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This episode is about China's Loess Plateau, which was anciently a lush area. But as more people made it their home, the demand for resources grew. Over the course of thousands of years, aggressive farming and overgrazing stripped away the vegetation almost entirely. This lead to severe soil erosion and eventually turned the Loess plateau into basically a denuded desert. In the mid 1990s, Chinese and foreign scientists and civil engineers surveyed this area to see if anything could be done to restore the land. The project that followed has implications that go far beyond China.

The nation’s top psychologists, entrusted with executive decisions on the treatment of mental health, are exposed in private email exchanges obtained by The Gateway Pundit pathologizing all conservatives as mentally ill and untreatable. No amount of therapy cannot remedy “ignorant,” “paranoid,” “strange” “delusional,” “stupid,” “narcissist” conservatives who support “corruption and incompetence,” the executive board members of the National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers contend. In a June 4 email, executive director of NAPPP Dr. John Caccavale warns: “Trump supporters may share some of the narcissistic traits that were exhibited by the former president himself during his 2020 re-election campaign.” The...

The US House Armed Services Committee supports the immediate transfer of lethal military equipment to Ukraine. This is stated by the Committee Ranking member Mike Rogers and House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCau. “The United States should not wait for the Kremlin to cross anymore ‘territorial red lines’ in Ukraine before sending additional military assistance to Kyiv. Instead, the Administration should send this lethal aid immediately to deter further Russian aggression," the statement reads. Related: U.S. not to send $100 million military aid package to Ukraine yet, - White House According to the committee, Biden administration has time...

Mike Eruzione of the 1980 U.S. hockey team isn’t holding back about his opinion about transgender Olympian Chelsea Wolfe’s goal of burning the American flag on the podium in at the Olympics in Tokyo. Eruzione, also known as Rizzo, captured our hearts during the team’s “Miracle on Ice” clinching of the gold medal at the height of the Cold War.

In order to ensure Biden’s July 4th vaccine goal would not fail, Kamala Harris literally directed a crowd of Democrat volunteers to knock on doors of unvaccinated residents and harass them into getting the jab. The Biden administration recently established a target of vaccinating 70% of Americans by July 4th. That ambition appears to be doomed. Americans are avoiding the Covid vaccine for a variety of reasons, but the Biden administration is aiming for a 70% immunization rate in order to exert control over the unvaccinated. This has nothing to do with saving lives. It’s all about power. In Atlanta,...

CNN's New Day went nuts this morning in reaction to the Republican filibuster of S1, the so-called "For the People Act," which would largely federalize elections. CNN New Day co-host John Berman fumed: "Senate Republicans are afraid to even discuss voting rights . . . Of course Mitch McConnell likes the status quo because status quo is Republican-led states rigging the system."CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, continuing his comeback tour after his Zoom-masturbation suspension, then claimed that the voting rights bill is nothing less than: "Life or death for the democracy . . . an existential crisis for the...

Michael Rectenwald is the author of "Google Archipelago" and "Beyond Woke". Thought Criminal is his first science fiction novel. In the book “Thought Criminal” by Michael Richenwald, a small group struggles to maintain even the concept of individuality and free will in the face of an ever-more powerful hive mind. They struggle to even connect with each other when every aspect of the system is suspect – including other people. That makes “Thought Criminal” a post-Singularity dystopian novel, though it has its strengths and weaknesses.

VIDEOJen Psaki just can't say the name of President Donald Trump whom she called "The Other Guy" at a press conference yesterday. Another person who couldn't call President Trump by his name was a reporter who asked if the upcoming Trump rally in Cleveland could incite violence. As Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show (AM 1470 WWNN Radio 6 to 9 AM ET), described that question, it was a "foreshadowing." The Democrats and their media allies would love nothing better than a shutdown of Trump rallies due to the excuse of violence caused by guess who. Hint:...

Fresh off his several-month hiatus for being caught in an inappropriate situation during a Zoom call with his former New Yorker staff members, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is sounding the alarm on voting rights expansion. Tuesday, the Senate failed to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the debate on the so-called “For the People Act,” which would have federalized America’s electoral system.

Hundreds of people attended the summer solstice at Stonehenge despite official advice asking them not to travel to the site in line with Covid restrictions. As a result English Heritage pulled a live feed of the sunrise at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire at 04:52 BST due to safety concerns. People were seen climbing over a low fence to access the stones. Wiltshire Police said the event was peaceful but added the number of people at nearby Avebury had caused issues. More than 200,000 people from around the world tuned in to the live stream for the solstice but ended...

