Amerika

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• US accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda
  

  The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence.

  U.S. officials previously accused Putin of planning a “false-flag” operation to create a pretext for a new invasion of Ukraine and detailed what they believe are final-stage Russian preparations for an assault.

  Putin is going to do what he did last time: sponsor local revolutionaries who magically want union with Mother Russia. All the “invasion” talk is bluff; he is going to stick his tanks on the border so that NATO/US tanks do not show up to interrupt the revolution when the Ukranians find themselves outmatched by Russian trained and equipped revolutionaries. How do we know that this is true? The Communists did this for nearly a century, including in Vietnam, to great effect; the Western “color revolutions” are merely the CIA adapting this technique.

  In the meantime, domestic Communist minority [[[ Joe Biden ]]] has shown the two techniques the Left will use to eliminate dissent: accuse it of being White Nationalist, and/or accuse it of being Russian propaganda, despite Russians not being White and being allied with China, which is how we know that they are bad actors just like the American government.

• Most Americans Don’t See Brighter Future for Children
  

  Forty-five percent (45%) think the economy will be weaker in a year, and another 16% expect the economy to be about the same. Ten percent (10%) are not sure. These findings are essentially unchanged from September.

  We all know, now, what Leftism means: sacrifice reality in order to make symbols and signals of human cooperation in order to keep the group together so that it can be controlled. This is the problem with permanent civilization that humanity is trying to solve in this ten-thousand-year period. If we fix it, we go to the stars; if we do not, we devolve into hominids.

• Biden tells National Archives to hand over Trump White House visitor logs to Jan. 6 committee
  

  White House counsel Dana Remus said in a letter to National Archivist David Ferriero on Tuesday that the president rejects Trump’s claim that the visitor logs from his time in office are subject to executive privilege.

  Biden arrogates more power — traditionally the domain of the courts — to the executive, forgetting how this could bite him in the ass later. Most likely, Biden will have followed the Clinton formula and made sure that he does none of his important meetings at the White House. The Clintons innovated the idea that if you systematically erase, obfuscate, and prevent evidence, you will never face legal consequences. They learned this from Tammany Hall and the Pendergast Machine.

  In other news, they will find nothing in these visitor logs. Trump played up the drama in order to distract from what he is actually doing, which is building the case that was described in our election 2020 coverage, namely militarizing the voters, discrediting the government, and preparing for a military or legal takeover once collusion with China is proven. Hillary, like all narcissistic sociopaths, thinks she can talk her way out of this one.

  The average very dangerous criminal when caught will try to rationalize his way out of trouble like a lawyer. He never knew the murdered woman. Oh, his prints are in her apartment? Well, maybe they were good friends. His semen was found on her corpse? They had consensual sex a few hours earlier. There is video of him beating her to death taken through a window? Well, they were good friends, had consensual sex, and then she slapped him, so he had to defend himself by beating her to death. They always seem surprised when they get convicted, as if their gods turned out to simply be clay idols after all.

• You need a social media cleanse — and we’re here to help
  

  But here’s the rub. It seems while we’re generally concerned about technology having a negative impact on our well-being, this doesn’t translate to behavior change on an individual level.

  This is the externalization/rationalization factor of democracy: we believe in “we,” or government as well as society in general, doing things through fiat, like banning certain technologies or regulating them to make them safe. Almost no one believes in individual change because the system has made us dependent upon it, so we have to do what others do in order to fit in and not be excluded from social fear. This is Crowdism in the wild, and it is the ten-thousand-year problem that we are trying to overcome, since Crowdism leads to a tyrannical mindset and eventually, an individualistic third world subsistence-level sprawl ruled over by Tammany Hall-style mafiosi.

• Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?
  

  To their dismay, researchers are discovering that not everything they detect underground is exotic and new. Some noises are disturbingly familiar. When Maeder listens underground in his home country of Switzerland, “I can hear construction sites and highways that are far away. Even airplanes.”

  Humans treat everything like another human. Therefore, when they think about noises, they think about one guy making one really bad noise. They forget that the real question is what happens when you have eight billion people all making some noise, and how loud that accumulation of sound becomes, and how inescapable it is.

• Author and commentator P.J. O’Rourke dead at 74
  

  P.J. O’Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned 1960s irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, has died at age 74.

  His writing style suggested a cross between the hedonism of Hunter S. Thompson and the patrician mockery of Tom Wolfe. Self-importance was a reliable target. But his greatest disdain was often for the government — not just a specific administration, but government itself and what he called “the silken threads of entitlement spending.”

  “People are flocking to the seat of government power. One would say ‘dogs returning to their vomit’ except that’s too hard on dogs. Too hard on people, also,” he wrote. “They come to Washington because they have no choice — diligent working breeds compelled to eat their regurgitated tax dollars.”

  Despite his non-White origins, O’Rourke was able to credibly see how government and civil rights had become a parasite on normal life, describing the pathology of the dependents as the core of liberalization:

  As he wrote in another of his books, Give War a Chance (1992): “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child—miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”

  Those brats, O’Rourke continued, would grow up to be even more of a menace: “There is nothing more mealy-mouthed, bullying, irresponsible and victimized than a well-coddled self, especially if it belongs to a liberal.”

  When you create a permanent civilization, people switch dependency from nature to society. When that civilization grows prosperous, the lower classes revolt, and you get the individualism-to-egalitarianism pipeline that occurred during The Enlightenment.™ At that point, people become dependents of government, and insist on more liberalization because their only other option is to admit that their civilization is decaying and natural selection (including social hierarchy) needs to return.

• ‘I knew something was wrong’: first witness in Post Office hearing breaks down
  

  Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 post office operators were prosecuted based on information from the Horizon IT system, which was installed and maintained by Fujitsu.

  In December 2019 a high court judge ruled that Horizon’s system contained a number of “bugs, errors and defects” and there was a “material risk” that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by the system.

  Algorithms are only as good as the people who develop them, and since we develop software by committee, you are almost guaranteed to have paradoxical objectives and therefore see GIGO in real time.

• Christians suggest proposed UK speech law could make Christian teachings illegal
  

  The Christian Institute noted that the definition of “harmful” will be decided by the government, regulators, and Big Tech companies.

  The organization feels that the bill does not protect free speech and “could have unintended consequences” like the censorship of Christian teachings on issues such as marriage, sexuality, and gender.

  Individualism absorbs and consumes everything else. Whatever the individual wants, he gets, even if it is highly destructive. Any assertion of outside order — natural law, logic, morality, biology, genetics, culture — must be removed as part of the liberalization that accommodates the universal idealized average individual.

• Military coup fear mounts
  

  “Every African leader in the assembly has condemned unequivocally… the wave of unconstitutional changes of government,” Bankole Adeoye, head of the AU’s Peace and Security Council, told journalists, “Do your research: At no time in the history of the AU have we had four countries in one calendar year, in 12 months, been suspended.”

  Colonialism assumed that Christian/Enlightenment™ values and systems would work for the rest of the world, which they did not, and even that they worked for Europe, which they did not. Europe’s greatness came from its DNA: the Cro-Magnids who survived the tough cold, refined themselves through millennia of nomadic living, and sharpened their skills through centuries of warfare, hunting, and intellectual pursuits. They started out so much ahead as a result that they could only fail, and so they did as soon as their civilizations got too big and piled up a bunch of waste people, something the nomads had avoided by leaving these people behind. Now as republics fail across the globe, we are all recalculating, waiting to see what comes next, figuring it is more likely a reversion to the norm (tribalism, aristocracy, ethnat, capitalism, nature-religion) than any of the modern stuff kicked off by Christianity, The Enlightenment,™ and altruism.

