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Pfizer has cancelled its Comirnaty clinical trials for adults aged 50 - 64 due to lack of interest by participants.

Please, let's waste a few billion more dollars

Some folks are upset that a tin can full of hairless apes launched in the general direction of the moon isn't getting enough press.
Maybe folks are tired of (tax payer funded) pointless sequels and remakes.

Been there, done that. Nobody cares about the T-shirt.

More Winning … or Something

Iran took out a $500M AWACS plane (1 of 16 worldwide) with a $10,000 missile/drone – not to mention the billion-dollar radar they disabled previously.

Seventy years and the United States is still getting its butt kicked by asymmetric warfare.

It's curious that every time we have a "war for oil" the cost of gas actually goes up.
 
It's also curious that Trubio is running the neocon playbook, but neither is a neocon, which suggests it was never the neocons calling the shots.

If you have been sitting around waiting for the ice caps to melt (I know I have), the powers-that-be have granted a reprieve.
Not only did the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station experience its coldest October since 1981 (following its coldest winter ever in 2021), but the man who – just four years ago – said things such as

"The countries that build great zero-carbon companies and industries will be the ones that lead the global economy in the coming decades."

"Unless we move fast toward zero, bad things (and probably many of them) will happen well within most people's lifetime, and very bad things will happen within a generation."

"In other words, by mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly."

is now whistling a different tune. In a memo published two days ago, the Great Benefactor Bill Gates declared:

Truth #1: Climate Change is a serious problem but it won't be the end of civilization.
Truth #2: Temperature is not the best way to measure our progress on climate.
Truth #3: Health and prosperity are the best defense against climate change.

In summary, Uncle Bill has decided to not destroy humanity with climate change.

Thanks, Bill!

Trump has pardoned about 1,500 people who were present during the incursion of the capitol on Jan. 6 2021, while proceeding cautiously on six potential commutations for the most serious offenders. Dissenters have taken to invoking Burdick v. United States where Supreme Court dicta holds that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.

If so, does the same hold true for the members of Joe Biden's family, various members of Congress including Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney, and former NIAID chief Anthony Fauci?

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