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The Chinese Communist Party is not repelled by the Woke talismans that provide nearly complete immunity to criticism in the West. They don’t play by politically correct rules. None of that critical theory means s**t to China.

Greta Thunberg complains that Chinese state-owned media is fat-shaming her

Global warming activist Greta Thunberg complained about criticism from Chinese state-owned media after they “fat-shamed” her in a critical article. Thunberg issued her response in a tweet from her official social media account. “Being fat-shamed by Chinese state owned media is a pretty weird e..…

Remember when it was “two weeks to flatten the curve”

The end of the talks will increase pressure on Democrats to pass a sweeping package using a special process that doesn’t require any Republican votes in the Senate.

Biden’s infrastructure talks with GOP collapse amid irreconcilable differences

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said the president informed her that he was ending their negotiations.

The new order doesn’t target any companies specifically, but creates the potential for an even broader crackdown on Chinese-owned apps than the Trump administration orders it replaces by mandating a review of all software applications with potential ties to countries such as China.

Trump’s TikTok, WeChat Actions Targeting China Revoked by Biden

The president issued an executive order mandating a broad review of apps controlled by foreign adversaries, including China.

One day the people who would always come back walk away for good. “You can’t leave California! You can’t leave New York!

You can.

Keystone XL Oil Project Abandoned by Developer

The decision hands a major victory to environmentalists, who for years fought against the effort to pipe more Canadian crude to the U.S.

New at the Belmont Club. Nature makes complex statements. It hasn’t finished the paragraph but bureaucrats might.

Living with the limits of knowledge

Knowledge is not certainty

Worse than Trump, even with a progressive discount coupon.

After Biden took office, the department continued to pursue subpoenas for reporters’ email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times’ email systems, and it obtained a gag order compelling a Times attorney to keep silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking to seize his colleagues’ records. Later, when the Justice Department broadened the number of those permitted to know about the effort, it barred Times executives from discussing the legal battle with the Times newsroom, including the paper’s top editor.

This escalation, on Biden’s watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing.

Washington Post editorial

The data help explain how Mr. Trump won 11 million more votes in 2020 than in his first election and show that his campaign drew new supporters to the GOP, an effort that focused most intensely on reaching working-class and rural voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and other battlegrounds.

Trump Found Millions of New Voters in 2020. Will They Turn Out for Next Year’s Midterms?

Former President Donald Trump drew substantial support in 2020 from a new pool of voters whose decisions on whether to participate in elections again will be central to next year’s midterms.

Trading places. Their Communists are coming down from the peak which our Communists are eagerly trying to climb.

Cuba Legalizes Most Private Businesses | Stratfor

The move will help spur growth, but the continued state control of Cuba’s most lucrative sectors will impede investment.

Immunity acquired from infection and various vaccines not only affords varying protection but wears off at different rates.

Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists

At a pivotal moment in the pandemic, Nature explores key questions about the vaccines that countries are racing to deliver while viral variants spread around the globe.

Kept from FBI till the last moment

EXCLUSIVE: High-Ranking Chinese Defector Has ‘Direct Knowledge’ of Several Chinese Special Weapons Programs

Knowledge of the defector was kept from FBI, Langley due to potential compromise of those agencies.

Surviving ‘tactical interrogation’ or a ‘hostile interview’ with the secret police of an authoritarian regime is tough. A lot of people claim “torture doesn’t work”. But if it didn’t at least to a degree it would not be the devil’s temptation that it is.

A ‘disturbing’ interview with jailed Belarus activist Roman Protasevich has been widely condemned

An interview on Belarus state television with a journalist held after his plane was forced to land in Minsk has been condemned and described as “disturbing”.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with technology shares leading the way, as weaker-than-expected jobs growth eased concerns about the economy running too hot and causing an early tightening of monetary policy.

Reuters

Wall St rises as jobs report calms inflation worries

U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with technology shares leading the way, as weaker-than-expected jobs growth eased concerns about the economy running too hot and causing an early tightening of monetary policy.

Nigeria said it suspended Twitter indefinitely on Friday, two days after the company removed a Tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for violating the site’s rules, according to BBC.

Twitter suspended in Nigeria ‘indefinitely,’ government says / Twitter

Eureka.

Zhou Yusen, a decorated military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who worked alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology as well as US scientists, filed a patent on Feb. 24 2020, according to documents obtained by The Australian.

The patent — lodged by the “Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA” — was filed just five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus, and months before Zhou died under mysterious circumstances, the report noted.

US-linked Chinese military scientist filed patent for COVID vaccine just after contagion emerged: report

Zhou Yusen, a decorated military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army, filed a patent for a COVID vaccine on Feb. 24 2020.

“We must be prepared for an intense showdown between China and the U.S.,” Hu wrote in a Thursday op-ed for the Global Times. “The number of China’s nuclear warheads must reach the quantity that makes U.S. elites shiver should they entertain the idea of engaging in a military confrontation with China.”

China state media says country must prepare for nuclear war with U.S. after Biden asks for COVID probe

Hu Xijin, the editor of the Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times, advocated for the buildup of China’s nuclear arsenal to make “elites” in America “shiver.”

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Redfield said the threats began in March after he said he believed the virus had originated in a lab.

Trump’s CDC director Robert Redfield says he got death threats for saying he thought COVID leaked from China lab

“I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” Redfield told Vanity Fair. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”

Roger Simon describes our Communists.

For Many of America’s Elites, China and Communism Have Already Won

Commentary Those who thought America was turning communist I would privately think of as paranoids. No longer. This …

The biggest difference between “their Communists” and “our Communists” is theirs have come up through the school of hard knocks. To lose inside the Chinese Communist party is to forfeit your freedom, your family’s and possibly your life.

There are three possible values to a boolean variable: true, false and null. Null is the value when you don’t know, or before you know. It is the prediscovery content of an entry.

Opinion | What Did Fauci Tell Trump About Wuhan?

Newly disclosed emails about the possibility of a laboratory origin for the pandemic.