 1997. The Herald revealed so much fraud (some of it involving absentee ballots), that the election was overturned by a court.

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For democracies to thrive, citizens must trust the four core elements of their government: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and the bureaucracies which pass and implement most of the day-to-day rules. A crucial element of that trust is the belief that each individual gets a fair shake. That means he won’t be arrested or fined because of the color of his skin or his religion. If he has to go to court, it means he’ll get a fair trial, with an even-handed judge and a jury of his peers. He won’t be pilloried by a biased judge who doesn’t like his politics. His case will be decided by a jury that weighs the evidence without prejudice. The public also has a right to see that trials are handled fairly, without bias.

Every one of those basic tenets was violated in Michael Sussmann’s trial for lying to the FBI. We know now that a Washington, DC jury has found him not guilty, though it is still unclear whether they believed he didn’t lie, or the government didn’t prove it, or it didn’t matter to a politically biased FBI, which was determined to investigate anything connected to Donald Trump. We also know something more: the whole case is drenched in the sulfurous smell of the Washington Swamp.

Weaning Ourselves off Fossil Fuels Is Going to Hurt (Mother Jones)

Thousands of oil and gas assets are at risk of becoming stranded—and you might own them (Fast Company)

Did Joe Manchin block climate action to benefit his financial interests? (The Guardian) No, but they want to suggest that he did without actually saying anything that will get them sued.

Linking nitrous oxide to climate risk is yet another example of the disdain shown to women’s pain (The Guardian) Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Surprise: Queensland’s Green Left Government is On Track to MISS Their Climate Targets

Fusion won’t avert need for climate change ‘sacrifice’, says nuclear energy expert

New Study: The 2016-2020 Antarctic Sea Ice Decline May Be Traced To Natural Processes

Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from “a million years to 30 minutes,” says Nobel laureate

Gee Whiz! Residents Do Not Like Wind Turbines

Another Nuclear Plant Closes: Get Ready For Electricity Shortages

WHO can’t rule out monkeypox pandemic risk, says there’s a window of opportunity to stop outbreak (CNBC) Just as long as we PANIC!

Monkeypox: CDC upgrades travel alert due to spike in global cases

CDC Raises Travel Alert for Monkeypox

Biden Admin Worked ‘Under the Radar’ to Give WHO More Power: Liberty Counsel’s Senior Attorney

Bill Gates Predicts ‘Next Pandemic’ Will Be Caused by Climate Change, Proposes WHO Expansion

Nigeria CDC Has Confirmed 21 Monkeypox Cases This Year

71 More Monkeypox Cases Detected in England, Bringing UK Total to 179

May the Force Be With Them: Scientists Fight Back

California’s Abolition Act: The man aiming to strike ‘Involuntary Servitude’ from state constitution

Black health care providers look to end treatment inequality

Elite San Francisco School Sees Record D’s And F’s After Ditching ‘Racist’ Merit-Based Admissions

Concern About Civil Rights Wanes In The US  By ‘civil rights’, of course, is meant ‘black privilege’.

Chicago Police: 52 Shot, 10 Killed Over Memorial Day Weekend

Biden Administration Implements a Racial Spoils System

Suspect Seen on Video Tossing Molotov Cocktails at 2 Churches in NC Arrested

EU secures compromise on Russian oil ban; Kremlin claims it now controls a third of key Donbas city

Chelsea Football Club, formerly owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, sold in record deal  It’s all about the oligarchs.

‘No Restrictions’: NATO to Take More Aggressive Stance Against Russia

The New York Times’ Dramatic Shift On Victory In Ukraine

Iranian Military Base Attacked With Drones ‘Launched From Inside Iran’

China Expanding New Space Station To Rival ISS

Take A Look Inside Iran’s Secret Underground Drone Base

Moscow Shrugs Off EU Oil Ban: ‘Russia Will Find Other Importers’

Russia’s Gazprom Halts Gas Deliveries to Dutch Trader GasTerra, Effective Immediately

Iran Releases Video Of IRGC Storming Greek Tankers, Blames US For ‘Escalation’

Canada Adds Vladimir Putin’s Alleged Girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva, to the Sanctions List Innocent until proven guilty? Not in the Great White North.

