The mystery of rising prices. Are greedy corporations to blame for inflation? (NPR) How about greedy politicians?

Montgomery County MD approves bill to ban fossil fuel use in most new buildings (WTOP)

Montgomery County, Md. passes bill restricting gun possession in public places (WJLA)

Disney CEO Bob Iger tells employees he wants to ‘quiet’ down culture wars, ‘respect’ the audience (Fox)

Senate passes bill to protect same-sex, interracial marriages (Washington Post) Which is plainly unconstitutional. But they don’t care.

Pennsylvania County That Ran Out Of Paper Ballots Fails To Certify Election Results

New York Times Plea: Don’t Trust GOP or New York Post, NYC Crime Isn’t So Bad

Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk (The Intercept) ‘Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!’

University of Florida Medical School Scrubs Web Pages of Woke Content in Wake of Exposé

Germany: FDP Rejects Interior Minister’s Radical Naturalization Plan

Germany: AfD Files Lawsuit Against State of Berlin Over Anti-Democratic Proceedings

Saxony’s Interior Minister Calls for Migrant Admissions to be Suspended Amid Massive Influx

Report: Authoritarianism on the Rise as Democracy Weakens

Study: Pedophiles Released in California

Colbert, Ex-CNN Reporter Claim Free Speech Responsible For Dictators

Jewish Professors Accuse College of Retaliation

Bob Iger Vows To Cut Back To Only 7 LGBT Characters In Every Kid’s Movie  (Babylon Bee)

Report: EU Threatens To Ban Twitter Over Musk’s Lack of Censorship  Lack of Europeans is a feature, not a bug.

Liberals Are Furious NYC Mayor Wants to Take Dangerous Mentally Ill People Off The Streets

NY Times Claims Balenciaga Pedo Scandal Is QAnon Conspiracy Theory

California’s carbon-offset forests aren’t trapping much carbon. Here’s how to do better (L. A. Times)

Indonesia puts 100-island archipelago up for auction, sparking environmental concerns (The Guardian)

The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave was a climate change warning (Axios)

Biden Interior rule would limit methane leaks, gas flaring from public lands drilling (CNBC)

US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered (Associated Press)

EPA decision could spell doom for Ohio’s biggest coal plant

Environmental groups issue joint appeal for EU to remove carbon removal methods from climate plans (Fox) Rules are for thee but not for me.

Many forests will become highly flammable for at least 30 extra days per year unless we cut emissions, research finds

Abigail Disney: 125 billionaires control our climate future (CNN) People like Abigail Disney. Of course, if her name weren’t ‘Disney’ nobody would care what she thinks.

U.S. threatens legal steps over Mexico’s planned GMO corn ban (Reuters)

Volkswagen Says EV Battery Plants “Practically Unviable” In EU Due To Soaring Energy Costs

Baby Names to Change because of …. Climate Change

Nuclear power doesn’t count as green in the EU

Biden Administration Paying Climate-Affected Tribes $25 Million to Relocate

NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project

How an early oil industry study became key in climate lawsuits

The return of the horse?

Amazon Deforestation in Brazil Remains Near 15-Year High

Academics Slam Claims Biotech Could Solve the Climate Crisis

Farm seizures planned in the Netherlands

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pushes Amped Up Censorship on CBS Mornings

White House slammed for pledging to keep a ‘close eye’ on ‘misinformation’ on Twitter: ‘Absolutely insane’ (Fox)

Biden admin set to impose another rule on US oil and gas while courting Venezuelan oil (Fox)

NYC opens new mega shelter in Midtown for migrant families (N.Y. Post)

Non-binary Biden nuclear official charged with stealing woman’s $2.3K luggage at airport (N.Y. Post)

Progressives Relax on Idea of Replacing Biden in ’24

Montana AG: UPS, FedEx Working With Feds to Track Gun Purchases  Of course they are.

6 Points on Felony Theft Case Against Biden Administration’s Gender-Fluid Energy Official

Former White House ‘Disinformation Czar’ Nina Jankowicz Registers As Foreign Agent

Democrats Admit ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ Likely Doesn’t Have Enough Votes To Pass Senate

The White House Just Changed Its Plan To Refill SPR At $70 Per Barrel

Crazy People Are Dangerous (and They’re Working for the Biden Administration)

Venezuelan Oil Exported on False Documents, Iran-Linked Ships

Biden Considers Calling On Congress To Boost Heating Oil Supplies As Winter Nears  Since when is heating oil supply the job of the Federal government?

Flu season intensifies with 6M infected in US: CDC (Fox)

China protests: Uncertainty reigns for foreign firms (BBC)

‘Negative Efficacy’ Should Have Stopped COVID Vaccine Recommendations In Their Tracks

Fauci has destroyed the credibility of the public health establishment (Washington Examiner) Not by himself, of course–he had help: Every person who has an MD and a government paycheck.

Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare  (Wired ‘Science’)

21 GOP Governors Sign Letter Opposing Military Vaccine Mandate

Discrimination Seeps Into Every Aspect of Home Buying for Black Americans (N.Y. Times) But even if it didn’t, they would still tell you that it did, because that’s the Narrative.

Stacey Abrams’s Nonprofit Worked To Purchase Multimillion-Dollar Properties Shortly Before It Sacked Employees

Washington Supreme Court Makes Kendi’s Butterknife the Law of the Land

World War Hair Has Bagged an Old Lady

Oath Keepers founder guilty of sedition in U.S. Capitol attack plot (Reuters) Antifa? Never heard of them. BLM? ‘Mostly peaceful.’

Mom of accused nightclub gunman Anderson Aldrich arrested after shooting (N.Y. Post)

Elon Musk Sleeps Next To A Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gun For No Reason (Kotaku) Or at least no reason that this guy will admit.

Twitter is less safe due to Elon Musk’s management style, says former top official (CNN) Says the former top censor for Twitter.

“It Was Chaos”: 20 Erratic And Unpredictable Bosses Who Apparently Went To The Elon Musk School Of Management (BuzzFeed)

Howard Stern Slams Oprah for ‘Showing Off’ Lavish Lifestyle on Instagram

The powerful gay man behind Tucker Carlson’s bloodcurdling hate (The Signorile Report)

Survivor of Virginia Walmart Shooting Sues Company For $50M  Because that’s what you do.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Lashes Out At GOP, Lies About Holocaust Book Bans

House January 6 committee chairman says panel ‘close to putting pens down’ on final report (CNN) Close to getting shoved out the door in January.

Prince William’s office condemns his godmother following racism storm  No matter how close the connection, you will get thrown under the bus.

You’re the Enemy: CBS Uses Dumb Trump Dinner to Project GOP as Anti-Semites Party

Jimmy Kimmel Thinks Gay Jokes Are a Riot As Long as Conservatives Are Targeted

Whoopi Claims Christians Want Doctors to Let Gays Die, Go Untreated  Well, if you’re offering….

Soros-Funded Group Pleads for Biden Admin to ‘Investigate’ Elon Musk’s Twitter Ownership

EXCLUSIVE: Documents Reveal Senate Democrat Pressured IRS, DOJ to Target Conservative Groups

Republican leaders denounce Trump’s dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes (NPR)

Trump fires back at ‘loser’ McConnell, says Fuentes’ views ‘wouldn’t have been accepted’ if raised at dinner (Fox)

Never Trump Means Never (The Atlantic) Mark me down as Never Biden.

If Only Someone Could Have Warned Them (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue making up to the Mammon of Iniquity.

Jack Smith, Clinton’s DOJ Hit Man, Comes After Trump

House Committee Now Has Six Years of Trump’s Tax Returns  Now let’s see Joe Biden’s. And Nancy Pelosi’s.

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A Japanese scientist named Masanori Fukushima, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, recently caused a major controversy when he appeared on television and upbraided the country’s medical establishment for its dishonesty and negligence concerning the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. He particularly excoriated them for ignoring the evidence of serious adverse side effects, including death, from the vax.

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A suicide prevention net on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge that is already years behind schedule will cost about $400 million, more than double its original price, because of problems sparked by the government agency that manages the span, the lead contractors allege.

The allegations filed Monday in state court by Shimmick Construction Co. and Danny’s Construction Co. say that changes to and flaws in the government’s net design and the lack of transparency about the deterioration of the bridge’s maintenance platforms have raised the construction price from $142 million to at least $398 million.

“We were alarmed to discover the District concealed significant information during the proposal phase of the Project, including extensive deterioration in certain areas of the bridge,” Shimmick said in a statement.

Government: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.

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I worked in ‘open offices’ a lot in tech, and hated every minute of it. In an ‘open office’, you are in involuntary participant in everybody else’s conversation. If you are doing intellectual work (like, say, programming or data modeling), concentration is impossible. Productivity falls through the floor. The money management saves is obvious; the loss of productivity is not; and so we all wind up living in a Dilbert cartoon.

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I understand that once you are worth a billion dollars you get a certificate that can be traded in for a hot blonde chick. Unfortunately for feminists and other proglodytes, the certificates are issued by the hot blonde chicks themselves.

Taki.

In these willfully ignorant times, the powers that be seem, in their haste to be politically correct, to forget that America fought its bloodiest war to end human bondage. Almost three-quarters of a million men died, yet the Civil War is being refought with fact-purging propaganda that makes cartoon villains of great American soldiers, while one group of citizens is robbed of their heritage in order to please another.

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The affair of the reception of the migrant boat Ocean Viking continues to rebound and appears more and more like a management disaster on the part of the French government—unfortunately, highly predictable. It is epigrammatic of all the dysfunctions of immigrant reception policy, both at the national and European levels.

The boat docked on Friday, November 10th, in the military port of Toulon. The procedure for receiving refugees was then set in motion, and the French authorities quickly lost control of the situation, with one scandal following another. The controversy first arose over the conditions under which the migrants were received—either too favourable or too undignified, depending on the criticism from one side of the political spectrum or the other.

But the main problem involved the actual processing of the asylum applications. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, while attempting to use the occasion to demonstrate governmental firmness on illegal immigration, produced the opposite results. The judicial institutions did not follow the watchword. After having been initially refused entry to the territory, 123 adults out of the 189 placed in the ‘waiting zone’—the reception centre especially set up for the occasion on the Giens peninsula—were released. The courts were unable to rule on their case due to the lack of sufficient magistrates. Lack of time and procedural flaws are among the reasons for the defective ‘firmness’ displayed in high places.

UPDATE: Ivorian-Italian MP Soumahoro Accused of Mistreatment of Migrants

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Following the victory of the Moroccan football team against Belgium at the World Cup, groups of young migrant men have taken to the streets in Belgium and the Netherlands to celebrate their victory. Already prior to the match, the atmosphere was heated—illegal fireworks were launched, some of which injured a journalist in the face. But the celebrations following the surprise victory quickly turned into riots, when shops, cars, and even policemen were attacked by the mob.

The rioting migrants, mostly Belgian Moroccans, but also other migrants from Africa, left behind a trail of destruction, demolishing entire streets in Brussels, flipping over cars, and starting fires. The police called on citizens to avoid certain parts of Brussels and closed off metro stations before engaging the mob with riot police. Videos of the riots, which more resembled a civil war than the celebration of a football game, spread on Twitter like wildfire.

Brittney Griner Faces 16-Hour Work Days in Russian Gulag  Welcome to non-America.

WHO Renames Monkeypox… Because Racism

Walker Ad Highlights Warnock’s Apartment Evictions, Domestic Abuse Allegations

Once Again, MSNBC Invites Prominent Anti-Semite to Explain Why Fellow Anti-Semites Are Bad

Did Fentanyl Cause Black Traffic Fatalities to Rise?

Apple Threatens To Ban Twitter From App Store, Won’t Say Why: Musk

NY Times Sees Signs of ‘Extremist Violence’: Owning Guns, Not Voting for Liz Cheney

Elon Musk Says Apple Threatening To Yank Twitter From App Store

Disney’s Openly Gay Animated Movie ‘Strange World’ Flops at Box Office

French Fashion House Balenciaga Apologizes for Ad Campaign  But never offers to explain how it happened in the first place.

Walmart’s Walton Family Funds LGBT Events for Kids in Arkansas

‘Woke’ Irish Parliament Installs Tampon Machine in Men’s Bathroom

Wisconsin Children’s Hospital Hiring Trans Activists as Chaplains

China: The World’s First Technate

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Progressive Family Adds New Planned Parenthood Location To Christmas Village Display (Babylon Bee)

Apple Turned Off Protest Communication Tool Right Before Anti-Lockdown Uprising In China

Sweden Seeks To Revoke Permanent Residency Permits In Migrant Crackdown

Lemon on CNN: ‘I Don’t Think We Ever Were Liberal’  I don’t think you ever were either.

Report: New San Francisco Public Toilet ‘Out of Order’ in First 3 Day

Whoopi: Libs Should Leave Twitter Until They ‘Get the Control’  Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

China Covid: Chinese protesters say police seeking them out (BBC) Hello! Communist dictatorship!

Flu continues to spread across the U.S., infecting millions, CDC reports (NBC)

Flu season continues to intensify in the US, and holiday gatherings could make it worse (CNN)

White House health officials: up-to-date vaccines key to move on from Covid (The Guardian)

Pfizer CEO Blasted By UK Pharma Watchdog For “Disgracefully Misleading” Statements On COVID Vaccine

Twitter Flooded With ‘Porn’ Bots to Block China Protest Footage

New COVID Variant XBB Emerges in the US  So it’s back on board the PANIC!

Poll: Plurality Believe COVID-19 Pandemic Will ‘Never End’  Not while there are apparatchiks hungry for power.

Study: Next Major COVID Variant Could Be More Dangerous  So you need to continue the PANIC!

Only 28% Of Americans Are Worried About COVID Anymore; New Poll Finds

Authoritarianism Without Authority

Are Masks Useful After All? Not Likely.

