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Equium has developed a new thermo-acoustic heat pump core that reportedly produces 3 kW to 4 kW of heat for every kilowatt of power it consumes. It says the refrigerant-free device could generate domestic hot water at temperatures of up to 80 C.

Elon Musk teases Fauci Files will be released this week on Twitter (Fox)

Musk says Twitter employees had ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack channel (The Hill)

Once-favored Covid drugs ineffective on Omicron may be putting millions at risk (Politico)

Free telehealth consultation available for Paxlovid COVID-19 treatment

The Astonishing Way COVID Could Actually Help Us Cure Cancer (Daily Beast)

How COVID Vaccines Cause Cancer (Epoch Times)

COVID-19: France, Spain, and UK Latest To Test Travelers From China

David Stockman On The Parallels Between The COVID Hysteria And The Salem Witch Trials

‘You Can Protect Yourself’: Zeke Emanuel Tells MSNBC Viewers To Mask Up As New COVID Strain Spreads ‘Very Rapidly’ (Daily Caller) And don’t forget to PANIC!

Kansas U.S. Rep. Estes blasts Biden administration’s revision of clean water rules

EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes

Misery in El Paso: Hundreds of homeless migrants live in squalor amid deportation fears (CNN)

The most awkward and embarrassing Kamala Harris ‘word salads’ of 2022 (Fox)

Rep. Steil: Biden’s Monetary Policy Driving Inflation

300 Migrants Make Landings at National Park in Florida Keys

Federal Judge Orders Arizona Child To Dismantle Border Wall He Built Out Of Legos  (Babylon Bee)

VP Harris: No Photo Without Negative COVID-19 Test

Colorado Lawyer Charges DOJ Now Hiding ‘Disclosed’ Biden Business Dealings Docs

2023 prediction: Donald Trump will face criminal charges (MSNBC)

‘To Hell with It’: A GOP Congressman Reflects on His One Term in Trump’s Party (Politico) If it were actually ‘Trump’s party’, this guy wouldn’t even be in Congress. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

New data shows the folly of Trump’s crusade against early voting (Politico)

US Appeals Court: MAGA Hat Expression of Free Speech

The Democrats reveal the contents of Al Capone’s vaults Trump’s tax returns….

8 Most Shocking Revelations From Trump’s Tax Returns

The hidden underwater forests that could help tackle the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Meet the renewable energy source poised for growth with the help of the oil industry (Politico)

Antarctic Sea ice extent hits a new record low, possibly heading to set the most significant negative anomaly ever observed in the satellite era (Severe Weather Europe)

Hungry and on the march as the climate heats up: Termites in Australia (Washington Post)

Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth’s wildlife running out of places to live (CBS)

The extinction next time

Europe’s big question: What a diminished Russia will do next

Russian Military Officer Says He Has ‘Favorable View’ of Nuclear Weapon Use (Newsweek)

What if Ukraine had kept its nuclear weapons? (Responsible Statecraft)

Forced to fight your own people: How Russia is weaponizing passports (Politico)

More Blasts Hit Kyiv Early Monday

INTELLIGENCE: Russian Illegals In Europe

AIR DEFENSE: Unexpected Electronic Side Effects Escalate

The High Cost Of Blowing Up The World: Ukraine & The 2023 NDAA

Ukraine Says It Killed Hundreds of Russians in Donetsk Missile Strike

Russia and China Strengthen Ties

Huge Death Toll After US-Supplied Himars Leveled Russian Barracks In Donetsk, Possibly Hundreds Killed  Well, that’s what it’s for.

Analysts Predict 1 Million Bpd Drop in Russian Crude Output

Lightfoot asks Illinois for millions more to help migrants; state says funding will stop by end of January BRAAAAAAAINS!

The everything bubble has popped, and millennials may not like what happens next. Get ready for the mindset shift of ‘retro capitalism’ (Fortune)

Abortion Survivors Left To Die

Silly PBS Sendoff: NewsHour Anchor Judy Woodruff Puffed as ‘Neutral and Objective’

You Don’t Have To Be A Conspiracy Theorist To Be Worried About The World Economic Forum

The Supreme Court’s squandered opportunity (The Hill) Squandered!

