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University of Pennsylvania students can learn how white nationalism intersects with climate change this semester. The course, “Extreme Heat: White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change,” will help students learn about the “relationship between environmentalism, rightwing populism and the climate crisis.” “The glaciers are melting. Heat waves, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and droughts devastate ever larger swaths of the earth, producing crop failures, air pollution, soil erosion, famine and terrifying individual hardship,” the syllabus said.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted the sentences of four people convicted of murder as one of his last acts as governor. The individuals all had second-degree murder convictions. "The march towards a more fair, more just, more equitable, and more empathetic New York State is a long one, but every step forward we can take it [sic] worthwhile and important," Cuomo said in a press release. "These clemencies make clear the power of redemption, encourage those who have made mistakes to engage in meaningful rehabilitation, and show New Yorkers that we can work toward a better future. I thank...

University of Chicago Assoc. Prof. Emily Landon answers common questions about additional vaccine doses. Increasingly, research shows many people who have weakened immune systems haven’t been able to receive full protection from their COVID-19 vaccines. Unlike healthy people who’ve been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, immunocompromised people’s bodies may not produce enough protective antibodies after two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. This could leave them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as more contagious variants circulate in a community. That’s why federal health authorities announced in mid-August that they would allow immunocompromised people to get special, additional doses...

"Scientists play a dangerous game when they tailor factual statements to promote policy goals" Here's Fauci's quote, then tell me this is about "Science". "When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent," Fauci said. "Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85."

Artist's impression of 2021 PH27. (Katherine Cain/Carnegie Institution for Science) A newly discovered asteroid has the second-shortest orbit that we know in the entire Solar System, pipped only by Mercury. It's named 2021 PH27, and it takes just 113 days to complete a circuit around the Sun, on an unstable elliptical orbit that crosses the orbital paths of both Venus and Mercury. This means that it comes extremely close to the Sun at its closest approach, or perihelion, skimming close enough to reach scorching temperatures up to 480 degrees Celsius (900 Fahrenheit). It also means that the asteroid's time is...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff [D-CA] said it was “very unlikely” that the U.S. completes its evacuation of Afghanistan by the Aug. 31 deadline. “I think it’s possible but I think it’s very unlikely given the number of Americans who still need to be evacuated,” Schiff told reporters outside of The Capitol on Monday. “It’s hard for me to imagine that all of that can be accomplished between now and the end of the month. “I am encouraged to see the numbers of people evacuated increasing readily to the point where we evacuated 11,000 people in a single day....

Shamira Ibrahim has experienced homelessness, a nerve-wracking trip across the U.S.-Canada border, struggles to obtain visas, poverty, a run-in with the criminal justice system and major financial hurdles as a result of being an East African immigrant. Ibrahim, who is in her 30s, was born in Canada and briefly lived in East Africa before she and her family moved to the U.S. when she was around 5 years old. So Ibrahim has spent most of her life in the country, living with a fear Black immigrants know all too well. She has permanent resident status as a green card holder,...

Joe Biden was worried about the headlines, so he told his commanders not to go out and rescue Americans trapped in Kabul.It would make him look bad. What a devil. Biden feared a “Black Hawk Down” moment if US troops went out in the streets of Kabul and were killed or injured by the terrorists. Joe Biden was willing to let Americans die in Kabul rather than face bad headlines. The Daily Mail reported:

Texas v. Biden, a case with profound implications for American foreign policy, reached the Supreme Court with lightning speed. On August 13, a judge in Texas appointed by then-President Donald Trump effectively ordered the Biden administration to permanently reinstate Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. That policy, which is officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), requires many immigrants who seek asylum in the United States to stay in Mexico while they await a hearing. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s opinion in Texas was wrong for many reasons, including that he completely misread federal immigration law. Kacsmaryk wrote that a 1996 federal...

Following a day of unchecked violence between far-right and far-left demonstrators in both downtown and Northeast Portland, the city’s mayor and police commissioner says the hands-off approach worked in mitigating the violence many expected to take place on the anniversary of one of Portland’s most vicious street brawls. As promised, Portland Police didn’t respond for most of the day. A statement issued Friday said officers wouldn’t intervene in the moment, rather they would monitor violence and property damage in hopes of making arrests afterward. Nearly 22 hours after fighting broke out between the two sides in the Parkrose community and...

