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In just the last few weeks, Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister, has been denounced by critics as a “fascist.” So has Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s newly elected prime minister. Along with all Republicans in Congress, Texas and Florida GOP Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis and, of course, former President Donald Trump. Every one of the tens of thousands of “MAGA Republicans” who attend Trump rallies, too.

Dangerous fascists, for that matter, all of whom critics say need to be shut up.

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In an interview accorded to a newspaper, she delivered herself further of her political opinions, including the more or less standard one that there are people in the world with far more money than they need. Usually when people say this they mean, there are people in the world with far more money than I. Curiously enough, they do not include themselves in their strictures, their own inessential expenditure, on such things as holidays abroad, being deemed only appropriate to their needs, though they would almost certainly seem extravagant and unnecessary to a Congolese or Bangladeshi peasant. By definition, it is only others who have too much money.

Despite her disavowals, the nurse’s outburst was not completely at random. It is a cliché that many a true word is said in jest, and likewise, I suppose that many a true word is said in anger (though one mustn’t make the logical mistake of thinking that therefore what is said in anger is true). Anger is sometimes truthful, at least in the sense that it reveals the speaker’s attitudes that he or she normally keeps hidden.

Tom Veal.

Nothing that happens in the U.N. Human Rights Council is of much significance, which is good, because the Council is rotten to the core. It’s basically a pack of wolves charged with watching out for the welfare of lambs. Nonetheless, because Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of that snake pit, the Bidenites rushed to get back in. They assured us that American “engagement” with the likes of Red China, Cuba and Venezuela would do something to promote the Rights of Man.

Yesterday, the U.S. delegation moved to open a debate on communist atrocities in Sinkiang (Xinjiang). The motion failed: 17 yea, 19 nay, 11 abstentions.

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The Washington Post is out this afternoon with news that “federal agents” have sufficient evidence to charge Hunter Biden with “tax crimes” and making false statements related to a gun purchase.

There are some telltale oddities to the story. It describes the source or sources as “people familiar with the situation.” People? What kind of people? The story does not specify whether these “familiar people” are with the FBI, IRS, ATF, or other federal agency. It merely says “investigators with multiple agencies. . . who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing case.” Looks as though the Post reporters don’t want to risk a specific agency source becoming the target of a leak investigation. Or that the leaking source demanded this vague identification.

Given the practice of the Justice Department never to bring charges on politically sensitive cases within 90 days of an election so as to avoid allegations of partisanship, it is doubtful we will see any official announcement as a result of this story. So why did someone want to leak this out now? Perhaps someone in the FBI or Justice Department is concerned with the plummeting public respect for these agencies, and thinks it would be useful to show that they aren’t partisan. Or it is also possible that someone in the FBI or Justice doesn’t want the Hunter Biden investigation swept under the rug, even though the investigation is being supervised (supposedly) by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, David C. Weiss, who is a holdover Trump appointee.

Axios.

Writers for a D.C.-based media operation run by prominent Democratic operatives are behind a sprawling network of ostensible local media outlets churning out Democrat-aligned news content in midterm battleground states, Axios has learned.

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The trial of Igor Danchenko is scheduled for October 11, 2022. While it is only a false statement case, we can’t help but ask whether the trial will reveal any Danchenko contacts with the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign while he was acting as Christopher Steele’s primary subsource.

Conservative British Voters “Shouldn’t Be Resuscitated” By NHS, Claims Left-Wing Ex-Nurse

NYT ‘Right Wing Conspiracy Theory’ Comes True In Less Than 24 Hours

Money flowing to some election deniers sets off scramble in secretary of state races

Clarence Thomas Faces Calls to Recuse Himself from Trump Mar-a-Lago Case (Newsweek)

A cop in a MAGA hat and an Oath Keeper: Inside one of Jan. 6’s strangest moments (NBC)

Three reasons Washington is freaking out about Elon Musk right now (Politico)

Why is the Army punishing a general for calling out MAGA lies? (Washington Post) Max Boot lives up to his name.

Woke Army general rebuked for Twitter-trolling Tucker Carlson, right-wingers (N.Y. Post)

FBI arrests pastor who wore his company jacket on Jan. 6 and pushed into police line (NBC)

Ohio pastor facing multiple Jan. 6 charges (The Hill)

Spotify is ramping up its efforts to find misinformation in podcasts (The Verge)

Report: Tim Ryan Accepted Money From Firms Embroiled in Ohio’s Opioid Crisis (NewsMax)

Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is raging about the Biden ‘regime’ (Washington P0st) As if Greg Sargent would know.

How the GOP counts on Democrats’ goodwill to conceal its own cruelty (L.A. Times)

NY Times’ Roose Sees ‘Right-Wing Trolls…Extremism’ if Musk Takes Twitter

Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake (Associated Press)

Cheney warns Arizona voters that the GOP nominees for governor and secretary of state are threats to democracy (NBC) Cheney appears to have fully transitioned to a David French Republican.

Do You Disagree? Then You’re a Threat to Democracy!

Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse (Wired ‘Science’)

Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

A majority of GOP nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results (Washington Post) What do they know that she doesn’t know?

