2024-01-29

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• 63 Unpopular Opinions - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill

  Yes, you can drink that coffee. Get over yourself. You don’t have to have the best version of everything every time.

• When the Sun Vanished

  Around 1500 years ago, in the year 536, the Sun seemingly vanished from the sky, plunging the world into darkness, casting an eerie pallor over the Earth for an extended period. Cassiodorus, a Roman statesman, described the year as “A winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat”.

Horseshit

• Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane? - WSJ

  The latest adventurer to hunt for it says a fuzzy sonar image shows the twin-engine aircraft Earhart was flying when she vanished in 1937

• Sextortion is fastest-growing crime targeting minors in North America

celebrity gossip

• So, Ben Shapiro is Now a Rapper

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Canadian Bureaucrats Forcing Dr. Jordan Peterson to Submit to Re-education for Criticizing Gender Ideology and Climate Change

Musk

• X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral

  • Twitter blocks searches for Taylor Swift after explicit AI images go viral

• Why MrBeast Is Rebuffing Elon Musk

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• US historians sign brief to support Colorado's removal of Trump from ballot

• False claim states removed Lincoln from ballot in 1860

  Lincoln was not removed from any ballots in the 1860 election. Parties, not states, administered ballots during that election, and since Lincoln's Republican party was virtually nonexistent in the South he wasn't on those ballots in the first place.

  • Posts Distort History in Comparing Lincoln With Efforts to Disqualify Trump

• Illinois Election Officials to Consider Striking Trump's Name off Primary ballot

  • Illinois Election Officials To Weigh Recommendation To Remove Trump From ballot

  • Illinois election officials to weigh recommendation to remove Trump from promary ballot

• Snoop Dogg does hard U-turn, now says he has nothing but 'love and respect' for Donald Trump

  • Snoop Dogg praises Donald Trump: 'Nothing but love and respect'

• Nikki Haley: 'I Absolutely Trust the Jury' in E. Jean Carroll’s Defamation Case

  • Haley Responds to $83 Million Trump Verdict: “I Absolutely Trust the Jury”

• E. Jean Carroll says she's going to 'do something good' with the $83.3 million in defamation damages

  • E. Jean Carroll's claims against Trump, lifestyle back under the spotlight after eye-popping verdict

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• WHO issues measles warning as yearly cases in Europe rise more than 30-fold

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• (Aug 2022) Can science ever discover the absolute truth about reality?

• Teacher who showed Muhammad cartoon still in hiding 3 years later

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Importance of Cursive Handwriting over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix is different now – and there's no going back

• (Dec 2023) How Journalists Can Win People Back

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours

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• (2022) Motorola, Intel, IBM Make a Mainframe in a PC – The PC XT/370

• Building our own private Discord knockoff

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, Dead Kids: Fake AI Content Floods In

• FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives'

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Story of how the US became the biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas

• Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the best recovery

• Apple and Goldman Sachs: A timeline of the messy partnership that will soon fall

• The Nationalization of Boeing Begins

  Trump was, if possible, even more solicitous of Boeing than Obama. Trump allowed Boeing’s CEO to sit in on a call between the Air Force general and a Boeing rival, Lockheed Martin, in a conversation about the F-35 program. Trump appointed Boeing exec Pat Shanahan to run the Pentagon in 2019. Shanahan had to resign over domestic violence allegations, but after his Trump administration service, Shanahan became the President and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, which made the door that blew out on the Alaska Air flight.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Snopes Fact-Check Calls True Biden Story ‘False’ Despite Photos THEY Included in Post — Then Reverses It

• Biden Goes Completely Incoherent at Wisconsin Event - This Was Worse Than Usual

• Biden Blackmail Intensifies: Won't Shut Border Until Congress Coughs Up Ukraine, Israel Funds | ZeroHedge

• Biden Freaks Out in South Carolina and Starts Screaming About Trump – RedState

• AOC says Biden can ‘do more’ to win over voters than just criticize Trump.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dodges Question About 'Genocide' Label In Israel-Gaza Conflict

• House Republicans Reveal Mayorkas Impeachment Articles Amid Worst Border Numbers In History

  • House Republicans Release Impeachment Articles Against Homeland Security Secretary

• Pelosi accuses some protesters demanding Gaza cease-fire of having ties to Russia

  "For them to call for a cease-fire is Mr. Putin's message," she said. "Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see. Same thing with Ukraine. It's about Putin's message. I think some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere. Some, I think, are connected to Russia. And I say that having looked at this for a long time now, as you know."

  • Pelosi Wants F.B.I. to Investigate Pro-Palestinian Protesters

  • Pelosi Bizarrely Claims Russia Is Behind Pro-Palestine Protests

  • Nancy Pelosi suspects pro-Palestine protesters of being in cahoots with Russia

  • Nancy Pelosi seeks FBI probe into protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza

  • Pelosi Wants the FBI to Investigate Pro-Palestinian Protesters

  • Pelosi said she will ask FBI to investigate pro-Palestine protesters

• Nikki Haley Slams RNC for Not Being ‘Honest Broker’

  • Haley blasts RNC for rushing to Trump as nominee, calls on Americans to 'remember what normal felt like'

• Trump Tears Into UAW President: ‘Get Rid of This Dope’

  • UAW chief Shawn Fain explains why the union endorsed Biden over Trump

• Kari Lake Booed While Nominating New Trump-Backed Arizona GOP Chair

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, at least two dozen injured.

  US Central Command confirmed in a statement on Sunday that three service members were killed and 25 injured in a one-way drone attack that “impacted at a base in northeast Jordan.” President Joe Biden vowed on Sunday to hold those responsible for the attack “to account,” saying that while facts are still being gathered, “We know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.”

  • Congressional Hawks Urge 'Hit Iran Hard' After 3 US Troops Killed By Tehran-Aligned Militants | ZeroHedge

  • Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, more than 30 injured

  • 3 US service members killed, at least 34 injured in drone attack in Jordan by ‘radical Iran-backed militant groups’.

  • GOP Hawks Bay for Blood After 3 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iran-Backed Strike

• US advances fighter jet sale to Turkey, Greece; Congress likely to approve

• U.S. Is Watching North Korea for Signs of Lethal Military Action - The New York Times

World

• Palau becomes first nation to ratify U.N. high seas treaty

• Canada is vulnerable to foreign interference like all other countries

• Secret EU plan 'to sabotage Hungarian economy' revealed as anger mounts at Orbán

  Officials in Brussels have reportedly drawn up a secret plan to sabotage Hungary’s economy if Viktor Orbán decides this week to again block a €50bn support package for Ukraine. The plan, reported by the Financial Times, reflects the fury mounting across European capitals at what one diplomat called the “policy of blackmail” being pursued by the Hungarian prime minister, who leads the bloc’s most pro-Russia state. The FT said the strategy involved targeting Hungary’s economy, weakening its currency and reducing investor confidence.

  • Brussels threatens to hit Hungary’s economy if Viktor Orbán vetoes Ukraine aid

  In a document drawn up by EU officials and seen by the Financial Times, Brussels has outlined a strategy to explicitly target Hungary’s economic weaknesses, imperil its currency and drive a collapse in investor confidence in a bid to hurt “jobs and growth” if Budapest refuses to lift its veto against the aid to Kyiv.

• French farmers aim to put Paris ‘under siege’ in tractor protest

  • Farmers Protest in Paris

Iran / Houthi / Red Sea / Mediterranean

• Iran launches three satellites amid rising tensions with Western powers

  The satellites were sent to a minimum orbit of 450km (280 miles) on Sunday. One satellite weighing 32kg (71 pounds) and two nano-satellites of less than 10kg each were propelled using the Simorgh (Phoenix) satellite carrier rocket.

• Iran denies involvement in drone strike that killed three US troops

  • Iran denies involvement in drone attack that killed 3 US soldiers in Jordan

Israel

• Israel Details Claims Against U.N. Workers It Says Aided Hamas - The New York Times

• The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said it could be forced to suspend its operations

• What Is UNRWA, Aid Provider in Gaza Accused of Militant Links?

• Concerns of Gaza Famine as Countries Suspend Funding to UNRWA

• Japan joins list of countries suspending funds to UNRWA

• UN calls on countries to resume UNRWA funding despite report employees participated in Oct 7 massacre

• Why the United States Halted Funding to the UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

• Israel, genocide and whether the ICJ matters

• The ICJ ruling on Gaza is a wake-up call for Washington – Biden has to take note | Zaha Hassan

• Where Is Hamas Getting Weapons? Increasingly, From Israel.

• Why is Benjamin Netanyahu lashing out at Egypt, Jordan and Qatar?

China

• China Evergrande Group ordered to liquidate; Hong Kong trading suspended

  • There may be little to recover in the $300 billion Evergrande debt saga

  • China Evergrande Ordered to Liquidate, Owing $300 Billion

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• In yet another pre-arranged media "photo opportunity" event: Protesters Hurl Soup at the Mona Lisa (Archive)

  Two protesters from an environmental group hurled pumpkin-colored soup on the Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday, splashing the bulletproof glass that protects the most famous painting in the world, but not apparently damaging the work itself.

  • Protesters hurl soup at the Mona Lisa painting in Paris

  • Protesters throw soup at da Vinci painting

  • Mona Lisa Splattered with Pumpkin Soup by Protesters in Paris

  • Climate activists throw soup at glass protecting Mona Lisa

  • Protesters fling soup at the Mona Lisa in demand for healthy and sustainable food

  • Activists throw soup at Mona Lisa in Louvre climate protest

  • Mona Lisa splattered in soup at Louvre Museum in Paris by food protesters

  • 2 climate activists arrested after throwing soup at "Mona Lisa"

• (Video) Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do.

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• Wolves infected with Toxoplasma Gondii 46x more likely to be pack leader

• The rooftop solar industry is facing collapse.

• How Climate Policy Went Wrong - WSJ