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Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia announced plans to dedicate an $80 billion fund to develop the Neom megaproject, aimed at establishing a futuristic living space in the northwest of the country. This forms part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, which aims to diversify the national economy and make the country less reliant on its oil revenues. Saudi Arabia plans to develop Neom as a mega clean-energy city on a plot of land the size of Belgium. The space is expected to eventually become self-sufficient and provide a return on investment of between 13 and 14 percent. It will have no cars, roads, or greenhouse gas emissions and will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy, with 95 percent of the land being preserved for nature.

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The much-talked-about Neom project will see the 10 regions developed in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. The most ambitious project is called ‘The Line’, two parallel skyscrapers aimed at housing 9 million people, a 170-kilometre building that juts into the Red Sea but is just 200 metres wide. What it lacks in width it makes up for in height at a staggering 500 metres tall, complete with a mirrored facade. If successful, this structure will be a major feat of engineering. The development will also include Oxagon, an industrial city with a manufacturing hub centred around tech industries, to be built on the sea and the mountainous region of Trojena. Neom will include a residential area, an industrial city, and a mountain tourism destination.

The project has the further advantage of cutting through major areas that are the traditional home of the Howeitat, long-time enemies of the Saudi royal family.

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Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it.

I guess it really doesn’t mater.

Now that’s comedy.

‘Save Our Democracy’ Is the New ‘Russia Collusion’

In S.F.’s Hayes Valley, merchants are arming themselves with Tasers amid fear over break-ins (S.F. Chronicle)

I’m an heiress ‘annoyed’ by my multibillion-dollar inheritance and want nearly all of it taxed away (N.Y. Post) So just write a check.

Top House Republican Condemns ‘Political Violence’ After Second Arrest in Attack on Rubio Volunteer

Judge Fines Meta Nearly $25 Million For Campaign Finance Law Violations

Parents Lose Appeal for Custody of Teen Identifying as Transgender

Fla. Parent Sues Palm Beach Schools for Displaying Gay Pride Flags

Violent Crime Is Driving A Red Wave

Dozens of subpoenas issued in investigation involving Sen. Bob Menendez

CBS News Gushes Over Actresses for Abortion  Having seen them, I would encourage them not to reproduce.

Macron Admits Half The Crimes In Paris Are Committed By Foreigners

Meet the Anti-Israel, Anti-Police LA City Attorney Candidate

Mika Brzezinski Spins Furiously for Fetterman: ‘Some Might Be Surprised, How Well He Did’!

Paul Pelosi, House Speaker’s Husband, Attacked at San Francisco Home  But of course crime is no problem in San Francisco.

MSNBC Doesn’t Get Why Voters Prefer GOP On Economy, Insists It’s Great

Caleb Livingston, RIP

Who Will Win in a Fight: Women or Latinxes?  Steve Sailer covers the news that counts.

WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years (Associated Press)

Tuberculosis deaths and disease increase during the COVID-19 pandemic (WHO)

Omicron subvariants are resistant to key antibody treatments, putting people with weak immune systems at risk of Covid (CNBC) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

As Protection From Current Covid-19 Monoclonal Antibody Treatments Fades, The Discovery Of A New Class Of Antibodies Brings Hope (Fortune0 Gotta keep up the PANIC!

For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever (Washington Post) ODF.

Senate GOP probe points to Chinese lab leak for COVID origin

CDC Analysis: More Than 8 in 10 Monkeypox Patients in Study Also Had HIV  Oh, the stigma!

Biden predicts student loan forgiveness checks will go out within two weeks (The Hill) Uh, loan forgiveness means you no longer owe on your loan. It doesn’t mean somebody sends you a check.

Migrants kicked out of US are erecting huge tent city on Mexican border in hopes of re-entering (N.Y. Post)

Biden Moves to Reverse Trump’s Sea-launched Nuclear Cruise Missile Program

America’s Energy Crisis is Mostly US Democrats’ Fault

Jim George: ‘Laptop From Hell’: 644 Pages, 459 Alleged Crimes  Sometimes it is good to be the son of the king.

What Happens When There’s No Diesel?

Biden Falsely Claims Gas Was $5 When He Took Office

El Paso Mayor Says White House Asked Not To Declare Immigration Disaster As Border Crossings Spike

Newly un-redacted report shows how feds politicized response to 2020 Portland protests

Top Dems Urge Biden To Nationalize Oil & Gas Industry

Republican senator Tom Cotton brags about ignoring Trump impeachment evidence in new book (The Guardian) Good; he refused to participate in the witch-hunt.

