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“Catastrophic Risk To Stocks And Bonds”: Fed’s Balance Sheet Caused Inflation, Not Low Rates

28th June 2022

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The Fed’s balance sheet as a percentage of GDP is what is driving today’s inflation — not the nominal Fed Funds rate. This will emerge as a major risk to stocks and bonds if not managed soon.

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Nigerian Governor Orders Mass Issuance of Gun Permits to Counter Murderous Hordes

28th June 2022

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In the face of rampant violence by huge gangs of heavily armed bandits, one state governor has ordered the mass issuance of gun permits to citizens desperate for a chance to protect themselves.

For over a decade, Nigerians living in the country’s northwestern states have endured an endless plague of looting, kidnapping and murder at the hands of gangs and ethnic militias, which Nigerians call bandits. The violence has taken its steepest toll on the states of Zamfara and Kaduna.

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This Supreme Court Ruling Will Prove Vital to Defending Voter ID and Other Laws

28th June 2022

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The Supreme Court’s important ruling last week on voter ID in North Carolina has been overlooked in the fervor over the high court’s spot-on decisions upholding the Second Amendment and religious freedom and overruling Roe v. Wade.

But the court’s procedural decision Thursday in Berger v. NAACP will help prevent state officials from sabotaging the defense of state election laws and other measures being attacked by their political allies and friends.

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

27th June 2022

See Planned Parenthood leader’s response to Liz Cheney Supreme Court tweet

Bosnian Serb leader prays for Trump’s return, praises Putin (Associated Press) Trump cooties!

Olivia Rodrigo dedicates ‘F— You’ to Supreme Court justices in duet with Lily Allen at Glastonbury festival  Keepin’ it classy.

Oregon police arrest 10 outside pregnancy center after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

Virginia police are investigating vandalism of a pregnancy center following the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade (CNN)

Justices’ Home Addresses Blasted on Social Media With Zero Consequences

‘There Was No Plan To Attack’: Oath Keepers FBI Interviews Contradict Indictment Charges

With Progressive Women Out Protesting For Abortion, Men In Office Finally Get Some Work Done  (Babylon Bee)

Pro-Abortion Protests Turned Violent Across the Country  My, what a surprise.

Presbyterian Church Group Under Fire for Likening Israel to Nazi Germany

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

27th June 2022

The Pacific Ocean near San Francisco has been the coldest it’s been in more than a decade. Here’s what that means (S.F. Chronicle) GLOBAL WARMING of course.

Every new passenger car sold in the world will be electric by 2040, says Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods (CNBC)

Saving the Planet — NOT

Climate Activists Discover French Police Don’t Use Glue Solvent  Heh.

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

27th June 2022

Stacey Abrams refuses to say whether she supports restrictions on abortions up to 9 months

‘F**k You, Supreme Court!’ BET Awards Take Multiple Shots at Overturning of Roe v. Wade  Margaret Sanger would be delighted.

Peacock’s Newest Season of ‘Rutherford Falls’: White People ‘Only…Act in Their Own Self-Interest’  BIPOCs do the same, but pretend otherwise.

Seattle Schools Want To Spend More on ‘Racial Equity’ Programs Than Math, Science

Obama Said He Would Make History. Now He’s Been Indicted.

“F**k Clarence Thomas!” Shouts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot During Pride Parade  I suspect that he would decline, perhaps with gagging.

Illinois Dem Releases Comically Bad Campaign Ad

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

27th June 2022

Pfizer/BioNTech say Omicron-based COVID shots improve response vs that variant (Reuters)

Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is ‘abysmal’ (NPR) We need another PANIC!

