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slamist militants attacked a hotel used by government officials in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday evening, police and witnesses said.

Al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, which controls large swathes of the country, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a statement that it was targeting the nearby presidential palace.

“We were shaken by a huge blast, followed by heavy exchange of gunfire,” said Ahmed Abdullahi, who lives close to the scene. “We are just indoors and listening to gunfire.”

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

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Good luck with that.

Kari Lake Supporters Turn on Confederate Flag-Waver During Election Protest (Newsweek) Oh no! Confederate flag cooties!

Brett Kavanaugh Finally Proves His ‘Worth’ (Newsweek)

What travel warnings do other nations give their citizens about US violence? (CNN) At least in the U.S. you can have a gun to protect yourself – unlike the E.U.

These U.S. Companies Gave $8 Million to Election-Denying Midterm Candidates (Daily Beast) Deniers!

How Can Dems ‘Stop This’? MSNBC Freaks Over Pending GOP Investigations & Committee Purges  Sauce for the goose….

Lib Activists LOSE IT Over Musk’s ‘Amnesty’ Plan

Politifact Joins ‘Spanish-Language Disinformation’ Grift

Why I Quit Elon Musk’s Twitter (New Yorker) Obsure scribbler puts the … slipper? … in.

FBI Waited Over A Year To Fully Investigate Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs: House Judiciary Republicans

CNN’s Bash Claims Walker’s Trans Swimmer Ad ‘Targets’ Trans People

Schiff: ‘Will Have to Consider the Validity’ of GOP Subpoenas

‘Blood On Your Hands’? Is Anyone Really Endangered by Twitter ‘Amnesty’?

Amid civil rights probe, another Everett school administrator files discrimination complaint

Broadway’s ‘Lion King’ interpreter fired for being white settles case after backlash

The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler  Octavia Butler is the poster child for the new Woke takeover of the Science Fiction/Fantasy ‘establishment’.

Ex-Surgeon General Jerome Adams says he couldn’t find job after leaving Trump White House (N.Y. Post) BIPOC privilege can’t overcome Trump cooties.

WaPo: “‘Wakanda Forever’ and the Importance of #BlackGirlGenius”

Westminster City Council in London Declares That Nonwhites Will Henceforth be Called “Global Majority”

EU officials slam Biden administration for ‘profiting’ off Ukraine war (N.Y. Post)

This affluent city in Mexico has become a waystation for migrants with eyes on Texas (DMN)

US Issues Expanded License to Allow Chevron to Import Venezuelan Petroleum  Anything to avoid increasing U.S. petroleum production.

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Rules Undermining Infrastructure Spending  Apparently nobody has explained to Biden exactly why people ‘ship jobs’ overseas. He is SUCH a dimwit.

‘Woke Warfighters’: GOP Report Says Leftist Ideology, Gender “Insanity” Weakening America’s Military

Mexican Asylum Seekers Set Their Sights North — on Canada

The Diesel Crunch Is Finally Causing Demand Destruction

How Obama’s Big Economic Lie Caused Our Inflation Crisis

European officials say US profiting from Ukraine war, call Inflation Reduction Act ‘very worrying’ (Fox) Well, it certainly worries me.

Where will Kherson’s freedom fighters go next?

LOGISTICS: Iranian Problems Supplying Yemen

Artillery Is Breaking in Ukraine. It’s Becoming a Problem for the Pentagon. (N.Y. Times)

U.S. and NATO Scramble to Arm Ukraine and Refill Their Own Arsenals

Pockets of Shelling Across Ukraine as Wintry Warfare Looms

No joke: Supreme Court case could take a big bite out of the First Amendment (The Hill)

Disney’s $180M animated movie bombs at box office amid CEO shake-up (Fox) Get Woke, go broke.

Europe’s euthanasia policies are uncivilized  Anyone who can be talked into killing himself probably ought to be encouraged to leave. Give him (or her) the right pills, explain what the proper dosage is, and walk away. The offensive part is getting a doctor (PRIMUM NON NOCERE) involved. The scary part is the number of actual MDs who are willing to kill, be it unborn babies or redundant geezers. Somewhere Dr Mengele is smiling.

Flashback: Lib Journalists’ Tearful Eulogies for Cuba’s Communist Dictator

Balenciaga Sues Producers Of ‘BDSM Teddy Bear’ Pedophilic Ad Campaign  CYA … and the livin’ is sleazy….

