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Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. He doesn’t get past the introduction before making mistakes that negate the rest of the book. He claims Carbon Dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero to avoid a climate disaster. Assuming that CO2 can even cause a climate disaster, about half the CO2 emitted every year is reabsorbed by the Earth – by the oceans and by plants. Thus, you don’t need zero,...

Around 71 per cent of people have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, and 62 per cent have been fully vaccinated. Of these, 57 per cent have received the Sinopharm vaccine, and 43 per cent AstraZeneca. Despite this, there has been a recent surge in cases, with 37 per cent of new active cases and 20 per cent of hospital cases being fully vaccinated.

Steven Koonin is one of the country's top physicists. He worked for President Barack Obama, a Democrat, as Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. Science Feedback, one of Facebook’s “independent fact-checkers,” is barring reviews about his book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t and Why It Matters, and classifying its content as false. “Mr. Koonin is no ‘climate denier,’ to use the concocted phrase used to shut down debate," The Wall Street Journal writes in a review of the book. "The word ‘denier’ is of course meant to associate skeptics of climate alarmism...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — New York State Police Major Barry Chase confirms troopers are conducting a criminal investigation at the home of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and a source confirms to News10NBC that her husband, Timothy Granison, is in custody. Chase said troopers will have more information as soon as they can. "We're conducting a criminal investigation at 93 Woodman Park in the City of Rochester I'll confirm it is the residence of City of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and it's an ongoing investigation," Chase said. "We'll have more for you as soon as we can."

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Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin announced her plans to run for governor Wednesday, joining a crowded field of Republican challengers to Gov. Brad Little in 2022, according to reports. McGeachin has clashed with Little over the last year on his coronavirus restrictions, FOX 28 in Spokane, Wash., reported, and her move shows the divide in the state between establishment Republicans and Trump-aligned politicians. Last year, McGechin called their relationship "tense" while she publicly criticized him over his April 2020 stay-at-home order, KTVB-TV in Boise reported. "Idahoans have witnessed serious, egregious violations over this past year," McGeachin told supporters on the...

This is a great short video that must be shared to the public. This is pretty much the way I understand it. https://www.bitchute.com/video/gFq50Z2nrS5n/

In a bid to bolster former President Donald Trump's lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, Trump's Republican allies are now seeking Arizona-style audits in other swing states -- including Georgia, where the former President's false claims have set off an intraparty war. A day after Trump said in a statement that Georgia should follow Arizona's lead, former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, a Trump supporter who is challenging incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in next year's GOP primary, proposed an audit Wednesday. "Georgians still have questions about irregularities found in the 2020 election and they deserve answers," he...

Twitter said on Wednesday it was scrapping an automated image-cropping system after its review found bias in the algorithm controlling the function. The messaging platform said it found the algorithm delivered "unequal treatment based on demographic differences" with whites and males favoured over blacks and females, and "objectification" bias that focused on a woman's chest or legs, described as "male gaze."

The Biden administration’s plans are in place to (mostly) end the 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan. But don’t expect a conclusion to the 18-year war in Iraq any time soon. “We’re going to stay in Iraq,” Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie told Military Times for a report published in April, supplying four rationales for that choice: the Islamic State, Iran, Baghdad and Afghanistan. Each excuse was as wrongheaded as the last, and none justify prolonging the heir-apparent to the notorious title of America’s longest war. “We’re going to be there, our NATO partners are going to be there,” McKenzie first said,...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa House and Senate approved a bill Wednesday nights that would ban mask mandates in schools and cities. It comes after some school districts across the state held meetings earlier this week voting to either continue with their mask mandates or get rid of them. Advertisement Lawmakers moved the amendment to an education bill quickly on Wednesday. Once signed, superintendents, principals and school board members won't be able to implement mask mandates for their students or employees. The amendment also said county and city leaders can't make stricter mask policies than the state's own policies...

I’ve shied away from reporting on events in Maricopa because it would require more hours than I have in a day to track intelligently the back-and-forth in that recount. My touchstone there is the fact that the Democrats’ and NeverTrumpers’ ferocious efforts to stop the count strike me as the actions of people with something to hide. Otherwise, they’d be there helping to prove that they’re right. Events in a small town in New Hampshire, though, are more interesting because a low-key audit may reveal serious election anomalies harming Republicans. Windham, New Hampshire, a town of 14,853 people, has long...

The FBI on Wednesday released videos of “horrifying assaults” on law enforcement during the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill as Congress debates the formation of a commission to investigate the insurrection. In two new videos, the FBI showed one suspect trying to tear off an officer’s gas mask before picking up a baton and striking officers with it, and another suspect punching officers with gloves with metal knuckles. The FBI requested the public’s help in identifying the two suspects and confirmed that more than 425 individuals who took part in the insurrection have been arrested so far. “The American...

(h/t Karl Spooner.)Summary:A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma for adults hospitalized with severe COVID-19 found that mortality at 28 days in the treatment arm was half the rate seen in the control arm (12.6 percent vs. 24.6 percent), although treatment was not associated with other improvements in clinical status.A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma for adults hospitalized with severe COVID-19 found that mortality at 28 days in the treatment arm was half the rate seen in the control arm (12.6% vs. 24.6%), although treatment was not associated with other improvements in clinical status.SNIP"We should not close...

Gwen Inglis, a national cycling champion, was training on familiar roads when a driver hit and killed her after drifting into the bike lane, Lakewood (Colo.) Police said. Inglis was riding with her husband, Mike, in the Denver suburb around 10 a.m. on Sunday when the Nissan sedan driven by Ryan Montoya, 29, veered into the lane. He remained at the scene. Inglis, 47, was taken to the hospital, where she died of her injuries. Inglis is the reigning 2019 U.S. road race champion in the 45-49 age group and her husband won the national title in the 50-and-over category...

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D) financial disclosers show he holds millions in Apple stock after he publicly criticized the company for profiting off “abusive” practices, according to a report. Ossoff, in a Senate hearing last month, quizzed Apple’s Chief Compliance Officer, Kyle Andeer, on reports showing the company failed to regulate fraudulent iPhone applications available in its app store, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the matter. The report showed “fake app developers have bilked customers out of millions of dollars in subscription fees, according to consumer watchdogs.” The report outlines Ossoff’s hypocrisy for questioning Andeer...

The COVID-19 virus could potentially have escaped from a laboratory, one of the most senior health officials in the U.S. conceded on Wednesday, as House Republicans published their own report claiming there is 'circumstantial evidence' that the virus originated in a Wuhan facility. The U.S. government has been at pains to downplay speculation that the virus was the result of an accident in China - although they are calling on Beijing to be more transparent about their role. They insist that it is far more likely that COVID-19 originated with animals, and spread naturally to humans. Critics of the Biden...

Vice President Kamala Harris may be breaching her own finance ethics promise, according to her latest financial disclosure that shows she keeps assets hidden in a tax-advantaged trust. Increasing transparency and closing loopholes were among the Biden-Harris ethics pledges during the campaign, as they sought to draw a contrast with President Trump and his murky finances. But Harris's disclosure on Monday reveals that she has been a trustee of the KDH/DCE family trust since 2017.

Dozens of House Democrats are now adopting “illegal alien gang members rights” as their latest “racial justice” cause. According to Fox News: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , led a group of her House Democratic colleagues in a letter to federal immigration officials demanding an overhaul of immigration policies and objecting to gang members in the country illegally being targeted for deportation. Ocasio-Cortez and 34 of her Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tae Johnson, calling on them to change immigration policies that rely on the US’s...

“The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly” (Proverbs 20:27).