CDC Eyes Monkeypox Vaccine for Kids as Outbreak Spreads (TIME)

Monkeypox outbreak in Los Angeles soars to 22 cases after Pride events as health officials warn disease is spreading among gay community (Daily Mail)

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

27th June 2022

Biden administration halts limits on ICE arrests following court ruling (CBS)

$8.1B in student loan relief has been approved under revamped program: Do you qualify? (The Hill)

Biden’s Radical, Anti-Fossil Fuel Energy Policy Costs Americans Dearly

Juuls Are Back: Court Blocks Biden’s Vape Ban

Important Questions the White House Press Corps Will Never Ask Joe Biden

Biden Drains US Strategic Oil Reserve To Lowest Since 1986; UAE Warns Not To Expect Any Help From OPEC

 

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Today in War

27th June 2022

Russia To Give Belarus Nuclear-Capable Iskander-M Missiles

Russia in historic foreign debt default, reports suggest (BBC)

US to announce purchase of medium- to long-range surface-to-air missile defense system for Ukraine (CNN)

John Mearsheimer’s Ukraine Crystal Ball

Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918

Russia ‘Defaults On Foreign Debt’ For First Time Since Bolshevik Revolution Amid Western Sanctions

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

27th June 2022

6 political questions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (NPR)

Monday briefing: How the end of Roe v Wade has already transformed America (The Guardian)

Thomas remains an outlier in targeting other privacy rights — but for how long? (Washington Post)

Green Day Frontman Says He’s Renouncing Citizenship Over Roe: ‘F**k America’ (Huffington Post) And already it’s working.

The Supreme Court radicals’ new precedent: Maximum chaos (Washington Post) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

The Supreme Court declares war on modern America (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war (The Guardian)

This is war, and if you’re not fighting, you don’t care (Boston Globe) Where were these people during COVID?

‘Lightyear’ flop is a sign audiences are weary of Hollywood wokeness

‘Mitt Romney Republican’ is now a potent GOP primary attack (Associated Press) We usually just shorten it to RINO.

NYC prosecutors flee in droves amid soft-on-crime policies, burdensome state reforms

It Costs $22,648 And Requires 11 Agencies To Start A Restaurant In San Francisco

Michigan Governor Won’t Stop Lying to Voters About Job Gains

New Bill Would Mandate Federal Reserve To Promote “Racial And Economic Justice”

GOP Congresswoman Livid After Pelosi Elbow-Checks Daughter At Ceremony

How MSNBC accidentally killed Roe

Watch: Abortion Laws Worldwide Are More Restrictive Than In The US

The ‘Moloch 20’: Firms Who’ve Vowed to Help Employees Get Abortions

Kangaroo Counties: Some Local Prosecutors Vow to Not Prosecute Abortion

Fuggedaboutit: Judge Blocks New York Plan To Let Foreigners Vote

Mika Brzezinski: Democrat Party ‘World’s Last Best Hope Against Fascism’

 

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Transgender Activist Who Created ‘Gender Unicorn’ Calls for ‘Supreme Court Assassination Challenge’

27th June 2022

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A transgender activist who creates widely distributed educational resources for nonbinary students called for a “Supreme Court assassination challenge” on the same day Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Eli Erlick, a founder of Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER) and creator of a popular “Gender Unicorn” graphic for “gender fluidity,” tweeted and later deleted the remark on Friday, when the High Court delivered its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Since 2011, Erlick and the “youth-led” organization have helped implement transgender policies in dozens of school districts, including Wisconsin, New York, and Texas. The group backs sweeping “structural change” as opposed to “equality,” which according to its website, “reinforces systems of white supremacy, transphobia, and injustice.”

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Why Government Anti-Inflation Plans Fail

27th June 2022

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Governments love inflation. It is a hidden tax on everyone and a transfer of wealth from bank deposits and real wages to indebted governments that collect more receipts via higher indirect taxes and devalue their debts. That is why we cannot expect governments to take decisive action on inflation.

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Blue Exodus: More Than a Million Democrats Switch to Republican Party

27th June 2022

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More than a million voters across 43 states have left the Democratic Party and registered as Republicans in the last year, according to an analysis of voting data by the Associated Press.