Turkey Expands Demands For Finland, Sweden NATO Entry: Change Domestic Laws

Not RINO enough: Kinzinger, journalist get into online spat over ‘Top Gun’ praise (The Hill)

Leah Remini, Adam Kinzinger, and Yashar Ali Are Fighting About ‘Top Gun’ (Daily Beast)

Group doorbells WA homes, searching for illegal voters and drawing complaints (Seattle Times)

Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns  And there’s no nationalism so bad as Christian nationalism.

January 6 hearings could be a real-life summer blockbuster (CNN)

Republicans Are Getting Really ‘Sick’ of Trump’s ‘Bitching’ (Daily Beast) And, of course, the Daily Beast is the expert on what Republicans think.

‘This AR-15’s Got to Go!’ Whoopi Is Coming for Your AR, ‘I Want It!’

White House Walks Back Biden Ruling Out Rockets for Ukraine (Newsweek) And that’s Uncle Joe/He’s a-movin’ kinda slow/at the Junction….

Border Surge: Migrants Cross River Obstacles

The Economy Is Teetering and Joe Biden Is the Man Without a Plan

Biden Deep Under Water

Joe Biden as Walter Mitty

Biden’s train-wreck economy

CBP Arrests Multiple Sex Offenders, Fugitive Wanted for Murder, Before Entering US

Biden’s ‘Incredible Transition’: High Gas Prices, Supply Shortages Part of Plan to Usher In Green Economy

Biden: “No Rational Basis” For 9mm Ammo In Self-Defense  I am ashamed that this moron is President of the United States.

Gas Prices Set Fourth Record High Under Biden

The Bush Assassination Plot Shows How Broken Our Immigration System Is

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It was in 1941 that a pogrom in Baghdad sparked a first major wave of Jewish emigration. In 1951 Israel airlifted thousands of Jews in an operation named after Ezra and Nehemiah, who famously returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. Those few who remained in Baghdad, and studied from that little schoolbook, were probably preparing to follow in subsequent years. By 2003, only a few dozen Jews remained

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In 1991 one in 20 Iraqis was Christian; now they are at most one in 80. Christians in pre-mandatory Palestine were 10 per cent of its population; now they are around 2 per cent.

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At first glance, hypnosis seems like one of those psychological phenomena that just shouldn’t work. What makes it so interesting is that it often does. Entering a hypnotic state, focusing intently and listening to a suggestion is, for many people, enough to make that suggestion a reality.

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

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Startup Formo uses genetically modified microorganisms to produce a completely lab-grown milk that can be made into cheese.

Decide for yourself whether this is ‘real’ cheese. (I think not.)

ZMan peers behind the curtain.

A couple of weeks back, Tucker Carlson observed that most Republicans wake up in the morning and go to the New York Times. They and their staff read the thing over breakfast, because it is their guide throughout the day. This is true of mainstream conservatives as well. What passes for the Right in America is entirely controlled by the Left, which is controlled by the media. Old school liberals sound like Trump people when they complain about how the media runs their party.

There is a lot of truth to the media-ocracy claim. The backers of the Ukraine fiasco have been feeding the media nonsense tales about Ukraine. They handed them Ukraine lapel pins they had made up for the occasion. Note no one in the media looked into who supplied everyone on television with those pins. Instead, it was a unified media voice, a wall of sound, selling the Ukraine story. Washington and the political class in Europe were swept up in this unfolding disaster.

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The Covid hoax, and it is fair to call it a hoax at this point, was not the result of clever scheming like the Russian collusion hoax. Instead, it was something like a stampede over a cliff. Unlike the animals in the herd, the people in this media stampede could question the rush over the cliff, but like the animals in the herd, they feared being trampled more than they feared the end result. As a result, fantasy became holy writ and Covid turned into a bizarre mass media religion.

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Regarding the Uvalde school shooting, most of us have already cycled through the Seven Stages of Vicarious Grief. That’s the process that follows every mass shooting, when we pick our “why” from the list of seven approved mass shooting causes, and we criticize everybody who picked a different one.

