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On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.?1? They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream. Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.

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The Green movement in Germany advocates a contradictory socio-political agenda. On the one hand, they affirm an absolute individualism that celebrates self actualization for innumerable, biologically non-existent gender variants, and on the other hand, they push for a globalist policy of mandated tolerance. However, despite this contradiction, it is safe to say that it logically follows that the movement opposes all intermediary institutions, from the family to the nation-state, religion to Western culture.

This is why environmentalists, who were first and foremost anti-capitalists, fully came into their own in the fight against global climate change. They find the West’s traditional understanding of the balance between the individual and the community ‘disgusting’ because it stands in the way of both a radical unleashing of the individual and the enactment of globalist fantasies.

According to the Green movement, any policy oriented towards the survival of humanity, consumer interests, and even of the socially weak, is morally illegitimate if it harms the ecosphere. Instead, this ideology cultivates a megalomaniacal sense of responsibility towards humanity in the abstract; ironically this sentiment relieves globalists of any responsibility for local and concrete concerns.

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Supposedly, European high-speed trains are so successful that the airlines stop operating when new high-speed rail corridors open. The reality is much more dismal: in order to guarantee customers for its trains, France is banning airline flights in corridors served by high-speed rail. This is a tacit admission that government-owned trains can’t compete without forcibly shutting down competitors.

Under the new rule, commercial air flights are banned in corridors where trains can make the same journey in under 150 minutes. So far, this is limited to Paris-Bordeaux, Paris-Lyon, and Paris-Nantes. The French government wanted to extend it to five more city pairs, but the European Commission ruled that France could only ban air travel in corridors that had not just fast but frequent rail service. Members of France’s Green Party also want to extend it to corridors where trains make the journey in under 240 minutes.

Paris-Lyon is supposed to be the most successful high-speed rail corridor in Europe, one that supposedly makes a profit. The Antiplanner has questioned such claims because the state-owned rail company hasn’t published actual numbers, but France’s effort to legislate away the competition suggests that the trains aren’t doing as well as people claim.

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A commercial airship firm, LTA Research, is building two new airships. Pathfinder one was completed in October 2022 and successfully flight tested. This airship is 120 meters long, can lift 28 tons, including up to 14 personnel and cargo. Cruising speed is 110 kilometers an hour and unrefueled range is over 4,500 kilometers. The larger 180-meter-long Pathfinder 3 is under construction and will be ready in 2023. Because of the low speed and small cargo carrying capacity, the intended mission; delivering aid to natural disaster victims in remote locations, is limited.

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We’ve all seen the videos of activists from Extinction Rebellion and similar groups who glue themselves to roads, trains, walls, and works of art to protest governmental and corporate climate policies. Motorists in Germany had apparently had enough of all that nonsense, and forcibly removed the glued-on protesters.

It’s important to note that these pro-active citizens seemed to be “New Germans”. Perhaps “Germans who have been here longer” were unwilling to take the risks associated with unauthorized spontaneous actions.

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Sometimes I wonder whether he’s even Christian.

The title of this post is a reference to an old rhetorical question — which was also usually accompanied by an allusion to the defecatory habits of ursines in an arboreal environment — intended to convey the idea that one’s interlocutor was stating something obvious. Concerning the Pope, however, the question is no longer a rhetorical one. He’s not really Catholic, but what is he?

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Congressional leaders have dropped 6,825 pages of text for their “omnibus” spending bill, plus explanatory materials that include a list of at least 4,000 earmarks, on the doorstep of every American family.

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You can read the report below as we are currently doing, however upon first read – and the fact that it was quietly released on a Tuesday night instead of via a Washington Post bombshell detailing specific ‘evil things’ Trump’s done, we are going to – for now, assume this is a giant nothingburger.

‘Merchant Of Death’ Visits Occupied Ukraine; WNBA Reveals Griner Was Paid Full Salary While Locked Up  Sometimes it is good to be the victim.

US border cities strained ahead of expected migrant surge (Associated Press)

El Paso mayor declares state of emergency amid migrant crisis (CBS)

Biden administration proposing phaseout of compact fluorescent light bulbs (The Hill) No issue is too petty to prevent interference with the freedom of people to buy what they want.