Michigan GOP gubernatorial nominee invoked conspiracy claiming Democrats sought to ‘topple’ US in retaliation for losing Civil War (CNN) Democrats have never been happy since Republicans freed their slaves.

Storm clouds loom for Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new prime minister (The Economist)

Richmond can remove its last remaining Confederate statue, judge rules (CNN)

Report: Ye Has Fascination With Hitler, Wanted to Name Album After Nazi Leader  I don’t believe that.

Watchdog Calls on IRS to Probe Soros-Backed Group That Sued DeSantis

Prosecutors ask Supreme Court to compel Graham’s grand jury testimony (Washington Post)

Amazon CEO accused of trampling labor laws with anti-union comments

J.D. Vance’s Ambition Comes at a Price in ‘Hillbilly’ Terms (N.Y. Times)

How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter (Atlantic) He says that like it was a bad thing.

NY Times Can’t Celebrate UK’s Historic Hindu PM: ‘Extreme Wealth…Air of Privilege’

Dems Sound the Alarm Over GOP’s New ‘Stop the Steal’ Threats (Daily Beast)

Inside the secretive effort by Trump allies to access voting machines (Washington Post)

What It Means to Be a Republican Today (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew push the Narrative.

Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? (L.A. Times)

Kanye West Becomes Part of CAIR’s Antisemitism Con

UF Faculty Senate approves no-confidence vote on selection process of Ben Sasse

Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA (The Guardian)

U.N. warns ‘time running out’ as greenhouse gases surge (Reuters)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pulls out of COP27 climate summit (CNN)

U.S. climate envoy Kerry: King Charles at COP27 would be ‘very powerful’ (Reuters)

Oil giants sell thousands of California wells, raising worries about future liability (L.A. Times)

Big Oil Companies Are Selling Their Wells. Some Worry Taxpayers Will Pay to Clean Them Up. (ProPublica)

It’s time to admit self-driving cars aren’t going to happen (TechCrunch)

World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies (The Guardian)

Extreme escalation of heat failure rates in ectotherms with global warming (Nature)

The point of no return for species facing heatwaves (Nature)

Can Malmö’s green solutions provide answers to energy and climate crises? (EuroNews) Does that include the crime and riots by Muslim immigrants?

Svalbard: The race to save the fastest-warming place on Earth (BBC)

Fossil fuel use likely to peak in 2025, says International Energy Agency (DW News)

How sea level rise contributes to billions in extra damage during hurricanes (Yale Climate Connections)

The wasted potential of garbage dumps (Vox)

No, signing the global methane pledge won’t end the backyard barbecue – it’ll strengthen Aussie industries (The Conversation)

Journalism Turns a Corner on Climate Change (The Nation)

CNN Defends Vandalism: What’s More Important? Art or The Planet?

Climate Fear Mongering Bad Analyses Cause Bad Remedies

Big Climate Brother Coming Your Way (voluntary now, mandatory later)

Trump bragged about new US nuclear weapons, Woodward tape shows (The Guardian) So what?

‘He Failed’: Woodward Reveals Trump’s ‘Danger’ In Newly Released Tapes (MSNBC)

Trump supporters and ‘We Build the Wall’ scam victims testify at NYC fraud trial (N.Y. Daily News)

Trump Loses Latest Bid to Block Tax Returns From House Panel (Bloomberg) An obvious fishing expedition. There are reasons those returns are confidential by law.

Roger Stone Warns Ron DeSantis It Would Be ‘Treachery’ To Run Against Trump (Huffington Post) I don’t think Roger Stone is quite the arbiter of moral behavior that he seems to think he is. Nor to I believe that the Huffington Post is a legitimate source of either news or serious commentary.

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This is going to be very entertaining.

The good news is that The Babylon Bee and Kanye West are back.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

With Halloween approaching I thought about doing a special show on the subject, but then I remembered I did that last year. I then remembered that it was not just the greatest Halloween show ever, it was probably the best podcast ever produced in the history of podcasts. In retrospect, I should have retired after that show, but like all champions, I have lingered on too long.

