One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

Gain of Function Science 12 Comments

What a COVID-19 Food Fight Says About Scientific Discourse

I first wrote a version of this post almost three years ago when I learned that I was blocked on Twitter by some prominent virologists soon after I called for an independent investigation of COVID-19 origins. Since then, I have observed public discussions of COVID-19 origins among virologists continue to devolve into ever-greater depths of name calling, juvenile insults, and more troublingly, efforts to damage careers and reputations.

Of course, I’ve seen this all before up close and personal in public discussions of climate, and as you might guess, I have some thoughts.

Monday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 18 Comments

Blackie’s Canada:  Renaming everything in Canada (CBC).  A Turtle Island story.  I guess bribing the mainstream media isn’t enough. Government pays Tiktoker to trash the Conservatives.  Apparently the Freedom Convoy was anti-Semitic.

Dementia Joe’s America:  An interview with Donald Trump.  The thin veneer of civilization.

The Planet Is Boiling News:  An insane plan.  The war on fossil fuel.

Your morning meme.  A cartoon.

“Seems like only yesterday, I’d get a blank cassette…”

entitlement generation 27 Comments

James Lileks;

You see tweets like the neuroscientist’s all the time from the young and the baffled, the generation who grew up with the internet all around them like a benevolent god who asked nothing of them except watching five seconds of an ad before the video starts.

When you like drove from one state to another state, how did you know where to go??? Were there like signs or things?

I’d sit in the truck with a tape recorder.

The newspaper ship is sinking

youmightbeinsaskatchewan 46 Comments

Glacier Media sells its Saskatchewan news websites to Harvard, puts its Saskatchewan buildings up for sale, but still printing newspapers

The news websites for the newspapers from Estevan, Weyburn, Yorkton, Canora, Battlefords, Preeceville, Outlook, Assiniboia, Carlyle, Humboldt, Moose Jaw, Unity, Wilkie and Kamsack have been sold to a radio broadcasting company. The newspapers’ offices are all up for sale, as is the building housing the last remaining printing plant for them. The newspapers are still printing, for now, but how long is anyone’s guess. Otherwise, why would the last Glacier printing plant left in Saskatchewan have its building for sale?

 

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Khmer Noir Shiny Pony There Goes The Narrative 33 Comments

Via @visegrad24: One of the main gangs in Haiti just released a high quality propaganda video



In this video, we can see men in uniform, well armed, equipped with almost new vehicles displaying a logo displaying a dinosaur head, the symbol of this criminal group. This raised countless questions. The simplest and certainly the most important: where did these materials come from and how were they able to arrive so easily at their destination? In a country like Haiti where no institution functions, the people will never have an answer.

We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us

CreepyJoeBiden Religion Of Submission Terrorism 39 Comments

Bomb Washington.

I have long been wondering about Qatar’s willingness to host Hamas’ leadership post-10/7.

As non-Western as Qatar is, the Emirate has been working assiduously to court Western approval and is hardly a radical Islamist state. This is not to suggest the regime is liberal or Liberal, but rather that they aren’t exactly Iranian-style fanatics. The state is pretty much what you would expect in a country that is in a dangerous region filled with radicals but with an elite who are Western-educated and resolutely capitalist.

I had long suspected that Western governments had given implicit approval for Qatar’s hosting of the radical Islamist terrorist group’s leaders in order to use it as a back-channel to Hamas.

Maybe the US thought the Qatar/Hamas relationship would yield the release of the hostages. But it’s been more than five months and 134 Israelis are still held in Gaza. It’s time for Qatar — and Turkey — to stop harboring Hamas’s top terrorists.https://t.co/yjYw9M5N9s
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) March 14, 2024

Surprisingly, it turns out that I was right. […]

That this story leaked is likely due to Qatar’s frustration with the enduring criticism it has suffered since 10/7. The country has been accused of coddling Hamas’ leaders–and no doubt it sure looks that way–and given the country’s obvious efforts to court Westerners, it surely rankled.

Of course he did: Biden Embraces Schumer’s Speech Castigating Netanyahu

HAMAS must be running short of American funding: US frees up billions in sanctions relief to Iran as Tehran proxies wreak havoc in region

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