As US debates Title 42 policy, asylum seekers left in limbo (Al Jezeera) Apparently limbo is somewhere near Mexico.

Biden slings ‘anti-Irish’ words, claims to be Italian in gaffe-ridden speech (N.Y. Post)

Joe Biden roasted for busting out ‘old school, anti-Irish’ slur, claiming he’s Italian: ‘He needs help’

Jean-Pierre ducks question on VP Kamala Harris border help as migrant rush looms (N.Y. Post)

DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show

Texas Border Towns Prepare For Migrant Wave With Shipping Containers And Razor Wire

Why Was the Department of Justice Spying on Republican Congressional Staff?

Postal Service will electrify truck fleet by 2026 in climate win for Biden (Washington Post) And more expense for the American taxpayer. (I wonder which Democrat donor will get the contract for the new trucks?)

Watch: Biden Press Secretary Says “You’re With The Smugglers If You Claim Border Is Open”

Poll: Nearly Half Say Biden Has Made US Worse

White House Can’t Mandate COVID Jabs For Federal Contractors: Appeals Court

Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam

The FBI Files: The FBI Pressured Twitter to Reveal Private User Information

Taliban Bans Women From Universities in Afghanistan  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Victims of Terrorism Sue Biden Admin for Sending Taxpayer Aid to Palestinians  And about time too.

Border Czar Kamala Harris Blames Biden Admin’s Migrant Crisis on Republicans

NH joins 24 other states arguing COVID-10 is no longer emergency

White House’s Covid coordinator urges people to get vaccinated ahead of holidays (CNBC)

Hot-air hand dryers might actually spread germs, not remove them. Here’s how to wash and dry your hands safely (CNBC) You stupid ignorant rube, you.

Actor Tim Robbins Expresses Regret For His Support Of Covid Authoritarianism

The Birx Plan for Early Vaccination of the Nursing Homes

How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker

Fifth Circuit rejects Biden admin’s “nearly unlimited authority” claims, blocks vaccine mandate (Hot Air)

Watchdogs Seek Halt of Taxpayer Funding for Wuhan Institute

Lockdown Fever: CBS/NBC Lament China Lifting Oppressive ‘Zero-COVID Policy’

UK’s old trees critical to climate change fight (BBC)

Objection by DRC sours ‘paradigm-changing’ Cop15 biodiversity deal (The Guardian)

Some NGOs warn COP15 biodiversity agreement will ‘devastate indigenous lives’ (France 24)

The domino effect of President Biden’s war on oil and gas (The Hill)

Chevron CEO denies Biden oil lease claim, details practical energy policy (Fox)

‘Face it head on’: Connecticut makes climate change studies compulsory (The Guardian) You will be assimilated!

Climate goal of 1.5C is ‘gasping for breath’, says UN head (The Guardian)

UN chief promises ‘no-nonsense’ climate summit in 2023 (Al Jezeera)

Greenland’s glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated (LiveScience)

Activist group launches new climate campaign against Big Oil (Financial Times) Jeez, another one?

As a Result of an Impressive Cold Blob Anomaly in the North Atlantic, Glaciers in Parts of Greenland, Iceland, and Norway are now Slowing Down From Melting (Severe Weather Europe) Impressive! Anomaly!

Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars Enviro-wackos never tell you that electric vehicles get shitty range and mileage in cold weather.

Can America’s low-cost mobile homes withstand the climate crisis? (The Guardian) Since most ‘mobile homes’ have piss-poor insulation, global warming would actually be an advantage.

EU Imposes The World’s Largest Carbon Tax Scheme, Inflationary Madness Sets In

American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021

Forget Oil. Now They Are Coming For The Cows

WashPost Hates Humanity: Climate Reporter Demeans Kids as a ‘High-Cost Luxury’  We encourage environmental wackos not to reproduce.

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Perhaps you’ve seen the story on the Wall Street Journal editorial page today (or in some other outlet where it is booming this morning) about Stanford University’s “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which reads like a parody of our idiotic woke university culture today. But no—Stanford employed a task force that worked for months to advocate that no one on campus use the word “American” because “This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas. . .”

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There are probably hundreds of thousands of men and women who, because of political differences, maintain minimal or no contact with their parents and, even more cruelly, do not allow their parents to have any contact with their children—their parents’ grandchildren.

Probably an unprecedented number of Americans with grown children will be alone this Christmas because their children will neither visit them nor invite them for the holiday dinner.

In some rare instances of horrific parental behavior, this may be excusable, but when the reason is politics, it is inexcusable.

This is a huge bugaboo for Dennic Prager.

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Congressional leadership released a massive $1.85 trillion “omnibus” spending bill early Tuesday. This 4,155-page bill is filled with woke policies to advance the Left’s extreme agenda to remake America using your tax dollars.

It is unprecedented for a lame-duck Congress to jam through an omnibus spending bill after the American people voted out the majority party in the House of Representatives.

However, Senate Republican leadership has worked with outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for one last liberal spending blowout before the conservative majority takes control of the House on Jan. 3.

The omnibus spending bill is loaded with thousands of earmarks, which are line-item funding for specific pet projects directed by members of Congress.

Many of these earmarks would advance the Left’s extreme agenda and fund its institutions using the taxpayer’s money. House Appropriations Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., bragged that the omnibus “fulfills 98% of Democratic member requests in the House, with $5.4 billion for 3,213 Democratic projects.”

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The study authors created customizable wood in their lab from the cells of a flowering plant known as Zinnia elegans, popularly referred to as common zinnia. They claimed their novel approach allowed them to bio-print wooden pieces of any shape and size. This means that if you need a wooden table, you can directly produce a wooden table from the cells.

So no deforestation and no wastage, like what happens in the case of traditional furniture. This was achieved by treating common zinnia cells first with a liquid medium and then with a gel solution. The latter comprised hormones and nutrients.

We have the technology,–allegedly. Let’s see whether it will scale.

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These are the kinds of immigrants that America needs.

That drive steered him toward studying business marketing at the University of Rochester and, in 2019, he brought a class project to life as a real business. He took a leave of absence from college, with one year left to graduate, to focus on it full-time.

Today, the 26-year-old runs Don Carvajal Cafe, a coffee roasting company out of the South Bronx that sources its beans from the Dominican Republic.

From January to early December 2022, his business brought in roughly $190,000 in sales. From that, Carvajal lives off a $25,000 salary. ”’I just make it work, the same way my mom made it work,” he says.

Some people are just born American; it simply takes them a while to get here.

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The federal government is running annual $1 trillion to $2 trillion budget deficits, which is more than the entire gross domestic product of most nations. But if you believed that Republicans would take a chainsaw to the budget (figuratively) and slash the waste from the federal budget, then to paraphrase the “Oliver Twist” character of Fagin, the miser, “I think you had better think it out again.”

So far, since the midterm elections, the Republicans in Congress seem to be doing just the opposite. The first decision by House Republicans when they learned they had won a slim majority of 222 to 213 was to bring back earmarks. These are bridges to nowhere, peanut subsidies and sports arenas for local professional teams paid for by federal taxpayers.

Some Republican lawmakers offer the excuse that it’s called bringing home the bacon to local constituents. But both parties apparently love to play Santa.

Steve Sailer is guilty of Noticing.

One of the funnier patterns that you can’t unsee is how the New York Times works hard to make many of its article more boring than they have to be to avoid upsetting the delicate amour propre of subscribers.

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The absurdity of the concept of reparations for slavery, an institution that ended several generations ago, is beyond mind-boggling.  But there’s a blatantly cynical reason for the sudden lurch in that direction: formerly reliable Black voters are now slipping away from the Democrats.  This also explains Biden’s recently expressed profuse generosity towards the nations of sub-Saharan Africa.

What is also painfully obvious is the lame, demagogic pandering that is the Democrats’ knee-jerk response, especially to a defecting constituency: just throw money at them and that’ll keep ‘em on the reservation.  Never mind the exposure to ridicule attached to redistributing money from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves, since the despicable practice was abolished over 150 years ago.

Ann Coulter does a beat-down.

For at least a half-century now, every special pleader in America has made the following argument: Yeah, but what if we were black?

