“Largely unnoticed,” purposely ignored, or actively suppressed? The Daily Beast’s reporting team on Hunter Biden’s legal woes sound somewhat surprised that the FBI’s money-laundering probe didn’t get noticed before the election…
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Racist Interstate Highways?
Revamping some of the national highway system makes sense—but basing those decisions on vague notions of social justice is not the way to do it.
The Interstate Highway System, which the U.S. began constructing in the 1950s, has a complicated legacy, to say the least. Boosters see it as the greatest infrastructure program undertaken in the country during the second half of the twentieth century, connecting vast areas in new and important ways, unlocking largely untapped regions outside of cities that helped spark a new kind of middle-class living. Detractors accuse the system’s planners and builders of emptying out cities and encouraging the rise of low-density suburban sprawl. That process, critics argue, prompted “white flight” to the suburbs, while stranding poor minorities in urban neighborhoods disfigured by the highways that bisected them. To these critics, the Interstate Highway System is just another example of America’s racist past.
Sweden’s New Children’s Bible Focuses on Diversity, Gender
In the new children’s Bible, which is claimed to be more in line with the original, it is not a given that man came before woman, and God is kept non-gendered whenever possible.
Abortion Fanatic Adorns Christmas Tree With Abortion Tools
While we are consistently told that no one loves abortion and that abortion fans want the killing of the unborn to be safe, legal, and rare, the proponents of ritual infant sacrifice keep proving themselves liars. Here’s an abortion fanatic who thought decorating his Christmas tree with instruments of torture is festive.
We have a match! Japan taps AI to boost birth rate slump
Japan is seeking to boost its flagging birth rate by funding the use of artificial intelligence to help match lonely hearts, an official said Monday.
Russia Warns Citizens Not To Drink Alcohol For Six Weeks After COVID-19 Vaccine
Russians are being asked to make the ultimate sacrifice; no drinking alcohol for six weeks after taking the country’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Olympics 2024: Breakdancing confirmed as new sport for Paris games
The decision was confirmed by the International Olympic Committee on Monday, as it seeks to attract a younger audience to the historic competition.
Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
The installation of steak grown from human cells at the Design Museum in London was intended to criticize the meat industry’s rising use of living cells from animals. It ended up triggering a roiling debate about bioethics and the pitfalls of artistic critique.
China Is Rolling Out An Enormous “Weather Modification” System
This week, the Chinese government announced that it plans to drastically increase its use of technology that artificially changes the weather.
Cloud seeding technology, or systems that can blasts silver molecules into the sky to prompt condensation and cloud formation, has been around for decades, and China makes frequent use of it. But now, CNN reports that China wants to increase the total size of its weather modification test area to 5.5 million square miles by 2025 — a huge increase, and an area larger than that of the entire country of India, which could affect the environment on an epic scale and even potentially spur conflict with nearby countries.
First they came for the “Essex Girl” Jokes But I was from Surrey
‘Essex girl’ removed from dictionary following campaign
The expression “Essex girl” has been removed from a dictionary used to teach English after a campaign by women from the county who described the term as offensive.
According to the Oxford University Press, “Essex girl” was previously defined as “a name used especially in jokes to refer to a type of young woman who is not intelligent, dresses badly, talks in a loud and ugly way and is very willing to have sex.”
It has now been removed from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, used to teach non-native English speakers, after a campaign group called the Essex Girls Liberation Front said using the expression was “very offensive”.
‘Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by microwave energy, government study finds
The mysterious neurological symptoms experienced by American diplomats in China and Cuba are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy, according to a long-awaited report by the National Academies of Sciences that cites medical evidence to support the long-held conviction of American intelligence officials.
The report, obtained Friday by NBC News, does not conclude that the directed energy was delivered intentionally, by a weapon, as some U.S. officials have long believed. But it raises that disturbing possibility.
‘Why Journo So Bitter’: Jordan Peterson Hits Back at Guardian Op-ed on His ‘Bigotry’
Canadian professor of psychology Jordan Peterson has taken to Twitter to repost a recent Guardian op-ed suggesting “the lobster-loving life coach’s” speech “is bigoted”, wondering what has “made the journalist so bitter”