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The German authorities are preparing for civil unrest in the coming winter. What’s interesting about this report is the role that the extreme Left is expected to play in the disturbances. The proximate cause of the crisis is an extreme shortage of natural gas due to the sanctions against Russia, which means that the climate-change zealots will be poised to raise trouble if more coal plants are fired up to try to cope with the dearth of electric power, or other uses of fossil fuel are proposed as a way to mitigate the crisis. That must not be allowed, no matter how many people freeze or starve, because we must save the planet!

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Getting meat eaters in the US to adopt plant-based alternatives has proven a challenge. Beyond Meat, which produces a variety of plant-based products, including imitations of ground beef, burgers, sausages, meatballs and jerky, has had a rough 12 months, with its stock dipping nearly 70%.

Multiple chains that partnered with the company, including McDonald’s, have quietly ended trial launches. In August, the company laid off 4% of its workforce after a slowdown in sales growth. Last week, its chief operating officer was reportedly arrested for biting another man on the nose during a road rage confrontation.

Virtue-signalling stops where the epiglottis begins.

Ask yourself why nobody ever tries to make fake plant food out of meat.

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Mice get all the best stuff.

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Much like East Germany’s final dictator, Biden brooks no dissent. He vilifies over 74 million Americans who voted for Trump as “ultra-MAGA Republicans,” “extremists,” and “semi-fascists.”

Even worse, Comrade Joe Honecker has unleashed the FBI—America’s Stasi, or secret police—to terrorize dissenters.

Hey, we didn’t say it would be easy.

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Iranian authorities say they will restrict internet access in the country until calm is restored to the streets, as protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police rock the Islamic Republic.

Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in protest since the death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was apprehended in Tehran and taken to a “re-education center,” apparently for not wearing her hijab properly.

Ah, but most importantly, what were her pronouns?

Pentagon bedeviled by recruitment failures as solutions prove elusive (Washington Post) Gee, I wonder why. (Air Force Academy diversity training tells cadets to use words that ‘include all genders?,’ drop ‘mom and dad’)

Senators rip VA secretary for trapping veterans in government-run health care: ‘Blatant bias’

NYC Mayor Adams opens ‘humanitarian emergency’ centers for busloads of migrants from Texas, border states

Widespread BS on border is meant to obscure Biden’s role in the migrant disaster

Biden’s Delaware neighbors applaud migrant flights, slam open border: ‘liberals are missing the point’

Deported Immigrants Dream Of Returning To ‘Beautiful’ Martha’s Vineyard

Ron DeSantis Found a Way to Finally Get People to Focus on America’s Open Border Catastrophe

Far-Left Justin Trudeau Lifts Canada’s Border Vaccine Mandate While Biden Keeps America’s

CBS on the Border: Do NOT Panic! Everything Is Under Control!

White House Promises To Walk Back Biden Statement Once Their Codebreakers Decipher It  (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week

‘I’m not sure he’s going to escape jail’: could Trump’s legal woes prevent a 2024 run? (The Guardian) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Trump keeps digging deeper. And the media keeps feigning shock. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Two numbers that should worry Republicans about Trump 2024 (CNN)

Nobody Cares: Trump Approval Rating Remains Stable Despite Multiple Investigations

Trump faces growing legal peril as he seeks to raise profile ahead of 2024 (Washington Post) Well ,that’s what the witch-hunt is all about.

Geoffrey Berman reveals how Donald Trump abused his firing power (MSNBC)

Don Cheadle Jokes that Trump Has ‘Dumbmentia’  Trump ought to use his pocket change to have this guy whacked.

What Comes Next in Letitia James’ Case Against Trump (Slate)

Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis’s stunt point to a deeper scam (Washington Post) Greg Sargent is still bucking for Jennifer Rubins job as Chief Trump-Basher at the Post.

John Roberts’s constitutional color-blindness threatens civil rights (Boston Globe)

To truly level up, cap the pay of the super-rich (The Guardian) Clueless in Manchester: The point of being super-rich is that you no long need ‘pay’.