The Media Cry Foul When Pelosi’s Chickens Come Home to Roost

On PBS, David Brooks Wishes for ‘Massive Cultural Shift’ to ‘European-Style’ Gun Laws  Is anyone still pretending with a straight face that David Brooks is some kind of conservative?

The Left’s Cynical “Speech Is Violence” Ploy

You Can Define ‘Far Left’ Kook as Someone Who Makes Brian Stelter Sound Reasonable

Divided government demands creativity. Here are 3 ways to get things (Washington Post) E. J. Dionne’s ideas begin and end with ‘Let Democrats do what they want!’.

On the same page

Justin Trudeau in Wonderland

Is Soccer Left or Right?

The grievance games of the left

Climate change: Could centuries-old wheat help feed the planet? (BBC) I didn’t know the planet was hungry.

The world can’t recycle its way out of the plastics crisis (Boston Globe)

Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment? (Washington Post) I’m glad they have nothing more important to worry about.

Food waste is contributing to climate change. What’s being done about it? (PBS)

The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough (Financial Times)

Bison proliferate as Native American tribes reclaim stewardship (The Guardian) The same Native American tribes that used to drive buffalo herds over cliffs?

“There’s No Emergency” – Dissident Climatologist Dr Judith Curry on Climate Change

US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World

Germany Tees Up Windfall Tax On Solar And Wind  Oil companies: Welcome to the ducking stool!

Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself

An Inconvenient Tree: Is Climate Change Driving Worse Floods?

Climate Hoax Exposed — Again

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as anger over China’s COVID curbs mounts (Reuters)

Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy (CNN)

Growing Protests In China Over Zero-Covid Restrictions (NBC)

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’ (Al Jezeera)

MIT Finds Indoor Humidity “Sweet Spot” To Reduce Spread of COVID-19 (SciTechDaily) Well, if you’re under water, it’s hard to spread COVID, that’s true.

Fauci emailed friend saying masks were ‘ineffective,’ pushed for mandates anyway, Missouri AG says (Fox)

Journalists reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic relied on research that had yet to be peer reviewed (CNN) Not that it would have mattered.

China Reports 3rd Consecutive Daily Record for New COVID Cases

Omicron BQ Variants, Dangerous to Immunocompromised, Dominant in US  Gee, if only we had a vaccine….

‘Forgetful’ Fauci Could Not Recall Key Details Of COVID Crisis Response During Deposition: Louisiana AG  Well, you know, the guy IS getting old….

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as Anger Over China’s COVID Curbs Mounts

Another Study Finds Heart Inflammation Higher After Moderna Vaccination Versus Pfizer

‘People Aren’t Listening’ ABC Frets Americans Refusing COVID Boosters   Well, that’s what happens when people HAVE BEEN LIED TO REPEATEDLY FOR TWO FARGIN YEARS.

Is the “Pandemic” Over? Maybe, Maybe Not

How Effective Is the New Covid Vaccine?

Trump faulted for dinner with white nationalist, rapper Ye (Associated Press) AP climbs aboard the witch-hunt.

Former GOP lawmaker identifies ‘larger problem’ after Trump’s dinner (CNN) Feeling a lack of spotlight.

Trumpworld Think Tank Is Barely Paying Its Bills (Daily Beast)

Trump’s act is ‘old and tired’, says his own former national security adviser (The Guardian) Bolton was only Trump’s national security adviser until Trump realized that he was an unrepentant neocon warmonger, whereupon he was fired. This disingenuous characterization by the Grauniad is merely another rhetorical stick with which to beat Trump; nothing resembling journalism.

The attempt to revive a sexual assault case against Trump

January 6 report expected to focus on Trump’s role and potential culpability  Oh, ya think?

Republicans shrug off Trump ’24 bid: ‘The excitement’s just not there’ (Politico) Gether Narrative right here!

It’s Time, Again, for My Brother Kevin (N.Y. Times) Maureen Dowd shares the general proglodyte scribbler delusion that everybody is interested in her and her relatives’ hatred of Trump.

GOP lawmakers hushed on Trump’s dinner with white nationalist (Axios) Jumping on board the bash-Trump bandwagon.

