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It’s natural to feel anxious as we approach the inevitable automation of all human labor. Economic theory suggests that full automation will cause wages to collapse, potentially below subsistence level: the bare minimum needed to sustain human life.

Yet the full automation of the economy will probably also make most people vastly better off. Plummeting wages will coincide with sharply rising standards of living, rapid medical progress, and an explosion in the variety of goods and services that people can choose from.

This may appear paradoxical. How can people prosper even as their wages collapse?

The answer lies in recognizing that wages are just one source of income. People also earn income from investments, collect rent from property, and receive government transfers like pensions or welfare payments.

Today, the majority of people get most of their income by selling their labor. This is what makes wages a good proxy for the standard of living in a given region—at the moment. But full automation will break this pattern. Future humans will likely have low wages, yet they’ll command vastly greater wealth and wield far superior technology than we do today.

To get a glimpse into what this future may look like, it helps to first understand how similar technological revolutions have unfolded in the past.

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No green activist operation makes clearer why they need to ban free speech and cancel scientific debate to achieve Net Zero hegemony than the Guardian newspaper. Last Saturday, we learnt from its Environment Editor Damian Carrington that campaigners had said the UK’s TV and radio regulator Ofcom was allowing GB News and others to ‘flout” accuracy rules and broadcast “climate change denial”, whatever that last phrase means. Carrington noted in response to frequent suggestions of inaccuracy in UN climate models going back to 1979, that, “in fact, UN climate models have been remarkably accurate”. How Carrington, one of three journalists of the year in 2023 at the Green Blob-funded Covering Climate Now, can write this with a straight face is anyone’s guess.

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In his new book Under Assault, historian and former Canadian national security analyst Dennis Molinaro uncovers evidence that Chinese-Canadian scientist Dr. Xiangguo Qiu secretly collaborated on a 2019 Wuhan “bat filovirus” research project that some Western intelligence agencies — including the CIA, with varying degrees of confidence — assess to have likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

While The Bureau has previously reported on Qiu’s links to Wuhan’s “Batwoman,” Shi Zhengli, Molinaro’s findings — drawn from redacted CSIS records, open-source intelligence, and parliamentary disclosures — take the case significantly further, situating Qiu’s compromise within the broader escalation of Chinese intelligence collection in Canada since 2000, and highlighting Ottawa’s conspicuous lack of capacity — or will — to enforce against Beijing’s incursions.

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Wednesday was a grim day at CBS News as reportedly around 100 people were axed as part of long-rumored layoffs numbering 2,000 people across its parent company Paramount Skydance. The ranks of those let go were vast and deep with both remaining CBS Saturday Morning hosts shown the door, correspondents with decades of experience (and all women), its Race and Culture unit, and even two entire shows.

Most notably, CBS Saturday Morning co-hosts Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller were reportedly let go, along with their executive producer Brian Applegate. Miller had been with CBS since 2004 and Jacobson since 2018.

While the New York Post said the show will be “slated for a radical revamp,” The Los Angeles Times’s Stephen Battaglio reported Wednesday afternoon the show would live on with “a new format that will align it closer to the weekday show.” Either way, it was unclear as of Wednesday night whether a final episode will air of the current format.

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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) lost roughly 71% of its $468 million investment in a clean-energy and technology private equity fund – and won’t explain how. The losses highlight growing concerns about the pension giant’s private equity strategy, which relies heavily on opaque, illiquid investments and leaves taxpayers ultimately on the hook.

According to state records analyzed by the Center Square, the CalPERS Clean Energy & Technology Fund (CETF), launched in 2007, has seen its value fall from a total commitment of $468.4 million to $138 million as of March 31, 2025. That represents a loss of more than $330 million, even after paying $22 million in fees and costs to private equity managers.

CalPERS’ overall returns for fiscal 2024–2025 were 11.6%, with public equities returning 16.8% and private equity 14.3%. The similar performance between the two asset classes has raised questions about whether the complexity and cost of private equity are worth it.

Time to leave.

The Telegraph (UK)

A migrant sex offender has claimed he tried to hand himself in to police after being mistakenly released from prison but was ignored by officers.

