2021-12-13

Worthy

• I was wrong about Bob Dole - by Michael Estrin

etc

• Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes

Horseshit

• Oops, new Miami station doesn't fit its trains

• Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300k NFT for $3k

celebrity gossip

• Elon Musk. Person of the Year 2021

• If only Assange had been Navalny, by Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2021)

COVID / VaxCult

• Head of the South African Medical Association says Omicron brings “mild illness”

• Biden health team ruled out free Covid tests for all over cost, logistics - POLITICO

  “It’s like they want to appear like they’re doing something, but aren’t as concerned about actual impact.”

• As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished

• No more lateral flow home test kits available, says NHS England

• Make A Wish Foundation turns down Unvaccinated child… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

• We Know a Lot More About Omicron Now

• Another Study Finds That Natural Immunity Protects Better Against Infection Than Pfizer Vaccine

• UK Reports First Death With Omicron Variant As BoJo Sees "Tidal Wave" Of Infections By Christmas

• Omicron Update: Dec 13

• Status of the SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron in Denmark

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Americans overestimate social mobility in their country

• Avid to Stop Trump, MSNBC and The Atlantic Tell More Lies – PJ Media

  We’ve been political violence before, lynching many things over the course of time that African-Americans have suffered, but this is 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms.

• “We Can Never Believe Police”: Cal State Professor Denounces Smollett Verdict as a “White Supremacist Charade” – JONATHAN TURLEY

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Ressa blasts U.S. tech titans for 'virus of lies' in Nobel Prize speech - Nikkei Asia

• Vox Media, Group Nine Media in Advanced Talks to Merge

• Twitter will ban users that repeatedly claim vaccinated people can spread Covid

Facebook

• Facebook Exec Says Society to Blame, Not Facebook

TechSuck

• Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is dangerous • The Register

• The iPhone Is Going Away

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Fed is expected to end of bond buying and signal interest rate hikes coming

• U.S. government deficit down 17 percent from same period a year ago

• The Trump SPAC Pipe Is Free Money

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• President Biden's job approval sinking on inflation, crime and COVID: POLL - ABC News

  • Emphasis mine:

  More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) disapprove of how Biden is handling inflation (only 28% approve) while more than half (57%) disapprove of his handling of the economic recovery.

World

• Russia May Be "Forced" To Deploy Intermediate Nuclear Missiles In Europe If NATO Refuses Dialogue | ZeroHedge

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Arctic Fires Are Melting Permafrost That Keeps Carbon Underground

• "Decarbonizing rural residential buildings in cold climates: A techno-e" by Filippo Padovani, Nelson Sommerfeldt et al.

• The biggest snowstorm of the season to hit California this week

• Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities