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When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. In fact, participants in this study by neuroscientists from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie between smell and memory into an easy, non-invasive technique for strengthening memory and potentially deterring dementia.

A no-brainer.

Gates of Vienna.

Mother Earth is quite adept at carbon sequestration, and carries it out with great efficiency. A surplus of CO2 in the atmosphere is absorbed by green plants during photosynthesis, and stimulates the growth of additional plant biomass to take advantage of all the ambient CO2.

I don’t see why this is considered a bad thing. More CO2 leads to more plant growth. More plant growth means greater crop yields and more acreage put into cultivation. The planet produces more food, which means that fewer poor people will starve.

Mind you, that last part may not be considered a negative outcome by the “Visualize Industrial Collapse” crowd. When you consider the human race to be a harmful virus infecting Gaia, the starvation and death of billions of people is something to be desired.

For everyone but the depopulation fanatics, however, more food production is a good thing, and the increase in atmospheric CO2 is something to be applauded.

Officials Can’t Interfere With Tenn. Pride Festival Under Anti-drag Law: Judge (NewsMax)

Busing Illegal Immigrants To Blue America Is Working

New Migration Data Reveals Urban Exodus Continues Despite Frozen Housing Market

Woman Says Her Daughter Was Sex Trafficked After School Hid Gender Transition

Watch: Chicago Residents Rage As Illegal Migrant Housing Takes Over Their Neighborhoods

FLASHBACK: As CBS Evening News Anchor, Katie Couric Was a Liberal Flop

How the Gender Lobby Hijacked the EU’s Policy Agenda

‘Burning Man = Total Disaster’: 73,000 Attendees “Hunker Down” As Desert Party Transforms Into Muddy Hellhole

Calls Grow For Staten Island To Secede From NYC As Illegal Immigrant Crisis Escalates

While FTC’s Khan Draws The Fire, DOJ’s Kanter Advances Radical Agenda

WATCH: Dems Says They Can Hardly Keep Up With Biden. Have They Seen Him? (Washington Free Beacon)

U.S. troops will stay at the southern border at least through Sept. 30 (NBC News)

Nancy, He’s Not: Uniparty McCarthy Won’t Pull Trigger On Biden Impeachment Without Doubtful House Vote

Report: 840K Afghans Seeking Special US Visas Remain There

CBP Flagged 75K Illegal Migrants as Potential Security Risks

“Even One Firearm Sale” Could Land You In Jail Under Biden’s New ATF Rule

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 58)

RFK Jr. Calls Out Biden’s ‘Fitness,’ Calls for a Debate

10 Items That Will Definitely Get Your Kid Suspended From School (Babylon Bee)

Texas Activists Push to Make ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Illegal (NewsMax)

Canadian churches burned over bodies that weren’t buried in the yard (Hot Air)

Not-So-Secret Billionaire Utopia In California Faces Major Hurdles As ‘Renderings’ Emerge

For All Rudy’s Troubles, There’s Much More Still There (Talking Points Memo)

‘Kit’ Carson Monument Vandalized

Watch: Pastor Forcibly Removed From School Board Meeting For Reading Aloud Porn Book From Kids’ Library

NY Times Smears DeSantis As Racist Again: ‘Outraged Many Black Voters and Leaders’

The Death of #MeToo: ‘To Be Fair, It Was Never Actually About Helping Women’

NY Review of Books Is Shocked, Shocked to Find Silicon Valley’s Wealth Is Based on Smart Old Ideas About Nature / Nurture

ATTRITION: Russian Losses in Ukraine

Capehart: DeSantis Signaled Those Who Believe Black People Are ‘Worthy of Extermination’

CNN Hypes Doctor Leaving Louisiana Over Pronoun, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bills

Kinzinger slams DeSantis for not meeting with Biden in Florida: ‘Absolutely outrageous’  RINOs gotta RINO.

Another Draconian sentence for J6 participants

t seems like everyone has Covid-19. Here’s why this wave is probably worse than official data suggests (CNN) Take our word for it, you need to PANIC!

Court Revives Doctors’ Suit Over FDA Anti-ivermectin Campaign

Fired Professor Wins Key Victory In Free Speech Case Over Mask, Vaccine Policy

Adam Carolla: Gov’t, Media to Run COVID Playbook for Climate Change

‘Election Variant’ Prompts NYC Mask Advisory

Wall Street Journal vs. CNN, Pro Publica On Justice Thomas

How the End of Trump Could Come in Iowa and New Hampshire (Daily Beast) Or maybe not.

The sleeper legal fight that could define 2024: Is Trump even eligible to run? (Politic0) *sigh* No matter how much they beat that dead horse, it’s still not going to move.

Fla. Judge Dismisses 14th Amendment Lawsuit Against Trump (NewsMax)

Trump Is Top Choice for Nearly 60% of GOP Voters, WSJ Poll Shows

“Remarkably Dishenst” DA Fani Willis Violates The Law

Read it.

