Wednesday [8 to 12]

12.  Blogs [2]

a.  Ace:

Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker was suspended today, after announcing live on-air that she had decided to come to Project Veritas for what she described as pure "corruption" at the Houston affiliate -- She said the station's actions are an affront to real journalism and claimed leadership prioritizes corporate interests over the viewer.

b.  Conservative Woman:

@TheLadOrlando NicholasB, complained directly to the BBC telling them: ‘You have allowed your young audience to be deceived by a cruel marketeer. You are colluding in the priming of young minds to take a medical treatment – a gene therapy – which is still under evaluation.’

c.  DTW:

He's back, Andy.

d.  Interesting:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/06/16/the-great-picture/

e.  Polly most recent:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/5sGlqsRSdZrJ/

f.  Samizdata:

The classics department at Princeton University recently decided that the idea that classics majors ought to know Latin or Greek has been a mistake. 

g.  Tallbloke:

A recent Dutch Court decision is getting international attention because it commands climate action. The case itself is like angels on a pinhead, so of little interest, says David Wojick @ CFACT.

h.  Eric Worrall:

As Europe emerges from a harsh winter with depleted gas reserves, desperate European governments are increasingly firing up old coal plants to bridge the energy supply gap.

i.  Flaxen has an interesting question:

http://flaxensaxon.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-strid.html

j.  Nice from Mark:

https://acorneroffrance.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-corner-cafe.html

11.  Via haiku

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/experts-extremely-worried-about-delta-variant-as-us-death-toll-hits-600000/

Where haiku's from, they've natural-immunitied through worse than that.  My concern is the bollox stats they trot out - see Whitty exposed today.  So why would you pay any mind whatever to stats, R rates, that bollox?

10.  Blogs [1]

a.  Editing prob today at Mark W's but interesting:

This is a bone yard near Paris, France with hundreds of electric powered cars. Mind you these are only cars used by the City of Paris and not personal vehicles. All of these have the same issue ... the battery storage cells have given out and need replacement. 

[Using Blogger too, I know what she did but am saying nuffin!]

b.  Poor sod, Radders ...  there, but for the Grace ...

9.  Maricopa

https://www.newsmax.com/bernardkerik/Arizona-Forensic-Audit-2020-Ballots/2021/06/15/id/1025217/

Democrats and the mainstream media have been aggressively denouncing the Maricopa County, Arizona election audit from the beginning.

At, first I didn’t understand why.  I thought that it was because they were afraid of what the results would be, but I now believe it’s something far worse.

The Democrats aren’t “just” afraid of the outcome – but they’re afraid that the audit results will be irrefutable and unimpeachable. They know that their efforts to discredit the audit process in Arizona will not stand up to scrutiny and here’s why.

It then goes into it. Incidentally, I seem to recall Newsmax called controlled opposition by some of "our" pundits. Certainly over Trump.  We shall see. And also incidentally, Twitter still have the ban on me I noticed, not that it concerns me these days.

8.  John Ward today

https://therealslog.com/2021/06/16/advice-for-all-western-citizens-show-some-disrespect/

This bit:

But here's the most bizarre fact: two writers from the 1930s remain preeminent in their prescience about the way the world was going: Aldous Huxley in his book Brave New World, and George Orwell in Nineteen-Eighty Four. Both men used fiction as their medium, and both were philosophers with an eclectic (and grounded) experience of the Dark Human Side. Importantly, they were both implacably opposed to Utopianism.

A noble tradition I tried to follow in the long book, which I call semi-fiction.  If there was not, as I claim, Mary-Sue-ism, making the main character impossibly heroic, then there must be another reason.

There is ... same thing Defoe discovered, Bunyan, Swift.  To me, they weren't satirists, they were just trying to stay alive.  There's a lot in my long book which could not openly be stated.