This is supposed to be rhetorical kryptonite, capable of anathematizing “discrimination” against any group: atheists, women, gays, immigrants, illegal immigrants, the disabled, Muslims — basically anyone except a fully abled, cis-gendered, white male born in this country.

Oh my gosh! You’re right — we DO have to let girls try out for the Green Bay Packers!

OK, fine, we’ll hire more blind lifeguards.

Of course, Shadi Abdullah is welcome to be president of our campus Hillel group.

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The Twitter Files prove that corporations, intelligence agencies and the Democrats conspired to rig an election. The Biden team instructed that a particular story be squashed, and it was. They gave lists of individuals and organisations to suppress, and these lists were acted on.

The social media company was effectively an outsourced arm of government, suppressing 1st amendment free speech rights.

January 6 committee considering how to handle uncooperative GOP lawmakers, Schiff says (CNN)

How Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Endangers The Free Press (MSNBC)

Washington U lecturer warns medical students not to ‘debate’ her on ‘systemic oppression’: ‘shut that’ down

Republicans’ populist hypocrisy (The Hill)

PBS Chat Show Rolls Out Red Carpet for Pelosi’s Bitter Daughter to Trash Fox, Social Media

EU Threatens Musk With Sanctions Over Suspending Media… After Ignoring Media Bans Under Old Twitter

Newsrooms are scrambling to counter Elon Musk’s bans

Nobel Prize-Winning Economics Professor Faces Harassment Inquiry (Bloomberg)

STUDY: Cable News POUNCES on Suspensions, Yawned at Twitter Files

‘An Atmosphere of Lawlessness’: Attacks on Churches Nearly Triple in 4 Years, New Report Finds

New documents show top Trump officials disregarded concerns by State Dept. staff in relaxing sanctions on Israeli “Blood Diamond” magnate (CBS)

QAnon Follower Sentenced in Capitol Attack

DOJ Charges 2 More Pro-Life Women With FACE Act Violations

Jan. 6 Defendant Among 2 Charged in Plot to Retaliate Against Police

Pennsylvania School Board Director Resigns After Uproar Over Vote Against “Cis White Male” President

Norwegian Actress Faces 3 Years In Prison For Saying Men Can’t Be Lesbians

Ex-lawmakers request ethics probes into sitting members of Congress linked to Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Two migrant buses arrived in New York City on Sunday and up to 15 more are expected in the next few days (CNN) Have yourself a progressive little Christmas….

Lifting Title 42 will cause ‘total chaos’ on the border: Greg Abbott (New York Post)

Texas congressman shares footage of crowded migrant center, calls situation ‘dire’ (N.Y. Post)

New York City says it needs $3 billion from federal government in coming years to respond to asylum seekers (CNN)

It’s time for climate change to reach the International Court of Justice (The Hill)

D.C. Was Full of Hot, Happy Gays Celebrating the Respect for Marriage Act (New York Magazine)

Crude Spikes After White House Says It Will Start Refilling Strategic Petroleum Reserve  Now that the election is over.

Biden’s Justice Department Sues Arizona and Gov. Doug Ducey for Building a Border Wall

The politicized Department of Justice

DHS Says It Will Close Gaps Along Southwest Border Wall As End Of Title 42 Looms  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

National Archives’ Release of Hunter Biden Emails Could Put WH in Bind

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 23

Twitter Files: Intel Community Discredited Factual Info on Hunter Biden  The technical term for which is ‘politically-motivated cover-up’.

Texas Sends Nearly 90 Migrants by Bus to Philadelphia

Biden Admin Facing Major Border Crisis Ahead of Christmas

Biden to appoint Joe Kennedy — RFK’s grandson — as special envoy to Northern Ireland (Washington P0st) Child of the Crust. welcome to the Trough.

