It turns out that the same day Alberta’s wind power flatlined, so did Saskatchewan’s. SaskPower delays its data reporting two days, which is why it took until Friday to find this out. Note that the 1.3 per cent output was the average for the entire day, meaning that it was even lower for part of the day.
Remember this one? Russian bots and trolls were blamed by virtually every major news organization in the country for amplifying the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo. The files contain a mass of emails from executives blowing up this ridiculous story, once and for all.
The #ReleaseTheMemo scandal was one of the more shameful episodes in the recent history of our media, but taken seriously by all but one or two mainstream editors at the time. All citing the same dubious source — the Hamilton 68 “dashboard” trumpeted by former FBI counterintelligence official and current MSNBC contributor Clint Watts — they insisted Russians deployed Twitter bot-armies to whip up cyber-support for Republican congressmann Devin Nunes. Nunes had just released a classified memo alleging Democrats and the FBI used the infamous paid oppositional research dossier of ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain secret FISA surveillance authority on Trump-connected figures like Carter Page, amid other improprieties.
We now know Twitter internally found no evidence, as in zero, that Russians were anywhere near this story.
“I just reviewed the accounts that posted the first 50 tweets with #releasethememo,” wrote a piqued Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth, in all other respects as loyal a Democratic partisan as can be imagined. “None of them show any signs of affiliation to Russia.”
“These hashtags are organic,” said a second.
“Not seeing it,” said a third.
This is a constant theme in the files. In addition to revelations about FBI censorship, shadow-banning, Pentagon use of fake accounts, and suppression of true information about issues like Covid-19, the Twitter emails regularly expose the wide delta between what we were told about foreign threats, and what a major platform seeing the raw data knew.
The Twitter Files:The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag
Trudeau’s Canada: The unmarked graves saga continues. The priorities of Justin Trudeau. Justin warns us about ongoing racism in Canada. Grant to consultant who fantasized about killing Jews. Your morning meme.
Global Warming Scam News: Confessions of an environmentalist. Open borders for climate refugees.
Biden’s America: Masking was always a fraud. The Biden crime family. This week of big lies. The Democrat classified capers.
Today In Islam: A debate about religion in Uganda. Thriving Muslim culture in France.
Obey The Science News: What could possibly go wrong?
Including the woo of twerking; some workplace woes; a domestic drama; a dispute over parking; and assorted telesnaps of TARDIS interiors.
This evening we learn about mobile phones … in the 1940’s!
Your most revelatory tips are always welcome.
Why are you a man in a dress? Why are you luring children on a street corner?
Related: Statistically women and children are more at risk from transwomen then other males.
Pace of restaurant closings in Canada accelerated in 2022, according to Restaurants Canada.
Openings/Closures ratio by Region (2022):
ATL: 148/314, 43%
QC: 585/1577, 37%
ON: 1526/3246, 47%
PR: 625/1178, 53%
BC: 544/1119, 48%— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) January 12, 2023
As long as government keeps running health care.
The Telegraph- NHS trust cancels all routine operations for three weeks
Ms Burden said: “Due to the overwhelming demand across general practice and the need to prioritise same-day emergency care to support the wider system, we are asking GP practices to move to only seeing urgent and emergency care patients only.”
She said this would allow practices to focus on urgent care, palliative care, screening programmes, out-of-hours services and care for those with complex care needs.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
On Tuesday, we didn’t get much in the way of wind power generation, again.
It’s just the straw breaking the camels back.
The Telegraph-Over-50s are being driven out of work by wokery
The civil service, the NHS, higher education and far too many private companies have become a paradise for “recreational offence-takers” who love to air their concocted grievances. On one occasion, Gareth had a complaint lodged against him for using the term Anglo-Saxon. “Apparently, it has negative connotations for the woke. Who knew?”
…whenever I see the name of any Ivy League university, I immediately associate it with decadence, decline, and unearned privilege. I think those universities symbolize what’s wrong with America, and long have. I grew up in a generation in which the Ivy League schools were places to aspire to attend. Now, the worst ideas and practices come from them. When candidate (now Senator) J.D. Vance said at NatCon a while back that “universities are the enemy,” it was shocking for two reason: first, because it was so hardcore populist, and second, because it’s, um, true.
I didn’t take him to be saying that universities per se are problematic, and certainly not that intellectual thought is bad. He was pointing to the deep intellectual and moral corruption of the academy in our time. These are institutions that form the American ruling class, yet they create a leadership class that is frail, arrogant, unaccountable, and committed to illiberal left wing ideas that are destroying the capacity of our country to thrive. As a conservative, I believe in natural elites and hierarchies. But the hierarchy we have now is a bad one, and it’s taking the country down.