Hadush Kebatu, 41, told Sky News he approached police officers on the morning after his release from HMP Chelmsford, told them who he was and asked to be taken to a police station but claimed he was ignored.

He made his claims in an interview with Sky News on his arrival back in Ethiopia on Wednesday morning after being deported from the UK on an overnight flight.

It came after it emerged that Kebatu had been paid £500 by the Home Office to take the deportation flight after threatening to lodge an asylum claim to block his removal.

Kebatu, who was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old, was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday instead of being transferred to a immigration removal centre, leading to a 48-hour police manhunt.

The Telegraph (UK)

A Channel migrant has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering a bank customer shortly after his asylum application was rejected.

Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, a Somali national who paid €400 (£350) to travel to Britain last year, attacked Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, with a kitchen knife at a branch of Lloyds Bank in Derby.

The 47-year-old had called the charity Migrant Help less than two hours before the killing, which happened at about 2.30pm on May 6, saying he was “going to kill 500 people”, Derby Crown Court heard.

He later suggested he was going to target “doctors, police or people working at the Home Office”.

Nur had claimed asylum in October last year but his application was rejected by the Home Office because he had arrived “voluntarily”, a decision he later appealed against.

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A new round of Obamacare enrollment begins on Nov. 1 against the backdrop of an ongoing partial government shutdown that revolves around a debate over Democrats’ demands to expand the controversial 2010 law.

Then-President Barack Obama and other Democrats made numerous promises about the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

The following are four broken promises from the Obamacare law.

More accurately, four LIES told by Obama to get his semi-socilaized-medicine program passed.

America’s Obesity Crisis Solved As EBT Benefits Run Out (Babylon Bee)

Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants (Babylon Bee)

Furloughed TSA Agents Go Door-To-Door Offering To Grope People For Free  (Babylon Bee)

Judge extends order barring mass firings of federal workers during shutdown (Politico)

Clinton Judge Blocks ‘King’ Trump’s Ability To Fire Federal Workers During Shutdown, Indefinitely

Johnson Dismisses Trump 2028 Talk ??? But Applauds the ‘Trolling’ (Annie Karni/New York Times)

Judge rebukes Bondi and Noem over Abrego Garcia comments (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Blue states blame Republicans for looming SNAP shutoff on government websites (Politico)  Of course they do.

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy (Charlie Savage/New York Times)

States Sue Trump Admin To Try To Stop Suspension Of Food Stamps  The whole foundation of the modern Democrat party is that you can provide Free Stuff even when you don’t have money. Hoe_math calls this “Santa-ism”.

Trump has forgotten why he won in 2024 (Andrew Prokop/Vox)  Yet another mind-reader in the media reminds us of what the Narrative is.

WH Ousts Arts Board Poised to Review Trump Builds

Ahead of Xi meeting, White House aides worry what Trump will say about Taiwan (NBC News)  Except that they aren’t the President.

Chicago’s children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns (Claire Galofaro/Associated Press)  Except that they aren’t ‘Chicago’s children’, they’re the children of illegal immigrants that live in Chicago, which is ruled by the Party of Free Stuff.

9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges’ Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

Pentagon removes key protections for civilian workers, moves to fire with ‘speed and conviction’ (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, once you have a government job, you are entitled to it forever.

Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

Trump Says ‘Pretty Clear I’m Not Allowed to Run’ for Third Term (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg)  But he’ll still be yanking their chains until 2028.

Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power (Michael McFaul/The Atlantic)

Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations (Washington Post

The Empty Promises of Trump’s Imperial Presidency (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Oh, No! Trump, 79, Attempts Indian Accent on Asia Tour (Isabel Van Brugen/The Daily Beast)  The best of American High School Journalism.

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

The Government Is Closed. The President Is MIA. (The Atlantic)

MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump Isn’t Easing the Shutdown Pain–He’s Inflicting It (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)

Colbert Suggests It Will Take Years To Rebuild Democracy After Trump  When you realize that Democrats define ‘democracy’ as Democrat Rule, that makes perfect sense.

Democrats ramp up probes into Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom (Washington Post)

‘An Unprecedented Hunger and Health Crisis’: How the Big Beautiful Bill Could Devastate Vermont (India Nye Wenner/Rolling Stone)

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said ‘mob’ of ‘rioters’ carried out Jan. 6 attack (ABC News)

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump (Marcy Wheeler/Talking Points Memo)  There would certainly be no TDS.

Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President (Jake Lahut/Wired)

Some evangelicals are “quietly quitting” Trump and MAGA (Russell Contreras/Axios)

You Don’t, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump’s Hands (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Republicans Seriously Need to Stop with the Autopen Stuff (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  Saying the quiete part out loud.

Former senior DHS official Miles Taylor launches new web tool to plan protests against Trump administration (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)  Because they’ve been so successful in the past.

CBS Platforms Gavin Newsom Trashing Trump as an ‘Invasive Species’ Wrecking Everything

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Asylum seekers are presumably safe once upon their arrival in Greece. Yet thousands upon thousands are continuing their journeys to Germany anyway.

New data—revealed as part of a response to a parliamentary question from the Green Party—show that well over 100,000 migrants with protection status recognised in Greece have reapplied for asylum in Germany.

Of these, around 45,000 came from Afghanistan, 36,000 from Syria and 12,000 from Iraq. Somalia, Iran, and Sudan are also listed as countries of origin, while the nationality of around 5,000 individuals remains unknown.

But Greece is poor, and Germany is rich. Follow the money.

The American Mind.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk puts to rest the dreamy hope that President Trump’s 2024 election was the final word on identity politics in America. The revolutionary faction he defeated at the ballot box walks not by argument, but by faith. It is a faith that the innocent victims of the world cannot rest until the racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, Islamophobes, extremists, fascists, authoritarians, Nazis—and now the (Israeli) colonizers—are purged.

For more than a decade, we called this faith “cancel culture.” But cancellation was never going to be enough. In the end, the dark inner logic of identity politics requires a literal purging of those identified as “toxins” from the body social. Identity politics is, as I have written, “the spiritual eugenics of our age.” To achieve this always-receding goal of purity, a scapegoat must be found upon whom to lay the sins of the world. Charlie Kirk became that scapegoat.

The Republican political victory of 2024 notwithstanding, identity politics remains the reigning theodicy in all of our public American institutions; it is the established church of the American elite, whose parishioners rage and mock the majority of impure American citizens, who themselves are awakening to its bloody logic. One America mourns a martyr for Christ. Another America celebrates the purging of a scapegoat.

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As we observe National First Responders Day, let us honor those who protect us every day—and give extra support to those with the courage to reestablish law and order while confronting defiance, violent discord, and even domestic terrorism.

A coordinated, dark money-funded far-left movement is targeting and attacking one law enforcement agency in particular: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In doing so, it’s jeopardizing the lives of ICE officers.

Federal prosecutors have charged violent rioters for attacking law enforcement in urban areas across the nation.

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Venezuela’s regime is coming under increasing pressure from the Trump administration for using the cartels it controls to smuggle drugs into the United States. Last week, President Donald Trump said he had authorized covert CIA actions inside the South American country, a significant escalation.

But Caracas’ transgressions extend to other areas. It has also long backed efforts to sow political division on U.S. streets. First, it supported Black Lives Matter and its founders. Now, it’s Antifa.

Indeed, you can tell a lot about which domestic anti-U.S. groups are rising by the support they get from our enemies overseas, especially Venezuela, but also Iran, Cuba, and China. That Venezuela is diversifying into “anti-fascism” is yet another sign of how diminished BLM has become.

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A Belgian investigating judge has issued a stark warning that Belgium is “becoming a narco-state,” calling on the government to take urgent action to combat the growing influence of organised crime.

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he Soros clan, along with other family foundations of the liberal elite, Knight, MacArthur, Ford, Omidyar, and the Rockefellers, have announced that they’re teaming up to fight investigations by the Justice Department.

While Alex Soros, George’s son, bragged that he would not give in, “over my dead body”, the presidents of the MacArthur and McKnight Foundations have declared that everyone needs to dust off their “crisis plans” and put their “legal teams on speed dial” ahead of a crackdown.

What are they afraid of?

The Foundry.

Within the first two weeks of the ongoing government shutdown, agency heads reportedly sent permanent layoff notices to about 4,000 federal employees under the guidance of Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought. But compared to the private sector, this is a proverbial drop in the bucket.