Jan. 6 committee and Ginni Thomas reach agreement for testimony (Politico)

WashPost Writer Blames Libs of TikTok for Her LAZY Research

24 Attorneys General Demand Credit Card Companies Drop Plans To Track Gun Sales

Activist Group Suing DeSantis Received Nearly $1.4 Million From Soros Network

Demonic Joy Reid Compares DeSantis Mask Policy to Whipping up Race Riots

PayPal Sparks Outrage After Shutting Down Account Of Britain’s Free-Speech Union

Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe (Washington Post) Because there’s no there, there.

No Charges: Gaetz Sex-Trafficking Case Crumbles As Prosecutors Doubt Witness Credibility

Alarm as Koch bankrolls dozens of election denier candidates (The Guardian) No alarm about Soros funding let-’em-loose prosecutors, though….

How GOP Governor Candidates Are ‘Blowing It’ in the Midwest (Daily Beast) Trash-talking the competition in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

DeSantis to face trial for suspension of prosecutor who defied abortion ban law (The Guardian)

Conservatism Is Prohibited

NYT Flunky Writes in Column: ‘Giving People Money Is a Great Way to Reduce Poverty’

Youngkin’s meeting with Va. delegation gets heated over trans policy (Washington Post)

New York State Teacher of the Year is too ‘woke’ for our kids: parents

Burn: See MAGA-Era Science Lies Roasted And Debunked By Neil DeGrasse Tyson (MSNBC) He doesn’t have the time it would take to roast and debunk Progressive-era science lies.

Activists subvert poster sites to shame aviation and ad industries (The Guardian) Well, that’s the intent, anyway–like most ‘activism’, it doesn’t have the intended effect.  Mostly it just annoys the people they are supposedly trying to persuade.

Republicans block bill requiring dark money groups to reveal donors (The Hill) How can Progressives cancel them if they don’t know who they are? (In the Narrative media, ‘dark money’ is any money spent not supporting the Narrative. George Soros and Zuckerbucks, for example, can’t be ‘dark money’.)

How Texas’ abortion ban hurts Big Oil’s effort to transform its workforce  (Reuters) Well, maybe they don’t actually want to ‘transform their workforce’.

The Other Scandal Revealed at Mar-a-Lago (Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH!

Woke Gen Z is out to destroy entertainment  Doing a good job of it, too.

How one S.F. neighborhood went from ‘on the upswing’ to break-ins, violence and encampments (S.F. Chronicle)

CNN viewers melting down over Jake Tapper’s primetime promotion

To Corporate Media, Some Criminals and Victims Are More Equal Than Others

NBC Reports ‘Latinos Shifting to The GOP’, Asks Dem Senator Why

GOP’s crime cudgel (Axios)

Soros Prosecutor Twice Sprung Criminal Who Went On To Kill A Man

Switzerland Mulls ‘Gender-Neutral’ Compulsory Military Service For Women

Teachers Unions Fund Campaign To Raises Massachusetts Taxes

After Student’s Death, LA Schools to Carry Overdose Antidote  Think of it as evolution in action.

Will Rashida Tlaib Get Away with Her Antisemitic Comments?  Of course. She’s one of The Squad.

Poll: 77 Percent Won’t Vote for ‘Anti-justice’ Democrat Candidates

Behar: U.S. Abortion Laws Are Like Iran’s Morality Police Killing Women

AOC: US Women Oppressed Like Iranian Women  Except for the whole killing part.

Limited climate change mitigation potential through forestation of the vast dryland regions (Science)

2022 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record (NASA)

Tonga volcano blast was unusual, could even warm the Earth (Associated Press)

Hunga Tonga eruption put over 50B kilograms of water into the stratosphere (Ars Technica)

The Pathway to 90% Clean Electricity Is Mostly Clear. The Last 10%, Not So Much (Inside Climate News)

Sea level rise threatens New Bedford’s fishing port and could put South Coast towns under water, new report finds (Boston Globe)

UK environment laws under threat in ‘deregulatory free-for-all’ (The Guardian)

Shellenberger: Battery Deaths Put Nuclear Safety In Context “Lithium batteries kill many more people than nuclear plants. Why, then, aren’t we scared of them?”