‘Not an accidental meeting.’ GOP Arkansas governor blasts Trump for hosting white supremacist (USA Today) Jumping on board the bash-Trump bandwagon.

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After all, those guns just run around killing people.

If we were going to be ‘honest about guns’ we would ban young black males from possessing firearms.

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This is actually very clever.

I can also see the system being gamed to harass your enemies … if you work at MacDonalds.

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The New York Times, of course, is not on the side of property rights.

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TV currently abounds with “I thought they were dead” revival projects: series in which your favourite 1980s movie stars are given a new lease of life and you are reminded — with luck — how much you loved them. Kevin Costner is doing very well in Yellowstone; Ralph Macchio is milking the Karate Kid legacy for all it’s worth in Cobra Kai; Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow had a decent run in The Old Man. Now it’s the turn of Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King.

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By definition, every weapon is made for assaulting someone or something. It’s the equivalent of referring to a “sleep bed” or a “drive car” or a “dig shovel.” People who understand firearms and actually use them have been explaining the true definition of an assault weapon with the repetitive fortitude of Mike Lindell. We should all know by now that the “AR” in AR-15 does not stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite Rifle,” the company that pioneered the AR-15.

We should also all know that “assault weapon,” until the left perverted the term, referred to a gun with selective fire capabilities, meaning you can switch it from automatic fire to semiautomatic fire. These types of weapons are largely reserved for military usage (true “military-style” weapons). They are not for sale at your local gun store, and acquiring one as a civilian is very costly and difficult to do, as they’ve been heavily regulated since the passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934.

Even Joe Biden must know these basic facts, yet he and fellow liberals insist on using the term “assault weapon” to refer to any gun they’d like to see banned. Which is all of them. And Biden just admitted to that by saying there’s no reason to own a semiautomatic weapon. As many have pointed out, “most modern guns” are semiautomatic. The NRA notes, “Semi-automatic pistols are America’s favorite category of firearm. Moreover, pistols chambered in Biden’s dreaded 9mm are the most popular pistol in this category.”

This is why some people can only do Starbucks work. Guarantee she (he? it?) had tatoos, piercings, and oddly-colored hair (what there was of it).

Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Very Different Thanksgiving Messages

Trump hosted Holocaust denier at Mar-a-Lago estate during visit with Kanye West, a week after announcing 2024 run (CNN) CNN finally picks up the Narrative.

What to do with Trump’s tax returns (CNN)

The Unwelcome Return of Trump’s #Resistance Reply Guys (Daily Beast) ‘Shut up!’ they explained.

Trump was ‘very taken’ with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and they fawned over each other during Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West (Daily Mail) Fawned!

An engineering marvel just saved Venice from a flood. What about when seas rise? (Washington Post)

The environmental impact of Black Friday (DW)

Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret (Gizmodo)

Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021? (Inside Climate News)  Let not a year go by without a witch-hunt!

Coal bounces back (Politico)

Earth Might Be Experiencing 7th Mass Extinction, Not 6th – “A True Decrease in the Abundance of Organisms” (SciTechDaily) “Ya can’t tell your extinction without a scorecard!”

Dream homes and disasters: Is the government ready to confront climate risk? (Politico)

These Are the Most Sustainable Cities in the World The ones you want to avoid.

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction (The Guardian)

NY Times Profiles ‘Compassionate,’ ‘Uplifting’ Activist Who Wants Humanity to Die Off

COP-27: A Window into How the UN Keeps the Poor Poor

Barbados Proposes Rich Countries Provide $1Trillion to Fund Climate Action  GIVE US MONEY! Meanwhile, we’ll be busy running the secretive banking and money-laundering operations for which we are famous.

Abortion rights: French parliament votes to include right in constitution (EuroNews)

Joe Biden has a chance to rebalance America’s judiciary (The Economist) ‘Rebalance’ meaning ‘turn more to the Left’.

Socialist-backed Caban wants to make it harder for NYC businesses to fire workers (N.Y. Post) And so businesses will be more reluctant to hire people. Jobs lost! Businesses ruined! Win-win!

Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Helped Libs Win Elections

California Mulls Ban On All Gas And Diesel Truck Fleets  That’ll turn it into a Turd World country over night.

Emboldened Biden, Dems Push Ban on So-Called Assault Weapons

Kari Lake’s Campaign Sues Arizona’s Maricopa County Over Election Issues

On Second Thought, Chris Licht Wants CNN To Stay Librul!

