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Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election was largely predicated on Russian intelligence having hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers. Russia’s guilt is such an article of faith among our political class, that a Republican-controlled Congress imposed sanctions and President Trump signed on, substantially worsening relations with an important and potentially dangerous nation. Since those sanctions were imposed, Mueller has issued a report confirming the Russian espionage they were enacted to punish, which the Washington establishment has treated like a sacred document Outside the Acela Corridor, however, one finds more skepticism. A lot of ordinary folks just can’t stop...

Are they serious? The holiday season is rapidly approaching and being that we are still battling COVID across the country, the CDC has announced a few recommendations for Thanksgiving. Like in 2020, the CDC is recommending that if you are hosting family or friends at your house, you should encourage social distancing, wear masks, or even consider celebrating the holiday virtually. However, the CDC has also added another recommendation to the list. They say that if you're hosting family in your house, you should consider putting a BOX FAN in your window to circulate fresh air in your home. We've...

What do diamonds, sunglasses, high-end lululemon sportswear and concrete have to do with climate change? They can all be made using carbon dioxide (CO2), locking up the planet warming gas. And tech startups behind these transformations are grabbing investor attention. Some use bacteria. Some use proteins. Some use chemical processes to speed natural reactions. Most pull apart the carbon and the oxygen in CO2 to create another chemical that is used to make consumers goods. Companies in the area raised over $800 million so far this year, more than tripling from 2020, according to a Reuters review of data from...

The following dataset provides facility-level data for hospital utilization aggregated on a weekly basis (Friday to Thursday). These are derived from reports with facility-level granularity across two main sources: (1) HHS TeleTracking, and (2) reporting provided directly to HHS Protect by state/territorial health departments on behalf of their healthcare facilities. The hospital population includes all hospitals registered with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of June 1, 2020. It includes non-CMS hospitals that have reported since July 15, 2020. It does not include psychiatric, rehabilitation, Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, Defense...

The Christian cold war will mean an increase in church splits, takeovers, and other power struggles as people choose sides on existential questions, including theology.Along with the rest of the country, American Christianity is in the middle of a cold war. As this war heats up, it will mean church splits, takeovers, fights over denominational resources, and other power struggles as the Donald Trump era has increasingly brought clarity and pushed people to choose sides on existential questions.The Southern Baptist Convention, the United States’ largest Protestant denomination, is one key example of this dynamic affecting American Christianity as a whole....

A high-profile anti-sleaze adviser is to be drafted in to the Met to help root out “predatory” rogue officers and overhaul the force’s culture, Cressida Dick has announced as she vowed to do “all I can” to improve women’s safety. The Met Commissioner said the new recruit would be a prominent “external figure” who will work alongside her to challenge her and senior officers over the way they deal with “standards, corruption, sexual misconduct” and cases of “officers who have let the public down”. She said a key aim was to “root out those who display predatory behaviour towards women...

VIDEOIt's the shout that is spreading across the land at stadiums and arenas. Why? Because as these video clips reveal, Brandon's incredible abilities and effectiveness have inspired Americans to the point where they have to show their appreciation for him by shouting out "LET'S GO BRANDON."

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This is a rare combination thread with another Asked & Answered thread on Vortex-L combined with some Vanity Level thoughts on LENR. Asked & Answered on Vortex-L -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently the sidebar moderator posted this about LENR: Updated No Internal Trolling Rules for FR per Jim Robinson If someone says stop, then stop. Do not enter onto a thread on a topic you don't like just to disrupt, rattle cages, poke sticks, insult the regulars, or engage in trolling activities, etc. ~Jim Robinson ---------------------------------------------------- The issue isn't whether we allow skepticism, it is whether we allow hyperskeptics and skeptopaths to ruin...

The Chinese military on Monday sent 52 military planes into Taiwan’s air defense zone — the most ever in a single day — one day after the U.S. issued a warning to Beijing over similar flights it conducted in recent days. China has sent 145 flights into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone in the past four days, including Monday’s incursion, which was first reported by Fox News. “The United States is very concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability,” the U.S. State Department said...

Chinese media: Maine lobster shipment was ‘Pandora’s box,’ spreading covid Guest Author:Mark Godfrey Reports appearing across China’s tightly controlled media suggest the origin of covid-19 in the country came in 2019 via a shipment of lobster from Maine. “In November 2019, a shipment of frozen Maine [lobster] arrived in Wuhan, and shortly afterwards several people working in the market fell very ill with a strange pneumonia,” noted an article published this week in the New Observer, a state-owned periodical. The article suggests the shipment from Maine was a “Pandora’s box” that spread the virus around China. It also states the...

President Biden warned Monday that the U.S. may default on its debt for the first time in history if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) continues to block Democratic attempts to raise the federal borrowing limit. Speaking to reporters following a Monday speech on the fiscal standoff, Biden said he cannot guarantee that the U.S. will be able to pay its bills past Oct. 18 if GOP senators are unwilling to clear a path to keep the country solvent. “I cannot believe that will be the end result, because the consequences are so dire,” he said. “But can I guarantee...

Messaging app WhatsApp, as well as social media platforms Instagram and Facebook have crashed for users worldwide. The outage started around 11:44 EDT in the United States and continues at this writing.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and its apps Instagram and Whatsapp appeared to be experiencing issues on Monday morning that resulted in connection trouble and the inability to load newsfeeds for many users, according to the company. The website DownDetector, which shares user-reported issues on websites and other platforms, showed thousands of complaints regarding the Facebook-owned apps around 11:45 a.m. ET. The largest issue appeared to be centered on Facebook itself with more than 86,000 people reporting problems with the website and the server connection. Instagram had also received more than 67,000 reports of issues, as well as other Facebook-owned apps...

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is urging President Biden to lean on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to get Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own. "I respectfully submit that it is time for you to engage directly with congressional Democrats on this matter," McConnell said of the debt ceiling in a letter to Biden. "Your lieutenants in Congress must understand that you do not want your unified Democratic government to sleepwalk toward an avoidable catastrophe when they have had nearly three months' notice to do their job," McConnell wrote.

Last December, residents of a predominantly black neighborhood in Douglasville, Georgia, began receiving racially charged notes from a person claiming to be a white man and member of the Ku Klux Klan. In the notes, the sender was described as a six-foot-tall white man with a long, red beard who lived outside the neighborhood. The notes included threats to burn down the homes and kill the black residents, according to the Douglasville Police Department. Detectives investigated the notes and determined that Terresha Lucas, a 30-year-old black woman, was behind them. Lucas has since been charged with “eight counts of making...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing backlash after he insisted that it was “too soon” to tell whether the COVID-19 pandemic would disrupt this year’s Christmas holiday gatherings. In an interview Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the White House chief medical adviser was asked whether groups could get together to celebrate the holiday. “It is just too soon to tell. We have to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time,” Fauci said. But his response was slammed by...

Former Chief of Staff to President Trump’s Pentagon said U.S. attorney John Durham is set to unveil a massive anti-corruption case in his probe of the Obamagate scandal. During an interview on Sunday, Kash Patel said Durham is in the process of preparing a 27-page indictment of mob-style cases of conspiracy and fraud committed against the Trump administration. Patel added the recent indictment against Michael Sussman takes up no more than three pages, meaning other top officials will be indicted soon. Sussman was found to have lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2016 in order to advance...

Description of video:: * Young woman approach car whose owner is videotaping * Woman claims that the male driver wrecked her car and is outraged * Male driver calmly explains that she rear-ended him and he'll call to police to sort it out * Woman continues to be unhinged and swears up a storm continuing to claim that the driver destroyed her "new" car

<p>Charlotte, NC — Governments moved Monday to limit the fallout from a release of millions of documents detailing how leaders have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.</p><p>The documents were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and released in stories by media partners including The Washington Post, the BBC and The Guardian.</p>