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Nearly a year after the CZU Lightning fire burned through California's oldest state park-the clean-up continues. The fire swept through 97% of Big Basin State Redwood Park's 18,000 acres. With historic structures now gone, the public is being asked to help with the rebuilding process. It's really going to be a labor of love, as this week the state parks unveiled a new website: ReimagingBigBasin.org, where the public can get information and get involved in the planning for its rebuilding. "The canopy is gone. So what you have are big hulking, tall hulking things that is now sprouting out greenery...

[H/T Grey_whiskers]FDA Issues "Black Box WARNING" to Jabs, SERIOUS Heart Issues Explode in Number (rumble.com)

A 40-acre parcel of land sitting just outside Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is home to hundreds of the city’s homeless population. The homeless encampment has grown over the last year as the coronavirus pandemic severely impacted the city’s most vulnerable populations, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is demanding the city and the airport to clear the site. “The largest concentration of homeless residents in our city right now in this particular encampment, the numbers fluctuate, but estimated around 300,” said Councilmember Raul Peralez. “The city was not abating encampments unless they were in a public right of...

After a 36 hour phasing profile, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka cargo ship, part of Northrop Grumman’s NG-16 mission, has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). Safely in the grip of Canadarm2, Cygnus was attached to the nadir port of the Unity (Node-1) module for the multi-month cargo delivery and removal process. Delivering a total of 3,723 kg of crew supplies, unpressurized cargo, science experiments, spacewalk equipment, station hardware, and computer equipment, the NG-16 mission is the fifth of six guaranteed flights to the station under the CRS2.. While only one flight, remains per the original CRS2 guarantee, NASA has...

The final release of 2020 Census data came out Thursday, and it’s a mixed bag of results for Pennsylvania. First off, the Keystone State did see its people numbers crash through the 13 million mark, with a final population count of 13,002,700. That makes Pennsylvania the fifth-largest state in the nation, as we jumped over Illinois in the 2020 count. On the other hand, population growth here still ranked among the slowest of all the 50 states, and that means that the state will, in a continuation of a long, dispiriting trend, lose a seat in the U.S. House of...

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WASHINGTON — President Biden’s recent interactions with reporters in the spacious White House East Room have resembled press conferences, but with a twist: his staff selects which reporters attend, citing “spacing constraints” for why they exclude most White House correspondents. ... "This is all baloney. There is no space issue,” said veteran reporter Brian Karem, who has covered the White House since the Reagan administration. Karem says he has RSVPed and been denied every time. “This is unprecedented territory. It has never been as restrictive,” he said. ... Karem, a longtime Playboy correspondent and freelance journalist who sued the Trump...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 4 billion doses of vaccine have been administered worldwide. Although the number continues to increase, the percentage is still nowhere near the 70% of the population targeted for vaccination to achieve herd immunity. 80% of the vaccines have been given in high-income countries, that's less than half of the world's population. However, the population that has already received their full vaccination schedule may now be awaiting a third dose to boost the immunity produced in order to prevent Covid-19. On thursday Anthony Fauci, White House medical advisor, said it is "inevitable"...

Report titled ‘How Green is Blue Hydrogen?’ generates buzz, and pushback, as Biden, Congress and Wall Street promote the energy source in path toward zero emissions Clean hydrogen is a fuel the Biden administration believes will be part of the toolkit necessary to propel the U.S. to zero emissions by 2050, not to mention a 50% cut in those emissions as soon as the end of this decade. But a peer-reviewed study out Thursday argues that the fuel’s credentials need reconsideration. Some energy-industry and clean-air analysts raised their own concerns that the study, published in the Energy Science & Engineering...

Did "corrected" vote totals from the 2020 election presented by Mike Lindell at his election fraud Cyber Symposium as "Truth" support the theory that fake ballots were injected into every state's official election returns? No, that's not true: Lindell's "Truth" totals add up to the same number of votes he calls "The Big Lie," which are the final tallies that have appeared in multiple official and unofficial sources. Those tallies were compiled without the aid of the data Lindell used in declaring the election was hacked. It is nonsensical that Lindell's "Truth" tally would match "Big Lie" tallies in state...

Six people were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as "shocking". Two females and three males, including the suspect, died from gunshot wounds at the scene of the incident, the Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement. Another female died a short time later in hospital, the police added. Sharron Turner, 57, who lives behind the scene of the shooting, told The Times newspaper that a gunman had "kicked in" the front door of a semi-detached house before shooting a...

