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HT Aero plans to follow up its basic two-seat multicopter with an auto-folding, twin-rotor flying carXPeng / HT Aero VIEW 6 IMAGES XPeng affiliate HT Aero has unveiled an outrageous flying car design that it claims is "planned for roll-out in 2024." It looks like an electric Bugatti hypercar with a pair of huge, auto-folding props in the style of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. Xpeng is a seven-year-old Chinese electric car company that's growing fast, pulling in somewhere around US$2 billion in revenue this year and shipping somewhere around 50,000 cars. It's investing heavily in autonomy and charging infrastructure, while...

@RandPaul Dr. Fauci now maintains experiments are only ‘gain-of-function’ if experimenters knew in advance that the newly created virus would gain lethality. @RandPaul Hmm…So you can take any unknown bat virus and recombine it with the back bone of a known coronavirus and it doesn’t qualify as gain of function, even if you discover that it gains function? Clear as mud and just as slimy.

Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey (R) was indicted on Monday in connection to an alleged campaign finance scheme that sought to funnel money into his 2016 campaign for U.S. Congress. The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that Kelsey, 43, along with Nashville social club owner Joshua Smith, 44, conspired to illegally transfer “soft money” — which refers to contributions that are made to political parties and political action committees, and thus have fewer limits — from Kelsey’s Tennessee state Senate campaign committee to his federal campaign committee.

Health and Human Services Secretary biden Becerra said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the unvaccinated need to stop being “selfish” and get the vaccination. Mitchell said, “I want to ask you about mandating vaccinations because that’s happened in New York City, and we’re seeing protests today in Brooklyn, Becerra said, “Andrea, [cut] we have to be safe. I saw Mayor De Blasio last week, and I will tell you that the city is going to do— the city doesn’t want to go back, New York City doesn’t want to go back to what it experienced a year, two...

‘Married… with Children’ was way bigger in the Motherland than it ever was in America Until 2004, there was really no such thing as a Russian sitcom, or at least, not a successful one. While the country has a proud tradition of comedy on stage and on film, Russian comedy on TV is quite a different story. “During the Soviet Union, the only comedy on television was sketch comedy and improv competitions,” explains sociology professor Jeffrey Brassard. Then, after the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russia couldn’t afford to make much of anything, so all they had was dubbed versions...

A global energy crunch, fueled by tightening coal and gas supply, has already roiled the market and threatened to squeeze customers this winter, as utility bills rise. That may just be the beginning, according to Duke Energy (DUK) CEO Lynn Good, who heads one of the country’s largest energy holding companies. In an interview at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit, Good said she expects the supply and demand imbalance in the energy markets to continue well into 2022, with full rebalancing not expected until "2022 rolls into 2023." “We're facing a period where the production of these commodities has remained...

The hashtag #ArrestFauci trended on Twitter Sunday as critics of White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci slammed him for funding abusive animal testing as well as misleading the public about gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. Daily Caller first reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress sent a letter to Fauci demanding answers for his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on animal testing that involved abusing and killing beagles. The National Institutes of Health also released a letter admitting it funded gain-of-function research at the...

The hashtag #ArrestFauci trended on Twitter Sunday as critics of White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci slammed him for funding abusive animal testing as well as misleading the public about gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. Daily Caller first reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress sent a letter to Fauci demanding answers for his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on animal testing that involved abusing and killing beagles. The National Institutes of Health also released a letter admitting it funded gain-of-function research at the...

BERLIN (AP) — A target for rich countries to provide poor nations with $100 billion in aid each year to tackle global warming will be missed, dealing a blow to the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow. Senior officials from Britain, Canada and Germany, who had hoped to break a deadlock in negotiations ahead of next week’s summit, announced Monday that current data shows the goal won’t be reached until 2023 — three years later than agreed. But Mohamed Adow, a long-time observer of U.N. climate talks who now heads Nairobi-based environmental think tank Power Shift Africa, said the plan...

"We will work on establishing an investment fund in solutions with circular carbon technology in the region and a global initiative which will supply solutions for clean fuel to provide food for more than 750 million people globally." The "circular carbon economy" is a concept promoted by the Saudis which aims to remove and store carbon for reuse in other products. The summit, which also featured the leaders of Qatar and Pakistan, and US climate envoy John Kerry, follows Saturday's Saudi Green Initiative where Prince Mohammed announced a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2060. Environmental group Greenpeace questioned...