Luckily, the news is providing more than enough content. We have the war, the midterms, the fatwah against Ye. Next week we will get to see a million blue checks on Twitter wail in unison over Elon Musk. It looks like he will start his reign of terror with mass firings, which will be a good time. This is the season of schadenfreude and the gods of that concept are going to be generous.

The one sour note will be seeing so many of our guys rush back to Twitter so they can once again perform for the enemy. Generations of conditioning have trained them to think they need the attention of lefty in order to live. They will abandon the various alternative platforms just so they can carry on like precocious children for their masters on the other side. It is the slave’s mentality.

Apparently October 28 is “National First Responders Day”.

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In addition to tragic occupational hazards and line-of-duty deaths, law enforcement officers and other first responders are regularly intentionally injured, attacked, and targeted during their day-to-day duties.

I think I’ll wait for National Second Responders Day (surely there is such a thing?), honoring those who have to clean up the mess caused when the explosive device timed to take out the first responders goes off.

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Economic centralization is the ultimate form of organized conspiratorial power, because it allows a small group of people to dictate the terms of trade for a society and therefore dictate the terms of each person’s individual survival.

For example, the Federal Reserve as a banking entity has free rein to assert policy controls that can disrupt the very fabric of the US economy and the buying power of our currency. They can (and do) arbitrarily create trillions of dollars from thin air causing inflation, or arbitrarily raise interest rates and crash stock markets. And according to former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, they answer to no one, including the US government.

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Just minutes after the world’s richest man has reportedly closed the $44 billion deal, The NYTimes reports that, according to sources that declined to be identified, the Twitter executives who were fired include:

• Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive,
• Ned Segal, the chief financial officer,
• Sean Edgett, the general counsel, and
• Vijaya Gadde, the top legal and policy executive, (or censorship czar).

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On Thursday morning, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released the third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) numbers which reportedly showed that the United States economy grew 2.6 percent in the third quarter. Predictably the three evening news networks hyped the supposedly good news for their friends in the Biden administration and ignored the real reason for the positive economic growth despite the two past quarters being negative. The 3rd quarter numbers were almost entirely due to U.S. trade exports, not due to the health of the economy at large.

The Other McCain is on the case.

When your Senate candidate suffers a debilitating stroke, to such an extent that he can’t communicate coherently, what do you do? Well, if you’re Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), you pretend that this devastating setback isn’t really devastating, that somehow Pennsylvania voters won’t notice, or won’t care, that John Fetterman is like the monster in Young Frankenstein: “He’s got a rotten brain!”

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The FLASH effect: FLASH radiotherapy is a promising alternative to traditional radiation therapy.

It delivers a dose of radiation that’s over 300 times higher than traditional radiation therapy in just a fraction of a second. This induces something called the “FLASH effect” — a not-entirely-understood phenomenon in which the radiation still attacks the tumor, but doesn’t harm surrounding tissue.

Desperate Media’s Final Scare Tactic: GOP Will Destroy Democracy!

MSNBC Already Warning GOP Not To ‘Be Guilty Of Overreach’

Justice Kagan temporarily blocks Jan. 6 committee subpoena seeking phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward (NBC)

This MAGA Influencer Attacks Dems for DUIs. That’s Rich. (Daily Beast) The best in American high-school ‘journalism’.

Open letter to top publisher condemns $2m Amy Coney Barrett book deal (The Guardian) The witch-hunt continues.

Migrant Plane Stunt Haunts DeSantis As Judge Rejects Effort To Conceal Records (MSNBC)

Officials say Confederate flagpole along I-85 needs to come down (Fox)

Herschel Walker has recovered from his (first) abortion scandal (Washington Post) Well, we can’t have that….

Second woman accuses Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have abortion (Washington Post) And if that doesn’t work, no doubt a third will show up. And a fourth….

Here We Go Again: Nets Try Swarm Herschel Walker With More Abortion Claims

Author reveals how GOP became toxic from the rise of Gingrich to Trump (Dworkin Report)

Mandela Barnes: ‘God, Country, and Guns’ Rhetoric as Dangerous as ISIS Terrorists

‘Going to be ugly’: All signs point to Republican landslide in Florida (Politico)

Why Elon Musk’s Idea of “Free Speech” Will Help Ruin America (The New Republic)

Leftist Group That Used Children To Attack Moderate Parents Turns On Its Adult Boss For Being White (Daily Wire)

How Mike Lindell’s Pillow Business Propels the Election Denial Movement (N.Y. Times)

Olbermann to Alito Over Death Threats: ‘Eat Sh*t’

Soros Gave $17.6M to Leftist Group Pushing Facebook and TikTok to Censor So-Called Election Disinfo

John Durham’s Investigation Has Disclosed Corruption: His Own (The New Republic)

Apple Music removes Kanye West playlist after controversy  The witch-hunt continues.

