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Greenwald gets it
… as usual. He sees what Nikki Haley is doing and describes it with a memorable phrase. She’s monetizing her future. Enhancing her job resume as a board member and lobbyist for warmaking companies. = = = = = In fairness, Glenn has a blind spot about Trump. Whether from bias or payment, he can’t…
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No more pranks
Gov Abbott of Texas is the only modern Repooflican willing to use effective tactics. He wasn’t as firm as DeSantis against the imprisonment and strangulation of the world, but he’s been remarkably CREATIVE in dealing with the migrant invasion. Dropshipping the migrants to the demonic mayors who claimed to want them was the PERFECT tactic.…
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Wot? No beats?
An experiment shows fungi don’t like silence. But the choice of sounds is peculiar. = = = = = START QUOTE: To investigate the impacts of sounds on fungi, Jake Robinson at Flinders University in Australia and his colleagues buried green and rooibos teabags in soil inside a soundproof box. Inside the box, they played…
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Fed breaks Parkinson!
Jerome Powell is the ONLY problem solver in this fucked former “country”. Everyone else at all levels is manufacturing problems and evils at an exponentially increasing rate. Now Powell has added another achievement: He broke the unbreakable Parkinson. He REPEALED a Federal program! Not quite as big as repealing a whole agency, but still unprecedented…
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Inner fog
Thankfully we’re past the supercold and snow, into a typical January period of fog and overcast. Looking at the airport records this morning to see if the fog was starting to let up… It’s so dense you can’t even see outside at all! You can only see inside your head!
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Search and replace
BlackVault has been fairly inactive lately. Today he posted an updated set of FOIA documents from the 1950s civil defense fraud. I lived through the fraud, though I was too young to question authority at the time. I’ve been reminded of the fraud by those Natl Assn of Mfrs films I’ve been playing at bedtime.…
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Grizzled Prospector Day
To honor Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day, here’s a wonderful example of karma. One of Lindsay MacHarrie’s Can You Imagine That episodes tells about a pair of grizzled old prospectors who fooled some of the richest men in the world (including Rothschild and Tiffany) with a salted diamond mine. MP3 at Archive.
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If this succeeds…
Via Politico, two big donors are suing the ‘No Labels’ outfit for fraud. The Durst family gave $150k to No Labels at a time when No Labels was claiming to be a bipartisan think tank. After that, No Labels started running a third-party candidate, which the Dursts claim is a bait-n-switch. I’ve been agitating for…
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Syllogism
All politics is about money. All email spam is about money. I receive massive amounts of spam from R/D politicians. Most of them aren’t even in my area, so I couldn’t “vote” for them if I wanted to. I’ve never received spam from an out-of-party politician, not even RFK. 2/3 of the people are dead…
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The real ancestor
I wrote this as a comment in a media-centered article at Substack. It’s a new thought, which really should have gone here first! In any case, here’s the new thought: The media that currently prosper are NOT descendants of newspapers and magazines. Currently thriving media are descendants of House Organs, the internal publications of corporations…
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Cute trick.
I was always suspicious of the “free” university UATX. It’s NOT based on skills. It’s centered on ideas, which necessarily means it will enforce orthodoxy and avoid truth. Skills are intrinsically true and unalterable, facts are arbitrary and controllable. UATX advisers and organizers include several unreformed Deepstaters like Bari Weiss and Richard Dawkins and (former…
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Platonic crap
Via MindMatters. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mark Balaguer defends the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm. This realm is frequently referred to as the Platonic realm. Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else—independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The…
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If this is a stereotype
Most of our current notions about past portrayals of race and gender are idiotic and delusional. I’ve always appreciated Mantan Moreland’s character in the Charlie Chan movies. This movie caught my attention immediately with a chase scene involving a Bantam panel truck. I can’t resist Bantams. Moreland serves the same function here as in the…
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Good news for real business
Via Pitchbook, about 40% of venture capitalists quit this year. The number of active investors dropped from 7000 to 4000. The counterfeit has dried up, and the insane and evil nonsense created by the counterfeit is also drying up fast. Bitcoin shit, “renewable energy” shit, DEI shit, AI shit, all collapsing. Thanks, Powell! Stupid sidenote:…
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Especially unsurprising
Brownstone writes about the unending “virus” measures in Japan, rigidly enforced by Japan’s precise hivemind even after the government said it was OK to stop. Aside from the uniquely Japanese conformity, muzzle mania is a tradition across the Orient. Long before the “virus”, even in the 1950s, random street pictures of Japan and China showed…
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