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"The only thing we were lucky with COVID is that the death rate was 0.3%, which was still a lot of people and I don't want to downplay that," Paul said on Newsmax's "National Report." "But they're working with viruses in the lab that have 5% to 50% mortality. If a virus escapes with 50% mortality, it'll be worse than the Black Plague in the 14th century when a third of Europe died.

"If a third of America dies or a third of the world dies, there will not be potable water. There won't be chlorine in the water. There won't be the ability to feed people; there will be war and rioting in the streets, and there won't be enough food and the society would descend into chaos if half the people died on the planet." //

Paul said that although the United States has stopped funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology, "there is still funding going on in other parts of China."

"To my knowledge, there's still subcontracts that go through American universities to military research in China," he said. "So, all of the money we send to China should stop. May not make them stop doing this crazy research, but that should stop."

Beyond that, there are "at least 12 different laboratories in the United States doing gain of function research," Paul said. //

while the First World War was a war of chemists, and the Second World War was a war of physicists, the next global war may well be a war of biologists. And if it is, it has the potential to make the Black Death look like the sniffles.

Simon Ateba @simonateba
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BREAKING - EXPLOSIVE: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon tells CNBC people are voting for Trump because he was right about the economy, immigration, and China, says people should be a bit more respectful of MAGA people. They know what they are doing. WATCH

10:57 AM · Jan 17, 2024

Sometimes, success has unforeseen consequences. The United States Space Force and Air Force (and NASA) have, in essence, decided they will simply procure space launch as a service from SpaceX. This isn’t an actual decision but is nevertheless true enough, as it has become the default situation. Cost and availability — the comparative ease of getting a launch slot — have resulted in tremendous business success for SpaceX.

An unforeseen consequence of this success is that the Space Force, the Air Force, and NASA have deprioritized rocket research and development efforts that would foster continued independent space access. Some programmatic officers would suggest there is no need for the government to continue to pursue rocket science. SpaceX is doing the required R&D, so why spend money on anything other than what’s needed for deep space? ///

Where is the basic research that NASA (or anyone on earth) was doing to make it possible for boosters to land and be reused? SpaceX are the only ones in the history of space to dare think of the concept, much less try to develop it...

Government R&D?

In a historic move, the United States has officially expanded its geographical territory by one million square kilometers — an area nearly 60 percent the size of Alaska. The catalyst for this territory expansion lies in the redefinition of the U.S. continental shelf boundaries.

By invoking international law, the State Department has outlined new areas under the sea where the continental shelf, a seabed area surrounding large landmasses with relatively shallow waters, extends further than previously recognized.

This monumental addition is spread across seven distinct ocean regions, with over half of the new territory located in the Arctic.

The kind of person who will come into the next conservative administration is going to be governed by one principle, and that is destroying the grasp that political elites and unelected technocrats have over the average person.

He really laid down the hammer with this remark:

The thing that I want to drive home here, the very reason that I'm here at Davos, is to explain to many people in this room and who are watching, with all due respect, nothing personal, but that you're part of the problem.

The Epoch Times exclusively obtained an alert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was supposed to be issued to state and local officials, showing that the connection between the COVID mRNA vaccines and myocarditis was indeed valid. The alert was dated May 21, 2021, months after VAERS reported its first finding of a link between the vaccines and heart inflammation in December of 2020. //

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prepared to alert state and local officials to an emerging connection between heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines, but ultimately did not send the alert, according to a new document obtained by The Epoch Times.

All four COVID-19 vaccines that are or have been available in the United States can cause the heart inflammation, or myocarditis, according to studies, experts, and agencies like the CDC. The first cases were reported shortly after the vaccines became available in late 2020. //

But this alert from the CDC was never sent out, even after cases documenting instances of myocarditis poured in and were documented on the VAERS database. Young men 18-30 and men over 55 appeared to be particularly at risk. Much of the coverage from Israeli studies, where the majority of the male population was vaccinated and boosted, and by the U.S. Department of Defense first showed a growing concern but then changed their tune, downplaying the risk as "mild."

But it wasn't. //

In 2022, Kirsch wrote on his Substack that internet searches for "myocarditis" and "COVID vaccine" increased after the introduction and widespread dissemination of the COVID vaccines.

Here are some of the reasons why the interest in myocarditis went up so much:

VAERS data shows that the rates of myocarditis caused by the vaccine are far greater than the rates caused by COVID ... //

From a layman's perspective, this is on par with the Tuskegee Experiment.

These are called shell operators and yes, there are more of them. I will give a brief overview of the most common among the two major classes, control operators and redirection operators, and how they work with respect to the bash shell.

The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.

