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Here some bad news about the ongoing eruption on La Palma. The volcano is spewing record amounts of ash while two M5.0 earthquakes hit the island within 24 hours. More ash According to specialists from the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca), the volcano has started emitting much more volatile material in recent hours. “We are currently facing record amount of ash. The amount of ash that is falling on the western part of the island is the largest since the beginning of the eruption.” Particules smaller than 10 micrometers are excessive: 499 µg / m³ compared to 50 µg...

New Jersey Senate president Steve Sweeney may lose his seat to a conservative truck driver who reportedly spent $153 on his campaign. Edward Durr was leading by over 2,000 votes as of Wednesday morning, the New Jersey Globe reported. A defeat of Sweeney, the longest serving legislative leader in the state’s history, would cause a major rearrangement of New Jersey politics, according to the Globe. Durr describes himself as “blue collar with a strong conservative belief.” He favors lowering taxes and increasing fiscal responsibility, according to his Facebook page. The conservative challenger said he encountered Sweeney and challenged him to...

RICHMOND, VA—In a blistering concession speech after losing the race for Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe vowed that he would return and that he would get everyone's children if it's the last thing he ever does. "You haven't seen the last of me!" said McAuliffe, angrily shaking his fist. "I'll have my revenge! I'll come back and I'll get your kids! We'll brainwash them and there's nothing you can do about it! There's no escape! MUAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA!" The failed candidate then threw a smoke bomb and disappeared from the stage in a cloud of purple smoke. Experts warn that McAuliffe is...

The U.S. military "absolutely" could defend Taiwan from a potential Chinese attack if asked to do so, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Milley said he did not expect China to attempt to seize the self-governing island in the next 24 months, but should it happen, U.S. forces “absolutely have the capability” to defend Taipei, “no question about that.” He also allowed that Beijing is “clearly and unambiguously building the capability to provide those options to the national leadership if they so choose at some point in the future.”

Aaron Rodgers won't be on the field when the Green Bay Packers take on the Kansas City Chiefs this Sunday. The reigning league MVP has tested positive for COVID-19, per CBS Sports NFL insider Jason La Canfora, shortly after practice squad quarterback Kurt Benkert was also placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list with a positive test. That leaves Jordan Love as the only other quarterback on the Packers roster and guarantees he'll get the start against Patrick Mahomes and Co. in Week 9.

The pro-life advantage has been around for decades and it showed up again on Tuesday night in Virginia. When it comes to the issue of abortion, pro-life candidates always have the advantage over pro-abortion candidates. And that was the case against last night in Virginia, where pro-life Glenn Youngkin defeated pro-abortion Terry McAuliffe. Youngkin ultimately won the race by 2.1%, with a 50.7-48.6 percentage point victory over McAuliffe. But that victory is thanks in part to abortion. According to Fox News exit polling data, 5% of Virginia voters made their decision primarily based on abortion, and that provided a 12%...

Vice President Kamala Harris may be regretting her message to Virginia voters last week now that the commonwealth will be governed by a Republican. During a campaign event last week with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Norfolk, Virginia, Harris told voters that what happens in the commonwealth will be a preview of “how the country will move” as we get closer to the midterm elections. “Tuesday will determine whether we turn back the clock on move forward,” she said. “What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on." (video) As Katie reported,...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said the Virginia gubernatorial election “was about local issues. Those were about parental issues. And unfortunately, racism raised its ugly head and the Republican candidate used it very aptly.” And she isn’t going to tie the result in Virginia “to Democrats or anything we did here in Washington.”

A Republican managed to flip a Democratic-held Texas state House seat Tuesday in a district that President Joe Biden won in November by 14 points.While most of the attention nationally was on Republican victories across Virginia and a surprisingly close race in New Jersey, one Texas special election could be a sign that Democrats are in trouble nationwide.Republican John Lujan defeated Democrat Frank Ramirez 51 percent to 49 percent on Tuesday to take the Texas House District 118 race, The Texas Tribune reported.That seat was previously held by Democrat Leo Pacheco, who resigned to take a teaching position at San...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is currently overseas in Scotland, tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, city officials announced. Garcetti, who is fully vaccinated, was said to be "feeling good" as he isolates in a hotel room, according to a tweet.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that the 57% of Virginia’s White women who voted for Glenn Youngkin for governor want to pretend slavery didn’t happen. Guest host NBC Sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya said, “Biden utter his name 25 times in a speech, and it didn’t stick.”

