2021-12-30

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• ‘Psycho’ squirrel’s 48-hour Christmas rampage terrorizes town, injures 18

• Wait, where did I see that thing?

• Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence

• Mom: Daughter mistaken for intruder by father, fatally shot

Horseshit

• FAA investigating controversial crash video | Hacker News

• Real estate prices in the metaverse are booming

• An Unmet Demand: The Market for Oral Sensory Chews

• Food recalls have dropped off during the pandemic, no one is sure why

celebrity gossip

• Ghislaine Maxwell Found Guilty Of Helping Epstein Sexually Abuse Teen Girls

  • Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty in sex-trafficking trial

• Elon Musk rejects claims his satellites are squeezing out rivals in space

COVID / VaxCult

• Tokyo researchers work toward dream Covid-19 vaccine giving protection for life

• Ten Lessons I’ve learned from the Covid–19 pandemic

• In Bombshell Admission, CDC Drops Post-Isolation PCR Test Because They Can 'Remain Positive Up To 12 Weeks'

• NY Obliterates Single-Day Case Record with Nearly 70K New Positives

• Omicron's secrets revealed under a microscope

• The CDC No Longer Considers Me ‘Fully Vaccinated.’

• Stop Letting Them Test You: Breaking The COVID Construct

• Children's Risk of Serious Illness from Covid-19 Is as Low as It Is for the Flu

• CDC recommends against going on Cruises

• Biden signs $137M deal for Covid test strip factory will take 3 years to build

• A Covid Vaccine for All

• France tightens Covid rules, makes masks mandatory outdoors in Paris

• Joe Rogan: "I'm Not Vaccinated, I'm Not Going To Get Vaccinated, I have Antibodies, It Doesn't Make Any Sense"

• As US COVID Cases Hit Record High, CDC Admits Hospitalizations & Deaths Remain "Comparatively Low"

• Britain Erects Field Hospitals As Daily World COVID Cases Top 1 Million For 3rd Straight Day

• Study shows people infected with Omicron may be less susceptible to Delta variant.

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Guardian ‘Person of the Year’ Poll Deactivated After J.K. Rowling Takes Lead

  • JK Rowling Wins 2021 Person of the Year Award Before It’s Quickly Closed

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Rural New Mexico School Buys Starlink Internet for Students

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Are Video Games Addictive?

• Facebook’s bad year. No, it might be the worst yet

TechSuck

• Intel Sells SSD Business and Fab to Sk Hynix, New 'Solidigm' Subsidiary Planned

• The Gift of It's Your Problem Now - apenwarr

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Corporate Profits Drive 60% of Inflation Increases

• Three Boeing 747 Freighters Packed With Potatoes Head To Japan Amid French Fry Shortage | ZeroHedge

• A powerful weapon to fight inflation: price controls. It’s time we consider it

• U.S. weekly jobless claims total 198K, less than expected and around 52-year low

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• (April 2921) Abolish Secret Ballots – Everything Studies

  We need to acknowledge that there’s an essential difference between healthy dissent and acting on false, outdated and dangerous beliefs. Secrecy was meant to protect the powerless, not those acting in bad faith and voting for harmful policies by malice, selfishness, or because of being fed disinformation. Yes, it’s good when anonymity stands as a bulwark against oppressive power, but it’s bad when it stands as a roadblock against healthy influence.

• Lauren Boebert Tricks the Left Into Exposing Biden With a Savage Troll – RedState

• New U.S. Census Data: Major Migration From Blue States To Red States

• "NY health official admits the released that scary alert about increasing pediatric hospitalizations not because there's an actual issue, but just to "motivate" parents to vaccinate kids.

• Let Omicron Spell the End of the Pandemic—and the COVID Shaming | Opinion

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Defense claims entrapment in the Whitmer kidnapping plot case – The New Neo

• Far-Left Jan 6 Commission Demands Bank Records of Trump Staff in Bizarre Intimidation Attempt.

• Reporter May Be Prosecuted for Using “View Source”

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Seeks to Oust Ukrainian Owner of Texas Rocket Startup Firefly

• What does future warfare look like? It's here already

World

• China hoards over half the world's grain

• Hong Kong's last pro-democracy outlet shuts after arrests

• The Religious Roots of Turkey’s Currency Crisis

• Myanmar military reverts to strategy of massacres, burnings

Health / Medicine

• Diabesity: An Overview of a Rising Epidemic

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Land and water ecosystems, 'stressed to a critical point'

• I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day

• "Tornadic Supercells" Possible In South As Storms Intensify | ZeroHedge

• 2021 Climate Year in Review

• New England temperatures have already increased by 1.5C