Here’s the list; feel free to print it out for next time.

Harvard University student newspaper survey of graduates finds very few lean conservative My, what a surprise.

MSNBC column argues there is no constitutional right to own a gun  Some people can’t read.

Trumpism versus Reaganism (The Hill) Not that The Hill knows anything about either.

‘We need you’ to protect democracy, Garland tells Harvard 2020, 2021 grads Sunday (Boston Globe)

After latest mass shooting, is the supreme court poised to expand gun rights? (The Guardian) Which ‘mass shooting’? The one in Texas, or the one in Chicago?

DeSantis Foe Rebekah Jones Discredited: Miami Herald, CNN, MSNBC Hardest Hit

Sen. Booker: ‘Under No Illusion’ Congress Will Pass Major Gun Reform Laws

CNN Frets Democrat Gerrymander Backfired, But Hectored GOP

AAPI, an incoherent identity

New IRS Data Reveals Florida Biggest Winner, New York Biggest Loser In Competition For People & Their Wealth

Duke Medical prof. calls mandatory equity training “Maoist political propaganda”

Failing Grades Jump at San Francisco’s Top High School After Merit-Based Admissions Replaced by Lottery

I spent over 2 years writing about COVID — and avoiding it. Here’s how omicron finally got me (S.F. Chronicle)

COVID in California: Real-world Paxlovid study finds strong protection against death (S.F. Chronicle)

Monkeypox presents moderate risk to public health, WHO says (Reuters) Ramping up for the next PANIC!

Monkeypox outbreak reaches 257 confirmed cases worldwide, WHO says (CNN)

CDC: Boulder and Jackson counties showing high rates of COVID transmission

CDC releases vaccine recommendations as monkeypox spreads (Denver 7) Time to ramp up the PANIC!

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now. (Washington Post)

If You Think It’s Allergies, It’s Probably COVID, Top Doc Says (NBC Chicago)

Chinese Media and Influencers Blame US for Spread of Monkeypox

Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes

We’re Still Waiting for a Great Post-COVID Pandemic Novel  Well, some of us are.

We Got Covid Shots in One Year. Why Did a Malaria Vaccine Take 35?

A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the Covid-19 case fatality rate

Watch: Climate Activist Smashes Cake Into Mona Lisa At Louvre

Tianjin University Students Rally to Protest Covid Lockdown, Chanting ‘Down With Bureaucracy’

The Monkey Business Behind Monkeypox Propaganda

WHO Says Monkeypox Epidemic ‘Evolving Rapidly’ as More Cases Reported

Extreme Pandemic Measures Prompt More Chinese to Quit the Communist Party

Dr. Perro to Fellow Pediatricians: ‘Rise Up, Take a Stance’ Against COVID Vaccines for Kids

Monica Cannon-Grant to make in-person court appearance (Boston Herald)

Uvalde police response proves need to abolish the police, says MSNBC guest

Sacramento mass shooting: Yet another suspect arrested after fleeing to Las Vegas  Needless to say, the Narrative Media don’t care about this mass shooting.

Aspiring Rapper Update: Frères Jacques

Popular Punjabi Rapper Sidhu Moose Wala Shot Dead at 28  Well, Kemala Harris would consider him black….

40 People Shot, 6 Dead in Chicago Over Memorial Day Weekend: Police

The American People Have Spoken: It’s Time to End Affirmative Action

The Floyd Effect, Part 62: More Bad Drivers Flooring It When Cops Try to Pull Them Over

Police: Gunfire at Phoenix House Party Kills 1 and Injures 5  Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings suggests that, with more wounded than killed, the perps were probably black, undescored by the fact that no information was provided re said perps.

Man Who Won $10 Million Lottery Prize Sentenced to Life in Prison  I guess we can rule out poverty as the cause.

Carjacking While Pregnant

‘You need to look into your souls’: Acosta presses NRA board member after mass shooting (CNN) Mine looks better than yours, Jim.

