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Unstable politicians in California seek to ban gas-powered lawn equipment

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If you've got a gas-powered lawnmower or leaf blower or any other garden equipment, you may have to give it up completely.

California is considering a statewide ban on the small-engine machines and Novato is the most recent city to make moves towards getting rid of them.

Mark Bailey, the owner of Buck's Saw Service, knows he'll have to sell more of this battery-powered equipment as he prepares to lose sales of another kind of inventory, blowers and mowers that run on gas.

Bailey says he sells about 500 of them a year.

Comment: These politicians are more concerned about maintaining their doomsday cult beliefs about carbon emissions than they are about the people they serve and their local economies. Seems they are quite intent on driving California into the ground.


Attention

Professor vows to fail students if they cite Jordan Peterson

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Ted McCoy, a historian of prisons and punishment, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, has tweeted out that the rumours about him are true: any student who cites Dr. Jordan Peterson in his class will fail. He lists himself as anti-fascist, and his pronouns he/him.

According to the University of Calgary, his areas of interest include, Social Inequality and Social Justice, Criminology and Deviance, Health, Illness and Medicine, Work and Occupations, and First Nations. We assume it's the interest in "Social Justice" that led him to make this censorious claim on Twitter, promising to punish students for citing one of the most renowned scholars in the world.

McCoy has since deleted the tweet, but the internet never forgets. The archived tweet can be found here. Professor McCoy joins a dubious list of social justice professors like Matthew Sears who have contracted what can only be described as PDS: Peterson Derangement Syndrome.

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Briefcase

Reza Aslan to face the music for calling Nick Sandmann's face 'punchable' in now-deleted tweet

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One day after news broke that CNN settled a defamation lawsuit on behalf of Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann, Robert Barnes announced he had sued author, producer, and show host Reza Aslan for Aslan's tweet describing Sandmann's face as "punchable." The lawsuit, which Barnes provided to PJ Media, would slap Aslan with a minimum of $135,000 in damages.

When video of Sandmann supposedly smirking at a Native American man outside the March for Life went viral last year, Aslan infamously tweeted, "Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid's?"

Nearly exactly one year after posting the tweet, Aslan had finally deleted it on Wednesday.

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Worst year for UK retail in 25 years - trade body

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Retail sales fell for the first time in 25 years last year, according to the leading UK retail industry body.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said total sales fell 0.1%, marking the first annual sales decline since 1995.

Sales in November and December were particularly weak, falling 0.9%, the BRC said.

A separate report from Barclaycard found a rise in consumer confidence had failed to boost festive spending.

Comment: While the digital economy may be taking a larger share of spend, it's undeniable that, overall, the signs point to a stagnating and sliding global economic situation:


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NY Times columnist Paul Krugman says hacker 'compromised' his IP address to 'download child pornography'


Comment: And he claims the hacker whodunnit is... Q-ANON!

You couldn't make this up... unless you're an American icon!


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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is appearing to be having technical difficulties as he acknowledged Wednesday on Twitter that his IP address had been "compromised" and used to "download child pornography."

"Well, I'm on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography," Krugman wrote in a now-deleted tweet. "I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It's an ugly world out there."

Qanon is a reference to the group of conspiracy theorists who in recent years spread incriminating myths against many high-profile Democrats on social media.

Comment: What an absolutely freaking WEIRD thing to confess on Twitter.

Why did he do that?

Was it a 'preemptive strike' because he's in trouble with the law over kiddie porn?

And this guy is the creme de la creme of US intelligentsia!

Oy vey!




Attention

MORE glitches found on Boeing's planes

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A bug in Boeing's 737 NG airplanes' software caused all six of the main screens inside the cockpits to go blank during landing procedures at specific airports, The Register reports. The Register spotted the glitch in an airworthiness directive, issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on December 27.

"All six display units (DUs) blanked with a selected instrument approach to a runway with a 270-degree true heading, and all six DUs stayed blank until a different runway was selected," reads the directive.

Go West

Comment: See also: "Potentially catastrophic" wiring issue on Boeing 737MAX confirmed by FAA


Briefcase

CNN settles Nick Sandmann defamation lawsuit in Covington Catholic High School controversy

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CNN has settled a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor.

Fox 19 first reported that CNN settled with Sandmann on Tuesday for an undisclosed amount. The $250 million defamation suit sought damages for the "emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered" in the fallout of the network's reporting.

Sandmann's attorney, Todd McMurtry, declined to comment on the dollar amount or other elements of the settlement with CNN.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit senior royal duties, didn't notify the Queen

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Couple will split time between UK and North America, they say, amid speculation on move to Canada
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to "step back as 'senior' members of the royal family", they have said.

The couple want to become financially independent, they announced in a statement published to the Sussex Royal Instagram account.

It comes amid speculation the couple want to move to Canada, and just a day after they thanked Canadian embassy staff in person for the hospitality they enjoyed during a six-week Christmas holiday in Vancouver with Doria Ragland, Meghan's mother.

In the statement, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said: "After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution.

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ABC takes advantage of Iran conflict to FINALLY screen Epstein story... 3 years late

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TV network ABC is finally broadcasting a long-delayed exposé on notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - and it only took 3 years, a Project Veritas investigation, and an inquiry from Congress about the shelving of the segment.

"Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein" is due to air Thursday on ABC, the network tweeted on Wednesday, as the country stood poised on the brink of war with Iran and one might assume relatively few eyes were on the Epstein saga - for once.


James O'Keeffe of Project Veritas was quick to take credit for the long-suppressed footage seeing daylight - assuming, of course, the special ABC plans to broadcast bears any resemblance to the investigation by anchor Amy Robach that was mysteriously spiked by network management three years ago.

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'Many injuries' reported following shooting at Ottawa Airbnb

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Police converge on scene of Airbnb shooting in Ottawa
Police hunt gunman after shooting in Ottawa leaves one dead and three people, including a 15-year-old, seriously injured in 'targeted' early morning attack at Airbnb apartment

One person has been killed and three others seriously wounded after a gunman opened fire in a 'targeted attack' in a downtown Ottawa Airbnb apartment this morning.

Ottawa Police and paramedics were called to the 400 block of Gilmour Street shortly before 7:30am to reports of shots fired that had caused 'many injuries'.In a statement, the police department confirmed that one person had been killed at the scene and three others were taken to hospital with severe injuries.

One of the victims is a 15-year-old boy and he was taken to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario for treatment in a stable condition.

The ages and genders of the other victims have not been confirmed but both are said to be in a 'serious' condition'.

Comment: CTV News reports:
Ottawa police say one person was killed and three seriously injured in a shooting in downtown Ottawa Wednesday morning.

Acting Insp. Francois D'Aoust said at the scene that police believe the attack was targeted and there was no "active shooter" in the city, contrary to an immediate warning from the Parliamentary Protective Service, which guards nearby Parliament Hill.
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Kacey Griffiths, who lives next to the house where the shooting occurred, said she woke up to find heavily armed police surrounding the building. She says she watched as police thoroughly searched the residence before two young people were taken away on stretchers.

Paramedics were working on a third person in the backyard, she added.

"They were both people I've never seen before," said Griffiths, who admitted to having been shaken by the shooting. "I'm very local here, I know my neighbours. I've never seen these people in my life."

Griffiths, who suspected the shooting was gang-related, said the street was previously rocked by a shooting last May. Police at the time reported that a car had been struck by bullets but that there were no injuries.

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