Doug Wilder, Virginia's only black governor in history and a Democrat, warned VP Kamala Harris and Terry McAuliffe that churches could lose their tax-exempt status if they play a video for the gubernatorial candidate's contentious election next week. Harris cut a video urging churchgoers to vote for McAuliffe, a Democrat, that was to play at hundreds of black churches across the Old Dominion on Sunday. 'Well, it's very good for her to do that, causing these churches to lose their tax-exempt status,' Wilder sneered, referencing the Johnson Amendment, which bans organizations that are tax-exempt from supporting any candidate. 'If this...

[H/T Ymani Cricket]Dr. Tom Cowan: The PCR Tests Are Being Replaced with Something EVEN WORSE! (bitchute.com)In the FIRST 20 MINUTES of this video Tom Cowan explains why the PCR tests are total BS and the plan to replace them with something even WORSE! "There are no 'False Positives' and/or 'False Negatives' - the entire basis of the tests is false." After 20 minutes, Cowan answers questions submitted to his weekly Q&A - topis include:- Melatonin- Delta Variant & increased cases- Vaccines- Neurotransmitters- Vaccine shedding- Appendix rupture- Holistic diet & healing- Being mindful of where your food comes from- Cataracts- NYC...

Acts of brazen disregard for ordinary citizens are becoming all too commonplace in government these days. To some extent, we expect this from Washington, D.C., where contempt for the challenges many Americans face now knows no bounds. However, it is increasingly troubling to see that attitude permeate local government. I was struck by Broad + Liberty’s recent coverage of a secret effort by left-leaning private organizations to influence election administration in Democratic-leaning counties by working exclusively with Democrat officials in the run up to the 2020 presidential contest. In that story, Delaware County Council’s—in particular Councilwoman Christine Reuther’s—commitment to ideology

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Monday said she has secured funding in the Department of Defense draft appropriations bill to implement the recently passed HAVANA Act, federal law that includes assistance for U.S. officials impacted by mysterious health incidents that some argue are targeted attacks. The Maine senator did not disclose the potential level for funding because it is included in the classified annex of the appropriations draft bill, like other funding for the Intelligence Community. Publicly disclosing the number can potentially reveal sensitive information on Havana Syndrome cases, a congressional aide told The Hill. An estimated 200 U.S. officials...

On Thursday, October 21, AD 2021, actor Alec Baldwin, a well-known anti-gun extremist, allegedly killed a cinematographer and injured the director, by firing a loaded gun directly at them during the making of a western movie called “Rust” on a remote film set in New Mexico. As more information comes out every day, it is too early to write a definitive account of the incident, or even to completely rule out intentional homicide. At this writing, it appears to be agreed that an assistant director took a gun from a table, announced “Cold Gun” and handed it to Baldwin, who...

New Zealand’s Covid policy has once again hit the headlines. Last week, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, admitted that its new plans on loosening restrictions risked turning the country into a “two-tier” society. Under the "traffic light" policy, those who are vaccinated will be able to move around and use services relatively freely, while the unjabbed will not. But this policy is not confined to the Pacific island nation: vaccine passes are gaining traction around the world as countries introduce greater freedoms for those who are immunised, risking the creation of an unvaccinated underclass. Perhaps one of the most eye-opening...

A racial reckoning began years ago for the Guilford (Connecticut) school system, first with an episode in which a student wore blackface makeup to a home football game and then a fraught debate over the elimination of its mascot, the Indians. After the killing of George Floyd, district leaders announced they were doubling down on efforts to address social justice and racism in schools and teaching materials. But an organized pushback in the overwhelmingly white community began last year with a petition for the superintendent’s removal. This summer, conservative activists won the GOP’s endorsement for school board, knocking out three...

On April 9, 1959, the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, introduced the world to a new breed of heroes: the Mercury Seven, America’s first astronauts. Se-lected from a pool of over 500 military test pilots, these men represented the best the nation had to offer, and its best hope in the intensifying Space Race against the Soviets. Almost immediately, the Mercury Seven became national heroes: on May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard would became the first American in space, while on February 20, 1962, John Glenn would become the first American to orbit the earth, a feat which...

I am a member of a group of water and wastewater professionals who manage municipal treatment facilities in Ohio. Members represent large wastewater plants, such as Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, as well as smaller cities. Concerned members are discussing their experiences with shortages of crucial chemicals and needed to treat water and wastewater.Here is a sample email from a mid-size Ohio city: We have seen delays in shipments of Ferric Chloride in the last 2 months and have been warned that it is not going to get better any time soon. We just bid polymer for a two year contract and...

“What we know from the police workforce is there have been more deaths from the coronavirus over the last year and a half than all other causes of death for that workforce combined. So we believe it is very important to get these people vaccinated,” Walensky argued. “There is a plan, should these people not want to be vaccinated, toward education and counseling to get people the information they need so that they are feeling comfortable in getting vaccinated.”