• Does Our Language Use Reflect Why We’re in Decline?
  

  While examples of journalistic technical ineptitude were relatively rare many decades ago, they’re seen continually now. The worst case was a 2010 Channel 13 Action News (ABC) article that, as I wrote at the time, was “plagiarism proof” and “so bad that it’s impossible to print all the errors contained therein without running afoul of Fair Use Doctrine.”

  “It brings to mind that oft-heard journalistic advice that, put loosely, instructs one to write at an eighth-grade level,” I also quipped. “Only, I didn’t know it referred to the eighth grade in a non-English-speaking country — when writing in English.”

  (The piece smacked of pidgin English.)

  Adopt diversity, abolish your culture, including your language. Then, once your journalists become people who reprint what they read on press releases, the quality people leave that field and only the stooges remain. We have covered pidgin English and its connection to the culture-loss of diversity before, as well as inversion of language by elimination of terms that are not complimentary to the Leftist narrative.

• Google’s ‘Inclusive Language’ Police
  

  Google has created guidelines for “inclusive” language in software and documentation that describe how software should reflect the hypersensitive feelings of programmers who are immersed in woke culture and fixated on victimhood and offense. Apparently these guidelines will be enforced in the future in all new open-source projects, and the company will scrub earlier versions as well.

  We continue the whack-a-mole race to the bottom death spiral, attempting to purge anything that offends the anti-culture created by diversity and the “woke progressive” egalitarian altruistic narcissism which supports it, not realizing that in the end we will simply erase all connection to reality and meaning. They think this means they rule forever; we know that this means their doom, since once they do away with reality, they also do away with the need for their “solutions.” Just live in the consumer void, buying garbage and selling landfill, while dreaming thoughts of the beautiful Self in an idealized individual.

• Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem
  

  They are part of an elite, previously unreported class of users that produce more likes, shares, reactions, comments, and posts than 99 percent of Facebook users in America.

  They’re superusers. And because Facebook’s algorithm rewards engagement, these superusers have enormous influence over which posts are seen first in other users’ feeds, and which are never seen at all.

  No, these are influencers: people who validate the biases that the Crowd needs in order to keep believing itself to be good. If you look at what people are saying, come up with a spicy take on it, and repeat it to the herd, you get popularity points and therefore can shill, grift, and beg your brand across the internet. This upsets Old Media because influencers have borrowed the Old Media model but do it for free with less overhead, which means that social media is replacing Old Media, effectively erasing the now-failed notion of journalistic “objectivity” (the term is in scare quotation marks because your writer here does not believe in the false dichotomy of subjective/objective, but objectivity as an attribute of journalism is just as nonsense as free will, much as Hunter S. Thompson reported).

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• DNA from rape kits used to identify crime suspects in San Francisco, investigation finds
  

  The San Francisco Police Department includes DNA collected from rape kits in the database it uses to identify crime suspects, District Attorney Chesa Boudin said on Monday. The practice likely is illegal under the California Constitution, Boudin told The Washington Post.

  The district attorney’s office discovered the practice when reviewing the case of a woman arrested for property crime. She was identified as a suspect based on a DNA sample collected during a rape investigation in 2016. Searches that include genetic information from rape investigations are done regularly, the crime lab confirmed to Boudin.

  I am with the Communist here: DNA collected from the victim of one crime was used to identify the perpetrator of another. We do not want government having this power, but to counter that, we need to allow societies to exile disaster garbage people like this larcenous rape victim.

  On the flip side, it makes sense to look into the descendants of killers because nature is more powerful than nurture:

  Weger, who is soon to be paroled murderer Chester Weger’s son, has three prior felony convictions in La Salle County, the most serious being predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. He’s actually awaiting a bench trial for being a sexual predator in a public park.

  Chester Weger had a checkered past and circumstantial links to the crime:

  Warren discovered that the string used to bind the victims was identical to string found in the lodge’s kitchen. This prompted law enforcement to give Weger a second polygraph test, which he failed miserably. At the same time, Warren and company learned that their suspect had been accused of raping an 8-year-old girl when he was 12. More troubling still, a recent sexual assault had taken place in September 1959, and that victim and her boyfriend identified Weger as the culprit. Along with Weger’s scratched-up face, this circumstantial evidence made Weger look like the potential fiend, and according to author Steve Stout, when confronted with it, Weger’s mother told her son to tell the truth, and he did, just like in “an old Cagney movie.”

  We get a little more detail from his appeal:

  There have been several incidents of a criminal nature in his background. Mr. Weger’s juvenile record [redacted for confidentiality]. In September 1959, Mr. Weger was identified in a line-up as the person that raped a 17-year-old girl and robbed an 18-year-old male. Although Mr. Weger was identified, he was never prosecuted, reportedly because the State failed to prosecute the case in a timely manner. In another incident in 1959, Mr. Weger was identified as the assailant in an attack in which two women, together with their children, were assaulted; during that attack, the purse of one of the women was also taken. Mr. Weger was identified in a line-up in this case as well, but he was not charged.

  If the father was responsible for at least two rapes before a possible rape and murder for which he was convicted, it sure is coincidental that the son also committed similar crimes. Either that, or nature really is much greater than nurture, in contradiction to egalitarianism as a theory.

• Google Search Is Dying
  

  It is obvious that serving ads creates misaligned incentives for search engines. The founders of Google pointed this out themselves when they were just getting started.

  Unions killed American manufacturing and so politicians invented the “service economy” as a new way of maintaining dominance over the global marketplace, but this illusion could only be maintained through fake numbers based on a relatively small group. Finally enough voices are raising to tear down this false industry and replace it with something actually productive, which is going to require tackling the horrors of unions.

• Prince Andrew settles Virginia Giuffre sexual assault case in US
  

  The out-of-court settlement in the US civil case means Prince Andrew makes no admission of guilt over claims by Giuffre that he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17, allegations he has repeatedly denied.

  This saves him from having to admit the type of activities in which he was engaged. The Epstein victims were teenage prostitutes whose favors were bought for clothes, luxuries, and expensive vacations with wealthy men. The clients were not pedophiles, per se, but wealthy men who liked teenage girls who were both precocious and promiscuous. When the prostitutes got too old to be cute anymore, they sued for their retirement funds, probably because they all married betas who did not mind kicking around with a semen donor capsule in exchange for the hope of an easy life. The whole thing is broken, but not as evil as the lunatic Right-wing media portrays with its insane religious symbolism; instead, you are just seeing an everyday glimpse of civilization breakdown that is far less extreme than Rotherham and Rochdale:

  Our founder and Chair, Maggie Oliver is best known as the Detective-turned- whistleblower who resigned from Greater Manchester Police in late 2012 in order to expose the now infamous Rochdale Grooming Scandal.

  Maggie resigned from Greater Manchester Police in late 2012 to expose publicly the failures of the authorities to prosecute serial rapists and protect vulnerable children from horrific sexual abuse. She has continued to fight for justice for the survivors and for the desperately needed changes to our Criminal Justice system.

  Before you go down the Epstein rabbit trail, consider this: the bigger child abuse story is that diversity is constant race war, therefore minorities are abusing your children in order to subjugate your group, simply because our Democrats and other Leftists brought foreigners here to do exactly that: steal the vote, humiliate and dominate the former majority, and place Leftists into permanent sinecures of power.

