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• Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter

• Wordle will be free forever because you can right-click to save the whole game

• Coercion Theory: A Basic Introduction for Practitioners - Texas National Security Review

• PMR: Hiker injured after sliding 1000 feet down Hogsback

  “Folks, the surface above treeline is wind-scoured chicken heads, dinner plates and hard frozen sun cups. It is not skiable, not hike-able and extremely dangerous,”

• Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns

  • Firefighters Brace For North Carolina Fertilizer Plant Explosion, 6,500 People Evacuated | ZeroHedge

• NASA will crash the International Space Station into the ocean by 2031

• Perceptions of primary and secondary relationships in polyamory

• Couple in talks to settle eBay lawsuit over bizarre harassment

Horseshit

• Winter Olympians warned to be careful what they say during Beijing Games

• ‘No Regrets’ Is No Way to Live

• A deepfreeze is coming to Texas, and no one knows if the power grid is ready

• One company took over the NFT trade

celebrity gossip

• Why Is Matt Damon Shilling for Crypto?

• Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled so Jeff Bezos’ yacht can pass through

• CNN President Jeff Zucker Resigns, Citing Relationship with Colleague

Rank Propaganda / Machine Thunk / Voluntary Censors

• The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"

• Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy Has Shut Down a Chunk of the Canada-US Border

  • Why the Coverage of the Trucker Protest Should Worry All Canadians, StuartParker

  • “Mostly peaceful” versus “non-violent dangers.” – The New Neo

• Joe “just conversations” Rogan defends misinformation like a classic grifter

  + [Dwayne Johnson praises Joe Rogan response to Spotify
  backlash](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/592303-dwayne-johnson-praises-joe-rogan-response-to-spotify-backlash)
  

  • White House urges Spotify to take further action on Joe Rogan

COVID / VaxCult

• Omicron hit Southern California much harder than the Bay Area. Here’s why

• Man dies after developing autoimmune response from vaccine

• Covid-19: How many people have been infected more than once?

• White House praises Spotify's new Covid disclaimers

• Pfizer and BioNTech Initiate Rolling Submission for Emergency Use Authorization

• Denmark has lifted all COVID-19 restrictions

• All-out effort to keep Biden COVID-free; no ‘normal’ yet.

• Covid-19 human challenge study reveals detailed insights into infection

• US considers authorization of first COVID vaccine for children under 5

• Hypotheses on why so few people in Sweden wear face masks

• The US has a far higher Covid death rate than other wealthy countries

• The new clues about who will develop long covid

• Lockdowns had little or no impact on Covid-19 deaths, new study shows

  • Johns Hopkins study says ill-founded lockdowns did little to limit Covid deaths

• Assessing How Consumers Interpret and Act on Results from COVID19 Self-Test Kits

• Omicron may have FDA rethinking vaccine strategy for kids under 5

• Tonga Goes Into Lockdown Over 5 Covid Cases

• The Coronavirus Will Surprise Us Again

• Hospitals refused to treat toddler because his parents were unvaccinated

• Here comes the under 5 vaccine But I have questions

• Study: Exposure to one nasal droplet enough for Covid infection

• The pandemic’s true death toll

• The TikTok Doctors and Nurses Debunking Pandemic Lies

• Gilead COVID drug takes top spot for U.S. hospital spending – report

• Why Are Myocarditis Rates Surging in Europe?

• The Off-Rampers Need to Get Specific, or Else Just Shut Up | Mike the Mad Biologist

• Will Omicron end the pandemic? Here’s what experts say

• Israel to Scrap COVID Green Pass for Most Entertainment Venues From Sunday

• Scientists deliberately gave people Covid – here’s what they learnt

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Whoopi Goldberg banned for saying holocaust was not about race

  + [Whoopi Goldberg’s Suspension from the View Is Illiberal and
  Irrational](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/whoopi-goldergs-suspension-from-the-view-is-illiberal-and-irrational/)
  

  • Whoopi Goldberg threatening to quit 'The View': source

• Washington’s NFL team announce new name will be the Commanders

• The mystery of Canada’s indigenous mass graves

  The Canadian government and the media now have some serious questions to face when it comes to Kamloops. Why didn’t they wait for more proof before castigating the nation and sending it into a tailspin of anger and anti-Christian violence? And will they apologise? And why, after all this, are there still no plans to excavate in Kamloops? After the dramatic fallout for so many ordinary Canadians and Catholics, doesn’t the whole country deserve some answers?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record number

• Pre-K is day care - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

• Police: 2 students shot, 1 fatally, outside Minnesota school

• Hackers prey on public schools, adding stress amid pandemic

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• CGI did, in fact, ruin movies - by Erik Hoel

TechSuck

• Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

• (UK) Supermarket cameras to guess age of alcohol buyers

• SpaceX rolls outs 'premium' Starlink satellite internet tier at $500 per month

  • Starlink Premium | Hacker News

• Why and how I got my own ASN!

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Coffee Prices Climb, Pushed Up by Bad Weather and Supply-Chain Woes

• The tech sell-off has some venture capitalists worried

• Google parent company Alphabet plans to split stock 20-1

• Carvana is worth more than Ford

• The Fed is on a Knife's Edge - by Andrew Barisser

• A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet – yet much richer

• Bonuses Rain on Wall Street Bankers in Biggest Payout in Decade

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

• Classified State Department email declared Hunter Biden 'undercut' U.S. efforts in Ukraine | Just The News

• Sen. Ben Ray Luján expected to make a full recovery

• Are voting machines too vulnerable to hacking? Georgia's having that debate

• Biden to Present Plan to Cut Cancer Death Rate in Half

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• NSA watchdog finds 'concerns' with searches of Americans' communications

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US threatens Russia with an unprecedented chip blockade

• Putin Plays Judo, Not Chess

• Biden to deploy troops to Eastern Europe amid Ukraine standoff

  • Biden formally approves new US troops to Europe amid Russia threat

• Handling a Hybrid War in Ukraine

• Scoop: Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures

• The Historical Dispute Behind Russia’s Threat to Ukraine

• If a Weapon Didn’t Cause Havana Syndrome, What Did?

• (2015) Boozing Through the Soviet–Afghan War Was More Horrifying Than You Can Imagine

  Stalin reportedly encouraged the distribution of 100 grams of vodka — equivalent to a double shot — to soldiers before an assault. It remains to be seen whether in the Donbas, Moscow’s latest unacknowledged war, Stalin’s or Gorbachev’s rules apply.

World

• Elections Canada: 205,000 mail-in ballots late, cancelled, or lost in the mail

• Yahoo Japan is going dark in Europe, citing cost of complying with regulations

• Germany Blocks Russian State Broadcaster RT

• Why Does Kyiv Seem So Strangely Calm?

Health / Medicine

• Once-a-week Cannabis users face SIX-FOLD increased risk of schizophrenia

• Using melatonin for sleep is on the rise despite health harms

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook

• Phaseout of animal agriculture to offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions

• EU to label gas and nuclear as sustainable

• Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported

• All coral will suffer severe bleaching when global heating hits 1.5C

• UK plants flowering a month earlier due to climate change

• Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene