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The European Parliament has formally set a goal to make the entire European Union carbon neutral by 2050. Members of the European Parliament passed the Climate Act on Thursday in a vote of 442 for, 203 against, and 51 abstentions. The Act also increased the EU’s goal to reduce carbon emissions from 44 per cent of 1990 levels to 55 per cent by 2030. Swedish Social Democrat MEP Jytte Guteland said, according to SVT: “It’s a real boost compared to today’s level. I see that it will only play a bigger and bigger role for Europe and the world.” Swedish...

Obama, Biden Get Back Together For Healthcare Push. On Saturday, June 5, President Joe Biden teamed up with his old boss, former president Barack Obama, for a joint video montage on healthcare as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a record number of participants in health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Despite the statements from Olympics officials in Japan, that political demonstrators will be punished, the Colin Kaepernick crowd among the Olympic contenders here have gotten busy:According to the Washington Post:Gwen Berry turned away from the American flag and raised a T-shirt over her face as the national anthem played Saturday, minutes after she qualified for the Olympic team at the U.S. track and field trials in Eugene, Ore. Berry has demonstrated on the podium before, but her impromptu protest Saturday came only after what she called a “setup” by meet officials.Berry said she had no expectation to protest after she...

The move is part of the borrower defense program, which offers loan repayment forgiveness for students who feel they were misled by an institution of higher education.

Despite the lack of good evidence so far, Ivermectin has been taken up by doctors or by individuals self-medicating in countries including Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, South Africa and the US. In the US, provider SingleCare said 817 prescriptions had been filled for Ivermectin (which can also be used to treat skin conditions such as rosacea) in January and February 2021, compared with 92 in the same period last year. Dr Stephen Griffin at the University of Leeds said, "much like hydroxychloroquine before, there has been a considerable amount of off-label use of this drug," based mainly on studies of the...

Technically speaking, Donald Trump is a loser. After all, it’s Biden who’s occupying the Oval Office. But let’s not get entangled in technicalities. Forty-one percent of Americans believe that Trump actually won the election and that Biden’s ascension was result of fraud, with over half of Republicans holding that belief. And as Biden has managed, remarkably swiftly, to destroy the border, the economy, the military, education, and more, worried patriots are redoubling their support for Trump. So, when Trump, the man who didn’t win, calls a rally, thousands upon thousands of people show up. And the people who attended the...

The influx of unvetted immigrants pouring across our open southern border has become a serious crisis. Trump had the problem almost fixed, and then Biden arrived on the scene. Biden was envious of Trump’s successes and resented his unbridled popularity both of which have always eluded Joe. Biden, with a stroke of his pen, magically snatched failure from the jaws of success and offered the entire world a GET INTO AMERICA FREE card. The trickle of immigrants turned into a stream and the stream turned into a river, and then the river turned into a tsunami. Biden’s solution was simple-ignore...

The Pope Prefers Eurabia to Christian EuropeHe doesn’t like to hear talk of the continent’s “roots.”One of the loudest cheerleaders for Islamic migration to Europe is Pope Francis. His predecessors called for the revival of a historically Christian Europe, but he makes no such call. Future historians will no doubt find it perplexing that the emergence of “Eurabia” happened not in spite of the Roman pontiff but in part because of him. “Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century,” predicted the historian Bernard Lewis.Those who fear that prospect and push the project of a revived Christian Europe...

Hyser is one of the first Americans to participate in a groundbreaking COVID-19 mix-and-match study, aimed at assessing whether boosters work, and whether different COVID-19 shots are safe — and possibly more effective — when they're mixed together. For now, the study is boosting only with a single dose of Moderna's vaccine, whether participants' first shots were from Moderna, or from Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson — the other two US-authorized vaccines. Other combinations of the vaccines, and which order they're taken in, will be added in to the study later on. Study participants will get routine blood draws (Hyser...

