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58 year old Chew Wei Lian, who recently tried the beer, told Bloomberg: “I seriously couldn’t tell this was made of toilet water. I don’t mind having it if it was in the fridge. I mean, it tastes just like beer, and I like beer.”

New recycling method could eliminate the climate impact of plastic (The Hill)

New Plastic Alternative Degrades Into Sugar (EcoWatch)

Meat, monopolies, mega farms: how the US food system fuels climate crisis (The Guardian)

Biden caught between climate goals and high gas prices as administration releases new drilling plan (CNN)

The green revolution sweeping Sweden (Washington Post)

Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released (LiveScience)

Tidal Basin Seawall To Get Upgrade To Withstand Sea Level Rise (The DCist)

Will California’s offshore wind farms damage underwater life? Here’s what scientists are finding (S.F. Chronicle)

Revolutionary new Swiss ‘water battery’ will be one of Europe’s main renewable sources of energy (EuroNews)

Climate change hopelessness is a real condition—these experts have advice on how to cope (CNBC)

British Eco-Terrorist Group Attacks SUVs in New York

Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life

Dutch farmers spray manure on town hall in protest of climate plans

There could be 1.2B climate refugees by 2050

CSIRO: Post Covid Lockdown Economic Rebound was a Missed Climate Opportunity

Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Historic Oil Paintings

Thermodynamics of the Climate System

The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months

California mom attacked in hit-and-run joins Gascon recall effort: He’s responsible for this disaster

Canceling student loan debt is just the start

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law takes effect today. Its impact is already being felt (The Hill) Except, of course, it does not ban the use of the word ‘gay’.

Chicago police officer in serious condition after being shot by convicted felon, officials say Boy, those strict gun control laws really work, don’t they?

Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.

New York poised to limit concealed carry guns after SCOTUS ruling (Politico)

This was the scariest moment in Arizona’s GOP governor’s debate. Be warned, America (Arizona Republic)

We were too lenient on pro-democracy politicians, says senior Hong Kong legislator Regina Ip (The Guardian)

Same-sex couples updating legal status after abortion ruling (Associated Press)

Why ending ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy is a good thing (Boston Globe)

Portland city council prepares third attempt to place limits on local fossil fuel terminals

A quarter of Americans open to taking up arms against government, poll says (The Guardian)

Most Americans, Across Party Lines, Say Government ‘Corrupt, Rigged’: Poll (Newsweek)

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces Department of Justice 2022-26 Strategic Plan

Ohio girl, 10, among patients going to Indiana to get abortion

The Insufferable Arrogance Of The Constantly Wrong

What If People Actually Controlled The Government?

Author Matt Palumbo Lays Out How George Soros Has Significant Control Over Media Narratives

Know Your Value! Mika Works Plug For Her Book Into Praise of Hutchinson!

Beschloss Absurdly Warns We May Have Seen ‘Our Last Fair and Free’ Election

Velshi Hails Abortion Laws in China, North Korea, Other Dictatorships

Woman Starting To Think Company Offering To Kill Her Kid Doesn’t Have Her Best Interests At Heart  (Babylon Bee)

Over 400,000 High-Priority Incidents In Chicago In 2021 Had ‘No Police Available To Send’, New Data Shows

Several NYC Election Sites Had ‘No Republican Ballots’ During Last Week’s Primary

Dick Cheney Thrilled To No Longer Be Least Likable Cheney  (Babylon Bee)

British Eco-Terrorist Group Attacks SUVs in New York

Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year (CNN)

Secret Service Have Been Gossiping About Trump’s SUV Outburst for a Year: CNN (Daily Beast)

Clarence Thomas cites claim that Covid vaccines are ‘developed using cell lines derived from aborted children’ (Politico) (Politico issues correction after falsely claiming Clarence Thomas promoted COVID vaccine-aborted fetus theory)

Judge indicates he’ll limit what Atlanta grand jury probing 2020 election reversal plots can ask lawmakers (CNN)

Midwest transplant slams NYC bodegas, Twitter mob gets him fired

Revisiting Trump’s long history of trying to influence witnesses (CNN)

Texas lunges into the center of battles over personal freedom (CNN)

Where’s Ken Paxton’s decency? (Houston Chronicle) In a box with the ambiguity.

The Sleeper ‘Wire Fraud’ Scheme That Could Nail Trumpworld (Daily Beast) The walls are closing in, etc., etc.

Why Is Chris Pratt Lying About His Religious Past? (Daily Beast)

The Real Reason Washington Ignored Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Killer (Politico)

Cassidy Hutchinson and the all-knowing presence of Washington’s aides (Washington Post) Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

White House aide reveals Donald Trump’s character, or lack thereof (Modesto Bee)

New post from QAnon targets Cassidy Hutchinson (CNN)

Trump media company subpoenaed in federal criminal probe of SPAC deal (CNBC)

MAGA World Freaks Out at Conservative Washington Examiner for Calling Trump ‘Unfit’ (Daily Beast)

Put a Fork in Donald Trump—the Ex-President Is Done (Daily Beast)

Newsmax Kowtows to Trump’s Demand They Air His Election Lies (Daily Beast)

The Christian Right is winning in court while losing in public opinion (NPR)

Reid Attacks Supreme Court For Making Congress Do Its Job

WHO says monkeypox cases triple in Europe in two weeks, urgent action needed to contain spread

Republicans call on CDC to release 2021 child suicide data: problem ‘worsened’ by pandemic

COVID-19 variant boosters won’t need new clinical trials for clearance, FDA says (The Verge)

Still testing positive after day 10? How to decide when to end your COVID isolation (NPR)

Los Angeles Covid Warning: Brace For “Significant Transmission In The Upcoming Weeks,” According To Public Health Director (Deadline)

Why Pregnant People Should Get COVID-19 Vaccines As Soon As Possible (Time)

First American to go public with monkeypox calls out CDC “…been exposed via a friend in LA through skin-to-skin contact.”  I’ll just bet it was.

Black women are in ‘survival mode’ at work—and company diversity efforts ‘fall short’ (CNBC)

Families sue Ohio school board over critical race theory ban (CNN)

This Democrat’s Car Keeps Getting Attacked

Samuel L Jackson’s Vile Attack on Justice Thomas Confirms Liberal Privilege

What Ibram X. Kendi and Colbert Won’t Say About Slavery and Segregation

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The main point was that public pension funds are grossly underfunded. Consequently, more and more pension funds are borrowing money to play the markets. The goal is to boost returns to cover their massive funding gaps.

If you recall, public-sector retirement plans offer defined benefits, where retiree pension checks are calculated based on salaries and years of service. Private employers, on the other hand, generally offer defined-contribution plans (like 401Ks), where payouts are based on market returns.

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Certainly, pension funds can attempt to fill their funding gaps by requesting increases in yearly contributions from governments and workers. But the public-employee unions go full ape when such measures are proposed. So the remaining option is to take on greater risk. What could go wrong?

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MIT research engineer Paul Woskov spent 14 years developing a technique to employ gyrotrons, normally used to heat plasma, to drill geothermal wells. Gyrotrons emit microwaves and have been used in physics research for decades; Woskov’s repurposing gives the venerable devices a new use case.

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Despite their age, gyrotrons haven’t been well publicized in the scientific community, Woskov said. “Those of us in fusion research understood they were very powerful beam sources – like lasers, but in a different frequency range. I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole,” Woskov said.

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Many people expect “money” will soon be tied to commodities. Agreed. It’s called a ration card that grants the holder the right to buy a specific quantity of essential goods at a specified price.

This right is a form of “money” directly tied to the value of commodities.

Ration cards are the only fair way to distribute essentials in times of chronic scarcity. Markets work fine when there’s a substitute for whatever is scarce, but there are no substitutes for electricity, food, fuel or fresh water, the FEW essentials (Food, energy, water).

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Blue state judges and liberal bureaucrats caught flak for littering their states with drop-boxes and accepting mail-in ballots during the 2020 election without permission from lawmakers. The Supreme Court is poised to stop them from doing it again in 2024.

Coincidence? I think not.

There’s something about Clarence

Cycling’s Biggest Problem? A Lack of Black Athletes, Of Course

Happy vs. Unhappy Families in Women’s Athletics

A Bit Much? ABC Compares ‘Brilliant’ Ketanji Brown Jackson to Harriet Tubman

The Cost of Biden’s Racialism

Are Black 2nd Amendment Advocates The Ultimate Taboo?