An Oil Company Shows Wall Street How To Do ESG

America Is Successfully Pursuing ESG = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed

The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat

WaPo Urges Colleges To Provide Counseling Over ‘Climate Anxiety’  Poor iddle snowflakes….

Michael Bloomberg to Spend $85 Million Fighting Petrochemical Plants

California is awash in renewable energy — except when it’s most needed (Washington Post) Amazing how that works….

Climate Protester Sets Himself On Fire Before Roger Federer’s Last Match

Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’ (Science) “A common ingredient in soap, mixed with water and an organic solvent, readily degrades per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as “forever chemicals” because they can stick around in the environment for decades, a new study shows.”

WHO warns ability to identify new Covid variants is diminishing as testing declines (CNBC)

COVID in California: BART to end mask mandate on Oct. 1 (S.F. Chronicle)

Federal judge strikes down Biden administration’s Head Start vaccine, mask mandate (The Hill)

U.S. watchdog estimates $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment fraud (Washington Post)

Scientists were worried about a particular COVID variant this fall. They didn’t expect its offspring (Fortune)

WHO: ‘Blood on Your Hands’ If World Steps Back on Tackling COVID

Sex fiend gets ‘sweet’ deal from Manhattan DA Bragg on teen rape charge — then attacks 5 others: sources

Media Shocked: Stacey Abrams Is Unpopular With Black Men

Mosby’s Final Insult to Baltimore

The Beginning of the Slavery Supply Chain

Fact Check: ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Heartbeat at 6 Weeks,’ Says Stacey Abrams

Planned Parenthood Changes Website To Match Stacey Abrams’s Heartbeat Comments

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The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.

They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.

Agents took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, court records show. In one box, agents found cremated human remains.

Eighteen months later, newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles got their warrant for that raid by misleading the judge who approved it.

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Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Vi Bilägare. The driver in the worst-performing car needs four times longer to perform simple tasks than in the best-performing car.

Not really news but a useful reminder.

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As cities across the United States are seeing crime rates rise due to defunding police departments, Soros prosecutors, cashless bail, decriminalizing heroin and meth, as well turning parks and sidewalks into campgrounds, there was a warning that was ignored by city governments across the United States.

Flint Town is an eight-episode documentary about policing in Flint, MI. Flint Town went from a 300-officer police department to a 98-officer police department. 98 officers have to provide 365/24 hours a day service to residents to include investigative service. This means long response wait times and no follow-up criminal investigations.

Flint Town started filming in November 2015. It was completed in early 2017, and released in March 2018. Quality of life issues in policing is like filling potholes. Filling potholes is not as glamorous as ribbon-cutting ceremonies for some city governments. City governments are filled with monument builders and virtue signallers. Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York have become Flint Town. You could include Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas in this list. For some reason, city officials are to the left of Bernie Sanders.

Flint Town was a warning of what was to come for residents in cities across the United States.

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A little change of pace this week as the news is mostly made up nonsense about the war on Russia and, of course, stories about Trump. The obsession with Trump moved past whatever lies beyond absurd years ago. Even if you get the symbolism of Trump to the managerial elite, their obsessing over him is exhausting. It is as if they want to talk about him to the point where his fans are sick of the subject.

Scan the millions of posts about Trump in the regime media each week and it is like watching a man deliberately slip on a banana peel. His attempt to entertain the audience just creates a sense of shame. You are embarrassed for him. That is the same feeling I get when I read a New York Times piece about Trump. How humiliating and degrading it must be to write those posts.

The Finns have a word for this, myötähäpeä, which roughly translates into secondhand shame or shared embarrassment. Fremdschämen is the German version of it, which means the feeling you get when seeing someone do something so embarrassing that you start to feel shame by watching it. English does not have a corresponding word, which is odd given the history of the English language.

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Well, sort of.

I read an SF book once, don’t remember the name, where construction was effected by putting a pile of materials on site and having drones assemble them in a predefined order–each component had an ID, and the drones knew where each piece was and where it fell in the assembly process. That would be useful. This … not so much. But I suppose it’s a step in the right direction.

