WESTERN DEMOCRACIES RUNNING PSYOPS AGAINST THEIR OWN CITIZENS.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, monday.

WHEN BUREAUCRATS STRIKE: FAA to conduct new environmental review for SpaceX’s Starship operations in Florida: The agency will prepare an environmental impact statement, a more in-depth review than the environmental assessment performed in 2019.

ALIENS: Giant Structure Lurking in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe.

BRING ON THE LAWSUITS: My New York Post column: Protesters, colleges are about to find out that, yes, the law DOES apply to them, too.

HMM: Balloon Theory in Obesity: Fat Cell Size Predicts if You Will Gain or Lose Weight.

HEALTH: Dangers firefighters face include higher cancer risks.

EVERYTHING GOOD IS BAD FOR YOU: Surprise: That New Car Smell Could Be Killing You.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: The Bladeless Swiss Army Non-Knife Shows Us The Future of Gun Control.

SCOTLAND IS GOING TO HELL IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS: Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes.

I WAS TOLD IT WAS THE BURDEN OF SOCIETAL RACISM: Researchers show genetic variant common among Black Americans contributes to large cardiovascular disease burden.

IT WAS SPECTACULAR: Solar storm produces dazzling light show, some power grid issues.

HURRY UP, GUYS, THE ELECTION IS LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AWAY: Federal government announces new initiatives to monitor, prevent bird flu.

WESTERN CIVILIZATION FACES A CHOICE:

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE AND BIGOTRY? Far-left U. Wisconsin student groups suspended after antisemitic chalkings.

UNIVERSITIES NEED TO CHANGE THEIR ADMISSIONS PRIORITIES: Universities await the arrival of 2024’s freshman class.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Fall of the House of Presidential Persecutions: What will be the endgame of all these attacks on the American legal system and the warping of it for blatant political purposes?

THE WORLD IS RUN, BADLY, BY AUTHORITARIAN MORONS: House Committee Report Exposes Global Social Media Censorship Regime.

WSJ OPED: The Smear Campaign Against ‘Christian Nationalists.’

YEP:

Small, cheap, and numerous Drones are the way 21st Century Wars are fought.

And China's DJI makes more drones in that class than every other manufacturer in the world, combined.

And 2023 drone flight hours reflect this fact.https://t.co/5HpCJSg39u https://t.co/heUdJdoyVa pic.twitter.com/pBzDT753zx

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 12, 2024

Related:

Princeton Galaxy Brain: People worry too much about China as a national security risk. Just relax

Actual China: We assign intelligence service operatives to illegally being back to China foreign nationals writing cartoons about our leader https://t.co/vS93ZFbOjD

— Met Gala Loser Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) May 13, 2024

Also:

#SouthChinaSea Report – May 13-2024

Signs of #Chinese land reclamation in Sabina (Escoda) Shoal just 75 nautical miles (140 Km) from Palawan Island, #Philippines

If Sabina Shoal becomes another Chinese artificial island aka military base, it would help China to block the… pic.twitter.com/IA0UcQEPaZ

— Indo-Pacific News – Geo-Politics & Defense (@IndoPac_Info) May 13, 2024

WOW, SATAN INCARNATE, PRACTICALLY: New Criticism of Elon: He Spends Too Much Time With His Son.

AMERICA NEEDS NUKES: There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech Ambitions: Georgia is a magnet for data centers and other cutting-edge industries, but vast electricity demands are clashing with the newcomers’ green-energy goals.

Georgia’s main utility, Georgia Power, has boosted its demand projections sixteen-fold and is pushing ahead on a hotly contested plan to burn more natural gas. Critics warn it will yield higher bills and unnecessary carbon emissions for decades. Some companies are scrambling to secure bespoke renewable-energy deals to power their development.

One major source of disruption is data centers. The facilities are ballooning in size as people spend more of their waking hours online and companies digitize everything from factory processes to fast-food drive-throughs. All that computing requires power—and for firms like DC Blox to lock it in as quickly as possible. . . .

Similar quandaries are rippling through other hubs of the new American economy, with utilities in Tennessee and the Carolinas forecasting their own unexpected surges in load growth. U.S. power usage is projected to expand by 4.7% over the next five years, according to a review of federal fillings by the consulting firm Grid Strategies. That is up from a previous estimate of 2.6%.

The projections come after efficiency gains kept electricity demand roughly flat over the past 15 years, allowing the power sector to limit emissions in large part through coal-plant closures.

“We haven’t seen this in a generation,” said Arne Olson, a senior partner at consulting firm Energy and Environmental Economics. “As an industry, we’ve almost forgotten how to deal with load growth of this magnitude.”

Yeah, it shows.

CONSEQUENCES: Sullivan & Cromwell To Ramp-Up Vetting Of New Hires Amid Wave Of Pro-Palestinian Protests.

DON SURBER: Even Obama won’t speak at Harvard. “Keep it up. We’re winning. The first and most prestigious college in America now is such a pariah that even Barack Hussein Obama apparently turned down giving this year’s Class Day keynote speech, according to the Harvard Crimson.”

“RAGE RITUALS” AND THE HYSTERIA OF THE A.W.F.L.s: Let’s Be Clear, These Are Not ‘Women’ – They Are Bat Guano Crazy, Over-Indulged Freaks.