The Plot to Out Ronald Reagan (Politico)

Trump’s ‘big lie’ hits cinemas: the film claiming to investigate voter fraud (The Guardian)

Hands on Wisconsin: Republicans are a tool of the NRA (Madison.com)

Behind the Jan. 6 panel’s last-minute efforts to win 3 key Trump-world lawsuits (Politico)

Margaret Thatcher Statue in Her Hometown Vandalised Twice in 2 Weeks

The Trump Charlottesville Lie Just Won’t Die  Progressives are the chief practitioners of the Big Lie technique, which is why they’re so quick to ascribe it to their enemies.

Jan. 6 Panel Drops Bid to Get RNC Records for Public Hearings

FBI’s Handling of Trump-Alfa Bank Allegation ‘Unusual’: Former Agent

Another monster hurricane season looms as we dawdle on climate change (The Guardian)

The hamburger is an American staple: Climate change threatens it in profound and subtle ways (The Hill)

Another nuclear plant closes: Get ready for electricity shortages (The Hill)

Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to National Security (The Nation)

Inside a Dem Senator’s Plan to Install His Son in Congress

Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption

This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

New Findings Show Gulf Stream “Has Strengthened” Over Past Century…”Heat Transport Has Increased 30%”!

Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Claim: Sheep Produce Better Fleece When Grazed Under Solar Panels

Fjords Emit as much Methane as All the Deep Oceans Globally  All that pining….

U.S. Household Saving Rate Vanishes, Credit Card Debt Soars

Spiking Fertilizer Costs Squeeze Midwest Farmers

Nestle CEO Does Not See ‘Significant’ Baby Formula Shortages Outside US

Dozens Of Border Patrol Agents Uninvited From Biden Event In Uvalde

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Conrad Lord Black of Crossharbour.

In one respect President Joe Biden did speak faithfully for the nation when he returned from Southeast Asia and went straight to the White House and declared in his remarks about the appalling school murders in Uvalde, Texas, that he was “sick and tired” of these murders. So is the country.

He demanded the recovery of political “backbone” to ban assault weapons, clearly implying that he believed that that would seriously reduce the incidence of these terrible mass shootings. By indicating that he actually thought that he was proposing any kind of a solution when all informed Americans are aware that an assault weapon ban was attempted for 10 years and didn’t appreciably change the rate of incidence of such crimes, the president effectively acknowledged that he had no idea what to do.

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Anonymous activists seem to be surfacing in news reports with ever-greater frequencies. Activists are involved in a wide array of issues, but having just written about the widespread adoption of ESG scores, I am struck by the repeated references to activists who are promoting ESG.

For example, The Wall Street Journal recently reported, “BlackRock’s offices around the world have been frequented by activists who blast the firm for being slow to act on green issues.”

BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager overseeing some $7 trillion—is one of numerous large companies to have openly adopted the ESG paradigm after being pressured by activists. Who are these activists? How do they manage to be so persuasive? What makes them voices to be heeded?

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With all of its regional neighbors having recently either repatriated large quantities of gold (Germany and Austria), or bought large quantities of gold (Poland and Hungary), it seems that the Czech Republic has now taken note and does not want to be left out of this Central European gold rush.

Steve Sailer.

After 48 hours following the acquittal of Virginia Tech black football player Isimemen Etute in his beating to death his white transvestite date Jerry Smith on even manslaughter grounds, neither the New York Times nor the localish Washington Post have weighed in on the news to tell their subscribers How to Think about the event

Yeah, that’s a head-scratcher, all right.

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Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings says that many wounded and few dead suggests black perps. The fact that no descriptions of the shooters, although it is said that police saw people shooting, further suggests black perps. We shall see.

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According to Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings, few dead and many wounded suggest black perps. We’ll wait and see.

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In its effort to contain inflation, the Federal Reserve has launched what many expect to be an ongoing series of interest rate increases, which are already taking a toll on stock and housing markets, with job losses likely to follow. As weary as Americans have become from paying record high gas and grocery prices, however, another round of price hikes is making its way through the food supply chain and is expected to reach consumers this fall. “People don’t realize what’s fixing to hit them,” said Texas farmer Lynn “Bugsy” Allen. “They think it’s tough right now, you give it until October. Food prices are going to double.”

