In flagrant violation of the gain-of-function moratorium which was established precisely because such research is a cynical dodge of the weapons ban.

Seems big daddy USA still can't manage to be competent at anything lately, including coups.

The narrative has finally and truly collapsed. The government and elites will keep lying like they did when the GWOT narrative fell apart, but nobody sane is going along with the bullshit anymore. Best commentary:

First, people suffering from depression want the outside world to match the inside one. It justifies their feelings and confirms they aren’t crazy when the world “out there” really is as bad as they feel like it is in their minds. These people believed that the world was ending when Donald Trump was elected; that the COVID pandemic came during his administration only served as the aforementioned verifier that reality really was a disaster, just as they had felt that it was.

Second, because the pandemic came to be such a political matter to that group of people, it has become central to the reality of their identities. Their opponents have said it’s “not that bad” since the beginning. To admit that they’re now right would be to lose the political argument, and perhaps to admit to yourself that the world is not in the existential crisis that for so long your identity has depended on it being in. That’s really hard.

Third, I’d be remiss not to mention that an awful lot of these people are irreligious and have only this material world to cling to. Not that death isn’t a concern for nearly all of us, but it can be all the more terrifying for people who have no hope for anything beyond this life.

Good summary of the FIB's reichstag fire.

You need dopamine to live

Wouldn't be surprised if that's the pivot now that Afghanistan is no longer on the menu.

"Inflation is good"

Probably Gladio related

Extracting rents from everyone it can.

Par for the course. He's betting big that the number of fervent and delusional covid cultists that were on the fence about him outnumber the unjabbed. Probably not a smart choice.

Facing a halved population by 2050, they naturally want to do something. As expected, nobody wants to face reality, so nothing can be done.

As with last year, a good clear-sighted analysis.

Neat to see he read the same papers and came to similar conclusions I did years ago. It's hard not to -- the whole thing is obviously a corrupt scam by these pharma diphsits and the bureaucracies revolving around them.

In case you have not already read it, check here for the definitive book on why this never works to whip inflation.

Finally. A paper proving that among the real numbers all quantum effects cancel out to nothing.

Makes sense, you'd reduce hospitalizations by chilling all these hypochondriacs out. That said smokes are cheaper.

“California’s first-in-the-nation law banning the sale of new gas-powered mowers and blowers also targets a machine that has become increasingly popular with consumers in recent years — portable generators. As people face power blackouts — in areas where utilities have cut power to curb wildfire threats, for example — many have turned to generators as a backup energy source. The new law, AB 1346 by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Palo Alto), was signed Oct. 9 by Gov. Newsom. Berman’s bill requires the sale of new small off-road engines to be zero-emission by 2024, or when the Air Resources Board says the cutoff is feasible, whichever is later. ‘Small’ means less than 25 horsepower, and portable gas-powered generators typically have half that level, or less. Portable gas-powered generators would be phased out by 2028.”

Couple this with shutting down Diablo Canyon, the provider of 1/5 it's base load with no plan whatsoever will work great.

Why it's all bullshit, and bad for ya

Turkish stock market collapses, trading halted.

So, he's a mercantilist who doesn't want to get vassalized via IMF debt bondage. As such he is instead executing the "economic hitman" gameplan on his country but to enrich his own faction focused on exports.

...Or, yanno, his government could have just stopped spending so so much money that they need to constantly hit Ctrl+P in order to keep the government solvent. Don't need an IMF loan if you don't run deficits to the tune of 3% GDP every year. Also, if you are just gonna default via inflation to avoid IMF debt bondage, why not just default on the already considerable debt load they have?

Oh wait, because that version of the farce doesn't wind up with big E in power. Instead the people would benefit by shaking the sickness out of the system. Can't have that.

Q1 gettin raped

Things have come a long way since the bartendro.

This is the best idea coming out of bipedal robotics. Would be life changing for paraplegics.

More or less total defeat of the administration. Turns out forcibly abolishing peoples' social lives is unpopular, who'da thunkt.

CPI-W now at 7.5%. Dems are cooked in '22. Bond markets still don't give AF. Crash flag flying as high as it can.