NY Times Columnist Charles Blow: Racism of L.A. Latino Democrat Pols Is ‘White Supremacy’

To understand China you need to understand whiteness, yet it’s missing from the conversation (ABC) I guess Chinese are honorary white people.

The SAT Gap and the Supreme Court: Are Asians Just Massively Smarter or Is the SAT Broken?

‘Absolutely’: Tim Ryan Promised Investigation Into Whether Government Created HIV To Kill Black People  If so, it’s doing a piss-poor job of it.

These two new COVID variants could drive the next surge. Here’s why they’re causing surprise and concern (S.F. Chronicle)

Chicago’s Top Doc Predicts ‘We’re Going to See a COVID Surge’ This Winter (NBC Chicago)

Vaccine makers face revenue slump as demand falls for Covid jabs (Financial Times)

Few Getting Updated COVID-19 Boosters Despite White House Pleas

‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ turned out to be just another Democratic lie

Republicans are trying to win by spreading three false talking points. Here’s the truth (The Guardian) Of course, Robert Reich wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the foot.

Who’s behind those vile, right-wing political TV ads during the baseball playoffs (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Christian childcare teacher who refused to read LGBT books to kids sues after being fired: ‘Blatantly illegal’ (Fox)

What are tech billionaires’ text messages like? Just as petty as ours, it turns out (The Guardian)

Perspective: The shadow side of the fight against white Christian nationalism (Deseret News)

We Should Try to Prevent Another Alex Jones (N.Y. Times) How? Genetic engineering?

Kari Lake won’t commit to accepting 2022 election results (CNN)

CBS Smears Rush Limbaugh & Talk Radio as ‘Bad for America’  I miss Rush Limbaugh.

New Book Reveals Jim Jordan’s Dirty Tricks With Impeachment (Daily Beast) And of course if it’s in a book it must be true, right?

Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics?

ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Feds Could Investigate PayPal Speech ‘Fine’

New Zealand Arts Funder Rejects Shakespeare as ‘Imperialism’

The End of the Good Republicans (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew reveal their true agenda: ‘Good Republicans’ are, of course, anti-Trump and quasi-Democrat.

The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene (N.Y. Times) They keep trying to cancel her and she refuses to stay cancelled.

Biden DOJ Wants 6-Month Prison Sentence For Steve Bannon

CNN’s Inside Politics Uses Term ‘The Big Lie’ Again After Being Told Not To by CNN President

‘Abuse of Power’: Biden DOJ Targets Another Pro-Lifer With FACE Act Charges

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They forgot one: Regularly vote Democrat.

(Most reference works I’ve consulted make no distinction between ‘sociopath’ and ‘psychopath’.)

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Quantum entanglement is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart – their respective properties are linked in a way that’s not possible under the rules of classical physics.

It’s a weird phenomenon that Einstein described as “spooky action at a distance”, but its weirdness is what makes it so fascinating to scientists. In a 2021 study, quantum entanglement was directly observed and recorded at the macroscopic scale – a scale much bigger than the subatomic particles normally associated with entanglement.

The dimensions involved are still very small from our perspective – the experiments involved two tiny aluminum drums one-fifth the width of a human hair – but in the realm of quantum physics they’re absolutely huge.

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Just in time for us all to die from ‘climate change’. How convenient.

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This week a lawsuit against the CDC has given us access to some of the V-safe data. This is the smartphone app created by the CDC that lets you register for the vaccine and report side effects and other health information. As with any user-reported data, it should be taken with a grain of salt, but there are people who argue that reporting systems like this and VAERS undercount adverse events because most people don’t bother reporting. Either way, this is data that the CDC has been sitting on and only released due to a recent court order.

The data provided is from 10.1 million users and the headline number is 7.7% of those required medical attention after vaccination. It is such an absurdly high number that if I was working at the CDC, I would insist it was incorrect and there must be something wrong with the software. It will be very interesting moving forward to know how many employees were privy to this information or if there was any internal debate about releasing or debunking it. Data like this would create a liability nightmare, that is if liability existed for such a thing.

ZMan reads the tea leaves.

Is the Biden administration planning to use tactical nuclear weapons against the Russians in defense of Ukraine? It should be unthinkable but we live in an age in which the most offensive and absurd is celebrated, so we can no longer assume anything, no matter how monstrous, is beyond the pale. The bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines was an outlandish act of provocation, so we cannot assume there is anyone in the admiration on the side of restraint.

