Inconvenient Fact About Mass Killings  Larry Elder.

The truth about the Buffalo shooting

FBI Lawyer Admits Knowing Clinton Was Behind Trump Allegations Would Have Changed Things

What I Saw at Third Protest at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home

Fiona Hill says Putin ‘had to keep explaining things’ to Trump (The Hill) They said the same thing about Socrates.

Doug Mastriano race to decide if Pennsylvanians want their votes counted or cheaper bacon (Philadelphia Inquirer)

D.C. Attorney General Lets the Trump Swamp Win Again (Daily Beast)

‘This virus is here to stay’: Omicron subvariant causing COVID-19 wave in Colorado

Health Officials Consider Mask Mandates As Covid Cases & Hospitalizations Surge

Conservatives fume over tech industry’s ‘shadow docket’ play (Politico)

Oprah needs to denounce Oz (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Does Texas’ Idiot Attorney General Have a Point About Chrome’s Incognito Mode? (Gizmodo) Don’t hold it in, guys, tell us how you really feel.

Joe Manchin’s trail of destruction is about to get much worse (Washington Post)

Switching PGA courses after mob rampage a success for all bar Trump (The Guardian)

Elon Musk Completes Transition to Supervillain With Bolsonaro Meeting in Brazil (Gizmodo) Gizmodo is allegedly a tech pub but you’d never know it by reading it.

AP Paints Jankowicz As Victim of a Torrent of Sexist ‘Online Abuse’  Sauce for the goose….

MSNBC Calls GOP Rep. an Idiot For Opposition to Near Birth Abortion

Federal Judge Dismisses Fraud And Defamation Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Amid Week Of Controversy

Disinformation Board Paused, ‘Mary Poppins’ Director Out, but Biden Suppression of Free Speech Continues

WATCH: Big Three Largely Ignore Gas Prices Spiking Above $4 in EVERY STATE for First Time Ever

Senators Urge Biden to End Delays on Offshore Oil, Gas Lease Permits

Biden’s approval dips to lowest of presidency: AP-NORC poll (Associated Press)

Biden approval rating plummets to 39%, down 24 points from last year: AP poll

Washington state gas stations run out of fuel, prep for $10 a gallon

Record gas prices for this long ‘unprecedented’: AAA

Oklahoma abortion bill is ‘extreme,’ ‘absurd,’ ‘ultra MAGA,’ White House says

“Who Cares If Miami Is Underwater In 100 Years” – HSBC Global AM Head Slams “Nut Job” Climate-Alarmists

Bill Gates explains what you can do now to fight climate change (CNBC)

Climate change is leading to loss of sleep worldwide: study (The Hill)

Climate Change Is Turning Us Into Sleep-Deprived Zombies (Daily Beast) Only the prog worry-warts, and that’s not a bad thing.

Electricity operators must wake up to climate change — or brace for summer outages (The Hill)

In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights (Inside Climate News)

H&M-backed project pilots CO2-capturing aprons at Stockholm restaurant (Reuters) Perhaps I ought to have a section entitled Today In Virtue-Signaling Gimmickry.

Why tech giants’ cash is a hidden source of greenhouse gas emissions (The Verge)

Claim: Climate Change Likely to Reduce the Amount of Sleep That People Get Per Year  Indeed, it’s hard to sleep with all that whining.

Go Organic, And Starve!

Let Them Eat Bugs… How Out-Of-Touch Elites Reveal Their Contempt, & What Comes Next

HSBC Senior Banker Spanked After Dissing the Climate Crisis

Why China Still Hasn’t Ended COVID-19 Lockdowns

CDC urges older Americans to get Covid booster shots as hospitalizations soar again

Pfizer and Moderna created life-saving vaccines. So why are their stocks crumbling? (CNN)

CDC urges masks in 22 Michigan counties as COVID-19 transmission surges (Detroit Free Press)

New York Is Facing a Pandemic-Fueled Home Energy Crisis, With No End in Sight (Inside Climate News)

MAJOR ALERT: The WHO Czar

A Poxy, Diseased Lot

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The Times is just once instance of the vicious cycle in news media. Radical technological changes have disrupted traditional funding models, making traditional types of reporting too unprofitable to sustain. Newsroom staffing has been slashed by one-quarter since 2008, with those left standing horrified they’ll be next.

