*US to lift Omicron travel ban on eight African countries.*

The attempt to keep Omicron out of the US was worth a try, but there is clearly no need to continue it. I'm glad that the US has demonstrated rationality, first by trying the travel ban quickly, and then by ending it.

*It’s Christmas in the Metaverse.* Strictly for zuckers.

Omicron is indeed milder, and fewer patients will need to be admitted to a hospital.

However, because it spreads so fast, it can still overwhelm medical systems.

An undercover agent in the Klu Klux Klan reported two murder plots to the FBI.

He also reported on uniformed "law enforcement" officers who were traitors, working for the KKK. The agencies they worked for were ineffectual at controlling this. Look at the Florida agency which asks us to suppose that this problem is entirely a thing of the past.

The FBI has history of catching fantasy terrorists that could never have committed violence in the real world without FBI informants' holding their hands. They were caught with fake explosives that they believed were real.

In this instance, the FBI investigated people who could have really carried out violence, or helped do so. The FBI was really doing its job.

The fantasy terrorists were Islamists. It does not appear there is a real Islamist terror network in the US, but there is a real white-supremacist terror network

*WHO boss: western countries’ Covid booster WHO boss: Covid booster drives likely to prolong pandemic*

That is true, unless we expand production quickly to the practical limits. The way to do that is to allow generic production.

Furthermore, vaccination in poor countries is further limited because someone has to pay the high market price. Allowing generic production would make vaccines available at prices donors could afford to fund for everyone.