Biden’s censors want Russian-style speech controls and they haven’t given up

Here’s what Biden has done on guns and what advocacy groups say he can still do without Congress (CNN)

Amateur hour at the White House briefing room

Showdown On The Second Amendment: Harris Calls For Ban On “Assault Weapons”  Of which there is no such thing, unless she’s talking about MLRS.

Should I Be Worried About Monkeypox?

The Monkeypox Frontlash: “As Monkeypox Cases Grow, So Do Fears of a Return of Gay Blame and Stigma”

California Poised To Adopt ‘Medical Misinformation Bill’ Targeting Alternative COVID-19 Protocols

Localities in the Roanoke Valley considered high COVID-19 transmission areas by CDC (WSLS)

Monkeypox Cases Spread “Tip Of The Iceberg,” Says WHO: 10 Points (NDTV) Get ready for the next PANIC!

Nearly 200 Cases Of Monkeypox Have Been Found In More Than 20 Countries (Huffington Post)

Pfizer and Moderna rapidly falling out of favor as Americans’ favorite brands: report Gee, I wonder why.

Monkeypox outbreak could be just ‘the peak of the iceberg’, WHO warns (The Guardian) Get ready for the next PANIC!

Ireland Confirms 1st Monkeypox Case

CDC Raises Travel Alert for Monkeypox  Ramping up to the new PANIC!

WHO Pandemic Treaty Will Effectively Take Away Countries’ Sovereignty: Former WHO Official  Davos gonna getcha!

Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Had Damaging Political, Legal, Socioeconomic Effects  Do tell.

After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated

WHO Politics Are Putting the World at Risk: Urgent Reform Is Needed  Don’t hold your breath.

Covid and Punishment

GOP Must Hold ‘Radical’ Health Officials Like Fauci ‘Accountable’: Republican Study Committee

What Weapons Are Banned Or Restricted In War?  And what are the chances that an autocratic state like Russia or China (much less Islamic jihadists) will pay any attention?

Activists, workers press Google founders to support racial equity audit (The Hill)

A ‘Learning Experience’: WashPost Touts Black Panthers in Summer Books for Teens

Mitch McConnell Never Puts America First (Daily Beast)

Inside Mitch McConnell’s decades-long effort to block gun control (Washington Post)

The cost of Trump’s chaos just keeps accumulating (CNN)

RINO Alert: McCarthy to Commit ‘Multiple Crimes’ by Refusing Jan. 6 Subpoena: Kirschner (Newsweek)

McCarthy, GOP lawmakers escalate standoff with Jan. 6 panel (Associated Press)

‘God’s gift to lawyers.’ DeSantis’ culture war laws get him sued a lot (Orlando Sentinel) That’s like saying ‘Zelensky’s War in Ukraine’.

Nina Jankowicz thinks disinfo board would help ‘address’ mass shootings: ‘Disinformation plays a role’

Brown holds Gov. Abbott accountable on mental health policies (CNN)

New evidence reveals coordination between Oath Keepers, Three Percenters on Jan. 6 (NBC)

Investors Sue Elon Musk and Twitter Over Pending Takeover

Rethinking air conditioning amid climate change (Ars Technica)

Young L.A. Latina wins prestigious environmental prize (NBC) For which her ethnicity is apparently her chief qualification.

Study warns nearly half of fossil fuel sites need to be shut down to avoid climate disaster (Interesting Engineering)

Carbon-Removal Tech Grabs Elon Musk’s Check (IEEE Spectrum)

Scientists Say Tundra Could Be Lost in 30 Years as Trees Take Over (Newsweek) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Can cross-breeding protect endangered species from the climate emergency? (The Guardian)

They once worked for big oil’s enablers. Now they refuse to be complicit (The Guardian)

Climate pressure from employees, shareholders rattles Big Oil (Washington Pots) Not to mention the government, academia, and the Narrative Media.