The first clue that the Biden people are talking about the use of nuclear weapons is their endless talking about the use of nuclear weapons. For months they have been talking about it, in the context of the Russians threatening to use nukes. The trouble is, the Russians have never threatened to use nuclear weapons. Western media keeps making this claim, but an examination of the record shows that Russian officials have repeatedly said the exact opposite.

It is a well known aspect of regime psychology to project what they are doing or plotting onto some enemy of the regime. In 2016 we got the Russian collusion hoax in which Trump was accused of plotting with foreigners to rig the election. What we eventually learned is that it was the regime that was working with foreign intelligence services to not only rig the election but undermine the Trump administration. The opposite rule is an iron law of understanding regime behavior.

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One of the most powerful environmental regulators in the country is set to upturn a critical part of the trucking industry—again. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has opened up a public comment period until October 27 on a new proposed rule, the Advanced Clean Fleet rule, which would ban the sale of diesel-fueled commercial vehicles in California by 2030.

No one knows exactly how this rule will play out in the years to come, least of all CARB, which does not concern itself with details like the lengths of haul run by the trucking carriers based in California, the performance characteristics of commercially available battery-electric vehicles, or indeed their affordability and total cost of ownership. As technology advances, we’re told, the logic of the Board’s decision will be revealed in the fullness of time.

The rule being considered by California regulators today bears all the hallmarks of a regulation concocted deep in the bowels of CARB, hermetically sealed off from any consideration of the operating models of California truckers. Californian carriers are crucial links in the national supply chain, because not only do they connect North America’s largest port complex at Los Angeles and Long Beach to the rest of the country, but they also keep the nation fed with Californian produce.

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Periodically the problem becomes an issue for Congress and a “reform law” is passed that does not work. Despite that every few years there is a major effort, often involving more than one service, to deal with the problem themselves. None ever succeed. For example, in 2017 the U.S. Air Force joined the Navy by continuing to extend temporary exceptions to the traditional (since 1947) “up or out” policy prevalent throughout the American military. What up or out meant was that if you were not promoted within a certain number of years (of your last promotion), you had to leave. That meant capable, often very capable personnel, especially NCOs and mid-rank officers, with jobs that had little opportunity for promotion were often forced to leave because of this rule. The air force, like the other services, are slowly modifying the “up or out” rule so that it at least becomes tolerable and not counterproductive.

Whenever there were major reductions in military personnel (after World War II, Korea and Vietnam) it was common for a lot of very competent NCOs and officers to be “up or outed so, since the last major round of downsizing in the 1990s, all the services sought more ways to avoid losing skilled personnel who being lost for no other reason than that there were no opportunities for promotion in their military occupation specialties (MOS). After 2001 the navy and air force were hardest hit and both services have implemented temporary adjustments to “up or out” rules to keep people they could not afford to lose and could not easily replace by retraining veteran personnel in other fields or obtaining new recruits with the needed skills and experience.

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Over the last seven years, hundreds of bills and resolutions seeking to put an end to daylight saving time have been introduced throughout the U.S. Many haven’t passed, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Two states — Hawaii and most of Arizona — already observe permanent standard time (the time between November and March), meaning they don’t change their clocks at all.

Under current federal law, the U.S. as a whole can only abandon the twice-yearly changing of the clocks if Congress enacts a federal law, or a state or local government submits detailed information to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation “supporting its contention the requested change would serve the convenience of commerce.”

Documents show top DeSantis officials were personally involved in Martha’s Vineyard flights (Politico)

Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy (The Guardian)

Wisconsin lawyer suing over fake elector plot wants to probe Ron Johnson’s Jan. 6 communications (NBC)

Misinformation most amplified on TikTok, Twitter: report (The Hill)

Racist GOP appeals heat up in final weeks before midterms (Washington Post)

GA Debate Blows Up On Tiffany Cross: Guests Say Walker Met Expectations, Warnock Didn’t!