Southeast Gassers AssociationWelcome back to the SEGA 2021 tour. Shadyside [Dragway] never fails to produce the best racing the SEGA has to offer. With New cameras and their ability to zoom in on the action with extreme clarity the 2021 season certainly continues this tradition, with all 4 classes requiring 5 rounds of eliminations due to the enormous car count. Join in for round 1 of eliminations and be sure to check out the next video showcasing 2nd round thru the finals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIOJLHw87mc

VIDEOJoe Biden blurted out an embarrassing truth on Thursday right after he got some bipartisan support for an infrastructure bill. However, he upended that deal right after that by clearly stating that the proposed massive reconciliation pork package must also pass for him to sign the infrastructure bill or he would veto it. After that truth which was not supposed to be said out loud appeared to sink the infrastructure deal, he sent out a "clarification" on Saturday saying he didn't mean what he clearly said on Thursday.So which is correct? That he meant what he said or he didn't?...

You can’t say it’s gross if you’ve never tried it! Cats vs. dogs. Hots dogs vs. hamburgers. Love dolls vs. drowned corpses. The list of opinion-battles that humans have pitted against one another for centuries goes on and on. But none is more hotly contested than one debate: pineapple on pizza vs. oh hell no. One of our Japanese reporters, Saya Togashi, didn’t know where she stood on the issue, having never tried it before. Thankfully, Pizza Hut Japan decided to put an end to that era of her life with their new release: the Bulgogi Festa, a pizza divided...

Color is to the eye what birdsong is to the ear: a primal communion between ourselves and nature. The Middle Ages saw further expansion of available colors for artistic and decorative works. A handbook from the 1390s contained recipes for five different pigments of red, six of yellow, seven of green and a variety of blacks and whites. Another medieval writer described pigments with which to dye horses to increase their value. During the 15th century, painters began blending pigments with linseed or other oils, yielding glossier, more multitextured surfaces than their predecessors’ egg-tempera works. European easel painting into the...

Possible Relocation to Ashville, NC. for 30 yo daughter Any thoughts appreciated.

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At the following webpage, the article below was appended to the bottom of the page.Urgent warning from Israel as jab death toll rises | (tapnewswire.com)Israeli's were shocked to awaken one day to discover they could not attend school or go to places of work without having proof they had been vaccinated. There was no discussion or warning - the public was simply prohibited from functioning unless it complied. Some in Israeli called it, 'vaccination apartheid' as rules prohibiting many ordinary acts of daily living were set in place.Haim Yatev and Dr. Seligmann noted a Feb. 11, 2021 article published in...

Former TikTok employees have disclosed that the popular social media platform is largely controlled by its Chinese parent company. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, supplies the Chinese government with endless American user data since Chinese law requires its organizations to “support, assist, and cooperate with the state intelligence work.” TikTok’s privacy policy allows the platform to share user data with ByteDance. “We may share all of the information we collect with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group,” the policy reads. The user data the platform collects is unlimited. “They’ve collected ten of millions of pieces of data...

A.U.D.I.T.: About Undermining Democrat-Implemented Theft (of elections) Election-related revelations continue apace, and suspicions about what actually transpired last November continue to grow, much to the chagrin of the Democrat-media complex. A total of 20 states have sent delegations to observe the Arizona audit. Some of those are planning audits of their own. Is that an indication of greater or lesser national interest in the audit(s), Democrats? Democrats continue to fiddle while Rome burns, ignoring the mounting evidence of election fraud perpetrated by their own operatives. This is how a Democrat insider and pollster continues to spin the narrative (emphasis added):...

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace sparred with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) over Banks's vote against an emergency relief bill that would have allocated funds to police and first responders. "Can't you make the argument that it's you and the Republicans who defunded the police?" Wallace asked Banks, who is the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee."Not at all, Chris. Let's go back and look at the record over the last year, the comments that Democrats have made to [Rep.] Rashida Tlaib [D-Mich.]," Banks responded. Wallace interrupted Banks, telling him that President Biden's American Rescue Plan, which Banks voted...

Oregon's largest city broke its all-time heat record on Saturday. It could beat the new mark on Sunday. Forecasters say many Pacific Northwest communities may sweat through the hottest days in their histories as temperatures soar during a heat wave that has sent residents scrambling for relief. Stores sold out of portable air conditioners and fans, hospitals canceled outdoor vaccination clinics, cities opened cooling centers, baseball teams canceled or moved up weekend games, and utilities braced for possible power outages. Portland, Oregon, reached 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 degrees Celsius) Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The previous heat...