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Biden Admin’s Lifting Of Trump-Era Border Policy

How Greenland’s Mineral Wealth Made It a Geopolitical Battleground (Foreign Policy)

Norwegian companies submit record $20.5 billion fossil fuel investment plans amid Russia-Ukraine war

Moldova suspends 6 TV channels over alleged misinformation (Washington Post)

Germany Unleashed Half-Trillion Dollar ‘Energy Bazooka’ To Keep Lights On

Kremlin TV Stars Combust as Russians Admit War Is Aimless (Daily Beast)

How Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed (Financial Times)

Pacifist Japan unveils biggest military build-up since World War Two (Reuters)

Russian Diplomat Hospitalized In Mail-Bomb ‘Terror Attack’

Japan Unveils Biggest Military Buildup Since WW II Amid China Worries

Fresh Missile Barrage Leaves Cities Across Ukraine Without Power Or Water In Sub-Zero Temps

India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile After Minor Border Clash With China

Ukrainian Commander: High-Caliber Weapons Dealing Russians ‘Heavy’ Losses

South Dakota Gov. Noem Proposes Legislation To Restrict Chinese Purchase Of US Farmland

US Sends Infantry Unit To Base Just Miles Away From Russian Border In Estonia

Blossoming Iran-Russia Axis Becomes a Big Problem

Peace Between Jordan and Israel Unraveling, Report Says

US Believes Ukraine Can Retake Crimea, But May Provoke Nuclear Escalation

Iran asking Russia to sell military ships, help build new designs: Israeli sources

Racist Doctors and Organ Thieves: Why So Many Black People Distrust the Health Care System

Racial Discrimination Suit Against Tesla Seeks To Include More Than 100 Other Workers As Plaintiffs

Google Objectifies Minorities By Telling Consumers to ‘Buy All Black’

‘Comply or it’s going to be a serious backlash:’ Activist demanding $800,000 for every black resident issues warning to California’s reparations task force (Daily Mail) “Nice state you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

Historic biodiversity agreement reached at U.N. conference (Associated Press)

COP15: Nations reach ‘historic’ deal to protect nature (BBC)

Europe risks falling behind US over green investment, says business leader (Financial Times)

Think climate change is scary? Try talking to your kids about it (L.A. Times)

The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that? (RealClimate)

Return of the rhino: can we bring the northern white back from extinction? (The Guardian)

The Amazon reef that may be threatened by oil drilling (BBC)

6 reasons why our planet might not be doomed after all (Vox)

Climate extremists think your kids are a ‘high-cost luxury’ and bad for Mother Earth

China unveils compromise proposal in COP15 biodiversity talks (Politico)

As the Climate Changes, Climate Fiction Is Changing With It (Inside Climate News)

Biggest US shale operator says more drilling would harm industry (Financial Times)

Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost? (Wired)

US Opens Probe of Cruise Robotaxi Braking, Clogging Traffic

Jan. 6 committee finalizes criminal referral plan for Trump (NBC)

January 6 committee expected to recommend DOJ pursue criminal charges against Trump (KENS)

Key things to watch out for in the Jan. 6 report beyond Trump (NBC)

Jan. 6 Committee Considering Recommending Three Charges Against Donald Trump (MSNBC)

Is Trump finally politically dead? Sort of (The Guardian) Does anybody really care about what Robert Reich has to say? Sort of.

Good Liars create ‘Honest Trump Cards’ focusing on 2020 election loss (MSNBC)

Trump Conviction in Documents Probe Will Take Only 1 Hour: Glenn Kirschner (Newsweek)

Jan. 6 Criminal Referral Charges Against Trump ‘Will Stick,’ Kirschner Says (Newsweek)

Trump reinvents ‘rigged’ election myth around Twitter allegations (Washington Post)

Steve Bannon fed up with Trump’s latest stunts: ‘I can’t do this anymore’ (N.Y. Post)

Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges

Donald Trump stored classified docs within feet of Mar-a-Lago guests: Report Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH!

Jan. 6 Panel to Consider Criminal Referrals Against Trump and Allies in Final Session

Jan. 6 panel to vote on urging DOJ to prosecute Trump on at least 3 criminal charges (Politico)

House Democrats Push to Thwart Trump’s 2024 Run Legislatively  It’s called a ‘bill of attainder’ and is specifically prohibited in the Constitution. (Not that Democrats pay any attention to the Constitution….)

House Dems poised to release Trump’s tax secrets (Politico) Which will prove to be another Democrat nothingburger.