The partial lapse in government funding has dragged on for 27 days now as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and 44 other senators continue to block the “clean” government funding measure that the House passed in September.

As a result of the funding lapse, Vought says that 10,000 federal employees could ultimately face permanent layoffs.

For context, a reduction in force of 10,000 would only amount to about 0.3% of the roughly 3-million-person federal civilian workforce.

For further context, about 0.3% of the private sector workforce faces layoffs and discharges every week.

Power Line.

So far, I wouldn’t have noticed Chuck Schumer’s government “shutdown” if it hadn’t been in the newspapers. The government is still withholding money from my paychecks, so the shutdown is obviously less than complete. I don’t depend on SNAP or other government programs, although I sympathize with those who do:

But I do travel a lot, and the Schumer Shutdown is starting to affect air travel and, perhaps, air safety.

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A trial concerning the possible serious side effects of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is now underway at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court.

A woman from Hof is seeking hundreds of thousands of euros in damages after suffering intestinal vein thrombosis, falling into a coma, and losing part of her intestine following vaccination in March 2021.

The plaintiff claims she was not informed about the potential risks, demanding €250,000 in damages, €17,200 in lost earnings and an additional €600,000 for future impairments. AstraZeneca had not listed thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) as a side effect at the time, though it was added to the product information in March 2021.

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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the political left in America were growing more emboldened and more overt in their lust for conservative blood. Leftist podcaster Jennifer Welch relished the politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk during the Monday edition of her I’ve Had It Podcast News (IHIPN) screed; and demanded Democrats to “get on board” or else they’d be targeted too. And Welsh wasn’t a no body, she and her co-host Angie “Pumps” Sullivan were featured as guests and lauded over by ABC News’s The View back in February.

Welsh’s heinous comments came in reaction to a video from conservative YouTuber Kaitlin Bennett, where she interviewed a liberal extremist at a so-called “No Kings” protest who praised Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The extremist also told Bennett that she might want her dead as well.

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One of the most notorious billionaire pontificators on the climate change boondoggle just did an about-face and told the eco-extremists screeching Armageddon to take a chill pill.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shocked the political sphere by completely skewering the leftist narrative that we’re all going to die from climate change in a few years in an October 28 blog post.

Gates first outlined the doomist narrative: “‘In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.” Then came the kicker: “Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

Okay, who is this guy and what did he do with Bill Gates?

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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen posted on Instagram that brand owner Unilever had prevented the company from making a flavor in support of Palestine, so “I’m doing it myself.”

He said that the flavor would be based on watermelon, which The Times of Israel noted has become a symbol of Palestinians on social media in recent years due to its colors resembling those of the Palestinian national flag.

In his post, Cohen asked the public to send in ideas for a name for the flavor and for additional ingredients, as well as suggestions for ideas for the design on the ice cream container.

What is he going to call it? Judenhasse Sherbet? Genocide Gelato?

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Two newly released congressional letters confirm years-long reporting that the anti-Trump Jan. 6 committee had quietly colluded with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump.

The letters, from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and disgraced former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reveal the lawmakers’ rush to hand over evidence before Republicans took control of Congress in 2023.

In those exchanges, they produced at least 16 interviews, deposition transcripts, exhibits, phone numbers and spreadsheets as part of their investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

Newsbusters.

On Monday, MSNBC host and podcaster Nicolle Wallace welcomed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to The Best People for a truly surreal interview. Within the span of only a couple of minutes, Wallace would declare that no Democrat has ever compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler, then claim that if they did, it would be appropriate, and then sit back and listen as Pritzker did precisely that, all while claiming he wasn’t.

Pritzker’s conceit was to say that he wasn’t suggesting that Trump would throw people in death camps, but that what Trump is doing follows a similar authoritarian playbook to one the Nazis used to amass power. With that in mind, Wallace claimed that the Nazi comparisons are completely appropriate.

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As Democratic leaders like Rep. Dan Goldman (D, N.Y.) insist that Antifa does not exist as a group, two Antifa groups — Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa — put out a hit list poster on a University of Colorado sophomore and leader in Turning Point USA. He was promptly attacked by a person in the signature Antifa black outfit on roller blades who used a hockey stick to mete out the punishment.