Germany raids 24 properties linked to Putin ally Usmanov (Associated Press) Putin cooties! They’re everywhere!

Ex-Putin Adviser Uses BBC Interview to Threaten the U.K. With Nuclear Apocalypse (Daily Beast)

Even Putin knows he is losing

Retired General: US Will Attack Russian Military If Putin Nukes Ukraine Under Biden? I doubt it.

Xi Tells Armed Forces Focus On Preparing For Wars As Geopolitical Flashpoints Intensify 

The Bottomless Corruption of the Ukrainian State

Mother Russia Calls in Vain

Ukraine Threatens 5-Year Prison Sentence For Anyone Voting In “Sham Referendums”

LOGISTICS: Russia Seeks Bounty Hunters

PROCUREMENT: Iran Obtains Su-35s And Unwanted Problems

Ukraine’s Mariupol Defenders, Putin Ally in Prisoner Swap

Ukraine Seizes Dozens of Russian Tanks Left by Fleeing Forces (Bloomberg)

Russian Nukes Can Be Used To Defend Annexed Ukraine Regions, Kremlin Warns

Former Top NATO General: West Must be Prepared For War With Russia

California seeks to ban sales of diesel commercial trucks effort to fight pollution, climate change  Another step on the road to Turd World status.

Senate approves climate treaty limiting potent greenhouse gases (The Hill)

Republicans join Democrats to ratify UN climate treaty that could boost consumer prices

Duke Energy is one of the top leakers of a gas that is 25,000 times more polluting than carbon dioxide, EPA records show (NBC)

Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities (Inside Climate News)

Why Latino people are on the front lines of climate change (NPR) Because Narrative.

U.S. EPA to consider tougher emissions rules for heavy trucks (Reuters)

I Told You So: Aramco CEO Slams Unrealistic Energy Policies

Jim Beam Is Making Renewable Gas From Bourbon

Denmark First to Pay into the UN Climate Change Loss and Damage Fund

Permitting Reform Is A Decoy For Ramping Up Gas (The American Prospect)

Updated Climate Models Clouded by Scientific Biases, Researchers Find

Polar Bear No Closer to Extinction Than It Was 18 Years Ago as Arctic Sea Ice Resists ‘Tipping Point’

France Prepares To Nationalize Its Struggling Nuclear Industry

50 Reasons to Re-Think Climate Policy

Judge Blocks Indiana Abortion Ban Week After It Takes Effect

After McDonald’s CEO says Chicago needs to ‘face facts’ about its ‘crisis,’ Mayor Lightfoot says he should ‘educate himself’ before speaking (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAINS!

McDonald’s CEO not lovin’ it in crime ridden Chicago, considers moving HQ

Ken Griffin moved Citadel out of Chicago after colleague was robbed at gunpoint: report

Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? (The Guardian)  I guess that’s why so many people from Cuba want to move here.

Here’s A List Of Some Consumer Brands Committed To A Woke Agenda (In Case Conservatives Want to Start Avoiding Them) (Daily Caller)

UC Santa Cruz research center renamed in honor of farmworker activist Dolores Huerta (KSBW)

‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ Filmmakers Hope You Take Their Advice (Gawker) But of course all of the violent extremists are on the right.

AP conveniently forgets to mention that politician accused of murder is a Democrat

Top North Carolina Law Enforcement Group Abandons Cheri Beasley, Citing Democrat’s Embrace of ‘Defund the Police Activists’

Man Accused Of Murdering 18-Year-Old Conservative Released On Bail  Unlike any of the January 6 defendants. I guess they’re worse than murderers.

With Only 9 GOP Votes, House Passes Presidential Election Reform Act

Meet the New CNN, Same as the Old CNN

The “Stunning Success” Of The Green Revolution Is Yet Another Progressive Myth

Show Us the Way, Rich Liberals!

Two Easy Predictions: Wealth Tax & Windfall Tax

Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?

Liberal NBC Screws Up: Admits the Unborn Are ‘Babies in the Womb’

47 Days Before Elections! Chinese Communist Gov’t-Tied TikTok Tinkers with Political Accounts

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers: Illegal Immigrants Are Still ‘Wisconsinites’  No, they’re not; that’s the point.

