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The animal footprint carvings you can find in the Doro Nawas Mountains of western Namibia are quite something: the artists have captured the tracks so accurately, they can reveal plenty of useful information about the animals they represent.

A team from the Heinrich Barth Institute and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, worked with Indigenous tracking experts from the Kalahari region to look at a total of 513 carvings.

For more than 90 percent of them, Indigenous experts could identify the species, sex, age group, and even which leg the carving was from. It’s like a wildlife compendium, written in rock.

White House prohibiting official travel to fossil fuel conferences, internal memo shows (Fox News)

Climate solutions are necessary. So we’re dedicating a week to highlighting them (NPR)

Greenpeace Canada Co-Founder Admits “We Are Not In A Climate Crisis”

Europe Launches a Carbon Tax Attack Against the US Economy

The Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters

The BBC Seminar That Banned Discussion Of Climate Change

Africa is 50% hotter than the rest of the world. How farmers are combating rising temperatures

Are Small Nuclear Reactors The Answer To Big-Tech’s Energy Crisis?

AG Garland: I’d Resign If Biden Asked for Action on Trump  Of course Biden doesn’t need to ask,  Garland will do it on his own initiative.

Federal Prosecutors Push For Gag Order Against Trump After His Recent Remarks Freedom of speech is not a Democrat value.

As His Fraud Trial Begins, Trump Looks to Capitalize on It (N.Y. Times)

Bankman-Fried Explored Paying Trump $5B Not to Run

Supreme Court Rejects Long Shot’s Bid to Disqualify Trump in ’24

Trump: ‘The Crime Is Against Me,’ ‘No Crime,’ ‘No Victim Here’ Except Me  Quite agree.

House GOP Members Look to Expel Gaetz as He Schemes to Oust McCarthy: Report (Daily Beast)

Rep. Matt Gaetz threatens to trigger vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker (NBC News)

Pelosi weighs in on Gaetz’s plan to oust McCarthy (CNN)

EXPLAINER | How hardline US House Republicans could strip Kevin McCarthy of speakership (News 24)

Dems Marshal Strategy on Potential McCarthy Ouster (NewsMax)

PBS NewsHour Runs Down GOP Candidates on ‘Slavery’ Curriculum, Transgender Kids

‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening (The Guardian) You gotta love all this ‘rightwing code’ that proglodyte ‘journalists’ seem to have no trouble reading.

Kevin McCarthy Shows How CBS Host Margaret Brennan Acts Like a Hostile Democrat Debater

Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans (N.Y. Times)

North Carolina Republicans create “secret police force” (Popular Information) Yet another proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Musk’s first year as Twitter’s Dear Leader is nigh

Musk Under Fire After Posting Mocking Zelenskyy Meme  Free speech is not a proglodyte value.

Anti-Trump Republicans Won’t Save Democracy. Can Anybody? (New York Magazine) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Online Censorship: Canada Continues Crackdown

The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate

COVID vaccine poll finds more than half of adults are likely to say ‘no thanks’ to the vax (Fox News)

Why Did People Comply?

Why It’s Too Soon to Call It Covid Season (Wired ‘Science’)

He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court (Politico)

Horrific moment store clerk in crime-ridden Bay Area is set on FIRE with stolen lighter fluid by serial shoplifter, leaving him suffering from second and third-degree burns (UK Daily Mail)

Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative 

For Some, Open Border Chaos Is The Goal

German Mayor Call Concerns Over Child Safety “Unfounded” Amid Plans To Accomodate 80 Asylum-Seekers At A Primary School

Pope Francis Claims No Migrant Emergency In Europe – Suggests ‘Individualism’ Is The Problem

Meet the Violent Criminals Roaming the Illinois Streets Thanks to State’s Cash Bail Ban

Playbook: A new senator, and a new showdown (Politico)

The EU Is Ruining European Agriculture

Newsom Fills Feinstein’s Empty Senate Seat With Wealthy Black Lesbian From Maryland

Stop Arguing Over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free. (The Nation) Progs are just full of solutions that require other people to pay for their stuff.

Sweden: Gangs Start Health Care Clinics To Commit Welfare Fraud

Who Is Laphonza Butler? Abortion Strategist, Clinton Adviser, Labor Union Boss Replacing Feinstein

Is Dark Money ‘Anti-Hate’ Group CCDH Run By An Intelligence Operative?

Newsom’s appointment confirms that abortion is the heart of the Democratic Party

Gavin Newsom Throws Dart At Board Covered In Black Lesbians To Select Next Senator (Babylon Bee)

Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein replacement (Politico) Not the black woman he was being leaned on to appoint, but a black woman nevertheless.

Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to fill Feinstein’s vacant Senate seat (Fox News)

California Gov. Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat (CNN)

Michigan Teen Who Clocked Teacher In Head With Metal Chair Arrested On Felony Assault Charges

Court Blocks Grant Program for Black Women Entrepreneurs

Gov. Newsom Picks Top Abortion Activist to Sen. Feinstein’s Seat

Intersectionality Wins Again, by Steve Sailer

Nets Play Defense for Far-Left Bowman, Accept His Excuse for Pulling Fire Alarm

Whoopi, Hostin Suggest GOP Plot Behind Why Bowman Pulled Fire Alarm

Bowman camp slams ‘Nazi’ Republicans after fire alarm flap (Politico)

Jamall Bowman: pulling the fire alarm and then pulling our legs?

20th Busload Of Illegal Immigrants Arrives In Downtown Los Angeles

Biden Policies Driving Anti-Taliban Forces Toward Russia, Iran

The Military DEI Circus Continues Merrily Onward

Meet Joe Biden’s Newest Campaign Surrogates: The Republicans Who Hate Him (The Messenger)

“Renewed Upward Pressure On Inflation” – US Manufacturing Surveys Signal Stagflation

‘SOFT LANDING’? Bloomberg News Admits ‘US Recession Is Still Likely’ and ‘Coming Soon’

Big Government Created This Economic Mess. Why Would We Think It Could Fix It?

Chief of Staff of Pentagon Counterterrorism Office Served Iranian Gov.

WATCH: Biden Freezes During Comments on Shutdown

VP Harris Allies Hope Gun Assignment Will Reset Image  Her imae as a gun-grabber?

Biden Admin Twists the Law to Force Abortion Policies on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.

Turley: Four Biden Impeachment Articles & What The House Will Need To Prove

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“In this country, no one is above the law” has become a rallying mantra of both our national media and increasing, the Democratic Party (but is there a difference, really?). Attorney General Merrick Garland used this phrase on 60 Minutes this past Sunday, as did President Joe Biden during a friendly kid glove chat with ProPublica reporter John Harwood.

As justification for pursuing more than ninety indictments on several fronts against former president Donald Trump, on everything from electioneering to housing classified documents, the left has pounded the tables on the rule of law being the most important foundational principal to the survival of the Republic itself. And it has been solemnly reported that way by several cable news infotainment, including Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow.

Well now they get to put this claim to the test. This past weekend, as members of Congress were staying to vote on a continuing resolution to avert a possible government shutdown, Representative Jamaal Bowman, from New York, was captured on video camera in the federal Cannon Building appearing to pull a red and clearly-labeled fire alarm. Bowman’s excuse, per his office, was that he was in a hurry and the notion of a push-bar exit door confused and disoriented him at the time.

Triggering a false fire alarm in a federal building is a violation of 18 USC 1512(c) and can carry with it a punishment of up to $10,000 in fines and a prison sentence of up to six months. Bowman could, however, be in even deeper legal trouble for subverting an official government proceeding, which is a felony that can carry a maximum of twenty years in prison. This is, by the way, the same statue that DC prosecutors and Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice are using against citizen rioters who breached the capitol building on January 6, 2021.

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Sayyed Issa Tabatabai’s comments marked the first public acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in the bombings: at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed; and the barracks of American and French members of the Multinational Force in October 1983, in which 242 U.S. Marines and 58 French troops were killed.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) interview with Tabatabai, who represents Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Lebanon.

MEMRI reported that the part of the interview in which Tabatabai acknowledged receiving then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa ordering attacks on American and Israeli targets in Lebanon was removed by IRNA from its website shortly after publication.

My, what a surprise.

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

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It took firms decades to adjust to electricity by redesigning factories, products, and workflows to take full advantage of the new possibilities. Similarly, the benefits of work from home start to come most profoundly when expensive offices can be shrunk, employers can draw from a much larger pool of workers and workers can adjust when and where they work, including the location of their homes. It’s not surprising, therefore, that with little time for either the workers or the firms to adjust and with few options to choose how much to work from home, productivity fell when COVID sent workers home. But, with more time to plan and more options for hybrid but extensive work (e.g. work from home Mondays and Fridays), work from home has large benefits. We are also seeing management redesign to take advantage of work from home in the same way we saw factory redesign to take advantage of electricity. Management, for example, is shifting from input metrics–do you show up?–to output metrics–did the work get done? Designing and validating new metrics takes time, but these changes are helping to increase the benefits of work from home.

