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January 14, 2020
SHOCKING HEALTH NEWS: A Lifetime of Fitness Helps Women’s Muscles in Old Age.
MASCOT OF THE ANOINTED: Busted! Facebook Bug Reveals Greta Thunberg’s Posts Are Written by Her Father. Along with “Adarsh Prathap, a climate activist in India who serves as a delegate at the UN’s Climate Change organization.”
Related: Thunberg’s Reaction to Australia Fires Proves How Empty Her Activism Is.
THIS IS SOMETHING CBS NEWS FINDS NEWSWORTHY: Trump retweets fake image of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in front of Iranian flag.
I think Trump got the point across nicely and succinctly. CBS, purveyors of actual Fake News, is trying to pass off Trump’s simple retweet of a silly photoshop as some kind of malicious Deep Fake propaganda effort.
Sad!
ISSUES & INSIGHTS: Hillary Clinton Vindicated On Corruption Charges? Hardly. “As soon as political access to the Clintons became worthless, so did the foundation.”
Before you read the story, see the chart:
Follow the money — she certainly did.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Pot overuse may bring on psychosis in some users, experts say.
Alex Berenson had a book on this a while back.
CYBERSECURITY: Iranian hackers have been “password spraying” the US grid.
BLUE STATE BLUES: California’s new gig worker law is disrupting the music industry and threatening all performing arts.
Under AB 5, we will be required to inform all U.S.-based musicians that they must now become employees of San Jose Jazz, or incorporate themselves before they will be allowed to perform for us.
If band leaders choose to pursue incorporation, they will then need to take on the responsibility of payroll and HR administration for the rest of their band.
In many performing arts disciplines, such as jazz, musicians are constantly reconfiguring line ups, performing as sidemen in various bands, and as one-time special guests for specific performances.
We will now be obliged to devote tremendous time and resources to constantly hiring, managing and tracking of musicians through this cumbersome process.
AB 5 unnecessarily complicates other work arrangements found in community cultural programming such as small festivals, neighborhood street fairs, parades and summer music series in our local parks.
San Jose Jazz is best known for producing our large Summer Fest which brings tens of thousands of visitors and requires hundreds of temporary roles to execute.
Getting what they voted for, good and hard.
SHARYL ATTKISSON: Former federal agent blows the whistle on illegal surveillance operation during Obama administration. “And it was run by none other than Rod Rosenstein.”
ACTUALLY, THIS IS A NO-BRAINER: Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do. The Boston Globe mournfully reports on the agonizing decision facing Westfield, Massachusetts:
On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own?
With the recycling market across the country mired in crisis, a growing number of cities and towns are facing a painful reckoning: whether they can still afford to collect bottles, cans, plastics, and paper, which have so plummeted in value that in some cases they have become effectively worthless.
“We’re looking at going from paying nothing to paying $500,000 a year,” said Dave Billips, the director of public works in Westfield, referring to the city’s recycling costs. “That’s going to have a major impact.”
Like his fellow devotees, Billips is understating the problem by pretending his recycling program used to break even just because it was able to give away the recyclables. He’s ignoring all the extra money that the town had to spend to collect the worthless stuff, not to mention the value of the time its citizens wasted sorting their garbage. The cheapest way to dispose of solid waste is to collect it all in one truck, send it straight to the landfill, and stop forcing people to perform greens’ favorite sacrament.
Who could have seen this coming?
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: How Prince Harry Turned Into Lena Dunham.
And as with Dunham’s threats to doxx unwoke airlines stewardesses, note this: “Meghan feels she’s been silenced and is no longer prepared to be muted. She and Harry feel the royals have been racist and sexist.“ As Rod Dreher writes in response, “These are the most horrible, most L.A. people ever. Can you imagine doing this to the Queen, and if you don’t get what you want, threatening to go on television and denounce your own family — the Royal family at that! — as racist and sexist? What a complete prima donna! And Henpecked Harry, what a disgrace. All because the jewels are too heavy for the Duchess of Goop to wear. The problem with that one is not that she’s from African descent. The problem is that she comes from Hollywood.”
Dreher’s post is titled, “A Yankee Yoko In Queen Elizabeth’s Court.”
ESSAY: Modern China’s Precarious Existential High-Wire Act. “The genius of democratic republics like our own is that they tend to be self-correcting. For example, just enough traditionally Democratic voters were turned off by Barack Obama’s eight-year-long sequel to the Carter Administration, ‘Malaise II: The Un-Quickening,’ to take a chance on Donald Trump in 2016. The turnaround since then has been pronounced. But even when voters don’t exhibit such wisdom, elections allow citizens to vent their frustrations by throwing the bastards out — without, and this point is key, overthrowing the whole system or starting a civil war. That’s why authoritarian regimes are always more brittle than they appear.”
You could apply similar thinking to Iran.
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I HATED THEIR SHOW WHEN IT WAS NEW, AND IT’S EVEN WORSE IN RERUNS: Barack and Michelle Obama Get Oscar Nomination for Being The Obamas.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Overcome Your Brain’s Fixation on Bad Things. Tips from Greater Good Magazine, in an interview with the social psychologist Roy Baumeister and me about our new book, The Power of Bad (which, despite its title, was chosen by Greater Good as one of its favorite books of 2019).
STRATEGYTALK: 2019 in review. If you like it, subscribe via youtube.
MISSILE’S RED GLARE: An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operational test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Photo taken Oct. 2, 2019.
CHANGE? Iran is closer ‘than ever before’ to regime collapse, says former Obama security advisor.
Asked about the possibility of regime collapse, General James Jones, who was Obama’s national security advisor in 2009 and 2010, said the risk for Tehran cannot be ignored.
“I think the needle is moved more in that direction in the last year towards that possibility than ever before with a combination of the sanctions, relative isolation of the regime, and then some catastrophic decisions have been made — assuming that we weren’t going to respond, which turned out to be a very, very bad decision,” Jones told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Trump undid as much of the Obama legacy regarding Iran as he could — sadly, the cash was non-refundable — and the results speak for themselves.
“DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:” While conservative speaker draws protest, ‘black radical thought’ welcomed at Bucknell.
Cost of attending Bucknell University: $75,800 per year.
JIMMY HOFFA IS STILL DEAD, BUT UNION CORRUPTION ISN’T: It being awards season among the glitterati and all, the Capital Research Center’s superb video about Hoffa and dirty unions is a timely reminder of the facts of history.
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT JESUS AND THE MUSHROOMS? It could be funny if it weren’t taken so seriously by folks like Joe Rogan.
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Bill Clinton’s top campaign strategist endorses Michael Bennet’s presidential bid.
Bennet’s one of my senators, I cover politics for a living, and I’d forgotten he hadn’t dropped out of the race.
NEW FROM JAMES O’KEEFE:
