2022-02-24

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• The mainstreaming of “sexual wellness” products

Horseshit

• The Troubled Teen Industry – Breaking Code Silence

• End of the International Space Station Will Launch a New Era of Chaos in Orbit

• Los Angeles is spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

• Car Burial Funerals

celebrity gossip

• Back in 1982 I was dealing acid at Jim Morrison’s grave and that’s when I first met Vladimir Putin.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Better than "Wordcels" and "shape rotators" which have been alternate offerings for labels: Canadian trucker convoy suggests new class divide between Physicals and Virtuals

  the most relevant distinction between Virtuals and Physicals today is that the Virtuals are now everywhere unambiguously the ruling class. In a world in which knowledge is the primary component of value-added production (or so we are told), and economic activity is increasingly defined by the digital and the abstract, they have been the overwhelming winners, accumulating financial, political, and cultural status and influence.

• UK study of 17,000 students: One in three felt happier during lockdown

• Medical misinformation often isn’t outright lies. It’s more subtle than that

Trump

• Donald Trump Predicts 'China's Going to Be Next,' Will Invade Taiwan

• Trump Runs to Fox News to Blame Russian Invasion on ‘Rigged Election’

• Donald Trump sure is acting like a Russian agent

US Truckers

• The Mysterious Right-Wing Group Funding the Trucker Convoy

• One thousand truckers begin drive from California to DC TODAY in protest of COVID National Emergency

• U.S. truckers plan pandemic protest, inspired by Canadian counterparts

• After Canada, US truckers decided to start their own 'convoys'. What are they protesting?

Castro Jr's Canada

• Trudeau Set To Revoke Emergency Powers: Report | ZeroHedge

• Emergencies Act Rescinded in Canada

• Trudeau Revokes the Emergencies Act, Financial Institutions Can Unlock Accounts

  The Wall Street Journal reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) told financial institutions the lenders can “unlock those accounts after law-enforcement officers successfully shut down the protest in Ottawa.”

• CONFIRMED: Leaked RCMP chat shows members celebrating violence against freedom protesters | The Post Millennial

• Trudeau has turned off the invocation of the Emergencies Act

  That all said, I have never been sold on the more dramatic claims of the critics. No, this is not the transition moment for crypto. Canada has not become a fascist state. The government made a mistake, and the mistake has been corrected. They should not have had this power to begin with.

COVID / VaxCult

• Insurance Data points to Millions of people with vaccine side effects in Germany

• Google Drops Vax Mandate

  • Google will no longer require US employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19

• Parents separated from baby as Hong Kong clings to zero-Covid

• Influencers played outsized role in pushing anti-vax conspiracies

• Inside the rumors about Queen Elizabeth II, who is not dead yet nor using ivermectin (probably)

• SARS-CoV-2 contains part of a patented genetic sequence

  • HN thread

  • Interestingly, the observation in this paper was surfaced on a substack | Hacker News

  • https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/how-to-blast-your-way-to-the...

• German Health Insurer Reveals 'Alarming' Underreporting Of Vaccine Side-Effects | ZeroHedge

• Iceland says it wants ‘as many people as possible’ to catch Covid after lifting all restrictions

• Fun! "Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer" | naked capitalism

• Moderna: Covid is entering an endemic phase, but annual vaccines will be needed

• Idaho House votes 39-29 in favor of bill to make employer vaccine requirements a crime

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Texas AG declares pediatric gender-affirming procedures to be child abuse, legal opinion says

• "These are not serious people": Check out all the Woke Cultists' reactions to the Ukraine invasion | Not the Bee

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• How CNN Betrayed Its Audience Archive link

  Even at the time of the Cuomo COVID interviews, it was clear that CNN was making a journalistic error by choosing ratings over responsible journalism. The decision to have Cuomo the anchor interview Cuomo the governor was always a blatant conflict of interest—charming, but a betrayal of the mission of accountability. New reporting suggests the rot was even deeper: Zucker and Gollust, who had served as Andrew Cuomo’s communications director in 2012 and 2013, were reportedly in regular contact with the governor, pressing him to speak to CNN and discussing interview topics with him ahead of time. In other words, CNN wasn’t just passively accepting the Cuomo Brothers Show in a cynical ploy for ratings. Its top executives were instigating the whole fiasco.

• Trump’s Social App Doesn’t Work

• I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die

• Facebook Allows Praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion If It Fights Russian Invasion

• Mark Zuckerberg’s bizarre metaverse picnic as billionaire reveals plan

TechSuck

• Emulator of Original Dell Charger Using ATTINY85

• Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips

• Behind the viral KJV Bible app there’s a Chinese gaming company

• Volvo ditches PC and gives service engineers iPhone and Apple Watch instead

Crypto con games

• Russia Could Use Cryptocurrency to Blunt the Force of U.S. Sanctions

• Bitcoin Under Pressure Below $39,000 as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Hit Risk Assets

• How the U.S. benefits when China turns its back on Bitcoin

• Bitcoin price falls

• Sotheby’s NFT Sale, Expected to Hit $30M, Suddenly Canceled

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Global Markets Unravel As Putin Launches "Military Operation" In Ukraine | ZeroHedge

• Rent-A-Center Gives Dire Update On State Of US Consumer | ZeroHedge

• AMD is now worth more than Intel

• Watch: NYPD Arrests Amazon Union Organizers at Staten Island Warehouse

• Ask HN: Why are the stock markets tanking? | Hacker News

• The Great Resignation is also the Great Retirement of the baby boomers. That’s a problem.