In another pro-life election victory last night, pro-life Republicans captured the Virginia state House from pro-abortion Democrats, where they can begin the process of restoring pro-life laws that Democrats took down when they were in power. Republicans picked up six seats in the Virginia House of Delegates last night and a leading pro-life group celebrated the victory. The national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) and its partner Women Speak Out PAC Virginia – 2021 celebrated as pro-life Republicans flipped the Virginia House of Delegates, winning back the majority from pro-abortion Democrats who sought to expand abortion on...

Not only did Greg Youngkin win his race over pro-abortion Terry McAuliffe to become the governor of Virginia, the second highest ranking official in the state will be pro-life as well. Winsome Sears won her race to become Lt. Governor and she will be the first black woman to hold that position. Sears defeated pro-abortion Democrat Hala Ayalalast night and told residents of the state that her agenda matters more than her skin color. Sears, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.,said she was living the “the American dream” because her family were legal immigrants from Jamaica. “I am at...

According to the new report from the Higher Institute of Health on mortality from Covid, the virus that brought the world to its knees would have killed far less than a common flu. According to the statistical sample of medical records collected by the institute, only 2.9% of the deaths registered since the end of February 2020 would be due to Covid 19. So of the 130,468 deaths registered by official statistics at the time of preparation of the new report only 3,783 would be due to the power of the virus itself. Because all the other Italians who lost...

President Biden inadvertently disclosed Tuesday that one of his granddaughters works for billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who briefly was one of his Democratic primary rivals. Biden made the revelation during a press conference in Glasgow, Scotland, when he called on reporter “Jen Epstein of the Wall Street Journal” to ask him a question. Epstein corrected the president that she works for Bloomberg News, which is owned by the financial entrepreneur, who was mayor from 2002 to 2013. “Excuse me. I beg your pardon,” Biden told Epstein. “I hope — I got it. I got it, especially since...

In the least cannibalistic way possible, would you eat a burger that tastes like human meat? Would it change your mind if the producers of that burger said they had done extensive research on the taste? The opportunity was there for diners in Sweden after Oumph! developed The Human Meat Burger. Luckily, Oumph is a world-renowned plant-based company and rather than using actual human meat, the organisation used its plant-based products. The project was developed by the company’s co-founder Ankan Linden who said it was a promotion to show people how to eat plant-based. “We developed this burger in no...

Royal Marines commandos 'dominated' US troops and forced them into a humiliating surrender just days into a mass training exercise in the Mojave desert, it has been revealed today. British forces took part in a five-day mock battle at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in southern California, one of the largest military training areas in the world, and achieved a decisive victory against their American counterparts. The Royal Marines, along with allied forces from Canada, the Netherlands and the UAE, destroyed or rendered inoperable nearly every US asset and finished the exercise holding more than 65 per cent...

"Terry McAuliffe ran the milquetoast campaign he wanted to run — where every other word he uttered was ‘Donald Trump’ instead of focusing on the issues voters cared about the most," the groups wrote. "What happened in Virginia is what happens when Democrats fail to take on the GOP’s divide-and-conquer racism and motivate people to turn out," they continued. "The McAuliffe campaign had no comprehensive pro-worker economic message against a literal private equity magnate. It had no positive message on what the next four years would be like for Virginians. It had no rebuttal to Republican race-baiting bull----. Put simply:...

Plasmonic Condensed Matter Nuclear Fusion Katsuaki Tanabe Kyoto University, Japan E-mail: tanabe@cheme.kyoto-u.ac.jp The intensity and density of the triggering energy supplied to activate the nuclear fusion reaction are key factors to produce a smooth and reproducible initiation of the reaction. We previously proposed and numerically analyzed a scheme to provide high-density optical or electromagnetic energy to fusion-fuel materials by lasers and plasmonic field-enhancement effects, to significantly increase the reaction probability [1–6]. Large degrees of field enhancements, or energy focusing, were observed around metal nanoparticles and nanoshells [1], planar metal surfaces [2,3], metal/oxide interfaces [5], sharp metal tips [4], and metal...

As a student of Bible prophecy for almost 30 years, and specifically end times Bible prophecy, no other time has seemed as close to the end times as right now. Why do I say this? Because, particularly in the past year, the geopolitical and economic stage has been set for the fulfillment of several end-times prophecies. We now have several potential crises on the horizon. And those potential crises are the same ones the Bible says we’ll experience either in the Tribulation or the days immediately preceding the Tribulation. Below are just a few: The Gog of Magog War The...