Reefer Madness: Demand For Illegal Pot Soars In California Due To High Taxes

DC Think Tank Scrubs Chinese Policy Experts’ Profiles After CCP Ties Revealed

CNN Is Mute as Biden Still Doesn’t Understand Meaning of ‘Semi-Automatic Weapons’

The West is struggling to set an oil price cap that hurts Russia (CNN)

Ukraine’s four nuclear power plants reconnected to grid – IAEA (Reuters)

These economies are booming as Putin’s war drives migrants and money out of Russia

Putin Branded a Narcissist in Leaked FSB Letters (Newsweek) So obviously he won’t be allowed at the Cool Kids’ Table–they don’t appreciate competition.

Vladimir Putin Wanted To ‘Attack’ Japan, Before He Chose To Invade Ukraine – Claims Alleged FSB Whistleblower (EurAsian Times) And there’s a rumor that he doesn’t wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom, too.

Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Could Lead to Release of Thousands of ISIS Terrorists  Remind me why Turkey is in NATO.

As Negotiations Fracture, EU Postpones Talks On Russian Oil Price Cap To Monday

Western sanctions catch up with Russia’s wartime economy (Washington Post)

Gas Price Cap Could Cause Irreversible Harm To Energy Markets

It Was Never About Ukraine

dsSarah Palin lost the battle, but won the war (CNN)

The Hobby Lobby leak looks bad for Justice Alito. But that’s not the worst part. (MSNBC) The worst part is the Narrative Media witch-hunt.

Bombshell report deals another blow to the Supreme Court’s reputation (CNN) On the Left. And what else matters?

Stephen King Swats Elon Musk In ‘MyPillow’ Fight On Twitter (Huffington Post)

Jordan Peterson’s Politics Make Life Harder for Young Men (Daily Beast) Poor babies.

Elon Musk and the Narcissism/Radicalization Maelstrom (Talking Points Memo)

WashPost Throws A Fit Over Musk’s Pro-Free Speech Changes To Twitter

As Georgia Voting Begins, MSNBC Touts Warnock, Hurls Insults at Herschel Walker  It’s not enough to be black, you have to be the right kind of black.

At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking (N.Y. Times) Except with BLM and AntiFa, where rocks, bricks, and molotov cocktails do the talking.

Biden wastes billions on COVID boosters no one wants (N.Y. Post) SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!

In Washington, Macron to seek relief for Europe Inc amid China competition (Reuters) Statists of a feather flock together.

With rail strike looming, Biden says he has ‘not directly engaged,’ contradicting White House press secretary (Fox)

China’s Urumqi to ease Covid lockdown amid public anger over deadly fire (CNN)

COVID protests erupt after deadly Chinese fire (Reuters)

Deadly Xinjiang fire stokes discontent over China’s covid restrictions (Washington Post)

Now-censored videos appear to show China’s zero-Covid measures delaying response to deadly fire (CNN)

Protests erupt in Xinjiang and Beijing after deadly fire (Reuters)

White House battles pandemic fatigue in vaccine push (The Hill)

Hotels Seek Millions from San Francisco Over COVID Homeless Program

The Journalist-Run, Intelligence-Linked Operation That Warped British Pandemic Policy

Here’s how some therapists are tackling structural racism in their practice Leave no Woke behind.

Progressives Find New Pets. Former Pets—Black Americans—Object

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Below is the recently-released documentary video Died Suddenly. It concerns the worldwide surge of excess deaths that has been underway since the rollout of the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

This documentary focuses primarily on the strange elongated rubbery “blood clots” that have frequently been found in the blood vessels of deceased people by undertakers and embalmers, beginning when the vax was first introduced. The accounts given by multiple embalmers about the clots, and the visual evidence of the clots themselves, are what make the video so valuable — the independent testimony from so many witnesses is difficult to refute.

The rest of the footage contains a lot of sensationalized material, including clips of people who collapse suddenly. Some of these may be fakes, and some samples were definitely taken from videos that predate the COVID hysteria. But the sections featuring the embalmers are convincing, and very important.