Exclusive: Kanye West has a disturbing history of admiring Hitler, sources tell CNN (CNN) Ah, well, sources! It must be true then! (The witch-hunt continues….)

Pandemic ‘immunity gap’ is probably behind surge in RSV cases, scientists say (CNN)

RSV Infections Overwhelm U.S. Hospitals (NBC)

Most Americans do trust scientists and science-based policy-making – freaking out about the minority who don’t isn’t helpful (The Conversation)

Few Republicans in new survey say they have high confidence in scientists (The Hill)

Booster vaccinations in the elderly lead to impaired neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 and atypical B cells (News-Medical) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 escape mutations during Bamlanivimab therapy in a phase II randomized clinical trial (Nature)

These are now the most common COVID symptoms — depending on your vaccination status (S.F. Gate) Gee, I thought the whole idea of a vaccine was that you wouldn’t have any symptoms.

Biden officials worry pandemic exhaustion could lead to bad covid winter (Washington Post) Guess people aren’t buying the Narrative they way they used to.

Giorgia Meloni: No More COVID Shutdowns

When will Fauci admit the ‘open schools parents’ were right?

Biden mocked for claiming extra cost of roomier airline seats is ‘unfair’ to ‘people of color’ (Fox) Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

The party attacking affirmative action just made the case for it (Boston Globe)

Supreme Court may overturn race-based school admissions: Here’s what you need to know (The Hill)

To the Donut Shop, Go!

No African Americans in This Year’s World Series

Racist Buffoon Joe Biden Thinks People of Color Cannot Handle Airline Fees

Congrats, you canceled Kanye. Call me when White guys get in trouble. (Washington Post

Post-Season Raceball: AP Frets About Racial Makeup Of World Series Rosters

Associated Press declares that the World Series isn’t black enough

A DOJ Official Hyped the Jussie Smollett Hoax. Now She’s Holding a Seminar on Identifying Hate Crimes.  Well, she would know.

Why Trump’s patsies keep taking the fall for him (Al Jezeera)

At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local (Washington Post)

DC court fast-tracks Trump appeal of rape accuser E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit (The Hill)

Trump’s Legal Team Accepts Service of Subpoena From Jan. 6 Committee

Another member of Trump’s inner circle reportedly takes the Fifth (MSNBC) What would you do, being the target of a witch-hunt?

MAGA Conspiracy Tours Plagued With ‘Grifter’ Allegations (Daily Beast) Especially from witch-hunters like the Daily Beast.

Threats against judges skyrocketed during the Trump era, and experts are now fearing for the worst (Business Insider)

Trump Was Right On TikTok, Top Democrat Senator Admits

Overt U.S. antisemitism returns with Trump, Kanye West: ‘Something is different’ (Washington Post) Late to the party! Overt anti-semitism returned with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. Get with the program, guys.

Donald Trump isn’t waiting for 2024 to snub Ron DeSantis (CNN) Chris Cillizza is trying to pick a fight between Trump and DeSantis, for obvious reasons.

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Oh, yeah,  the Russians will really be impressed by that.

Do ‘activists’ have any idea how much they are undercutting their own cause by acting like spoiled children in public, inconveniencing the people they ought to be trying to persuade, and just generally acting like assholes? I guess not.

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Don’t use PayPal. Just … don’t.

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My single issue is this: the reinstatement of the draft. Over the next few years, I’ll have two draftable boys, and more after that. The prospect of committing us to yet another 20-year quagmire on some blasted foreign plain with miserable weather and inedible food is an irresistible bauble to our corrupt government; I fear they cannot resist the intoxicating scent of teenage blood.

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Why didn’t anyone say school closures would be bad?

That’s the question some of our enlightened media experts are asking right now. Yes, really.

“I have to say I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a national conversation about the damage done to kids because of these school closures and the virtual learning and everything,” CNN host Jake Tapper said Friday.

