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A newly devised type of silica bead could help save melting glaciers from the onslaught of climate change, scientists say. The innovative new approach, developed by a company called Ice911, employs minuscule beads of 'glass' which are spread across the surface layer of glaciers. There they help to reflect light beating down on them and slow what has become a tremendous pace of melt throughout the last several years. 'I just asked myself a very simple question: Is there a safe material that could help replace that lost reflectivity?' Found of Ice911, Leslie Field, told Mother Jones. What they landed...

A quick reminder of what Joe Biden did during the collective West’s 2014 coup in Kiev… Biden insisted on capturing governmental and administrative buildings in the most violent way, preferably with victims. In order to do this, there had to already be some “symbolic” deaths. He cooked up and coordinated a scenario with other foreign embassies. In addition, Maidan was dying and it needed extra fuel in order to remain alive. The scenario involved “protestors” being shot by snipers. Biden’s guys (Parubiy, Pashinsky, Parasyuk) organised the massacre. I called the then President of Ukraine Yanukovych and ordered him to leave...

Moroccan abortion activists are aborting their unborn babies illegally in protest of laws that protect their children’s lives. On Tuesday, the French newspaper “Le Monde” published a declaration from pro-abortion feminists who promised to keep breaking “unfair and obsolete” abortion laws until the country legalizes abortion, according to the Independent. “We are having sex outside wedlock. We are … being complicit of abortion,” the declaration reads. More than 7,000 people have signed so far, including men, the report states. Morocco prohibits abortions except when the mother’s life is at risk. It also bans sex outside of marriage. But abortion activists...

President Trump’s allies see reasons to worry about the rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is gaining steadily in Democratic primary polls and attracting huge crowds of supporters to her campaign rallies. The Hill interviewed more than a half-dozen current or former advisers to Trump, and about half viewed Warren as the most formidable nominee in a head-to-head match-up against Trump, while the other half described former Vice President Joe Biden as the tougher general election foe. To many Trump World insiders, Warren increasingly looks like the candidate with the best shot at winning the nomination. The two most...

HE'S a multi-millionaire actor with a chiselled jaw and smouldering eyes who landed the ultimate macho role of James Bond. But as Pierce Brosnan's career was about to take off with his first box office hit, he suffered the first of a string of devastating tragedies when his first wife Cassandra Harris lost her battle with ovarian cancer. t that moment, he became a single parent to three children - Charlotte and Christopher, who he had adopted five years earlier after the death of their father, Dermot Harris - and Sean, the eight-year-old son he shared with Cassandra. Pierce, who...

Three more people described as "public safety threats" in New Jersey remain at-large after ICE arrested 54 people, authorities said. NEW JERSEY – More than 50 people in communities across New Jersey were arrested during a week-long probe targeting what ICE calls "public safety threats" following their release from local law enforcement custody. Three more people remain at-large, the agency says. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the 54 people were released to the community instead of being transferred to ICE. The identities of the 54 people were not released, and it's not known why they were released to the...

Hillary Rodham Clinton made listening tours famous, using them to build buzz for her New York Senate and presidential campaigns. Now, she’s on another. In an email to supporters, the 2008 and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said, “I’d like to hear what you’re thinking.” While she isn’t talking about running for president a third time, Clinton said that she has been talking to people about key issues, including immigration reform and electing Democrats “at all levels” in 2020.

he OK hand gesture and the bowlcut hairstyle are among 36 new entries to the Anti-Defamation League’s online listing of hate symbols. The new entries include white supremacist symbols adopted in recent years by the alt-right segment of the white supremacist movement. The OK gesture began as a hoax but became a symbol of white supremacy, according to the ADL. It was flashed in court by the man accused of killing 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. The bowlcut is associated with Dylann Roof, who was convicted of killing nine African-Americans at a church in...

The former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin said in an interview to the “Strana.ua” news agency why the former Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden, connected to lobbying business of the former Minister of Ecology Nikolay Zlochevsky, ordered the president Petro Poroshenko to dismiss him. Shokin said that he was not going to “back away” from the “case of Burisma“, the company of Zlochevsky, the board of which Biden’s son joined soon after Euromaidan, the former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski and also Devon Archer (the close friend of the stepson of the US Secretary of State...