Analysis: Why Trump’s threat against McConnell should be taken seriously (CNN)

The QAnon ‘anthem’ is a familiar sales tool — with strings attached (Washington Post)

The case of Aaron Burr suggests Donald Trump won’t face consequences (Washington P0st)

National Archives Scraps ‘Transparency’ Mission When It Comes to Trump Documents 

Court Filing Reveals Details About What FBI Took at Mar-a-Lago

How Maggie Haberman Covers Trump Without Losing Her Mind (New York Magazine) Money and approval from the Woke surely counts for something.

TDS: George Takei Tweets Insane Conspiracy Theory about the Increase in Gas Prices

How The U.S. Went From Overfishing To Underfishing (CNBC)

The Guardian view on Cop27: climate justice must take centre stage (The Guardian)

Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms (NBC)

Nearly half of the coal industry is still on an expansion course in ‘reckless’ mining rush (CNBC)

Salt Lake City joins communities in 3 states to fund new carbon dioxide removal projects (KSL)

The Air Force has released its first plan to reduce its carbon footprint and adapt to climate change (NBC)

Climate crisis made summer drought 20 times more likely, scientists find (The Guardian)

Wind and solar are booming, but emissions aren’t falling (Climate Wire)

Peak Oil Fraud

The Atlantic: The Inflation Reduction Act has Unleashed “Uncapped” Spending on Climate Change

Plano man sentenced to life in prison for murdering man who looked at his girlfriend at the Shops at Legacy (Fox)

Slavery on the ballot this fall as voters decide whether to amend language to constitution in five states (Fox)

Kanye West calls BLM a ‘scam’ amid ‘White Lives Matter’ shirt uproar (N.Y. Post)

Kanye West doubles down amid ‘White Lives Matter’ clothing backlash: ‘THEY DO’ (Fox)

Treasury Creates Racial Equity Committee to Narrow Economic Disparities

Edmonton Cops: We Used a Rapist’s DNA to Produce an Illustration of a Generic Black Guy

FBI: Blacks Made Up 60.4% of Known Murder Offenders in 2021

Florida Black Republicans Slam ‘Racist’ Ad Targeting State Senate Candidate

Racial Diversity Among Top Staff in the U.S. House of Representatives

How Val Demings Helped a Campaign Donor Fund a Major Real Estate Purchase With Taxpayer Dollars

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In earlier times, a journalist’s biography might have read, “After a stint in the Army, he began his career by covering local events for a small-town newspaper. Later, he made a name for himself covering the civil rights movement before being hired as a national correspondent.” Nowadays, the bio for most journalists is, “Formerly worked in the communications office of (Democratic Politician) or (Left-Wing Activist Group).”

Journalists are increasingly drawn from the ranks of the wealthiest and most privileged. Seriously, there’s no way someone in the middle or working class could work an unpaid media internship in DC or New York while they wait for the break they won’t get because their family has no powerful connections. Twitter ne’er-do-well “Fear the Floof” dug into the backgrounds of some of these Trustafarian media operatives, and got his account suspended for his troubles.

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Alex Taylor, the animal rights activist who stormed the field on Monday Night Football’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, is suing Rams linebacker Bobby Wagner for tackling him to the ground at Levi’s Stadium. Santa Clara Police Department Lt. Cuong Phan confirmed that Taylor filed a police report on Tuesday afternoon.

That will go nowhere. He was a trespasser. He’s lucky that the NFL isn’t suing him.

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Going back to the New York Post’s suppressed Hunter Biden laptop coverage of October 2020, Miranda Devine has been the essential reporter on the underlying story told by former Biden family business partner Tony Bobulinski. Devine is also the author of the related book Laptop From Hell. She previewed Tucker Carlson’s current interview of Bobulinski in her column “Hunter Biden defrauded me, Jim Biden called me during FBI interview, former biz partner says.” Today Devine follows up in “Ex-Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski takes on the Biden machine.”

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

The golden rule states that the man with the gold makes the rules. In this age, gold is energy in its various forms. The world as we understand it runs on electricity, which comes from fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal. If you happen to sit upon a lot of these things, you get to be important and have a lot of money. If you do not have these things, then you are dependent upon others for your welfare. There simply is no way to have a modern society without cheap energy.

In case the West forgot this reality, OPEC+ sent a gentle reminder this week by committing to a large cut in production. Over the next two months they will reduce supplies of crude to the market by two million barrels per day. The stated reason is to bring market prices back in line with the target of $100 per barrel. The unstated reason was to remind Washington that they are not the only voice in the room. The Saudis were sending a message to Washington.

Joel Kotkin.

The great core cities don’t die — but only if they are willing to change. Today the world’s great cities, such as New York or London, face dramatically changed conditions, notably the rise of remote work, fears from the pandemic, and rising crime.

In many ways they are experiencing an acceleration of already deep-seated trends. The percentage of Americans living in suburbs rose from 13 percent of the metropolitan population in 1940 to 86 percent in 2017, a gradual increase of 2 percent a year. And since 2012, suburbs and exurbs have accounted for about 90 percent of all metropolitan growth. This dispersion has occurred not only in the United States but in the old cities of Europe, too, including London and Paris.