Does Francis's "Right-hand Man" Parra have a "Sexual Predation against Seminarians, Adultery, and even a Deadly Sex Game...[that] 'might even be a Scandal Surpassing that of McCarrick'"? Today, the Call Me Jorge website asked "What could be so important that Francis interrupted his weekly adulation [Audience] session?"Pope gets a phone call during the Audience. Haven’t seen this before. Then he quickly leaves and says he will be back. pic.twitter.com/npCuPzdnxP— The Catholic Traveler (@MountainButorac) August 11, 2021 It was Abp. Mons. Edgar Robinson Peña Parra, Substitute for the Secretariat of State, who was involved in the recent scandal of mismanagement...

Those of you who have been following Old School for some time know that I have been promoting Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko and his COVID protocols since he burst onto the international scene last year after President Trump glowingly promoted his treatment. If you haven’t see Dr. Zelenko’s testimony to the Israeli Rabbinical Court, it’s a MUST WATCH! Highlights from Dr. Zelenko’s testimony “…according to the New England Journal of Medicine article–their preliminary data–the miscarriage rate for a woman who gets vaccinated in the first trimester goes from 10% to 80%...” [Yet, the CDC has just recommended that pregnant “people”...

President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg overstated the impact of the bipartisan, Senate-approved infrastructure bill on job creation, likely citing instead an economic forecast that includes the much larger and partisan “human infrastructure” bill. An economic analysis by Moody’s Analytics found the bipartisan bill “supports only a modestly stronger economy.” The infrastructure bill alone would, at its peak in the middle of the decade, temporarily increase the number of jobs in the U.S. by 650,000, the analysis said. But it would take a few years for those jobs to emerge, and by 2031, after most of the infrastructure...

San Francisco announced Thursday it will become the first major U.S. city to enforce proof of full vaccination for entry to restaurants, gyms and other indoor venues, as it aims to curb a new wave of COVID infections. San Francisco, which launches its mandate on August 20, is the third major city to pass a sweeping vaccine requirement for indoor businesses behind New York and Los Angeles, which only require proof of one vaccination dose. 'Vaccines are our way out of the pandemic, and our way back to a life where we can be together safely,' San Francisco Mayor London...

Last night, The Washington Times put out an article which said “Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert says they can’t prove China hacked the 2020 election.” This was supposed to dump cold water on Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium. They have now issued a major “clarification.” Here it is: Kurt Olsen, a lawyer on Mr. Lindell’s team said there were multiple sources of the data that Mr. Lindell claims to have, and did not confirm that Mr. Mongtomery was the source of the data. He also clarified that the $5 million challenge has not been canceled and that Mr. Merritt would not...

Hollywood legend and noted Republican Clint Eastwood has sent a “message of support” to conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, who is running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in the California recall election, Elder reported Tuesday. Elder has emerged as the main contender in most polls, out of a field of more than 40 candidates vying to replace Newsom. Other leading candidates include Democrat Kevin Paffrath, a real estate investor and YouTuber; former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer; former gubernatorial challenger John Cox; and former Olympian and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner. Paffrath may be benefiting from party identification; Newsom...

In the latest skirmish, Musk took to Twitter to ruthlessly mock Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, the company’s counterpart to the lunar variant of SpaceX’s Starship currently in development. “Somehow, this wasn’t convincing…” Musk tweeted in derisively, along with a picture of a deflated-looking early mockup of Blue Origin’s stalky Moon lander.

San Francisco issued a new public health order Thursday that makes proof of full vaccination mandatory for entering a variety of indoor businesses, becoming the first major U.S. city to institute such a rule. Mayor London Breed made the announcement at 11 a.m. via Twitter... The order takes effect August 20, and after that, all SF residents and visitors will be required to show proof of two doses of a vaccine to enter all bars, nightclubs, restaurants, gyms, theaters, and some other indoor settings — and the city is requiring that all staff at these businesses be fully vaccinated as...

Pope Francis appointed Dr Jennifer Doudna to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Wednesday. The Holy Father has appointed the distinguished Professor Jennifer Anne Doudna as ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Professor Jennifer Doudna was born on 19 February 1964 in Washington, D.C. (USA). She studied biochemistry at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and earned her doctorate in Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge. Later, she continued her studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder.She is currently Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and...