German Bishops Vote to Adopt Statutes for Synodal Assembly The bishops of Germany have voted to adopt a set of statutes for their long-planned “Synodal Assembly.” The decision was taken in a vote on Sept. 25, the final day of the plenary session of the German bishops’ conference. The bishops voted to adopt the statutes by a margin of 51-12, with one abstention.

My cousin once told me that during trips he’d taken to socialist countries in connection with his job, he’d witnessed the glaring failures of socialism many times. I don’t remember what got him started, but he began venting about the wretched conditions he observed in every socialist country he ever visited, all of them. Obviously grateful that he was born in capitalist America -- he lives in a million-dollar home and owns a private plane -- he ended his anti-Marxist speech with this unambiguous declaration: “I want nothing to do with socialism.” My cousin is a patriotic Democrat and a...

The Senate passed a short-term funding bill Thursday amid dispute over border wall funding that delays the risk of a government shutdown through Nov. 21. The Senate voted 82-15 in favor of the continuing resolution after the House already passed it, and it will go to President Donald Trump next for his signature.

A tense hearing over border detention practices erupted into a shouting match between former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., as Homan grew frustrated in his attempts to defend his former agency. Jayapal, the vice chairwoman of the House Judiciary Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee, repeatedly cut off Homan for exceeding his allotted time. It started when the former ICE director responded to a previous statement Jayapal made about the Trump administration's use of funding for additional detention beds. "I'd like to remind you, under the Obama administration we did that most of the...

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) has seen little evidence that fellow presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) is prepared to be commander in chief, she said on Hill.TV's Rising on Thursday. "I haven't seen much come from her in the way of what kind of leadership and decision-making that she would bring to that most important responsibility of the president has as commander in chief," Gabbard told Rising host Krystal Ball. "And just as a soldier and an American that's very concerning for me."

he decision to dismiss Yovanovitch was made by Trump after the meeting with the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This was stated to “Strana” by the former people’s deputy Andrey Artemenko, who lives in the US. He gave evidences in front of a panel of jurors within the framework of the investigation of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller. “Firstly, the White House started to look at members of the team of Obama and Biden, who were appointed in different embassies including in Ukraine. Secondly, there is an active investigation into the interference of Ukraine in the 2016 US presidential election,...

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff’s opening statement at today’s hearing, a grilling of National Intelligence Director Joseph Maguire, was remarkable. To begin with, he recited a parody of the conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that was so absurd, it would not have made it into a Grade-C mob movie. A telling decision by Schiff, a capable former prosecutor: If you have an extortionate conversation, you quote it. If you need to imagine it into something it isn’t, that means it is not an extortionate conversation. Also telling: Chairman Schiff came flying out of the starting...

'The principal called to say he was toting a dead squirrel in his backpack': Mother recounts hilarious conversation with school in Facebook post after her son, eight, took animal because he 'really wanted squirrel dumplings for dinner'

Rudolph Giuliani, the personal lawyer of Donald Trump, suddenly cancelled his visit to Kiev planned for Tuesday for a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky. He announced a rendezvous the day before through the American media, and explained the cancellation of his trip to Fox News, saying that the elected president of Ukraine may be surrounded “by enemies” of the US President and even “enemies of America”. According to Giuliani, in Kiev he would’ve met “a group of people that are enemies of the president, and in some cases, enemies of the United States and in one case, an already convicted person...

It’s no secret that Hollywood relishes including abortion in its television programs or movies. Not only is it a great way to promote a staple left agenda item, it’s a satisfying dig at those pro-lifers. Though what might not be so apparent is that this isn’t just a lefty producer’s personal politics bleeding through onto the script but actual Planned Parenthood propaganda encouraged via the abortion mill’s own consultants planted in the industry. The Washington Post Magazine reported that abortion depictions in pop culture are not only progressive tinsel townies digging in for the culture war. There exists an active...

A war of words has erupted between two Fox News hosts after Tucker Carlson mocked his colleague Shepard Smith over comments about President Donald Trump and his Ukraine call. Carlson targeted Smith during his show on Wednesday night after the latter had defended a Fox News analyst earlier in the day. The ongoing saga was ignited on Tuesday when Smith had Fox News contributor and former judge Andrew Napolitano on his show to talk about the Trump-Ukraine call. Judge Napolitano told Smith that it would constitute a crime if Trump had asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate presidential candidate...