• Fed Postpones Today's Purchase Of Treasuries and MBS Due To "Technical Difficulties" | ZeroHedge

• Lumber Trading Is So Hot That It Almost Never Happens

• Nasdaq Soars Back Into The Green As Europe Closes | ZeroHedge

• US long-term mortgage rates tick down to 3.89% this week

• SEC Probes Trading by Elon Musk and Brother in Wake of Tesla CEO’s Sales

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ivanka Trump in talks to cooperate with January 6 panel, reports say

• Fact check: The various flavors of dishonesty that GOP candidates used to promote 2020 election lies this month

• Rick Scott’s 11-Point Plan Is a Haunted-House Version of Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Lead Prosecutors Abruptly Quit Trump Investigation | ZeroHedge

• L.A. woman jailed for nearly 2 weeks in a case of mistaken identity

• The Waco Biker Shootout Left Nine Dead. Why Was No One Convicted?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US winds up team dedicated to stopping Chinese espionage

• Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4

• How the Kosovo Air War Foreshadowed the Crisis in Ukraine

• The Ukraine invasion is good news for Wall Street

• Biden has been presented with options for extensive cyberattacks against Russia

• Will war in Ukraine lead to a wider cyber conflict?

• Tech In Ukraine - by Jeffrey Carter - Points And Figures

Ukraine

• Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

  • The officially blessed thread: HN thread

• How Russia invading Ukraine affects the workforce of these S.F. companies

• What war games tell us about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Separatist Leaders Issue Formal Request For Russian Army To Repel Ukrainian "Aggression"  | ZeroHedge

• Russia Closes Airspace over Ukrainian Border Through May 18th

• Life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk

• Russia Launches Invasion of Ukraine

• Vladimir Putin’s Dangerous Madness

• Russia Attacks Ukraine

• Cyberattacks accompany Russian military assault on Ukraine

• Ukraine Challenge the Russian Federations Seat at the Security Council

• Russia invades Ukraine as Putin declares war to ‘demilitarise’ neighbour

• Vladimir Putin has announced a special military operation in Ukraine

• reddit /R/WorldNews Live Thread for the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

• Why is Putin attacking Ukraine? He told us

• Ukraine President signed a decree on the imposition of martial law in Ukraine

• Putin announces start to ‘military operation’ against Ukraine

• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine: “To Ukrainians Around the Globe”

• Moscow launches full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• Russia Attacks Ukraine

• Russia Declares War on Ukraine

• Understanding Putin’s narrative about Ukraine is the master key to this crisis

• CNN: Explosions in Kiev and Kharkiv now

  • HN thread

• Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”

  • HN thread

• Putin Launches "Special Military Operation" In Ukraine, Kiev Calls It "Full-Scale Invasion" | ZeroHedge

• Reports on social media of an ongoing aerial battle north to Kyiv

• Russia has invaded Ukraine: what we know so far

• Biggest Russian banks could be targeted as west prepares sanctions over Ukraine

• Ukraine lawmakers call on NATO to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying the bloc is reaping the consequences of ignoring Putin's threats for years

• Biden to impose more sanctions on Russia

• Two Russian Civilian Cargo Ships Hit by Ukrainian Missile Strike in Sea of Azov

• On the ground: Ukraine says more than 40 soldiers killed

• China told its citizens who are currently in Ukraine to 'stay at home' or display the Chinese flag on their cars

• Russia Invades Ukraine in Worst European Crisis of Postwar Era

• As a Russian, I don’t know how to live with the shame of Putin’s aggression

• February 21, 2022 - by Heather Cox Richardson

• February 23, 2022 - by Heather Cox Richardson

  Zelensky told his people: “A minute ago I spoke to President Biden. The USA has started to unite international support. Today we need each of you to stay calm. If you can, stay at home. We are working. The army is working. The whole security and defense sector of Ukraine is working.”

• Photos show Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Ukraine conflict: What we know about the invasion - BBC News

• NATO-Russia Relations: The Facts

• Russia Invasion of Ukraine Ignites European Security Crisis

• Ukrainians can enter Poland without visa

• Putin's "Shock & Awe" War On Ukraine Unfolds In "Dark Day For Europe" | ZeroHedge

  Russia's military had announced within just a couple hours into the offensive that all of Ukraine's air defense systems have been taken out. A massive Russian aerial presence, including fighter jets and helicopters, has been confirmed over much of the country.

• Russia Invades Eastern Ukraine, Unleashing "Shock and Awe" - War Is Boring

• Russia's Frightening Multi-Prong Invasion Of Ukraine Has Only Just Begun (Updated)

• The LT3000 Blog: Demystifying Putin: US vs. Russia geopolitics - the real story

• Russia Moves Troops into Donbass | naked capitalism

• Vladimir Putin address fact-checked

• The Kremlin website, as well as most Russian government websites, are down

• Russian Airstrikes Hit Dozens of Ukrainian Cities

• Who can prevail on Putin now war in Ukraine has started?

• Russian Forces Take Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

• Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances

• Zelensky says Ukraine troops fighting to prevent repeat of Chernobyl

• Videos from the Invasion of Ukraine That Are Fake

• Reports the World's only AN-225 Aircraft Destroyed

• Biden to announce new measures in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Fighting Rages in Chernobyl Raising Fears of Nuclear Fallout, Says Ukraine

• Russian Government Websites Are Currently Down

• Chaos Hits Kyiv As People Flee City | ZeroHedge

• Chernobyl Captured by Russian forces

• Could Ukraine Have Retained Soviet Nuclear Weapons?

• Twitter based map of Russian troop movements | Hacker News

• (Feb 21) False Flag Shenanigans: Russia Destroys Own Equipment During False Flag Operations In Eastern Ukraine - Oryx

• Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

• Make No Mistake—Russia Has Already Lost This War

• Biden is expected to announce new sanctions after Russia attacks Ukraine

• Russia's moving on Kyiv and the plan appears to be to take out Ukraine's leadership, US defense official warns

  • Pentagon Offers Grim Assessment of Early Stages of Russian Invasion Archive link

  they have every intention of decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance,” the official told reporters in a briefing at the Pentagon.

  “We haven’t seen a conventional move like this, nation-state to nation-state, since World War II, and if it unfolds the way that hereto we believe it will come to, it has every potential to be very bloody, very costly, and very impactful on European security writ large,” the official said. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make those comments publicly.

• Hip waders on: Why Putin's long-feared attack on Ukraine will rock America and the world

  In a sign of the shattered fabric of US national unity, ex-President Donald Trump, fresh from declaring Putin a "genius" on Tuesday, quickly called into Fox and lied that a "rigged election" in the US saddled Americans with an illegitimate President and emboldened the Russian leader -- over whom he himself always fawned.

  The Ukrainian President, a former comedian now charged with narrating a national tragedy, told Russians, "We want to determine our history by ourselves. In peace, calm and honesty." And in a chilling aside, hours before guns again rang out over a continent stained with the blood of millions lost in tyrants' wars, Zelensky noted the lesson that localized battles rarely stay that way in a region cursed by history -- a point underscored by the tens of thousands of US graves in Europe from two world wars. "This step can become a beginning of a great war at the European continent," he said.

• My thoughts on war in Ukraine | Virgin

• Biden Vows "US Forces Are Not Going To Fight In Ukraine" While Unveiling 'Devastating Sanctions' | ZeroHedge

• Russian Forces Seize Chernobyl Nuclear Plant; Kremlin Willing To Talk Kiev's "Terms Of Surrender" | ZeroHedge

  Ukraine's government has confirmed that the Chernobyl power plant site has been seized by Russian forces. "The Prime Minister made the announcement in a televised briefing, saying Russian troops had taken control of the zone and the nuclear power plant," Bloomberg confirms. "The facility is located about 80 miles (129km) north of Kyiv, several miles south of the Belarus border. Holding Chernobyl would provide Russian troops a staging point that couldn’t be shelled," the report adds, in reference to the potential for dangerous radioactive fallout given the permanent presence of nuclear waste there. Speculation remains that should the site come under direct shelling, there could be nuclear contamination released into the air, potentially impacting other areas in Europe.

• How Open Source Intelligence Became the World's Window into the Ukraine Invasion

• Goody. That'll help. Petition to stop the Ukrainian war gains 300.000 supporters

• Photos: Anti-War Protests in Russia

World

• Moscow exchange suspends trading on all markets

• Chinese State Media Accidentally Releases Censorship Rules On Russia–Ukraine Coverage | ZeroHedge

• Boris Johnson pushes for Russia to be ejected from Swift payment system

  • EU unlikely to cut Russia off SWIFT for now, sources say

• Can Turkey Close Straits to Russian Ships?

• Taiwan warns off Chinese fighter jets

• "Mark It Zero": UBS Triggers Margin Calls For Wealthy Clients By Calling Russian Bond Collateral Worthless | ZeroHedge

• Carriers urged to avoid the Black Sea as Turkish bulker gets hit off Odessa - Splash247

Health / Medicine

• Why America Has So Few Doctors?

• Soybeans are evil: America’s most widely consumed cooking oil causes genetic changes in the brain | University of California

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EPA's Desire for EVs

• Vegetarians have 14% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, study finds

• Feeding effort underway to save starving Florida manatees

• Methane Emissions From the Energy Sector Are 70% Higher Than Official Figures

• Sea Level Rise Will Be Catastrophic–and Unequal

• Not a parody: John Kerry warns of the carbon footprint of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine