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Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas fill this colorful skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. Where the otherwise obscuring dust clouds lie close to the hot, young stars they also reflect starlight, forming blue reflection nebulae. The telescopic image spans about 1.5 degrees or 3 full moons, covering nearly 80 light-years at the distance of NGC 2264. Its...

The world’s first COVID-19 human challenge is about to start. Britain will infect 2,500 healthy volunteers with coronavirus to study how the infection behaves in the body — specifically the amount it takes before a person develops Covid-19, the Sun reported. The government has budgeted $45 million for the research, which is being conducted by Imperial College, the National Health Service’s Royal Free Hospital and pharmaceutical company hVIVO, a pioneer in viral human challenge models. Human challenge studies aren’t used often because of the ethical questions raised about infecting healthy people. The Brits, ages 18 to 30, will get a...

Poland’s national conservative government has detailed a new law protecting free speech online against Big Tech censorship, backed by a new court and big fines.Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro has announced the draft ‘Act for the Freedom to Express One’s Views and Obtain and Disseminate Information on the Internet’ will give social media users a statutory right to appeal bans and content removals on social media platforms such as Facebook on Twitter, which they will be able to escalate to a new Court for the Protection of Freedom of Speech in a streamlined, all-digital process.If the new court rules that...

....Don’t like it? Don’t worry, said the experts: If you’re feeling a mite lonely after nine months of house arrest in Papillon-like solitary confinement, just throw a rollicking Christmas “social” event in which you stare, all alone, at a computer screen on a Zoom call, as the most ruthless, repressive, imperialist regime on earth monitors everything you say, and then instantly disables your account if you dare to criticize it. (Soon, no doubt, it won’t only be the Chinese government doing the monitoring and disabling, but our own—supposing it hasn’t merged with the CCP by then). House arrest for nine...

Stalking dog walkers, fines for unauthorised car journeys, telling Britons to snitch on their neighbours, and arresting protesters at Britain’s sacred space for free speech are just some examples of British policing during 2020, the year of the Chinese virus. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson passed the emergency coronavirus legislation on March 23rd, he also gave police expanded powers to enforce it, telling Britons: “If you don’t follow the rules, the police will have the powers to enforce them, including fines and dispersing gatherings.” No sooner had police been given the powers than they were flexing their muscles in using...

Known as a termopolium, Latin for hot drinks counter, the shop was discovered in the archaeological park's Regio V site, which is not yet open the public, and unveiled on Saturday. Traces of nearly 2,000-year-old food were found in some of the deep terra cotta jars containing hot food which the shop keeper lowered into a counter with circular holes. Archaeologists also found a decorated bronze drinking bowl known as a patera, ceramic jars used for cooking stews and soups, wine flasks and amphora. Pompeii, 23 km (14 miles) southeast of Naples, was home to about 13,000 people...

Let's start in 2000. That year, former Texas Gov. George W. Bush absolutely annihilated Democrat Al Gore in Texas, winning 59.3% of the vote to Gore's 37.9%. Bush won by 1.3 million votes of about 6 million cast. Bush crushed Democrat John Kerry in 2004, 61.1% to 38.2%. That time he won by nearly 1.7 million votes of some 7 million ballots cast. But things began to change when Barack Obama ran for president. While the late Sen. John McCain defeated the Democrat in 2008, he got just 55.4% of the vote to Obama's 43.6%. And McCain won by fewer...

China's economy will overtake that of the United States by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, because of the two nations's different policies on COVID-19, a British economic think tank said Saturday. The World Economic League Table, released by the London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research, said China's quick and forceful handling of the pandemic, which first broke out in Wuhan in 2019, resulted in less economic damage in 2020, leading to a head start in recovery. China reported 23 active cases of COVID-19 on Dec. 19. The country has reported a total of 95,460 cases with 4,770...

Amtrack, the government run passenger rail system, purchases soda for $3.40 per serving, and then resells it to customers for $2.00. Meanwhile, McDonald’s purchases soda for 9 cents per serving, and then resells it to customers for $1.29.Amtrack, the government run passenger rail system, purchases soda for $3.40 per serving, and then resells it to customers for $2.00. So they are selling it at a loss. The taxpayers make up the difference. Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/amtrak-lost-800m-on-cheeseburgers-and-soda Meanwhile, McDonald’s purchases soda for 9 cents per serving, and then resells it to customers for $1.29. So they make a profit. Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sYIxP3SJKxsJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/13/a-trend-the-restaurant-industry-could-do-without/+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us In my...

Federal investigators in Nashville are combing through more than 500 tips and leads to unraveling the mystery surrounding the explosion that rocked Music City on Christmas morning. The blast occurred Friday at 6:30 a.m. CT, after a computerized voice emanating from a parked white motor home loudly urged people to evacuate, warning the vehicle would explode in minutes. The RV’s explosion left at least three people injured, set several other vehicles on fire, destroyed a number of buildings on the block and knocked out wireless service in much of the region. Yesterday a video surfaced from a security camera in...

One Christian was killed and two others injured in an Islamist extremist attack on a Christian-owned shop in al-Wardayan district, Alexandria, Egypt. Ramsis Boulos Hermina, his brother Adel Hermina, and Tareq Fawzy Shenouda were stabbed and beaten by Muslim extremists armed with clubs, knives and a sword. All three men were hospitalised and received urgent care, but Ramsis Hermina died from his injuries. The attack was allegedly carried out by two brothers, one named as Nasser al-Sambo who has a history of harassing and bullying the Christian community. The Muslim men attacked Ramsis Hermina as he was working in his...

As anybody who read the book, Harold is a young Stephen King, in this adaptation.

Man who killed Jewish woman recounts how he waited in forest for a victim, struck her on the head several times. ... The terrorist does not belong to a particular terrorist organization, and had waited in the forest for an Israeli victim to pass by. The terrorist, who was captured by IDF forces, surprised Horgan, hit her on the head several times and then hid her body. ... The terrorist, a 40-year-old man, has a history of hostile terrorist activity. He was taken for questioning in broad daylight - and did not object to his arrest. Several other Arabs were...

UK trials new antibody therapy that can stop people who have been exposed to COVID becoming ill and it could save MILLIONS of lives across the globe Drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine It could be given as an emergency treatment to hospital inpatients, care home residents and university students to help reduce the spread of the virus Scientists from the University College London Hospitals NHS (UCLH) have injected ten people with the drug In the U.S. there have been more than 18.7 million Americans infected with...

Anthony Quinn Warner is a 63-year-old Tennessee man who has been named as the person of interest accused in the explosion of a parked RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, according to CBS News. An RV similar to the one used in the Nashville bombing was once parked at an address linked to his name in images available on both Google Maps and Google Earth. Jeff Pegues, a CBS News journalist, wrote on Twitter, “@CBSNews has learned the name of a person of interest tied to the explosion that rocked #Nashville on #Christmas Day. Multiple sources tell us that...

"The hardest moment was when I realized the Americans aren't the barbarians. I receive sympathy I do not deserve, nor would I return in kind if it was me. I was the barbarian all along. That is the hardest part."Why A North Korean Veteran [Defector] was Shocked at her First Time in America

The AT&T Building is the building which was bombed. You can tell from the pictured blast pattern that the bomb van was parked just inside the parking garage. The building is owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a company founded by Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh in 2009. Cerberus Capital Management is owned by Staple Street Capital, an owner of Dominion Software Systems. Since founding Cerberus, Owens and Yaghoobzadeh moved up to Staple Street Capital. https://welovetrump.com/2020/12/26/att-building-that-was-bombed-in-nashville-has-connections-to-dominion/ https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/look-who-owns-dominion-voting-systems-politically-motivated-private-equity-ny-hedge-fund.html/ I didn't want to post this information on a thread which speculates about the cause of the bombing in the hope that the...

On Dec. 23, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act (the “Act”), which prohibits employers from retaliating against certain individuals who report criminal antitrust violations. The Act was sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley, passed the Senate on Oct. 17, 2019, and passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 8, 2020. “We thank the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives for their bipartisan commitment to criminal antitrust enforcement,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “By incentivizing disclosures of anticompetitive conduct, the Act will strengthen the Antitrust...

There is a certain historical irony in the same movement that fought to give every rapist and killer the right to a free lawyer is now working to take away the right of people they don't like to be able to pay for a lawyer. But that is the basic trajectory of the Left. 1. Turn a legal right into an entitlement 2. Make the entitlement dependent on a political test rather than an objective service The steepness of the rate of descent is all the more notable when you consider that four years ago the right to an...

“I don’t for a single second say that all white people are privileged. Of course not. But there are benefits even if you come from a low income and you’re white. You’re never judged on your race,” she claimed, adding: “You may be discriminated against because of class, you may be discriminated against because of your age, you may be discriminated against because of gender, size, etc, but you will never be discriminated against because of your race and that in itself feeds into the concept of white privilege.” This is arguably not the case at the BBC, however, which...