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MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said Friday on “Chris Jansing Reports” it was “frightening” that roughly half the country supports former President Donald Trump. Capehart said, “I’ve been watching Donald Trump’s press conference since before we were doing the segment before you jumped to it as the Q&A portion. I have to tell you, listening to him and particularly that answer, one word that comes to mind is reprehensible. A former president of the United States isthat basically poo-pooing the concerns of the elected officials in the affected city, in Springfield, Ohio. The Republican governor of the state debunked this and...

The actress Kathy Griffin has claimed that Donald Trump is preparing to crack down against comedians and pick them off “one by one” if he wins in November. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Griffin insisted that Trump had prepared a “list” and would target her and many others as a result. She did not specify exactly how Trump intends to punish them. “He’s going to pick us off, one by one, like bowling pins, and I’m not kidding, and I’m not being paranoid,” the 63-year-old said.

A new method developed by Northwestern University uses electrical currents to solidify marine sand, creating durable, rock-like structures that could replace costly traditional coastal defenses like sea walls. Researchers from Northwestern University have demonstrated that a zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations, mitigating the rising threat of erosion in the face of rising sea levels and climate change. In their study, recently published in Communications Earth and the Environment, the researchers took inspiration from clams, mussels, and other shell-dwelling sea life, which use dissolved minerals in seawater to build their shells. Similarly, the researchers leveraged the...

What is it about the New York Times op-ed page and every crackpot idea under the sun. Somehow, they always find each other. So now we have their latest: kill your air conditioner to save the planet The Times found some guy in Salina, Kansas, who praises going without and says he does it himself: "Whenever people ask me how my wife and I have endured 25 Kansas summers almost entirely without air-conditioning, I like to say we do it because air-conditioning makes it too hot outside. We’re not ascetics, Luddites or misers; we just want to keep living comfortably,...

“I can has cheezburger?” became one of the first internet memes... But research has now found that the vast majority of data stored in the cloud is “dark data”, meaning it is used once then never visited again. That means that all the memes and jokes and films that we love to share with friends and family – from “All your base are belong to us” ... are out there somewhere, sitting in a datacentre, using up energy. By 2030, the National Grid anticipates that datacentres will account for just under 6% of the UK’s total electricity consumption, so tackling...

Biscuit Basin closed for the remainder of summer due to hydrothermal explosion Alert 1, Severity closure, Biscuit Basin closed for the remainder of summer due to hydrothermal explosion The parking lot and boardwalks at Biscuit Basin, located north of Old Faithful, are closed for the remainder of the summer due to a hydrothermal explosion that occurred July 23. The Grand Loop Road remains open to vehicles. Biscuit Basin hydrothermal explosion: Boardwalk condition post-explosion. NPS / Jacob W. Frank Date of release: July 24, 2024USGS Volcano Notice - DOI-USGS-YVO-2024-07-24T21:27:48+00:00YELLOWSTONE (VNUM #325010) 44°25'48" N 110°40'12" W, Summit Elevation 9203 ft (2805 m)...

Next week, for the third time in eight years, Donald Trump will be nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States. A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great. It is a chilling choice against this national moment. For more than two decades, large majorities of Americans have said they...

At the end of a monetary era a number of dominoes will keep falling, initially gradually and then suddenly as Hemingway explained when asked how you go bankrupt. Some of the important dominoes the world will see falling are: Political, Geopolitical, Currency, Debt and Investment Assets. The consequences will be unthinkable – Social Unrest, War, Hyperinflation, Deflationary Implosion of Assets, Debt Defaults and much more. But when things settle down, there will also be offsetting forces such as the emergence of powerful BRICS nations often backed by commodities. Gold will play a major role during this process. Both central banks,...

This may be the funniest Hamas sympathizer campus protest moment yet, and the responses are hilarious! A protestor at the UCLA 'liberated zone' (smelly left-wing protesters squatting on campus grounds against the rules) apparently has a 'potentially fatal banana allergy'. We're, of course, expected to believe this person lives in abject terror of bananas, avoiding the cafeteria, hoping one doesn't spring from the shadows like a curvaceous assassin. They posted signs around Camp Nitwit alerting people to keep the fatal fruit away. Counterprotesters, amused by the sheer stupidity and entitlement of these people, returned with bunches of the golden fruit....

