2022-04-24

Worthy

• Scarcity Truthers - by Philo - MD&A

  as a society we have somehow embraced policies that make essential goods artificially scarce. This is doubly mysterious when we consider that artificial scarcity policies are often championed by self-described “progressives”, a label usually reserved for those concerned with improving the lot of the less fortunate.

• Astronomical anomalies 2

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• One Foot Tsunami: The Ever Loving Hell

• Money Maze: Retirees Turn Detective to Find 'Lost' Pensions | RealClearInvestigations

Horseshit

• ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens

celebrity gossip

• THE ATLANTIC: Jon Stewart’s new show takes the clown nose off, ‘he’s not even trying to be funny.’

Obit

• Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator, dies at 88

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• As Europe Approves New Tech Laws, the U.S. Falls Further Behind

  • EU agrees rules to force big tech to rein in illegal content or face fines

• Jack Dorsey says he saw CNN try to ‘create conflict’ in Ferguson

• The newspaper axis: six press barons who enabled Hitler

• Inside The New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

• The Post, Doxxing, and Stalinist Social Tax Burdens

• It’s a mistake to ban Holocaust denial

COVID / VaxCult

• Pfizer scientists transformed an old drug lead into a Covid-19 antiviral

• EMHP wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in England: 1 June 2021 to 7 March 2022

• South Korea downgrades Covid to a ‘Class 2’ disease and removes restrictions

• LA company to pay $22.5M after allegedly faking hundreds of Covid test results

  • HN comments

• Long Covid and association with 1-year recovery after hospitalisation in UK

• Life in lockdown held back progress of under-fives

• Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas

• Pfizer COVID-19 third dose vaccine protection against hospitalization from omicron wanes after 3 months: study.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• No One Expects Young Men To Do Anything and They Are Responding By Doing Nothing

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix is finally going after password sharing. Here’s how it’s likely to work

• Chicago town tacks on “amusement tax” for streaming services

• Meta investors brace for a difficult quarter

• Streamers are acting like network TV, as they pull back on edgy content

• The YouTube Rabbit Hole Is Nuanced

Musk / Twitter

• Twitter Re-Examines Elon Musk’s Bid, May Be More Receptive to a Deal

TechSuck

• The changing economics of open source

Crypto con games

• Ethereum merge no longer expected in June

Economicon / Business / Finance

• UK's Largest Supermarket Begins Rationing Cooking Oil Amid Supply Disruption

• Gen Z’s war on modern-day work

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• RASMUSSEN POLL: Most Democrats Still Believe Russia Stole 2016 Election From Hillary

• Destroying Democracy to Save it? Court Advances Effort to Block GOP Candidates from Ballots – JONATHAN TURLEY

Hunter

• “A Magnet for Conspiracy Theories”: Wikipedia Kills Entry for Hunter Biden’s Investment Company – JONATHAN TURLEY

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants After Mysterious Rash Of Fires

  • (PDF) Ransomware Attacks on Agricultural Cooperatives

  • What’s With All the Food Processing Plants Blowing Up Lately?

• Using War to Assault Freedom - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

World

• The Taliban Were Afghanistan’s Real Modernizers

• Russia was behind Polish president’s fatal 2010 plane crash, Polish panel says

• Emmanuel Macron is re-elected French President, defeating Marine Le Pen

• As Finland considers NATO membership, citizens mobilize for an invasion by Russia

Health / Medicine

• At least one child has died from mystery strain of severe hepatitis

• How Indoor Air Quality Became the New Wellness Fixation

• Superbug C.difficile jumps between Pigs and Humans – evidence of Zoonotic spread

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Arizona’s Dry Future Begins as Colorado River Shrinks

• As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland’s waters are falling

• CLIMATE ACTIVIST DIES AFTER LIGHTING HIMSELF ON FIRE OUTSIDE US SUPREME COURT

• Wynn Bruce dies after lighting himself on fire outside Supreme Court

Ukraine War

• Zelensky Announces Blinken & Austin To Visit Ukraine On Sunday

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• Russia stops publishing economic data

• Russia Is Losing a War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts of Data

• Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’

• Ukraine Sounds Alarm on Chinese Drones, Opening Skies to U.S. Startups

• Putin Has 'Lost Interest' In Diplomacy | ZeroHedge