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You could see this one coming a mile away, and many of us did. When the Supreme Court declared that there is no rational reason to deny the right of two people of the same sex to marry–love is love!–it eliminated the teleological foundation of marriage and the family. If marriage is no longer grounded in the biology of reproduction–it takes two, a man and a woman, to make a child–then the number two is likewise irrational. If George and Ken can be in love, and therefore entitled to marry, then why can’t George, Ken and Susan?

Mormons will be pleased.

Muslims will be pleased.

Turd World countries will be pleased.

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More and more women are not getting married for some reason. Numerous reasons are posited, from feminism to the fact that young men seem uninterested—or unable—to get married themselves, which may be the reciprocal of feminism. It is a long subject we won’t try to explain here, but this chart is not good news.

Saudi Arabia and Russia plan deep oil cuts in defiance of US (Financial Times)

White House launches last ditch effort to dissuade OPEC from cutting oil production to avoid a ‘total disaster’ (CNN)

Russia-Ukraine news (CNN)

Biden speaks with Zelensky, unveils $625 million weapons package to Ukraine (The Hill)

It’s Time to Brace for Putin’s Greatest Meltdown Yet (Daily Beast)

What happens if Putin decides to cut his losses in Ukraine? (NPR)

US-China Space Wars & Moon-Mining

Kiev Offers White House Targeting Control For Longer Range Weapons

COUNTER-TERRORISM: The Growing Use of Sanctuaries

AFGHANISTAN: Shunned, Sanctioned And Starving

Europe’s Energy Crisis Forces Factories to Go Dark

How whiteness poses the greatest threat to US democracy (The Guardian)

Wisconsin group says Biden’s student debt plan has ‘improper racial motive’ (Washington Post)

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says state’s migrant crisis needs ‘federal solution’  Oh, like maybe a wall at the southern border?

Biden, Harris say ‘extremist Republicans’ and the Supreme Court are creating a ‘health care crisis’

Arrested looters in Lee County were in US illegally, says sheriff: ‘Not tolerating it’

Biden administration wants federal government to be diversity, equity model for the nation

DHS IG report outlines how Border Patrol facilities in Del Rio Sector were overwhelmed by migrant surge

Border officials count 599,000 ‘gotaway’ migrants in Fiscal Year 2022: source

Harris, on Asia trip, promotes a political priority — women’s rights (Washington Post)

FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents: report

US Army Recruitment Falters – Misses Goal By 25% As Woke Ideology Takes Over

OMG—TV Art Has Imitated Life

GOP seizes on Biden gaffes to attack competence (The Hill) Duh. What are they supposed to do?

Mark Houck Attorney: Garland Must Explain to Family Why Their Father Was Arrested by Men With Guns

Parks and Devastation

Biden Calls Dave Ramsey’s Radio Show For Advice On Paying Off $31 Trillion (Babylon Bee)

Biden, doctors say new abortion laws have chilling impact (Reuters) As they were intended to do.

Lightfoot’s election-year budget aims to boost spending on police and progressive measures without raising property taxes (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS! (So much for ‘defund the police’.)

Rick Caruso pledged $1 million to support abortion rights proposition but has yet to donate (L.A. Times)

San Francisco crime is not getting better, data says (S.F. Gate)

Vast majority of Oregonians view Portland negatively, The Oregonian/OregonLive poll finds

Mayor Eric Adams blasted over NYC migrant tent city move, won’t say what it costs (N.Y. Post)

Professor fired for making organic chemistry course too difficult

‘Burn Down The System’: Another Leftist Teacher Caught By Project Veritas Indoctrinating Students

Cuomo Warns Colleges ‘Dumbing Down’ America With Lower Grading Standards  Gee, he sounds almost like a Republican.

Study Uncovers Psychological Effects of Medication Abortions on Women

Dan Kildee Pays Wealthy Donor Nearly $200K in Taxpayer Funds

Vicente Gonzalez Has Funneled Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Campaign Cash to His Own Company, Records Show

Nina Totenberg Shreds Media Ethics at NPR

Soros-Tied Treasury Dept Official Supports Defunding Police and ‘Racial Equity’

The Nord Stream pipelines have stopped leaking. But the methane emitted broke records (NPR) What ‘records’? Is somebody having a competition in re gas leaks?

Utility climate pledges amount to ‘greenwashing,’ report says (Washington Post) A report! That proves it!

China’s climate push could spawn new global players, even if Beijing falls short on its pledge (CNBC)

Environment sector has failed to become more inclusive, study suggests (The Guardian) Perhaps because the only people who give a shit about ‘climate change’ are rich white liberals.

Napa Valley’s vineyards are in “climate crisis,” winemaker says (Marketplace) Oh, and send us money.