Rice is arguably the world’s most important staple crop. About half of the global population depends on it for sustenance.

But, like other staples such as wheat and corn, rice is cultivated annually. That means replanting the fields year after year, at huge cost to both the farmers and the land. For years, scientists have been tinkering with rice strains to create a perennial variety – one that would regrow after harvest without the need to be resown.

For what may be the first time in about ten thousand years of human rice cultivation, the new strains stay productive harvest after harvest.

This could be HUGE. It will save tremendous amounts of labor, time, and expense. And think of the advantage if perennial forms of wheat or maize could be grown.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

James Taranto observed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal apropos of the Dem/media assault on Justice Thomas that “[o]ne reason Americans don’t trust the media is that politically biased reporters routinely adulterate the news with tendentious language and prepackaged opinions. The result is crude propaganda—lousy opinion writing and unreliable information rolled into one and deceptively packaged as straight news.” Take the case of the Washington Post and Post “national columnist” Philip Bump.

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Ali Bongo was elected President of Gabon in 2009, re-elected in 2016, and again this week. Many election observers complained of multiple voting irregularities in all three elections, but Mr. Bongo told a friendly media that those observers were enemies of democracy, the people had spoken, and he would humbly serve his country as he was called upon to do. Coincidentally, he has been accused of attempting to control the media as well.

Gabon is a member of OPEC and brings in billions in oil revenue every year, but the population remains poor. Mr. Bongo has been accused of enriching himself and his family by selling influence to foreign interests. He has used the police and the courts to prosecute his political opponents. He has even used riots and violent gangs to intimidate voters who don’t support him.

I know what you’re thinking — thank God I live in the land of the free and home of the brave — nothing like that could ever happen here. Gosh, those poor third-world people sure have screwed up politics, don’t they? Lordy.

Where was I?  Oh, yes.

German Museum Denies White People Entry To Colonial Exhibit On Saturdays, Only BIPoC Allowed Inside

Why Are NYT Commenters So Upset Over This One Example of Anti-White Racism?  Kinda depends on whose ox is being gored.

Another Fake Indian Princess Professor

Hawaiian Racism and the Maui Fires

Georgia Judge Allows Streaming of Trump Hearings, Trial (NewsMax) Of course. What good is a show trial without the show?

“Mugshot Merch” Selling Like Hotcakes On Trump’s Website

Report: Ga. DA Willis Has Evidence Clearing Some Indicted  Not that she’s going to let them off the hook.

How Trump’s loyal pen pals spread his message (Axios)

Georgia Judge Rules Against DA Willis in Trump Trial

DOJ Loses Appeal on Blocking Trump Deposition

Shell Scraps Its $100M Carbon Offset Plan (Carbon Credits)

The people of Ecuador just made climate justice history. The world can follow (The Guardian) “Climate justice”?

Bloomberg Falsely Says Climate Change is Harming Crop Production, Reality Says Otherwise

New Study that Claims it Can Directly Link GHG Emissions to Polar Bear Cub Survival is Poppycock

Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones

Florida Officials: EVs Flooded by Idalia Go Up in Smoke

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Why the new covid variant is not cause for concern — yet (CNN)

Health Talk: New mutated COVID-19 variant (CBS Pittsburgh)

Q&A: Understanding the latest COVID-19 variants and vaccines (MedicalXPress)

Are you ready for COVID-19’s latest evolution? (CGTN America)

DC-Area Local Governments to Federal Employees: Get Back to Work (The Foundry)

Texas Federal Judge Blocks State’s Drag Show Ban (NewsMax)

Why Won’t COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?

COVID Mask Wearers Could Be Exposed To Toxic Chemicals: Study

WATCH: How the Media Covered Fetterman’s Stroke vs. McConnell’s ‘Freeze’

COVID-19 ORIGINS: A Steady Drip of Intriguing Revelations

NYC Advises Masks for Holiday Weekend Amid COVID Spike

How public opinion on the Supreme Court has shifted amid Justice Thomas ethics questions (CNN) According to the Narrative, of course.

Colorado Dem Gov. Defends Student’s Gadsden Flag Patch (NewsMax)

Sen. Johnson Reveals Big Tech-CDC Censorship Collusion Timeline (NewsBusters)

PBS’s Nawaz Cues Dem to Blame DeSantis for Racist Jacksonville Shooting

The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong (Slate)

In the Last Days of Summer, Government Comes for the Ice Cream Trucks

Vivek Ramaswamy’s “cold, cultural civil war” (Public Notice) The witch-hunt expands.

Trump Aide Outed as Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Cops (Daily Beast) Outed! That proves it!

California’s Democratic leaders escalate fights with conservative school boards (NBC News)

A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence (Mother Jones) It’s more likely that Mother Jones has been co-0pted by Russian Intelligence.