He Cannot Be Serious. Kanye Goes Even Further Off The Deep End. Updated!!! (Daily Kos)

Why the Jan. 6 committee’s 845-page report wasn’t long enough (MSNBC)

Leaked Jan. 6 Committee Report Exposes Twitter’s Post-Insurrection Chaos (Rolling Stone)

NY Times Now Loves the FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Social Media All Cool

NYC Machete Attack: Don Lemon’s Instinct Is To Ask First for Suspect’s Condition, Not the Cops

A Comprehensive Guide to Why a Ron DeSantis Presidency Would Be as Terrifying as a Trump One (Vanity Fair) I like him already.

CBS Again Hits Benedict XVI as “Arch-Conservative,” “God’s Rottweiller”

White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. (Washington Post) Does that come as a surprise to anyone?

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If you would rather spend your vacation hunting for charging stations, calling customer support to try to get them to reset the charging stations, hunting for places to spend the night when your Ford Lightning runs of out charge and has to be towed, or trying to figure out why a fast charger is only giving you a trickle charge, than attending a car show in Colorado, an electric vehicle is for you!

Read it.

German youth in migrant-heavy neighborhoods once again turned Berlin and other German cities into war zones on New Year’s Day, but this year, news reports indicate that attacks were especially brutal and targeted rescue services, including ambulance workers.

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

Read it.

In March of 2016 the Islamic State pulled off two coordinated terrorist attacks in Brussels. The surviving alleged attackers are currently on trial.

A court in Belgium has just enjoined the state from conducting any further searches of the defendants’ — ahem — nether orifices when they are transported from their prison cells to the courtroom. The citizens of Belgium will thereby be deprived of fundamental justice!

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

UPDATE: Paris, City of Riots

UPDATE: Three Muslim Knife Attacks on NYPD Officers in 8 Years

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The scam is this: ‘migrants’ row out beyond the territorial limit of the originating country (which is typically quite happy to see them go) and wait. A bleeding-heart NGO ‘rescue vessel’ will then ‘rescue’ them and carry them the rest of the way to Europe, in the sura and certain knowledge that the lily-livered Eurocrat bureaucracy will take them in and offer them ‘asylum’.

The citizens (as opposed to the ruling class) of Italy, Greece, Spain, and France are getting pretty fed up with this system-gaming scheme, as you might imagine.

Meloni’s government will soon force NGO ships flying flags from countries like France, Germany and Norway to accept the migrants they pick up in the Mediterranean Sea.

New York Times.

Whatever happens, he has got
A Congress seat, and they have not.

Seriously: He’s got a guaranteed six-figure job for the next two years, and either he gets re-elected (and stranger things have happened) or he doesn’t; if he doesn’t, he’s got a possible book deal and who knows whatever offers coming through the transom–he’s already demonstrated that he’s as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. If he’s got a thick enough skin, I just don’t see any downside for him.

Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange (Wired)

5 doable resolutions for US climate policy in 2023 (Vox)

US response to the climate emergency: key moments of 2022 (The Guardian)

California offshore wind promises a new gold rush while slashing emissions (NPR)

That whooshing sound is windmills shredding tax dollars (Hot Air)

‘Instead of living in fear of climate catastrophe, I’ll do something about it’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023 (The Guadian) Virtue-signal like a … well, you know.

These robots crawl all over wind turbines so humans don’t have to (Elektrek)

Brace yourself for mountains of pain and misery under Gov. Hochul’s zero-emissions fantasy plan (N.Y. Post)

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change (Salon)

Environmentalists Are Killing People  And they’re good with that.

Supply Chain Issues, Rising Costs Threaten Wind Power Buildup

Swiss National Referendum Will Limit Population To 10 Million Through Strict Immigration Control, To Save Environment

The Net Zero Road to Nowhere

MSNBC Lets Environmental Alarmist Michael Mann Tie Blizzard to Global Warming  As he does.

Home Insulation Makes Little Difference To Energy Consumption–New Study  Depends on how much you have.

1 Dead, 9 Hurt in Alabama Shooting Near New Year’s Eve Party  According to Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings, the high ratio of wounded suggest a non-white perp.

Unanswered questions about Trump’s tax returns (CNN) Such as: Who care? Or maybe: Where’s the crime?