Of the 1.7 million voters who have changed parties in the last year, around two-thirds registered Republican, AP found. The voting data showed the phenomenon is almost universal throughout the country.

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Where’s the Pork?

27th June 2022

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A significant amount of what the Federal government spends each year is waste and abuse.

These guys have the details.

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Thought for the Day

27th June 2022

 

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Switzerland’s Underground Freight Project Gets Start Date

27th June 2022

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This week, a project to build an underground freight tunnel network stretching from Geneva to St Gallen, was given a start date of 1 August 2022 by the Federal Council, reported RTS.

The Cargo sous terrain (CST) project will connect Switzerland’s key hubs starting in 2031. CST aims to take the strain off the road and railway networks, reduce the environmental impact of transport and improve the delivery of goods across the country.

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Heartland Manufacturing Renaissance

27th June 2022

Joel Kotkin.

Out in the rolling country just east of Columbus, Ohio, a new—and potentially brighter—American future is emerging. New factories are springing up, and, amid a severe labor shortage, companies are recruiting in the inner city and among communities of new immigrants and high schoolers to keep their plants running. Two new Intel plants, costing $20 billion, will employ 3,000 workers, generate thousands of jobs, and help make the Midwest an integral part of the high-tech economy.

The technology may be new, but what’s drawing these manufacturers to Ohio is something more traditional: its central location, business-friendly atmosphere, and long-standing industrial culture. “We are still at the edge of the farming areas, and people have a strong work ethic,” suggests Jay McCloy, who runs a plant for Mount Vernon, Ohio–based Ariel Corporation, a maker of natural-gas compressors that employs 1,400. “People here think building stuff is better than selling insurance. On a decent salary, you can live a good life in central Ohio.”

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A Dog Cancer Vaccine May Save Them and, One Day, Us

26th June 2022

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After 15 years of research, scientists at Cancer Center Amsterdam have developed a new cancer vaccine for dogs — one which they believe may potentially pave the way for similar human therapies, too.

The vaccine targets a tumor protein called vimentin, creating an immune response in dogs with bladder cancer that both fought cancer growth and helped mitigate tumors’ ability to evade the immune system.

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

26th June 2022

‘Every time it rains’: Floods from climate change plague a Camden neighborhood

The right way to fix the energy crisis (The Economist)

Electricity use would surge under California’s new climate plan (CalMatters)

The World Is Failing In Both Energy Affordability And Climate Goals

Claim: Climate Damage Caused by Growing Space Tourism Needs Urgent Mitigation

What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic

Former landfills are becoming “brightfields”

Relax, KOMO News, Tomatoes and Ketchup Supplies Are Secure Amid Climate Change

German Vice-Chancellor “Drastically Reduces” Time In Shower To Cope With Energy Crisis 

Germany Green Energy Crisis: Warning of “Lehman Like” Contagion

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

26th June 2022

Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rights (The Hill) Well, not exactly.

Former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark to Tucker Carlson: FBI raid on home was ‘Stasi-like’ (The Hill)

Trump told Jan. 6 filmmaker he was scared after getting COVID (The Hill) This is news?

Keith Olbermann Calls For The Supreme Court To Be Dissolved

‘Night of Age’: Grannies Storm Kavanaugh’s Home

Male Democrats Under 50 Are Now More Anti-Feminist Than Older Republican Men

NBC’s Todd Cues Up AOC to Impeach Gorsuch & Kavanaugh Over Abortion Decision

Twitter Just Fine With Assassination Threats Against Justice Clarence Thomas  After all, it’s not as if he were Really Black.

Stelter Denounces Balanced Media Coverage of Roe Overturn

The Illinois Political Establishment’s Shameful Response To The Departure Of Ken Griffin And Citadel

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

26th June 2022

Samuel L. Jackson rips ‘Uncle Clarence’ Thomas in racial attack on Supreme Court justice

Brookings: Are Africa’s Children Our Last Hope to Save Us from Demographic Decline?