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The complex biochemistry that sees coca plants make cocaine has been unpicked and replicated in a relative of the tobacco plant. Recreating the process by modifying other plants or microorganisms could lead to a way to manufacture the stimulant or produce chemically similar compounds with unique properties.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Hey, this is serious stuff.

sThe Ridiculous Reality Of The “Russian Oil Price Cap” Debate In One Picture

Russia Has Issued Over 80K Passports In Annexed Ukrainian Territories

Putin Ally: Russia Will Send Ukraine ‘Back to 18th Century’

AFGHANISTAN: A Work in Progress

Ukraine to Receive 186 Million Euros in Aid from Hungary

Europe accuses US of profiting from war

FCC Bans Equipment Sales, Imports from ZTE, Huawei; National Security Risk

Pelosi’s Heir Apparent Jeffries Supports Bill to Study Slave Reparations

Why Are There Few Black Third Basemen and Soccer Goalies?

New subvariants, family gatherings may bring more Covid-19 after holiday, but experts don’t expect severe surge (CNN)

Dr. Jon LaPook on how to stay safe this holiday as ‘Tripledemic’ cases rise (CBS)

Now, Measles “An Imminent Global Threat” Due To Covid Pandemic: WHO (NDTV) Time for the next PANIC!

A multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes (Science.org)

Dr. Fauci’s legacy torched: ‘Perfect example’ of why no one should be in a position of power that long (Fox)

After a Year, Omicron Still Driving COVID Surges and Worries  The Panic is growing a long white beard.

Mandatory Vaccination? Never Mind!

Bombshell report deals another blow to the Supreme Court’s reputation (CNN)

Mike Pence Said 7 Words That Disqualify Him from Holding Office: Kirschner (Newsweek)

Jan. 6 Panel Takes a Jab at Mike Pence’s ‘Disappointing’ Comments (Daily Beast)

Internet Mocks Ted Cruz Ahead Incoming Texas Snowstorm: ‘Are You Packed? (Newsweek)

Montana man gets 3 years in prison for role in Capitol riot (Associated Press)

Tobacco companies can’t sponsor Australian arts. Should fossil fuel giants be banned too? (The Guardian)

UC Berkeley student groups’ refusal to invite Zionist speakers draws civil rights complaint (L.A. Times)

Why We Filed a Civil Rights Claim Against UC Berkeley Law School (Newsweek)

Sarah Palin’s Loss ‘Never Gets Old’: Alaska Defeat Sparks Memes, Jokes (Newsweek)

Three Richmond schools to be renamed, erasing Confederate ties (ABC)

Herschel Walker Committed ‘Election Fraud’ With Texas Residence: Analysts (Newsweek)

The Supreme Court’s New Second Amendment Test Is Off to a Wild Start (The New Republic)

Adidas Launches Probe into Misconduct Allegations Against Kanye West

Rep. Boebert Slams Dems Blaming Her for Colorado Gay Club Shooting  As they do.

Cancel Culture’s War On History, Heritage, & The Freedom To Think For Yourself

Musk’s Twitter “amnesty” plan for suspended accounts alarms activists (Axios)

No Good Jew Goes Unpunished

America’s universities are failing students facing mental health crises (The Hill) Not to mention the ones wanting an education.

What if gun owners had to pass a test? Czech Republic offers an answer. (Washington Post) An answer to a question no one is asking. (How about what if politicians had to pass a test?)

Brussels recommends billions in EU funds be withheld from Hungary (EuroNews)

Musk teases releasing details of Twitter censoring Hunter Biden’s laptop: ‘Necessary to restore public trust’ (Fox)

Russia’s parliament passes law banning ‘gay’ and ‘pedophilia’ propaganda (The Hill)

Socialism Sounds Good On Paper But It Was Deadly For The Pilgrims  But obviously Christians couldn’t possibly make it work….

Gay Club’s Co-owner: Shooting Comes Amid a New ‘Type of Hate’  Or at least a new type of Hate Witch-Hunt.

“They’re Trying To Run Out The Clock”: Kari Lake Files 1st Lawsuit After Election

Liberal Writer Grateful on Thanksgiving for Abortions

Fawning NY Times’ ‘Review’ of Michelle Obama’s New Book Is an Embarrassment

Traumatic Executions vs. Therapeutic Abortions

How Politico’s Playbook went from must-read to spam

Top ECR MEP: European Parliament is a Political Vehicle of the Left

Blue State Blues: Federal Data Shows Twin Cities Light Rail Is The Most Dangerous In America

European Parliament To Enforce Gender Quotas in Companies

Spreading Deadly Pathogens Under the Disguise of Popular Music

The Mask Is Off: WEF’s Klaus Schwab Declares China A “Role Model”

MSNBC Bewails Lack of Weapons Ban: “What’s It Going to Take?”