Five things to know about the NY AG’s new lawsuit against Trump (The Hill) According to the Narrative.

New evidence shows GOP’s Trump problem may be getting worse (The Hill)  According to the Narrative.

Daily Mail Quietly Scrubs Article About Trump’s ‘Uncharacteristically Thin Crowd’ (Daily Beast)

N.Y. Case Proves Left Fears Trump Like Nothing Else  If he weren’t a threat, they wouldn’t be so obsessed.

QAnon videos are getting millions of views on TikTok as Trump embraces conspiracy theory (NBC News) While NBC embraces the “QAnon” conspiracy theory.

The ‘jail Trump’ mania reaches its sad end (The Spectator)

A thorough rebuke of Judge Aileen Cannon’s pro-Trump order (Washington Post)

Trump Support Remains Unmoved by Investigations, Poll Finds (N.Y. Times) The witch-hunt is so obvious that nobody is fooled.

How Trump’s terrible day went from bad to worse (CNN) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Dick Morris to Newsmax: N.Y. Lawsuit Part of Dems’ Plan to Keep Trump Out

Facebook Pondering Whether to Unban Trump With ‘Great Caution’

Trump Made N.Y. Attorney General’s Fraud Case Virtually Unbeatable (Politico) On the contrary, this ‘fraud’ case is total nonsense – no bank is going to loan money based merely on the applicant’s self-valuation of a property. The notion is absurd. This is pure malicious prosecution.

In Denmark, Omicron reinfections reveal ineffective post-COVID-19 immunity (News-Medical.net)

Illinois Coronavirus Updates: State of Pandemic, New COVID Variants, Booster Timing (NBC)

Rep. Tenney Calls On Biden Not to Renew COVID Emergency in October

Watch: Rand Paul Promises To “Find The Paper Trail” For Lab Leak COVID Origin

Large Study Finds COVID Raises Risk for Long-Term Brain Injury

Authorizing the Killing Fields

Canada to Drop Vaccine Mandate at Border Sept. 30

PayPal shuts account of parents’ group that campaigned to keep schools open during pandemic (Telegraph)

Will “McHenry” Enter the Language Like “Charlottesville” or Will This Homicide Remain a North Dakota Police Blotter Item?

DOJ investigating Mike Lindell over potential identity theft, damage to protected computer (The Hill) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel.

My Pillow CEO, Trump ally faces probe for plot to target 2020 election computers (Reuters)

Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation (Politico) Push-polling the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Florida has an ‘extensive’ network of White supremacists and other far-right extremists, ADL report says (CNN)  Targeting DeSantis in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Rashida Tlaib Calls on People to Close Their JPMorgan Accounts After CEO Says Divesting from Oil Would be ‘Hell for America’  (MEDIAite)

Elon Musk blasts Robert Reich as ‘idiot, liar’ for saying self-made billionaires are ‘myth’

Alberto Ibarguen and Ken Griffin

$43 Billion NYC Pension System “Reassess” Relationship With BlackRock Over ESG Backtracking

Hawley Accuses Google of Joining ‘The Far Left’s Campaign to Punish Pregnancy Resource Centers’

Soros-Funded Group Behind Lawsuit Against DeSantis on Martha’s Vineyard Flights

Border Patrol ordered agents not to assign migrants registration numbers to clear over-crowded facilities

White House releases state-by-state student debt forgiveness estimates (The Hill) Here’s how much you’ll be paying for other people’s kids’ student loans.

Former ICE official sends message to Mayorkas after suspected terrorists caught at border: ‘He knows better’

Dem strongholds beg the White House for help with migrants (Politico)

South Korean president overheard insulting U.S. Congress as ‘idiots’ (Washington Post) Can’t say he’s wrong.