G7 countries say strict environmental rules needed for deep-sea mining (Reuters)

Swiss Daily: Wind Park Destruction Of 1000-Year Old Untouched German Forest Exposes “Absurdity of Green Energies”

New York Times Upset as GOP ‘Punishes’ Woke Corporations, Financiers for ‘Climate Action’

Davos Reveals Building-Blocks For “Green” Social-Credit System

We finally know why sunscreen kills coral reefs

Alberta Court’s Overturning of Liberals’ Environmental Impact Law Marks ‘Principled Approach’ to Federalism: Law Prof

Polar Bear Habitat in Canada Over the Last Decade: Spring Sea Ice Not in a Death Spiral

‘Privacy’ Search Engine DuckDuckGo Smoked Over Hidden Tracking Agreement With Microsoft

CEOs are silent on guns. They must speak up in a ‘loud chorus’, Yale’s Jeff Sonnenfeld says (CNN)

Google is wooing a coalition of civil rights allies. It’s working. (Protocol)

Eric Adams condemns exclusion of NYPD cops from NYC Gay Pride Parade

ABC Invites Kinzinger to Convince GOP to Support Gun Control  When the Narrative Media find a pet RINO, they work him (or her) for all they can get.

US Should Get Tougher on Chinese Regime Over Its Persecution of Falun Gong: Advocate

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I am prepared to believe it.

Awareness of the centuries old concept of The Cantillion Effect has been experiencing a revival of late, particularly since the extraordinary acceleration of monetary injections that occurred under COVID. Named for the French-Irish economist who died in 1734 (he was murdered), the Cantillon Effect is when you create a bunch of new money and inject it into an economy. What happens is the people at the front of the line who receive the new money first become wealthier, while the people at the end of the line who receive it last are further impoverished.

This is not peculiar to the post-Covid era. For more than a decade I’ve been describing how rampant money creation and credit expansion skews formerly free markets into a kind of economic vampirism, without actually knowing there was a term like this to describe it.

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And it serves you write, oppressor of the working class.

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Let’s see:

24/7 news coverage in the Narrative Media? Nope.

Politicians converging on the scenes to do ritual hand-wringing? Nope.

Biden trip? Nope. Harris trip? Nope. Harris call for greater gun control in Chicago? Nope (Actually, it would be hard to imagine what ‘greater gun control in Chicago’ would comprise.)

Fringe Lefty candidates accosting the governor in front of TV cameras? Nope. (Maybe because the governor himself is a fringe Lefty candidate; he’d be hard to outflank.)

BLM marching in the streets (since most of the victims are presumably black)? Nope.

Well, there you have it.

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) peers behind the curtain.

Twitter is unlike The New York Times, which wields oligarchic power directly. Twitter, when it works, creates a vacuum of power, which democratic power fills. By default, Twitter isn’t in any way in control of the portal of pure chaos it creates.

“Twitter is a natural cradle of any kind of counter-establishment power—good or bad.”
As any Arab despot can tell you, Twitter is the most powerful weapon of democracy ever invented. If Twitter is bad, Twitter is bad because democracy is bad. While there is a real case for this point of view, few dare to make it.

Twitter is a natural cradle of any kind of counter-establishment power—good or bad. If the words “oligarchy” and “democracy” don’t mean “establishment” and “counter-establishment,” these words have lost all meaning.

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A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface, according to newly released government documents and photos that deepen the mystery of the 2018 excavation in remote western Pennsylvania.

The report, by a geophysicist who performed microgravity testing at the site, hinted at an underground object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize the gold — if there was any to be found.

The government has long claimed its dig was a bust. But a father-son pair of treasure hunters who spent years hunting for the fabled Civil War-era gold — and who led agents to the woodland site, hoping for a finder’s fee — suspect the FBI double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Reducing Black Americans to Racial Labels Enables the Left’s Agenda

All-Black Militia Leader Found Guilty of Threatening Police With Rifle

Black Football Player Is Acquitted After Beating to Death a White Man Pretending to be a Woman

538: Great Replacement Isn’t Happening Fast Enough

Genius Move? NYC’s Black Mayor Bucks Progressives on the Racial Chessboard of ‘Gifted’ Education

‘Guns Should Not Be In The Hands Of The Mentally Unstable,’ Says Senile Man With Nukes (Babylon Bee)

Education Secretary Refuses to Say Whether School Should Hide Child’s Gender Transition From Parents

China President Warned Biden Democracy Is Dying: ‘You Don’t Have the Time’ (Newsweek) It is a measure of how feckless Biden is that he accepts being lectured on democracy by the head of the largest Communist dictatorship on the planet.