Energy giants return to fossil fuels like coal as Europe braces for winter (CNBC)

Oil and gas methane emissions could be solved this decade, experts say (Reuters)

Meet the California farmers awash in Colorado River water, even in a drought (NPR)

World Bank criticised over climate crisis spending (The Guardian)

The Pacific Is Destined to Vanish as Earth’s Continents Meld Into a New Supercontinent (ScienceAlert)

Hope amid climate chaos: ‘We are in a race between Armageddon and awesome’ (The Guardian)

California’s three-year drought continues with no relief in sight (The Guardian)

‘This is part of our world now’: can TV shows adequately reflect the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

Saving the Environment from Environmentalists

Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws. Now They’re Seeking Storm Aid. (N.Y. Times) There is, of course, no incongruity here, but the Times wants you to think that there is. That’s what Narrative is all about. (Ghoulish NYT Suggests Florida Deserves Hurricanes for Not Supporting Climate Agenda)

Exploding Electric Bicycles

Shellenberger: Media Is Lying About Climate & Hurricanes

The market for property insurance vs. climate change

Sweden Braces For A Winter Of Power Shortages

The Last 12,000 Years Show a More Complex Climate History Than Previously Thought

Waxworm’s spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution

More Bad News For Europe: Forecasters Predict Colder Winter, Less Renewable Power

A Few Graphs Say It All for Weather-Dependent “Renewables”

Trump asks Supreme Court to weigh in on Mar-a-Lago classified docs probe (Axios)

Trump asks SCOTUS to intervene over seized records (Reuters)

Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents (CNN)

Trump asks Supreme Court to halt classified records review (CBS)

Trump elevates Mar-a-Lago raid legal battle to Supreme Court (Fox)

Donald Trump’s secret strategy is that there is no secret strategy (CNN)  Chris Cillizza joins the witch-hunt.

Trump rallies drift to fringe ahead of potential 2024 bid (Washington Post)

QAnon anthem played at Trump rallies removed from YouTube and Spotify after the composer made copyright claims (NBC) ‘QAnon anthem’?

Trump used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities to describe his one-time Attorney Jeff Sessions, book says (Business Insider) Maggie Haberman’s fairy tales keep dribbling out of the underwear at the Narrative Media.

JUST IN: Trump’s Own Lawyers Mocked His Lack of Wealth In Emails Revealed By January 6 Committee (MEDIAite)

Trump sued CNN for defamation. Here’s where his case falls apart. (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Secret recording played at trial shows Oath Keepers allegedly planning for violence in DC (CNN)

Here’s what Oath Keeper leader’s estranged wife is ‘100% positive’ he will do at trial (CNN) And, as we all know, estranged wives know everything and always tell the exact truth.

Tillerson testifies he wasn’t aware of indicted Trump ally’s foreign policy advice (Politico)

As Herschel Walker’s son erupts, the GOP has only itself to blame (Washington Post) Greg Sargent takes a break from bashing Trump.

Prosecutors collected 4 terabytes of evidence related to Steve Bannon fraud investigation (CBS)

Intimidation is the name of the game for red state legislatures (The Hill)

The AMA wants not only censorship but DOJ investigation of those who would publicize what’s going on with the treatment of children who believe themselves to be transgender

Medical Groups Ask Garland to Investigate People Opposed to Care for Trans Minors

Chinese Embassy tries to silence Mike Pompeo broadcasts into China

Lifting Up the Rock on the Gutter Right (The Dispatch) The proglodyte tools of the Goldberg Group never pass up an opportunity to punch right. Every time David French claims to be conservative he ought to be sued for false advertising.

DoJ ‘very disappointed’ with probation sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson

Republicans cling to Walker’s denials (Washington Post)

Mother Jones Wields Soros-Funded Group to Wokescold Businesses Donating to GOP ‘Sedition Caucus’

ZMan scratches his head.

Food plays an important role in every culture. Since culture evolves in a place and that place has certain foods not known in other places, food helps ground the culture in a time and place, which helps ground the people in a time and place. A big part of the answer to the only question that matters – who are we – is the place where the answer was created by our ancestors. It is why our holidays have special foods. They help remind the people of the answer to the big question.

In the West, fear of food is also a big cultural item. For some reason, Western people remain convinced that their food is out to get them. From time to time certain foods have been banned. In pre-modern times the reasons ranged from the superstitious to the ritual, while in modern times “science” is the blame. In this age, we are told every day that something in our diet is trying to kill us. These days, people are often defined by the foods they think are plotting against them.

Fear of food seems to track with belief. The more ideological the person, the more likely they are to be paranoid about food. Vegans and vegetarians are almost always in one of the subcultures on what we call the Left. The exception will be someone who got it into his head that something is bad for his training regimen. Otherwise, when someone tells you they are a vegan, and they almost always tell you that as soon as you meet them, they are telling you their politics.

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The team started with the most widely produced plastic in the world, namely polyethylene (PE), which accounts for around 29% of the world’s plastic consumption. A catalyst was then used to remove hydrogen from the material and create a reactive location in the chain of molecules, and then another catalyst to split the molecules at this location and cap the exposed ends. A third catalyst then shifts this reactive location along the chain so the process can be repeated. This leaves behind molecules of propylene, which serve as the building blocks for the world’s second most widely used plastic, polypropylene (PP).