This creates newsrooms full of anxiety, with many reporters trying to leverage sensationalism on social media. While reporters 20 years ago might have tried to bury – or at least hide – the biases that informed their reporting, now they brag about those biases on Twitter in the purity-spiral battle to prove who’s the wokest.

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Honey may be one of the oldest forms of natural medicine. Its wound healing and antimicrobial properties can be found mentioned in some of our oldest medical literature. The Bible mentions it in proverbs 16:24 “Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine who is turning a few thousand RPMs in his grave, was convinced that honey had a variety of healing properties, and he would use it in many of his treatments. He would treat pain with a combination of honey and vinegar. He also encouraged his patients to drink Mead, one of the oldest alcoholic beverages made by fermenting honey with water grains and other spices, the Greeks would refer to it as the “nectar of the gods”.

UPDATE: Beewise.

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A post recently made the rounds on hacker news claiming that you should teach your kids poker, not chess. The comments on that post go through a lot of the reasons why poker is a bad game to teach your children, but I felt that I was well suited to opine on this topic, and explain why duplicate bridge is the best game for practicing the life skills involved in business and programming, compared to all of the alternatives.

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A lot of effort to compensate for the inherent deficiencies of Turd World food.

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Cave explorers stumbled upon a prehistoric forest at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in South China earlier this month. Sinkholes such as these are also known in Chinese as Tiankeng, or “Heavenly pit.”

At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the pit holds an ancient forest spanning nearly three football fields in length, with trees towering over 100 feet high. And according to the Chinese government, it is one of 30 enormous sinkholes in the county.

Soon to be a major motion picture in the Marvel Universe?

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In a banana republic, what do you do when your citizens don’t have enough money because of your socialist economic policies? Simple: print more money! There was a time when we thought American politics were above such insanity, but those days are gone. The Biden administration’s multi-trillion dollar money-printing spree has launched the worst inflation since the Carter administration and the longest collapse of the Dow since 1932. Nice going, Joe!

If you think Democrats might learn from their mistakes, you don’t know Democrats.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

A woman has made a hearsay allegation against Elon Musk, claiming that on a company airplane in 2016, he exposed himself to and propositioned a flight attendant. The woman who made the claim says she is a friend of the flight attendant. It is alleged that Space-X paid the flight attendant $250,000 when she left the company.

Funny how that works: no one needed to know any of this until Musk undertook to buy Twitter and turn it into a free speech zone, and–horrors!–said he would be voting Republican in November. Now, suddenly, he is under attack on multiple fronts.

Funny how that works.

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If you thought that the economic news was crazy during the first half of 2022, just wait until we get to the second half. So many of the problems that we are experiencing now are going to continue to intensify, and Americans are becoming more pessimistic about economic conditions with each passing day. In fact, as you will see below, a whopping 85 percent of us believe that it is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that the economy will go through a recession at some point during the next year. Of course the truth is that if all we have to suffer through is a “recession”, we would be extremely fortunate. Our leaders have lost control of the economy, and many of us are extremely concerned about what is coming next.

Joe Biden’s administration appears to have achieved in one year a level of economic distress it took Jimmy Carter’s administration four years to achieve.

These Nine Republicans Voted Against Expanding Access to Baby Formula (Newsweek)

The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same (The Guardian) George Monbiot is the Thomas Friedman of the UK.

Tony Norman: Onward Christian Nationalists, marching off to war … (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)

Hiltzik: How does Elon Musk get away with breaking the law? (L.A. Times) Money talks?

Trump’s alarming GOP primary wins demand a serious response (Washington Post) Really? He was a candidate?

Trump claims immigrants are voting illegally. The real problem is foreign fat cats funding US campaigns (The Guardian) What Robert Reich won’t tell you is that they are supporting Democrats. (Liberal Dark Money Group Bankrolled by Foreign Billionaire Gave Millions to Stacey Abrams’s Voting Nonprofit )

Congress members led ‘reconnaissance tours’ of Capitol before attack, evidence suggests (The Guardian)

Faculty Freedom of Speech and Diversity is Threatened at the University of Washington

OnlyFans creator stalked and had sex with Meta employees to reinstate Instagram  Dare I suggest that none of these people is a Republican?