Biden repeats false claim about trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, this time to graduating midshipmen Just call him Dear Leader.

Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class  They need to be made dependent on government or they’ll never vote Democrat.

Watch: Biden Education Secretary Says Biological Males Should Be Allowed To Compete In Girls’ Sport

How Biden Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Inflation

International Opposition Grows To Biden Granting WHO Pandemic Powers

Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service

Memorial Day Gasoline Prices Are At An All-Time High

Dopey 2010 Law Driving Major Pilot Shortage

Hunter Biden Used Burner-Phone And Data-Recovery Apps: Former US Secret Service Agent

Biden Raising Gas Prices on Purpose, Top Republican Says

Hydrogen may be a climate solution. There’s debate over how clean it will truly be (NPR)

Amazon Shareholders Reject Environmental Resolutions on Plastic Packaging, Climate Crisis (EcoWatch) Looking for gullible? Look elsewhere.

Key nations agree to halt funding for new fossil fuel projects (Washington Post)

G7 commits to decarbonizing electricity by 2035 but leaves wiggle room for fossil fuels (CNN)

Scientists Took Hummingbirds Up a Mountain to See What Climate Change Would Do to Them (ScienceAlert)

Scientists Moved Hummingbirds to High Elevations to See How Climate Change Might Affect Them (Smithsonian Magazine)

UK tax plan incentivizes oil, gas producers to pump more fossil fuels (Reuters)

California’s plan to avoid blackouts relies on fossil fuels as last resort

One of UK’s rarest corals set to expand its range as climate change warms seas (The Guardian)

‘Flash Droughts’ Are the Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat (Wired ‘Science’)

Eco-Anxiety and Medically Assisted Suicide: Man Seeks Death Due to Anxiety Over Climate Change  I’m willing to accept his absence from the gene pool.

A massive kite is now generating carbon-free electricity

We almost built 8 gigawatt-class floating nuclear power plants

California and New Zealand Pledge to Fight Climate Change Together

Why haven’t plastic-eating bacteria fixed the plastic problem yet?

The Economic Cost of Eliminating Fossil Fuels

Leak of Xinjiang Police Files Provides ‘Absolutely Shocking’ Evidence of Mass Persecution: Former US Ambassador

Teen Vogue: Conservatives Are Okay When They Support Abortion

Add Barnes and Noble Booksellers to the Woke Club

A Gun-Control Activist Said ‘Yes’ to the Texas Governor’s Invitation. Here’s What Happened Next. (Politico) He discovered that nobody else wanted to ban guns.

Abbott: New laws will come from school shooting (The Hill)

Supreme Court likely to drop school voucher bombshell (Washington Post)

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern addresses Harvard on gun control and democracy (The Guardian) Wokery can be traded for valuable prizes, like degrees from Harvard.

Thousands of people are leaving Hong Kong — and now it’s clear where they’re going (CNBC) Singapore. What, you thought California?

Debunking the Economic Fallacies in Hugh Jackman and Robert Reich’s Simpsons Episode (Foundation for Economic Education)

Taxing the rich could help fix the food crisis. Davos didn’t want to know (CNN)

El Al, Israel’s National Airline, Relocating US Headquarters From NYC to Broward

160 School Bus Catalytic Converters Stolen in LA Unified This Year

Sussmann Trial Exposes Dems’ Scandal-Industrial Process

CNN’s Costas Misleadingly Compares Gun Control To Traffic Laws

Murkowski ‘Chief Enabling Officer’ of Biden Agenda: Kelly Tshibaka

Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s ‘Woke’ Firm Invests in Chinese Slave Labor

Ten Years Ago: MSNBC Was ‘Uncomfortable’ Calling Fallen Soldiers ‘Heroes’

Number of Political Prisoners in Hong Kong Exceeds 1,000 Amid Rapid Deterioration of Human Rights