The New Normal: Homicide Deaths Through 11/2021

BLM Supporter Sentenced To 10 Years Prison For Violence During Portland Riots

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

26th June 2022

Why are gas prices so high? Biden misses the point, scapegoats oil companies instead (Arizona Republic)

Why gas prices are so high, according to history (and no, it’s not Biden’s fault) (Salon)

Airlines Say Understaffed FAA “Crippling” East Coast Traffic

Liberal ‘Fact-Checkers’ Swept In to Clear Up Satire Around Biden’s Bike Fall

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

26th June 2022

Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 shots boost omicron protection (Associated Press)

WHO says monkeypox is not an international public health emergency, but it should continue to be monitored (CNN)

New Monkeypox Study Holds Possible Clue To Fast Spread Of Virus

CDC Investigating “Large, Ongoing” Outbreak Of Rare Disease In Florida

CDC Confirmed Post-Vaxx Death From Blood-Clotting Two Weeks Before Alerting Public: Emails

The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

26th June 2022

Sunday Birthing Human - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Five things to know now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade (CBS News)

Roe v Wade: senators say Trump supreme court nominees misled them (The Guardian)

The ‘But Gorsuch’ voters beat the ‘Never Trumpers’ — for now (Politico)

Stephen Colbert on the latest January 6 hearing: ‘A chilling and criminally insane portrait’ (The Guardian)

Florida emerges as key battleground in state-by-state abortion fight (Washington Post)

Why we must nationalize Big Oil (The Hill) ‘Nationalize’ is government-speak for ‘steal’.

As Expected, the Abortion Death Cult Demonstrates in the Seattle Area

Social justice for the bald man

“It’s Infuriating”: DC Democrats In Chaos, Demand Biden Act On Abortion

The Extreme Far Left’s Hypocrisy When It Comes to the Supreme Court

Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe vs. Wade

Blue states double down on abortion  Abortion may prove to be the Great Demographic Sorting Hat as people migrate among states to fit their political proclivities.

Horrors! NPR’s Nina Totenberg Warns High Court’s the Most Conservative in 75 Years

‘Women Will Die’ Raddatz & Moran Rage Over Abortion Decision  The only women who will die are those who want to kill their child. Think of it as evolution in action.

Does Tiffany Cross Think 17 Million ‘Hungry’ Children Would Be Better Off Aborted?  I’ll bet she does.

International Fact-Checking Network Launches Legal Fund

New Yorker Uses ‘Latinx’ 21 Times to Hype Liberal Spanish Language Radio Network

 

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Best Cities to Retire on a Budget of $1,500 a Month

26th June 2022

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Those who need this information know who they are.

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A New Kind of Comedy

26th June 2022

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A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she’s allowed to drive there because her pronouns are “they” and “them.”

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Woke Hollywood, Broke Hollywood

26th June 2022

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Buzz Lightyear (voiced by the great Tim Allen, one of the few right-leaning stars in Hollywood) became an iconic character in the Toy Story series of films, but the new standalone Buzz Lightyear movie, with Buzz voiced by Chris Pratt instead of Allen, has bombed at the box office, perhaps because it decided to go fully woke by prominently featuring a lesbian relationship. As Kyle Smith puts it, “today Hollywood’s message is, ‘Let us entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what’s wrong with you, the audience . . .’”

The three largest grossing movies of the last 20 years are The Passion of the Christ, American Sniper, and, by the time it is done with its theatrical run, Top Gun: Maverick. Notice something in common with these films? The first celebrates straight-up Christian piety, and not some tormented clergyman or a revisionist gay Palestinian Jesus. The latter two depict Americans as unabashed heroes, fighting for a just cause.