Threat of mass resignations upended Trump’s coup plans (MSNBC) That straw man is pretty thoroughly dead by now.

Trump Called Supporters Storming Capitol ‘Trashy’ But Good ‘Fighters’: Jan. 6 Testimony (Huffington Post)  Sure he did.

MSNBC Fantasizes About DeSantis Assassinating Trump, Brutus-Caesar Style

Meta Set to Make Decision on Trump’s Return to Facebook  I doubt it. They hate him too much.

Trump rings in 2023 facing headwinds in his White House run (Associated Press)

Asa Hutchinson: Jan. 6 ‘Disqualifies’ Trump from GOP Presidential Nomination  Unfortunately for Asa, his opinions don’t control reality.

Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights (The Intercept)

Clarence Thomas Must Be ‘Subpoenaed’ to Testify Over Jan. 6: Lawyers (Newsweek) But he won’t be.

PBS Drops Barrel of ‘Far Right’ Labels on New Netanyahu Government in Israel

A once respected biology journal indicts evolutionary biology for ableism  ‘Ableism’ is one of those made-up smears that give the Wokerati a stick with which to beat people who don’t think it’s their main job to accommodate every possible distorted version of humanity. As with most Woke fetishes, it attempts to make the exceptions into the rule and hammer the heretics.

Politico Creep: Pope Was ‘Homophobic Pedophile Protector, Hitler Youth Alumnus’

ABC’s Karl Fluffs Leftist Rep-Elect, Touts Him Heckling DeSantis

New COVID variant XBB.1.5 rapidly spreading in US, CDC data shows (N.Y. Post) Guess we’d better PANIC!

CDC reports a new strain of omicron taking over in the U.S. (NBC)

Exclusive: Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs in U.S. in January (Reuters) Thank you, Joe Biden.

COVID-19 Vaccines and Fever: Scientists Have Discovered a New Potential Link (SciTech Daily)

Autopsies Show COVID-19 Virus in Brain and Elsewhere in Body (Neuroscience News)

Maryland biotech advances COVID-influenza combo vaccine (WTOP)

Under Covid Siege, Chinese State Media Seek to Reassure Public

15 Million Americans Set To Lose Medical Coverage As Public Health Emergency Ends

This year was devastating for women’s rights. 2023 may not be better. (MSNBC) From the viewpoint of the Narrative, the right to abortion is the only ‘women’s right’ that matters.

World’s largest money managers need a better ESG script (Financial Times)

House majority gives Republicans a chance to take on ESG investing (The Hill)

‘Blindsided’ By The City, Ald. Taylor Vows To Fight Mayor’s Plan To Place Migrants In Closed Woodlawn School (Block Club Chicago) BRAAAAAAAINS!

How billionaire Pritzkers became key backers of bail reform, ‘gender affirming’ care (N.Y. Post) Because they didn’t earn any of the money that they inherited, they feel guilty. Guilt+money=Wokeness.

Democratic Socialists push members to recruit family during holidays (N.Y. Post) Oxymoron alert: There is nothing ‘democratic’ about socialism.

Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Will Be Validated In 2023

Another Bloody Year in ‘Killadelphia’

Alameda County admits tallying error in ranked choice voting

Detroit, Philly, L.A. Among Neediest Cities in U.S.  All run by Democrats. I wonder whether there’s a connection there….

CA high-speed rail is Exhibit A for how America can’t build big things anymore  When something is built to serve a political agenda rather than an actual economic need, it inevitably descends into a machine for extracting taxpayer money into crony pockets.

Why a global recession is inevitable in 2023

Democracy won 2022. Can it keep winning? (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’. (I’m surprised E.J. Dionne is still alive.)

Black support for GOP ticked up in this year’s midterms (Associated Press)

Daily Mail.

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

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Peggy “High” Noonan devotes her weekly Wall Street Journal column to the case of Rep.-elect George Santos. Noonan might have gone into a trance and produced it via automatic writing. On second thought, she probably didn’t need to go into a trance to produce it, but I’ll stick with the automatic writing part. She gives us the predictable screed in “Why George Santos’s lies matter.” She advises the GOP: “They can’t afford to keep him. He is a bridge too far. He is an embarrassment.” The Journal turns over a lot of editorial page real estate to Noonan on a weekly basis for this kind of wisdom.

