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When in doubt, sue!
That’s what Americans do!
Find that deep pocket!
Rear back and sock it!  [Apologies to Mason Williams.]

Giving up on 1.5C climate target would be gift to carbon boosters, says IEA head (The Guardian)

Spending cuts threaten global net zero push, economists warn (Australian Financial Review)

From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction? (The Guardian)

Biden administration paying $75 million to move three tribes affected by climate change

But for the Blizzards, a Climate Utopia? (The American Prospect)

U.S. EPA to propose boost in biofuel blending volumes, EV program -sources (Reuters) Let’s do more of what doesn’t work.

US to raise biofuel mandates for oil refiners (Gulf News)

Forecasting Our Future: Climate change impacting North Carolina’s coast (WXII)

Fossil fuel recruiters banned from three more UK universities (The Guardian)

COP27 Greenwishing: Progressive Discontent

Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles

Venezuela Is Bizarre Piece of Biden’s Incoherent Energy Policy Puzzle

How Inflation Changes Culture

IMF Chief Says US Must Keep Raising Interest Rates Because “They Owe It” To The World

U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Biden’s Bid to Revive Student Debt Plan  No, Joe, you can’t just do anything you want.

Inflation Gauge Slows to Still-High 6%

Biden’s November gaffe average: the president hits .500

A Hard Winter Looms for Americans’ Energy Bills and Wallets. Blame Biden.

7 Bizarre Initiatives From Biden’s $45 Billion Tribal Spending Spree

Is the Supreme Court turning the Constitution into a homicide pact? (The Hill)

Prince William Says Racism Has ‘No Place in Society.’ What About His Own Family? (Daily Beast) Pushing the Narrative that any criticism of Megan is ‘racist’.

Garland praises Oath Keepers verdict, won’t say where Jan. 6 probe goes (Washington P0st)

Bibi Is Putting Israel on a Collision Course With U.S. (Daily Beast)

Elizabeth Warren Slams Elon Musk’s Pro-Free Speech Changes At Twitter  She’s never been a free speech fan.

MSNBC’s Ruhle Shocked to Discover Jan. 6 Committee Is Political

Georgia Run-Off: Walker 88% Negative News, 71% POSITIVE for Warnock  My, what a surprise.

Stuck With Ronna: How does such a loser become the longest-serving RNC chair in modern history? (The Bulwark) Amanda Carpenter is apparently the designated Republican-basher for the Kristol Krew.

A Pathetic Ron DeSantis Hit Piece

Terrorism Advisory Issued as Jan. 6 Anniversary Nears

Scarborough Suggests DeSantis Attacking The Media Proves He Is Sexist

Matt Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg gets 11 years as probe into congressman stalls, sources say (ABC) Perhaps because Gaetz hasn’t done anything illegal.

Kanye West Tells Alex Jones: ‘I Like Hitler’ (Daily Beast) Yet another lie from the Narrative Media.

China signals slight Covid policy easing — but don’t expect sweeping changes yet (CNBC)

China signals ease in Covid policy after mass protests (BBC)

China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of historic protests (Reuters)

What’s happening in China after zero-Covid protests? Here’s what you need to know (CNN) “Here’s what you need to know” is a classic CNN formula, as if you’re too stupid to understand the news.

China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians (Washington Post)

Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession (CNBC) I guess it’s time to PANIC!

‘I never really got better’ — long Covid patients share their struggle with ongoing symptoms and the health-care system  (CNBC) Oops, we’d better PANIC!

The impact of Pfizer?BioNTech’s BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine booster on the maximum oxygen uptake capacity among recreational endurance athletes (News-Medical)

Biden administration prepares to end monkeypox emergency declaration (Politico)

New Zealand government tries to seize guardianship of baby after parents demand unvaccinated blood for surgery (Fox)

China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Repression Is What Happens When You Give All Power to the Scientific-Technocratic Elite

How to fight Covid with light

Executives at ‘fintechs’ made hundreds of millions handing out PPP Covid cash, report says

GOP Senators Say They Will Block Military Funding Unless Vaccine Mandate Scrapped

Salon Admits Pandemic Profoundly Impacted Children – With Caveats, Of Course

Black Turnout in Midterms Was One of the Low Points for Democrats

James, WashPost Assassinate Character Of Dallas Cowboys Owner

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nitially, I started with the idea that climate was an attractive industry for “doomer” types, and I painted their motivations monolithically. I was searching for the one weird reason that was causing hordes of people to drop what they were doing and march, hypnotically, towards the same problem space.

What I found instead is that while the media still portrays climate as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. Whether one believes in climate change is no longer the interesting question; now it’s “What do you think is the right approach?”

Pass through the asteroid belt of climate doomerism, and the universe expands into a rich panoply of different climate tribes. People who work in and around climate don’t all believe the same things. Instead, they inhabit a parallel, mirror world that looks a lot like the non-climate world. Just like in the regular world, there are factions, politics, and competing belief systems.

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Contrary to popular belief, the United States is no longer home to the best education system in the world. According to the World Top 20 Project, an international organization that gathers educational data from more than 200 countries, the U.S. lags well behind countries like Finland, Denmark, and South Korea. From elementary schools to colleges and universities, the U.S. education system is in crisis. Academic standards have drastically slipped, with a woke madness gripping classrooms across the country. And no school is immune—not even the most prestigious medical schools in America.

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Democrats think the perennial battle over gun control has now swung in their favor. They are vowing to enact new gun control measures, allegedly in response to recent high-profile mass shooting incidents. Of course, we already have hundreds of statutes and regulations on the books relating to firearms. When someone engages in a mass shooting (or any shooting) he violates multiple statutes of the most serious kind.

An obvious question is, if the hundreds of statutes and regulations already in place didn’t stop the latest outrage, why would adding one more make a difference? In reality, we have plenty of laws that make it illegal to shoot someone, or to acquire or use firearms in various ways. Unfortunately, enforcement of those laws is generally pathetic. Which is why we see the same criminals committing one crime after another.