Snitches Get Tote Bags: Taxpayer-Funded NPR Creates Tip Line for Employees To Rat Out Colleagues Who Don’t Wear Masks

Bee: SCOTUS Cares ‘About a Cluster of Cells’ But Not ‘Actual People’

Hillary’s Hidden Hand: Clinton Okayed Anti-Trump Media Hit Job, Trial Reveals

Mook Testifies That Hillary Clinton Approved Trump-Russia Media Dissemination

Unfriendly Skies: Flight Attendants Fired for Opposing Radical Equality Act Sue Alaska Airlines

Elon Musk is in their sights

Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!

Blackouts possible this summer due to heat and extreme weather, officials warn (CNN)

Environmental toxins are worsening obesity pandemic, say scientists (The Guardian) Plus, you know, people keep eating too much.

First on CNN: DOE announces multibillion-dollar project to kickstart a carbon dioxide removal industry in US (CNN)

Earth’s oceans have reached the hottest and most acidic levels on record, UN says (CNBC)

Australia’s tropical rainforests have been dying faster for decades in ‘clear and stark climate warning’ (The Guardian)

Climate change is harming a vital tool to combat it (Axios)

Climate crisis makes extreme Indian heatwaves 100 times more likely – study (The Guardian)

COVID cases rise in almost every state (Axios) Almost every Blue state, that is.

Gas industry and Coalition reach for a get-out-of-catastrophe-free card in climate crisis Monopoly (The Guardian)

Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation

Not His Lucky Day

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors says her mistakes with ‘white guilt money’ were weaponized against her

Here’s the Real Takeaway From Black Lives Matter’s Sketchy Finances (Daily Beast)

BLM activist leader of Boston nonprofit faces fraud charges for allegedly laundering 2020 charity donations

Monica Cannon-Grant, indicted for fraud in her management of charity Violence in Boston, requests speedy trial (Boston Herald)

Lori Lightfoot, Kim Foxx slammed by Chicago 911 dispatcher: ‘City is done’ without a leadership change BRAAAAAAAINS!

Liberal Dark Money Group Bankrolled by Foreign Billionaire Gave Millions to Stacey Abrams’s Voting Nonprofit

68% Of CEOs Say Fed Policy Is About To Trigger A Recession

’76’ Gas-Station Chain Repograms Washington State Pumps For $10 A Gallon

Biden’s Big Lie: ‘Green’ Energy Doesn’t Save Money, It’s 4-6 Times More-Expensive

Rising fuel costs are a massive problem for business and consumers — Here’s why they’re so high (CNBC) Funny, no mention here of Biden choking off domestic oil production.

Biden’s Hispanic approval ratings plummets to 26% in new poll

Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Among Young People Dramatically Falls: Poll (Newsweek)

Washington Post omits Jeff Bezos’ dig at Disinformation board in piece blaming ‘far right’ for its failure

The Real Reason for Record Gas Prices

Tale Of Two Trials: How Sussmann Is Receiving Every Consideration Denied To Flynn

‘I Don’t Know How Much Worse It Can Get’: Democrats Turn on Biden as Poll Numbers Plummet Yet Again

Gas Prices Hit Another Record High Today, What’s Biden Doing?  Other than drooling.

Tucker Carlson: Biden Giving WHO Power to ‘Deploy Proactive Countermeasures Against Misinformation and Social Media Attacks’

Team Biden Quietly Admits Math Error Behind Long Delays in Oil, Gas Permits

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According to a new letter released by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will no longer be allowed to receive the Eucharist at Mass in her home diocese.

“A Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a manifestly grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others,” Cordileone writes in the letter addressed to Pelosi, D-Calif.

About time somebody called out Pelosi for being a CINO.

Next up: Biden.

Results of Polish elections by party.

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This is pretty slick.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

Murder had been declining in the United States in the two decades after the lethal Crack Wars of the late 1980-1990s. But then The Establishment decided about a decade ago that America’s big problem was too much law and order. So, after the celebrated emergence of Black Lives Matter at Ferguson in August 2014, we got less law and order, good and hard as H.L. Mencken might say about today’s elites.

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Although real-world data is scant, proponents say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture.

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Five years ago, a startup called Semtive Energy took the concept of a wind turbine, shrank it down to the size of a garden shrub, and started marketing it directly to households; much like rooftop solar panels, the mini turbine is intended to help homeowners rely less on the grid and produce their own clean energy.