ABC Deletes Tweet Claiming Jackson 1st Black Supreme Court Justice

Colbert, Kendi Falsely Claim Critics Opposed to Teaching Slavery

Racist Much? NFL, Ice Cube Reach Agreement That Only Benefits Black Businesses

Flag on the Play: NFL Taps Anti-Semitic Rapper To Lead Social Justice Initiative

Air Travel Is a Nightmare. Pete Buttigieg Has a Plan To Make Roads Less Racist.

Another white arbiter of Blackness is heard from

The Supreme Court embraces originalism — and all its flaws (Washington Post)

House passes sweeping reproductive rights bill

Communist Surveillance Tool: FCC Commish Asks Apple And Google To Remove TikTok App

Celebrities’ Wildest Reactions to SCOTUS Rejection of Roe v. Wade

Disney+ Kid Cartoon ‘Baymax!’ Pushes More LGBT Content with Two Men Dating

MSNBC Meltdown Over Latest Conservative Supreme Court Win: ‘Scary,’ ‘Extreme’

Gavin Newsom Just Dumped a Gallon of Kerosene on the Inflation Fire

WATCH: Woman Who Can’t Define Woman Celebrated as First Black Woman on Supreme Court

The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind  Victor Davis Hanson.

Top Three Worst-Run US Cities Are Controlled By Democrats 

‘They Should Do It’ Lemon Supports Dems Voting for Cheney in Primary  If you can’t get a Real Democrat, a RINO will do.

Day Camp Makes Children Protest Overturning of Roe v. Wade

What to do if you have COVID symptoms, but your at-home test comes back negative (KXAN)

WHO monkeypox decision renews debate about global alarm system for outbreaks (Science.org)

You should wear a mask again in these California counties, CDC says

Pfizer and BioNTech Announce New Agreement with U.S. Government to Provide Additional Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine  KA-CHING!

US, Pfizer reach $3.2B COVID vaccine deal KA-CHING!

Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 are spreading ‘like wildfire,’ becoming dominant strains in US (ABC)

Experts: New COVID-19 subvariant leading to more ‘breakthrough’ cases (Newsday)

Elmo, Now Vaccinated, Advertises COVID-19 Vaccine Shots For Children Under 5  Muppets – Serving the Narrative for Over Twenty Years.

The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling says: We’ll do whatever we want (Washington Post) Which they didn’t object to when things were going their way.

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling just carpet-bombed the Constitution (S.F. Chronicle)

Filmmaker says ‘rational conversation’ with Trump not possible after Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Tucker Carlson Unwittingly Helps to Raise $14,000 for Abortion Rights (Daily Beast)

Fulton DA pushes back against legislators fighting subpoenas (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Tucker Carlson’s bizarro-Jan. 6 hearings aim to indict the government (Washington Post)

Anthony Ornato has repeatedly disputed key White House conversations (Washington Post)

As the court forces Christianity on America, time for atheists to speak out (Washington P0st) This from a chick named Cohen.

Kinzinger ‘frustrated’ by DOJ’s pace handling Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Cassidy Hutchinson and coup’s great mystery: What if Trump went to the Capitol? (Philadelphe Inquirer)

Liz Cheney perfectly captured the choice Republicans now have to make on Donald Trump (CNN)

Ex-Trump attorney says Trump is taking tips from McCarthy-era playbook (CNN)

Colbert Compares Praying Football Coach to Satanic Goat Sacrifice

Amanpour Urges Swedish Prime Minister to Denounce Dobbs Ruling

Unlawful Searches Seizures Arrests of Political Opponents

Anti-Catholic Terrorism: Washington State Catholic Church Attacked by Leftist Pro-Abortion Vandal

‘Out of Balance’: Whoopi Demands Biden Pack the Supreme Court

Liberal Tolerance on Display After Reversal of Roe v. Wade

MSNBC Freaks Out, Claims Court Removed ‘Right to a Livable Planet’

‘Definitely Not a Free Speech Platform:’ Twitter Removes Jordan Peterson’s Elliot Page Tweet

Hayes Compares January 6 Riot To Reconstruction-Era White Massacres

Eddie Glaude Jr. On ‘Morning Joe’: Trumpist Republican Party Should ‘Literally Be Burned To The Ground’

Drunk on Power: Michigan Dem AG Threatens To Jail Opponent

CONSPIRACY ALERT: Dem Alleges Capitalist-Evangelical Plot To ‘Dumb Down’ the Youth

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“We would do thousands of jobs a year in the city, but as we got robbed more, my people operating rollers and pavers we got robbed, our equipment would get stolen in broad daylight and there would usually be a gun involved, and it got expensive and it got dangerous,” said Gary Rabine, who pulled his road paving company out of the city after his crews were repeatedly robbed.