Welcome to the woke World Cup

Climate advocates see a path forward in the farm bill: Lining farmers’ pockets (Politico)

How to be a sustainable parent (BBC) Make your children out of recycled plastic.

For Many, the Global Warming Confab That Rose in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage (Inside Climate News)

After decades as a nuclear powerhouse, France makes its play in offshore wind (CNBC)

Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all (The Guardian) George Monbiot wrings his hands and gives us clickbait.

One crop uses more than half of Utah’s water. Here’s why. (Salt Lake Tribune_

Could hemp be a key tool in fight against climate change? (The Guardian) Especially for aging hippies.

US Naval Academy breaks ground on seawall project to protect campus from rising sea levels (WTOP)

Rolls-Royce calls for formal funding talks over small nuclear plants (Financial Times)  Because nothing happens without the government paying for it.

EPA floats sharply increased social cost of carbon (Energy Wire)

Sustainability Democrats propose narrow permitting reform effort on electric grid, community involvement (The Hill)

How One Woman Pulled Anchor and Set Sail in a Solar-Powered Tiny Home

Biden Allocates $1.1 Billion To Keep California’s Nuclear Power Plant Operating

Climate Change Activists Paralyze Berlin Airport

Berlin Airport Closed By Climate Activists Glued To Runway

Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations

A wave-powered prototype device is aiming to produce drinking water from the ocean

The “Biohome3D” House Is 3D-Printed, Fully Recyclable and Made of Natural Materials

Whales dying from consuming plastics  Think of it as evolution in action.

Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars  Sometimes the old ways are best.

Eastern Canadian Arctic Has Much More Sea Ice Than Usual While Svalbard Polar Bears Deal with Less

Biden says he will try to move on gun control during lame-duck session (The Hill)

Biden Is ‘Going To Try’ To Ban Assault Weapons (MSNBC) Except that there is no such thing as an ‘assault weapon’ except in the minds of proglodytes.

U.S. prepared to authorize Chevron to boost Venezuela’s oil output (Reuters) But not America’s oil output, oh no, can’t have that.

US officials pressured Canada to stop ‘Freedom Convoy,’ new testimony reveals (N.Y. Post)

Biden phone call to Thanksgiving parade broadcast begins with 20 seconds of confusion: ‘Can you hear me?’ (Fox)

Same Dismal Pattern: CBS Only Mustered One Hunter Biden Story, ABC and NBC Fail to Notice  Biden family? What Biden family?

Texas Sends 2 More Buses of Migrants to Philadelphia

Post-FTX Regulatory Crackdown Will Erode Liberties, Accelerate Path To CBDC ‘Social Engineering’

STATE PROPAGANDA: Univision Shills for Biden’s Student Loan Bailout

In Huge Black Friday Sale, Store To Sell Everything For Price It Was Before Biden Became President  (Babylon Bee)

Biden: Over 55K Workers Got Pay Raise Through Minimum Wage Exec Order  Uh-huh. And how many lost their jobs because they’re employers judged them not worth the extra money?

Biden to Trudeau: Stop the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy  Fascists of a feather flock together.

Taliban Conducts 1st Public Whipping In Soccer Stadium Since 1990s  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Former surgeon general faces his wife’s cancer — and the ‘Trump Effect’ (Washington Post) Trump cooties! Unclean!

Lisa Murkowski and Mary Peltola projected to win Alaska races, defeating Trump-backed opponents (Washington Post)

Fight Between DOJ And Trump Over Special Master In Mar-A-Lago Document Case Intensifies (CBS)

Watchdog group questions legality of Special Counsel appointment to investigate Trump (Fox)

Donald Trump Doesn’t Have Any Friends at Mar-a-Lago, Local Billionaire Says (Newsweek)

Donald Trump’s Miserable Thanksgiving (Newsweek)

E. Jean Carroll sues Donald Trump for alleged 1990s rape under New York Adult Survivors Act (N.Y. Daily News) Otherwise know as the Let’s Target Trump Act.