Plenty of Americans quietly and not so quietly had their figurative hands up in class on this issue when the COVID-19 pandemic started. They not only were ignored by Tapper and his media cohorts, but in many cases were ridiculed and demonized.

Now Tapper is calling for a “bipartisan movement” to address the problem. The implication is that a national conversation in America really counts only if Democrats and the Left are conducting it, not those icky conservative types.

The reality is that deferring to public health officials, school administrators, and teachers unions over school closures took a perhaps incalculable toll on the education of young people in America. Dissenters were shoved aside and dismissed.

It’s clear that was a massive mistake that we are paying for now.

The plain fact is that there is a ‘ruling establishment’ in this country, call it what you will, and they absolutely don’t want ‘self-government’ in any meaningful sense.

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We have the technology.

I’m waiting for the day when somebody 3D-prints a full-size mockup of an Apollo moon lander controlled by a modern smartphone.

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Iran’s supreme Leader vowed on Thursday to retaliate against those threatening the country’s security after the massacre of Shi’ite pilgrims, an assault claimed by Islamic State which threatens to inflame tensions amid widespread anti-government protests.

It’s astonishing how much some Muslims enjoy murdering other Muslims.

ZMan discusses some inconvenient truth.

If you are over the age of fifty, you remember a time when you would have been corrected, if you said America was a democracy. Conservatives would interrupt you and say that America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Liberals would say that America is a fascist police state, not a democracy. That is a small exaggeration, but the liberals were always going on about the lack of democracy. Both sides of the mainstream agreed that America was not a democracy.

Somewhere along the way, this reversed. Both sides of the increasingly narrow political consensus calls America a democracy. In fact, they compete with one another to be the most outraged by threats to our democracy. Proof that the universe has a sense of humor, our rulers would no doubt condemn all of their prior statements about America not being a democracy. This would never happen as no one would dare bring this up to them, but the point remains.

Ann Coulter.

All in all, New York’s no-bail law is working great! The law is called “no bail” but really means “no jail, not ever, no matter how many times you’re arrested.”

How did such a dangerous policy become law? It seems that in 2020, Democrats finally gained total control of state government, the first time that’s happened since World War II, except for a single year in 1964.

Tom Veal.

The elevation of unrestricted abortion from a progressive policy preference to a primary dogma is one of the most astonishing developments in intellectual history. From Bill Clinton’s “safe, legal and rare”, “rare” has been dropped entirely, and “safe” is hardly a consideration. Abortions performed by non-medical personnel or by the unsupervised ingestion of abortifacient drugs are regarded as quite acceptable. The child’s death has a higher value than the mother’s health.

Even more strikingly, pro-abortion progressives denounce any public criticism of abortion as fiercely as any religious fanatic has ever excoriated blasphemy. Several posts back, I cited a couple of examples. A couple more showed up today.

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Democrat attempts to dehumanize their ‘election denier’ GOP opponents is backfiring spectacularly, as a new report from Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight reveals there are ‘well over a hundred’ midterm GOP candidates who have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election ‘have a strong chance of winning their race.’

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A new Hoover Institution (Stanford University) report indicates that California continues to shed corporate headquarters locations to other states.

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and UCLA distinguished professor of economics Lee Ohanian and Joseph Vranich of Spectrum Locations Services show that “In 2021, California business headquarters left the state at twice their rate in both 2020 and 2019, and at three times their rate in 2018. In the last three years, California lost eleven Fortune 1000 companies, whose exits negatively affect California’s economy today. But California also is risking its economic future as much smaller but rapidly growing unique businesses are leaving, taking their innovative ideas with them.”

Including companies outside the Fortune 1,000, Ohanian and Vranich indicate that California lost 153 corporate headquarters between in 2021. This is more than double the totals for each of the three years from 2018 to 2020.

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White House chief of staff and serial Twitter user Ron Klain violated the Hatch Act, a federal law that forbids government employees from engaging in campaign-related activity, according to an Office of Special Counsel letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The violation occurred earlier this year when Klain retweeted the left-wing political action committee Strike PAC on May 22, the Office of Special Counsel said in its letter to the America First Legal. The tweet thanked President Joe Biden for delivering infant formula to the United States amid a national shortage, and linked to the commitee’s online store.

Such conduct is illegal. The Hatch Act forbids federal “employees from, among other things, using their official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election and knowingly soliciting, accepting, or receiving political contributions from any person.”