(CNN) -- As the first full FDA approval is granted to a COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Anthony Fauci urged the public to take part, saying if the "overwhelming majority" of the population gets vaccinated, the US could have the pandemic under control by spring of 2022. "We hope we'll be there ... but there's no guarantee because it's up to us," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the President's chief medical adviser, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday. It isn't yet clear to health experts exactly what proportion of the population needs to be vaccinated to...

WHAT CAIAPHAS AND HIS GOONS DID. 30 A.D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MATTHEW 26 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels MATTHEW 26 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEW 26:57, 59-66 Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the elders had assembled…. The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against...

The injectable antibody therapy was found to reduce risk of symptomatic COVID-19 by 77 percent ===================================================================== A new monoclonal antibody treatment has been found to protect chronically ill adults from developing COVID-19. The Phase 3 trial results suggest the novel antibody cocktail, delivered by intramuscular injection, could offer up to 12 months protection. Antibodies are like our immune system’s front-line soldiers. They constantly circulate around the body, on the hunt for whatever specific pathogen they have been trained to target. In early 2020 researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center homed in on a handful of particularly potent antibodies, isolated from...

The Sad Heartbreaking Unnecessary Death Of The Wicked. By JAG August 23, 2021 "There are some men that ought to be killed". said Bitterlycold Hard. "That's true", replied Merci Grace, "the police shot to death Badd Mann who refused to drop his gun. Mann had just murdered three bank tellers." "I hope Mann died slow and in agony. I would have enjoyed seeing him shot to pieces", replied Bitterlycold Hard. "The bank robbing murderer Badd Mann didn't have to die like that", said Merci Grace, "the Lord Jesus would have saved him, but Badd said no to God." "That's true",...

Gay and bisexual men are fearing for their lives since the fall of Kabul on August 15, which some saying saying they worry the Taliban will execute them all. “I just hope that somebody comes and wakes me up from this bad dream,” a 37-year-old gay Afghan told Insider. The man, a United Nations worker, recalled the joyous times of going to a karaoke bar in Kabul and hanging out and dancing with members of the city’s LGBTQ+ community. “It was fantastic and so much fun.” Things have changed drastically. Now, the man, whom Insider called Rameen, is even too...

Kamala Harris discussed Christmas shopping and climate change but failed to mention the current crisis in Afghanistan during her major foreign policy speech on Monday. Addressing a round table of business leaders before her speech she warned climate change and the pandemic have contributed to supply chain issues suggesting parents consider getting Christmas presents now. 'The stories we are hearing about caution, that if you want to have Christmas toys for your children, now might be the time to start buying because the delay may be many, many months. Across the board people are experiencing issues, and of course the...

Airbnb is planning to start housing 20,000 Afghan refugees around the world free of charge, the company’s CEO, Brian Chesky, said Tuesday..."The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees in the U.S. and elsewhere is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time," said Chesky. "We feel a responsibility to step up."

Vaccine-passport requirements have come to Gotham. Restaurants have started asking patrons to see their vaccination cards along with IDs to dine inside. Starting Sept. 13, restaurants, museums and certain other indoor venues not doing that will be fined. Why? It’s part of a larger movement to control and punish those who dare to disobey COVID edicts. We’ve known for some time that restaurants are not major COVID-19 spreaders. You’re not catching COVID standing near someone for a few minutes at the Guggenheim. The main source of COVID transmission is close, prolonged contact. In other words, if you’re going to contract...

CIA Director Bill Burns LIED About Ties To The Chinese Communist Party In Senate Confirmation Hearing By Troy Smith - Current CIA Director William Burns once served as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The National Pulse is now reporting that during his stint as President, Burns worked with Communist Chinese Party influence groups, including the China-United States Exchange Foundation. CUSEF, or the China-United States Exchange Foundation, is a part of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. It is a Chinese state run agency that looks to squelch any opposition to the CCP. When Burns testified...

A $35K fine for sixty people who gathered in an “illegal” church worship in Sydney. A group of rescue dogs that were shot by a local council so that rescue center staff would not travel to pick them up under the guise of Covid restrictions. Police firing rubber bullets at lockdown protestors. Despotic state premiers refusing the prime minister’s call to reopen once 80% vaccination rates are achieved. Homes of Covid sufferers in South Australia to be marked so that their neighbors can rat them out to police if they breach tyrannical stay at home orders. Celebrities offered cash payments...