Now another startup has taken a wind turbine, shrunk it down even more, and is marketing it to people who truly are off the grid—that is, hikers, campers, climbers, and others spending time in nature. Just under a year ago, Aurea Technologies launched a Kickstarter campaign for Shine, “an ultra-compact lightweight wind turbine that offers unrivaled performance for outdoor enthusiasts who need to recharge electronic devices.”

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How are progressives made? By cooking them in a public school six hours a day, five days a week where they are seemingly indoctrinated with an ideology that contradicts the values and beliefs of many of their parents.

It began as a trickle, but now is approaching a flood as activist groups – notably LGBTQ organizations – have infiltrated public schools and demanded their views on sexuality and gender be taught.

Black Voters Skeptical of ‘Cool’ Democrat Who Held Innocent Black Jogger at Gunpoint

BLM paid co-founder’s baby daddy nearly 5 times more than Trayvon Martin foundation

The “Race Does Not Exist” Crowd Doesn’t Like Helping Blacks Avoid Kidney Disease

BLM is dying but its legacy lives on

NYT Smears GOP as White Supremacist, Won’t ID Black Suspect in Anti-Asian Hate Crime

Fresh Fighting Grips Libyan Capital Over Decade After Obama’s Regime Change War

Google Russia goes broke after bank account snatched

All Wars Are Endless Wars

Major NATO War Games Set To Begin Miles From Russian Base  Poke that bear! Poke that bear!

The Swiss Connection: How Russia Is Weathering Tough Sanctions

Russia Expels 85 More European Diplomats In Retaliatory “Hostile Act”

PARAMILITARY: Poland, The Baltics And Ukraine

Russian attempts to restock its military may be doomed to failure

Ongoing Surrender “On Far Bigger Scale Than Kyiv Has Acknowledged” At Azovstal

Erdogan To Sweden: Don’t Expect Us To Approve NATO Bid Without First Returning ‘Terrorists’  I would ship them every Muslim in Sweden, and let them sort it out. But that’s me.

Iran, China-linked gangs join Putin’s disinformation war online

Head of US special ops in Africa likens Wagner Group to ‘terrorist organization’

“The Invasion Of Iraq… I Mean Of Ukraine” – George W. Bush Makes Mother Of All Gaffes

Lessons From Russia: China Tells Elites To Shed Overseas Assets

Biden Unveils $100 Million More In Weapons To Ukraine Literally Moments After $40BN Approved  Well, at least we know where our money is going.

‘Wow!’ Even Abortion Activists Can’t Explain the Difference Between Abortion & Murder

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones implores 900 Rutgers–Camden grads to ‘help save this country’

California Church Shooting Suspect Had Ties To CCP Nationalist Front Group

Here are the Nutcases Who Believe in ‘Replacement’

It’s only a culture war when the right does it

Gender Ideology’s True Believers

Watch: Democratic Witness At Judiciary Committee Abortion Hearing Says Men Can Get Pregnant And Have Abortions

Hayes, Jankowicz Whine Disinformation Board Fell to Disinformation

MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it ‘collapsed under my feet’

IRONY: NYT Wails Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board a ‘Victim’ of ‘Disinformation’

Judge Denies Former Clinton Lawyer’s Request For Mistrial

Latest Cases of Election Fraud Underline Need for Vigilance and Action

I’m Not a ‘Partisan Actor,’ Says Democratic Donor Who Campaigned for Hillary

Now a university in England has rejected the sonnet as too white and Western

Female Skateboarder Speaks Out Against Trans Competitor

Meet the Conspiracy Theorist Behind Twitter’s ‘Crisis Misinformation Policy’

“This Should Set Off Alarm Bells Across All Industries”: House Passes Fuel Price-Gouging Bill  Get your gas now, before the shortages arrive.

School Board Director to Host ‘Queer Youth’ Event at Sex Shop for ‘All Ages’

“The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation”: Nicolle Wallace. Nobody Spreads it More Relentlessly

MSNBC: It’s January 6 Forever! GOP Makes Insurrections a Litmus Test

Whoopi Goldberg: ‘Gas prices aren’t bad because of anything Biden did,’ baby formula shortage ‘not on him’

Gas stations in Washington reprogram pumps to prepare for $10-a-gallon fuel as Bidenflation sends average price soaring to $4.57 – almost twice the $2.41 during Trump’s final month (Daily Mail)

Biden admin risks Americans’ retirement accounts to push climate agenda, GOP leaders in 24 states warn