Published in 1985 by Brøderbund Software, Inc., Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? is still a popular detective / mystery title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 4.4/5 rating.

f there were an award for "most enduring gameplay per KB of data," Alley Cat would have won my vote. In what seems like an incredible feat of programming, Bill Williams was able to pack hours of fun and diverse gameplay into only 38KB of space. As an alley cat, evade dogs, humans, and other obstacles to rescue your sweetheart.

New to abandonware? Start with this guide to play DOS games on Windows 7, 8 or 10, or on your Mac. Most games work fine without any tinkering, but some are hard to run properly.

DOSBox-X emulates a PC necessary for running many DOS games and applications that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, similar to DOSBox. However, while the main focus of DOSBox is for running DOS games, DOSBox-X goes much further than this. Forked from the DOSBox project, it retains compatibility with the wide base of DOS games and DOS gaming DOSBox was designed for. But it is also a platform for running DOS applications, including emulating the environments to run Windows 3.x, 9x and Me and software written for those versions of Windows. By adding official support for Windows 95, 98, Me emulation and acceleration, we hope that those old Windows games and applications could be enjoyed or used once more. Moreover, DOSBox-X adds support for DOS/V and NEC PC-98 emulations so that you can play DOS/V and PC-98 games with it.

As you may have noticed, development of DOSBox got somewhat... slow in the recent past. And since DOSBox ECE is based on the SVN of the official DOSBox releases, of course there weren't (m)any new releases of that as well. I must admit, that I wasn't too sorry about the lack of updates. In the last years, the amount of free time shrank to almost nothing anyway and other builds emerged or got better, that IMHO made ECE pretty redundant.

So, as of now, I decided to stop releasing new builds of DOSBox ECE. Not without a tear in the eye, it was nice to have a somewhat popular build and to give something back to a great community! But as of now, I think we're all better off using more up-to-date alternatives like

DOSBox Staging
DOSBox-X
DOSBox Pure (if you're using Retroarch anyway)

At present, DOSBox running on a high-end machine will roughly be the equivalent of a Pentium I PC. DOSBox can be configured to run a wide range of DOS games, from CGA/Tandy/PCjr classics up to games from the Quake era.

This gives more of an impression that Iran is attempting to capitalize on the success of its Houthi proxies in closing the Red Sea and trying to make the point that it is the regional power center and will do as it damn well pleases. //

Laocoön of Troy
19 minutes ago
"... This gives more of an impression that Iran..."

Correctomundo. This also illustrates how deep the rivalry is between the Sunni world and Shi'ia Iran. Pakistan went from a polite joint naval operation with Iran direct to combat ops against Iran in what? A coupla days?

It just occurred to me that for the right price, the Pakistanis may be willing to intervene in Yeman and put boots-on-the-ground to remove the Houthis as an irritant. The Pakistanis respond well to Saudi cash.

Blake @_BlakeHabyan
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New: Klaus Schwab Opens The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting By Speaking About The Importance Of ‘Rebuilding Trust’:

“There’s a fundamental need to embody trusteeship, which means to care for the greater good.”, Schwab says.

Why would The World Economic Forum… Show more

7:23 PM · Jan 16, 2024

Interesting choice of words. Trusteeship implies you have some responsibility and or control over us when we are a free people — you don't have such a relationship over us, except in your mind. And when people use the term "greater good," one thinks Communism and/or someone is about to try to sell you something you don't want.

Elon Musk didn't think much of what Schwab had to say; he's called him out in the past.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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The real issue is that Klaus wants to be emperor of Earth. He certainly dresses for the part!

And the policies that seem to emerge from this gathering don’t seem to make for an exciting future.
7:47 PM · Jan 17, 2024 //

Laocoön of Troy
23 minutes ago
Ya' know...God must be laughing at us. Who knew that Western Civilization and liberal democracy may end up being rescued by Musk...rumored to be an atheist or agnostic? Or perhaps JK Rowling or Rogan or Jordan Peterson or even Dershowitz?

God works in a mysterous way...his wonders to perform...

Col. Earl G. Matthews, the Army colonel who served as the senior legal advisor to Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia Army National Guard during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests, told RedState that Bryan A. Bonner, an investigative counsel for the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, acknowledged to him that the J6 narrative spun by senior Army leaders was flawed, and he would pursue the discrepancies.

“He told me that he knew that there were major problems with the DOD’s Inspector General report and that he was going to recommend to the committee that they go back to DOD and figure out what went wrong,” said Matthews, who, on Oct. 20, filed a 37-page Whistleblower Reprisal Complaint with the Pentagon's inspector general requesting the IG correct its report to bring it into alignment with events and conversations surrounding J6 that he witnessed.