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Although sometimes you’d be forgiven for thinking so.

Just Stop Oil has continued its disruptive protest over the last few weeks, promising to escalate its action as long as the government grants licences for fossil fuel exploration. On 14 October, two protesters hurled soup at Van Gogh’s painting The Sunflowers in the National Gallery and glued their hands to the wall. Thankfully, the painting was protected by Perspex, but the frame itself was reportedly damaged. Elsewhere, protesters have been obstructing roads across the capital, graffitiing the Scotland Yard sign and the shopfront of an Aston Martin dealership, climbing onto the Dartford Crossing bridge, stopping traffic and covering the front of Harrods with paint. Other groups protested too, with Animal Extinction pouring milk on supermarket floors and End Private Jets pouring urine and faeces on a memorial to Sir Captain Tom Moore.

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While the pandemic is over, the privilege of the political pajama class isn’t.

“Get a government job!” — John Derbyshire

Prosecutor says star witness may be ‘reluctant’ in Trump company trial (Reuters)

Scandal: Trump Loyalist Could Sink Trump’s Entire Company As Criminal Trial Starts (MSNBC) But probably won’t.

New Email Reveals Answer To Establishment’s Efforts To Oust Trump

Trump’s antisemitism has nothing to do with people being Jewish. That doesn’t make it less dangerous. (MSNBC)

Dems hit Republicans from the right with “Trump traitor” ads (Axios)

‘Principled Conservatism’ and Never Trump

Archives Insists Trump Referral to DOJ Unrelated to House Dems’ Probe  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Trump team receives subpoena from Jan. 6 committee (Politico)

Trump lets the truth slip about the MAGA base — and today’s GOP (Washington Post) Greg Sargent has the bash-Trump duty at the WaPo; Jennifer Rubin must be on vacation.

Omicron boosters not much better against variants than the originals, say two small studies (Boston Globe)

Omicron-specific boosters fail to show benefit over original shots, study finds (Washington Examiner)

WHO fungal priority pathogens list to guide research, development and public health action (WHO)

Fatal fungi: World Health Organization releases first ever list of fungal pathogens that are ‘becoming a threat to humanity’ (Daily Mail) So you’d better PANIC!

Pennsylvania Test Scores Fell Sharply as Dem Leaders Pushed School Closures, Mask Mandates

Texas Rep. Harrison: Parents Fear CDC Decision Will Force Vax on Kids

Military Whistleblowers Sound Alarm On ‘Devastating’ Consequences Of Pentagon’s Vaccine Mandate

WH Official: Congressional Funding Needed to Combat COVID Omicron Strain

Decades Of Student Progress Wiped Out; National Math And Reading Scores At Historic Lows: Report

Dissecting Gretchen Whitmer’s False Claim That Michigan Students Were Only Out of Classrooms ‘For Three Months’

NASA instrument detects dozens of methane super-emitters from space (Reuters)

Cut meat consumption to two burgers a week to save planet, study suggests (The Guardian)

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers (ScienceAlert)

Risk of viral spillover found to increase with a warming climate in High Arctic lake sediments (News-Medical)

UK financial watchdog proposes rules to stamp out ‘greenwashing’ (Reuters)

Global health at mercy of fossil fuel addiction, warn scientists (The Guardian)

Emperor penguins listed as endangered by US because of climate crisis (The Guardian)

A Typical Exchange with a Climate Alarmist/Forced Energy Transformationist

Where in the world is Greta Thunberg?  In school, one hopes.

Robbing Grandma to Pay Gaia

Government Awarding $1 Billion to Schools for Electric Buses  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

No Fracking Way: UK Flip-Flops Back To ‘Green’ Religion

Colorado Governor’s Carbon Tax Idea Could Cost Over $42 a Gallon at Pump, Analysis Finds

Bill Gates’ green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts

“A Paradoxical Situation”: Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine

UN Weather Agency: Greenhouse Gases Reach New Record in 2021

A deepfake video of Joe Biden singing the children’s song Baby Shark isn’t funny – it is deeply worrying (The Guardian)

A ‘catastrophe’ is coming for the economy, but it’s not recession or inflation, says Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (CNBC)

Gallup: Biden Approval Down to 40 Percent

DOJ Drags Feet Disclosing Biden’s Plans to ‘Get Out the Vote’

Biden Wants Your Kids to Be Gender-Transitioned Whether You Like It or Not

Major Fuel Supplier On “Code Red” As Diesel Crisis Hits Southeast

Jon Stewart: Hunter Biden Burisma Link ‘Corrupt On Its Face’

DOJ’s Kristen Clarke: A Pro-Abortion Activist Enforcing the Law Against Pro-Lifers  What’s the point of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Kamala Harris Thinks Faith And Abortion Work Together Perhaps for her they do.

