2022-02-18

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• Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline

Horseshit

• California lawmakers want bill of rights for cats and dogs

• (2018) Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

Crypto con games

• Ukraine Legalizes Bitcoin

• It’s Time for Bitcoin to Become a Better Tool for Laundering Money

• Bored Apes, BuzzFeed and the Battle for the Future of the Internet

• Biden seen issuing crypto oversight exec order next week

• Investors Stuck In Biggest Bitcoin Fund Flood SEC With Letters

Obit

• Cold War 'Candy Bomber' Gail Halvorsen dies at 101

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Wordle Bans 'Slave' as New York Times Stops Users Entering Offensive Words

• The Next Pandemic Could Start with a Terrorist Attack

Freedom Convoy / Castro Jr's Canada

• Canada Freezes Convoy Bank & Crypto Accounts, Threatens Dogs; MSM Journos Dox Donors With Hacked Materials | ZeroHedge

• Washington Post seeks to dox and shame donors to Canadian freedom protesters

• Trudeau Successful in Seizing Protestors Cryptocurrency

• Convoy Chaos: Organizers Arrested, Dogs Threatened, Accounts Frozen And Govt. Sued | ZeroHedge

• Police arrest two leaders of trucker protest in Canada's capital

  • Canadian Police Arrest 2 Leaders of Protesting Truckers

• Who supports the ‘freedom’ protesters and why

• Liberals cite CBC ‘analysis’ to justify freezing bank accounts

• The Battle of Billings Bridge

• Final Showdown: Canada Police Set To End Freedom Convoy "Unlawful Demonstration" | ZeroHedge

• Trudeau’s Prohibition on Protests Exempts Refugees, Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities – Summit News

• ‘The Height Of Idiocy’: Dagen McDowell Blisters Geraldo For Calling Trucker Convoy ‘An Act Of War’ | The Daily Wire

• American Truckers Prepare To Drive From California To DC In "The People's Convoy" | ZeroHedge

• Police start arresting protesters to end the siege of Canada's capital

• Ottawa police push to clear convoy blockades now underway

• In Cuba: "Canada advocates for freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly free from intimidation"

• Ottawa Police March On Freedom Convoy: ‘Starting To Feel Like The Beginning Of The End.’

COVID / VaxCult

• SARS-CoV-2 reinfections: Efficacy and duration of natural and hybrid immunity

• Anti-vaxxer concerns force removal of deaths by vaccine status data – PHS

  As the vaccinated population grows, this flaw in the data becomes more pronounced due to the true number of unvaccinated people being much lower than the number used, making the final published data less reliable.

• California lays out plan to live with Covid for the long-term

• Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties

• Covid’s Uneven Toll Captured in Data

• England's oldest pub, serving alcohol for 1,200 years bankrupted due to Covid-19

• Covid Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking

• New York’s Adams Tells CEOs to End Work-from-Home Policies

• California lays out a plan to treat the coronavirus as a manageable risk, not an emergency.

• New Mexico Lifts Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate

• Washington state to lift indoor mask mandate

• As BA.2 subvariant of Omicron rises, lab studies point to signs of severity

• CDC wants to “give people a break” from masks, says new guidance coming

• The Mask Debacle

• Hong Kong earmarks 20,000 hotel rooms for quarantine as COVID cases surge

• Vaccinated people are less likely to get long Covid, review finds

• Q&A: What can Canada take away from Denmark's 'done with Covid' approach?

• As BA.2 subvariant of Omicron rises, lab studies point to signs of severity

• Efficacy of Ivermectin on Disease Progression Among Adults with Covid-19

• Peak Delusion: Joy Behar Says She'll Break From CDC Guidance, Wear A Mask Inside "Indefinitely" | ZeroHedge

  "Personally, I listen to the little voice in my head that doesn’t really follow 100% what they tell me because they keep changing it."

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Blackfella boxes – Can Indigenous wisdom stop AI from running amok?

• The left’s Nicene Creed - The Spectator World

• What social media platforms miss about white supremacist speech

• There are no equal opportunity infectors: Epidemiological modeling inequality

• The decline of San Francisco isn't exaggerated

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• (PDF) Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students

• “The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”

• US Dept of Education forgives loans of DeVry University students due to fraud

• Why are kids afraid to ask for help?

• The left is losing its war on parents

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Gab, a right-wing media and tech company is starting an early stage startup fund

• China Uses Bots and Fake Twitter Accounts to Shape the Olympics

• Man Who Lived in Small Apartment Owes Nintendo $14.5 Million

• Trump’s Truth Social is poised to join a crowded field

• Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

• Facebook misled investors on scope of misinformation problems, whistleblower say

TechSuck

• Intel CEO Gelsinger spells out five-year renewal plan inspired by iconic leaders

  • Intel Is Throwing The Kitchen Sink, But Is The Turn Around Plan Reasonable? | Deep Dive On Tower Semiconductor Fabs And IP, Intel Culture Shift, Future Product And Roadmap Competitiveness By Business Unit – SemiAnalysis

    They have introduced a new modular design architecture. They are dubbing it Tick-Tock. It appears the major front end transistor pitch scaling comes with the tick node and the tock involves optimization and further enhancements to that base.

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Economicon / Business / Finance

• The U.S. is now energy independent - Axios

• Soaring lumber price adds nearly $19,000 to the cost of a new home

• Meta Loses Top-10 Ranking by Market Value

• Fed formally adopts new rules for investment and trading activity by officials

• Its not about the virus, remote workers simply dont want to return to the office

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• No, plaintiff wins in the Harvard and UNC cases wouldn't be undemocratic | TheHill

  “Republicans have outsourced large chunks of their agenda to the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court”

• Giddy Hannity Goads Hillary to Sue Fox News for Defamation: ‘Bring It On!’

• US Senate gives final nod to legislation averting government shutdown

• 'I Feel Like We're on the Run': The Hatred for Democrats in Rural America Has Reached Biblical Levels

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI sounds alarm as QR code usage soars

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The US Is Not Ready for a Peer to Peer Fight in Europe

Ukraine

• Why Feb. 20 worries Russia watchers- POLITICO

  The prospect of a Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 16 was always overhyped. The time frame to really keep an eye on is what happens shortly after Feb. 20.

• Russia to stage nuclear drills amid Ukraine standoff

• The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany

• Opinion: It's time we turn the tables on Putin

• What are false flag attacks – and could Russia make one work in the info age?

• Ukraine: Shelling Raises Fears Ukraine Conflict Is Heating Up

• Ukraine Fighting May Open Door to Russian Invasion, U.S. Warns

• As Russia and Belarus Stage Military Exercise, Talk of Ukraine Invasion Is Dismissed

• Shelling Picks Up on Front Line Separating Ukraine, Pro-Russia Separatists

• The increasingly complicated Russia-Ukraine crisis, explained

• International security monitor tells UN that there have been hundreds of explosions recorded in Ukraine recently

• Prospect of War in Ukraine Raises Questions About Europe’s Natural Gas Supply

• No Invasion Wouldn’t Mean an End to the Ukraine Crisis

• Russia announces nuclear exercises as fresh Ukraine talks planned

• Russia expected to ditch GLONASS for Loran in Ukraine invasion

• Stocks Tumble, Gold Spikes As Donbas Separatists Announce Mass Evacuation To Russia | ZeroHedge

• As VP Harris "Warns" Putin, US Now Says Up To 190,000 Russian Troops Near Ukraine | ZeroHedge

• Russia Is Making New Demands As Biden Says Invasion Will Occur In "A Matter Of Days"

• Separatists order evacuations to Russia amid worst shelling in eastern Ukraine in years

• Russia Responds To US Conspiracy Theories As Questionable 'Chemical Attack' Video Already Emerges | ZeroHedge

• If Russia Invades Ukraine, Sanction China

World

• Violence erupts at Coastal GasLink site near Houston, B.C. | Vancouver Sun

Health / Medicine

• Malawi Declares Polio Outbreak

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California Returns as Climate Leader, with Help from the White House

• The future looked like it could be meat-free. Then the pandemic hit

• Global industry groups push back on climate disclosure rules

• Let’s Fight Climate Change Without Eating Bugs

• Singapore’s carbon tax to rise five-fold in 2024

• Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China