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Britain’s top diplomat has claimed that climate change represents a greater threat than terrorism or Russia to the national security of the United Kingdom. In his first major address since the left-wing Labour Party won the general election in July, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Tuesday that the supposed climate crisis will be “central” to his remit, despite holders of his office traditionally focussing on international relations and foreign affairs. “While I am foreign secretary, action on the climate and nature crisis will be central to all the Foreign Office does. This is critical given the scale of the threat,...

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed Tuesday on “CBS Mornings” that Vice President Kamala Harris was the “change candidate” in the presidential race. Newsom said, “What Kamala Harris has done in the last 8 weeks is unprecedented in U.S. history. She’s closed the gap. We’re not just within a margin of error, we’ve expanded the map in the United States. You saw new polls this morning. States that were not even in the conversation, now Donald Trump has to either defend or he has to go out and invest millions and millions of dollars. We never imagined a few weeks ago....

Vice President Kamala Harris will likely try to cast herself as an agent of change during Tuesday’s debate, even though she has been in power for nearly four years. Under the Biden-Harris administration, costs soared about 20 percent across the board, migrant crime spiked, illegal immigrants invaded the southern border, Russia invaded Ukraine, and 13 U.S. troops died during the Afghan withdrawal. Former President Donald Trump, who is the most experienced debater in the “modern age,” according to CNN, will slam Harris on those issues, holding Harris accountable for the administration’s failed policies.

The “neurological burden of climate change is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid,” writes Clayton Page Aldern, a former neuroscientist turned environmental journalist. Global warming is not only destroying the planet, it is also causing “the spread of brain disease,” contends Aldern, author of the 2024 book The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains. “As rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns reshape ecosystems, they’re not just altering landscapes — they’re creating new opportunities for neurological ailments to flourish and spread,” he argues. One way that climate change causes brain disease is through the “expansion of zoonotic diseases,”...

Kamala was asked why young people don’t approve of her work as VP. She blamed climate change. (37 second video in the link below) https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1817653654280643058

Climate change protesters are hoping to “shut down” the annual Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday night. Youth-led activist group Climate Defiance plans to protest at the north gate of Nationals Park and “shut” the game down, Evan Drukker-Schardl, an organizer for the group, told The Hill. “This game is an important kind of illustration of what’s wrong with our politics and our political elite that’s destroying our planet,” Drukker-Schardl said. “We’re not going to let this celebration of corporate political corruption go unchallenged.” The organization, established in March 2023, also led a plan to blockade the White House Correspondents’ Dinner...

South Africans will go to the polls on Wednesday, May 29, in what may be the last chance to save their country from the ruin wrought by the so-called party of liberation, the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC led the struggle against apartheid, and swept into office, with Nelson Mandela, in the country’s first fully democratic election in 1994. Since then, but especially since Mandela left office in 1999, the ANC has been running South Africa into the ground. Crime is soaring. Corruption is rampant. The country’s infrastructure is collapsing. Electricity is often unavailable, thanks to “load-shedding,” which are...

At the beginning of her third term, Merkel has more power in Germany and Europe than any chancellor before her. There hasn’t been such a strong majority behind a government in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, since the first grand coalition half a century ago. In the midst of the European crisis, Germany has become the undisputed dominant power in Europe. The grand coalition will hand Merkel a majority she could use to shape Germany and Europe and address major issues, including constitutional reforms in Germany and the reform of European Union institutions. … (O)fficials at the Chancellery are forging plans...

Evidence suggests our intelligence agencies launched the Russia-collusion hoax months before the Clinton campaign joined in full force.Tuesday’s explosive news — that long before the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, the U.S. intelligence community had asked foreign intel agencies to surveil 26 people connected to Donald Trump — raises the question of whether our intelligence community colluded with the Clinton campaign in these efforts. After all, it was then-Biden campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken who “set in motion the events that led to” 51 former intel officials issuing the public statement that falsely framed...

I wonder how far all this will go. By “all this”, I mean the headlong push, always in the same direction, always away from the world I recognise. To me it seems as though a pendulum is swinging, has been swinging for years now, but always and only one way – further and further from the point where I stand. I wonder too, how far that pendulum can swing before it must stop and, inevitably swing back the other way, and with a vengeance. Every action, after all, has an equal and opposite reaction. To me there seems no avoiding...