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It has become painfully clear in recent decades that, more and more, the major stumbling block in weapon acquisition programs is software, rather than hardware.

The F-35, for example, has failed on the software side of things rather than the hardware. The all-encompassing, mission planning, parts inventory controlling, maintenance regulating, aircraft health assessing ALIS software has been a colossal, and to date, unrecoverable, failure. Further, the F-35 was planned to be fully combat capable only with the advent of the Block 4 software upgrade which is now hopelessly behind schedule and has had many of its planned features deleted or deferred to some undetermined future time.

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Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was a slogan of genius. While his supporters (and most Americans) instantly knew what it meant, Democrats hated it. They didn’t know whether to respond, “America is still great,” or “America was never great,” which is what most of them believe. It was a painful dilemma.

But times have changed. Now Democrats embrace Trump’s slogan, or at least its acronym. They constantly refer derisively to “MAGA Republicans.” A Google search for “MAGA Republicans” returns over 58 million hits.

MAGA is the New Nigger.

Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Remdesivir Manufacturer Over Alleged Deceptive Practices

How ‘Cattle COVID’ Is Ravaging Spain’s Farms

Over 277,000 ‘Vaccinated’ COVID-19 Cases Hidden By CDC In 2021: Newly Obtained Files Show

WashPost Puffs Trump’s J-6 Judge: Reasonable Yet Tough, ‘Coolheaded Natural Talent’

Trump goes to trial in New York before a judge who just ruled he’s a fraud (Politico)

The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity (The Garden of Forking Paths) Another mushroom of hate.

Christian Nationalism May Not Be Serious, but It’s Dangerous (N.Y. Times) David French has long since given up any pretense of being a conservative; it appears he’s giving up any pretense of being a Christian as well.

Elitist Deutsch: Trump Cares What My Kind Of People Think — Not Tupelo Bumpkins

Trump Receives Cheers From CA Crowd After Arguing In Favor Of Shooting Looters  I like him already.

Nikki Haley Says Trump’s Campaign Sent Her A Birdcage (Huffington Post) Naw, I don’t believe that. “But it had to be the Trump campaign, who else would do that?” The Trump campaign would have done something a lot more clever.

Hunter Biden’s Daughter Was Living In White House While Representing Peruvian Government

Biden Embarrassingly Reverses Plan To Defund Schools With Archery & Hunting Programs

McCarthy: Border is bigger priority than Ukraine (The Hill) Finally, the sleeper wakes.

Dem Rep. Bowman Faces Investigation After Pulling Capitol Fire Alarm

McCarthy: Punish Rep. Bowman for Pulling Fire Alarm Before Vote

House Passes Spending Bill After Democrat (Allegedly) Pulls Fire Alarm

Political Cursing vs. Pulling a Fire Alarm

Dem Congressman Obstructs an Official Proceeding

A Breakthrough for Diversity

Let’s Play, ‘Find the Hidden Racism’!

GOP Outrage Over Bowman Pulling House Alarm  Not that anyone gives a shit, much less Bowman.

AOC Defends Lawmaker Who Pulled Fire Alarm To ‘Open Door’ And Totally Not Disrupt The Democratic Process  The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Black Caucus Wants Rep. Lee to Replace Feinstein

Lee supporters reignite pressure on Newsom over Senate appointment (Politico)

Manhattan DA Bragg Sued Over ‘Racial Equity’ Pursuit

Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP (Politico)

Physical anthropologists, beware – the woke brigade has come for you

Anthropology Session On Importance Of Biological Sex Canceled To Appease LGBT Advocates

The Trans Power Wins Again

Police Chief Who Led Kansas Newspaper Raid Suspended

Elon Musk crosses the border to Nazi (The Handbasket) Every time one turns around, there is a new proglodyte mushroom sprouting from the manure pile of modern progressivism.

Jeffries: House stopgap bill ‘total defeat for the extreme MAGA Republicans’ (The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger. (Ask him whether there are any ‘MAGA Republicans’ who are not ‘extreme’. Go ahead. I dare you.)