Twitter Stops Enforcing COVID-19 Misinformation Policy

Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster

PBS Welcomes CCP Hack to Praise Zero-COVID Policy, Trash Anti-Xi Protestors  Statists of a feather flock together.

China doubles down on harsh COVID controls and tries to end protests  Hello, Communist dictatorship! Which one of you is Dr Fauci?

COVID was such a golden opportunity for the authoritarian left

Docs on NBCNews.com: Permanent Mask Mandates Good for Mental, Physical Health

Judge says Trump’s political actions around 2020 election not protected by ‘absolute immunity’ (CNN)

Arkansas GOP governor says Trump’s meeting with Holocaust denier is ‘very troubling’ and ‘empowering’ for extremism (CNN)

Trump’s offensive against Jack Smith takes an incoherent turn (MSNBC) Much like MSNBC’s offensive against Trump.

Right-Wing Pundit Ann Coulter Dismisses ‘RINO’ Trump, Says ‘He’s So Done’ (Newsweek)

Susan Collins: Trump should have never met with Fuentes (The Hill) Jumping aboard the anti-Trump bandwagon.

Kellyanne Conway Meets With Jan. 6 Panel

Trump, Kari Lake Amplify Unfounded Claims Of Election Malfeasance In Arizona As Certification Deadline Nears Unfounded!

The GOP’s sickness is far worse than a ‘Trump problem’ (Washington Post)

Republican criticism of Trump builds after his dinner with a white supremacist (NBC)

US courts ruling in favor of justice department turns legal tide on Trump (The Guardian) They still haven’t come up with a crime.

Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die  Because the Narrative Media won’t let it. They don’t dare let it. They’re desperate to block Trump from being President again, and the safest way to do that is to throw so much shit at him that people lose sight of the very effective executive underneath. That’s why if Trump accidentally bumps into a Jew on the street and says ‘Excuse me’, he’ll immediately be labelled an anti-semite and will continue to be labelled an anti-semite until he descends into his grave.

The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes (NBC) In the Narrative Media, the term ‘inside story’ means ‘the lie that we just made up’.

It Pained Poor Mika To Praise Pence For Criticizing Trump On Fuentes Dinner

Musk Hurled With Anti-Semitism Claims for Criticizing Resistance Hack Vindman

Another Fox News-driven target of likely GOP probes: ‘Looting’ (Washington Post)

Uvalde Mom Sues Police, Gunmaker in School Massacre  In search of a deep pocket.

Anti-Catholic Bigotry: The View Demands Justice ACB Recuse Over Faith

CNN Implies Republicans Are the Party of Anti-Semitism, Hate Crimes

NYT’s Mara Gay: Modern GOP Was Founded on Backlash to Civil Rights  Parroting Democrat talking points.

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Suggests GOP is Party of Racists & Anti-Semites

‘Blood on Your Hands’: Christian Group Vandalized After SPLC Suggests Its ‘Hate’ Inspired the Club Q Shooting

On the Georgia Trail: Herschel Walker silent on white supremacist’s visit to Mar-a-Lago (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Funny how everybody is focusing on Fuentes and ignoring Kanye. I guess that’s because even the Narrative Media can’t get away with calling Kanye West a white supremacist. But I assume they’ll eventually try, somehow.

Congress needs some toddler-proofing before the GOP House majority takes power (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Republicans, of course, are the alleged ‘toddlers’. (This from a party that spends money like a kid in a candy store.)

Trump’s Dumb Dinner Leads to Salon Labeling All Rightwingers as White Supremacist

Mike Pence Is Having a Moment He Doesn’t Deserve (New York Times) Too many Trump cooties, apparently.

Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a Haven for Nazis (Vice) Instead of the haven for Commies that it was before?

Elon Musk is harming free expression on Twitter, not protecting (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘free expression’ means ‘free to parrot the Narrative’.

CNN Reporter Finds Daylight Savings Time ‘Sheds Light’ on America’s Structural Racism

Puerto Rican towns sue Big Oil under RICO alleging collusion on climate denial (Reuters) Except that ‘climate denial’ isn’t a crime. (Yet, anyway.)

Anti-deforestation push putting other ecosystems at risk: study (The Hill)

Sustainable palm oil puts grasslands at risk (Nature)

Rising sea levels could swamp the US coastline by 2050, NASA predicts (Live Science) Call me when property prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard start going down rather than up.

