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World leaders attended a dinner hosted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during the G-7 summit. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales used the occasion to urge them to tackle climate change with the same energy that they mobilized against the coronavirus pandemic.

We are in a literally Orwellian world now. Until a couple of days ago the headline on this Washington Post story from February 2020 read:Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked. Now it reads:Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.Democracy dies in darkness, but stealth editing thrives there. That's Orwell 101 - although one assumes whichever of Bezos's woeful hacks was ordered to do it was unaware of his literary antecedents, or self-respect would have required him to seek alternative, less pitiful employment. Nevertheless, as you'll know if you heard...

US bishop tries to oust yet another faithful priest in what appears to be a patternFr. James Parker said he was told he can no longer live in a diocese rectory, and was given no clear reason as to why, despite claims of the diocese that he denied an offer of residence.BATAVIA, Illinois, June 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A faithful, tradition-minded and beloved priest has been ousted from his Illinois church without reassignment or clear explanation, and has been denied residence in any diocese rectory.Hundreds of Catholics have been rallying to the defense of Fr. James Parker in recent weeks...

A perspective from the “Google group”Matt TrevithickJune 9, 2021 ICCF-2323rd International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science mdt@google.comWhat would happen if well-qualified, open-minded, academic scientists were giventhe opportunity to investigate cold fusion?Volume 570 Issue 7759, 6 June 2019Published online 27 May 2019 Author's link: https://rdcu.be/bEAsTCo-signatories to the Nature Perspective (information as of 27 May 2019) University of British ColumbiaDr. Phil A. Schauer, Staff Scientist Mr. Ben P. MacLeod, Ph.D. Candidate Dr. Brian Lam, Postdoctoral Fellow Mr. Ke Hu, M.A.Sc. CandidateDr. Noah J. J. Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow Ms. Rebecca S. Sherbo, Ph.D. CandidateDr. James W. Grayson, Former Postdoctoral Fellow Mr. Fraser...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump, describing him as an extraordinary, talented and colorful individual during a recent interview. But Putin did not have the same affection for Joe Biden. During an interview with Keir Simmons of NBC News, Simmons said:

VIDEOFor some reason I've had my doubts as to how well air fryers cook food despite hearing from people who are very enthusiastic about them. However, I remained curious about them and when I heard there was a sale on this air fryer, I decided to take the plunge. In this video we see the results of my first time using an air fryer.

President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this week it is poised to reverse former President Donald Trump’s Navigable Waters Protection Act that helped farmers and ranchers avoid penalties based on arbitrary definitions of navigable waters that could apply to rainwater puddles, seasonal ponds, and other natural water formations. DTN covered the reaction to the EPA’s move: The Biden EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a news release Wednesday the Trump rule has led to a degradation in protection of waters. The agencies asked a federal court to remand the Trump rule, to allow for...

Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the day. But in this note, let’s dive deeper into the drought and how it’s impacting farmers and the potential consequences it could have on crops. Meteorologists at BAMWX have published data on surface soil moisture over 20 years. Surface soil moisture is the water that is in the upper 4 inches and available for...

President Joe Biden will announce during talks with world leaders at the G7 summit on Saturday a global $40 trillion infrastructure plan to “Build Back Better for the World.” During their meeting, World leaders at the G7 summit plan to meet about the importance of a “fair, sustainable, inclusive global economy,” including a discussion about China. Biden’s plan would offer a different option for the world, the official noted, competing with China by offering a plan with the “highest labor and environmental standards.” “This is about providing an affirmative, positive, alternative vision for the world than that is presented by...

The very concentrated swarm of small earthquakes (most less than Mag 2.5 noticed just last week quieted on Wednesday and Thursday, but then resumed back to its unusual high levels Friday evening through Saturday morning. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=32.6587,243.97952&extent=33.4506,244.64144&range=month&magnitude=all&listOnlyShown=true&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&settings=true

Gigi Sukin Thu, June 10, 2021, 10:15 PM·2 min read Donald Trump House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called for an inspector general investigation into Donald Trump's "weaponization of law enforcement," after the New York Times reported the Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from the congressman's account. Driving the news: At least a dozen people linked to the Intelligence Committee had records seized between 2017 and early 2018, including Schiff, who at the time was the panel's top Democrat and now serves as its chairman, The Times reported, citing people briefed on the inquiry.