Hollywood Insiders: Weirdly, Audiences Don’t Like Eat-Your-Vegetables DIE Projects Made by Untalented Diversity Hires

Triggered

Affirmative Action Isn’t Dead Yet (N.Y. Times)

Waukesha Killer Found Guilty of Murder in Christmas Parade Attack

Black Supremacist Guilty In Deadly Christmas Parade Attack

Facing Lawsuit, Pfizer Says Fellowship Program That Excludes Whites and Asians Serves ‘Public Interest’

MSNBC Invites Prominent Anti-Semite To Discuss Why Anti-Semites Should Be Canceled

Jon Stewart Confronts Arizona AG on Trump’s ‘Stolen’ Election Claims (Daily Beast)

Jon Stewart Grills Disgraceful Attorney General Who Can’t Let Go of Trump’s Fake Election Conspiracy (Vanity Fair)

Republicans want working-class voters — without actually supporting workers (The Guardian) Of course, The Guardian is the expert on what Republicans want.

A historic San Francisco landmark, Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake, may be renamed (S.F. Gate)

In battle with Big Oil, Newsom rips into Valero’s 500% rise in profit amid soaring gas prices (L.A. Times)

Is Christian nationalism growing or declining? Both. (Washington Post)

Larry Krasner Impeachment Committee Relies on Widely Panned Journal Study (The Intercept)

Univision Victim-Shames Republican Volunteer Attacked in Hialeah, Florida

How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy (Mother Jones)

Hillary’s Conspiracy Theory: GOP Already Plans ’24 Election Theft

Pelosi on GOP: ‘I Cannot Believe Anybody Would Vote for These People’

Justice Alito: Roe Leak Made Us ‘Targets for Assassination’

MSNBC Worries ‘Mainstream Media’ Coverage Will Drive Latinos to GOP

MSNBC’s Elise Jordan Called Trump ‘Scumbag,’ But Left Attacks Her As Closet Trump Fan

New York Times Front Page Excoriates GOP’s ‘Incendiary…Devil Terms’ Language

Right-Wing Operatives Plead Guilty in Voter-Suppression Scheme (N.Y. Times)

Democrats Are Loving and Peaceful. Republicans Are Hateful and Violent. I Saw It on the News.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial (ProPublica)

Why Are Florida Republicans Paying a White Supremacist Goon? (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait joins the witch-hunt.

Bizarre Joe Scarborough Attack on Dr. Oz: He ‘Doesn’t Look Like He’s From Pennsylvania’  And Fetterman does? I guess Pennsylvanians prefer the Uncle Fester look.

Second Woman Set to Reveal Herschel Walker Abortion Claim (Daily Beast) And the greater his chance of winning, the harder they’re going to scraaaaaaape that barrel.

Far-right skeptics of GOP may soon have a state’s worth of Senate power (Washington Post)

Mayra Flores Prevented From Joining the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Sorry, it’s only for Democrats.

Report: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Rejects Mexican-Born Congresswoman Because She Is Republican  And is obviously not a Real Hispanic.

Conservative Policies Linked to Higher Death Rates for Americans, Study Finds (Daily Beast)

FAKE NEWS: Newsweek Claims Ted Cruz Lied About Antifa Burning Down Cities

How Kari Lake Went From Local Anchor to New Face of the MAGA Right (TIME)

Kari Lake gives away the game on ‘restoring confidence’ in voting

What’s the non-obvious reason Fox News is talking about crime more? (Washington Post) What’s wrong with talking about the OBVIOUS reason?

The Abortion-Rights Messages That Resonate With Men (TIME) Join the bandwagon or no nookie for you.