Key House committee to hold high-stakes meeting on Trump’s taxes Tuesday (CNN) The witch-hunt continues.

Exclusive: January 6 panel considering Trump referral to justice department for obstruction of Congress (The Guardian) Hardly exclusive–every presstitute in D.C. is reporting on it.

Trump Files Defamation Suit Against Pulitzer Prize Board For Rewarding ‘Russia Collusion’ Coverage

Jan. 6 committee formally accuses Donald Trump of four crimes (Politico)

A compromise on the military covid vaccine mandate (Washington Post)

Mayor Adams warns NYC can’t hand influx of migrants if Title 42 ends (ABC)

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports (NPR) Of course it does.

Twitter Censorship Contributed To Destructive Pandemic Policies And Is Criminal, Says Former White House COVID Adviser

Boston Parents Demand Mask Mandates Return

Just How Bad Is the ‘Tripledemic’? (New York Times) Time to PANIC!

Setting The Record Straight On Ivermectin

More Than 80 Cities, Counties Using Federal Pandemic Aid To Fund Guaranteed Income Pilot Programs

The Great Barrington Plan: Would Focused Protection Have Worked?

New Study Finds Global Discrimination Against the Unvaccinated  My, what a surprise.

Welfare Programs Based on Race and Gender Identity Demonstrate Where Institutional Wokeness Is Going

Journalists Warn Of Frightening Trend Where Rules Apply To Them  (Babylon Bee)

Washington Post Reporter Asks Musk for Comment, Gets Suspended From Twitter (Daily Beast) The Doxxing Queen finally experiences karma up close and personal.

It pays not to work in Biden’s America thanks to welfare benefits (N.Y. Post)

15 Million Americans Are About to Lose Their Health Care. Congress Must Act (Newsweek)

Vatican kicks pro-life activist priest out of clergy, alleges ‘blasphemous communications’

Why solar power could be the next victim of San Francisco’s bloated bureaucracy (S.F. Chronicle)

Safety concerns shake Downtown Pittsburgh as businesses fear crime-related issues are threatening the city’s core (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

What Happened When the Bay Area Rejected Growth (Bloomberg)  Nothing good.

Social media should not be thought-policing for Joe Biden

AOC Blasts Musk for Suspending Some Journalists on Twitter  My, what a surprise.

CNN Declares Dictators Will Cite Musk To Clamp Down On Press Freedom

ABC, NBC FREAK OUT Over Twitter Suspending Slew of Lefty Journalists

Candidates backed by FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried pledge to donate campaign cash (NBC) Not, you’ll note, return it to the bankrupt company so it can be given back to the people he cheated–oh, no, heaven forfend; there’s no power or influence gained by doing that.

Richmond Children’s Museum Celebrates ‘Pride Night With Legendary Santa’ & Drag Snow Queen

Top Republicans try to tank new ESG rule (Axios)

Democratic lawmakers are looking for the exits in case Twitter implodes

Kristi Noem’s Health Department Fires Transgender Group Ahead of ‘Gender Summit’

US Lawmakers Negotiating Over 7,500 ‘Pork-Barrel Spending’ Earmarks Totaling $16 Billion For Spending Bill

Court Rules Trans Athletes Can Compete on Conn. Sports Teams

THE TWITTER FILES: Twitter… The FBI Subsidiary

Father of July 4 Parade Shooting Suspect Charged With Felony

Judge to halt provision making California gun suits costlier

California Is Impossible For The Middle Class

US Court Rejects Maintaining COVID-19 Asylum Restrictions

NY Court Orders Yeshiva University to Recognize LGBTQ Club  Bare-faced violation of the First Amendment.

Cha-Ching! Jeff Bezos’s Ex-Wife Is Using Her Divorce Settlement To Enrich Radical Left-Wing Groups

Indiana School Board, Superintendent Refuse to Explain Secret Transgender Policy to Parents

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Only days after a 65-year-old French pensioner was beaten to death in his apartment in a Paris suburb, allegedly by an illegal migrant from Algerian, another elderly man, this time aged 88, has died from injuries he sustained while being brutally attacked by two brothers—Mohamed K. and Hichem K.—in the basement of an apartment building in Bezons, a Paris suburb.