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Arizona Extends School Choice to All K-12 Students

26th June 2022

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“This session, let’s expand school choice any way we can,” declared Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in his State of the State address on Jan. 10, “Let’s think big and find more ways to get kids into the school of their parents’ choice. Send me the bills, and I’ll sign them.”

The Arizona Legislature on Friday night answered Ducey’s call, passing a bill to expand eligibility for the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (also known as education savings accounts or ESAs) to all K-12 students.

Arizona cements its position as a destination in The Great Demographic Sorting Hat process.

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The O’Keefe Project: Unseal Me Here

26th June 2022

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

I’ve followed the government’s investigation of James O’Keefe and Ashley Biden’s diary since the New York Times broke the story with a little help from its friends in the national security establishment. What did O’Keefe do wrong? What makes it a federal case? This much is clear to me: the Biden Justice Department is out to get James O’Keefe.

Pending before the court that signed off on the search warrants executed on O’Keefe et al. is a motion to unseal the “search warrant materials” (i.e., “the search warrant application, supporting affidavit, return, and any other related judicial documents filed in connection with the Search Warrant” that was “executed at the residence of James E. O’Keefe, III, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project Veritas, in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation”).

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Grain Stuck in Ukraine: The Fragmented Nature of Modern-Day Railways

26th June 2022

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The war in Ukraine has upset the global food market, and the surprising reason is not that Ukrainian wheat isn’t being harvested, but rather that it can’t leave the country. With Russia blockading sea ports, the only way out for Ukrainian grain is by train. And this exposes the long-hidden patchwork of railway tracks and train standards: trains can’t simply cross the border from Ukraine to Poland on their way to a sea port because the tracks don’t match.

Even beyond the obvious issues of connecting differently sized physical railway tracks — the track gauge — there are different signaling systems, different voltages for electrical trains, different loading and structural gauges, and so on. In Europe today, the political history of the past few hundred years can still be traced back using its railroads, with some parts of the European Union still on 1,520 mm Soviet-standard gauge, rather than the 1,435 mm Standard Gauge, which is also known as Stephenson Gauge, European Gauge, etc.

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The Week That Perished

26th June 2022

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uneteenth 2022 saw a relatively low mortality rate (double digits, a regular 1914 Christmas Truce level of peacefulness when grading on a black curve). There’s no immediate explanation for why there were fewer shootings this year, but one guess is that with Juneteenth falling on Father’s Day, many black men avoided the festivities, for fear of running into support-seeking baby mamas.

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The Intellectual Mistake of Once-and-for-Allism

26th June 2022

Tyler Cowen.

“Once-and-for-allism” occurs when people decide that they wish to stop worrying about an issue at the margin. They might either dismiss the issue, or they might blow up its importance but regard the issue as hopeless and undeserving of further consideration. Either way, they seek to avoid the hovering sense of “I’ve still got to devote time and energy to figuring this out.” They prefer “I am now done with this issue, once and for all!” Thus the name of the syndrome.

I see once-and-for-allism with so many issues, but one recent example would be the forthcoming path of Covid and Long Covid. Most people just don’t want to think about it any more, and so they settle on something (“it’s just a cold!” or “it will bankrupt the nation!”) rather than having to do lots of intellectual revisions based on the stream of new data.

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The Democrats’ Progressive Organization Problem

26th June 2022

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The secret is out. Progressive organizations—nonprofits and advocacy groups—which form a vital part of the Democrats’ supportive ecosystem have become massively dysfunctional due to internal meltdowns, mission creep and maximalist goal-setting. For those close to this world, this has been apparent for some time though there has been reluctance to call it out for fear of helping the right (the Fox News Fallacy) and/or being ostracized by their own side. But with the publication of Ryan Grim’s exposé on The Intercept and Zack Colman’s Politico piece focusing on green organizations, the rot is out there for all to see.