These Republican senators voted against the government funding bill (The Hill)

Uncle Fester speaks: Fetterman: ‘I’m done normalizing this dysfunction’  Like being called ugly by a frog….

It’s time to end McCarthy’s reign of error (Washington Poop) I guess Dana Milbank has been turned to the Matt Gaetz side of the farce….

How the right’s elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could now backfire (Washington Poop) Next up is undoubtedly the proclamation of RFK jr as a white supremacist.

Rep. Lawler: Gaetz’s McCarthy Plans ‘Delusional Thinking’  (NewsMax) The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

AOC: Would Vote to Oust ‘Very Weak’ McCarthy

Sen. Graham: ‘Disaster’ if GOP Joins With Dems to Oust McCarthy  It would certainly be a disaster for the Linday Grahams of the party.

House GOP members seek to expel Gaetz amid renewed threat to vacate House Speaker McCarthy (Fox News)

UK home secretary says multiculturalism has ‘failed’ as Europe faces migrant crisis (Fox News)

Suella Braverman’s message of divide and rule must be resisted (The Guardian)

Tory MPs complain to chief whip about Suella Braverman’s asylum speech (BBC)

Is The US Military Laying The Groundwork To Reinstitute The Draft?

Univision Cheers Licenses For Illegals In Minnesota

Newsom Vetoes Bill Offering Strikers Unemployment Pay

Paris Homeless Problem Swept Under the Rug for Olympics

RFK Jr. Could Make Announcement On Run As Independent On Oct. 9  Cleverly timed to give all of the RINOs and never-Trumpers a place to fetch up.

Gaetz says he will force vote to oust McCarthy as House speaker (Washington Poop) Talk is cheap. Don’t say it; do it. This kabuki dance fools no one.

Trudeau Government moves to regulate podcasts

Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services

MSNBC Host Alicia Menendez: DUH, I Won’t Be Covering Daddy’s Bribery Scandal

To Many Americans, Government Dysfunction Is the New Normal (N.Y. Times) They’re shocked, shocked to find that people are seeing government dysfunctional.

CBS Sunday Morning ‘News’ Airs Robert Reich Rant Ending with Vote-Democrat Appeal

Majority of US students now support speech codes

Biden admin quietly released study showing green energy receives far more subsidies than fossil fuels (Fox News)

Confirmed: New Study Shows The Gulf Stream Is Definitely Weakening (ScienceAlert)

Gulf Stream warning issued by scientists as UK temperatures could plummet (UK Daily Record)

Temperatures across UK could plummet as terrifying Gulf Stream warning issued (UK Daily Mirror)

The Myth of “Settled” Climate Science: A Revelatory Study on Cloud Formation

Celebrity Flights  Hate on your favorite emitter.

Great Travel Reset: Poll: 41% of French population favors restricting EVERYONE to ONLY 4 airplane flights in their ENTIRE LIFE to ‘fight against global warming’

‘Quotes were £5000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance cost

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It has taken me years to answer my father’s question — in the form of my new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. In it, I argue that our preferences are now shaped not by markets but by machine networks — what I call “cloud capital”. Amazon’s Alexa, for example, is the portal to a totalitarian, fully centralised system of preference creation and satisfaction. First, it trains us to train it to dictate what we want. Second, it sells us what we now “want” directly, bypassing any actual marketplace. Third, it succeeds in making us sustain this enormous behavioural modification machine with our free labour: we post reviews, rate products. Finally, it amasses huge rents from capitalists who rely on this network of cloud capital, usually 40% of sale price. That’s not capitalism. Welcome to Technofeudalism.

Another seemingly bright person led astray by word-salad. One of these days I’m going to write an essay on the various mythologies of ‘capitalism’, both left and right.

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“Nobody plays with Ken,” Ryan Gosling told Jimmy Fallon in an interview prior to the release of the Barbie movie. “He’s just an accessory and not even one of the cool ones.”

From the original advertising, it seemed that playing Ken was unusual for Gosling, who often portrays complex and troubled male characters. In Blade Runner 2049, for example, his role reflected the sensation of feeling not only lonely, but lost in a world and trying to find purpose within it.

This stands in stark contrast to Ken’s initial depiction as a clingy, unassertive simp who secretly harbours resentment about being in the friendzone. As the infamous Barbie poster says, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”

*sigh* These kids today….