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The American intellectual Rob Henderson coined the term “luxury beliefs” to describe the status-conferring ideas and opinions of wealthy elites. Examples of these beliefs include “defund the police,” “dismantle the patriarchy,” and “net zero carbon now.”

Luxury beliefs have the attractive quality that those most likely to promote them rarely face their consequences. For example, the “defund the police” crowd tends not to live in crime-ridden inner-city neighborhoods that count on the police to maintain order. Statistically, those who rage against the patriarchy and traditional marriage eventually marry but divorce at much lower rates than other Americans.

Nowhere is this trend more clear than in the disastrous realm of climate policy. Climate activists who call for a ban on fossil fuel consumption and a phase-out of the combustion engine almost always live in metro areas where they don’t need a car. If they drive, they can afford $5-a-gallon gasoline or can buy a $66,000 electric vehicle. Meanwhile, their luxury beliefs become public policy and hurt the rest of us.

Why you can’t just ignore Donald Trump’s latest threat (CNN) Chris Cillizza takes his turn at the witch-hunt.

Philip Yancey: Why Trump’s Language Damages Our Nation’s Civility (MSNBC) Morning Joe piles on. Yeah, bashing Trump really increases the level of civility, alright.

Biden draws contrast with Trump during post-hurricane Puerto Rico trip (The Hill)

Trump seeks to delay deposition in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit (Axios)

Trump files to delay defamation case by rape accuser (The Hill)

DOJ Moves to Quash Subpoena For Trump in FBI Dismissal Case

Trump’s origins in a New York world of con men, mobsters and hustlers (Washington Post) Which would appear to make him most qualified to deal with the con men, mobsters, and hustlers in D.C.

My relative running for Congress is part of a movement that endangers Jews. Should my family speak out? (Forward) Only a concern with Trump supporters, of course. (The Forward is the Paper of Record for Jewish Red Diaper Babies.)

Judge in documents case is clearly playing for Team Trump. She shouldn’t preside. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The Maggie Haberman Book Excerpts Trump’s Enemies Don’t Want You to See

In Trump White House, classified records routinely mishandled, aides say (Washington Post) Aides say! That proves it!

SNL Writers Forced To Make Fun of Trump Again As There Is Nothing Funny About Current President (Babylon Bee)

Instruction about race may be under siege across the US, but this course is empowering students at a Southern high school (CNN)

NYC Mayor Adams ordered NYPD protection for his public safety deputy Philip Banks: ‘I am the Intelligence Bureau’ (N.Y Daily News)

Switzerland has ‘systemic’ racism issues, U.N. experts say  (NBC) Yeah, it’s full of white people. What’s up with that?

Switzerland has ‘systemic’ racism issues, UN experts say (Reuters) Not just any old experts, but U.N. experts.

‘A Huge Drop’: CNN Reports on Black Voters Running Away From Democrats

‘Oppressed’ Black Journalist Explains Going Back to Africa

Obama’s Brother Endorses Republican Doug Mastriano In Pennsylvania Governor Race

ABC Swoons Over RADICAL Leftist Cori Bush, Touts Her Call to #DefundThePolice

Video Report: Black Democrat Says He’s Voting for DeSantis After Ian Response

Rapper Kanye West, Calls Black Lives Matter a ‘Scam’

Trump: Herschel Walker ‘Slandered, Maligned’ by Media, Democrats

Ye, Candace Owens wear ‘White Lives Matter’ shirts at Paris Fashion week (The Hill)

Theater of Shame – The rise of online humiliation

NO DEBATE! 3 Major Medical Groups Seek to Censor, Prosecute Left’s Gender Theory Critics

Supreme Court poised to keep marching to right in new term (Associated Press)

Takeaways from the dramatic first day and opening statements of the Oath Keepers trial (CNN)

LA restricts water flow to wasteful celebrity mansions: ‘No matter how rich, we’ll treat you the same’ (The Guardian)

As TV doctor, Mehmet Oz provided platform for questionable products and views (Washington Post)

Oz publicized ‘potentially dangerous products’ on former TV show, news report (PennLive)

Bay Area mayor gets accused of using Martha’s Vineyard-like tactics in fight over homelessness (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion (Daily Beast) Proglodytes never change their minds, so apparently nobody else is entitled to, either.

Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion, Report Says (N.Y Times)

Whoopi Goldberg hits Daily Beast reporter for knocking ‘fat suit’ in new film: ‘That was not a fat suit’

Nearly half of the country now has serious doubts about the FBI. Here’s why (The Hill)

Prosecution Says Oath Keepers ‘Concocted a Plan for Armed Rebellion’ (N.Y. Times)

There is no home for Asian Americans in the Republican Party anymore  (Boston Globe) After all, Democrats have been so welcoming and supportive.

Brian Kemp Calls Idea of Atlanta Braves Name Change ‘Woke Cancel Culture’

Conservatives Targets Of Political Violence Since Biden’s “MAGA Republicans” Speech

Media’s October Surprise: 24 Minutes to Walker Abortion Claim in Just 8 Hours

Biased media hit Florida before Ian (Washington Examiner)

Herschel Walker calls report he paid for abortion ‘flat-out lie’ and a ‘hatchet job’ (USA Today) Which it obviously is.