Rowan Williams urges wealthy to stump up cash for climate fund (The Guardian)

Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change (Minnesota Public Radio)

EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy (Nature)

COP27 climate summit missed chance for ambition on fossil fuels, critics say (Reuters)

The myth of plastic recycling

Goldman Prime Finds Hedge Funds Massively Piling Into Energy Stock Shorts

Canadian Banks Slammed For Continued Fossil Fuel Investments

UK Power Prices Skyrocket As Wind Generation Collapses

London Mayor Unveils “Crippling” Vehicle Emission Charge For All Of London, Despite 80% Opposition

The Creeping Radicalization of ‘Climate Activism’

Claim: Green Terrorists are Planning Major Attacks

The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?  Hint: Nope.

Democratic senators question Biden administration on end to Title 42, potential migrant surge at border (Fox)

Supreme Court to hear arguments over Biden immigration priorities

Rasmussen Reports: Majority of Likely Voters Approve Probe Into Hunter Biden

KJP Issues Veiled Threat to Pro-Free Speech Musk: We’re ‘Keeping a Close Eye’ on Twitter

Nets Bury Cross-Dressing Biden Admin Official Charged With Felony Theft

Biden’s Gender-Fluid Nuclear Official Charged With Felony Theft After Lying To Cops

Biden’s Secret Service Car Rentals Burn in Flames at Nantucket Airport  I could ride you, but then I’d have to kill you.

Ukraine Situation Report: The Bloody Battle For Bakhmut

Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb Would Double Ukraine’s Precision Strike Range

Europe’s imports of Russian seaborne gas jump to record high (Financial Times)

US, Israel to Simulate Striking Iran’s Nuke Program in Air Drills

WH to Congress: $323 Million Arms Sale to Finland Approved

Israel, US Holds Aerial Drill Simulating Attack On Iran Nuclear Sites

Ukraine-Russia War Lessons – Unmanned

3 Ways Chinese Nuclear Buildup Threatens US National Security Interests

Hollowed Out 

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But it was the very serious journalists at the Bezos Post who delivered the death blow, gravely noting that Musk’s affinity for Diet Coke puts him in league with the beverage’s other “unsavory acolytes, including former president Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.”

I’m sure Hitler would have drunk Diet Coke if it had been available to him. After all he was a vegetarian, and you know what fascist assholes vegetarians all are.

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Let me tell you a story, dear reader. It is about a land — a quasi-dictatorial kingdom no less — where locals huddle round trashcan fires on the streets of the great metropolis, gnawing on legs of mutton and cavorting in swamps. Once there was good government, but a plebiscite some years ago brought with it autocracy, plague and a nation “falling apart at the seams.”

Which land could this be? Why it can only Cockburn’s ancestral homeland, the dear old United Kingdom, as seen through the eyes of the average New York Times subscriber. For years now Cockburn has been chronicling the Brit-bashing excesses of America’s least reliable news source. Whether it’s peddling dubious clickbait about the vaccine regime or comparing everything to Brexit, there are few articles that the NYT won’t run to please its audience of superior left-leaning Americans and self-flagellating Brits.

And now the NYT has done it again, running two extremely questionable articles in the space of two weeks. The first concerned a young man called Ademola Adedeji. According to the Times, Adedeji was “swept up” in a “murder-conspiracy case with no murder.” The young black man, the paper gasped, “never attacked anyone or owned a weapon.” British policing, the NYT implied, was to blame, given how its “war on gangs disproportionately targets young Black men.” Unfortunately, conspiracy to murder is still bad — even if the person involved doesn’t manage to commit a murder. That’s probably why it is a crime on both sides of the Atlantic.

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A Jordanian national with three deportation orders who had been known to authorities under 13 identities has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the emergency room at a Parisian hospital late last month.

The alleged sexual assault, which took place on the night of October 27th to the 28th at the Cochin hospital in Paris, saw the 22-year-old Jordanian man, who was patient at the medical facility, sexually assault and rape a 34-year-old female patient who had been admitted to the emergency department following a traumatic brain injury, Le Figaro reports.

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Exactly why anyone would want Kamala Harris is something of a mystery. She didn’t marry until she was just shy of her fiftieth birthday. It is, of course, barbarically sexist to comment on a successful woman’s romantic life (just ask Gladys), but in Harris’s case it’s relevant. She got her start in politics at the tender age of twenty-nine when her romantic partner at the time, the sixty-year-old speaker of the California state legislature, appointed her to a high-pay, low-work sinecure on the California Medical Assistance Commission. Nothing to see here; move along. Down with the Patriarchy.

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Simply put: no one likes Kamala Harris. No one even feels bad for not liking her. Her boss doesn’t like her; her aides don’t like her; even her Irish terrier doesn’t like her. Harris featured it (no one knows the sex) in a single 2018 Facebook post for National Puppy Day, calling the one-year-old her “office dog”, which implies that she never actually took it home. Now presumably five years old (and hopefully still alive), the dog was never seen or heard from again.