The Right’s Quiet Uncanceling of a Dead White Supremacist (Vanity Fair)

ABC Panel ERUPTS After Christie Questions Jan 6 Committee Credibility

Unchecked review: how Trump dodged two impeachments … and the January 6 committee? (The Guardian)

Documents reveal Australia’s efforts to stay neutral as Donald Trump claimed electoral fraud (The Guardian)

Paul Ryan says Trump will not be 2024 nominee (N.Y. Post)

A history lesson for Donald Trump (Spectator) Journalists never tire of giving unasked-for advice.

Suspected Stockton serial killer caught with gun while ‘out hunting,’ police chief says (KCRA Sacrament0)

EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents (NOLA.com) Your tax dollars at work.

EPA: Louisiana may have discriminated against Black communities facing air pollution (The Hill) The EPA is one of the reasons Richard Nixon will burn in Hell for all eternity.

Chicago Fifth-Grade Teacher Allegedly Made ‘Kill List’ Of Students, Teachers: Police

NYT Covers Mexican Racism, American Readers Baffled

ABC: “Xi’s China May Represent the End of Whiteness. Except That the Chinese Communist Party Itself Mirrors Whiteness.”  Who knew that the Chinese are champions of White Supremacy?

LA’s Black-Latino Tensions Bared in City Council Scandal

Teens are pouring milk out in grocery stores in new trend to raise awareness about dairy production emissions (Fox)

To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives (The Guardian)

Fast food fever: how ultra-processed meals are unhealthier than you think (The Guardian)

The mystery lurking in California’s $8 gas prices (Washington Post)

The global economy is in chaos. Nobody’s coming to the rescue. (Politico)

IMF meetings have exposed the fragmentation of the global economy (The Guardian)

Officials ‘grinding to the bone’ to prepare for cash-bail reform amid what they call misinformation, politicization (Chicago Tribune)

Democratic Party Moved From Uncomfortable To Intolerable For Members: #WalkAway Founder

The WashPost Way: ‘Badass’ Journalists ‘Afflicting the Comfortable’ for ‘Radical Change’

Report: San Francisco ‘Woke’ Policies Turned City Into Open Drug Market  Good–maybe all the druggies will move there and leave the rest of us alone.

Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look At Politicized Education

National Conservatism Is New Deal Liberalism

Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on

The Invisible Crisis

Democrats Spent $2 Trillion to Save the Economy. They Don’t Want to Talk About It. (N.Y. Times) Possibly because it’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that they just made it worse.

Obama Calls Dems a ‘Buzzkill’ on Cancel Culture, Policy

Nancy Pelosi Claims Dems Will Win Big – Apologizes For Saying Trump’s Name Out Loud On Colbert Show

List from Trump of Voting Irregularities

Malpass survives climate gaffe, but the World Bank’s fossil fuel policy may not (Politico)

Nature is disappearing: Here’s why it matters and what to do about it (The Hill)

‘Like a train that can’t be stopped’: how the climate crisis threatens clammers (The Guardian)

What is methane, how much does Australia emit, and will we sign the pledge? (The Guardian)

Methane reduction is vital to achieving a 1.5C future (The Guardian)

‘It was terrifying’: Stop Oil activists on the new battle against fossil fuel (The Guardian)

Ocean currents protect Galápagos Islands from global warming; but are they safe forever? (Down to Earth Magazine)

Two Words Explain California’s Wildfire Woes: Spotted Owl

In Overheated Economy, Dems Forced To Cool Climate Messaging

More Foods Will Be Gene-Edited Than You Think

Green Academics Blame “Climate Injustice” for Energy Price Hardship

Driving Buy: Pollution, Customers and Development

What to do with your old phones, gadgets and other e-waste (CNN) Gazelle.com.

This groundbreaking motionless wind turbine is 50% more efficient than regular turbines (Interesting Engineering)

Cheap wind harvester generates electricity from a gentle breeze (New Atlas)

Is Global Warming Responsible for Hurricane Ian? The Evidence Says No

Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard may get visas after being declared victims of crime (The Guardian)

How Kamala Harris’ Approval Ratings Stand 4 Weeks Before Midterms (Newsweek)

Protest closes US-Mexico border bridge in Texas (NBC)

The high price of Biden’s foolish energy policy and Saudi squabble (The Hill)

Buses brought the border to New York City. Soon emergency tents will house hundreds of migrants (CNN)

Adams’ NYC migrant shelter build on Randall’s Island sparks major safety concerns: ‘Riot on the island’ (Fox)

The lawyer who could deliver on Biden’s wish to be the most pro-union president (Washington Post) Look for … the Union label….