Trump and the Fight Republicans Need to Have

Trump Dined at Mar-a-Lago with White Nationalist, Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes Alongside Kanye West  Surely they could have gotten a ‘transphobic’, ‘racist’, or ‘election/climate change/whatever-the-Woke-flavor-of-the-week-is denier’ in there. C’mon, make an effort.

Kanye West Pals Up with Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes, Travels to Meet Trump at Mar-A-Lago  All three witches gathered around one pot. Were they nekkid? I’m told it’s traditional.

Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner (Axios) I guess that the problem is now Trump getting other people’s cooties rather than other people getting Trump cooties. Glad they straightened that out.

Donald Trump dined with white nationalist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes (Politico) C’mon, you guys, there’s still a lot of Narrative Media out there who haven’t jumped on the Witch Hunt Bandwagon yet. Get a move on.

Trump’s Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist (N.Y. Times) There’s one.

‘F—ing nightmare’: Trump team does damage control after he dines with Ye and white supremacist Nick Fuentes (NBC) That’s two.

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Please let that sink in: the person running on the Democratic ticket for governor in the state of Arizona is the very same person assigned to oversee the security and accuracy of the election. This is unconscionable, and prior to the election there were plenty of calls for her to recuse herself (some of them even from Democrats), but Hobbs simply refused.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith.

But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from Mar-a-Lago, as well as his purported role in the January 6 “insurrection.”

Nah, just kidding. Open Threads are for blogs that are interested in conversation. That ain’t this.

This blog is not intended to spark ‘conversations’ among readers. (If it were, I’d have one of those snazzy plug-ins that actually threaded reader responses, rather than just tipping them into a pile.) It exists to be a dumping ground for stuff with which I would otherwise pester my friends. (Note to self: Do rant on ending sentences with a preposition. Also one on using ‘if’ where you ought to use ‘ought’.)(Maybe one on what preposition to use after ‘different’.)

This blog is intended to publicize things that I find interesting, and in passing document some of the more absurd things that the Evil Party are doing to this country. (If you can’t remember the latest thing that a Stupid Democrat Or Worse did, come here and search. You might find it.) You will note a certain imbalance. That is because Stupid People do more Stupid Things than Interesting People do Interesting Things. (Not My Fault.) Or you could just read the Babylon Bee.

Think of it as a political Ted Talk, without the Wokeness and on-stage preening.

You want to make a snarky comment, feel free. You want to call me names, get banned.

Those are the only rules we have. Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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I am a big fan of slow cooking.  That and sous vide….

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A new government in Italy was elected partly because of promises to do something about the people smuggling from North Africa used corrupt North African governments. Italian gangsters and EU (European Union) countries far from the Mediterranean back NGOs (non-government organizations) which operate boats to take the illegal migrants directly to European (mainly Italian) ports where the migrants are deposited and claim asylum. According to EU rules that means they can stay, often in Italy. This becomes a problem for local Italians who are not prepared to absorb so many migrants, who become an economic burden for Italy and contribute to a rising crime rate.

The new government in Italy refused to allow an NGO “rescue boat” to unload its 230 passengers in Italy. For a while the NGOs were able to land their illegal migrants in Malta, which lies between North Africa and Italy. Malta joined the EU in 2003 and found that EU rules obliged it to accept illegal migrants from North Africa who were picked up by NGO rescue boats and taken to the nearest EU nation where they were they could claim asylum. This was quite a burden for Malta, with a population of only half a million. In contrast Italy has 60 million and France 65 million. In 2015 Malta began refusing to allow the NGO boats to land, so the NGO boats took their passengers to Italy, The EU criticized Malta but did not try to force Malta to accept the illegals. At first Italy went along with accepting the illegals but eventually that became a political issue in Italy and now the NGO boats must take their passengers to France, which protested when 230 illegals were landed at a French port. The NGO boats are sponsored by EU members far from the problem, mainly Norway and Germany. Most EU members would prefer that all these illegals land in Italy, where most of the migrants will stay and become a problem for Italy but not the rest of the EU nations.

Tom Veal.

The White House has twitted (why hasn’t it yet migrated to Mastodon?) a list of “some talking points when ‘that Uncle’ comes ‘at you’ about @POTUS”. I leave mockery of the substance (and it is eminently mockable) to others. What immediately strikes me is the assumption that “Uncles” (capitalized to emphasize the menace, I suppose, like “The Thing”) are particularly prone to start disruptive arguments at family gatherings.

But you will soon be replaced by robots if you keep this shit up.

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After all, the guns just walked in and started shooting by themselves.

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After several decades, therapeutic cancer vaccines now show signs of efficacy and potential to help patients resistant to other standard-of-care immunotherapies, but they have yet to realize their full potential and expand the oncologic armamentarium. Here, we classify cancer vaccines by what is known of the included antigens, which tumors express those antigens and where the antigens colocalize with antigen-presenting cells, thus delineating predefined vaccines (shared or personalized) and anonymous vaccines (ex vivo or in situ). To expedite clinical development, we highlight the need for accurate immune monitoring of early trials to acknowledge failures and advance the most promising vaccines.

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Broadly speaking, the recent electoral tremors have been based on an education split, graduates voting for the status quo, non-graduates seeking to overturn it. In Brexit, 29 of the 30 areas with the highest proportion of graduates voted Remain, while the cohort overall split 57%-43% compared to 48%-52% for the country as a whole. Hilary Clinton won graduates by 11% while losing non-graduates by 7%. By the 2020 election, the gap had widened to 14% and 15% respectively. In the recent French election, there was an almost linear relationship between education level and voting, with President Macron winning the run-off votes of 78% of higher degree-holders, 63% of degree-holders, 53% of those with a baccalaureate, but just 44% of those with no qualifications.

The commentator David Goodhart attempted to explain these data by introducing the notion of “Anywheres” and “Somewheres”. The former are those who do well at school, go to good universities before progressing to well-paying jobs in big cities or overseas. The latter, leaving school with few or no qualifications, find the university route blocked so are forced into low-paying jobs in their hometowns with little or no opportunity for progression. The modern globalised world works for “Anywheres”. It does not for “Somewheres”. To Goodhart, Brexit and the other political upheavals of recent years represent an attempted revolution by a group who finds itself in a world which no longer caters to its needs.

D.C.’s downtown is comatose. Here’s how to revive it. (Washington Post) The chief way would be to change the far-left policies of the one-party Democrat administration, something that the Washington Post won’t mention and the D.C. city government wouldn’t consider.

Elon Musk ‘dismantles safety work at Twitter,’ makes employees ‘cry:’ Washington Post report (Fox) Poor iddle babies.

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky (The Nation)

Salt & Straw co-founder says ‘I can’t stay here’ if Portland HQ employees aren’t safe (Oregon Online)

Salt & Straw could be moving out of Portland…for their own safety (KOIN)

Muslim, Christian parents sue Ohio school board over transgender bathroom and locker room policies (Fox)

The SF Police Dept is requesting permission for their robots to use deadly force

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

Top Arizona Election Official Moved To ‘Undisclosed Location’

Brussels Announces Plan to Curtail Illegal Migration in Mediterranean 

NPR Presents Laughably Pathetic Thanksgiving Food Substitutes Due to Inflation

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations (The Nation) It is doubtful that FDR knew anything more about ‘capitalism’ than The Nation does.

BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters’ identities

Fired Twitter Moderator Reveals “Worries” Over Platform’s Free Speech Future

‘Too cold’: NYC migrants wait in line 25 hours in near-freezing temperatures for scheduled ICE meetings (N.Y. Post)

Biden administration approves Gulf oil terminal opposed by Texas city (The Hill)

Biden Admin Quietly Approves Large Texas Gulf Oil Export Terminal

More Than 10K Migrants Nabbed Last Week at Texas Crossing

Biden administration clears way for ESG in 401(k)s, reversing Trump rules

Sen. Cruz Says GOP Should Pursue ‘Godfather’ Joe Biden, Not Hunter  Hunter is the first step.

The playbook on the laptop

There is a growing shadow campaign to defend Joe Biden from House Republicans (NBC)

Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill a million Americans (CNBC)

WHO to rename ‘Monkeypox’ to ‘MPOX’ at Biden admin’s request (Fox)

Measles now an imminent global threat due to pandemic, say WHO and CDC (Reuters) Then I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Understanding and neutralising covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (BMJ)

Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why. (Washington Post)

Fighting COVID Tyranny in Canada

Fauci: I’m a Bureaucrat, Not a Scientist  “I am the bureau!”