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A year after a global coalition of more than 11,000 scientists declared a climate emergency, Oregon State University (OSU) researchers who initiated the declaration have released an update that points to a handful of hopeful signs, but shares continued alarm regarding an overall lack of progress in addressing climate risks. “Young people in more than 3,500 locations around the world have organized to push for urgent action,” said Oregon State University’s William Ripple, who co-authored “The Climate Emergency: 2020 in Review,” published in Scientific American. “And the Black Lives Matter movement has elevated social injustice and equality to the top...

Happy Australia Day to all our readers Down Under. The national holiday is, in fact, on Tuesday, but for all I know it's already Tuesday there, or possibly Wednesday, in which case Happy Australia Day for yesterday - or, as the depraved nutters at the nation's state broadcaster say, "Happy Invasion Day". Not being able to visit the Lucky Country is one of the things I've most missed in this last year of lockdown, but I hope to see it once more before I die, if the Vegemite Curtain is ever lifted. As you know, we always like to have...

Donald Trump spent his last moments as President sad and alone, according to Jim Acosta, who led CNN's coverage of Trump during his presidency. In his farewell to Washington on Wednesday morning, Trump greeted a small crowd of about 200 at Joint Base Andrews before he boarded Air Force One with family and the press, including Acosta. "It was sort of a sad and pathetic sight," Acosta told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" on Sunday. "I've never seen him this alone the entire time he was at the level of presidential politics."

Brady is headed back to the Super Bowl, this time without Coach Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. He prevailed over Aaron Rodgers in a duel of legendary quarterbacks, and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Rodgers's Green Bay Packers, 31-26, in Sunday's NFC championship game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

"Words of Love" was written by John Phillips, and featured Cass Elliot as the primary vocalist. It was released as a single in November 1966 (backed with a cover of Martha and the Vandellas's "Dancing in the Street"). Given the disappointing chart placement of the prior single, Look Through My Window, hopes were high that Words of Love would return the group to the upper reaches of the charts: on the week of January 21, 1967, the single fulfilled this hope, as it reached No. 5 in the United States."Words Of Love" - The Mamas & The Papas featuring...

LIFE does exist after death, a Brazilian man has announced in a highly-detailed narrative he claims occurred during the course of a three-day coma.A man, identified only as Joon O in bid to retain his anonymity, has related an extraordinary account of what he believes took place following a near-fatal car accident. Reported the dramatic events that brought about the religious experience to the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) blog. He said in his story, translated from Portuguese and uploaded to the blog this week: “I was heading home and giving a ride to two employees and one of...

Explanation: It is one of the more massive galaxies known. A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp view of the gorgeous island universe shows off a striking yellow nucleus and galactic disk. Dust lanes, small, pink star-forming regions, and young blue star clusters are embedded in the patchy, tightly wound spiral arms. In contrast, many other spirals exhibit grand, sweeping arms with large star-forming regions. NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way. The featured composite image...

Any FReeper in the business of making flags? I have a design I like to possibly have made.

I was with FR even before my sign up date states. Lost my password and couldn't retrieve it back then. God bless Jim Robinson but with a little effort, allowing "likes" and a little advertising, etc. FR would be worth billions.

President Biden enacted several executive actions to restructure U.S. immigration policy upon his inauguration and former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf shared his skepticism with "Sunday Morning Futures" on the lawfulness of these orders. The new president lifted the travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries, halted the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and strengthened legal protections for Dreamers. Wolf asked and answered three questions in challenge to the orders: Are they lawful? Will they make DHS law enforcement officers' jobs more difficult? And will they entice more individuals to cross the border? "When you answer all three of...

Original headline: World’s biggest hedge-fund manager ‘thrilled’ with Biden’s inauguration speech but still believes America’s on ‘brink of terrible civil war’Back in early December, Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, sounded the alarm on class and power struggles that are tearing the country apart, saying the U.S. “at a tipping point in which it could go from manageable internal tension to revolution and/or civil war.” A few weeks and a new president later, and Dalio does not seem to be getting any more optimistic about the nation’s prospects going forward. “I believe we are on the brink of...

