American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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9/13/2023 12:28:50 PM
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With COVID back, censorship is back, and now it's taken a particularly dangerous form, not just on social media, but on leading academic exchanges.
The huge Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), run by Netherlands-based publishing house Elsevier, is not a site most people know about, but it is a behemoth in academia, extremely important to professors for getting their work out there and advancing within the academic community.
That's where censorship on COVID is happening, which could have far-reaching consequences for public policy and the free exchange of ideas.
SSRN's plain, bare-bones front page on its site describes itself this way:
Tomorrow´s Research Today
SSRN provides 1,265,565 research papers from 1,365,420 researchers in 70 disciplines.
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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9/12/2023 7:42:26 AM
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Joe Biden found himself in Vietnam on Sunday. Returning from the G-20 summit in India, he made a pit stop there, supposedly to improve relations with that country as a means of checking China's aggressions.
Instead of saying 'Hello,' like normal presidents say, Biden greeted the Vietnamese with "Gooooood morning, Vietnam," rather shockingly bringing up a line from a movie that was all about the absurdities of the Vietnam War.
His performance was so bad
Reuters,
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Dave Sherwood
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Marc Frank
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9/5/2023 1:11:35 AM
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HAVANA - Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that has coerced its citizens to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said on Monday, adding that Cuban authorities were working to "neutralize and dismantle" the network.
The statement from Cuba's foreign ministry gave few details, but noted the trafficking ring was operating both within the Caribbean island nation, thousands of miles from Moscow, and in Russia.
"The Ministry of the Interior...is working on the neutralization and dismantling of a human trafficking network that operates from Russia
The Hill,
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Mark Mix
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9/5/2023 1:05:54 AM
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Big Labor bosses have a problem: Despite their vitriolic rhetoric and a small number of loud online activists, most workers want nothing to do with unions.
A Gallup poll released last Labor Day spotlighted the issue: A strong majority of nonunion workers in the U.S. (58 percent) say they are “not interested at all” in joining a union, whereas just 11 percent say they are “extremely interested.”
Since it takes a majority of workers in a given workplace to support a union before monopoly union representation can be imposed, union organizers face a basic math problem — one that explains why only 6 percent of private-sector workers are unionized today.
The Hill,
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Tara Suter
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9/5/2023 12:58:27 AM
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Chinese nationals have accessed U.S. military bases and other facilities dozens of times, U.S. officials said, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Government agencies like the Defense Department and the FBI held a review the past year to limit the events, the Journal reported. Officials allegedly call the people involved in the incidents “gate-crashers” and have espionage concerns about their occurrence. The gate-crashers have reportedly shown up in places like a U.S. missile range in New Mexico and a U.S. government rocket launch site in Florida.
A similar report about gate-crasher incidents in Alaska by USA Today
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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8/28/2023 6:54:43 AM
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What's a hog wallow to pigs who can't jump in?
Try a story in The Guardian, where greenie leftists parade their grievances about Joe Biden's bureaucratic obstacles keeping them from getting their hands on all that greenie cash in Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act: When President Joe Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act a year ago, Adrien Salazar was skeptical.
The landmark climate bill includes $60bn for environmental justice investments – money he had fought for, as policy director for the leading US climate advocacy coalition Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJA).
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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8/24/2023 12:46:58 PM
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A bit differently from my colleague, Andrea Widburg, I enjoyed the presidential debate.
I found it intelligent, lively, not too destructively argumentive, and well-controlled in content. Bret Baier and Martha McCallum at Fox News did a terrific job of moderating, urging candidates to get their points across within the time so that they could cover all the topics. Right on.
And they called out candidates who were not answering the questions, which was another point in their favor.
All the candidates had their moments, all displayed certain strengths.
The pair who had the weakest performances -- Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie -- were the Trump-haters. All they did was offend,
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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8/22/2023 3:35:04 PM
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FBI lovebird Peter Strzok has a special little cold spot for President Trump, and not just because he got fired for unprofessional behavior on while on the government's dime during Trump's term of office.
He hates the guy insanely, enough to plot against him with his famous "insurance policy" as he told the FBI official he was having an affair with, and all one needs to do to see it now is to look through the convoluted logic of his Trump-hating tweets. His banner picture at the top of his Twitter account features legal indictment papers of Trump.
So he tweeted this one:
Fox News,
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Andrew Mark Miller
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William La Jeunesse
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8/19/2023 10:56:12 AM
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A Hawaiian company says that its efforts to divert water to fight a devastating wildfire last week were delayed for hours while a government agency, led by a man who has pushed for "water equity," consulted with local farmers.
The West Maui Land Company, which manages several agricultural and residential subdivisions along with water jurisdictions, says that it requested water the day of the catastrophic wildfire in Maui from the Commission On Water Resource Management but was initially denied for several hours.
The company alleges the reason for that delay was that the commission had to clear the move with local farmers
New York Times,
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Ivan Penn
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Peter Eavis
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8/19/2023 10:45:57 AM
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Hawaiian Electric has known for years that extreme weather was becoming a bigger danger, but the company did little to strengthen its equipment and failed to adopt emergency plans used elsewhere, like being prepared to cut off power to prevent fires.
Before the wildfire on Maui erupted on Aug. 8, killing more than 100 people, many parts of Hawaiian Electric’s operations were showing signs of stress — and state lawmakers, consumer groups and county officials were saying that the company needed to make big changes.
In 2019, Hawaiian Electric itself started citing the risk of fires.
Wired,
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Tracey Lindeman
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When jay bulckaert answered his phone, he was standing in a fire break clearing brush in Kam Lake, just outside of Yellowknife, the capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Just miles away, a massive wildfire is stalking the city and threatening to move closer as the winds shift. Thousands of people have left Yellowknife since an evacuation order was announced Wednesday evening. Not Bulckaert, though, nor the other volunteers who showed up Friday morning to do whatever they could to stop the fire from razing the city of 20,000. “It’s all hands on deck,” he says. They divvied up tasks as soon as they met
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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8/17/2023 9:04:10 AM
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What's a political prosecution without a little humilation and torture on the side?
Every left-wing dictator knows this, and so does the far-left political prosecution team in Fulton County, Georgia, where yes, they plan to shove President Trump and his 18 co-defendants into a bona fide human rights-violating dump of a prison.
According to the Washington Examiner:
When former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election case turn themselves in, they will be booked at the notorious Fulton County Jail, a consistently overcrowded, bedbug- and fire ant-ridden detention center
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He stunk up the joint and got his mic yanked.