US Resident Asks UN Human Rights Chief Visiting China to Confirm Her Jailed Husband is Alive in Xinjiang

China’s Outflow of People and Capital Prompts Controls to Further Reduce Basic Freedoms

LA City Council Takes Step to Force Purchase of Chinatown Building to Freeze Rent

New York’s gifted and talented program is saved – for now

Remember: Abortion-Loving Media Embrace a Culture of Death

Federal investigation into Trump fake elector probe expands to multiple states (CNN)

‘Unconscionable’: Thousands of workers at Salesforce, San Francisco’s biggest employer, demand company stop working with NRA (S.F. Gate)

Salesforce employees call for company to stop doing business with NRA (S.F. Chronicle)

Kevin McCarthy’s coverup for Trump just got much more alarming (Washington PostO AARGH! TRUMP COOTIES!

Left-wing critics say Bill Maher should be ‘canceled’ over LGBTQ comments Of course they do.

What to know about the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston (CNN) Come here and get your Narrative.

House Oversight Committee to Probe Gunmakers After Texas School Shooting  Never let a crisis go to waste.

When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Really Is (Slate)

Ruhle Suggests Civil War Never Ended, Wonders How ‘Sick’ is America

“The Takeout”: For the first time during the pandemic, I tested positive for COVID-19. So, Dr. Fauci and I had a chat (CBS) The Emperor’s New Vaccine.

Scientists Research People Who Have Never Been Infected By COVID-19 (NBC)

WHO: Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox in more than 20 countries (Associated Press) Then I guess it’s time for another PANIC!

How to protect yourself against monkeypox and what to do if you catch it (CNBC) The first thing you need to do is PANIC!

India wants to be the ‘pharmacy of the world.’ But first, it must wean itself from China (CNBC)

This photo of a professor wearing a mask went viral. So did his response to critics (NPR)

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past (Associated Press)

Menstrual Irregularities, Uterus Shedding Cases Spike After COVID Vaccine Rollout: Peer-Reviewed Study

WHO Asks Countries to Increase Surveillance for Monkeypox  We need to prep the new PANIC!

Over 10,000 COVID-19 Claims Removed From VAERS, 500 Death Reports Deleted, Claims Data Analyst  But we still need to PANIC!

British 26 Year-Old Died From COVID Jab Complications Following Out-of-Date Advice

Monkeypox outbreaks: 4 key questions researchers have

No Relationship Between School Masking and COVID-19 Cases: Study  Masks are virtue-sigaling, pure and simple.

WHO Using Monkeypox to Justify ‘Human Rights Violations’ With Experimental Vaccines: World Council for Health

Latest US Data Shows Vaccine Injuries Skyrocketed; How Will We Recover?

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The globalist left has made its agenda clear. They don’t want us living in comfortable suburban homes, they want us to live in densely packed industrial rabbit warrens like New York and Hong Kong; in 500-square-foot apartments decorated in IKEA furniture. They don’t want us driving cars, they want us dependent on government-run mass transit, operated by unionized government employees, according to government-set schedules. They do not want us to eat meat, they want us to eat soy and bugs. And we are to be continuously monitored by the government for compliance with policy edicts.

Coincidentally or not, due to Biden and Democratic Party policies, the price of homes has skyrocketed and inflation-driven increases in mortgage rates are making them unaffordable (unless you’re a giant hedge fund bent on buying houses and converting them into rental stock because government policies encourage that sort of thing). The price of used cars and gasoline has likewise skyrocketed. Likewise meat of all kinds. Which has led Glenn Reynolds to ask whether the Democrats are inflicting these policies deliberately in order to get the desired result and Dan Greenfield to answer, “Hells yeah, they’re doing it on purpose.”

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The Great Recession led to a carpenter exodus. But cultural and pay issues have stunted the profession’s growth for far longer.

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Even among the other construction trades, which have long faced retention and recruitment problems and for which there were ~400k unfilled jobs in March, carpentry stands out for its shortages. Builders have more trouble finding carpenters than roofers, electricians, or just about anything else, and by a wide margin.