Divided City Council committee shoots down attempt to clip Lightfoot’s emergency wings (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

The Republican case for a Temporary Family Visitation Visa (The Hill)

Is Your DEI Progress Undermined by Attention Inequality? (Harvard Business Review)

Midterms Just Bump In The Road For Mainstream Propagandists

‘Another Day in the Neighborhood’: Stray Bullet Hits Eight-Month Pregnant Woman in Manhattan

Even Al Franken Is Attacking the Democrats

No, Latinos aren’t abandoning the Democratic Party (Washington Post) Dana Milbank whistles past the graveyard.

Wealthy Chinese Activate Financial “Escape Plans” Terrified Of Xi’s Coming Reign Of Terror, And Why This Is Good News For Bitcoin

Ruhle Excuses Fetterman’s Debate Performance, Points to Walker Instead

Gendomercials

Hillary is the queen of election denial

The Suicide of Minneapolis

Senator Robert Menendez is under investigation again  He’s a crook. Crooks gotta crook; it’s what they do.

Two-thirds of Republicans still don’t believe Biden was elected legitimately (NBC) He just doesn’t understand it.

Exclusive: Two in five U.S. voters worry about intimidation at polls -Reuters/Ipsos (Reuters) Gee, I wonder why?

Meacham Tells CNN Voting Democrat Is Like Lincoln Saving The Union  Through repression and violation of constitutional rights? Yeah, I can see that.

Video Report: Trans Activists Take Over Women’s Restroom at Mexican University

The hotel I booked online became a homeless shelter and no one told me

Cities Tap $222M in Federal COVID-19 Relief for ‘Guaranteed Income’ Programs

‘Don’t know why that’s so important’: Hochul baffled when Zeldin talks jailing criminals during NY gov debate (N.Y. Post)

HS Football Coach Who Lost Job for Praying After Games to Be Reinstated

Kathy Hochul Handwaves Crime Concerns: ‘I Don’t Know Why That’s So Important To You’

Lawmakers Want to Know Why Pennsylvania Sent Out 240,000 Unverified Ballots

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Matt Mikka explained he used a 400-cc gas generator in the back of his Tesla Model S.

“I really like my Tesla but what I don’t like is stopping to charge, especially on a road trip,” Mikka said. “I don’t even like stopping to fill up my gas-powered car, and that’s way faster than charging.”

In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Warped Perception, Mikka explained that he placed the generator where the Tesla’s rear window is.

While Mikka made the 1,800-mile trip without plugging in at an electric vehicle charging station, he had to stop to allow the Tesla to charge on the side of the road. Mikka also said he had to drive at slower speeds in order to have enough energy to keep the Tesla charged.

Turning a Tesla into a hybrid … a Prius would have cost a lot less. And it won’t spontaneously combust when parked. Or Mercedes has an S-Class hybrid, if you want that “I’m rich and don’t care who knows it” vibe.

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• Matthew Dowd – Then: Chief strategist for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign. Now: Explored running for governor of Texas as a Democrat. Now, a regular guest on MSNBC. Told Joy Reid, “I’m not saying Republicans are Nazis, but voting for them would be like voting for the party of Adolph Hitler.”
• Steve Schmidt – Then: Senior campaign strategist and advisor to McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. Now: Founder of the anti-Republican Lincoln Project. Openly campaigning for Democrat candidates in 2022.
• Michael Steele – Then: Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Now: Refers to the Republican base as “lice, fleas, and blood-sucking ticks.”
• Stuart Stevens – Then: Chief campaign strategist for Mitt Romney in 2012. Now: Senior advisor to the anti-Republican Lincoln Project; makes snarky, juvenile tweets against Ron DeSantis and other Republicans.
• Nicolle Wallace – Then: White House Communications Director under George W. Bush. Now: Hard left MSNBC hostess. Recently suggested that American elections should be monitored by foreigners.

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A popular religious destination in south-central Iran has been hit with a major terrorist attack on Wednesday at a moment tensions in the Islamic Republic are already boiling after over a month of anti-government protests.

Some Muslims love to kill people, especially other Muslims.

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The NFL has blackmailed Arizona over powder keg issues before, but it won’t happen again, says the Republican candidate for governor. Kari Lake, the former Fox 10 television news anchor, said rich, woke NFL owners will not dictate border policy to her if she’s elected next month.

Sounds good.

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“Get a government job!” — John Derbyshire

MarketWatch.

The company has started covertly tracking wishlists and shopping carts across the web in a gambit to win the big business of social shopping, before other platforms get there first

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.