SHOCK: NBC Reports Hunter Biden ‘Under Growing Scrutiny’ Over His Finances

At March-April Rate, 3.5% of the Population of Cuba Are Showing Up at USA’s Mexican Border Per Year

Meet the Partisan Warriors Biden Wants To Rewrite Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

The war on American energy

Price Controls on Fuel Would Be Disastrous for Americans

Doocy, WSJ Reporter Press Flailing Karine Jean-Pierre Over Disinformation Board

Wells Fargo CEO Warns “No Question” Worst Is Yet To Come For Americans

The Fed Has Destroyed Our Savings

Hunter Biden Took In $11 Million Over 5 Years According To NBC Analysis  Hey, coke is expensive.

Biden Administration Refuses to Recognize Long-Term Effects of Puberty Blockers

Biden Judicial Pick Lied About Cop Killings. Now She Claims She Didn’t.

MSNBC Hypes Harris’s Post-Roe Fearmongering

Senate Democrats’ Letters Show FDA Knew About Baby Formula Issues, but Did Nothing 

Border Patrol Union Leader Warns Of “Complete Control” By Cartels Once ‘Title 42’ Ends

Green War! Mike Bloomberg Announces $242 Million Bid to Shut Down Coal

Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable (BBC)

Which Woke Mediocrity will Replace the Outgoing UN Climate Chief?

The Climate Death Cult

Declaration of War: CBS Ties Fox News, Gingrich, Johnson to Racist Buffalo Shooter

New Florida Law to Prohibit Protests at Private Residences

RINO Alert: Kinzinger criticizes GOP for pushing theories that are ‘getting people killed’ in wake of Buffalo shooting (CNN)

Republicans dismiss white supremacy charge but show unease about rhetoric (The Hill)

A lengthy list of Trump’s disastrous business deals — compiled by his newest business partners (L.A. Times)

Trump’s New Business Partners Just Published A Damning List Of All His Failures (Huffington Post)

The Orbanization of America: How to capture a democracy (Washington Post)

Orbán and US right to bond at Cpac in Hungary over ‘great replacement’ ideology (The Guardian)

Arbitrator Orders Reinstated a Professor Fired for Retweeting Me, by Steve Sailer

Get Ready To Be Muzzled: The Coming War On So-Called ‘Hate Speech’

Judge Finds ‘Shocking’ Malpractice at Law Firm That Threatened Free Beacon

Abortion Doctor Accuses Rep. Chip Roy of ‘Inflammatory Language’ About What Happens to Aborted Babies

Hostin Declares All GOP Voters ‘Biggest Domestic Threat’ to America  I’m happy that she thinks so. I wish I had her faith in the GOP.

NYT Writer Urged Activists To Escalate Protests Targeting Kavanaugh

Vaccination Blues

New COVID-19 variants of concern found in Minnesota (Star Tribune)

What to do if you test positive for Covid-19 now (CNN) Be sure to PANICV!

“They Shut Us Down”: Michigan Businesses Sue Whitmer For Losses Due To COVID Lockdowns

Missouri Bill Prevents Doctors Being Disciplined If They Prescribe Ivermectin Or Hydroxychloroquine

US Confirms Monkeypox Virus In Massachusetts After UK, Spain, Portugal Cases In Men

Let’s eliminate the Covid test entry requirement for the U.S.

Déjà Vu All Over Again: CDC Wants More Masking

Public Schools Force Unvaccinated Students To Stay Home—Even If They Test Negative  Don’t send  your kid to a government school.

Massive Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Fraud Still Being Stonewalled By State Of Illinois

More Money, More Problems: Schools Struggle To Spend COVID Relief Funds

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Since we have at least a couple more years of Sloe Joe, this might prove handy.

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The word “smishing” is derived from a combination of “SMS” and “phishing”. “Phishing” describes the phenomenon of being deceived into giving sensitive information to a disguised cybercriminal and “SMS” indicates that the deception is carried out via text messaging. Smishing is therefore essentially a newer breed of the infamous spam emails, however, due to the perceived intimacy of a personal text message, SMS scams have a higher chance of going unnoticed.

To further take advantage of your confidence in text message safety, attackers tend to assume the identity of well-known companies people are used to receiving legitimate messages from, such as DHL, Netflix, or Apple. Smishing text messages usually depict a situation that due to their urgency, are known to grab the victim’s attention, such as a package delivery notification, a purchase confirmation, or a credit card suspension notice. The ultimate “goal” of smishing is to trick unsuspecting people into giving away their personal or financial information. In many cases, simply clicking the provided link can initiate a download process of viruses or malware, which the cybercriminal can use to access all data and information stored on your phone.