This unpopular but well-connected puppy-hater from San Francisco is the candidate whom the Democratic Party has anointed to “make history” as the first female President of the United States. Yes, President. Not only will Harris make history as the first female President; she will make double-history as the first female President of Colour.

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Well, isn’t that what you do?

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A reader recently sent me an email pointing out that many ex-convicts commit new crimes with the intent of being sent back to prison. They actually feel more comfortable in prison than they do in the outside world.

This phenomenon shouldn’t surprise us. In prison, the state takes care of prisoners and, by and large, keeps them safe. It provides their food, healthcare, and clothing. In some prisons, prisoners are even given a paying job. Much of the time, prisoners are free to lie around, relaxing in their cells or watching television. Sometimes prisoners are even provided a formal education. And the best part is that all of this is free.

In other words, with prison the state provides you with security. In the minds of some convicts, that’s a lot better than freedom. When the state casts convicts out of prison, they become responsible for themselves and their well-being. That’s not easy. They need money to buy food, housing, a car, and other things. That means finding and keeping a job. Moreover, outside prison they are faced with an array of choices on a daily basis, which contributes to their anxiety. Better to trade liberty for security.

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With 50 spray nozzles and a sophisticated computer system, tractors out in California’s central valley are towing artificially-intelligent robots behind them that look set to launch a fourth revolution in agriculture.

Passing over a field they can specifically target individual weeds and crops at a rate of 20 per second, before blasting them with either de-weeder or fertilizer within a millimeter of accuracy.

Verdant Robotics’ SprayBox robot can identify and treat 500,000 plants per hour while using 95% less chemical weedkiller.

Eventually we will have completely automated farms; companies are already developing small smart tools that are suitable for little acreage and affordable for those whose initials arend ADM.

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A new study reveals that ceramics can be made to bend like metal. This finding could lead to lighter, more efficient engines.

Two words: Body armor.

The Guardian.

These ‘warped visions’ were all well and good when devoted to the proglodyte cause. It’s no secret–and no surprise–that ‘tech bros’ and their girlfriends are Woke and Democrat to the core. You’d think, by the tone of all of these bash-the-tech articles, that they were uniformly Republicans.

Biden keeps ignoring Europe. It’s time EU leaders got the message (Politico)

How does the EU respond to Joe Biden’s $369bn green subsides bill? (Financial Times)

The Consumer Economy Has Completely Collapsed – “It’s A Ghost Town” For Holiday Shopping Everywhere

Bans On “Assault” Weapons Do Not Reduce Crime

Pressure Builds On Biden For Ukraine Weapons Tracking & Oversight

The Pentagon fails its fifth audit in a row

Border Patrol Bracing for Massive Migration Post-Title 42

Rare protests against China’s ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across country (Washington Post)

Protests Erupt Against Zero Covid Policy In China (CNN)

China’s factory activity contraction likely deepened in Nov on COVID woes (Reuters)

China’s zero-COVID protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests (ChannelLine News Asia)

Dodged COVID infection so far? You are part of a small minority: study  But you still need to PANIC!

Landmark 20-strain mRNA flu vaccine looks to prevent future pandemics (New Atlas)

Fauci: US Still in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

China Taps Governor Gretchen Whitmer To Lead Lockdown Enforcement (Babylon Bee)

Report Says London Fire Brigade ‘Institutionally Misogynist And Racist’ But Not Impacting Operations

WHO Renames Monkeypox as Mpox, Citing Racism Concerns

Apple removes vocals from iPhone 14 launch ad after lyrics were confused for racial slur  The confused are running the asylum. (Apple strips vocals from Idris Elba’s music in iPhone 14 ad)

University of Delaware Offers Course To Examine White Privilege  How about a course to study black privilege?

China poses increasing threat in military space race, top U.S. general says

U.S. weighs sending 100-mile strike weapon to Ukraine (Reuters)

Size Of British Army To Hit 200-Year Low, Only Sufficient To “Stay At Home & Tootle Around” Warns SecDef

PROCUREMENT: Belarus And The Russian War Effort

North Korean ICBM launch detected using GPS

US bans Chinese telecoms imports – won’t even consider authorizing them  Finally waking up.

China Poses Increasing Threat in Military Space Race, US General Warns

20 NATO States “Pretty Tapped Out” After Weapons Transfers To Ukraine

After Mueller, legal experts hope for a more vocal special counsel (The Hill) One who will beat up on Trump daily until the election.

Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting (Bloomberg) I guess Kanye West is a white supremacist now. Somebody better tell him.