Importing more foreign farm workers is sowing the seeds of destruction (The Hill)

Texas border patrol discovers $402K in liquid meth inside of condom-filled pumpkins (Fox)

Federal Tax Haul Nears Record-High Share Of GDP

Biden calls testimony, video from Jan. 6 committee hearing ‘devastating’ (Reuters)

Inside Hunter Biden’s cash ties to communist China’s ‘political warfare’ machine

Economists Project ’23 Recession, Job Losses in WSJ Survey  Spendaholic Dems will do that.

Embattled Biden Turning to Trump-Era Rule to Expel Venezuelan Migrants

The Other McCain has a Darwin Award nominee.

Say hello to Steven Joaquin “Zhoie” Perez (a/k/a “Furry Potato”), a transgender YouTuber who specializes in “First Amendment audits.”

You may not have heard of this phenomenon: People who record videos in public places — post offices, municipal buildings, etc. — in order to test {“audit,” as they say) the police response. These self-declared are deliberately non-cooperative when confronted by law enforcement, refusing to identify themselves and sometimes insulting the officers who usually show up in response to reports of “suspicious behavior.”

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Well, it’s more of a shed than a house, but still…. It would probably do for a burger shack or an ATM hut.

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Terahertz (T-ray) technologies offer the promise to transform how we interact with the world around us, from delivering lightning-fast data transfer beyond 6G to providing X-ray-like imaging without any harmful radiation. Yet effectively and efficiently harnessing T-rays for mainstream commercial applications has continued to elude scientists and engineers, relegating T-ray technologies to the realm of science fiction.

However, recent breakthroughs in how terahertz waves are generated and detected have now brought the technology to a tipping point for mainstream adoption. T-ray scanners can now be small enough to fit on a desktop, and they have enabled widespread terahertz use in medical, corporate, manufacturing and security settings across the world, with more developments to come. Here’s how T-ray technology has evolved over the past few decades and what we can expect in the years ahead.

Good news and bad news.

“Socialism, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.

Rhetoric like that won the socialist dictator the admiration of socialists from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky. But the dirty little secret of the socialist revolution in Venezuela was that it was a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gutted Venezuela’s rich oil resources and turned the country into a socialist drug cartel.

“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president Maduro,” Sean Penn promised. The population has fled or is starving, but the revolution endures.

In 2020, Maduro and top officials of his regime were indicted in the United States as leaders of the Cartel de los Soles for conspiring with FARC to smuggle tons of cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s biggest asset was its border with Colombia. Cuba, which had backed FARC and other narcoterrorists in Colombia, scored a big win with the socialist takeover in Venezuela.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Tonight was American Experiment’s Fall Briefing, and, as Scott previewed, Tulsi Gabbard was our keynote speaker. I looked forward both to meeting and to hearing her, as she is one of the most interesting figures on our political scene. And, of course, the timing was fortuitous with Gabbard having just departed the Democratic Party.

So, what did I think of her? I was blown away. Our audience was, too.

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When secular, non-practicing criminal Muslims get sent to prison, by the time they are released, they tend to be full-fledged mujahideen, ready to slay infidels for Allah. To make matters worse, many non-Muslim criminals convert to Islam during their prison terms.

Based on the following report, this is especially true in France.

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

Steve at Tools of Renewal lets it all go.

I do not want to sign up for your cool updates and offers, especially when you sign me up without permission. When I am forced to opt out, I do not want to be asked why I left. Please don’t tell me you’re sorry to see me go. No human being was ever aware I was there in the first place.

I do not want to be part of your cool new community, or worse, “family,” and neither does anyone else. I do not want to interact with you or other users. I do not want other users to know I exist.

If people wanted to associate with you, they would have talked to you when you were in high school, which they did not, because you are nerds.

I do not want a password on the hardware you sold me. I do not care if someone hacks into my Gopro or wireless printer. If your stupid software insists on a password, do not tell me what kind of password it has to be. Allow me to use “1,” which is my all-time favorite. Please do not put a long, complicated initial password with a lot of numbers and capital letters on the product you sold me and then put the password on a tiny label on the bottom of the product in microprint.

Please do not print your serial numbers in fonts only an ant can read.

