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“As a decision-making aid in the construction of dykes and drainage channels the climate models are unsuitable. “Our computers do not even predict with certainty whether the glaciers in the Alps will increase or decrease,” explains Stevens.

The difficulties he and his fellow researchers face can be summed up in one word: clouds. The mountains of water vapor slowly moving across the sky are the bane of all climate researchers.”

And yet progressive politicians have already made the decision to start a trillion dollar Green New Deal.

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Countries, unlike companies, are defined by the International system as “too big to fail”. What foreign assistance tries to accomplish would be called a bailout. Unfortunately some countries fail anyway.

Venezuela is a dramatic example. It failed largely because of mismanagement. No amount of foreign aid will fix it. Not even intervention may work. Nobody wants to see a country fail. But countries die, even Rome. And Venezuela ain’t no Rome.

Does the state spell technology ‘control ‘?

“It seems that politicians believe driver training or road maintenance won’t improve anytime soon, so instead they want to limit your car’s engine power to make sure you don’t break the speed limit while robots determine whether you’re fit to drive in the first place. At least that’s the proposed plan in Europe starting in May, 2022.

Backed by Members of the European Parliament, the European Transport and Safety Council says its new mandatory systems “will reduce collisions by 30 percent and save 25,000 lives within 15 years of being introduced.” And so just days after Volvo announced it will introduce driver-facing cameras and limit all its cars to 112 mph, the EU followed up with its own Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) system.”

Popular Mechanics

As economy suffers multiple organ failure. It turned out that Venezuela wasn’t rich enough to afford socialism.

Revealed in detail by new techniques in the fossil record. One moment an entire era seemed unstoppable. The next it was gone.

It’s a sobering story.  What Nature’s left hand is doing may be undone by its right.  Yet the end of the dinosaurs meant the birth of the mammalian age — and us.

If they want a Brexit delay. Meanwhile Bolton says US will give post Brexit UK priority access

As US Russia tensions rise in Venezuela

Helicopters circled the London Central Mosque on the edge of Regent’s Park after the street attack about half a mile away in St John’s Wood.

London Times

The hands

The woman who forgave the boy who smashed her face

Benitez subjected the ban both to the constitutional analysis he argued was required by the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller and a more complicated and flexible test the Ninth Circuit has applied in prior Second Amendment cases.

$50 to get in $500 to get out defines a joint you should avoid

Top Venezuelan brass getting messages from Bolton.

No longer master of the house.

“How could a 100% failure rate go on for so long without anyone taking action?”

So what can be done?

From Stripes:

In a “60 Minutes” interview last year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that “Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.”

What happens if one day there’s another 9/11?

Nature is both terrible and wonderful. The real threat when it comes will be a surprise not some preannounced UN catastrophe like global warming.

NYT

No twist was too minuscule or outlandish for Maddow; every night, seemingly, brought another nail in the coffin of the soon-to-be-dead Trump presidency.

Guardian

Spygate. How the Collusion narrative started. Fascinating for its description of process as well as substance.

No point giving birth because of Climate Change. “Though Laura Formisano says she never felt a huge desire to have children, she used to presume that would change. But climate change could make the planet so uninhabitable, she says, she’s not sure she can ever bring herself to become a parent.”

It all makes sense within that ideologlical system. If civilization as we know it is guilty; if judgment has been pronounced; if the engine of destruction is in train. Why hang around?

The great thing about eco-atheism is the certitude you can get off the train by jumping off a cliff or overdosing on pills. There’s an absolute belief you can turn off the TV, as if not watching it ends the TV station. It’s fine to save the Planet because you’re not part of it.

It used to be that we had a mission to live. Today a lot would sit that mission out. Hemingway wrote that “all true stories, if continued long enough, end in death.” He was wrong.

All true stories, if continued long enough, continue.

What’s patriotism?

Maybe it’s not cool to be patriotic but it’s acceptable to be an ‘antihero’.

“In June 2018, following an outcry from thousands of employees, Google ended its participation in the Pentagon’s so-called Project Maven. That initiative focuses on improving U.S. targeting capabilities by using AI to identify objects captured in countless hours of surveillance footage from drones. In October, Google then dropped out of the competition for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract, on grounds that the project was incompatible with the company’s values.

All the while, however, Google was secretly helping the Chinese government build a restricted search engine that would reinforce Beijing’s censorship policies; the company only admitted to its involvement in the project, known as Dragonfly, late last year. This came a year after Google announcedit was opening an AI research center in Beijing – despite the virtual certainty that any breakthroughs made there will find their way into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.”