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Iranian Homophobe Goes on a Murderous Rampage in Oslo

26th June 2022

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An Iranian-Norwegian named Zaniar Matapour went on a shooting rampage today at a gay bar in Oslo, killing two people and wounding at least twenty others. The incident is being investigated as a terror attack, and the alleged perpetrator is said to be — what else? — mentally ill.

But apparently Muslims still have more Intersectionality Pokemon Points that homosexuals, so that’s alright.

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Only the Best for EU Apparatchiks in Manhattan

26th June 2022

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EU functionaries, especially diplomats, are a privileged caste that already enjoys substantial perks at the expense of the lumpenproletariat they supposedly represent. Now those pampered apparatchiks are going to be equipped to face the rigors of their time in Manhattan from a cozy little pied-à-terre on the Upper East Side.

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A New Breakthrough in Biology Allows Scientists to Grow Food Without Sunlight

25th June 2022

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The researchers, who published their findings in Nature Food, used a two-step electrocatalytic process to convert carbon dioxide, electricity, and water into acetate, which is the main component in vinegar.

They then applied the acetate to food-producing organisms in the dark, causing these organisms to grow. Their method could provide a much-needed food growth alternative in the face of a catastrophic climate crisis.

Absent fusion or some other source of cheap electricity, one of the more serious constraints on ‘vertical farming’ is the cost of power needed to light the plants. This could be a revolutionary way around that.

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Out of Gas

25th June 2022

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Last year, the Canadian tritium fueled an experiment at JET showing fusion research is approaching an important threshold: producing more energy than goes into the reactions. By getting to one-third of this breakeven point, JET offered reassurance that ITER, a similar reactor twice the size of JET under construction in France, will bust past breakeven when it begins deuterium and tritium (D-T) burns sometime next decade. “What we found matches predictions,” says Fernanda Rimini, JET’s plasma operations expert.

But that achievement could be a Pyrrhic victory, fusion scientists are realizing. ITER is expected to consume most of the world’s tritium, leaving little for reactors that come after.

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Today in War

25th June 2022

Putin is squeezing gas supplies. And Europe is getting seriously worried about a total shutdown (CNBC)

Ukrainians will never accept another fake peace with Putin

Germany Fears Russia Could Shut Nord Stream 1 Within Weeks  Be careful what you wish for.

Russia’s Rebranded McDonald’s Sold 120,000 Burgers On Opening Day

Russia To Transfer Nuclear-Capable Missiles To Belarus “Within Months”: Putin  Let’s keep poking that bear! What could possibly go wrong?

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

25th June 2022

NC Apple Festival executive director resigns following Juneteenth comment (ABC)

There Is a Major Rift Dividing the White Working Class — And Democrats Are Clueless (Politico)

Ricky Jones: Is a commercialized Juneteenth as good as it gets for most Black people? (Courier-Journal)

Court rules purported descendant of enslaved man can sue Harvard (Washington Post)

Reid Freaks at SCOTUS Abortion Decision, Want to Repeal 20th Century

Mostly Peaceful Protests Return to the Jewelry Stores of So Cal

Vile Guest on MSNBC: Roe Decision a ‘Vestige of Slavery’  Don’t tell that to Planned Parenthood, the heirs of Margaret Sanger.

During Roe Reaction, Ugly NBC Hypes This Poster: ‘Thomas Is a Treasonous Turd’

Maxine Waters: “To Hell With The Supreme Court! We Will Defy Them!”  Sounds like an insurrection.

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

25th June 2022

Factual climate change reporting can influence Americans positively, but not for long (NPR) For sufficiently Woke values of ‘factual’.

Study finds climate change reporting can momentarily change minds (The Hill)

East Africa must reject its colonial model of conserving wildlife (The Guardian)

How climate change is making fires worse (The Hill)

The planet’s alarm clock is blaring but Pa. politicians hit the snooze button (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump’s EPA allowed Big Agriculture to poison Americans; a court just told them to stop (Salon)

The unique ways Filipinos are protecting their homes against floods (Washington Post)

Gov. Newsom’s plan to prevent power outages has a big downside: fossil fuels (L.A. Times)

Inside California’s climate change paradox (CalMatters)

Ocean viruses might help reduce climate change, study says (The Hill)

Claim: Australia’s Supercomputer Gadi will Solve the Climate Crisis

Is Lake Mead Shrinking Because of Climate?

Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

25th June 2022

Jordan Klepper Confronts Clueless Trumpers With Jan. 6 Hearing Clips (Daily Beast) You’re wrong! These show-trial videos prove it! (Who is Jordan Klepper?)

Trump Supporter Says Ivanka Clone Spoke at Jan. 6 Hearing, Not the Real Her (Newsweek)s

Documentary Maker Claims Trump Had Secret Air Force One Call With Putin Just Before Election (Daily Beast) Very suspicious!

POLITICO Playbook: New Jan. 6 witness: Trump had mystery call with Putin (Politico) What reason would Trump have to call Putin? Very mysterious!

Senate retirement bill benefits wealthy Americans (The Hill) And of course anything that benefits ‘wealthy’ Americans (really, reduces the amount that the government steals from Americans) is a bad thing.

Filmmaker: Trump ‘irate,’ ‘depressed’ following Jan. 6 (The Hill) Wow, that’s news!

Increasingly abandoned and isolated, will Trump burn it all down? (The Hill) Uh, just how, exactly?

Roe v. Wade overturned: Liberal journalists rage at Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not retiring

Arizona GOP chair subpoenaed in federal investigation of fake electors (CNN)

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Pardon Request an ‘Admission of Guilt’—Kirschner (Newsweek)

Trump and his crackpots brought us to the brink of ‘losing it all’ (Washington Post) Dana Milbank loses it all.

NYT Whines Zuckerberg Not Doing Enough to Censor So-Called ‘Election Misinformation’ for Midterms

Trump Voters Need a New Direction  Peggy Noonan polishes her RINO cred.

A Mostly Peaceful Insurrection: Deranged Pro-Abortion Mob Storms AZ Capitol

Dems Keep Stepping All Over the Jan. 6 Commission Show Trial

TERROR: Nets Didn’t Care About Abortion Violence Back Then Either

The Dobbs Decision Unleashes Rage And Revisionism

MSNBC: January 6 Committee Is ‘Most Non-Partisan’ Investigation in ‘Modern History’  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Top 7 MOST INSANE Olbermann Tweets on Overturning of Roe: ‘Arrest’ the ‘Terrorists!’

 

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Today in Progessive Totalitarianism

25th June 2022

CNN Ghouls: Kids in Foster Care, Disabled Relatives Should’ve Been Aborted

Liz Cheney, fighting for political survival, seeks crossover support from Wyoming Democrats (CNN) The RINO comes home to roost.

This bank wants to track suspect credit card sales of guns and ammo. Why can’t it? (CBS) How dare those pesky privacy laws get in the way of our totalitarianism!

Sunak urges banks to keep funding oil and gas firms after windfall tax (The Guardian)

UK oil and gas producers warn Sunak over windfall tax (Financial Times)

Woke LA DA George Gascon says his policies ‘WORK’ despite career criminal on probation killing two cops (Daily Mail)

Fulton DA won’t use ‘precious tax dollars’ prosecuting abortion cases (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The US supreme court voted in favour of … people getting shot (The Guardian)

Vancouver Apologizes To Homeless For Trauma Caused By Street Cleanings

Democrats Call for Expanding Supreme Court After String of Losses

Reporters Insist: We Don’t Have Bias or Double Standards  And if you believe that one,  they’ll tell you another one.

Lemon, Toobin Flunk Civics, Decry Lack of Pro-Abortion Republicans

MSNBC Historian Declares Court Threw ‘Scalding Acid Into The Face’  Another Wokerato loses his shit.