I have received numerous e-mails and text messages from people I know to be dead, as well as from companies and banks with whom I have never done business.

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A future where machines handle hard work with incredible speed and accuracy seems great. But can the labor market afford automation to this extent without skyrocketing unemployment? What will millions of people do when their labor is no longer necessary?

Many of them will have been aborted before we have to worry about it. The rest will be receiving every-more-generous welfare benefits (which is why automation is becoming increasingly popular).

Glenn Greenwald.

Behind the paywall, but probably worth the money.

Russian oligarchs loved luxe Sardinia. Now they’re frozen out of paradise. (Washington Post) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Putin Allies’ Wealth Will Keep Him From Reviving USSR (Newsweek)

Vladimir Putin Has a Strange Smell, Number of Oddities—Fiona Hill (Newsweek)

Putin’s plan to starve the world

A Nuanced View of the Russia-Ukraine War

Putin: Oil Sanctions Will Be Europe’s “Economic Suicide” On Orders From “American Overlords”

LEADERSHIP: Blame It On The Chop  “I’ll go apologize to Lord Vader.”

1,000 Azovstal Fighters Have Surrendered Since Monday, But Top Commanders Remain: Kremlin

Turkey Blocks Sweden, Finland NATO Accession Talks; Issues List Of Demands

Ukraine shows that city hopping is the ‘new era’ of defensive warfare

Israeli military exercise to simulate attack on Iranian nuclear targets

Blinken Announces US Embassy Reopening In Ukraine’s Capital  If I were Putin, I would immediately bomb it. But that’s me.

Russia to deploy nuclear-armed drone torpedo

Biden administration makes 8 more free Covid tests available to US households as it calls on Congress to pass additional funding (CNN)

Free COVID at-home tests are available. Here’s how to get them (Deseret News) They are not, of course, free – they’re paid for by taxpayers (like YOU).

How big is the latest U.S. coronavirus wave? No one really knows. (Washington Post)

The new, highly transmissible Omicron variant, BA.2.12.1, is dominating in Massachusetts. Now what? (Boston Globe) Obvious: PANIC!

8 Things New COVID-19 Corporate Bailout Bill Gets Wrong

Apple Machine Learning Director Who Left Over Office Return Policy Joins Google

China’s Protracted Lockdowns Cause Critical Shortages In West

China’s COVID lockdowns bite e-commerce players

The new Covid equilibrium

Key NIH Research Executive Received 70 Secret Royalty Payments; Colleague Got 7

Tax filings reveal how BLM co-founder spent charity funds

New Financial Controversies Rock BLM As Marc Elias Reportedly Leaves Board

BLM Cut Massive Checks for Co-Founder’s Brother, Father of Her Child

Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study (The Guardian)

Push for environmental justice in underserved communities gains traction in Arizona  Nobody knows what ‘environmental justice’ means, but it sure sounds progressive.

The Colorado River faces a climate change-driven crisis (Washington Post)

The Multistate Battle over the Colorado River

Claim: Bringing Order to The Chaos of Sea Level Projections

Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Defaults On Debt As It Runs Out Of Fuel

Backlash builds after Dems vote to legalize abortion up to birth

Abortion rights are disappearing in the US. And Democrats have no plan (The Guardian)

Roberts has just one chance to save the credibility of the high court (SC Times)

Samuel Alito: One Angry Man (Politico)

Lunatic Handmaid’s Tale Author Warns of 17th Century Christian Theocracy If Roe Falls

Tucson HS Drag Show Promoter Arrested for Sex With Student

Radical San Francisco DA Prosecuted Just 3 Drug Cases in 2021, 0 Involving Fentanyl

NYT Columnist Sees ‘Direct Line’ From Tax Cuts to Buffalo Shooting

‘Extinction-Level Event’: Democrats Melt Down, Accuse Each Other of Racism After New York Courts Upend Their Gerrymander

Kansas Town Reverses Decision, Will Keep ‘In God We Trust’ on Police Cars

Disinformation Board Narrowly Outlasts CNN+ (Babylon Bee)

Rogue Prosecutors Gascon and Boudin Panicking Over Recall Elections

New White House press secretary blasted for botching answer to inflation question: ‘Excruciating to watch’

Half of Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Are Fake, Audit Reveals (Newsweek) How appropriate.