President Trump is reportedly drafting a list of dirtbag Republicans to primary in the coming elections. Failed Leadership VP Mike Pence betrayed President Trump and the nation when he refused to look at credible and serious election fraud allegations in the battleground states. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy both came out this past week and blamed President Trump for the riots at the US Capitol. President Trump is also looking at starting a pro-American “Patriot Party” to represent the people and take on the corrupt Republican and Democrat machines. The Daily Mail insists Trump is making...

Chicago’s teacher’s union voted on Sunday to defy Chicago Public Schools administration and refuse to return to in-person teaching even though pupils are due back in classrooms on February 1st. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has been locked in a power struggle with the union for some time, with teachers and union brass insisting that it is not safe for teachers to return to classrooms, even though Chicago’s private schools have been in-person for months. At one point, the Chicago Teachers Union, or CTU, suggested that any plan to return to in-classroom teaching would be both racist and sexist. As the...

For most of his presidency, Harry S. Truman maintained a friendly relationship with General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. Truman knew a hero when he saw one, and Eisenhower was viewed as a national hero for leading the Allied invasion of Normandy that helped bring about the demise of Hitler’s Third Reich. Truman even indicated he would support Eisenhower for President on the Democratic ticket in 1948, with Truman stepping down to be Vice President once again. But the bitter 1952 election campaign put an end to the cordiality that had developed between the two. Truman, campaigning for the...

Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said on “Fox News Sunday” that new faces of the Republican Party have the potential to flourish now that former President Trump is out of office. He named Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, and Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska as potential spokespeople. “So there will be some new faces,” Mr. Romney said. “President Trump, of course, will continue to have influence, but I think our party is going to return to some of our more fundamental principles, which is fiscal responsibility, believing in the importance of character,...

Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that it was “shameful” that Republicans have continued to claim there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Christie said, “This election was not stolen. All of the facts point in that direction.” He continued, “I’m a former prosecutor. I make decisions based upon evidence, not based upon feelings or partisanship or loyalty. You make those decisions based upon evidence. The evidence here has shown right from the beginning, while every election has some irregularities, and I’m sure this one did too, there were no type of irregularities...

ALLE BEELDEN VAN DE DEMONSTRATIE IN EINDHOVEN EN AMSTERDAM ZONDAG 24 JANUARI 2021 - STERREN NIEUWSProtestsMASS CHAOS IN HOLLAND - RIOTS AND PROTESTERS TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY - FIRES, CLASHES WITH POLICE GOOGLE TRANSLATION: The Amsterdam Museumplein and the city center of Eindhoven have been designated as safety risk areas since 11 a.m. This means that the police may carry out preventive searches. In both cities there are indications that people want to demonstrate despite a ban and are prepared to use violence in doing so. Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam has introduced the measure in consultation with the police...

Democratic rule in D.C. amid the coronavirus pandemic could expose simmering tensions between New York’s two political titans — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the new Senate Democratic majority leader, sources who know both men said. “Theirs is a working relationship at best,” said one top New York Democrat. “There was enormous tension between the two in the spring,” the party insider said. Cuomo publicly slammed Schumer last year for not backing changes to restructure the Medicaid program he was depending on to generate savings in the state budget. Cuomo last March also blasted Schumer’s $2.1 billion bipartisan...

Andy Ngo, an independent journalist who often contributes to The Post Millennial, has been interviewed by Sky News, where he talks about having to move to London because of repeated death threats. The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo speaks to Sky News about fleeing his hometown of Portland, Ore. after increasing threats on his life by Antifa extremists. "You're in London because you'd had to flee Portland 'cause it's too dangerous for you? Tell us," Ngo was asked. "Yeah, for a number of months now, there's just been increasing threats of violence against me, promises by Antifa extremists to .... kill...

Matt Luceen didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in 2020, but he came to Washington last week to protest President Biden’s inauguration, saying the election was flawed. Mr. Luceen, a supporter of Sen. Bernard Sanders, said he toted signs that read “COUNT OUR VOTES BY HAND,” and “End the charade.” “We don’t ever really put the paper into piles and count them by hand anymore,” the 34-year-old computer programmer said. “We just trust the machines and we shouldn’t because we have documented proof that these machines are vulnerable.” While former President Trump and his supporters have been explosively vocal...