The brutal attack, which resulted in the 88-year-old victim suffering multiple severe traumas to his head, along with a broken jaw and injuries to his leg, took place on the night of Monday, December 5th, allegedly carried out by the two brothers, both of whom had criminal records involving drug trafficking and violence, the Paris-based news magazine Valeurs Actuelles reports.

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

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Twitter’s top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.

More than a dozen former feds flocked to the company in the months and years prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the social network in October.

The Post found FBI influence was considerably more significant than just James Baker, the FBI’s former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. He was recently fired by Musk for interfering in the billionaire’s efforts to come clean about past transgressions at the company.

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For much of its running time, Avatar: The Way of Water resembles nothing so much as one of those screensavers from the early 2000s that turned your computer monitor into a simulated aquarium. Remember? Fish floated by, there were some bubbles, it was very colorful and completely unrealistic. Soothing, though.

For a solid hour of The Way of Water—it’s the movie’s second in a complete running time of 3 hours and 10 minutes—we are treated to tall blue and green cartoon characters swimming and diving and riding on the backs of alien seahorses and having sign-language conversations with whale-like creatures. It’s like a nature documentary, only there’s no actual nature, just the world’s most unimaginably expensive computer-generated imagery blended with live-action performances the computer then draws over. (Kate Winslet is in this movie. You’d never know. It could have been me.)

However, she now qualifies for a Federal agricultural program that pays her more for NOT raising sheep than she ever made from raising them. Plus she now has more free time for social media.

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Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” first published in 1755, defines the word “woman” as “the female of the human race.” And until Oct. 2022, the word “woman” was still defined as “an adult female human being” in the Cambridge Dictionary.

What transpired on the topic during the intervening 267 years? Not much. Science confirmed what men and women have known since Adam and Eve began talking past each other—not only do the sexes have immutable physiological differences, down to their genetic matter, but they observe, act, and think differently as well.

Yet Cambridge now says the definition of a woman is “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth” (and the definition of a man is someone who “identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”)

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Without government, there would be no high prices.

I haven’t had any maple syrup in decades, but if I did, I would insist on Vermont syrup.

‘Tripledemic’ can steal Christmas. Here’s how to stay safe against flu, COVID and RSV (Deseret News)

‘Tripledemic’ Threatens To Derail Holiday Season (NBC)

How this millennial CEO steered the world’s largest vaccine maker during the pandemic (CNBC)

Biden should veto NDAA as long as it includes vaccine termination (The Hill)

One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now? (Vox) Guess we’ll just have to PANIC!

If you get COVID, don’t wait to ask for antiviral drugs. Doctors say prescriptions take time (Sacramento Bee)

Survey finds growing opposition to school vaccine mandates for measles (The Hill) Once you’ve lied to people, they tend not to believe you.

CDC Director Claims Vaccine Misinformation Among Threats To Public Health (NBC) I’m sure she does.

Bay Area seeing ‘strongest increase’ of COVID cases in California (San Francisco Chronicle)

Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Blood Clotting: FDA (Epoch Times)

COVID-19 transmission in the Boise area is high. What we know, and what the CDC says (Idaho Statesman)

Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination

The US touts support for biodiversity – but at Cop15, it remains on the sidelines (The Guardian)

Oil industry faces end of the road in California regardless of Newsom penalty on profits (Politico)

Ozone hole closes later than usual for 3rd year in a row, scientists say (N.Y. Post)

Almost 8,000 US shootings attributed to unseasonable heat – study (The Guardian) When the temperature goes up, those guns just go off. Can’t explain it.

Explainer: What the world’s nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal (Reuters) Narrative! Get your Narrative here!

UN biodiversity conference: what does living in harmony with nature look like? (The Conversation) Starving and shivering in the dark.

Planned wind farm told it will need to shut down for five months a year to protect parrots (CNBC)

Wind turbines ‘incredibly destructive’ to bird life (Sky News Australia)

Global heating helps turns icy Sweden into unique wine-making territory (The Guardian)

EU strikes deal to boost carbon market, Europe’s biggest climate policy (Reuters) It’s hilarious watching people who hate markets and don’t understand how markets work trying to use markets to solve their self-created problems.

