2022-03-28

Worthy

• No News Is Good News - by Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace

  The news does not matter. It has little, if any real impact on your life besides what you allow it to have. Like a vampire, The news- whether mainstream, alternative, printed or screen-based- is a parasitic force that will drain you of your energy, happiness and rationality if you welcome it over your threshold and in to your life. The key is to simply never invite it in.

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• How to maximise your chances of being fossilised

• Why you should maybe not work so hard | Hacker News

• Organized Crime Took over Canada’s Towing Industry

• Why U.S. Population Growth Just Crashed to an All-Time Low

• James Webb Space Telescope's 1st science targets remain super secret as observatory settles in | Space

Horseshit

• IHOP and Pepsi Made a Maple Syrup Cola — Will It Pair Well with Pancakes?

celebrity gossip

• Will Smith slapping Chris Rock made the 94th Academy Awards one to remember — for the wrong reasons

  • Chris Rock isn't pressing charges against Will Smith

  • Oscars Organizer Says It "Does Not Condone Violence" After Will Smith Smacks Chris Rock | ZeroHedge

    Smith went on to win the Best Actor Oscar award

  • Someone bought the domain gijane2.com within minutes of Will smacking Chris

Obit

• Country music star Jeff Carson dead at 58

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• On Being Disappeared - The Chris Hedges Report

• On Elon Musk And Free Speech | Techdirt

• Re-Visiting Russiagate In Light Of The Ukraine War | by Caitlin Johnstone | Mar, 2022 | Medium

• Walmart to stop tobacco sales in some U.S. stores

COVID / VaxCult

• We can’t rely on boosters to get through each new wave of Covid

• Shanghai starts lockdown due to Omicron surge

• Top White House press deputy tests positive for Covid

• SARS-CoV-2 shedding sources in wastewater and implications for wastewater-based epidemiology

• Far UVC Sanitization Kills COVID

• Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ Covid origin, StateDept memo says

• Promising nose spray could prevent and treat Covid-19

• (Mar 15) Testing the Covid Tests

• Shanghai Covid: Oil prices fall after city starts lockdown

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• MIT reinstates its SAT/ACT requirement

• Teachers union partners with Airbnb “to help teachers supplement income”

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• If Twitter can block Donald Trump, why not user posting against Hindu God: Delhi

TechSuck

• Among Us Servers Have Been Down for over 48 Hours Due to DDoS Attack

• The gorilla in the room: Yuga Labs investors pretend to care about the planet. They don’t. – Amy Castor

  Yuga Labs, the startup behind the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club project, People who care about the planet, don’t back massive NFT projects. They just don’t. Every NFT transaction on Ethereum comes at a destructive cost to the environment.

• An EFF Investigation: Mystery GPS Tracker On A Supporter’s Car | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Lumber prices fall 30%; housing market cools

• Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men's underwear

• Applebee's Exec Gloats Over High Gas Prices, Hopes They Will Lead to Cheap Labor

• The rise of the rural remote worker

• Will OverSupply of EVs and Lack of Demand Set Off a Global Financial Shock?

• The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse

• As key goods grow more expensive 'demand destruction' threatens global recession

• Mortgage rate soars closer to 5% in its second jump this week

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• How the left is pushing property owners to the brink

• Congressman Seeks Facebook, Twitter Records Related to Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story.

• No, Justice Thomas Did Not Commit an Impeachable Offense

• EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Cook's Tenure Packet - by Chris - Karlstack

  Lisa Cook’s nomination to the Fed Board is being voted on by the United States Senate this week,

• A Google billionaire helped pay for Biden's science office

• US NHTSA reinstates billions in fines on gas-guzzling automakers

• Give us all the refugees, dammit! - by Noah Smith

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden: “Putin cannot remain in power” in sweeping speech on Russian invasion

  • American officials scrambled to clarify Biden’s suggestion that Putin ‘cannot remain in power.’

  • Biden's Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of the U.S.'s Use of Ukraine As a Proxy War

• Feds allege destructive Russian hackers targeted US oil refineries

• The Worst Defense Program of All - by Andrew Cockburn

  an example of a deeper problem: the urge to displace direct perceptions of the real world in favor of costly and therefore profitable technological interfaces. At its most extreme, this has given us drone warfare, in which "pilots" in Nevada or some such remote location select human targets on the other side of the world.

• THE COLUMN: No Country for Old Men | The Pipeline

• BREAKING: Here Is The Newly Found 'Laptop From Hell' Evidence Hunter Biden Was Involved In Financing Biolabs In Ukraine - CD Media

World

• China's Sinopec Bows Out of Russian Petchem, Gas Projects

• War with Russia? Finland has a plan for that

• Iraq is building a concrete wall along Syria to stop ISIS from infiltrating

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Florida’s Starving Manatees Ate ‘Every Scrap’ of Food in Trial Feeding Program

• Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States

• Extreme heat already disrupts air travel: It's going to get worse

Ukraine War

• Here Are All The Latest News And Developments From The Ukraine War: March 28

• Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Warns Of Russian Plans To Bifurcate The Country

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• Russian soldier 'surrenders with TANK and gets £7,500 and Ukrainian citizenship

• Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words

• Russian tank manufacturer shuts down production

• No Longer in Russia

• The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv

• Zelensky Gives Interview to Russian Journalists. Moscow Orders It Quashed

• Ukraine captures one of Russia’s most advanced electronic warfare systems, which could reveal military secrets, reports say.

• Ukraine promises “immediate investigation” after video surfaces of soldiers shooting Russian prisoners

• Zurich Insurance removes Z symbol after letter used to show support for Ukraine war

• In Mariupol, neo-Nazis burned swastika on a girl's body

• (Feb 1, 2022) Tanks, Trains, and TikToks - Line of Actual Control

• The Russia Ruble is now gold-backed

• Using the “Z” symbol could lead to prosecution in two German states

• Google Ordered Russian Translators Not to Call War in Ukraine a War

• Change in nighttime lights in Ukraine following the Russian invasion

• Russian Navy Ship That Exploded In Ukrainian Port Seen Totally Destroyed In Satellite Image

• Roman Abramovich, Ukrainian negotiators poisoned in Kyiv talks - WSJ - The Jerusalem Post

  • Roman Abramovich 'poisoned' at peace negotiations with Ukraine

  The alleged poisoning attempt is believed to have taken place on March 3, and at least two Ukrainians involved in the peace talks also reportedly suffered symptoms.

• Stocks Jump, Gold & Oil Dump On Report Russia Abandons "De-Nazification" Demands In Peace Talks | ZeroHedge