Please put your software on disks (in the box) AND online, do not charge me for downloading it, do not put a bunch of junk in it no one wants, and do not make me fill out any forms in order to get it. Don’t even think about charging me for it.

Include all the necessary cables. Seriously, what’s wrong with you?

Do not force me to upgrade my firmware or software before using the product. I don’t care if it understands the latest emojis or gets along well with Tiktok. Last year’s stuff is fine.

If your product is a printer, do not write your software so it tries to sell me your toner cartridges and lies and says they’re better than the other ones. I do not want the $100 cartridges. I want the $17 cartridges from China which work just as well, and I am willing to hack your printer in able to use them, because using someone else’s toner isn’t stealing.

Do not include “lite” software which does not work but hits me with ads for the real software I have to pay extra for.

Do not cover your package with ridiculous bragging about how green it is. I do not care. It’s going to the same dumpster, where I will mingle the plastic, styrofoam, cardboard and staples without remorse. For all I care, you can spray your boxes with dioxin and use plutonium staples along with cellophane that has been rubbed all over Ebola patients. Just get your product to me without damage.

Just knock it off, okay? Just sell me what I want, make it quick to start using it, and buzz off.

The January 6 panel makes it clear: American democracy needs accountability (The Guardian) Indeed, although not in the way he means.

Why The January 6th Committee Hearings Were Just As Riveting In The Room As They Were On TV (Deadline) Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

Ban on guns with serial numbers removed is unconstitutional -U.S. judge (Reuters)

Mark Wahlberg is the latest wealthy person to ditch California for ‘a better life’ in a taxless state (Fortune) Taxless? Hardly.

Jamie Dimon says ‘some investors don’t give a s–t’ about woke ‘ESG’ investing (N.Y. Post)

How Kathy Hochul is ‘bribing’ her way to election — with nearly $1 billion of your money (N.Y. Post)

Woman with 40 prior arrests who stole wallet from dead crash victim is freed without bail (N.Y. Post)

Heartless homeless woman who pickpocketed dead man, 62, of ‘only $40’ after he was crushed by construction truck in NYC is FREED without bail – and claims ‘he robbed me first’ (Daily Mail)

Plans to turn parts of all Chicago expressways into tollways (WGN)

In Canada it’s illegal to call yourself software engineer

4 Myths Jon Stewart Perpetuated About Radical Gender Theory

Stacey Abrams’ group funnels thousands to director’s family and friends with no political experience (Fox) A classic case of Democrat machine politics.

The Danchenko trial: on framing Trump, on exonerating Hunter

Wawa Calls It Quits On Its Hometown City, Shuttering Two More Philadelphia Stores Due To “Safety Challenges”

CNN Panel Does Not Like Being Reminded Democrats Also Believe Conspiracies

Avlon: Trump’s response to subpoena is ‘vomit’ (CNN)

Trump Responds To Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena With Letter Pushing Election Fraud Claims (NBC)

Donald Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Newsweek)

Trump Is Going to Create Yet Another Constitutional Crisis (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Tried to Destroy the Constitution (The Atlantic)

The Munich Model for Trump’s National Security Extortion (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew neocons revert to their Trotskyite roots.

While Condemning Racism, Racist MSNBC Laments ‘Latinos Who Are White’

Report: DC AG Probing Border Governors Over Illegal Migrant Transports

Chris Pratt Is the New Tim Tebow

Secret Service reached out to Oath Keepers ahead of January 6 riot (CNN)

Jan. 6 Capitol riot panel briefed on multiple calls between Secret Service and Oath Keepers, NBC News reports (CNBC)

What was the point of Ted Cruz tweeting that fake news story anyway? (Washington Post)

The Jan. 6 Hearings Are Over. These 3 Things Must Happen Now. (N.Y. Times) 1. Witch-hunt, 2. Witch-hunt, 3. Witch-hunt.

D.C. attorney general opens investigation into Republican governors’ relocating migrants to the capital (Texas Tribune) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

Dems fear Kari Lake could be Arizona’s governor—and a major MAGA star (Axios) OH NOES!

“Pretty troublesome”: New COVID variant BQ.1 now makes up 1 in 10 cases nationwide, CDC estimates (CBS) Once more, it’s time to PANIC!