Self-Styled Catholic MSNBC Host Accuses Court of Imposing Catholicism

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

25th June 2022

Biden falsely says abortion ruling makes US ‘outlier among developed nations’

AG Garland: States can’t ban FDA-approved abortion pills on safety grounds (Axios)

Hundreds of illegal immigrants stroll along Texas highway: video

Fact-Checking 5 Biden Claims on Dobbs Ruling

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

25th June 2022

UK Covid cases surge following Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, new variants become dominant (CNBC)

1.7m people had Covid last week as levels continue to rise in UK (The Guardian)

World Health Network Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Pandemic  So it’s officially time to PANIC!

Are COVID Symptoms Changing With New Variants? Chicago’s Top Doc Explains (NBC)

Is a faint line on a COVID-19 test actually positive? Yes, experts say (TODAY)

The Monkeypox Virus May Be Exhibiting ‘Accelerated Evolution’ (Daily Beast)

What Omicron’s BA.4 and BA.5 variants mean for the pandemic (Nature)

The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure

Reactivation Of Chickenpox Virus Following COVID-19 Injections On The Rise

EU Renews Digital COVID Pass Despite 99% Negative Public Feedback  This is why we don’t want to ‘be more like Europe’.

 

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Cargo Cult Psychiatry

25th June 2022

Read it.

Allopathic psychiatry is worse than a harmless cargo cult, because palliative prescriptions worsen the ‘mental deterioration’ the doctors think they’re preventing.

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Norway Terror Alert Raised to Highest Level After Deadly Mass Shooting

25th June 2022

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According to Norwegian security service PST chief Roger Berg, the series of shootings were an “extreme Islamist terror act,” adding that the gunman, a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, was previously known to police and had a “long history of violence and threats.”

Just a little reminder that, yes, there are still Muslim terrorists out there, and, yes, they still love killing innocent people

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Watch: 18 Dead, 76 Injured as 1000s Of African Migrants Storm Spanish Exclave of Melilla

25th June 2022

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Eighteen African migrants are dead and 76 injured after a mass storming of the Spanish exclave of Melilla in North Africa.

A Spanish government spokesperson said about 2,000 migrants attempted to cross, and 133 managed to breach the border of the Spanish territory, according to Associated Press. Those who made it through proceeded to a local migrant center where Spanish authorities are evaluating their cases.

They do it because it works. If they manage to get through, it puts them into the system, and eventually they work their way into Europe. If the Spanish just threw them back over the border, this would soon cease to happen.

In what Al Jazeera characterized as a “violent, two-hour skirmish,” 49 members of the Spanish Civil Guard police were also injured. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said “human trafficking militias” had orchestrated “a well-organized, violent assault.”

And it will continue to happen so long as it continues to work.

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Thought for the Day

25th June 2022

 

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Pro-Abortion Rioters Vandalize Fox News Studios In New York

25th June 2022

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Hours after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to the states, abortion activists immediately went into a frenzy and took to the streets across the country in protest. As the night went on, the protests became larger and more out of control.

One of the cities that saw mass protests was New York City, where the abortion-loving mobs began marching down the streets of midtown Manhattan. During Fox News at Night’s coverage, anchor Shannon Bream who hosts from the Fox News bureau in Washington D.C., went to correspondent Ashley Strohmier who was sitting in the studios in New York City.

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Getting Back to the Cat, Is It Dead or Not?

25th June 2022

Freeberg has a contribution to make.

We’re surrounded on all sides by people who are working awfully hard to maintain a fantasy that the two sides, conservative and liberal, maintain similarities with each other. That they both have goals, and some maintain that the goals are similar although the methods are different. That each unseemly thought held by one about the other, is neatly reciprocated, with equal justification. A tat for every tit and an equal and opposite reaction for every action.

They must have scrambled around like mad, that weekend when Sen. Ted Kennedy sunk that poor woman in his car, for a Republican senator who did exactly the same thing.

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