• Windows 11 Finally Adds Android Apps
  

  “These apps feel like a part of Windows, integrating naturally with Windows input and windowing experiences, like Snap layouts,” Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay said in a statement.

  H-1B MSFT wants to turn Windows into the same idiotic experience that mobile computing is so that they can capture the idiot audience worldwide. They are on track to switch over to Linux running a Windows compatibility mode in the next decade, then simply let the cash roll in as they ship constant inconsequential upgrades. This will fail, like all third world things, but they think it is just brilliant right now.

• US nuclear submarine engineer pleads guilty to trying to sell US secrets to a foreign power
  

  The identity of the foreign power has never been revealed, although it is widely speculated to have been France. Investigators say the Toebbes contacted a friendly foreign power, rather than an adversary, with the information.

  Diana Toebbe said her husband only wanted to flee the country because she hated Donald Trump, a court has been told.

  One wonders what their Reddit usernames were.

• How SoftBank’s costly bet on the “Internet of things” backfired at Arm
  

  But the concept of connecting billions of everyday and industrial devices to the Internet has been much slower than anticipated to materialize.

  Son’s drive to capture the chip design market for the Internet of things (IoT) was the first bet he made on Arm that has not paid off. The second was a $66 billion sale of the company to Nvidia that unraveled last week.

  None of the people in power in Silicon Valley have any idea what makes their products valuable because all of their numbers are fake and based on a statistical sampling that does not represent normal people. Remember Software-as-a-Service? Watch cloud computing jump in this heap as well as soon as normal people realize that they do not need rapid scaling, nor do cloud services scale well until you spend as much money as you would have to rent a server capable of handling the load in the first place.

• The conservative case for nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court
  

  Had President Trump, for example, filled one of his three vacant Court seats with a Black woman – one whose approach to the U.S. Constitution was similar to that of Justice Clarence Thomas and the other originalists – conservatives would have praised the decision.

  Maybe in 2008 the cucks in power at that time would have done so. Conservatives today have zero interest in preserving affirmative action or even diversity. We have seen our future under diversity and realize that it is horrible.

• No more ‘Sir’ and ‘Miss’ as education charity calls for children to have to use gender-free terms like ‘Teacher’
  

  During her webinar with teaching staff, Dr Barnes recommended dropping words such as ‘boy’, ‘girl’, ‘son’ and ‘mother’ and replacing them with gender-neutral phrases, The Telegraph reports.

  Maybe if we hack down our language to the point where we call everyone “unit” and use the pronouns “they/them,” we can all feel equal enough to stop secretly fearing that we are observing egalitarianism destroy us all. Just kidding: the sinking feeling never stops (unless you get off the ride).

• H.Res.919 – Declaring unconditional war on racism and invidious discrimination and providing for the establishment of a Cabinet-level Department of Reconciliation charged with eliminating racism and invidious discrimination.
  

  Declaring unconditional war on racism and invidious discrimination and providing for the establishment of a Cabinet-level Department of Reconciliation charged with eliminating racism and invidious discrimination.

  Whereas this resolution is presented in the spirit of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who—on January 8, 1964, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, during a time of great turmoil—proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America … Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.”;

  LBJ — who lost the war in Vietnam and probably killed Kennedy, not that shooting Irish people should be illegal — was one of the most corrupt bunglers ever to grace the White House. The definitive hair-raising history of his political career can be found in The Path to Power which shows how he, like the Clintons, ran his own political machine on the back of minority votes. Then we should look at the inspiration behind the Department of Reconciliation:

  Those negotiating for the apartheid regime insisted that a guarantee of general amnesty be written into the interim constitution. Without it, it is unlikely that the apartheid government would have given up power. The strength of the amnesty deal was that it was part of a package of initiatives contained in the interim constitution that set the country on the road to becoming a democratic, constitutional state.

  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was born of a spirit of public participation, as the new government solicited the opinions of South Africans and the international community regarding the issue of granting amnesty as well as the issue of accountability in respect to past violations and reparations for victims.

  The South African TRC represented a major departure from the approach taken at the Nürnberg trials. It was hailed as an innovative model for building peace and justice and for holding accountable those guilty of human rights violations. At the same time, it laid the foundation for building reconciliation among all South Africans.

  Every time diversity is tried, the foreign groups end up claiming that they need protection against the majority, which is “discriminating” against them. In reality the groups are incompatible and cannot share a society. In the name of equality, the soft-hearted among the majority make special exceptions for the minority, at which point they use that as a weapon of war and conquest. Diversity only ends in graveyards and failed third world civilizations. There is no other possible outcome.

• The great awakening
  

  Across the political spectrum, people who had been struggling so hard to keep their businesses open and their children in school or who dared to question the usage of masks or the authority of the government were called racists, fascists, grandma-killers, insurrectionists, and white supremacists.

  First we had the Dark Enlightenment, and now we have the Great Awakening, in both of which we reject the idea of The Enlightenment™: that the individual is more important than natural, social, and divine order (all three are known collectively when overlapping as “tradition”). Even more, we are seeing how diversity and civil rights have been used as weapons against us, therefore before we can start rebuilding the West, we must end diversity through repatriation of everyone but Western Europeans (the Asians/Hispanics, Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Mediterraneans/Semites/Berbers, Africans, and especially the Irish must go).

• Disney is developing planned communities for fans who never want to leave its clutches
  

  “Storyliving by Disney” will operate as part of the company’s theme parks division, developing a series of master-planned communities for residential living, designed by Disney’s creative staff and offering the same pampered tranquility found in its resorts.

  How Clown World (modernity: individualism, equality, globalism/consumerism, diversity, market socialism) ends: the people with money live in fantasy worlds, and everyone else dies from tumors in the wasteland. They designed my vision of Hell and are going to sell it to morons.

• Government will soon provide 10GB of free data to every household
  

  According to Ntshavheni, allocation of mobile data will be similar to the allocation of basic municipal water and electricity services.

  Currently, indigent households qualify for a free 6,000 litres of water, free 50kWh of electricity, and free sewerage and sanitation.

  Third world governments deny quality. That is, they can write numbers on paper, but those things have qualities. For example, what is a free data plan if the network is down most of the time? Technically, you have received the service, although it is of low quality. What if the water is not actually clean, or arrives far from your home? Technically you received it. The trash trucks come once a week and the sewers are blocked until it rains when they overflow. Low quality services however qualify, and low-IQ voters demand more of them, which keeps the tyrants in power. This is the root of Communism: a typical Asiatic-style third world control system.

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• Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission electricity systems
  

  “Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are great for reducing carbon-emissions,” Duan said. “However, the wind and sun have natural variation in their availability from day to day, as well as across geographic regions, and this creates complications for total emissions reduction.”

  It took us spending a few trillion on this problem, creating countless clever millionaires who figured out how to work the system like good meritocracy winners, to overcome our fear of another Chernobyl, Fukushima, or Harrisburg. In the meantime, the solution of ending subsidies and unions so that we can localize production and reduce population naturally seems to have occurred to No One.

• Covid data will not be published over concerns it’s misrepresented by anti-vaxxers
  

  Officials said two issues relating to the unvaccinated population and testing habits meant the data was no longer robust and open for misinterpretation without context.

  Translation: the numbers are too low.

  “The case rates, hospitalisation rates, the death rates are very simple statistics, whereas for the vaccine effectiveness studies we use modelling, we compare people who have tested negative to those who have tested positive and match them on their underlining co-morbidities.

  Translation: we cherry-pick the data that goes into the models.