DeSantis: ‘Regime Media’ Used Hurricane to ‘Advance Their Agenda”

Morning Joe Hypes Abortion Claims Against Walker, Buried Biden’s ‘Where’s Jackie?’ Gaffe

Media Crusade Against Ron DeSantis Hits New Low

Gov. Sununu announces deployment of New Hampshire National Guard members to southern US border (WMUR)

OPEC+ production cut threatens gas price spike ahead of midterms (The Hill)

Oil prices could soon return to $100 as OPEC+ considers ‘historic’ cut, analysts say (CNBC)

Near majority of Florida voters support migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard: Poll

Migrant dumps carry echoes of Reverse Freedom Rides, observers say (The Hill) Echoes! Observers!

Fox News confronts Democrats in Washington about the border crisis: ‘They own it now’ (Fox)

‘The Daily Show’ roasts Kamala Harris with satirical video comparing her to the main character in ‘Veep’

Biden tells Al Sharpton he will run for president again in 2024 (NBC)

Nepotism Alert: Buttigieg’s Husband Lands Plum Gig at Dem Consulting Firm

Fox News Highlights Record Migrant Deaths Since Biden Took Office

Biden’s Defense Department Urges Killing U.S. Babies for National Security

As gas prices rise, Democrats scramble to lay blame on Big Oil (Washington Post) Who’s up for a witch-hunt?

White House Rounds Up Fact-Checkers to Defend Kamala on Hurricane Relief ‘Equity’

CNN Hypes Biden’s Efforts To ‘Boost Reproductive Rights’ Ponder the Orwellian twist of calling the right to kill your child a ‘reproductive right’. By that standard, murder is ‘health care’.

States Unsure of Biden Offer to Cover Abortion Travel Costs

You Think Martha’s Vineyard Had It Rough? These 6 Border Towns Highlight Border Crisis

NYC’s Migrant Crisis Needs ‘Federal Solution,’ Hochul Says (Bloomberg) Like, say, a fence along the southern border? That’s just a guess….

Report: Biden Admin in Panic Mode as Gas Prices Rebound

Four States Deploy National Guard To US-Mexico Border

Fearing Shortages, Top Oil Groups Warn Biden Against Export Ban

Cancer of CRT, Gender Ideology Spreading in Woke US Military

US National Debt Tops $31 Trillion

Is carbon-neutral beef possible or a pipe dream? Soil may offer clues. (Washington Post)

Belgium Aims to Build World’s First Artificial Energy Island

Ugandan activist visits Florence, praises church for climate justice efforts (ABC)

Defending Earth’s terrestrial microbiome (Nature)

North Carolina governor says state has ‘front-row seat’ to climate change (The Hill) Democrat, of course.

Governor: North Carolina has “front-row seat” to impact of climate change (Axios)

The American EV boom is about to begin. Does the US have the power to charge it? (The Guardian) Well, no.

What to know about electric cars in Washington state (Seattle Times)

California’s ‘Most Sustainable’ Dairy is Doing What’s Best for Business (Inside Climate News)

California drought pits farmers vs. cities. But neither is the biggest water victim (L.A. Times)

‘Dark Data’ Is Leaving a Huge Carbon Footprint, And We Have to Do Something About It (ScienceAlert) In the Narrative Media, ‘dark data’ is information that doesn’t back the Narrative.

Industry is now looking to US on green issues — everyone else must catch up (Financial Times)

Tracking Australia’s progress on the climate crisis and the consequences of global heating (The Guardian)

Sea Level: The Geological “Control Knob” for Atmospheric CO2?

Why It Matters That Climatologists Forgot the Sun Was Shining

Cars Still More Energy Efficient Than Transit

The Mediterranean Sea Is So Hot, It’s Forming Carbonate Crystals  (Wired ‘Science’)

ROUNDUP: 4 Lefty Outlets Politicize Hurricane Ian Tragedy to Push Climate Change

Berlin Antifa Group “Goes on Hunt” For High Energy Users… Heated Pools “Immediately Collectivized”

Biden’s Green Energy Program Divides Voters Along Party Lines: Survey  That’s because it’s Woke bullshit; Democrats naturally love Woke bullshit, and Republicans recognize it as Woke bullshit.

‘Queer Disabled Femme Writer’ Predicts Climate Change Will Disable Us All

Faceplant: Politico Calls Taxpayer Money Biden’s ‘Wallet’ While Trying to Smack DeSantis

‘Extermination Camp Run By Jews’: On Yom Kippur, Cornell Set to Host Professor Who Compared Jews to Nazis

5 women who should have won a Nobel Prize (CNN)

The UN Demands All Central Banks Stop Rate Hikes And Switch To Price Controls Instead

Five cases to watch as a conservative Supreme Court begins its new term (The Hill) I guess the Right Side of History is being a disappointment.

Supreme Court leaves ban on bump stocks in place – again (CNN)

Labor Without Love (The Nation)

Cheney on having liberal Democrats as supporters: ‘I’m not choosy these days’ (The Hill) Nor are they, it would appear.

Time to Reinvent Florida Once Again (Politico) Whether you like it or not…. (Never let a crisis go to waste!)

Social Justice Board Games (Boing Boing)

Jonathan Haidt set to resign from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Guardian of Biologically Male Trans Student: School Closed Locker Room ‘to Protect My Child’

Planned Parenthood Opening First Mobile Abortion Clinic

NYC Mayor Adams Blames ‘Far Left’ for Inaction on Border Crisis

Judge Denies GOP Appeal for Signature Checks on Mail Ballots

Arizona Clinic Has Workaround for Abortion Pill Ban

Britain Celebrates Climate Assistance and Gender Studies for Mexican Coffee Growers

Cuomo Kick-Starts New Show With Dan Rather and Promise to Be Biased

Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup (Daily Beast)

Gov. Newsom To Lower Gas-Prices With Gas Tax-Hikes

High School Girl’s Volleyball Team Banned From Own Locker Room After Complaining About Trans Athlete

Man 3D-Prints Guns For New York Buyback Event, Makes A Whopping $21,000

Election officials confront a new problem: Whether they can trust their own poll workers (Politico) Certainly not, if they’re Democrats.

All Aboard The Abortion Bus: Planned Parenthood Announces Mobile Clinic

Four Leftist, Soros-Backed DAs the Media Are Hiding From You

‘Experts’ Now Say Don’t Send Kids With Head Lice Home From School – It’s ‘Stigmatizing’

University of Washington Wokies Working to Banish Bias from Botanical Gardens

New York Judge: The ‘Time Has Arrived’ to Legalize Polygamy

MSNBC Asks: Is It Shocking People Don’t Accept Our ‘Voting Rights’ Narrative?

Citing Concern for Free Speech, 12 Federal Judges Say They Won’t Take Clerks from Yale Law School

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Scientists discovered traces of fungi lurking in the tumors of people with different types of cancer, including breast, colon, pancreatic and lung cancers. However, it’s still not clear that theise fungi plays any role in the development or progression of cancer.

Two new studies, both published Sept. 29 in the journal Cell, uncovered DNA from fungal cells hiding out in tumors throughout the body. In one study, researchers dusted for the genetic fingerprints of fungi in 35 different cancer types by examining more than 17,000 tissue, blood and plasma samples from cancer patients. Not every single tumor tissue sample tested positive for fungus, but overall, the team did find fungi in all 35 cancer types assessed.

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And are you willing to bet your heat on the dependability of the electrical grid in a winter storm?

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The autonomous 8R is the culmination of Deere’s nearly two decades of strategic planning and investment in automation, data analytics, GPS guidance, internet-of-things connectivity and software engineering. While a good deal of that R&D has been homegrown, the company also has been on a spree of acquisitions and partnerships with agtech startups, harvesting know-how as well as talent.

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For the time being, Deere is creating value and profits with well-established automated systems that can be retrofitted to its existing tractors, such as GPS-based self-steering and precision seeding that measures how deep and far apart to plant. Those steps have to be in place, Volkmann said, before you can put full autonomy around them.

UPDATE: John Deere Just Swindled Farmers out of Their Right to Repair

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Princeton University’s endowment totaled $37.7 billion in 2021 — $4.5 million per student. The school’s entire annual operating expense was $1.86 billion, less than 5% of the value of the endowment.

The Ivy League university is apparently so rich that it can operate with no outside financial support, according to a claim made by author Malcolm Gladwell in a recent newsletter, and disputed by Harvard economics professor John Campbell in a letter to The Browser, Axios reported.

The university is capable of funding itself in perpetuity, even without research grants or tuition income. The endowment will probably decline in value in 2022, but over the long term, it’s reasonable to expect the endowment to continue to grow more quickly than the university’s expenses, Axios said.

It’ll never happen, of course. The logic behind outrageous tuition costs is so that you can, by offering ‘financial aid’ to Politically Correct groups, you can adjust your student body to reflect Wokeness without actually (legally) discriminating.

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Want to get in on a growth industry? Learn about the exciting field of WCI – White Crime Identification. Academic credentials help, but all you really need is a Twitter account and a well-developed sense of outrage. If you can explain why even the slightest problem in the world is caused by something white people have done, are doing or may do in future, you can have a career in WCI. And the hours are great.

Perhaps white people ought to sue non-white people who can read for cultural appropriation.

ZMan peeks behind the curtain.

For the last couple of weeks, there have been whispers that some large banks may be in trouble due to the rising dollar. The strength of the dollar is due, in part, to the Federal Reserve’s effort to fight inflation. It is also due to the decline in both the Euro and the British pound. Economic conditions in Europe are deteriorating quickly because of poor management at every level. The relative strength of a currency is the relative strength of the managerial elite that issues it.

Recently, the gossip has turned to Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, both of which have seen their share prices collapse. The former has lost about 60% since the start of the year and the latter is down around 50% off its recent high. Credit Suisse could be at risk of imminent collapse, due to its deteriorating credit condition. Banks need credit to function and right now, no one is excited about extending credit to a bank whose CEO is telling employees that the bank is not about to fail.

Some are calling the Credit Suisse crisis the Lehman moment. This refers to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, which triggered the financial crisis. Banks are dependent upon one another, so if one fails, it can set off a chain reaction where the next weak bank fails, then the next weakest bank. Get enough banks unable to make payments to other banks and the whole system crashes. This is why everyone is worried about the banks all of a sudden.

Tom Veal.

Blonde is a biopic about Marilyn Monroe. (One critic insists that it shouldn’t be called a “biopic”, because it is based on a novel, but the number of historically accurate Hollywood biopics can be counted on the fingers of a man whose hands have been amputated, so I think the term is good enough here.) In the course of the movie, the protagonist has two abortions, each coerced. Before the second, she has a vision of her unborn child, who begs, “You won’t hurt me this time, will you?”

Planned Parenthood is outraged by the scene, declaring, “As film and TV shapes many people’s understanding of sexual and reproductive health, it’s critical these depictions accurately portray women’s real decisions and experiences.” In the eyes of the organization’s “national director of arts and entertainment engagement”, there is evidently nothing “real” about a woman’s anguish at being forced to end her child’s life.

This is but one small aperçu into the contemporary pro-abortion mentality: Abortion is no longer presented as a difficult personal choice to which women turn only as a last resort but as something so benign that nothing ill can be said concerning it.

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The Great Replacement in Europe obviously requires the importation of millions of third-world immigrants to supplant the natives. However, another crucial aspect of the program is the relentless propaganda discouraging Europeans from having children, as well as the incentives offered to people who remain childless.

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Human history has largely been a struggle to get enough to eat. Starvation was an ever-present threat, almost everywhere, until very recently. Only in the last century or two has even part of the world learned how to produce an abundant and reliable supply of food. It requires a scientific approach to hybridization, crop rotation, intensive fertilization, pest control, and more. As a result of these modern farming methods, for the first time ever the vast majority of the world’s population is not imminently threatened by starvation.

But that could change. The international “environmentalist” movement is determined to outlaw modern farming practices, ostensibly for the sake of our climate. Places like Sri Lanka, the Netherlands and Canada have been forced to confront the anti-agriculture movement, and it is already making itself felt in the U.S. Banning fertilizers and prohibiting animal husbandry are two of the planks in this “green” platform.

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Science is a method that can, in principle, be practiced by anyone. So no one can “own” it. But don’t tell that to the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

Joel Kotkin.

Reading the mainstream media, one would be forgiven for believing that the upcoming midterms are part of a Manichaean struggle for the soul of democracy, pitting righteous progressives against the authoritarian “ultra-MAGA” hordes. The truth is nothing of the sort. Even today, the vast majority of Americans are moderate and pragmatic, with fewer than 20% combined for those identifying as either “very conservative” or “very liberal”. The apocalyptic ideological struggle envisioned by the country’s elites has little to do with how most Americans actually live and think. For most people, it is not ideology but the powerful forces of class, race, and geography that determine their political allegiances — and how they will vote come November.

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Ewww. Just … ewww.

Well, that’s one way to force ‘vaccines’ on people. I guess.

The US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths – all of them rubbish (The Guardian) Robert Reich is The Guardian’s favorite America-basher.

Former Dem Rep gets 30-month prison sentence in ballot-stuffing election fraud case

UC Berkeley Law School’s ‘Jew Free Zones’: the Latest Progressive Trend (Newsweek)

Vermont High School Under Fire as Girls, Parents Push Back Against Biologically Male Trans Student Using Female Locker Room

The Story Behind DeSantis’s Migrant Flights to Martha’s Vineyard (N.Y. Times) According to the Narrative, that is.

NY Times vs. Science: Critic Hess TRIGGERED by Realistic Images of the Fetus

California High School Bans ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag From Football Games

ENTER SCOTUS: High Court Agrees to Hear Case Threatening Big Tech’s Section 230 Protections

Railroad Strike Threat Shows How Unions’ Rigid Rules Often Hurt Workers

Hillary 2024?

Trans Student Walkout Group Admits Most Just Wanted To Skip School, Boasts About Tricking Media

New York judge rules in favor of polyamorous relationships  And Muslims flock to New York….

Judge Rules in Favor of Polygamy as Being Mandated by the Logic of Gay Marriage

Four Female Track Athletes Who Lost To Men Sue Connecticut Over Transgender Policy

WORRY: After Roe, Press Fret at What ‘Conservative Super Majority’ Will Do Next

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders (NPR)

Montana Judge Knocks Down Republicans’ Tighter Voting Laws

Woman who allegedly helped arrange migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard identified by CNN as Perla Huerta (CNN) Who will now be cancelled by the Woke mob.

Michael Flynn, Donald Trump and the ascendance of spiritual warfare in America (NBC)

Meloni Baloney From the Left

Why Biden world isn’t overly worried about House GOP investigations (Politico)

Weak rural turnout could hurt GOP in November (Politico)

DeSantis’s critics embarrass themselves over Hurricane Ian

Oath Keepers’ Jan. 6 Trial Begins