ZOA Deplores Pres. Trump for Dining with Jew-Haters Kanye West & Nick Fuentes, and Demands he Condemn Them (Zionist Organization of America)

Watch: Fauci Blames Trump For China’s COVID Cover Up

Trump Might Have to Face His Worst Nightmare—a D.C. Jury (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’ (The Guardian) Translation from NarrativeSpeak: He didn’t condemn Fuentes fast enough or thoroughly enough, not that they would have accepted it if he had, because ORANGE MAN BAD!

Jewish Ex-Trump Staffer Let Don Lemon HAVE IT on Trump Dinner with Anti-Semite Fuentes

Kemp slams Trump’s ‘un-American’ white supremacist dinner guest; Walker is silent (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Everybody aboard the witch-hunt!

Turning Point for Garland as Justice Dept. Grapples With Trump Inquiries (N.Y. Times)

Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity (Times of Israel)

Here are the 7 richest people in the world who haven’t signed the Giving Pledge—Jeff Bezos is No. 3 (CNBC) Join this stunt or we witch-hunt!

French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work (Washington Post)

Abraham Lincoln statue vandalized with paint in Chicago park (N.Y. Post)

The far right is losing. That’s why America has never been so dangerous. (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch has the Jennifer Rubin chair at the Inquirer.

“Christian Nationalism”: An Imaginary Menace

Renaissance Catholique Wins Appeal Against LGBT Associations

NYT Workplace Columnist Condemns Capitalism

A five-week framework for shaking McCarthy (Politico)

Bye, Twitter  I am so important that everyone NEEDS to know my opinion about Twitter.

New Twitter Sign-Ups Hit All-Time Record Despite Cancel Campaign

New Powers in Far-right Hands: Israel’s National Security Ministry, Explained  (Haaretz) In the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right. (If new powers were in far-left hands, of course, that would be okay.)

Inside the Billionaire-Backed ‘Hub for Election Denial’ (Daily Beast) As opposed to, say, the billionaire-backed hub for election theft, which is totally Democrat and totally fine.

High-profile Republicans gain followers in first weeks of Musk’s reign (Washington Post) Apparently the WaPo considers this a Bad Thing.

Google Gave FBI Location Data for Thousands of Cell Phones Near Jan. 6 Riots, Court Records Show

‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity (The Guadian) I have no idea who Jaron Lanier is, although from his picture I suppose he identifies as black.

Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic? (The Guardian)

Fauci pushes back on Pence remarks: ‘I don’t align myself with anybody’ (The Hill)

‘Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells (Wired)

‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature? (The Guardian)

A treaty to end the age of plastic (Al Jezeera)

Criticism mounts of ‘climate killer’ modern art museum in Berlin (The Guardian)

London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover entire city

Manchin’s side deal on brink as GOP seeks his 2024 ouster (The Hill)

Portland store shuts down, posts blistering note on front door slamming rampant crime: ‘city is in peril’ (Fox) (After 15 Break-Ins, A Portland Business Finally Calls It Quits)

Handgun owners carrying daily in US doubled in 4 years; self-protection cited as main reason: study (Fox)

Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015 (The Guardian) Gee, I wonder why.

Conservative states are blocking trans medical care. Families are fleeing. (Politico) Good riddance.

Free food for all? Absolutely. In this age of abundance, it should be a human right (L.A. Times)

CNN Analyst Says Free Speech Is ‘Nonsense’

IRS Warns Americans To Report Annual PayPal, Venmo Transactions Exceeding $600 Per Year  An excellent reason to stop using PayPal and Venmo.

Sen. Murphy: Defund Police Who Refuse to Enforce Gun Laws

Blank Sheets of Paper Become Symbol of Defiance in China Protests  That’s all you get under a Communist regime.

The Media’s Deranged Hysteria Over Elon Musk’s Promised Restoration of Free Speech  Glenn Greenwald.

Cambridge Dean Goes Full Woke, Claims Jesus Could Have Been Transgender “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”  Gal. 3:28.

“Hitlering Along” to the World Cup

Russian State Duma Passes Law Banning All Forms of LGBT Propaganda

Barcelona: Foreign Nationals Account for Over 75% of Arrests in First Half of 2022

Germany: Left-Globalist Interior Minster to Naturalize 2 Million Migrants

Too fast, too furious: Dangerous street takeovers stymie police, anger neighbors

Brooklyn Democratic Machine Appoints Little Pakistan Residents to Party Posts Without Their Knowledge

Despite Being Election Deniers, These Democrats Romped to Reelection and Stomped Their Opponents

Elon Musk Claims Apple Has ‘Mostly Stopped’ Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands

Twitter Bans Multiple Antifa Accounts After Threats And Attempts To Burn Down Tesla Dealerships  But of course only Republicans engage in political violence.

Over Half of Top Medical Schools Teach Critical Race Theory

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When former President Trump, Gov. DeSantis, and Senator Ted Cruz, among others, endorsed rolling back the power of bureaucrats and their administrative state, Democrats panicked.

