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NATO must reduce its “military emissions” in an effort to tackle climate change, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. He made the announcement on Twitter as he welcomed the United States’ special envoy for climate — John Kerry — to Brussels. He tweeted: “Great to welcome @ClimateEnvoy John Kerry to Brussels. We agree that climate change makes the world more unsafe, so #NATO needs to step up and play a bigger role in combating it — including by reducing military emissions. I look forward to working closely together. #NATO2030.” Last September, in an op-ed published on the NATO website, Stoltenberg...

“Anti-Semitic platforms like Gab have no place in Texas and certainly do not represent Texas values,” Abbott said. “What does represent Texas values is legislation like this by Representative King and Representative Goldman that fights antisemitism in Texas,” he added.

“‘Follow Me’: The Candidates for Discipleship” (Mark 2:13-17) We just came out of an election year, in which we had to make choices among all sorts of various candidates. There were many candidates running for many different offices, at local, state, and federal levels. And in the campaign ads, each candidate would tout his or her qualifications for the position they were seeking. Because a candidate for office ought to have certain qualifications. But how does that work when we’re dealing with qualifications for being disciples of Jesus? What qualifications do candidates for discipleship need--what do you need--in order to...

Representative Katie Porter (D., Calif.) was indignant, her tweet went viral, and she is getting rapturous coverage. She was also wrong. At a hearing yesterday, Strata Production Company president Mark Murphy said that she had a “misconception . . . that somehow the oil and gas industry have benefits from some special sort of tax structure.” Porter hit back: Top Articles READ MORE Researchers Cited by CDC Allege Agency Ignored Favorable Data on School Reopenings 00:04 / 00:30 SKIP AD You do benefit from special rules. There’s a special tax rule for intangible drilling costs that does not apply to...

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her decision to continue to enforce COVID-19 restrictions at the U.S. Capitol. McCarthy is urging Pelosi to reconsider her restrictions and re-open the U.S. Capitol to pre-pandemic operations given that more and more Americans are now receiving the vaccination aimed at mitigating the spread of the pandemic.

OAKLAND, Calif. - A man arrested in the robbery of a 75-year-old Oakland man who is now brain-dead is a parolee with an extensive criminal history, KTVU has learned.

The security holes...leave the door open to industrial-scale cyber espionage, allowing malicious actors to steal emails virtually at will from vulnerable servers. Tens of thousands of organizations have already been compromised,...the sluggish pace of many customers’ updates...means the field remains at least partially open to hackers of all stripes...Intriguingly, several of the groups appeared to know about the vulnerability before it was announced by Microsoft on March 2.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report. Read more at DutchNews.nl:

Rush in his early radio days as a disc jockey in Pittsburgh. Link below.

Last fall, the U.S. Air Force simulated a conflict set more than a decade in the future that began with a Chinese biological-weapon attack that swept through U.S. bases and warships in the Indo-Pacific region. Then a major Chinese military exercise was used as cover for the deployment of a massive invasion force. The simulation culminated with Chinese missile strikes raining down on U.S. bases and warships in the region, and a lightning air and amphibious assault on the island of Taiwan.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Republican state lawmakers have renewed calls for an investigation into how Green Bay administered the November election. One is even calling for the city’s mayor to resign. State Sen. Roger Roth, R-Appleton, says he had concerns when Democratic-leaning cities in Wisconsin received grants to help administer the November election. “We had no idea until this report came out just how drastic it would be,” said Roth, whose district does not include Green Bay. The report is from Wisconsin Spotlight, a conservative outlet. It looked at how Green Bay used an outside consultant and a $1.6...

Concerns of “universal income” grow as President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package gets rid of work requirements for the Child Tax Credit. Experts raise concerns that this could actually hurt, not help, society. Under current law, families with no earnings can’t get the benefits, but as their work earnings increase, so too does the family’s benefits. But Biden’s plan would cut out that requirement. Even families who don’t work could get up to $3,600 per child on top of any other aid they already might be receiving, such as food stamps, Medicaid, and so on.

The state’s governor, Greg Abbott, lifted its statewide mask mandate that was enforced in mid-2020 and is working toward loosening other restrictions on businesses so they can operate again at full capacity. The move comes as the state is seeing a downward trend on patients infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, as well as hospitalizations going down to levels not seen in months.

[Catholic Caucus] US bishops to vote on plan for Eucharist and pro-choice Catholic politiciansThe U.S. bishops’ conference could be given a vote this June on whether to draft and publish a document addressing the question of administering the Eucharist to pro-choice Catholic politicians. The document could be finalized and approved as early as November, sources tell The Pillar. Credit: Lawrence OP via flickr. CC BY SA 2.0ShareThe USCCB’s administrative committee discussed on Tuesday a path forward for a proposed document on “Eucharistic coherence,” several sources within the bishops’ conference told The Pillar. A plan to develop the statement had the...

The league that began their season with near empty stands and then chased away television viewers by turning their gameday experience into a platform for social justice messaging, announced on Wednesday that all teams will have to be at or under a salary cap of $182.5 million by 4:00 PM EST on March 17. The $182.5 million figure represents a $15.7 million drop from the $198.2 million cap the league had last year.

A bill that could grant legal immunity for drivers who hit violent road-blocking protesters while fleeing from them has passed the House in Oklahoma. House Bill 1674, authored by Republican state Rep. Kevin West, was passed 79-18 on Tuesday and proposes measures to crack down on violent protesters who block roads or highways to paralyze traffic—a tactic that was popularized last year during the widespread Black Lives Matter protests—some of which turned violent.

The MBTA Transit Police are looking for four people who allegedly stole armrests from benches at Central Square station in Cambridge. But others, including a social media account said to represent the people who removed them, say the armrests are a form of “hostile architecture” meant to deter homeless people from using the benches to rest.

A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors. The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said. There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering. Europe’s largest cloud services provider told clients...

Shops on Taobao, the largest e-commerce platform in China - operated by the Alibaba Group, which owns the South China Morning Post - still offer merchandise using Trump's image. The latest trend is a statue of Trump, sitting cross-legged and with his eyes closed in a Zen position, draped in a robe. The description says, "Make Your Company Great Again'', a wordplay on Trump's election slogan "Make America Great Again". The statue sells for as much as 999 yuan (US$153) in several shops.