Inflation Costing Average American Family $11,500 This Year

2 More Buses Filled With Migrants Arrive In NYC

George Soros Network Bankrolled Activist Group Suing DeSantis Over Martha’s Vineyard Flights

House Republican seeks Treasury reports on ‘millions’ paid by Chinese company to Biden family

Jean-Pierre Clarifies That Official White House Policy Is The Opposite Of Whatever Biden Says In Interviews (Babylon Bee)

FBI whistleblower suspended

NY Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones slams US as ‘one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world’

In Discussing Reparations, Honest History of Slavery Makes the Left Uncomfortable

Washington Post: It’s Racist to Think That There Are More Smart Football Coaches Among White College Players Than Among Black NFL Players. But Herschel Walker …

Inside the civil rights campaign to get Big Tech to fight the ‘big lie’ (Washington Post) Making it easier for Democrats to cheat in elections is somehow a ‘civil rights’ issue.

Stacey Abrams has a surprising problem with Black voters

Stacey Abrams Claims Six-Week Fetal Heartbeats ‘Manufactured’ to Help Men Control Women

Democrat Reps Slam Tlaib Over ‘Antisemitic’ Remarks on Israel

African Feminist Slave Traders vs. White Male Slave Liberators

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Among shooting suspects, 85 percent are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, as immigrant neighborhoods have become hotbeds for gang crime. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has described the violence as “an entirely different kind of brutality than we’ve seen before” and his deputy, Mats Löfving, says that 40 criminal clans now operate throughout the country. Spreading fear are “humiliation robberies,” targeting children and youth, in which victims are subjected to degrading treatment by assailants, such as being urinated upon. Just this week, four men were sentenced for robbing, beating and urinating on an 18-year-old, who was also filmed by his tormentors.

Guess–just guess–where most of those immigrants are from. (C’mon, guess.)

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi walked away from his first-ever interview on U.S. soil because the interviewer, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, said she would not wear an Islamic headscarf.

Amanpour, who also hosts a show for PBS, on Wednesday wrote on Twitter that she was ready to interview Raisi in New York City “after weeks of planning and eight hours of setting up.” Forty minutes after Raisi was supposed to show up, a presidential aide told Amanpour that she could not interview Raisi without a headscarf.

She refused, and Raisi pulled out from the interview.

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Dzenan Camovic, a Bosnian national who was living in Brooklyn illegally, was inspired by terrorism, prosecutors said, adding he will be deported after completing his sentence.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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We have learned in recent weeks that there is such a thing as an Archivist of the United States at the head of the National Archives and Records Administration and that the position is not unimportant. President Biden has nominated one Colleen Shogan to fill the position and she appeared for a confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday. C-SPAN has posted video of the hearing here. ABC News reports on the hearing here with some useful background.

Senator Josh Hawley examined Shogan concerning her 2007 Perspectives on Politics article “Anti-intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: Republican Populism.” (Perspectives on Politics is the American Political Science Association’s flagship journal.) In C-SPAN’s summary, “Shogan says the article was about Republican presidents’ use of rhetoric and their success connecting with the American people. She also says that she is non-partisan and has a demonstrated record during her 15 years of service at the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, and the White House Historical Association.”

Senator Hawley questioned Shogan closely about the article (video clip below). His examination of her is exemplary. It is amazing how disingenuous Shogan is and how Hawley is able to expose her evasions so quickly. “I have your article. Don’t dissemble in front of me,” he told her. Nevertheless, she persisted.

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Adams consistently poked fun at how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues affected the workplace. One of the many focuses of the ESG philosophy is to make sure that workplaces are diverse, since that automatically means that a company will perform better (wink). “All of the wokeness and anything that permeated from ESG … so that stuff made its way into the business world, and then it became proper content for Dilbert,” Adams said. “The problem is that people see that even though it’s a workplace-related joke, but it’s more about how they implement it.”

On his daily podcast, Coffee With Scott Adams (on LOCALS, highly recommended), Scott explains that since he’s already rich he can do stuff like that.

UPDATE: ‘Dilbert’ Fired by Some Comics Pages, but Critics of Corporate Wokeness Might Get Last Laugh

People often ask me why I never smile. I respond that I do smile but just not when they’re around.

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A fifth day of protests in Iran have resulted in multiple deaths amid a security crackdown, following the death last week of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who reportedly died due to being roughed up by police for “unsuitable attire” – or not conforming to Islamic Republic standards of a hijab.