  This is what narrative collapse looks like. The bureaucrats are doing their best to protect their jobs. In the future, it seems to me that we should have a simple metric for who to hire and fire: did this person participate in the Great COVID-19 Hoax of 2020-2022 or not?

• From Canada to Brazil, rich right-wing elites are astroturfing ‘trucker’ protests
  

  Other protesters were seen with anti-Semitic signs blaming Jews for the crisis.

  In my view, there is something biologically wrong with Leftists (and some other groups) that means they cannot conceptualize things beyond face value. They can handle conversations, experts, images, and so forth, but have no patience or ability to analyze beyond the categories used in conversation and emotions. What are these “anti-Semitic signs”? Since Leftists have asserted that saying “I oppose globalism” is “anti-Semitic,” that technically qualifies within the category. Then there is the false equivalence of their funding data: some rich people gave a few thousand to a trucker rally, therefore they have sponsored it, therefore they created (“astroturfing”) it. It is an interesting glimpse into the one-dimensional Leftist mind.

• Have Latinos Really Moved Toward The Republican Party?
  

  56 percent of Hispanic Americans identified as Democrats or as independents who leaned toward the Democratic Party, while 26 percent identified as Republican or as leaning toward the GOP. Those figures represent very little change from what Gallup found in 2020 and, as the chart below shows, largely fall in line with Hispanic party-identification data over the past decade.

  No diversity group supports the pro-majority party, interests, or population. Jews, with 25% of them voting Republican, are actually more conservative than all of the third world and Asian groups, and most likely more conservative than Irish, Italian, and Slavic groups, although it is hard to get data on those.

• Study reveals likely link between mitochondrial dysfunction and age-dependent cognitive disorders
  

  In a prior study, a team of scientists found that oxidation levels were substantially higher in older rats with vitamin E deficiency than in younger rats. Furthermore, ROS production via mitochondrial oxidation could damage brain cells, implying a strong link between AD and mitochondrial dysfunction.

  The meat-based diet seems superior to the carb-based one on which permanent agricultural societies depend.

• Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled islands
  

  The Mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands, an Indian Ocean archipelago controlled by Britain but claimed by Mauritius.

  Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth described it as an “historic moment”, saying it was time for the UK to cede control.

  Three UN bodies have ruled that the archipelago – more than 5,000 miles away from the UK – is part of Britain’s old empire and should be handed to Mauritius.

  When Western wealth goes away, Chinese wealth goes away, and the third world goes back to being valueless. This is not bad for them per se but it means a reduction in their power and consequently, that they will be ruled by whatever local empires see fit to dominate them. It turns out that colonialism, rather than oppression, served as a hegemony which kept oppression at bay. Right now, since the third world has had no new news for centuries but corruption and crime, the third world finds “meaning” in being oppressed, just like Jews did after the Holocaust, but scapegoat-and-talisman thinking like this removes agency from the group. They have removed any sense of themselves except opposition to the West, so as the West weakens the opportunistic among them exploit a feeling of power in smashing the oppressor, but in the long term, when that goes away, they will fall into a void of themselves. Once democracy finishes off the West, humans will go back to being hominids, and shortly after that, will find ourselves to be living as prey animals again.

• Church of England school warned SIX-year-old boy’s Christian parents that he could be considered ‘transphobic’ after he was ‘confused by a boy wearing a dress’
  

  Primary school staff on the Isle of Wight warned a six-year-old boy’s parents that he might be deemed ‘transphobic’ if he were to question another pupil wearing a dress.

  Sally and Nigel Rowe, whose sons attended a Church of England school, say they received a letter from the headteacher and chair of governors which declared pupils could be seen as transphobic if they showed ‘an inability to believe a transgender person is actually a “real” female or male.’

  Political correctness is not here to take your “freedom.” It is here to smash down any realism that might still exist. If they can get you to participate in their schizophrenic fantasy, where reality both exists and also simultaneously is objectively and absolutely their wishful thinking where humans not nature rule the patterns of reality, they control you. If they control you, they can use you to further remove other realism. Then they can manipulate people directly with symbols, usually fantasy-good and fantasy-bad in opposition, and rule in perpetuity, or so they think. In reality, every time they manage instead simply to destroy society and to rule over ashes, subsistence poverty, incompetence, and insanity.

• Memory-holing is a censor’s dream
  

  As physical video formats become the exclusive preserve of eccentric collectors and boomer technophobes, an increasing number of films and series will exist only on digital platforms. The demise of print newspapers poses a similar danger. Last year, National Review reported, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was permitted to make substantial changes to a USA Today op-ed she’d written, and it took almost two weeks for the publication to acknowledge any changes had been made.

  If stealth editing and memory-holing become acceptable tactics for the left in our present culture war, a future reactionary regime might feel equally comfortable blotting out content it deems obscene, blasphemous, or unpatriotic. Combine this censorious attitude with the alterability of digital media, and you’ve got a scenario of which propagandists in past eras could only have dreamed.

  If anything, it’s probably easier to seamlessly alter a digital file than it is to add fig leaves to a fresco without anyone being the wiser.

  Technology is cumulative, which means that primitive technologies — plain old copper telephone lines, printed text, recorded music — have fewer dependencies than more complicated methods. Any dependency can be exploited and, since that leaves no trace, more advanced technologies serve as an ideal of the totalitarian nanny state: a panopticon which can seamlessly edit history.

• Tunisian influencers film their illegal immigration to Europe on a packed dinghy – then post boasting images of their spending sprees
  

  The two women have sparked controversy with their posts at the time of their crossings in November and December — with Tunisians back home criticising them for ‘normalising’ a journey that leaves thousands dead each year.

  This has nothing to do with poverty. It has everything to do with ressentiment and hubris, two related pathologies which lead to scapegoating your superiors for your own problems and mistakenly thinking that you are solving your problems by doing harm to them. Jews blaming Nazis, Nazis blaming Jews, poors blaming the Rich, egalitarians blaming the Aristocrats, Christians blaming Satan, Atheists blaming Christianity… it is all projection and Dunning-Kruger megalomania, all the way down.

• Judge denies Ian Cranston release on bail; dramatic Barry Washington shooting video played in court
  

  Defense lawyer Kevin Sali said in his motion for bail that the evidence, including witness statements and videos from downtown security cameras – as well as a cellphone video taken by Cranston’s fiancée –show prosecutors don’t have a strong case and that Cranston acted in self-defense after being hit in the face twice by Washington.

  Deputy district Attorney J. Michael Swart claimed in his court filing in response that the video evidence showed Cranston waited 26 seconds “with his handgun at his side for the right opportunity to take his vengeance on Washington,” then 17 seconds to walk to and lean over Washington before eventually rendering aid.

  A White-on-Black killing, must be spicy. Let us look further into the details of the case:

  Sali said Washington, who also was at the bar, had been “behaving erratically and aggressively,” and that he was intoxicated, with a blood-alcohol level later measured at 0.195%.

  He said Washington made obscene comments and gestures to a group of three police officers about a half-hour before he expressed an interest in Cranston’s fiancée, who told him they were engaged, showed him her ring — and that he then gave her a brief hug.

  Minutes later, after they all had left the bar, Sali said Washington again verbally propositioned Cranston’s fiancée, and she again declined, at which point the group asked Washington to leave them alone, but he “continued to press the issue” with her.

  Shortly after midnight, Sali said, “Washington suddenly and without any provocation attacked Cranston … with two powerful, closed-fist blows to the head,” causing a head injury. The lawyer said “Washington raised his arm and made a series of threatening gestures toward him,” by which time Cranston – who had a concealed handgun license – was holding his gun, and displayed it to Washington to “deter … the assault.”