The tweet was directed at fellow soccer player Natasha Kai, who is Asian.Megan Rapinoe, one of the most outspoken as well as decorated members of the U.S. women’s national soccer team, is under scrutiny and even facing cancelation calls after a decade-old tweet of hers was unearthed. The tweet, still up on Monday morning despite the backlash surrounding it, was directed at fellow soccer player Natasha Kai, who is Asian. “u look asian with those closed eyes!” Rapinoe wrote in May of 2011 in response to a now-deleted tweet. Some on Twitter saw the tweet as mocking Kai and being...

A school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia, was shut down by law enforcement over Critical Race Theory (CRT). Anti-CRT protestors flooded the hall, making their opposition crystal clear to board members who evidently were shaken to their core. This public meeting was quickly declared an unlawful assembly, and yes, arrests were made. It's insanity. If board members can't handle the heat, then they are the ones who should vacate the premises and nix this pseudo-intellectual garbage that is CRT from the county's curriculum. More and more parents are not having any of this white liberal nonsense in our schools....

It appears as though California's plans to become an environmental and socialist utopia are running face first into reality.The latest dose of reality came this week when the state, facing triple digit temperatures, began to "fret" about pressure on the state's power grid as a result of everybody charging their electric vehicles all at once.The state's power grid operators have been telling residents to "relieve pressure" from the grid by charging their EVs at off-peak hours, Newsweek wrote. Twice last week the California Independent System Operator (ISO) told residents to conserve energy voluntarily, including asking to charge their EVs at...

PICO RIVERA, CA — A herd of cows stampeded through the streets of Pico Rivera Tuesday night after breaking free from a slaughterhouse. The stampede sent one person to a hospital, and a Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy shot one of the cows amid the chaos.

Republican Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) — who certainly did not find common ground on another recent issue — Marco Rubio and others are seeking ways to address family poverty and its impact on family stability. Many Hill Democrats and the Biden administration have the same aim. The drive to reduce or eliminate child poverty is not limited to the Congress and the White House. Mayors for a Guaranteed Income has formed, with mayors across the country from Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, to Levar Stoney of Richmond, Va., finding funding for experiments in their jurisdictions with...

“What is to be done?” That’s been the cry of revolutionaries from time immemorial: the malcontents, the aggrieved, the misfits, the morally wretched. From the beginning of the modern “progressive” movement—which occurred around the time Jean-Jacques Rousseau published “The Social Contract” in 1762, adumbrating the French Revolution—to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe, through the advent of “scientific” Marxism and the horrors of those deformed twins, Soviet communism and German National Socialism, the same desire to inflict punitive misery has marked nearly every “revolutionary” movement. For all their talk of “the people,” however, Leftist revolutionaries hardly ever spring from the...

Warren Buffett said he is stepping down from his role with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, noting in a statement that he has been an "inactive" trustee of the organization. His decision to step down comes at an uncertain time for the foundation as the Gates last month announced they are divorcing after 27 years of marriage. "For years I have been a trustee — an inactive trustee at that — of only one recipient of my funds, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMG)," Buffett wrote in the statement. "I am now resigning from that post, just as...

It is hard to believe, and it is certainly new, that a virus can actually cause long-term changes to an infected person’s genes. It’s incredibly scary that results from a new cell study found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can bring about long-term gene expression changes even when exposure is minimal. Moderna’s mRNA-1273 consists of a strand of mRNA that tells the body to produce the spike protein the coronavirus uses to latch onto human cells. The strand is like one side of a zipper; the “teeth” are a sequence of chemical letters that cells read to produce the 1,273...

On Wednesday, a grandmother of 5 from Indiana, Anna Morgan Lloyd will plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge for ‘demonstrating in a capitol building” in exchange for 3 years of probation and a $500 fine. This is only after the politicized Biden-DOJ held her in jail for 2 days, letting her go after she had “expressed contrition for her conduct.” Morgan-Lloyd was arrested in February after a Greene County Indiana Sheriff’s Office employee tipped off the FBI as being someone ‘who posted about the Capitol riot’ online after Morgan-Lloyd had applied for a firearm permit. In a sentencing memo, federal...

The flywheel has a diameter of one meter and weighs three tons, and can be placed in the garden of a private house. The proposed solution consists of a hollow, solid cylinder that is rotated around an axis and connected to an electric motor and generator. “When you have the energy to store, the engine drives the flywheel, which accelerates,” said the company's co-founder and general director, André Gennesseaux. “In the other direction, the motor can act as a brake to discharge the electricity.” Currently, Energiestro offers a standard storage solution with a nominal power of around 10 kW, which...