CONSERVATIVES NOT WELCOME, EH: David Solway explains “Why I Am No Longer a Canadian Writer.”

FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS HILLARY TO COUGH UP SOME ANSWERS: U.S. District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan is giving Hillary Clinton 30 days to answer key questions about her formerly secret email server while she was Secretary of State. This could be a milestone on her road to the inside of a federal prison.

GARY TAUBES, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The Case Against Carbohydrates Gets Stronger. “Participants in the low (20%) carbohydrate group burned on average about 250 calories a day more than those in the high (60%) carbohydrate group, just as predicted by the carbohydrate-insulin model. Without intervention (that is, if we hadn’t adjusted the amount of food to prevent weight change), that difference would produce substantial weight loss — about 20 pounds after a few years. If a low-carbohydrate diet also curbs hunger and food intake (as other studies suggest it can), the effect could be even greater.”

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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Just How Bad Are Those Payouts for Amazon HQ2? “Governor Cuomo has the self-awareness of a sea sponge soaked in cask-strength bourbon.”

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HMM: CDC doubles recommended weekly exercise time for Americans. “The new number is 150 minutes each week of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic activity each week, or roughly 22 minutes a day. Previous guidelines called for exercise only 10 minutes a day.” Their track record on diet and exercise doesn’t inspire confidence.

ARCH OF FLAME IN THE NIGHT SKY: An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches from Vandenberg AFB during an operational test.

SPY FOR THE CIA — AND DIE:

Once more the American CIA proved itself spectacularly inept at managing spies in foreign countries. This example was recent revelations about how between 2009 and 2013 the CIA used a vulnerable (to enemy access) Internet-based communications system to supervise local agents in China and Iran.

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MICHAEL WALSH HAS A FEW THINGS TO SAY TO EMMANUEL MACRON: Did Nationalism Cause World War One?

For an in-depth an unorthodox look at the real causes of World War One, I can’t recommend Donald Kagan’s On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace highly enough.

I THOUGHT IT CAME FROM THE FAUCET: We Thought Earth’s Water Came From Comets. Turns Out That’s Not The Full Story.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT ELECTION FRAUD WAS A MYTH: Florida Dems planned to use altered forms to fix mail ballots across state after deadline.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: USC Library Censors Article on ‘Female Privilege in Prison Sentencing.’

If you can’t do the time, don’t be a guy.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL: Study Says Being Too Handsome Can Harm a Man’s Career.

ASSUMING HE EVER DID: Chuck Schumer no longer believes conceding defeat is ‘gentlemanly thing to do.’

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! (CONT’D): How a selfie saved a Texas man from 99 years in prison.

She said he broke into her home in Temple.

She said he sliced an “X” into her chest with a box cutter.

She said it happened on Sept. 20, 2017 around 7:20 p.m.

She was his high school girlfriend. The two dated several years earlier, but he couldn’t remember the last time the two had contact.

Now Precopia was facing a felony charge: burglary of a habitation with the intent to commit other crimes.

“I had no idea why everything was happening, and I was lost,” he said.

Precopia was taken to the Williamson County Jail, where his parents posted a $150,000 bond. Then they began fighting to prove his innocence. . . .

On the night of the alleged attack, he was with his mother, Erin, at a Northwest Austin hotel about 65 miles from the accuser’s home.

“I’m thinking, ‘this is awesome. By the grace of God, she said it happened on the day when I can say totally, 100 percent, where he was at,” Erin Precopia said.

There were sworn affidavits from several people who were with him that evening.

There were pictures to prove it, and they were posted on Facebook. Timestamped. Geo-located.

An alibi.

“Most of the time, we deal with gray matters,” attorney Rick Flores said. “It’s not normally black or white. But this is one of those cases where I could definitely prove he did not commit this offense.” . . .

Precopia’s accuser told police that the two had a troubled relationship when they dated in high school several years ago, and she cited that as a reason she reported that he assaulted her.

How many men, in the absence of such fortuitous evidence, are doing jail time for equally false charges?

ONE SECOND AFTER: Pentagon Researchers Test ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ Attack on U.S. Power Grid.

COLD WAR II: GPS jamming came from Kola, Defense Ministry in Norway confirms.

On November 2nd, the Barents Observer published the first news about the jamming of GPS signals in the airspace between Kirkenes and Lyngen. Last Friday, Finnish broadcaster YLE reported about similar warnings issued by aviation authorities to pilots flying over northern Finland.

Birgitte Frisch says it is for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to elaborate on the dialogue with Russian officials about the jamming.

As previously reported by the Barents Observer, the Foreign Ministry brought up the question with Moscow after a similar jamming in March this year and requested Russia to halt such jamming. Last week, Deputy Director of Communication with the Foreign Ministry, Kristin Enstad, was not willing to share with the readers of Barents Observer what was said in the dialoge with Russian authorities.

Lina Lindegaard, press-officer with regional airliner Widerøe, told Barents Observer about one of their flights losing GPS signals.

Russia is, to mangle a phrase, the sick man of Eurasia. But unlike the Ottoman Empire during its long decline, Putin’s Russia is determined to play the role of vicious spoiler. The trick is to help manage Russia’s senescence without provoking them into doing something really futile and stupid on a major scale.

ROBIN HANSON: Social Media Lessons.

Related: Social Media As Social Disease.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. ‘Democratic socialists’ really need to learn more about socialism.

EVEN MORE FACEBOOK BLUE-ON-BLUE: Tech Leaders Turn on Zuckerberg: Facebook Having a ‘Devastating Effect on the World.’ “The CEO of Salesforce calls the platform ‘the new cigarettes’.”

OUR INCESTUOUS RULING CLASS: The Elite Teaching The Elite: Who Gets Hired By The Top Law Schools?

Related: To Reduce Inequality, Abolish The Ivy League.

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