  But the threats continued, he claimed, and Washington “lunged towards (Cranston’s friend) and punched him in the face.”

  “Then, Washington turned at and squared toward Cranston, who was standing only a few feet away, with his handgun still drawn and visible,” the motion states. “It was at this point that Cranston finally fired a single shot at Washington. The round struck Washington in his midsection, stopping the assault.”

  The optics rule. They are terrified of prosecuting Black criminals because it looks bad to all the luvvies out there who want to believe the simplistic narrative of “racism,” and they are equally terrified of not prosecuting a White guy who smoked a Black guy for being drunk and dangerous. And yet, when this one goes down, we will have another Kyle Rittenhouse or Darren Wilson situation, no matter how much they want to Derek Chauvin or Ahmaud Arbery this one.

• Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines
  

  Overall, 29% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal of confidence in medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public, down from 40% who said this in November 2020. Similarly, the share with a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests is down by 10 percentage points (from 39% to 29%), according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

  People have lost faith in everything associated with the Regime: scientists, media, teachers, academics, doctors, police, Leftists/Communists, and diversity.

• Podcasts Are No Longer Private Conversations
  

  Lately Rogan has been called upon to film a couple of (extremely close-cropped) apologies for using racial slurs in old episodes of his show and spewing nonsense about COVID-19 vaccines in more recent ones. But to identify and fully catalog every one of the offensive things he’s said, you would have to listen to at least 4,000 hours of tape—about six months of nonstop Rogan.

  Media Matters for America, a left-leaning nonprofit and watchdog group, employs the researcher Alex Paterson to listen to The Joe Rogan Experience as one of his core responsibilities. At the end of 2021, Paterson filed a report on more than 350 hours of tape—less than 10 percent of Rogan’s mammoth oeuvre. He made bulleted lists of suspect statements about COVID-19 and anti-trans rhetoric, and put other comments in a catchall category of “right-wing misinformation and bigotry.”

  In the beginning, podcast money was exchanging hands person-to-person, through monthly fees from listeners via platforms like Patreon; the big-money “podcast wars” are just a few years old, and truly enormous exclusive deals like Rogan’s with Spotify are still in a trial phase. But as the business grows up, and as more reporters or agitators invest the time in poring over all this content, the days of podcasting without consequences will be numbered.

  The Left now dogwhistles for censorship everywhere because they know that if they do not enforce political correctness everywhere, minds will start to defect from the Narrative.

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• How BlackRock Made ESG the Hottest Ticket on Wall Street
  

  Almost two years have passed since Larry Fink, the chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., declared that a fundamental reshaping of global capitalism was underway and that his firm would help lead it by making it easier to invest in companies with favorable environmental and social practices.

  In short, an apparent BlackRock-led rush of investors into ESG in the past two years has been something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, at least when it comes to the biggest such fund on the planet, a BlackRock exchange-traded fund that trades under the ticker symbol ESGU, according to data from BlackRock and Morningstar.

  Instead, the ratings primarily are designed to measure the opposite: the potential harm government regulations and other factors might cause to the companies’ bottom line, especially when it relates to addressing climate change.

  Translation: the citizens of Global Democracy, Inc. (GDI) have now become so deracinated, cultureless, rootless, and individualistic that they care only about status signaling and virtue optics. Consequently, they have created a new trend that seeks to crusade against non-problems (“racism,” climate change, transsexualism) in order to avoid real problems (overpopulation, IQ decline, race war, widespread incompetence and corruption). Government has hopped on board with the voters, busily passing millions of regulations which impose costs on companies, so business has responded by trying to preemptively evade those restrictions by being proactively in compliance.

• Lassa fever: Patient dies at Bedfordshire hospital
  

  All three cases were within the same family and were linked to recent travel to West Africa, said Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA.

  The cases are the first of the disease to be confirmed in the UK in more than a decade.

  NHS East of England has now declared a “regional major incident”.

  Soon a new excuse to wear the masks, get the yearly jab, and be tracked through social credit apps on your smartphones.

• Internal police probe finds beating of a Trump supporter who died ‘objectively reasonable’
  

  The probe was conducted by the Washington, D.C., police force’s Bureau of Internal Affairs and concluded Rosanne Boyland of Kennesaw, Ga., was already unconscious when an officer struck her with a steel baton and a large wooden stick during the chaos that occurred on January 6, 2021, according to a report from the Epoch Times.

  Morris can be seen on bodycam footage picking up either a walking stick or tree branch, raising the object over her head and striking Boyland several times in quick succession before being pulled back by other officers.

  The D.C. medical examiner determined that Boyland died of an accidental overdose of Adderall, an explanation that her friends and family have not accepted.

  [[[ MORRIS ]]]

• He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs
  

  By his count, there are 600 FBI agents who are certified as UCEs (undercover employees). But some of them do the work of “backstopping” agents: creating false credentials and social media profiles for UCEs working in the field. Of the several hundred people who do face-to-face ops, most have only handled a couple of cases as the primary undercover. “There’s maybe 50 in the country who’ve done five or more ops — and then the rare few who’ve done double digits,” says Shawn McAlpin, a prolific UCE who retired to run a cannabis dispensary.

  Scott was in Phoenix to train online coverts when he ran into a compadre from Ohio. He and “Jim,” a veteran cop assigned to Joint Terror, were the Hans and Franz twins of undercover: two hyper-muscled men with full-dress Harleys and enough tats to start a biker gang. Each of them had heard the buzz about the Base and wanted to get a case going fast. So one night, they bought a fifth of their favorite poison and stayed up building Scott an alias. Using fascist pen names, they made his social media a fount of Holocaust slurs. But try as they might, it proved problematic to get booted off Facebook, or “Jewbook,” as young racists like to call it. A screenshot of your ouster is a very useful chip if you’re seeking instant cred with terror groups.

  So Scott took it on himself to just tag the Base directly. He wrote to the web address they posted on Gab, going by WhiteWarrior88. That night, they emailed him a questionnaire. Several days of back-and-forth led to a voice chat with some of the members, including a man calling himself Roman Wolf. Scott was asked about his combat skills and what he was willing to risk for his beliefs. Accelerationists love to boast that they’re leaderless cells, and that their crypto skills shield them from being breached. But it had taken Scott a day to reach the Base online, and a week to speak to their leader directly.

  They are out there. To an FBI or other law enforcement employee, any busted terrorist is as good as any other, so if they can lure you into saying the right things and taking affirmative steps to acquire weapons, explosives, or other tools of the crime, they will send you to jail and get a promotion for it. It is unwise to trust the braggarts, grifters, and influencers of the far-Right because they either take a paycheck or have been investigated by the FBI and are collaborating.

• JP Morgan Chase subpoenaed in 2019 over Hunter Biden’s business deals in China
  

  The order sent by the Department of Justice to JP Morgan Chase bank asked for the records of any international financial transactions for the past five years involving Hunter, his uncle James Biden and former business partners Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin, according to federal documents.

  In the weeks before the election, then-Attorney General William Barr reportedly instructed prosecutors to keep the investigation hush-hush to avoid it becoming a campaign issue. But months earlier, in the summer of 2020, Weiss already had decided to slow-walk the investigation until after the election for similar reasons, according to Politico.

  When the Clintons control the DOJ, no one of importance to them will go to jail. The investigations will serve a dual purpose, both ensuring that the person faces no consequences and giving them evidence of “exoneration,” since they can then claim that an investigation turned up no prosecutable evidence even if the absolute opposite is the case.

• Conflict of Interest: New Washington Post National Editor Recused From FBI Coverage
  

  The Washington Post has recused its new national editor, Matea Gold, from the news organization’s coverage of the FBI and Justice Department over a personal conflict of interest. A month before Gold was promoted, her husband, Jonathan Lenzner, was named FBI chief of staff.

  What a cozy, inbred little circle of northeastern meritocratic “elites” exists in the beltway.

• Inflation Drives Wages Down, Not Up
  

  Wages don’t spiral up during inflation; they spiral down as higher prices eat away paychecks. The dollar amounts on paychecks will rise, but not fast enough for their real value to outpace inflation. The recent stories of wage increases came not long after the government announced prices increased 7% in the past year. A more accurate headline for coverage of Labor’s report last Friday would have been “Real Wages Drop 3%.”

  The circular Ponzi scheme continues: taxes go up, prices go up, voters complain, more benefits are added, stated earnings go up, taxes go up, repeat.

• Go Ahead, Be a Cuck
  

  On Reddit, a subreddit dedicated to Cuckolds and their hotwives—the term given to the women who sleep with other partners at the behest of their primary partner—has 817,000 members. They post graphic photos and details of encounters. They seem to really enjoy it, the same way anyone with a fetish or unique sexual interest enjoys their special thing, whatever it may be.

  Says all we need know about Redditors, to be honest.

• Native American tribes reach major opioid settlement
  

  The tentative deal – with Johnson & Johnson and three major drug distributers – is worth $590m (£436m).

  The companies had been accused of “knowingly pushing addictive drugs into vulnerable communities”.

  Another shakedown.

• Melinda French Gates No Longer Pledges Bulk of Her Wealth to Gates Foundation
  

  In her letter, Ms. French Gates recommitted to giving away the majority of her wealth but didn’t specify that it would go to the Gates Foundation. “I think philanthropy is most effective when it prioritizes flexibility over ideology—and why in my work at the foundation and Pivotal Ventures I’ll continue to seek out new partners, ideas, and perspectives,” she wrote.

  These are not legally-binding acts, nor would giving away 51% of her wealth inconvenience a woman who can make even more wealth by taking the tax deduction from her charitable giving, using it to avoid paying any federal taxes, and reinvesting that money in more stocks, bonds, and partnerships.

• Companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January as omicron slams labor market
  

  Private payrolls fell by 301,000 for the month, well below the Dow Jones estimate for growth of 200,000 and a marked plunge from the downwardly revised 776,000 gain in December. It was the first time ADP reported negative job growth since December 2020.

  The previous year of lockdowns did less damage than one month of the [[[ BIDEN ]]] administration.

• Homeland Security torched for letting migrants use arrest warrants as ID
  

  TSA has argued the arrest warrant, a Form I-200 from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to notify of immigration violations, works because it is a federal form.

  But instead of being used to welcome illegal immigrants through TSA checkpoints, critics believe it should be a deportation trigger. These words are at the top of the form: “Warrant for arrest of alien.”

  It is just comedic travesty at this point.

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• Multiple Public Schools Host ‘Week of Action’ for Black Lives Matter Curriculum, including Disruption of Nuclear Family
  

  “Black Villages is the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other.”

  They finally take the mask off and shout the quiet part out loud: they oppose natural selection, which made the West hyper-competent as everyone else was busy feeding every lazy insane idiot they could find. Prosperous societies die because their parasites eat them up from within.

• Study finds higher risk in families of Black patients with inherited heart muscle disease
  

  Researchers studied the prevalence and risk of familial DCM in Black and white patients and their family members, noting most studies have included only whites even though Blacks with DCM have a higher risk of heart failure-related hospitalization and death. Researchers believe most of idiopathic, or unknown cause, DCM has a genetic basis.

  Diversity may kill you by trying to be color-blind. But if it is not color-blind, the idea of diversity having any value goes out the window.

• Catholic Charity Admits Receiving Money From Biden Administration to Traffic Illegals Across U.S.
  

  Pimentel admitted that her organization has even bought plane rides for illegal aliens to help them spread across the country, further contributing to the demographic demise of America.

  American Catholics are mostly [[[ IRISH ]]] and {{{ ITALIAN }}}. If you wonder why Abrahamic religions are in decline across the West, you can see why in this simple example.

• SHOP SAFE Will Stomp Out Online Sales of Used and Homemade Goods
  

  SHOP SAFE would force pretty much any online service that allows people to buy and sell items to institute a draconian trademark protection system. If they don’t, they risk crushing liability for the actions of their users.

  Government wants the corporatocracy because it can use legions of Useful Idiots to report and deplatform anyone but the safe big companies which censor in order to preserve revenue.

• Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs
  

  We also identify potential profound disturbances in regulatory control of protein synthesis and cancer surveillance. These disturbances are shown to have a potentially direct causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, increased tumorigenesis, and DNA damage.

  Adopting mandatory experimental vaccines in the midst of a panic makes big profits for those in the system but everyone else is going to pay the price with autoimmune, heart, and cancer diagnoses in the future.

• One in four Australian workers suffer ‘ringing ears’, survey shows
  

  “Working men aged 55 to 64 years were most likely to suffer from tinnitus, with workers in the automotive, transport, agricultural, construction and other trade industries at the greatest risk.”

  Transport workers included mobile plant operators, as well as taxi, delivery, truck, tanker, bus, rail and forklift drivers.

  People who work around machinery suffer hearing loss. Just as suppressors were once rare and semi-legal but now are nearly standard on firearms, noise suppression on machines will come to live among us, but only after generations have already gone deaf.

• Spotify removes 113 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast
  

  Among the missing shows are those featuring well-known conservatives, far-right pundits or conspiracy theorists, including Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, Michael Malice, Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as comedians like Rich Vos and Little Esther and Bulletproof Nutrition founder Dave Asprey, the New York Post reports.

  Business fears controversy and consequently, will remove anything outside of the Narrative since that provokes complaints from twitching bourgeois who are aware that their civilization is collapsing but would rather remain in denial.

• Hitler’s First Hundred Days – How the National Socialists took over Germany
  

  Hitler was about to become chancellor and he promised that he would not use future elections to alter the make-up of the Cabinet but as he spoke to the other men he was already planning to win the forthcoming vote to change Germany into a one-party state.

  When the announcement was made of Hitler’s appointment there was no discernible change of mood among the German people.

  Thus it began – the National Socialists won the election, passed the Enabling Act allowing them to dispense with the constitution, appointed their own men to take charge in the federal states, dismantled trade unions, took over local government, passed anti-Semitic laws and opened Dachau, the first concentration camp – in Bavaria, ten miles northwest of Munich.

  When democracy collapses, the population becomes content to be ruled by strong leaders.

• Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
  

  The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.

  If nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.

  The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).

  The sooner we get off the oil tit and use robots to make or grow everything we need, the sooner we can disconnect from globalism and let the third world descend into its own ruin.

• The flat above a West Country takeaway that is home to 761 Chinese firms
  

  Billions of pounds has been laundered in Britain in recent years by Russian criminals, leading London to be dubbed Londongrad by fraud experts.

  Now there are fears that Chinese fraudsters are taking advantage of the lax system to launder money out of China to avoid high taxes and the communist regime’s currency controls.

  You can have low paperwork, or diversity, but not both.

• Are Secret ‘Puppeteers’ Still Directing American Public Policy?
  