According to a press release, Boulder Police are looking for a suspect accused of attacking a 19-year-old Turning Point USA student leader near the University of Colorado, Boulder on Thursday evening. The attacker is suspected to be an Antifa member and to have followed the victim in the premeditated attack.

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An ISIS fanatic allegedly plotted to murder Jews in Manchester, England, boasting to an undercover agent about “poisoning their children” and “executing” them, a British court heard this week.

Walid Saadaoui, 37, a Tunisian-born former restaurateur, allegedly planned a summer 2024 massacre targeting Jewish schools, synagogues, and restaurants across the northern English city.

Prosecutors said his goal was simple: to kill “as many Jews as possible.”

Newsbusters.

As Election Day approaches, the New York Times has passionately defended New York City’s socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, changing the subject to accusations of “Islamophobia” when one of his opponents (either former Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, or Republican Curtis Sliwa) dares to bring up Mamdani’s history of hostility toward Israel and abject failure to condemn the terrorist group Hamas, and his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, an anti-Semitic organization.

They’re openly campaigning for the socialist. Late on Tuesday morning, Times reporters Matthew Haag and Dana Rubinstein posted “Attacking Mamdani’s Muslim faith, Cuomo has played to voters’ fears”.

Often the Mamdani cheerleading appeared high in the headline deck, as in Emma Fitzsimmons’ report on Sunday: “Vance Criticizes Mamdani’s Comments About Islamophobia After 9/11 — Zohran Mamdani said the vice president’s attack on social media was one in a series of “cheap jokes about Islamophobia.” Opponents “pounced”!

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Is there a Ponzi scheme? Can we get in on it?

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Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

Bear in mind that almost all significant cities in Texas are run by Democrats, who just LOVE to give illegal benefits to illegal aliens.

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Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat nominee for New York City mayor, reportedly faces two criminal referrals accusing his campaign of accepting illegal contributions from foreign donors.

The referrals were filed by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, claiming Mamdani might have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and New York Election Code.

The foundation filed the referrals with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office Tuesday.

Mandami is really getting the hang of being a Democrat.

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When President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, the Chinese Communist Party didn’t just retaliate with trade measures. It launched an information war, using American insiders to spread its narrative that tariffs were reckless and self-defeating.

One of the most prominent voices in that campaign is Rick Waters, a former senior U.S. diplomat who once directed the State Department’s China House.

positions, appearing with CCP-linked influence groups and using Western media outlets to promote pro-China talking points that undermine Trump’s trade strategy.

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With college costs climbing and artificial intelligence reshaping office work, a growing number of Gen Zers are turning to construction, a new report shows. According to industry professionals, “They’re showing up in droves.”

The share of Generation Z workers—those aged 18 to 28—in the construction labor force more than doubled from 2019 to 2023, rising from 6.4 percent to 14.1 percent, according to an Oct. 10 report by the Home Builders Institute.

The share of millennials (age 29 to 44) grew to 37.7 percent from 35.7 percent over the same period. Conversely, the share of Baby Boomers (age 61 to 79) dropped to 14.2 percent from 20.6 percent as older workers moved into retirement.

The median age of construction workers during this period was 42.

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NGOs almost always side with America’s enemies.

What HE said….

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As we have been writing about for the better part of the last 2 years, growing electricity needs from artificial-intelligence data centers are pushing tech giants back toward nuclear power.

On Monday, NextEra Energy and Google announced a deal to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which closed in 2020 after 45 years of operation. The 615-megawatt plant is expected to return to service in early 2029 under a 25-year power purchase agreement with Google, Reuters reported.

Shares of NextEra rose more than 1% after the announcement. The move adds to recent nuclear-supply arrangements tied to hyperscale cloud operators, echoing plans at the former Three Mile Island facility in Pennsylvania aimed at Microsoft data centers. As we have written about extensively on Zero Hedge, companies including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have also signed agreements to buy future energy from advanced nuclear projects such as small modular reactors and fusion systems.

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Animal rights group PETA issued a statement following the crash, calling the escape a clear example of what it described as the risks of the “greedy monkey experimentation industry.”

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there even was a ‘monkey experimentation industry.’

