2022-04-07

Worthy

• Book Review: A Square Meal – Part I: Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

  This book also has some interesting reminders that constipation used to be the disease of civilization. In fact, they mention constipation being called “civilization’s curse”. This is why we have the stereotype of old people being obsessed with fiber and regularity, even though that stereotype is about a generation old now, and refers to a generation that has largely passed.

  • Book Review: A Square Meal – Part II: Politics – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

• Striving to Make Sense of the Ukraine War

  Then suddenly, from one issue to the next, the Finns were no longer heroes but were evil Nazis, and the Mannerheim Line was now definitely as German as it sounds. What is more, if marginally more gradually, the evil Communist tyrant Stalin, who had sent army after army unsuccessfully against the Finns and been executing his own commanders, was suddenly genial, wise Stalin. As a ten year old, I found the transition very hard to fathom, and being now romantically fully committed to the Finnish cause, I rather went off the magazines.

  One of the truths about the Ukraine war which western media is suppressing is that, if Russia cannot take on Ukraine without serious embarrassment, then Russia could not possibly take on NATO. It is a ludicrous proposition, outwith full scale nuclear war. It is fascinating to watch the western militarist establishment in full cry, simultaneously crowing over Russian military inadequacies while claiming that the West needs massively to increase the money it pumps in to the military industrial complex because of the Russian threat. The self-evidently fatuous nature of this dual assertion is never pointed out by mainstream media journalists, who currently operate in full propaganda mode.

• Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas (Interconnected)

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• Car Shipping Giant Bans Used EVs After Felicity Ace Sinking

• Army Corps of Engineers closes SpaceX Starbase permit application

• "Island-Wide Blackout" Strikes Puerto Rico After Major Power Station Erupts In Flames

Horseshit

• Cornwall: Council cuts daffodils at play park in case children eat them | Metro News

celebrity gossip

• Hacker Takes over Drake, Eminem, and Justin Bieber's YouTube Channels

• Trump used to borrow from major banks. Now look who's lending it money

  Donald Trump used to bank with the big guns. Now he’s borrowing from Axos Financial, an obscure, internet-only institution based in San Diego and Las Vegas.

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk delayed filing a form and made $156M

Obit

• Eric Boehlert, Andrew Breitbart’s Worthy Left-wing Opponent, Dies at 57

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Where Americans get their news and who they trust for information

• 71% of executives say the metaverse will be good for business

• Insurance Giant GEICO Cancels Event With Linda Sarsour After Outcry

• Prebunking “inoculation” reduces susceptibility to misinformation across culture

• Meta takes down Brazil environmental disinformation network tied to military

COVID / VaxCult

• Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

• Leaked Recording of Shanghai CDC Expert Describes Chaos Behind Lockdown Measures

• Covid vaccine plus infection can lead to months of immunity

• Mini-Covid wave hits D.C. elite

  • Multiple D.C. insiders test positive for COVID after annual Gridiron Dinner

• Global life expectancy drops two years since the start of the pandemic

• German Lawmakers Reject Mandatory Vaccination Bill In Latest Blow To Chancellor Scholz

  • German parliament rejects mandatory coronavirus vaccination

• Taiwan to move away from zero-Covid strategy

• Extension of EU Digital Covid Certificate Regulation: feedback until 2022-04-08

• Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 Against Omicron in Israel

• What triggers severe Covid? Infected immune cells hold clues

• Nancy Pelosi Tests Positive for COVID-19.

• Shanghai Residents Plead for Help Online

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Teens help MIT teach lending algorithms not to be racist

• Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6M House

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems

• Former Clemson student wins $5.3 million sexual assault defamation lawsuit.

• Experts warned COVID would hurt students’ mental health. Now, teachers are living that reality.

• More Fakery | Science | AAAS

• A Stunning Level of Student Disconnection.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• DirecTV dropped OAN today, rejecting pleas to keep network

• NY Times resetting its approach to Twitter

TechSuck

• Still happening: Did You Receive a Text Message from Yourself? You’re Not Alone

Crypto con games

• Paramount won’t stop making Star Trek NFTs

• Maker of ‘Axie Infinity’ Game Raises Funds to Reimburse Victims of Crypto Hack

• Meta is reportedly making ‘Zuck Bucks’

• Ubisoft’s first NFT experiment was a dumpster fire

• Play-to-Earn Game Token Collapses After Hacker Cashes Out

  A hacker stole $300,000 from blockchain-based mobile game WonderHero, just a few days after the massive hack targeting play-to-earn Axie Infinity.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why is the U.S. inflation rate especially high?

• Berkshire Hathaway Buys $4.2b in HP Shares

• iPhone Has Never Been More Popular with Teens. That’s Good for Apple Stock

• Canada to Ban Foreigners from Buying Homes

• Fast, the easy checkout startup, shuts down after burning through money

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice

  Jackson won't be sworn in immediately, as Justice Stephen Breyer will need to first retire sometime this summer.

• Political spam texts are out of control and customers have no effective recourse

• Digital Economy: Toward a Digital Economy Satellite Account

• FAA, do your damn job (unleaded avgas)

  George Braly of General Aviation Modifications Inc. ran down in dreary detail how the agency has dragged its feet, obfuscated, delayed, ignored, changed the rules and simply abandoned its charge to oversee the certification of GAMI’s G100UL unleaded avgas. On some of his slides detailing this 12-year odyssey—yes, 12 years—were emails with my name on them. I started covering this story in 2010—January, as Braly reminded us at the forum, whose venue, appropriately, required a treasure map and numerous detours for directions to even find.

• Did Joe Biden's Millions Really Come From His Book Sales?