Sometimes I watch (well, mostly listen to) obscure movies that have been ripped onto YouTube. I do this in the hope of finding some overlooked "gem." As you can imagine, such a gem is rare indeed; in fact, so far, I've not found a single one. But earlier today, I did find something that might actually be called interesting. It was in a movie called The Omega Code, which was released in October 1999, obviously timed to coincide with the coming of the new millennium. It is a very bad movie. It's like an end-of-days, "Antichrist Comes In The 21st...

Nancy Pelosi’s niece-in-law is a relatively unknown climate policy advisor reportedly tasked with allocating millions of dollars for climate programs devised by the Biden administration, according to E&E News. Alexis Pelosi is the senior climate advisor to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge and she is reportedly tasked with executing the department’s multi-million dollar climate action plan, according to E&E News. Pelosi assumed her current role in January after working for HUD’s Community Planning and Development office ... The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed by Joe Biden in 2022, awarded $837.5 million in grant and subsidy funding and...

Back in February, former President Barack Obama launched an effort called the “Change Collective.” If you’re not familiar with it now, you probably will be soon. Supporters describe it as a “new community-based leadership initiative” meant to “empower emerging leaders to bring people together.” At the forefront of the effort will be “local changemakers across the country.” I’ll go out on a limb and say its endgame is the enforcement of a collectivist narrative, the abolition of local control, and the top-down centralized control of all communities. After all, that’s the pattern of every Obama policy, most notably health care...

Netflix’s Nyad star Annette Bening has spoken out in favor of sex change procedures for children, claiming that parents who allow such procedures simply want “what is best” for their child. Annette Bening, who has a transgender “son,” spoke over the weekend at a fundraiser in Los Angeles for The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network– or GLSEN, an LGBTQ youth organization that in recent years has been actively promoting transgenderism in children. During the event, Bening told a story about a friend with a transgender child who until recently lived in Texas, but who decided to move to California, according...

Jill Biden is recognizing 15 young women as part of an inaugural “Girls Leading Change” event at the White House timed to coincide with the International Day of the Girl. The more than two dozen honorees, the White House announced on Wednesday, were selected by the White House Gender Policy Council for their efforts “leading change and shaping a brighter future in their communities across the United States.” Some of the honorees include 18-year-old Jazmin Cazares, who became a gun violence prevention activist after her sister, Jackie, was killed in a 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

In the essay, “The Paganization of Biblical Studies,” Dr. Peter Jones, Professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary in Escondido, Calif., identifies liberalism and/or progressivism as a form of neo-Gnostic occult mystical pantheism.Occult Gnostic pantheism arose among certain Jews during the Babylonian exile so is grounded in Ageless Wisdom Teachings from the time of Babylon.

KTVU FOX 2 Rental car burglarized just before SF leaders addressed break-insTourists had their car broken into, just blocks from where city leaders were about to address auto break-inshttps://www.ktvu.com/news/tourists-rental-car-burglarized-as-san-francisco-leaders-address-auto-break-ins Tourists in San Francisco found out the hard way about the city's epidemic of auto burglaries after their rental car was ransacked by thieves near the Palace of Fine Arts, not far from where officials were set to lay out new strategies to mitigate car-break-ins.Lindsey Dobbelare and her family were visiting from Missouri and planned to go over the Golden Gate Bridge, but put that off to explore the renowned San...

John Podesta, the Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, took to the White House briefing room podium on Wednesday to blame climate change for the Maui wildfire and to tout the Inflation Reduction Act. Claiming that the summer had brought “one climate disaster after another,” Podesta connected hot temperatures to the fires in Maui, though there is no direct evidence linking climate change to the disaster. The biggest environmental factor — as the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported — was the spread of invasive alien grass species, which are more flammable than the indigenous vegetation...

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States needed to “very much acknowledge” climate change was upon us. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Experts warn that extreme disasters such as this one are only becoming more common because climate change is fueling stronger storms, hotter temperatures, more widespread droughts. Earlier this week, President Biden incorrectly claimed he had already declared a climate emergency, which would give him additional powers to combat the climate crisis. Given what you’re seeing on the ground, do you want President Biden to actually declare a climate emergency?”

On Mondayy’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” NBC News Correspondent Steve Patterson acknowledged that cuts in oil production are “one of the biggest contributing factors” in the recent spike in oil prices, but another major factor is “long-term, we’ve been sort of putting this stuff into the air” and creating climate change. Patterson stated, “It’s the height of summer driving season with that dreaded summer blend and crude oil prices are a bit different with production being cut worldwide, that is one of the biggest contributing factors, but certainly, so too is the heat. It is, because, specifically, these...