Here’s The Latest Sign Americans Are Going To Eat Bugs And Be Happy

John Bolton: Donald Trump has no philosophy. “It’s performance art.” (MSNBC)

Cicilline, 40 Members Introduce Legislation to Bar Trump from Federal Office  Taking Trump-hatred to its logical conclusion.

School Board Member Quits After Refusing to Vote for ‘Cis White Male’ President (Daily Beast)

Mayor Adams holds summit to brainstorm how to combat retail theft in NYC (N.Y. Post) How about, oh, I don’t know, maybe arresting the thieves?

How Woke Critical Theory is Destroying Science (Real Clear Education)

Oregon Judge Blocks High-Capacity Magazine Ban

Trump, covid slowed down immigration. Now employers can’t find workers. (Washington Post)

Burying the Major Democrat Donor Angle in the FTX Fiasco

‘Super leftist Villain’ Colorado school board candidate praises equity council for being completely White (Fox)

Report detailing ‘greenwashing’ ads on Google prompts Democratic lawmakers to write search engine’s CEO (The Hill)

Secret files reveal how UN climate advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP (Open Democracy)

Text evidence bomb hits MAGA world: Coup plots unearthed by Jan. 6 panel (MSNBC)

Richard Johnson: Kayne West was the worst boss, ex-bodyguard spills in new documentary (N.Y. Daily News)

The God-fearing case for immigration (Financial Times) Whenever you read ‘The X Case For…’ you know somebody is trying to square a circle.

Mistrial declared in gun case against Capitol riot suspect (Associated Press)

“There’s A New Sheriff In Town”: Twitter Nukes Liberal Pundits From Platform

Democrats criticize Elon Musk for suspending journalists covering Twitter (NBC) What a surprise.

CNN, MSNBC MELTDOWN Over Musk Banning Lib Journos on Twitter

Gall out in the ‘open’ at the US border (N.Y. Post)

Local Texas leaders make an appeal to enact change at the border: ‘No one’s listening’ (Fox)

The irony at the heart of Biden’s trade policy (The Hill)

See migrants camping at Rio Grande as Title 42 expiration looms (CNN)

Majority of states call on Supreme Court to review constitutionality of CFPB funding (The Hill)

Ford Raises F-150 Lightning Prices Again, Now 40% More Expensive

Judge Blocks Biden Plan To Shred “Remain In Mexico” Policy

Biden Wants $8 Billion In Taxpayer Funds To Shut Down Coal Power In South Africa

Read it.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Defense & National Security — US plans expansion of training of Ukrainian troops (The Hill)

Russia Vs Ukraine War Update | U.S. To Expand Combat Training For Ukrainian Troops (CNN)

Russia’s ‘Second World War’ Military Tactics Leaving Troops Vulnerable—U.K. (Newsweek)

EU Agrees To 9th Russia Sanctions Package After Fierce Division On Food & Fertilizer

Russia to Double Intercontinental Missile Tests in 2023

Russian Troops in Crimea Battered by Ukrainian Drones

NY Times Columnist’s Bizarre Journey From Iraq Peacenik to Ukraine Warmonger

New York and L.A. meet CDC criteria for masking in public. How much will masks help this winter? (NBC)

Masks May Be Necessary Again. Here’s Why. (BuzzFeed) Our rulers want us to PANIC!

Hochul & Adams’ ‘vision’ for post-COVID New York gets it almost entirely wrong (N.Y. Post)

Coronavirus FAQ: Is Paxlovid the best treatment? Is it underused in the U.S.? (NPR)

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Should mask mandates return? (Washington Post)

The Age Of Amnesia

Lockdowns Forever: Philadelphia To Reimpose Mask Mandate in City’s Public Schools

Documents Uncover Secret Twitter Portal US Government Used To Censor COVID-19 Content

China Downgrades Omicron Risks To Seasonal Cold

Study Claims Unvaccinated People More Likely To Be Reckless, Cause Traffic Accidents

Claudine Gay to be Harvard’s 1st Black President, 2nd Woman