• Swamp Fox Detained After Attack on Democrat Congressman - The Political Insider

• Obama backs Biden after ‘sad’ video shows audience ignoring president

• Five-justice majority restores Trump-era policy on water pollution, provoking more criticism of emergency docket

• FDA Warning Letters Are Pearls Of Wisdom - Dealbreaker

  Last week, the FDA issued a new round of letters to no less than seven CBD companies that used research studies to claim or misleadingly imply that their CBD products can cure, mitigate, treat or prevent COVID-19.

• White House warns of 'escalating vulnerabilities' from semiconductor shortage

Hunter

• 450GB Of 'Deleted' Hunter Biden Laptop Material To Be Released Within Weeks | ZeroHedge

  A whistleblower who's fled the United States for Switzerland has vowed to drop '450 gigabytes of deleted material' from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, which he says he also gave the the Washington Post, New York Times, and Sen. Chuck Grassley - all of whom he says sat on it for months.

• Whistleblower who distributed Hunter Biden's laptop intends to share 450GB of DELETED material | Daily Mail Online

• Jack Maxey (@JackMaxey1) / Gab Social

• Atlantic staff writer says the Hunter Biden laptop story was not ‘interesting’ … at ‘Disinformation’ conference – twitchy.com

• Over 150 Suspicious Hunter Or James Biden Financial Transactions Flagged By Banks | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Judge acquits federal defense contractor on Jan. 6 charges

• What the actual ever lovin' chuckle fuck is this? US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers | AP News

  Prosecutors allege Taherzadeh and Ali had falsely claimed to work for the Department of Homeland Security and work on a special task force investigating gang and violence connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. They allege the two posed as law enforcement officers to integrate with actual federal agents. Authorities did not detail what, if anything, the men were aiming to accomplish by posing as law enforcement officers or by providing the gifts. Prosecutors said the investigation remains ongoing.

  Taherzadeh is accused of providing Secret Service officers and agents with rent-free apartments — including a penthouse worth over $40,000 a year — along with iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, flat screen television, a generator, gun case and other policing tools, according to court documents.

  • Two Men accused of posing as federal officers to get near Secret Service

• U.S. Says It Removed Malware Worldwide, Pre-Empting Russian Cyberattack

  • Director Christopher Wray Announces Actions to Disrupt and Prosecute Russian Criminal Activities

  • Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them

  • U.S. says it secretly removed malware worldwide, preempting Russian cyberattacks.

• Hydra: German police dismantled Russian darknet site

  • Darknet Hydra Market site seized and shut down

• Border Patrol Agents Accused of ‘Whipping’ Cleared of Criminal Misconduct, Union Chief Says.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US is using declassified Intel to fight an info war, even it isn't rock solid

• After China Threatens 'Forceful Measures' Over Taiwan Visit, Pelosi Suddenly Tests Positive For COVID, Postponing Trip

  • US Speaker Nancy Pelosi Reportedly Coming to Taiwan Sunday

  • Pelosi to Visit Taiwan in First Such Trip in 25 Years, FNN Says

• DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world

• US brings foreign banks into intelligence-sharing fold

World

• Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping - by Scott Alexander

• Hackers Posed as Flirtatious Women to Target Israeli Officials

• Lebanon’s annual inflation rate dropped to a 3-month low: 214.59%

• Finland Mulling NATO Membership After Russia Warns Of 'Serious Consequences'

• Rule of law: European Commission targets Hungary but spares Poland

• Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France

• Germany stages country-wide raids against ‘neo-Nazi networks’

• The Final Blow to Hong Kong

• Bretton Woods III? China Begins Buying Russian Coal And Oil In Yuan  | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• Fabric conditioners reduce the release of microfibres in tumble dryers

• Nicotine and Parkinson’s disease; implications for therapy

• Blood test predicts risk of heart attack and stroke with twice previous accuracy

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• EPA proposes “historic” plan to ban cancer-causing asbestos

• Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested

• Energy strategy: UK plans eight new nuclear reactors to boost production

• Uranium Is Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water, Study Finds

• After seeing how gas stoves pollute homes, these researchers are ditching theirs

Ukraine War

• Video appears to show Ukrainian troops killing captured Russian soldiers

• Weaponisation of finance: how the west unleashed ‘shock and awe’ on Russia

• BND Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civilians in Bucha

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• Ukrtelecom down via stolen credentials from employee in Russian-occupied zone

• Pentagon Foresees Very Protracted Ukraine Conflict To Be "At Least Measured In Years"

• Do Russians tell the truth when they say they support the war in Ukraine?

• Russia Committing Genocide in Ukraine, Says Holocaust Expert

• Anonymous has gained access to the Kremlin's security cameras

• Russian war crimes in recently liberated Bucha, Kyiv Oblast

• Communication Breakdown: How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Bogged Down

• The Ruble Has Bounced Back. What Does That Mean?

• UK to send armoured vehicles to aid Ukraine

• The United States imports more petroleum products than crude oil from Russia

• Viral "Russian Mobile Crematorium" Tweet Is From An 8-Year-Old YouTube Video | ZeroHedge

• Breaking ranks with EU, Hungary says ready to pay for Russian gas in roubles

• WATCH: Zelenksy Blasts Russia at UN for ‘Worst War Crimes’ Since 1945; Russia Blames Ukraine for Massacre

  • NC: "Worse than Abu Ghraib? Worse than Fallujah? Really?"

• “Do Not Try to Interrupt a Ukrainian Woman”: Explaining the War to Europe’s Skeptics

• Belarusians, Russians Join Ukraine’s Military

• United Nations suspends Russia from human rights body over Ukraine

• Chernobyl Was a Wildlife Haven. Then Russian Troops Arrived

• Facebook cracks down on Russian influence networks targeting Ukraine

• 'We Became Like a Big Startup.' How Kyiv Adapted the City's Tech to Save Lives

• Apple defies Russian government, restores opposition voting app