2022-03-19

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• Anti-tech bro flyers posted in SF

• 'Children of Men' is really happening - by Ed West

Horseshit

• Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Teenagers

Obit

• Alaska Republican Congressman Don Young dead at 88

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Sandy Hook was a turning-point in America’s battle over truth

• NPR Corrects False Hunter Biden Claim But . . . – JONATHAN TURLEY

  • How Dems, media and Big Tech worked in concert to bury the Hunter Biden story

  • Today’s blacklisted American: Man who found Hunter Biden’s laptop harassed, threatened, and driven to bankruptcy – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

  • Hunter Biden scandal: CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC completely avoid NYT report verifying laptop emails from 2020

  • EXCLUSIVE: Senator Ron Johnson leads Republicans asking when the ‘corrupt’ media, Twitter and Facebook will be held to account for taking a YEAR to ‘acknowledge’ the Hunter Biden laptop story after dismissing it as fake

  • Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Finally News Fit to Print

  • They actually got a couple responses: 'Intelligence' experts refuse to apologize for smearing Hunter Biden story

• Beauty after COVID | the singularity is nearer

• What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About Right-Wing Logic

COVID / VaxCult

• CDC Removes 24 Percent Of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands Of Others | ZeroHedge

  • CDC reports of historical Covid deaths drop by 70k to correct “coding error”

  • CDC reports fewer Covid-19 pediatric deaths after data correction

• Life-Saving Covid Drugs are sitting unused on pharmacy-shelves – HHS data shows

• Please stop putting COVID-19 test solution in your eyes and nose, FDA says.

• Omicron Survives longer on some-Surfaces – May explain why it's more Contagious

• HK runs out of coffins as Covid deaths surge

• Why some Americans haven’t gotten COVID yet and why it’s not inevitable they ever will: Experts

• Murky case for fourth doses now with FDA as protection wanes, BA.2 looms

• What do we mean by ‘Covid-19 changes your brain’?

• U.K. Covid Cases Are Rising – Health Officials Are Watching Cases in the U.S.

• Moderna asks FDA to approve fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot.

• Fauci Says He's Considering Stepping Down

• Vaccination status might predict views on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans

• (1939) Lloyd Gaines Disappears After Winning Missouri Desegregation Case

TechSuck

• On the weaponisation of open source | Tales about Software Engineering

  • HN thread

• The Open Source Initiative Did Not Win Neo4j v. PureThink — /dev/lawyer

• Gas pumps happen to be about as insecure as your typical router

• Welcome To The Future, Where Your Microwave Thinks It’s A Steam Oven

Crypto con games

• Crypto is an Unproductive Bubble

  • HN thread

• What's a 'Nocoiner'? Inside the World of Crypto Sceptics

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Doritos bags will now have 5 fewer chips thanks to inflation

• With Gas Prices Soaring over the Ukraine War – Plans to Cut Oil Consumption

• People Are Quitting Full-Time Jobs for Contract Work–and Making Six Figures

• Credit Burea Transunion (South Africa) Hacked for Ransom

• Nickel Can’t Find a Price

  • Inside the Nickel Market Failure: Massive Trades the Exchange Didn’t See

• From pasta shortage to run on iodine pills, panic buying hits Europe again

• IEA calls for driving restrictions and air travel curbs to reduce oil demand

  • International Energy Agency Says Nations Should Conserve Fuel as Global Energy Crisis Looms

• How to take advantage of rising interest rates

  • Americans will feel the impact as Fed raises rates. Here's what you should know

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Kamala Harris Quotes As Motivational Posters

• Readout of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Call with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China

  • President Xi Jinping Has a Video Call with US President Joe Biden

• White House Reported to Be 'Appalled' at Axios over Ukraine Article

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• South Carolina is now prepared to carry out executions by firing squad

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The western elite is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s rich

• ‘Give Peace A Chance’, Serbian fans mock US military interventions

• Four US Marines Dead After V-22 Osprey Crashed During NATO Drill | ZeroHedge

World

• High energy costs trigger unrest in parts of Europe

Health / Medicine

• Why Aren’t There More Dogs at the Doctor’s Office?

• World's only drug-delivering contact lens approved for use in the US

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Belgium delays nuclear energy exit 10 years due to Ukraine war

• It’s 70 degrees warmer in Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted

Ukraine War

• Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened – March-18

• Ukraine Appears to have Stalled Russia's Advance – Here's what that could mean

• This is how the world ends

• Ukie War: Blackwater Mercenary Teams Eradicated in Precision Russian Strike on Luxury ‘Skivvy’ Hotel

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 18

• Russia Confirms It Is Using Hypersonic Missiles In Ukraine | ZeroHedge

• Mariupol About To Fall As Fighting Enters City Streets | ZeroHedge

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• Russian Media Falsely Reports – 'American Troops Being Killed in Ukraine'

• Putin Celebrates Anniversary of Crimea Annexation at Stadium Rally

• Specialist Ukrainian drone unit picks off invading Russian forces

• Russians told to attend pro-war Putin rally in Moscow or 'resign' from jobs

• US Defense Secretary Lloyd-Austin – Russia Made 'Mis-Steps' in Ukraine Invasion

• Russia Is a Potemkin Superpower

• Putin’s paranoid-world as he purges Aides and explodes at Staff

• Zelensky's administration moves to dismantle press freedom in Ukraine

• How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

• Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world – but not the way he wanted

• Biden layed-out Consequences to Xi if China supports Russian Attack on Ukraine

• Russia’s astronauts enter the space station in yellow and blue flight suits

• A Chinese Vlogger Shared Videos of War-Torn Ukraine – Labeled a National Traitor

• ‘Limited’ Tactical Nuclear Weapons Would Be Catastrophic

• What are vacuum bombs and is Russia using them in Ukraine?

• Russia Will Not Allow Slovakia to Transfer S-300 Air Defence System to Ukraine

• The Multipolar World Dies in Ukraine

• Sorry Ukraine, Germany needs Russian energy

• Putin replaced 1k staffers over fears they'd poison him

• Poland to propose Ukraine peacekeeping mission at NATO summit, says PM

• Misinformation, Scams, and Help

• The US arming of Ukraine and the preparations for war

• U.S. Public Views of Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Biden’s Response

• WATCH: UN Security Council on Ukraine’s Bio Labs

• Private Jets Leave Russia for Dubai as Putin Threatens to Purge Russian Traitors

• Why social-media can give a skewed-account of the War in Ukraine

• Russia's new Ukraine weapon: What is a hypersonic missile?

• Russia’s mistakes and Ukrainian resistance altered Putin’s war

• Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion

• Trump and His Crew Boost Putin’s Disinformation

• British fighters triggered strike on Ukrainian base after phones were detected

• Why India isn’t denouncing Russia’s Ukraine war

• Russia’s New “Trusted Root CA”