2022-01-21

Worthy

• Greenwald: Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power As It Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits | ZeroHedge

• He thought tending bar sounded like fun. Then the entire kitchen staff quit on Christmas Eve.

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• Famous Statistic Blaming Car Crashes on Human Error Is Wrong

• Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

• NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars

• 80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes

• Ford Powered Oshkosh Defense USPS Carrier Spotted For First Time

• The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE

• How gospel music helped power the Civil Rights Movement

Horseshit

• The Fed may create a U.S. digital currency and wants your input

  • Fed taking next steps toward launching digital dollar

• Sovereign Nonsense: A Review of the Sovereign Individual

• M&Ms will become "more inclusive;" the animated characters representing the candies will be given "nuanced personalities."

• Beyond McMindfulness

• Big Tech’s Supersized Ambitions

• Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty

celebrity gossip

• The Undoing of Joss Whedon

Obit

• At 74: Meat Loaf Passes

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now

• Covid Threatens to Bring a Wave of Hikikomori to America

• 2/3 of passengers on first flight to Covid-free Kiribati diagnosed with virus

• Covid testing firm piled unprocessed swabs in trash bags, billed feds $113M

• Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of host ER stress

• Austria set to make Covid shots compulsory

• (PDF) SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England

• Oral CBD Prevented Covid-19 Infection in Real-World Patients

• In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid-like symptoms

• Common cold may protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Prior Covid-19 Infection Offered More Protection Than Vaccine During Delta Wave

• Deltacron: The Variant That Wasn’t

• France to lift Covid-19 restrictions in February

• FBI Sought Documents Related to U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research in China

• The Cambridge startup tracking Covid in America’s waste water

• Rapid vigilance and episodic memory decrements in Covid-19 survivors

• Czech Republic Abolishes Plan To Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines

• "Bizarro World": Researcher Calls Out Censorship After Journal Pulls COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events Analysis | ZeroHedge

• We need to talk about the vaccines - UnHerd

• California proposal would let older kids get vaccines without parental consent

• Getting insurance to reimburse you for a purchased COVID test can be a hassle : NPR

• Center for Covid Control Tells Workers to Lie About Results,Throw Tests in Trash

• Austria approves Europe's first vaccine mandate for all adults

• Nigella Sativa (Black Cumin) RCT outcome deaths 14/259 control, 0/160 treatment

• Booster shots are keeping older Americans out of hospitals, C.D.C. data suggests

• Will Omicron Leave Most of Us Immune?

  Even before Omicron hit the United States in full force, most of our bodies had already wised up to SARS-CoV-2’s insidious spike—through infection, injection, or both. By the end of October 2021, some 86.2 percent of American immune systems may have glimpsed the virus’s most infamous protein, according to one estimate;

  there is reason to believe that this ultra-sunny forecast won’t come to pass. “This wave will not be the last,” Shane Crotty, of the La Jolla Institute of Immunology, told me. “There are not many things that I am willing to be pretty confident about. But that’s one of them.”

• Do The COVID Shots Work Against Omicron?

  How well do the SARS-CoV-2 shots work against the Omicron virus variant? The Danish study results shown in the graph found the Pfizer and Moderna shots provide some protection for a couple months, followed by a higher risk of infection than no shots at all. I don’t call that “working.” I certainly wouldn’t call the shots a “vaccine” against the Omicron variant of COVID, based on this study and other data.

• Australia turns to backpackers as Omicron devastates workforce

• Texas Judge Blocks Biden's Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees Nationwide

• Omicron changed the pandemic. What happens next?

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• 'We conclude' or 'I believe?' Study finds rationality declined decades ago

• An Analysis of Omicron Tweets: 30% Are Skeptical of the Medical Establishment

• Tech and the fine art of complicity – Knight Foundation

• Roosevelt Statue Removed from Natural-History Museum for Glorifying Colonialism

• Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Newbery Medal Is 100. It’s Smuggled Some Real Duds onto Our Library Shelves

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Pro-Trump influencers find their audiences stagnate on alternative social media

• ESPN will not send reporters to Beijing Olympics

• Chicago Public Media will acquire the Chicago Sun-Times

• Substack: Where quacks and antivaxxers all go now

TechSuck

• Intel selects Ohio for ‘largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet’

• Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

• ISO C became unusable for operating systems development

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford will be idling Mustang production this week due to an insufficient supply of semiconductor chips.

• Bitcoin drops below $40k amid crypto slide after Russia proposes ban

• US Home prices rose faster than ever in 2021

• Housing Inventory Down 40% from Pre-Covid Level

• Jack Monroe's thread about the true cost of inflation 'as it happens to people with the least' is an important read - The Poke

• Netflix stock tumbles over 20% after missing subscriber forecasts

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Walks Back Ukraine Statements: Any Russian Offensive Marks An "Invasion" | ZeroHedge

• It was a great day in the Supreme Court for anyone who wants to bribe a lawmaker

• When Did Crypto Become Republican?

• The IRS will soon make you use facial recognition to access your taxes online

• Inverted outcomes resulting from the Electoral College system

• Bitcoin price crash: Crypto plunges by 9% as billions wiped off market

• Lira crisis fuels Bitcoin boom in Turkey

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US charges Belarus officials with air piracy in reporter's arrest

World

• Yemen has lost internet after Saudi-led airstrikes

• Myanmar Regime’s Reliance on Air Power a Sign of Weakness: US Security Expert

• Macron’s Call for EU Talks With Kremlin Unnerves European Allies

Health / Medicine

• Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review

• Woman dies seven years after pricking finger in prion research lab

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘The Greens want to take our meat away’: Europeans go to war over their dinner

• The mystery of social behavior in octopuses

• The Surprisingly Low Price Tag on Preventing Climate Disaster