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… he meets a small group of billionaires with heavy investments in the tech sector…proceed to ask him which remote location would be the best place to build their doomsday shelters: New Zealand or Alaska? And if they hired armed guards to protect these compounds, how could they ensure their loyalty? (Would you, for example, withhold food from them, or make them wear disciplinary collars?) … could they insulate themselves from the people who would inevitably seek out their refuge? …The Mindset, broadly defined, is the tendency to see human interests as subservient to those of technological progress… “technopoly”: the...

NASA’s MERRA-2 climate model reveals that the Arctic stratosphere has reached a 40-year record low for December, creating a sudden appearance of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) far beyond their usual Arctic confines. Recent observations have revealed a remarkable surge in polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), often referred to as the most beautiful clouds on Earth due to their aurora-like colors. This sudden increase is attributed to a 40-year record low in temperatures within the Arctic stratosphere for the month of December, as indicated by NASA’s MERRA-2 climate model. PSCs form under extremely cold conditions, typically around -85 °C (-121 °F), in...

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet)...Unfortunately, a 2020 study predicted wave heights in the North Pacific are going to increase with climate change, which suggests the Ucluelet wave may not hold its record for as long as our current predictions suggest.

🆘 Residents of these countries are taking significant risks. Already today, they need to seriously consider their own safety because, in just 5-7 years, the climate will mercilessly level their cities to the ground. 👀 Check if your country is on the list! 😱 And if it is, what should you do??? Even relocating to another country won't solve the problem because destructive climate c@t@strophes will sooner or later occur everywhere! 🤝 The only way out is to end all military conflicts and unite the world's best scientists, currently engaged in developing new we@pons, to address the climate problem. Learn...

Surely at some point, as a modern-day watchman on the wall, you have experienced that sharp smirk or the raising of unbelieving eyebrows as you attempt to explain to a lost friend or family member that the world we now see unfolding before our very eyes is exactly as the Bible said it would be at the end of the age and that the long-awaited return of Jesus to this earth is finally upon us! Perhaps your warnings have even evoked laughter or biting sarcasm, scoffing of a more contentious nature? None of this, however, has really come as a...

Fallout shelters can cost millions of dollars. But this DIY underground bunker costs about $1,000. You wouldn't want to live in this makeshift underground bunker forever. In a pinch, this DIY fallout shelter would be better than an above-ground building, an expert said.In the event of nuclear war, the ultra-rich can hide away in their luxury bunkers that cost anywhere from $35,000 to $14 million. But what about the rest of us?Turns out, if a nuclear attack is imminent, you can build your own DIY fallout shelter for relatively cheap.You would just need a couple of days' time, some equipment,...

The US economy is slippin’ into darkness. The Philly Fed NBOS General Business Activity Region Diffusion Index SA crashed to -22.8 in April. And today’s Fed Funds Futures data points to a return of The Bernanke/Yellen “Low Rider” policy for rate management. Why can’t the corporate media, AOC and Tucker Carlson be friends?

Sea level rise has long been expected to be an ongoing and worsening problem for U.S. coasts, but scientists have found that some areas are experiencing "unprecedented" levels of rising seas, raising concerns about the fate of already vulnerable communities. A new study published in Nature Communications on Monday found that since 2010, sea level rise along the nation's Southeast and Gulf coasts has ramped up dramatically, hitting rates that are "unprecedented in at least 120 years." Since 2010, scientists from Tulane University have found that sea levels in those regions have increased by about half an inch every year....

Grid Down, Power Up | The DocumentaryThis documentary investigates and follows the trail of information surrounding threats that the US national power grid faces right now. Dennis Quaid hosts an alarming look into the potential of life without power. A dynamic legion of energy, economic, national security, and infrastructure experts fearlessly expose our most critical global threat: the vulnerability of our nation's power grids. Together they inform the public of imminent threats, and the infinite horrors in store from prolonged power loss. Buckle down and power up with this series of shocking scenarios. Natural disasters and weather phenomena are only...

As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization and denying the Maori people rights, a name change for the island nation is being considered as a part of its own reckoning. A petition that aims to change the Dutch anglicized name of New Zealand to its indigenous Maori designation of Aotearoa has collected more than 70,000 signatures, prompting a parliamentary committee to consider the idea. New Zealand member of parliament Debbie Ngarewa-Packer , co-leader of The Maori Party, joined All Things Considered to elaborate on the significance of this potential name change, the journey to...