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Carnival Is Caught in a High-Stakes Contest It Might Not Win A pandemic conundrum puts CCL stock in a bad place If there was a dubious competition for which blue chip suffered the most from the novel coronavirus pandemic, Carnival (NYSE:CCL) stock would be right up there. Indeed, it was the Diamond Princess cruise ship — under the broad Carnival umbrella — that became the face of the global crisis. Either way, it was a godsend for CCL stock that cruising received the green light to resume operations, however mitigated. Near the end of 2020 to early June of this...

Poor Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D-California) just can’t catch a break. That’s mostly because he’s an incompetent, grasping boob — but who would have thought even he could screw up a multimillion-dollar giveaway to get people vaccinated? The number of weekly vaccinations in Colorado dropped by more than two-thirds between the start and end of the state’s vaccine lottery, following nearly the same trajectory set in the weeks before Gov. Jared Polis announced the $1 million drawings. Plus: “In the week ending July 4 — the last with data on the state’s vaccine dashboard — only about 49,000 people got...

TOKYO — Kara Eaker, an alternate on the United States women’s gymnastics team, has tested positive for COVID-19 in an Olympic training camp in Japan. Al Fong, the personal coach for both Eaker and fellow Olympic alternate Leanne Wong, confirmed the positive test in an email to The Associated Press on Monday. Wong said Eaker, 18, was vaccinated against the novel coronavirus two months ago. Both Eaker and Wong have been placed in isolation. USA Gymnastics did not identify Eaker or Wong but said in a statement that the athlete who tested positive and another alternate would be subject to...

Update (1310ET): Despite Beijing's threat to retaliate against the US if it imposes new sanctions or - worse still - attempts to retaliate with a cyber-offensive of its own, the Biden Administration just released a statement saying it reserves the right to take additional unilateral action. And although it hasn't ruled out unilateral action, it would prefer to act in concert with its international allies.* * *Update (1230ET): Beijing has just responded to the latest allegations by the Biden Administration and its "coalition of allies." In an editorial published by the English language Global Times, the pro-government paper blasted the...

A hard coal power station in Hamburg that generates 1,600 MW was shut down for good on July 7, according to a local news service, a mere six years after its initial opening. And, the Moorburg plant's owner, Vattenfall, aims to pursue a new, hydrogen project at the same site, designed to transform offshore wind energy into green hydrogen. This is a power plant that lasted barely longer than a U.S. presidential term — practically unheard of for power plants generally, which are naturally built to last for much longer.

Camus on Twitter: ""Conspiracy theorist" Robert Kennedy Jr. explains relationship between world’s most powerful doctor Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci https://t.co/LmHzFL32lA" / TwitterTranscript of 2 minute video clip in case Twitter deletes it.Robert Kennedy Jr: I mean that’s what we’ve been talking about since the beginning is Gates has these incestuous relationships with Anthony Fauci that goes back 20 years where he’s you know, paying Fauci and they have all kinds of really corrupt financial entanglements with each other, they He brought Fauci to his house in 2000, his 189 million dollar house in Seattle, brought him into the den,...

Prince Harry has written an explosive memoir about his life in the royal family which will hit the shelves next year, it has been revealed. The Duke of Sussex, 36, has been secretly working on the book for nearly a year which he has since sold to Penguin Random House. Prince Harry has been working with Pulitzer-winning ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer in what is the first time a senior royal has ever written such a book. The first draft of the manuscript, currently untitled, is said to be almost completely written with the deadline in October. The proceeds of the...

this was not surprising "because the vaccines are not 100% effective". "They're very, very effective, but not 100%, and as a higher proportion of the population is double-vaccinated, it's inevitable that those 10% of that very large number remain at risk, and therefore will be amongst the people who both catch the infection and end up in hospital."

This whole issue truly is entertaining since it’s a mess created by liberals and their allies in the media. Why is there so much COVID vaccine hesitancy? Are these people in the news business? They’re not. We know that through their liberal bias which they refuse to admit, but also the fact that vaccines have ALWAYS been a touchy subject. It’s not just a public health issue. It’s one that deals directly with families and their decisions—and everyone has an opinion. Everyone raises their kids differently. You can see where things can quickly go off the rails and it has....

Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that former President Donald Trump was a “very dumb man” who could not have attempted a “coup” after the 2020 election without help. Gallego said there must be consequences for those who helped the former president. Mitchell said, “I was reporting at the time, the selection of those civilians who were all people of a particular political stripe to be in the pentagon when they had no experience and no reason for being in there, was certainly a red warning sign. That was happening in plain sight.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an ironic twist, a 2007 interview with then-Senator Joe Biden on the David Letterman show has resurfaced, featuring Biden telling Letterman he was arrested while trespassing at the U.S. Capitol. During the interview, Letterman referred to Biden’s election to the Senate at age 29 and asked Biden: “What was it like, walking into the great Senate chamber at 29 years old?” Biden responded that he actually entered the chamber long before then, saying: “You know, I walked in when I was 21, and I got arrested.” Explaining that the incident occurred on a Saturday when he...

Two vaccination centres have been ransacked in France, as people protested against the introduction of tougher coronavirus rules.One site in south-east France was vandalised and flooded using fire hoses on Friday night, authorities said.A day later, another clinic in the south-west was partially destroyed by an arson attack, local media reported.The incidents came on a weekend of demonstrations. More than 100,000 came out to protest on Saturday…

President Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has extended an invitation to two different United Nations Special Rapporteurs. One deals with contemporary forms of racism while the other is concerned with minority issues. Binken also welcomed "the UN Human Rights Council's adoption of a resolution that calls for action to combat systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement

Okay, enough. Enough now. I don’t mean to marginalize death from COVID, but panic porn peddlers just need to put it away right now because the latest fatality figures from LA County are beyond absurd if you want to make an argument for the new mask mandate. The county recently reimposed the mask mandate, even for the vaccinated, due to the spread of the Delta variant that isn’t more lethal and doesn’t make you sicker. Also, we’re back to the same store-bought masks that Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted does next to nothing when it comes to curbing COVID spread; it’s...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis' Kristallnacht Has StartedAlthough the information flow is chaotic, there are already official announced cancellations of Roman Masses:Dioceses in the USAAlexandria: all Roman Masses cancelled.Wichita: one priest who runs the largest Roman Mass congregation may continue. All others must close down.Little Rock: all diocesan Roman Masses are cancelled. Two parishes run by the Fraternity of St Peter may continue.Covington: pastor of All Saints church in Walton must stop celebrating.Arlington: voices say that this diocese which has the highest number of diocesan Roman Masses in the USA, is going to cancel them all.Dioceses in AustraliaMelbourne: four Roman Masses besides...

There are hundreds of Linux distributions. Some are for general purpose usage, while some are specifically tailored for education, robotics, hacking, gaming and what not.You’ll notice that most of them originate from Debian/Ubuntu, Arch and Red Hat/Fedora. If you like distrohopping and experiment with a range of distributions, you may soon get ‘bored’ out of it. Most Linux distributions would feel too similar after a point and apart from a few visual changes here and there, you won’t get a different experience.Does that sound familiar? If yes, let me list some advanced, independent, Linux distributions to test your expertise.Advanced Linux...

Leyna Bloom, a biological man who identifies as a woman, has become the first openly trans cover model in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue history. Bloom’s dream of landing the front cover of the sports world’s most famed magazine began in 1997, after looking through the pages of the Bikini Bible on her father’s coffee table, Page Six reports. “When they told me I got the cover, I spoke to my dad,” Bloom told Page Six. “I was like, ‘When I was looking at that magazine … I was looking into my future. You were giving me the tools I needed...

Credit: Looking Glass Holographic display maker Looking Glass has announced that it has developed two versions of its second-generation holographic display. On its website, the team at Looking Glass provide a video showing off features that buyers can expect from the two new products, the 4K Gen2 and the 8K Gen2, both powered by what the company calls its advanced light-field technology. Looking Glass displays are of a window design, and the name comes from another name for a mirror, made famous by Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There." In practice, they resemble the shoebox dioramas...

Claim: “There’s nobody suggesting there’s unchecked inflation is on the way. No serious economist,” President Joe Biden said on Monday. Larry Summers is worried about inflation. He has been the Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama, chief economist of the World Bank, and president of Harvard University. He is one of the most prominent economists in the United States today. Summers has been warning that the Biden administration’s policies risked inflation and overheating several months ago, a topic he returned to on Twitter last week.

President Biden on Monday softened his criticism that platforms like Facebook are “killing people” with misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, saying he wishes the company would do more to stop the spread of inaccurate information. On Monday, Biden responded to a reporter’s question about his hyperbolic statement. “Facebook isn’t killing people, these 12 people are out there giving misinformation. Anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It’s killing people. It’s bad information,” Biden told reporters after giving remarks about the economy, referencing a study that showed a dozen accounts on Facebook are responsible for the majority of misinformation...