The original article said that all of the monkey’s but one had been ‘euthanized’, suggesting that one had been held back for interrogation. Fortunately, that appears not to be the case.

When life gives you lemons, monetize!

Will 9th Circuit Care That DOJ Lied Its Face Off In Oregon Invasion Case? (Law and Chaos)

Johnson backs Trump’s plans not to tap contingency dollars for food aid ahead of funding cliff (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)  The whole point of shutting down the government is to put pressure on the people who are holding out. In this case, that’s the Democrats. Food aid supports most of the Democrat base, so it would be foolish for Trump to mitigate that in any way.

Another shutdown consequence: Democrats can’t visit ICE detention facilities (Politico)

A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal–It Would be Dangerous (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)  Especially to statists, like most Democrats.

Psaki Pushes Conspiracy Theory: Trump Trying to Suppress Voters, Steal Election

Trump does not rule out seeking third term – but says he will not use VP loophole (Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBC)

Former DOJ officials say Comey case is vindictive, call for dismissal (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

ICE Barbie Deports Trump-Fanatic Cuban Immigrant to Africa (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)

NBC Is the ONLY Legacy Nightly Newscast to Report Bondi Murder Bounty

When SNAP benefits run out, ‘people can die,’ say health experts (Sarah Todd/STAT)  Tell Chuck Shumer.

Behind the Curtain: The power to do almost anything (Axios)  It always frightens the Chattering Class when Trump acts like a Democrat.

The Coming Election Mayhem (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)

Doctor Identifies Possible Reasons for Trump’s Secret MRI (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  It wasn’t secret. If it were secret, you wouldn’t know about it.

Hegseth Is Waging War Against the Laws of War (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)

President for Life … in the normal course of history, the president of the United States … (J. Michael Luttig/The Atlantic)

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

The Hunger Games Begin (Paul Krugman)  All because of Democrats and their thirst for power.

These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom (Popular Information)

Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want (David Dayen/American Prospect)  More mind-reading in service to the Narrative.

Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Trump threatens to send ‘more than National Guard’ to US cities (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

Calling This Court “Supreme” Is Obeying in Advance (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)  Yeah. That’s what the name means. Got it in one. Good job.

The DOJ’s “election monitoring” is really voter suppression (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Yeah–it suppresses dead voters, non-citizen voters, fraudulent voters….

CNN Fearmonger’s Trump’s “Despot” Talk Of Third Term Is “A Serious Threat”

Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine (Reuters)  The envy is strong in this one….

Major Labor Unions Urge Senate Dems to End Shutdown

New Yorker: Trump Tore Down East Wing to Display Arbitrary Power over Presidency

The Administration’s Ghastly Game Plan for Savaging Abrego Garcia (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Who is still an illegal immigrant and ipso facto a felon.

Trump, 79, Wanders Off While Meeting Japanese Prime Minister (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic) Apparently he forgot to check in with The New Republic. A serious fault.

MSNBC hosts criticize owner Comcast for donating to Trump ballroom (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)

Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Suspending November SNAP Benefits (State of California)  If they don’t have an appropriattion, then there’s no money to pay.

Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan (Daniel Dale/CNN)

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This economy is one of the toughest job markets for entry-level positions, and now, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is advancing new tax hikes in his budget that will make it even more difficult for Gen Z workers to build lives and careers in the city.

As he unveiled his third budget last week, Mayor Johnson took to a familiar tactic to fill a $1.15 billion budget shortfall: new taxes, higher fees.

The target of his worst tax hikes this time is the business community—and if history is any indicator, results are poised to be disastrous. Johnson announced he’d revive the city’s long-defunct business “head tax,” charging businesses with over 100 employees—such as McDonald’s, United, and other large firms—a $21 per employee per month fee.

Second-tier cities, including Raleigh, Baltimore, and our neighbor Milwaukee, have positioned themselves as technology hubs and are courting businesses and attracting young workers with affordable cost-of-living and well-paying positions.

Time to leave.

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One of America’s most influential economists finally had the moxie to admit what any American with half a brain could see about the Trump tariffs: The elitist, stuck-up doom prophets were all wrong.