He also explains how the Supreme Court opting for liberty and due process is a bad thing. If the courts are going to monitor what the agencies are doing, then the agencies might not do anything.

Because SCOTUS is relentlessly hostile to the administrative state, this system stacks the deck in favor of deregulation. Which—let’s be honest—means boosting Republican presidents and hobbling Democratic ones.

A decision is expected in June, and I'll be off work for a month, getting drunk on liberal tears. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
6 hours ago
The best thing that could happen is to strike down the administrative state as being unconstitutional. A fourth branch of government was never authorized by the founders.

Somehow the federal bureaucracies have more power over most Americans daily lives than the other three. They need reined in and brought under control. //

SantiagoMatamoros ConservativeInMinnesota
5 hours ago
Given that, the word Democrat does not appear once in the U.S. Constitution.

Article 4 Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. //

ConservativeInMinnesota SantiagoMatamoros
4 hours ago edited
Agreed on a Republic. The following about the powers Congress has seems useful - Art 1 Sec 8:

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Congress needs to pass all laws needed to execute the powers and all other powers vested by the Constitution. Congress can't delegate their authority, the Constitution doesn't let them. Departments don't have authority to make regulatory rules, only to enforce them. //

anon-m0b0
6 hours ago
It will go 5-4 with Roberts siding with the liberals, but the conservatives winning. The DOL rule written and released this week to kill off independent contractors is a perfect reason to kill Chevron.

Side note: Notice how everyone always already knows how the liberals will vote? No one ever seems to wonder if they will vote with thr conservatives, do they? //

DK duffer
6 hours ago edited
The Chevron defense also allowed Congress to make a law so ambiguous no one knew what to do with it. So federal agencies were ‘given’ authority to make rules that interpreted the law. When people complained about an agency’s regulations Congress shrugged and said that isn’t what we intended the agency misunderstood our intent. Nothing was done to correct bureaucratic overreach and the state grew and grew and became the tyrants we have to deal with today. Do not think the bureaucracy will go quietly into the night. //

Maria_Garcia_US (XX)
5 hours ago
Fed employee here,
Chevron needs to die a very quick death. Just today, I was trying to find the legal authorization for a multi-BILLION dollar project. The supposed "authorization" upon which DOD wrote implementation policy & guidance for? Surveys. The authority gave the Secretary of the Army the right to conduct surveys. Not study anything. Not build anything. Just surveys.
About 10 years ago, I was researching legal authorization for a multi-million dollar project only to find out that we did NOT have authorization to study or build that particular project. How they got around it? By getting Senator "Don't call me ma'am. Call me senator." to get her committee together to write a committee resolution. Not legislation authorizing anything. A Senate committee resolution. The House controls the purse strings, supposedly.
Another example is "Waters of the US" under the Commerce Clause. That was supposed to mean any coastal or river waters used for commerce: the transportation of goods & services. Rivers like the Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri. Not the Rio Grande, Pecos River, Little Muddy Creek or The Branch. And once dams were places (as opposed to locks) the bigger rivers really weren't navigable anymore. So tell me where the CEQ, EPA, even the Department of the Interior have any Constitutional leg to stand one let alone arrest, detain or fine anyone? //

Dieter Schultz Maria_Garcia_US (XX)
5 hours ago
There's been some discussion around the non-delegation doctrine and how it is really not OK for the legislature can't 'authorize another entity to exercise the power or function which it is constitutionally authorized to exercise itself'.

For my money, if Congress can't keep up on, and track of, what it wants to regulate then maybe it should consider that they shouldn't be regulating it. //

EDMUND
6 hours ago edited
Where this decision falls short is the assumption that
1: agencies base their decisions on "wisdom" rather than the raw acquisition of power and
2: that they are any more responsive to a "constituency" than a federal judge. //

Robert A Hahn
4 hours ago
We see in the way the Biden Administration deals with their new "free college for all via executive order" entitlement just how Democratic administrations will dance around the absence of Chevron.

They're regulating dishwashers under the Energy Conservation Act? Somebody sues and gets a court to say, "Nope. Nothing in the Energy Conservation Act gives you the authority to do that."

The next day they're right back at it, now regulating dishwashers under the Safety for Children Amendment to the Foghorn-Leghorn Act. The lawsuits start over again from Square One. Two years later when the courts strike that one down, the agency switches to the Germ-Free Kitchens Act of 1946. Now they claim that authorizes them to screw with dishwashers. Back to Square One again with the lawsuits.

Biden is on his third supposed reason why he's allowed to give people free college using taxpayer money. Every time a court strikes one down, his lawyers find another one. //