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The shortage of pilots is a hot issue. During the pandemic airlines pushed late-career pilots to retire early, and they weren’t hiring pilots. It’s time-consuming to train pilots, and it’s expensive. And they’re also forced to retire at age 65 regardless of health.

Up until 2013 pilots were required to hold a commercial license which required 250 hours of flying (in addition to being type-rated for the specific aircraft they’re flying). The hours requirement was increased in safety legislation which followed the 2009 Colgan Air crash, even though hours of pilot training had nothing whatsoever to do with that crash.

When something bad happens, people take unrelated pet ideas off the shelf and push them – after TWA Flight 800 exploded we got ID requirements to fly because the President wanted something to announce, to show he was doing something. After 9/11, then-Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) famously said of the opportunity “It’s an open grab bag, so let’s grab.”

Ponder how much of our economic distress is self-inflicted: Stupid regulations enacted by politicians ignorant of the situation but compelled by their ‘profession’ to do something, even if it’s wrong.

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There are two types of people in this world. The first is those who have never heard of the Jones Act, the law that requires American-built and staffed ships for maritime commerce within the U.S. I imagine these folks sleep peacefully each night and live in balanced harmony.

The other type is not so lucky. They have an impassioned, unshakeable opinion of the Jones Act. They believe it is either the root of all evil in the U.S. or believe it is something to be protected unselfishly. Doing away with the Jones Act, according to them, would either spark the collapse of Western civilization or would solve all earthly ills.

If you’re outside the shipping world, you probably struggle to believe that Jones Act lovers or haters comprise a meaningful segment of the U.S. And yet they do. Politicians have tried for decades to repeal the protectionist law, only to be met with a lobbying group that late Sen. John McCain called the most powerful he ever encountered.

Ponder how much of our economic pain is self-inflicted: Special-interest legislation that either favors one select group over the rest of the population, or attempts to force reality to conform to some absurd political theory.

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Toronto Police caused confusion on Twitter after posting about a missing ‘woman’ despite the accompanying picture showing a biological male with a goatee.

Oh, Canada….

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Although this Administration has been an unqualified disaster from January 21 on, The Left cannot quite do all the dastardly things it has in mind. That, it turns out, is not because they don’t have nefarious plans for us. It is because their dozens of woke organizations are filled with lazy, fragile activists who spend all their time on internal squabbles, fiefdom fights, Victim Entitlement Olympics and the equitable division of spoils. Not to mention regular “Hate Whitey and Whiteness” mandatory workshops, HR harassment investigations, pronoun obsession and, if government employees are any example, regular perusal of porn sites. Nothing gets done. The Play-Doh and Kleenex budget alone must be enormous.

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The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation steered more than $100,000 to a charity run by its own president, in the second case of a sitting board member’s nonprofit group benefiting from the foundation’s grants.

Social Ventures Inc., a charity run by Ben & Jerry’s board member Jeff Furman, raked in around $118,000 from the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation between 2016 and 2020, according to financial disclosure records.

Doing well by doing good.

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Gee, I wonder why?

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Plant-based meat alternatives will have to come up with new terminology in France. The country adopted a measure banning plant-based products from using the same names as food from dead animals.

If it didn’t moo, it isn’t steak.

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Just when the wife of one incarcerated Jan. 6 prisoner believed things couldn’t get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed her they are going to suspend all of her husband’s benefits. According to United States Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), “this is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government.”

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An interesting article by Ryan Grim in Intercept describes how a variety of progressive organizations in recent years have found themselves paralyzed by internal conflicts involving accusations of racism, sexism, and similar offenses. Pretty clearly, the accusations are a mix of responses to real problems, responses to imagined problems, and weapons by which one member of an organization can attack another.

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One interesting question is whether it will occur to progressives to generalize their experience. If their ideology, including the willingness to enforce it at the organizational level by attacking other members of the organization for being insufficiently progressive, makes organizations unable to accomplish anything, what happens to the country if most people became progressives?

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Here’s what struck me: “The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb….” Nothing says ‘Dutch’ like the name ‘Ahmed Aboutaleb’.

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

We have the technology.