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Russia and China are frustrating the international response to the Myanmar crisis, a top European Union diplomat said Sunday, as the death toll from a military crackdown climbed past 700. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military removed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power on February 1. International efforts to stem the violence have so far failed to yield results, with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell saying Sunday it was "no surprise" that Russia and China were blocking efforts at the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo.

Bill Bryson, in his iconic travelogue about the United Kingdom, “Notes from a Small Island,” observes that nearly all tourist leaflets are “depressingly illiterate, particularly with regard to punctuation.” He sarcastically promises that “if I see one more tourist leaflet that says ‘Englands Best’ or ‘Britains Largest’ I will go and torch the place.” Bryson’s book was published in 1995. Since then, anecdotal evidence as well as statistical surveys reveal that literacy problems have persisted, not just in the United Kingdom but also in Australia. The existence of these problems may even be gleaned from the email culture that has...

For government officials from Los Angeles to Seattle and beyond, 2020 was the year that political protests literally came home to roost. Demonstrators repeatedly ditched traditional venues, such as government buildings and big commercial streets, to chant, fulminate and sit-in outside the front doors of officials including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey and the county’s director of public health, Barbara Ferrer. When Sacramento’s mayor and city manager got the same treatment in 2020, the city responded like many of its peers nationally: quietly letting the protesters have...

Prince Philip, who died on Friday, April 9, at the age of 99-years-old, will be laid to rest on Saturday, April 17th, in a private ceremony in accordance with his wishes. The Daily Wire reported, “Buckingham Palace announced Philip’s death on Friday. The elderly prince has had a host of health problems and had surgery on his heart last month.” “It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle,” a message posted...

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The purchasing power of a currency is the amount of goods and services that can be bought with one unit of the currency.For example, one U.S. dollar could buy 10 bottles of beer in 1933. Today, as Visual Capitalist’s Govind Bhutanda notes, it’s the cost of a small McDonald’s coffee.In other words, the purchasing power of the dollar – its value in terms of what it can buy – has decreased over time as price levels have risen.Tracking the Purchasing Power of the DollarIn 1913, the Federal Reserve Act granted Federal Reserve banks the ability to manage the money supply...

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Hunter Biden owes massive credit card debt after living like a high roller with access to millions of dollars linked to business dealings overseas that proved insufficient to satisfy his ravenous appetite for drugs, prostitutes, and luxury cars, the Daily Mail reported Friday. The Daily Mail published a bombshell report surrounding the potentially incriminating contents of a laptop purportedly owned by Hunter that was dropped off at a Delaware repair shop and eventually given to the FBI.On Friday, the Daily Mail unveiled contents of the laptop that go well beyond the emails first reported by the New York Post in...

In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the Chinese regime’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Gao Fu, at a conference on April 10 in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made using the previously experimental messenger RNA, or mRNA, process. “It’s now...

A new study from Israel indicates the South Africa variant of the coronavirus can "break through" the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to some degree. A team from Tel Aviv University and Clalit Health Services found that the prevalence of the South Africa variant among patients who received both doses of the vaccine was around eight times higher than those unvaccinated – 5.4% versus 0.7%. The study compared over 400 people who received at least one shot of the vaccine and contracted the coronavirus with the same number who were infected and unvaccinated. "We found a disproportionately higher rate of the South African...

Although meditation, yoga and taking naps are effective forms of stress relief, listening to music is one of the easiest ways to get your dopamine flowing. You might have your own personal playlist to calm your nerves, but this one is scientifically-backed. A study conducted by neuroscientists from Mindlab International recorded participants’ physiological responses to specific songs while solving complex puzzles. Based on the results, the scientists came up with the 10 most relaxing songs. 1. Marconi Union, “Weightless” The reason for this, as explained by Lyz Cooper of the British Academy of Sound Therapy, is that the song utilizes...

Subject: Fwd: SADDER WORDS COULDN'T BE WRITTEN We were born and survived through the greatest of times. We paid our dues and endured through a little bit of rain. Now we're old and basking in the sunshine. God has been good to us!. It's sad for the generations who will follow. God Bless America! SADDER WORDS COULDN'T BE WRITTEN!!! The person who wrote this is unknown, but there is much food for thought. This is all very disturbing. Please read the whole essay. ———————————— It appears everything in Washington is crooked and on the take. Not just Congress, but the...

On March 10, 2020, Mary Daniel went to visit her husband like she did every day after he’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. What Daniel did not know was that the next day she’d be told she could not come back—because of new lockdown measures. “The days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months,” Daniel said. Mary Daniel eventually got in as a dishwasher at her husband’s facility, and her story gained nationwide attention. Discovering thousands of Americans in similar situations, she founded the group Caregivers for Compromise—Because Isolation Kills, Too. After hearing about her, Florida Governor Ron...

On this date in 1670, a 70-year-old upstanding Edinburgher went to the stake for confessing — unbidden — to witchcraft. The “Wizard of West Bow” had had a distinguished military career and an exactingly pious public life among Edinburgh’s strictest Presbyterians. So it came as something of a surprise when, after being struck by an illness, he up and copped to a lifelong sexual relationship with his sister Jean … and a lifetime of hitherto unknown black arts, powered by a Satanic walking-staff. He was so far from being suspect that town elders at first thought him daft. Only when...

In the wake of recent tragedies, the tired refrain from the Left to ban gun ownership has reared its dogmatic head for the umpteenth time. It seems the legacy media and the Left can find no other solution to curb crime and violence. Instead, they can only stamp their feet and demand a massive redaction or outright abolishment of the Second Amendment with little to no regard for facts or objective reality. Lost in all the hysterics and sophistry is just how effective a deterrent legal gun ownership is against crime. Though often buried by the Left, countless studies and...

"Teenage Tragedy Song" from 1965. A "melodrama" so to speak. Got into the Top 10.

Linear momentum bounce video https://youtu.be/2UHS883_P60 Animation of what Superwaves author calls the “school of fish” effect https://youtu.be/SoiteXBb1mA

CNN currently is running an explanatory piece titled, “How to fly safely a year into the pandemic.” Unfortunately, whoever was responsible for the article does not understand vaccines — or basic math. One paragraph of the article reads: In addition, real world studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines show they are only 90% protective against the coronavirus, not 95% as reported in clinical trials. Translated into reality, that means for every million fully vaccinated people who fly, some 100,000 could still become infected. Translated into actual reality, a 90 percent effective vaccine refers to the reduction in odds of...

@disclosetv NEW - Black Lives Matter co-founder and self-described Marxist Patrisse Khan-Cullors reportedly bought not just one but four high-end homes and also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort (NY Post)