Wharton School Professor of Practice Mohamed El-Erian joined the October 27 edition of Fox News’s America Reports to discuss President Donald Trump’s ongoing tariff negotiations with communist China. “What the U.S. has managed to achieve on tariffs was something most economists didn’t think was going to happen,” El-Erian told co-anchor Sandra Smith.

We thought there would be massive retaliation against the U.S. — there hasn’t been. Europe, the U.K., a number of Asian countries have all signed framework agreements. The only outstanding ones are India, Canada and China and there’s clear progress on China,” El-Erian continued.

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The Democrats appear to be a never-ending source of pitiable entertainment these days. Last week, it was the pathetic “No Kings” (what some mischievous wag called “No Brains”) rallies across the country. Those 2,700 anti-Trump therapy sessions for aging, anencephalic boomers were funded to the tune of $294 million by such public-spirited individuals and entities as Arabella Advisors, the Tides Foundation, George Soros, and Warren Buffett. Such streams of cash funneled millions through dozens of left-leaning entities, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Sierra Club Foundation, the Democracy Forward Foundation, and other havens for the perpetually aggrieved.

It was a noisy but preposterous temper tantrum, full of sound and fury, signifying stupidity. The union of Kumbayah gestures with rage-filled pantomimes was both inadvertently comic and repellent, the odor of rotting pseudo-idealism wafting over the proceedings everywhere.

The insurmountable problem all of those protestors faced was the incontrovertible fact that Donald Trump is not a king. He is a duly elected president who handily won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. He campaigned precisely on the issues that the unhappy pot-bangers and sign-wavers bewailed: closing the border, expelling illegal migrants, dismantling the woke DEI apparat in academia and the federal government, and resuscitating and Americanizing the U.S. economy.

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The GOP-led House Oversight Committee on Tuesday called on the Justice Department to investigate every executive action taken during the Biden administration.

The committee said it found evidence that some of former President Joe Biden’s orders and clemency decisions may have been issued without his personal approval.

In a 91-page report released early Tuesday, the committee said its investigation found no record that Biden authorized several executive actions, including presidential pardons and commutations.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called on Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to account for what the Vermont independent said were hundreds of thousands of potential lost jobs due to automation.

Bezos doesn’t answer to you, Bernie, unless you’re a stockholder–and then, not directly. It’s his company, not yours.

“If Amazon succeeds on its massive automation plan, it will have a profound impact on blue-collar workers throughout America and will likely be used as a model by large corporations throughout America,” Sanders wrote in a letter to Bezos, which was exclusively reviewed by Reuters.

Yup. New technology is like that. Machine tools eliminated a lot of jobs for blue-collar workers. We survived and prospered.

Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, was referring to a New York Times article published earlier this month that cited documents and interviews showing that Amazon executives believe 500,000 jobs could be cut over time by replacing warehouse workers with robots. Amazon employs 1.55 million people, the majority of whom are hourly workers.

That’s socialism for you, standing in the way of progress.

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The government announced Monday that it is closing the border with Belarus after repeat incursions into Lithuanian and European Union airspace of highly menacing smuggler balloons out of Belarus.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien? announced, “Lithuania plans to close its border with Belarus in response to repeated incursions by balloons carrying contraband, but certain exemptions will apply.”

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Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”.

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A bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, toppled and burned by demonstrators in 2020 protests, has been reinstalled in Judiciary Square.

Crews placed the statue Saturday, surrounded by fencing and signs reading “Historic preservation work in progress,” Channel 4 in D.C. reported.

The Department of the Interior said the restoration follows President Donald Trump’s directives on restoring historic monuments, citing compliance with federal preservation law and executive orders promoting the beautification of the nation’s capital.

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The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events, with brief clips of the Challenger shuttle disaster, the 9-11 attacks, and interviews with figures like Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton….and PLO terrorist Yassir Arafat?

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A Dallas-based doctor has surrendered her medical license following a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2024, accusing her of illegally prescribing gender transition drugs to minors.

Paxton announced on Oct. 24 that Dr. May C. Lau has given up her state medical license but that the legal case over her alleged violation of Texas’s ban on gender transition treatment for minors is still ongoing.

“May Lau has done untold damage to children, both physically and psychologically, and the surrendering of her Texas medical license is a major victory for our state,” Paxton said in a statement.