Omicron BA.5 is declining in the U.S. as emerging variants gain ground, CDC data shows (CNBC)

A global epidemic of cancer among people younger than 50 could be emerging (CNN)

Fauci Edited Paper By NIH-Funded Group Tied To Wuhan Lab

CDC Director: Americans Should Brace for ‘Severe’ Flu Season  And don’t forget to PANIC!

Public Relations Company for Big Pharma Now “Embedding” Employees at CDC One hand washes the other.

Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC

Border governors taking action on illegal immigration because Biden administration caused crisis (Fox)

Venezuelan migrants in shock and limbo after new US immigration plan (CNN)

Mayorkas Threatened With Impeachment Over Border ‘Whipping’ Response (Newsweek) Talk’s cheap.

We’re Heading for a Stagflationary Crisis Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen (TIME)

Nearly 130,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered the U.S. shelter system in 2022, a record (CBS)

CNN, MSNBC Bosses Offer Awful Defense of Dismissing the Hunter Laptop Story in 2020

Latest Supply Chain Crisis Could Threaten Global Stash Of Food, Energy

DOJ Sued Over Refusal To Explain Zero Protection For Conservative Supreme Court Justices’ Homes

Former FBI Agent Thibault Rejects House GOP Request for Testimony

Daniel Greenfield.

Luftmensch meant a ‘man of air’ who lived detached from the real world, had no income or any way to pay his bills, and yet here he was. With the internet, we’re all cloud people now. Our economy is dominated by companies with unclear business plans except that they somehow involve the cloud.

Facebook, which despite its recent downturn, still has a stock price twice the value of GE, unveiled its big achievement, ‘Legs‘ which will allow its avatars to enjoy the appearance of feet in the metaverse. Netflix’s stock price is double that of IBM, even though it suffered some reverses when investors realized that its plan to continue growing forever while spending $17 billion a year on creating bad movies and TV shows was not actually sustainable. Good thing there’s solar panel and wind turbine companies to bet on.

Beyond cryptocurrencies (just imagine if your money were even more intangible, less secure and backed by even less in the way of assets than it is now) and software as a service (why own when you can rent), the effect of the luftmensch on our society has been far more devastating. The social web eliminated personal and geographic space. No longer were people kept apart by neighborhoods, communities, classes, national borders or even languages. Like a great slum housing project, we were all living on top of one another. And there was never a respite from life in this ugly, loud, noisy and dangerous neighborhood.

BBC.

So go out and wallow.

The Other McCain is not impressed.

This week marked the beginning of the end of “The United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, more commonly known as the January 6th Committee.”

Congress has now adjourned until after the election, which Democrats will lose, and so, while we might see some further theatrics during the lame-duck sessions before the 118th Congress convenes in January, this was their big finale: “Let’s subpoena Trump!”

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Angry culture-enrichers in France are threatening to give a teacher the Samuel Paty treatment, i.e. they intend to behead him. It’s not clear what he did to upset the soldiers of Allah, aside from the fact that he’s Jewish.

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

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Before Rodney Briones’ physicians at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center in California treated him with Remdesivir, they allegedly did not disclose the risks to him or to his wife, Christina, and did not obtain informed consent, according to a complaint filed by the Briones family.

The couple had gone to the managed care consortium for help after Rodney developed COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive twice for SARS-CoV-2.

A five-day course of treatment with the controversial drug and other allegedly contraindicated, high-risk medications allegedly led to kidney failure for the 50-year-old Briones, who was subsequently placed on a ventilator. During this time, Kaiser Riverside reportedly refused to allow the man’s wife or family to see him. He died on Sept. 12.

Joel Kotkin.

In the past, ruling classes sought to protect the system that secured their coveted positions. But sometimes, as in the era before the French or Russian Revolutions, some in the ruling circles stopped believing in their religion, their traditions, and their state, only to be exiled, executed, or turned into what the Soviets called “former persons.”

Like our current elites, many French aristocrats lived dissolute lives but also supported revolutionary ideas which threatened “their own rights and even their existence,” as Alexis de Tocqueville noted. Today a large, even dominant portion of the wealthiest and most privileged parts of our society—including the heirs of nasty capitalist titans such as Henry Ford or John D. Rockefeller—are key funders of an increasingly anti-capitalist left. Others are still young tech billionaires and—increasingly—their discarded or former spouses.