Francis Menton takes a slightly different angle at his aptly named Manhattan Contrarian site. Beginning where Noonan begins, Menton moves on to consider “a bunch [of political liars] I think are worse. The funny thing about these, though, is that not a single Democrat seems to care about them. All involve current officeholders, who are not subject to any widespread demands that they resign. Let’s consider.”

Peggy Noonan has been an apparatchik of the Uniparty since Bush left office.

Julia Doubleday.

The day after the 2022 Midterms, I heard almost every possible interpretation of the surprising results. The Democrats had done much better than expected and feared, and youth voter turnout was unusually high. On cable news and twitter, data analysts and pundits picked apart dozens of explanations and contributing factors, from the ultimately-flat Crime Wave narrative to the nationwide gratitude for student debt forgiveness. There was, however, one word I didn’t hear on CNN or twitter: COVID-19.

COVID has killed 1.1 million Americans in roughly 1,000 days, or an average of 1,100 Americans dying daily for 2 years and 10 months. Of those 1,100 daily average deaths, 93.2% were among people over the age of 50. Older Americans are well known for the high voter turnout, as well as their conservative bent.

It’s glaringly obvious that an extra 1,000 deaths of individuals over 50 every single day for nearly 3 years would have an effect on the electorate- but not a single analysis even mentioned pandemic deaths. This is frankly, very odd. I’ve worked in campaign data, and political statisticians tend to want to take every possible variable into account; from voters’ shopping preferences, to their racial background, to their likelihood to listen to K-pop, to their hair color and first car model. Yet here we have a very, very large variable, receiving no attention or weight whatsoever.

Sven Larson

Europeans commonly believe that America does not have a welfare state. Many American conservatives share that belief, and those who do recognize that we have one, firmly believe that it is not socialist.

They are all wrong: America has a big welfare state, and it is distinctly socialist in nature. It is based on the very same ideology that underpins the Swedish welfare state.

Its foundation was laid by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 with his so-called ‘war on poverty.’ Since then, almost every president has helped the welfare state grow.

Today, there are more similarities than differences between America’s and Europe’s welfare states. We in the U.S. do not yet have single-payer health care, and our income-security systems are not as sprawling as they are in Europe. However, the long list of social benefits that we do have operates on a socialist ideological basis: they elevate the standard of living of the gainfully employed with lower incomes, and have better-off citizens pay for it.

The modern welfare state was pioneered by Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century.

SciTech Daily.

Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, is one of the oldest and most persistent diseases in the world. However, new surprising research suggests that the bacteria that cause leprosy may also have the ability to stimulate the growth and regeneration of the liver in adult animals without causing damage or scarring. Scientists have discovered that parasites associated with leprosy can reprogram cells to increase the size of the liver.

Science Alert.

Guessing the color of the coat of a gray wolf seems like a no-brainer. But the canines, whose habitats are spread across North America and Eurasia, aren’t always actually gray.

On the North American continent, specifically, the farther south you go, the more wolves there are with dark, black-hued coats. The phenomenon was unexplained for a long time, but now scientists have determined that the culprit is one of the biggest drivers of natural selection: disease.

Science Alert.

Wood wide webs – incredible networks of fungi and plant roots that span entire forests – act as highways for nutrient deliveries as well as wires for transferring information between plants via electrical and chemical signals. These connections help strengthen a forest as a whole, by distributing resources from nutrient poor to nutrient rich areas of the network. They also allow plants to warn each other of predators and even help protect them from drought.

In exchange for these services, plants pay their fungi allies with some of the hydrocarbons they produce using photosynthesis.

But Monotropastrum betrays this mutualistic relationship by stealing all its nutrients from the fungi, offering no photosynthetic products to the network in return – making them part of a very selective mycoheterotrophic club.

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Of the 100,000 “refugees” who have applied for asylum in Austria, the vast majority are young men. The report below doesn’t mention it, but that means that the newcomers are mostly men of military age. In other words, the Austrian government has been assiduously importing the Soldiers of Allah.

Gee, I wonder how that will work out…

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