American oil is usually a cheaper option. Not anymore (CNN)

Over 120,000 Hunter Biden Emails Uploaded To Searchable Database  How much does it suck to be Hunter Biden?

TO THE RESCUE: Associated Press Runs Pathetic Fact-Check Defending Biden Disinformation Czar

Commerce Cronyism: Inside Deals, Conflicts Of Interest And Chinese Connections

BREAKING: Biden Administration Announces Pause of Orwellian Disinformation Board

Biden’s ‘Disinfo’ Board Paused, ‘Scary Poppins’ Drafts Resignation

A Time of Troubles for the Disinformation Tsarina

KISS OF DEATH: Biden’s First Endorsement of 2022 Is Down Big in Oregon Primary

Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board on Death Watch After DHS Operations ‘Paused’

Biden Administration May Force Insurers To Provide In-Vitro Fertilization to Gay Couples

Biden DOJ Clears Hunter Biden Cronies in Foreign Agent Case

State Department Ices Out Military Spouses

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Edward L. Bernays was an American business consultant who is widely recognized as the father of public relations. Bernays was one of the men responsible for “selling” World War 1 to the American public by branding it as a war that was necessary to “make the world safe for democracy”.

During the 1920s, Bernays consulted for a number of major corporations, helping to boost their business through expertly crafted marketing campaigns aimed at influencing public opinion.

In 1928, Edward Bernays published his famous book, Propaganda, in which he outlined the theories behind his successful “public relations” endeavours. The book provides insights into the phenomenon of crowd psychology and outlines effective methods for manipulating people’s habits and opinions.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

We have reached a grim milestone in grim milestones. A Google search on the term “grim milestone” now returns more than 6,000,000 results. It is a “grim milestone” in the unstoppable progress of a brain-killing media cliché.

The “grim milestones” retailed by the media always seem to have a political twist and the political twist always seems to be detrimental to Republicans. If it can’t be given a detrimental twist detrimental to Republicans, the “grim milestone” is likely to go unrecognized if possible.

Be the first on your block….

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A Tunisian immigrant — an alumnus of the holding pen on Lampedusa — has gotten himself into a spot of bother in the French city of Nice. It seems the high-spirited “youth” forced his unwanted attentions upon a young English woman in the wee hours of last Wednesday morning.

One line in the following news story made me guffaw: “The individual was arrested while he was in the process of breaking the glass of a parked vehicle with a rock.”

How fortunate the French are to live in such a vibrant, diverse, colorful society!

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The Democratic socialist lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, who suffered a stroke days before the primary and drew ire on the campaign trail for pulling a gun on an unarmed black man, cruised to victory in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary.

Not exactly a ‘yellow dog’ but about as close as one can come in modern politics.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

I’m so old I can remember Bill Clinton blaming the 1995 Oklahoma bombing on Rush Limbaugh. Heck, I’m so old I can recall MSNBC and the rest of the leftist hive mind blaming the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords on Sarah Palin, when 30 seconds of observation showed clearly the shooter was severely mentally ill. Oh, wait—you don’t need to be old for that: the New York Times repeated that outrageous slur in an editorial just four years ago—now the subject of a much-deserved libel suit from Palin.

Actually this is the left’s oldest playbook, and it hasn’t gotten any less stale than it was in the aftermath of that November 1963 day in Dallas, when the left blamed JFK’s assassin on a “climate of right-wing hate” in Texas, despite the obvious fact that Kennedy’s killer was a dedicated Communist. (See Camelot and the Cultural Revolution for the complete story.) Keep in mind that the left, including high government officials in the Kennedy administration, had been braying for several years that the principal threat to the nation was the “radical right,” and especially those little old ladies in tennis shoe bombs in the John Birch Society.

Read it. And watch the video.

Project Veritas’s latest is an interview with a senior engineer at Twitter. He talks about Twitter’s culture (Communist), its censorship of the right–which, however, he defines as bullying transgenders–Twitter’s opposition to free speech, the fact that Twitter employees can go for long periods of time without working, and more. So Elon Musk was right: Twitter is a leftist organization (“left, left, left, left, left” as the engineer says), and also an organization that does little to try to make a profit.