  Mr. Podhorzer is a long time senior advisor to the president of the AFL-CIO, one of the most powerful labor federations in the nation. There are some 57 unions under its umbrella and they represent some 12.5 million people. His fellow Democrats are reputed to call him a “wizard” for his skill in leveraging technology on behalf of the union’s public policy agenda as well as their chosen candidates. Marry that communication technology with a field force of millions of union men and women and Mr. Podhorzer has a potent national weapon to wield in determining who will implement America’s foreign and domestic policies and who might even be trying to undermine our Constitution (here, here and here).

  Until a recent Time magazine exposé, he was very much out of sight, and deliberately so, as he provided strategic direction to the union. According to the Time profile he was also a key member of a group that applied enormous organizational and computing power to the task of electing their preferred candidates.

  Over time, it would become obvious that former President Donald J. Trump was not their preferred candidate.

  Unions destroyed this country and now work diligently to ensure that their scam does not get upset. These are part of the diversity assault on politics:

  In the 1830s the pressures exerted by the Workingmen’s Party and its successor, the Equal Rights Party, forced the general committee of the Democratic Party to oust the banking and merchant leaders. The election of a grand sachem, Martin Van Buren, as president of the United States in 1836 added to Tammany’s prestige. Within a few years, however, the immigrant groups, organized into gangs, came under the control of the astute, unscrupulous, and engaging Fernando Wood, several times mayor of New York, who used them to break with and later control Tammany. Grand Sachem “Boss” William M. Tweed initiated complete boss domination of the Hall in 1868. Corruption reached a climax under Tweed, when New York City was plundered of more than $200 million. Tweed died in jail, but most of his confederates retained their wealth.

  Expect history to repeat itself. The collective reward people want good=bad so that the bad can get rewarded too, and like Communism, this burns down any society by punishing competence and rewarding incompetence.

• Corporate corruption in South Africa demands global action in response
  

  South Africa’s decade of corruption under former president Jacob Zuma robbed its taxpayers of many hundreds of millions of pounds (billions of rand) and contributed to a catastrophic loss of gross domestic product of around a fifth.

  Global corporates obtained sweetheart state contracts helping Zuma’s business associates, the Gupta brothers, to loot the state and move their stolen billions out of South Africa, and then sometimes back in, undetected.

  We are seeing the same thing in the United States and Europe under diversity governance.

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• Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations
  

  The group is asking hospitals to report numbers of patients who go to the facility because they have Covid-19 and separate those from individuals who go in for other reasons and test positive after being admitted, the two officials said.

  How to make a flu into a pandemic: test everyone until you get the high numbers you want.

• Brut and Sure Deodorant Recalled Due to Benzene Risk
  

  “While benzene is not an ingredient in any of the recalled products, our review showed that unexpected levels of benzene came from the propellant that sprays the product out of the can,” the FDA said in a press release.

  Benzene, a human carcinogen, can cause cancers including leukemia and blood cancer of the bone marrow. It can also cause blood disorders. According to the CDC, breathing in high levels of benzene may cause dizziness, drowsiness, rapid or irregular heartbeat, headaches and confusion, among other symptoms. Direct exposure to the skin and eyes can cause irritation.

  The same people who soullessly and mindlessly memorize garbage in school get ahead and then are placed in charge of production, where they “get the right answer” by ignoring everything but a simple test-like task. They rarely notice secondary effects. Still believe in meritocracy?

• Fauci says time to start ‘inching’ back toward normality
  

  “There is no perfect solution to this,” said Fauci, President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser and a member of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

  Earlier on Wednesday, U.S. health officials said they were preparing new COVID-19 guidance on many aspects of the virus response as the Omicron surge in cases declines.

  That followed announcements by several states including New Jersey, New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware and Oregon that they were lifting mask mandates for schools or other public settings in the coming weeks.

  Narrative collapse, the gentle let-down version.

• Concealing $1.5 million payoff: Trump impeachment manager in trouble
  

  Fox Business reported American Accountability Foundation, a watchdog organization, filed the complaint against Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a House impeachment manager against former President Donald Trump, over the money paid to his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin.

  The congressman allegedly violated the requirements that force members of Congress to reveal financial windfalls within a certain time period.

  Somehow Leftists never got prosecuted. This must be how Hillary Clinton created the Tammany Hall Deep State: those who joined her team could get away with anything illegal that they wanted to do, but anyone else was fair game, so if you wanted to get ahead at all, you needed to bow to the new Boss Tweed.

• Genetically informed atlases reveal new landscapes in brain structure
  

  The researchers found 440 genome-wide significant loci in the discovery cohort and 800 in a post-hoc combined meta-analysis.

  “Intriguingly, many of the genes that these loci map to are also associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, epilepsy and intellectual disability, and dementia,” said Chen.

  “To some extent, the molecular machinery for normal brain development and disorders overlaps, which could reflect a continuous spectrum of genetic effects on normal brain structural variation to aberrant neurodevelopment. One possible mechanism is that certain genetic compositions cause abnormal brain development, which leads to neurodevelopmental disorders. The loci we discovered can be used by researchers for further mechanistic studies of how genes impact the brain and diseases.”

  Following the work of Parabon Nanolabs and others, this should allow them to geneprint people and determine IQ, which should provide us a good framework for implementing rigorous Galtonian eugenics.

• Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’
  

  The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for “smoking kits/supplies.” A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and “any illicit substance.”

  HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores. Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of “underserved communities,” including African Americans and “LGBTQ+ persons,” as established under President Joe Biden’s executive order on “advancing racial equity.”

  The comedy comes full circle.

• Poor sleep can triple risk for heart disease
  

  They found that each additional increase in self-reported sleep health problems was associated with a 54 percent increased risk of heart disease. The estimated risk of heart disease associated with an increase in sleep health problems was much higher for those who provided sleep data by both self-report and the research device. They had a 141 percent increase — a figure that could be perceived to be more accurate.

  Modern society is killing you with chemical, noise, light, EMF, and genetic pollution. Maybe there was something to the Trump objections to windmills as a source of sleep-destroying constant droning noise.

• Justice Dept. signals it may allow safe injection sites for heroin and narcotics
  

  The two facilities — which the city calls “overdose prevention centers” — provide a monitored place for drug users to partake, with staffers and supplies on hand to reverse overdoses.

  Such sites exist in Canada, Australia and Europe and have been discussed for years in New York and some other U.S. cities and states. A few unofficial facilities have operated for some time.

  Legitimizing drug abuse never makes much sense, but setting up anarchy zones where people could buy and use drugs without interference shows good logic. Isolate the problem from the rest of us and let it burn itself out as it must.

• FDA Executive Officer on Hidden Camera Reveals Future COVID Policy: ‘Biden Wants To Inoculate As Many People As Possible…Have to Get an Annual Shot’
  

  “It’ll be recurring fountain of revenue. It might not be that much initially, but it’ll be recurring — if they can — if they can get every person required at an annual vaccine, that is a recurring return of money going into their company.”

  American industry has been destroyed so thoroughly by taxes, unions, regulations, and imposed costs like affirmative action that it has one business model left: get everyone to sign up for a recurring subscription.

  They wanted us all to get flu shots for years, although that seemed to make people more likely to get the flu. The FDA was too willing to play along because FDA bureaucrats take Big Pharma money on a regular basis:

  In the cool refuge of the conference room, advisers politely questioned company scientists and complimented their work. By day’s end, the panel voted seven to one to approve. FDA, as usual, later signed off. The drug, ticagrelor, marketed under the name Brilinta, sold rapidly, emerging as a billion-dollar blockbuster. It cuts risk of death from vascular causes, heart attacks, and strokes modestly more than its chief competitor—and currently costs 25 times as much.