@RealAndyLeeShow – This “bombshell” study on the possible harms of gas stoves was funded by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) – a WEF partner that makes money off of consulting on low-carbon solutions and pushing green energy transitions.
Only Justin can save us. As part of their new recruitment drive, they have hired someone to report on racism and how to deal with it. Apparently there are even anti-vaxxers and Freedom Convoy supporters in the military.
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease;
In August 2021, Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt University, got a call that would plunge him into a maelstrom of possible scientific misconduct. A colleague wanted to connect him with an attorney investigating an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease called Simufilam. The drug’s developer, Cassava Sciences, claimed it improved cognition, partly by repairing a protein that can block sticky brain deposits of the protein amyloid beta (Aβ), a hallmark of Alzheimer’s. The attorney’s clients—two prominent neuroscientists who are also short sellers who profit if the company’s stock falls—believed some research related to Simufilam may have been “fraudulent,” according to a petition later filed on their behalf with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Schrag, 37, a softspoken, nonchalantly rumpled junior professor, had already gained some notoriety by publicly criticizing the controversial FDA approval of the anti-Aβ drug Aduhelm. His own research also contradicted some of Cassava’s claims. He feared volunteers in ongoing Simufilam trials faced risks of side effects with no chance of benefit.
So he applied his technical and medical knowledge to interrogate published images about the drug and its underlying science—for which the attorney paid him $18,000. He identified apparently altered or duplicated images in dozens of journal articles. The attorney reported many of the discoveries in the FDA petition, and Schrag sent all of them to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which had invested tens of millions of dollars in the work. […]
But Schrag’s sleuthing drew him into a different episode of possible misconduct, leading to findings that threaten one of the most cited Alzheimer’s studies of this century and numerous related experiments. Continue reading
Breaking: Classified documents found in @JoeBiden Wilmington garage: pic.twitter.com/v2q8Xggv2f
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) January 12, 2023
“My Corvette’s in a locked garage, okay? So it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street.”
They oppose to conceal their own guilt.
“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
“We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
These were highly amplified statements made by influential scientists in early 2020, which set the tone for scientific and public discourse on the origin of the pandemic. […]
The effect of this manufactured certainty on the pandemic’s origin is that the stakes have now become extraordinarily high for a subset of the scientific research and science journalism community. Instead of grappling only with the fact that scientific research might have caused this pandemic, we now also have to contend with whether and how members of the scientific community have suppressed inquiry into a laboratory origin of Covid-19.
If direct evidence of a natural origin of the virus via the wildlife trade emerges one day, those who have aggressively dismissed the lab leak theory can heave a huge sigh of relief.
However, if direct evidence of a research-related origin of the virus is revealed, these scientists and reporters will have a lot to answer for, and to a large segment of the public that has grown skeptical of repeatedly being told to follow the science before sufficient data has been obtained.
Decades down the road, we do not want to have to tell our grandchildren about the time some scientific leaders almost got away with casting a laboratory origin of the pandemic as a conspiracy theory.
These people are too stupid to breathe, so they’ve been granted the role as educators.
The University of Southern California’s school of social work will no longer use the word “field” in its curriculum, saying it may have racist “connotations.”
USC’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work said the change was critical to support anti-racist social work and inclusivity.
The department specifically decided to remove the word “field” from its curriculum and replace it with “practicum,” according to the letter, which was dated Jan. 9 and shared to Twitter.
“This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language,” the letter said.
The letter continued: “Language can be powerful, and phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ maybe have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.”
See also, “Brownies”.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is either a shill or idiot, the trials were manipulated and people with adverse affects were kicked out of them being hidden from “the data”
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) January 11, 2023
Victor Davis Hanson on what caused the political hysteria.
China Virus News: Don’t upset the Covidians. Defending forced vaccinations.
Trudeau’s Canada: Catholic education in Toronto. Artificial Christmas trees are a symbol of colonialism or something. CBC is upset that Catholic schools have Catholic textbooks. The trial of a B.C. nurse. The rally for Jordan Peterson. Apparently there are no places to meet in Ottawa. Taxpayer funded retreat in Hamilton. Big Chief Justin rewrites history.
Woke Britain: Church of England will pay reparations.
Biden’s America: Joe’s Filegate. The transgender army. A dead name documentary. The sterility epidemic. Your morning meme.
666 News: List of Canadians speaking at the Antichrist Conference.
Today In Islam: Canadian media self-censorship. They all reported on the incident and they all failed to mention, that the attacker in Paris was a Muslim screaming Allahu Akbar. A little Muslim outreach in New York.