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War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Threatens to Drag in Bigger Participants Also Russia Says Syria, Libya Fighters Deployed to Karabakh Conflict

Virginia Forces Christian Ministries to Adopt ‘Government Ideology’ or Pay $100K

Why I’m Leaving California

Where’s The Pork? Mapping $2.3 Trillion in Federal Grants (FY2017–FY2019) | OpenTheBooks Oversight Report

Filipinos make up 4% of nurses in the US, but 31.5% of nurse deaths from COVID-19

The AP Stylebook Now Doesn’t Want a Riot to Be Called a ‘Riot’

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Armenia Says Warplane Downed; Azerbaijan and Turkey Deny It

Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field: ‘It’s amazing’

I am skeptical of the methodology but I like the message all the same. Car Seats as Contraception

Hair, astonishingly preserved, showed some complementary data—especially about pigmentation: Ramses II was a ginger-haired ‘cymnotriche leucoderma’” (meaning he was a fair-skinned person with wavy ginger hair).

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How the NFL is playing through COVID-19, and in the process, exposing the ‘casedemic’

This post buries the lead. You have to get half way through before you read….. Here’s what they did: They bought insurance. And it wasn’t only these two chit-chatters who bought insurance — it was the entire department and, moreover, they bought the insurance on the taxpayers’ dime:

AP Analysis: Dark days ahead for Lebanon as crisis bites

The thing that is not spelled out (because the author supports Trump?) is the most likely reason he was able to roll the money forward is deferred losses. I have always thought that the main reason Trump did not want to show his tax returns is that they show he was not as great a businessman as he likes to portray himself. People are misreading the New York Times’ article about Trump’s taxes

Heavy Losses as Armenia-Azerbaijan Defy Calls for Calm

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The Centers for Disease Control, which has a very detailed website, published a report that contains new “best estimates” for infection fatality rates, broken down by age group. According to Table 1, last column:ages 0 tot 19: 0.003% (i.e., 1 in 33,333)ages 20-49: 0.02% (1 in 5,000)ages 50-69: 0.5% (1 in 200)70 and over: 5.4% (alas, 1 out of 19)Especially the figures for the young and fairly young are way lower than what the average person on the street has picked up from the sensationalist media.

The Mysterious Case of the Missing 250-Ton Chinese Power Transformer

Schools aren’t spreading coronavirus

If you read the article, you will see that it is actually protection money. Seattle pays ex-pimp $150,000 to offer ‘alternatives to policing’

For what it is worth, I heard that most of the work was done by the head of the Mossad. But I am putting this out there because hardly anyone is talking about it in the mainstream press. The Emperor’s New Clothes

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Secret Report: How CIA’s Brennan Overruled Dissenting Analysts Who Concluded Russia Favored Hillary

Microsoft gets exclusive access to AI deemed ‘too dangerous to release’

The thing that puzzles me is why change now? Everyone (and by that I mean even liberal historians) knew that it was divorced from reality from the get go and said so. No one seemed to care then. NY Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones Quietly Dropping Central Claims of 1619 Project

These charts don’t prove anything really because our data is not good enough and there is always going to be a lag. Still, you won’t see these charts in the mainstream media because they don’t fit the narrative. They only report bad data as gospel when it suits the story they want to tell. Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks

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The Great Forgetting: How to Stop Tooth Decay

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), perhaps unsatisfied with the misery of rolling blackouts to which ill-considered climate restrictions have subjected Californians, has ordered that no new gas-powered cars shall be sold in California beginning in the year 2035. What could possibly go wrong?

COVID19 update, September 23, 2020: another Israeli study on vitamin D; logistics of vaccine distribution

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Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite

Regardless of what Trump and Mitch do, the Democrats will (1) Eliminate the Filibuster, (2) Grant Statehood to D.C. and maybe P.R., (3) Expand the Lower Courts, and (4) Expand the Supreme Court [Updated]

Indianapolis Social Activist Pretended to Be Both Black AND Gender-Neutral

Analysis: Don’t trust estimates of Al Qaeda’s strength in Afghanistan

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The Inner Ring A related poem from the same man

The reward for lock downs is more lock downs. The Difficult Fight against the Second Wave Another lock down success story here.

The CIA sent a team of 4 operators on a spy mission targeting China. None came back.

Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.

Bulgarian court convicts two Hezbollah-linked men with 2012 Burgas bus bombing