Senator Dianne Feinstein and Hillary’s former running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, introduced a countermeasure which they called, “Preventing a Patronage System Act” according to Kaine, to “protect the merit-based hiring system for our federal workforce”.

Media editorialists claimed that making it easier to get rid of federal employees would bring back patronage or the spoils system. The problem is that patronage never left.

We have spent generations living under a permanent patronage system. The spoils system, as bad as it was, kept one party from permanently packing its supporters into the government. Removing it just meant that the Democrats have permanently packed the federal bureaucracy.

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Since around 2013, wealthy Chinese nationals have shifted away from traditional birth tourism, whereby a pregnant Chinese woman comes to the United States with the intention of having her baby born here. Instead, they have increasingly relied on American surrogates to bear their children.

Hire an American breeder to cook your kid. Bada-boom bada-bing, your Chinese kid is an American citizen. Such a deal.

Producing a child in the United States has many perks. At birth, children gain and maintain full U.S. citizenship, birth certificates and social security numbers, access to education, and a path for their biological parents to receive a green card when the child turns 21. Some agencies promote themselves as a “cheaper alternative than an EB-5 visa,” which costs $500,000 plus scads of time and paperwork.

With birth tourism, a pregnant woman must obtain a visa, travel to the U.S. to give birth, and find an agency to house and help secure the necessary paperwork before returning to China. The process can take months.

Now, however, a Chinese couple or individual can simply work with a U.S. based agency to send their reproductive material (sperm, egg, or embryo) to an IVF lab and implant it in a hired surrogate to produce a viable pregnancy. All without ever leaving China.

And if you hire a black woman, it can probably claim BIPOC Privilege as well. (‘Here’s a picture of my mom and a certificate from the hospital where I was born.’) Is this a great country or what?

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Specifically, white Toyota Land Cruisers.

That white Land Cruiser you saw on the news last night? Chances are it came through here. The back of shot cars seen in every report from war zones and aid programmes to disaster relief and third world development projects? At one time they probably called this home. Around 650 vehicles – more specifically 650 white Toyotas – leave here every month destined for global hotspots. Welcome to Toyota Gibraltar Stockholdings (TGS), the world’s most remarkable car dealership.

“We don’t really think of them as cars,” TGS co-chief executive Jonathan Gourlay tells me. “We’re just giving our customers a tool that does a job, whether that’s feeding children or delivering medicines.” You might think, like me, that the 70 Series Land Cruiser is utterly cool and want one very badly, but cool plays no role here – this is transport at its most fundamental. Simplicity, capability and reliability overrule everything. “If you look back 25 years, there were a few players in this market,” Gourlay continues. “There was Land Rover, there was Nissan and Mitsubishi, but gradually they’ve focused on building what I’d call ‘first world’ vehicles for Europe and North America. But Toyota still builds a 4.2-litre non-turbo diesel. You can’t register a new one in Europe because of its emissions, but it doesn’t go wrong and any mechanic can fix it in the field because there’s no electronics around it. You don’t need diagnostic tools, you just need to know how an engine works.”

I’d be more interested in white Toyota pickups, the ones that appear in the news every night loaded with Turd World anti-aircraft guns.

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I wonder whether these are the same ‘right-wing zionists’ who condemned Donald Trump.

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

ZMan discusses some inconvenient truth.

Given the current trajectory, it is reasonable to think that in the not too distant future some alien race will be digging through the rubble of humanity trying to figure out what happened to this strange species. Just as modern archeologists dig through ruins of ancient societies, trying to figure out what happened, those aliens will be doing the same with earth. They will dig through whatever is left, things like buildings, tools and cemeteries, piecing together the story of man.

The thing they will not find among the decaying buildings, rusting vehicles and collapsed bridges will be piles of human rights. They will not open a door of some oddly preserved building and find a bunch of skeletons who had found shelter along with their sacred human rights. In fact, they will probably find no trace of human rights or any discussion of the concept. Given that most of our knowledge is now digital, these sorts of things will be impossible to detect.

The main reason for this is human rights do not exist. They are a thing that humans invented late in the history of mankind. People say that human rights are real and point to various authorities to support the claim, but rights are not real things. They exist only as a figment of our imagination, like the concept of lust. No other species has this concept so it is possible the aliens will not understand it either. It will be as alien to them as our entirely made up concept of human rights.

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This is why people want their own cars rather than rely on ‘public transportation’.

Anything with ‘public’ in front of it means a single point of failure if some labor union or other proglodyte group get a hair up their butts about something.

UPDATE: 400 Groups Urge Congress to Block Rail Strike

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A bunch of current cartoonists celebrate the creator of PEANUTS.