Iranian officials say seven people have died since protests erupted Saturday, following Amini’s funeral, where women began removing their headscarves in protest, sometimes burning them in public displays of defiance. Demonstrators have decried instances of what they say is ‘live fire’ tactics and deadly forced used by police to disperse the protests, which have now spread across several provinces.

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In the video, a massive crowd cheers as a woman lifts a pair of scissors to her hair — exposed, without a hijab in sight. The sea of people, many of them men, roar as she chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air.

It was a powerful act of defiance Tuesday night in the Iranian city of Kerman, where women are required to wear hijabs (or headscarves) in public, as outrage over the death of a woman in police custody fuels protests across the country.

Al Gore sees the world at ‘tipping point’ for climate action (Reuters) As he has done regularly for the last thirty years.

How an effort to reduce fossil fuel use led to another environmental problem: light pollution (L.A. Times)

Big business likes to trumpet ESG credentials. But a ‘greenwashing’ reckoning could be on the horizon (CNBC)

Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise (New Scientist) But they’ll blame ‘sea level rise’ anyway because Narrative.

‘Polluters must pay’: UN chief calls for windfall tax on fossil fuel companies (The Guardian) Fine, let’s start with China … oh, wait….

Droughts, heat and fire: the future of wine in the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Biodiversity quickly rises up the ESG investing agenda (Financial Times) The Financial Times is Britain’s Wall Street Journal … if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Biodiversity fund (Investment Week) There’s gold in them thar fools!

Climate change could wipe $108 billion from U.S. property market, study finds (NBC)

UN Secretary General: Climate Catastrophe, War, Poverty, Pandemic, Give Money

Up Next: Green Starvation

Now’s your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines

Natural Oceanic Cycles Behind Heavy East Australia Rains, New Study Finds

A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The US

It’s Time for Cities to Ditch Delivery Trucks—for Cargo Bikes (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate change misinformation leads Facebook to experiment with informed democracy

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

“Big Oil vs The World”: BBC Exposé Fails

If It’s Over, Why The Continued Emergency?

Portland art festival event is free to ‘Black folks’ but ‘$80 for all others’

For the first time in 230 years, Congress has full U.S. Indigenous representation (NPR)

Why Isn’t Marilyn Mosby In Prison Yet?

Nikki Haley BLASTS Racist ‘Sunny Hostin,’ Calls Out ABC’s Inaction Against The View

Millions Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month By Commemorating That Time A Few Years Ago When The Word ‘Latinx’ Was Made Up  (Babylon Bee)

Trump to Face Sexual Battery Suit Under New ‘Survivors’ Law (Daily Beast) Which will go nowhere, as all of these witch-hunts do.

E. Jean Carroll says she will sue Trump under NY law for sexual assault and wants his deposition (CNN) What she wants is his bank account, but she’ll start with his deposition.

80s hits and nuclear secrets: security concerns plague Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Mar-a-Lago: the lax security of Trump’s alternative ‘White House’ – visualized (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Trump’s in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Criminal Investigations: Former Prosecutor (Newsweek)

Aftermath of 2020 election left Fox News between Trump and the truth (Washington Post)

‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell’s decision not to convict Trump (Washington Post)

Dozens of Trump’s phony electors, many under investigation, still hold powerful GOP jobs in key states (NBC)

GOP attorneys general back Trump in court fight over Mar-a-Lago documents (Washington Post)

How Fla Gov. DeSantis decision to send migrants to blue states could help a 2024 showdown with Trump (USA Today) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Amy Schumer’s Unfunny Show Making a Comeback, Comedienne Predicts ‘Trump’s Probably Going to be Back’

Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He’s Stuck (The Atlantic)

New York attorney general files civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, some of his children and his business (CNN)

Trump and His Spurious Business Face a Reckoning (Bloomberg) The witch-hunt continues.

Dershowitz on Letitia James and her Ahab-like pursuit of Trump

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It may be possible to develop superconductors that operate at room temperature with further knowledge of the relationship between spin liquids and superconductivity, which would transform our daily lives.