  Before the Brilinta vote, the agency mentioned no financial conflicts among the voting panelists, who included four physicians. As Brilinta’s sales took off later, however, AstraZeneca and firms selling or developing similar cardiovascular therapies showered the four with money for travel and advice. For example, those companies paid or reimbursed cardiologist Jonathan Halperin of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City more than $200,000 for accommodations, honoraria, and consulting from 2013 to 2016. During that period, for example, AstraZeneca says it paid Halperin more than $11,000 in expenses and fees for work on an advisory board, service on a data monitoring committee for a clinical trial of Brilinta led by the University of California, San Francisco, and for his service chairing the data monitoring committee for an AstraZeneca-sponsored multimillion-dollar clinical trial of Brilinta led by Duke University.

  Voters love the idea of regulations; lawyers laugh at it. They know that when you give government a power, it gets sold to the highest bidder, whether that is CAIR, CCP, ADL, or AstraZeneca. The voters defeat themselves as usual.

• New Method, Same Strategy: Russia Has Long Exploited U.S. Racial Divisions
  

  Recent Russian oper­a­tions used Amer­ican racism to stoke divi­sions in our soci­ety. More than half of the Face­book advert­ise­ments created by the Krem­lin-backed Inter­net Research Agency (IRA) to influ­ence Amer­ic­ans around the 2016 pres­id­en­tial elec­tion refer­enced race. While the use of social media is new, Russia has a long history of high­light­ing the conflict between Amer­ican ideals of equal­ity and the real­ity of racial injustice in this coun­try.

  At first, Soviet concern with U.S. racial inequal­ity was rooted in the belief that capit­al­ism could only be defeated by the united efforts of the work­ing classes of all nations. African Amer­ic­ans, the Soviet lead­er­ship decided in 1928, had the greatest revolu­tion­ary poten­tial and were there­fore essen­tial for achiev­ing world­wide Commun­ism. Inter­pret­ing racism and capit­al­ism as closely-related obstacles to liber­a­tion, the Soviet lead­er­ship adop­ted an offi­cial policy of “anti-racism.” From Moscow, the increased perse­cu­tion that African Amer­ic­ans suffered during the Depres­sion was deemed an attack on the Soviet inter­na­tional project, a threat to Soviet national secur­ity.

  During the Cold War, Amer­ican lead­ers made refut­ing the Soviet narrat­ive about Amer­ican racism a national secur­ity issue, crit­ical for main­tain­ing U.S. inter­na­tional lead­er­ship and promot­ing rela­tion­ships with what was then called the Third World.

  The Communists trolled us into diversity and globalism by pointing out that diversity is instability, and as usual, blaming those with higher IQs resulting in higher wealth instead of simply pointing out that diversity was a failure, as the Soviets found with their own attempts to make diversity function:

  With the exception of India, no other multi-cultural state before or after the USSR, Martin writes, took action of equivalent scope in support of the cultural and political rights of ethnic minorities. The architects of the Soviet Union envisioned it as a state based on the principle of self-determination of all nations. The new state was diverse: the first census in 1926 accounted for close to 200 distinct cultural communities composing the USSR. Lenin theorized self-determination primarily as political autonomy: the arrangement of the new state would offer oppressed peoples a unique chance to liberate themselves by taking control over their political destinies.

  Despite their promise of political liberation, the Soviet Affirmative Action did not afford minorities self governance. On the contrary, from the start these policies became instruments to maintain a centralized authoritarian state.

  On the surface, Soviet policies guaranteed ethnic leaders an opportunity to institute a degree of control over their designated homelands, but in reality, the available means of governance were those devised to support communist rule.

  Affirmative Action and Political Correctness were Soviet policies, later reversed with a policy of russification:

  The policy of korenizatsiia was never officially ended, but in practice it was superseded by a more overtly centralizing and more openly russifying program in the 1930s. The collectivization campaign of the early 1930s hit non-Russians, namely Ukrainians and Kazakhs, especially hard. In Ukraine it is generally believed that the “terror famine” of 1932 and 1933 was engineered by Moscow as genocide against the Ukrainian people. Few western historians can accept this thesis without reservation. Kazakhs, for example, were even more likely to perish during 1932/1933. Similar famine conditions also prevailed in ethnic Russian regions in the Urals and North Caucasus. It does, however, seem clear that the famine was exacerbated – though not entirely created – by Moscow and that it was used as a tool against those regions which had resisted collectivization. In general, the 1930s must be seen as a crucial period in sovietization. The crushing of the peasantry which collectivization involved meant that, despite their large numbers, rural citizens of the Soviet Union were always second-class citizens who did not quite fit into the Soviet project. This fact also meant that largely peasant nationalities – like the Belarusians, for example – had a much more difficult time defending and perpetuating their culture than national groups who possessed strong urban elites.

  We see the two sides of diversity here. At first, the majority tries to assimilate the diverse groups under its umbrella; eventually, it throws culture out the window and replaces it with ideology. This does not stop Communists supporting diversity as a means of destroying culture so that they can inject ideology inside it:

  MARTIN: How did the Communist Party gets started in Alabama?

  Prof. KELLEY: In 1928, the communist position internationally was that African-Americans in the South have the right to self-determination. Meaning: they have the right to create their own nation in the South. In this position that came out of Moscow, it came from other black communists around the globe.

  And with that idea in mind, they sent two organizers to Alabama and they went to Birmingham. And they chose Birmingham because it was probably the most industrialized city in the South. And they went there thinking they would organize white workers. And from white workers, black workers would follow. But no white workers had come forward.

  At some point, sane people have to admit that diversity fails because it has paradoxical goals and therefore, that no one can support it unless they actively wish destruction on civilization.

• The Rape of Britain
  

  As Islamic communities established themselves in major English cities, Muslim rape gangs, known as “grooming gangs,” took root. Eventually, thousands upon thousands of non-Muslim girls, almost all of them members of the working class, would be victimized by these gangs, not just once apiece but repeatedly, in most case over a period of years.

  British police, social workers, and journalists are known to have been aware of this phenomenon for decades. But instead of addressing it fully and responsibly – which, they know, would have required mass arrests and prosecutions of prominent Muslims, and frank media coverage of these transgressions as well as of their roots in Islamic doctrine, all of which in turn would almost certainly have led to social tumult on a dangerous scale – these parties chose to do and say nothing.

  Diversity is race war. Rape is a weapon of war. Connect the goddamn dots.

• Facebook’s Metaverse gives avatars ‘personal bubbles’ to block virtual groping and harrassment
  

  Avatars in the metaverse app Horizon Worlds will now be protected by a ‘personal boundary’ function that blocks others from getting too close.

  The personal bubble will turned on by default, but users will still be able to make small actions, like high-fives or fist bumps.

  It is hoped the new measure will help curtail harassment following reports of virtual groping in the digital space.

  If modernity has a metaphor, it will be the bubble: as equal citizens, we must manage optics in order to rise in our social group and therefore in our careers, so we construct around us bubbles of people in our same situation and with our same inclinations so that we are safe. We are filtering out reality so that we can refine and package only the visual images we want and the feelings we hope to convey. In doing so, we have created a massive echo chamber out of egalitarian democracy in which people become hostile to the real world and live in a mental bubble of symbols, gestures, emotions, signals, statistics, products, and trends.

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