This elite has arisen at a time when, as in France before 1789, inheritance is becoming ever more important as a vehicle for upward mobility, which is otherwise increasingly remote for most of the population. Home ownership among middle income Americans, for example, the primary means for asset accumulation for the non-rich, has dropped by over 8 percent in the past decade, while the wealthy have garnered the greatest gain from increased housing prices. American millennials are three times as likely as boomers to count on inheritance for their retirement. Among the youngest cohort, those ages 18 to 22, over 60 percent see inheritance as their primary source of sustenance as they age.

NPR.

The headline tells you everything you need to know about the Narrative media attitude toward facts.

‘Powder keg’ for ‘disaster’: As migrant surge sweeps NYC, here’s where they’re being housed (N.Y. Post) Remember: The total number of migrants sent to New York City is what Texas towns receive every day.

The Ute Indian Tribe calls Biden’s newest national monument an ‘unlawful act of genocide’ (Salt Lake Tribune)

Biden says he visited Rio Grande — despite ducking border trip (N.Y. Post) More Biden lies.

36 migrants arrive outside VP Kamala Harris residence, buses continue pouring into NYC (Fox)

DOJ Sued for Refusing to Say Why It Ignored Protests at Justices’ Homes  Well, because they were Heretics and Sinners. Duh.

Social Security’s 8.7% COLA Will Protect Retirees From Inflation, but Will Hasten Program’s Insolvency  Maybe people will quit voting for Democrat giveaways. Maybe.

WSJ: Top FTC Officials Had Stocks in Firms They Regulated

‘Demented Liar Joe Biden’

The Stagflation President

The Era Of Cheap Food And Cheap Gasoline Is Over

WATCH: Biden Says He Agrees With Everything Maxine Waters Says. Roll the Tape.

Media Desperately Spin Inflation: ‘Silver Lining!’ Economy ‘Strong!’

AOC Welcomes Flood of Migrants to Big Apple

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 15

The Midterm Boogeyman of ‘Christian Nationalism’

Chase Bank allegedly shutters bank account of religious freedom nonprofit, demands donor list (Fox)

Abrams: Kemp ‘simply refused to commit treason’ for Trump (The Hill)

Stacey Abrams slams Gov. Kemp, says he’s as ‘vicious and as callous’ as Trump (Fox) And she’s a bigger liar than Biden.

Jordan Peterson, ‘lightning rod’ of US culture wars, receives warm embrace in Israel (Times of Israel)

He Marched At The Nazi Rally In Charlottesville. Then He Went Back To Being A Cop. (Huffington Post)

Va. parents could face abuse charges for not affirming their LGBTQ child under new bill (ABC)

Counterproductive Cancel Culture: Ye Banned from Social Media and Chase Bank

BREAKING: Soros Gave $30M to Groups Urging Censorship of So-Called Disinfo Before Midterms

Sidney Powell’s nonprofit raised $16 million as she spread election falsehoods (Washington Post) How much did Hillary raise? How much Stacy Abrams?

Leftist Troll Tries To Piss Off J.K. Rowling, and She Couldn’t Care Less

Yahoo! Finance Makes Stupid Attempt to Blame Pro-Lifers for Making America’s Diaper Crisis ‘Worse’

First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct (LiveScience.com)

Ancient Life Caused The Destruction Of Mars, Scientists Speculate (Futurism)

Plans to scrap nature-friendly farm subsidies put biodiversity target ‘at risk’ (The Guardian)

When Will the World As We Know It End From Climate Change? (Newsweek)

Scientists just discovered a new whale. Now they fear it may go extinct. (Washington Post)

How to get Asia to net zero (The Economist)

Green energy projects face stark environmental, local opposition nationwide (Fox)

Sweden’s Incoming Cabinet Says New Reactors Will Be Built (Bloomberg)

Irony: Greens Now Praying for a “Warmer” Winter to Help Germany Survive Energy Crisis

Who Throws Soup? Climate Activists Trash Van Gogh Painting With Tomato Bisque

U.S. extends Covid public health emergency even though Biden says pandemic is over (CNBC) It’s all about the PANIC!

U.S. extends COVID-19 public health emergency declaration (Reuters)

Posts mislead on Pfizer COVID vaccine’s impact on transmission (Associated Press)

Flu off to an early start as CDC warns about potentially severe season (NBC) Gotta keep up the PANIC!