China’s Foreign Ministry said it had “lodged a solemn protest against Japan” Thursday in response to remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide on Wednesday in which he correctly referred to Taiwan as a “country.” “In his first one-on-one parliamentary debate with opposition leaders Wednesday [June 9], Suga, naming Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan, said, ‘Such three countries have been imposing strong restrictions on privacy rights’ to curb the novel coronavirus outbreak,” Japan’s Kyodo News reported June 10.

Earlier this week, commentators on the far-right cable network Newsmax went ballistic after a student at a graduation ceremony at Justice High School in Fairfax, Virginia said “Under Allah” rather than “Under God” during the Pledge of Allegiance. However, the rest of the mainstream media decided not to report about this “incident” or some reported about it but attacked Newsmax rhetoric as dangerous. Video below: Twitter LinkNewsmax’s American Agenda panel reacts to the Justice High School graduation where a student said ‘Allah’ rather than God during the Pledge of Allegiance – Via Newsmax’s ‘American Agenda.’ Video below: YouTube LinkBut after...

Singer Billy Joel almost got it right in his song “We didn’t start the fire.” The Federal Reserve started the asset bubble fire. The famous Buffett Indicator is signalling a massive stock market bubble or serious overheating. Here is your first assignment for class. Plot the Buffett Indicator (Wilshire 5000 Total Market Full Cap Index/GDP *100 against The Federal Reserve Balance sheet). It should look like the following: How about Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio? It is climbing rapidly and is above Black Tuesday’s spike in 1929 but still below the peak of the dot.com bubble. In terms of...

I just learned this. We are so screwed.

An FDA vaccine advisory committee was torn on whether emergency use authorization (EUA) was the right step for COVID-19 vaccines in younger children, but there was broad agreement that key safety concerns will have to be worked out on the market. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee met Thursday via videoconferencing to discuss, but not vote, on the evidence that would be required for the population ages 6 months to 17 years.

If the last month has taught us anything, today’s conspiracy theory could easily be tomorrow’s common sense truth. The speed at which the Wuhan Lab theory as the source of the Covid virus went from “thoroughly debunked” to “Viable” and “Probable” in the media was extraordinary. Indeed, the media scorned the possible source of the most economically destructive virus in history – one that is credited with killing 3 million people – because they didn’t like the then-President of the United States!Despite the fact that the lab in Wuhan was one of the only places on earth where scientists were...

A UK government adviser and former Communist Party member Susan Michie says that mask mandates and social distancing should continue “forever” and that people should adopt such behaviour just as they did with wearing seatbelts. Michie, who is a Professor of Health Psychology at UCL and a leading member of SAGE, said such control measures should become part of people’s “normal” routine behaviour. Vaccines are a really important part of pandemic control but it is only one part. [A] test, trace and isolate system, [as well as] border controls, are really essential. And the third thing is people’s behaviour. That...

People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier was arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Manitoba on Friday after being accused of violating Wuhan virus guidelines. Bernier, who served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper, was arrested by mounties in St-Pierre-Jolys on the first day of his tour of Manitoba, dubbed the “Mad Max Manitoba Tour”, for refusing to quarantine himself under the province’s Chinese coronavirus guidelines.

Judge Sullivan oversaw the government’s case against General Flynn and refused to dismiss the case after both the prosecutors and Flynn’s attorneys agreed to drop it. This same insane and corrupt judge is now torturing Trump Supporters arrested after the protest on January 6th. We learned over the past few years that the DC judges are as corrupt as those in any banana republic. They included the current Attorney General Merrick Garland, Judge Amy Berman Jackson who oversaw multiple fake Russia collusion cases, and corrupt Judge Emmet Sullivan, who oversaw the corrupt case from the DOJ against General Flynn. Judge...