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Iran will use cash assets provided by the Biden administration as part of a new nuclear accord to fund regional terror groups and enhance the capabilities of a militant network committed to assassinating U.S. officials, according to written testimony to Congress from a top U.S. military commander exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Gen. Stephen Townsend, who led U.S. Africa Command until August of this year, in March warned Congress that Iran is certain to use “at least some of the resources gained from sanctions relief to” increase its illicit shipment of advanced weapons to terror groups operating in Africa and the Near East region, according to written information he provided to Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) after a public hearing before Congress.

In addition to boosting Iran’s terror allies like the Houthi rebels in Yemen, sanctions relief will enable Tehran to expand its Iranian Threat Network, a group of terror cells run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force that is focused on assassinating American officials, according to Townsend.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. A firm, Lawyers for Civil Rights, in conjunction with the migrant-led nonprofit Alianza Americas, filed the action on behalf of Yanet Doe, Pablo Doe and Jesus Doe who are using pseudonyms for the action “on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The splattering of claims face considerable legal barriers based on the consent of the migrants, as shown in a waiver released by Florida.

An obvious put-up job by Democrat lawyers and ‘activists’ who aren’t happy that their hypocrisy is being outed.

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CNN’s Don Lemon played the fool — okay, he did his thing as usual — in conversation with Strelmark president and “Royal Watcher” Hilary Fordwich. Lemon packs slavery, reparations, the empire, and the monarchy into his boffo question. Fordwich dispatches it in a baloney meets the grinder moment. Lemon was unprepared to engage beyond the shibboleths. That must be why this highly satisfying video has gone viral.

Halfricans are smarter than Africans, but not as smart as their white ancestors.

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For more than three days now, left-wing TV networks have refused to report on the politically-motivated killing of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson, a conservative, by 41-year-old Shannon Brandt in North Dakota.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Brandt hit the teenager with his car, reportedly due to a political disagreement, before driving off. Brandt admitted to police that the collision was a deliberate attack, and that he had been motivated by Ellingson’s political affiliation. According to court documents, Ellingson called his mother twice and asked her to pick him up, saying that someone was chasing him. By the time she arrived to collect her son, Brandt had already run him down and left the scene.

A review of news coverage on leftwing broadcast (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and cable (CNN and MSNBC) outlets revealed that none of these networks have given the attack even one second of airtime. Both Fox News and Newsmax covered the incident on Tuesday evening during the 7 p.m. Eastern hour.

Funny thing how the airwaves are full of Wokerati hand-wringing over the Inevitable Right-Wing Extremist Violence, the only violence that happens is by Democrats on Republicans, like Steve Scalise and this poor kid.

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The final sprint of the midterms has brought another battery of ads, with scores of spots set to ominous music and deep-voiced narrators warning about the perils of the opposition.

But deep into an election cycle once assumed to be a lost cause for Democrats, something new is emerging: A wager from a group of progressive operatives that their party’s success comes down to narrative storytelling presented in an animated format.

The Democrats have always been a cartoon party–it’s not surprising that they are taking demagoguery to new levels.

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To be fair, Muslims are quick enough to kill other Muslims as to kill non-Muslims.

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Turkey continues its path of international aggression and embrace of Islamist ideas. As the Western world grapples with the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Turkey is directly threatening to invade Greece, a fellow NATO member.

During a Sept. 3 speech at an aerial technology festival in Samsun, eastern Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan explicitly threatened that the Turkish army will “come down suddenly one night” in the Greek isles of the Eastern Aegean The phrase is taken from a song referring to Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus, a state with an ethnic Greek majority, and is an allusion to an invasion of Greece. Erdogan has used the same phrase to refer to possible military intervention in Syria and Iraq against Kurdish militants.

According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Erdogan questioned Greece’s territorial sovereignty over its islands in the eastern Aegean Sea: “Athens’ occupying islands does not bind us. When [the] time comes, we will do what’s necessary.”

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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What I am calling for is a cold, hard look at the utility of mass-industrial, state enforced education as we head out of the mass-production, mass-skills era.

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We have the technology … if it works.