“Severe Adverse Effects”: Doctors Warn Pfizer’s Paxlovid Can Interact With Common Medications

No Data To Recommend ‘Preferential’ Omicron Booster Jabs: WHO Panel

Babies Born In Lockdown Less Likely To Speak Before First Birthday; New Study Finds  Are their first words “How dare you!”?

Telemedicine is Dying

Nury Martinez’s ‘little Latina girls’ line sparks backlash (L.A. Times)

EPA: Louisiana may have discriminated against Black communities facing air pollution (The Hill)

Do we want social media companies to decide whether Kanye West gets a platform? (The Guardian) Robert Reich suddenly discovers that there is a threat to free speech.

The Ferguson Effect Eight Years Later

Tenured Professor Fired for His Breakthrough Race-IQ Study

Apple contractor fired after her day-in-the-life TikTok video went viral  I would never hire a Fashionable Minority employee. They inevitably spend more time thinking about how oppressed they are than doing any actual work.

Atlanta Fed President Reveals Five Years Of Trading Violations; Claims He “Didn’t Understand” Disclosure Obligations

Jan. 6 select committee votes to subpoena Trump for testimony, documents in connection with Capitol assault (CBS) Guess they’re feeling the lack of attention.

Trump reacts to committee’s unanimous vote to subpoena him (CNN)

7 takeaways from the January 6 hearing (CNN) Come and get your Narrative, fresh from the Hive.

The Trump Subpoena Will Be the Headline, But the Real Washington News Was Elsewhere (Politico)

The Jan. 6 hearings are over. Time to vote. (Washington Post) On what? Now much they’re obsessed with Trump? Who doesn’t know that already?

Jan. 6 panel: Trump ordered large-scale U.S. troop withdrawals after election (Axios)

New Robert Draper book shows how Trump worked the refs (Axios)

Trump: Committee a ‘BUST’: That’s Why It Wants My Testimony Now

Jan. 6 Panel Wraps Up Final Hearing (N.Y. Times)

Jan 6 Panel Continues To Hold Hearings For Stuffed Animals And Action Figures They Arranged In Chairs (Babylon Bee)

Jan. 6 Panel Proves Again Trump Must Be Held Accountable (Bl0omberg) The witch-hunt continues.

The Jan. 6 Committee Has Helped Make Trump a Historic President (Politico)

Pelosi, Dems put politics first in Trump impeachment, new book argues (Politico) Who doesn’t know that?

Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’

Video Shows Pelosi Threatening to ‘Punch Out’ Trump on Jan. 6  I’d bet on Trump.

Judge Dismisses 1 Count Against Trump Dossier Source; 4 Counts to Go to Jury

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There used to be a time when certain pundits would post about the correlation between economics and election results. They would go to one of the quantitative guys who modeled these things and then make predictions based on his model. This was a way for a pundit to pretend he was smart. George Will perfected this trick back in 1992 when he consulted a Yale professor whose model predicted a Clinton win.

We do not see much of that anymore. The last time anyone bothered to make the connection was in the 2012 election. The economic models said the election should be razor thin, but that was declared haram. Obama was black Jesus and no one would be allowed to cast shade on our dusky savior. Since then, no one has bothered to talk about economics and elections.

Even now it is not getting much discussion, despite the fact we have 1970’s style inflation and a crumbling economy. People are feeling the pain at the cash register, but the real pain lies just after the election. People seem to get that and will most likely make this known on election day. On the other hand, the great invisible army of Biden voters may think everything is great. Who can really know?

Where does the Constitution authorize the Federal government to spend money on Education? On Welfare? On Health Care? On Pensions? Don’t sweat the arrival of socialism: It’s already here.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

“Intersectionality” is a favorite lib word. It refers to the idea that there is a hierarchy of oppression, so that, for example, Native American women are more oppressed than homosexual white men. All of the allegedly oppressed groups ostensibly make up the liberal coalition, and liberals expect them to take their places in the pecking order.

This works, sort of, as long as everyone is on board. But as we have often seen, divisions often appear between allegedly allied groups. A particularly enjoyable instance of the collapse of intersectionality happened in Dearborn, Michigan, when hundreds of Muslim parents attended a school board meeting to protest homosexual porn in the public schools’ libraries.

Read it.

You think the Biden inflation is bad? Check out grade inflation at Harvard.