WORST Censorship in August: Five Times Big Tech Silenced Free Speech

Fla. School District Removes Dozens of Explicit Books (NewsMax)

NYPD Deploys Drones to Monitor Weekend Parties

Sneaking Past SCOTUS: California Dems Attempt Affirmative Action Workaround

Don’t Look Up! ‘Orwellian’ AI Traffic Cameras Raise Privacy Concerns

Sweetened Drinks Are Linked to Chronic Liver Disease And Liver Cancer

Alaska Set to Ban Trans Girls From High School Girls’ Teams

Tech CEO Warns of Pulling Convention From Liberal S.F.

DC Police Backtrack, Say No Investigation Into DC Abortion Clinic

New Jersey governor says state can’t handle NYC migrants (Politico) But Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, and California can–no problem!

Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched, the US government says (Associated Press) And they’ve never lied to us before….

100s Of ULEZ Cameras Destroyed By Vigilante Group Following Wider London Roll-Out

The Neo-colonialism of Animal Rights in India

Being ‘Trans’ is the UK’s New Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card

Why Do Democrats Treat Parents Like Natural Enemies of Their Own Children?

Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting. (Washington P0st) Only the Narrative can persuade the WaPo to say anything about a small town in Texas.

Why Are So Many Pretendians Lately Women?

Stranger Than Fiction: Apple TV+ Show on LGBTQ Runners Claim Running Is Unsafe, Non-Inclusive

EXPOSED: More Than 3,500 Minors Underwent Transgender Surgeries in 5 Years, Study Says

Big Three Ignore Rising Prices, As Government Reports Increase in Inflation

Boaters deal with ‘modern-day pirates’ in the East Bay

Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?

What Big Labor Doesn’t Want You to Know This Labor Day

City Of Chicago Sues Murder Victims For Not Getting Out Of The Way Of Bullets (Babylon Bee)

“You Don’t Listen To The Press… I’m Telling You”: WaPo Columnist Bump Strikes Out At Those Questioning Prior False Claims

Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?  Hey–they didn’t start the fire.

California Community College Profs Sue State Over DEI Teaching Mandates

Finger-pointing and frustration over migrant crisis leads to a total breakdown between White House and NYC mayor (CNN) Trouble in Paradise.

Capitol Physician Medically Clears Bowl Of Jell-O To Serve In Senate (Babylon Bee) Soon to be on a Democrat ticket near you.

Massachusetts Governor Calls In National Guard Amid Growing Blue State Freakout Over Migrants

New York Times Column Strains to Find Nefarious Reason Conservatives Oppose Chinese Totalitarianism

Wild Mobs Of Young People Totally Out Of Control

What responsible media coverage in the Trump era would look like (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is back on the Bash-Trump Beat.

More Men Opt for Vasectomies Amid Abortion Bans  Hey, if they want to keep their defective genes out of the gene pool, they’re free to do that. In fact, I would encourage it. Natural Selection works every time it’s tried.

Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax  If it moves, tax it. If it doesn’t move, tax it anyway.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Pretty much everyone now agrees that shutting down our schools during the covid epidemic, at the demand of teachers’ unions, was one of the most catastrophic policy decisions of modern times. As I have said before, it is unfortunate that some old and very sick people had their demises hastened by covid, but what government did to our children, for no good reason, was a crime.

Having skipped school for a year or more courtesy of the teachers’ unions, a great many kids have never gone back, at least not on a consistent basis. Why should they, once not showing up got the official OK? Alpha News has the distressing statistics for Minnesota. True, Minnesota is a deeply troubled state. But I doubt the numbers would be much different in other blue states.

People are realizing that government schools aren’t the valuable asset that they once where, and are now actively harmful, both to a child’s education and to society in general. Parents are discovering that there are other and better resources available. In a (mostly) free-market system, that’s all it takes.

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It’s an old story, manifesting now in new ways. The rich, buoyed by inherited wealth and access to credit, find a locale with the qualities they desire, and buy the choicest properties for their own use, and a surrounding band of nearby properties so they won’t be bothered by the bottom 99%.

This story has a new far more destructive chapter, generated by the boom in STVRs–short-term vacation rentals. The uber-wealthy don’t need more money but they’re trained, like hamsters in a lab, to seek ways to maximize their income and capital gains. STVRs–Airbnb et al.–are highly attractive investments to the wealthy and their money-managers–the hedge funds, private equity managers, family-wealth advisors, et al.

Residential real estate that can be converted to STVRs is well within reach of the top 10% households, who own between 80% and 90% of all income-producing assets such as housing rentals, stocks, bonds and business equity.

Read it.

Aristotle listed four characteristics of sound money: it must be durable, portable, divisible, and have intrinsic value. Gold possesses all of these characteristics, which is why gold has served as money for thousands of years.

It also expands/contracts the ‘money supply’ without reference to the underlying economy, which is why gold (and silver) cause knotty economic problems and why all modern governments don’t use commodity-backed money. Managing a commodity-backed monetary standard takes a lot more work than just shifting a government-mandated interest rate a few basis points here and there, which is why they prefer the latter to the former.