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LOS ANGELES -- Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, took to Twitter late Sunday to post, then delete a message urging people to "stop hating" while her husband has been out of the public eye since canceling plans to attend last month's climate summit in Scotland, according to a screenshot.......When the initial announcement was made Oct. 29, his office said Newsom planned to participate virtually in the United Nations climate summit. But he did not. His last public appearance was Oct. 27, when he received a coronavirus booster shot.

In an angry conversation on his final day as president, Donald Trump told the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee he was leaving the GOP and creating his own political party -- and that he didn't care if the move would destroy the Republican Party, according to a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. Trump only backed down when Republican leaders threatened to take actions that would have cost Trump millions of dollars, Karl writes his upcoming book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show." The book gives a detailed account of Trump's stated intention...

In the 490-page workplace vaccine mandate document released by resident Joe Biden’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last week, the phrase “grave danger” appears 212 times. Meaning that at least every other page or so, the lawyers who wrote this monstrosity of unconstitutional tyrannical overreach were careful to assure readers, over and over again, that Covid-19 poses not just a workplace risk, but a “grave danger” to workers’ lives. “The problems addressed by this ETS for COVID-19 are national in scope,” the document reads. “As explained in Grave Danger (Section III.A. of this preamble), employees face a grave danger...

Shhh … hear that? It’s silence at CNN. Deafening silence. With all the noise about race – CRT, antiracism, blah, blah, blah – there was none of the usual jubilation over the history-making of the first black lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia, Winsome Sears. No TV profile with movie music weaving through the sentimental story-telling. No specials with Tom Hanks voiceovers. Nothing. Wait! I hear something. It’s Van Jones. Yep, here we go … he’s about to comment on the Youngkin-Sears win. “The stakes are high. When this election is over in Virginia, we will know … have we seen the...

The current rate of greenhouse gas pollution is so high that Earth has about 11 years to rein in emissions if countries want to avoid the worst damage from climate change in the future, a new study concludes. Despite dipping in 2020 because of the global pandemic, greenhouse gas emissions are on track to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report. The findings, currently under review before publication, underscore that the urgency of cutting emissions is even greater than previously thought if the world is to avoid a rise in average global temperatures that is...

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent most of my life in heavily Democrat enclaves. That is why I know that, when you boil things down to their essentials, most Democrat women and many Democrat men are single-issue voters and that issue is abortion. You can delicately bring them around to agree with you on subjects such as taxes, borders, national security, and keeping porn out of grade schools but abortion is, as Nancy Pelosi said, “sacred ground.” That’s why they’re panicked about the Texas abortion law and why Saturday Night Live did the single most...

Saving the rainforests will not stop global warming -- and here’s why Apparently, at COP26, world leaders agreed a deal to end deforestation of rainforests, ostensibly to stop global warming. This deal relies on implicit arguments that are nonsensical. What’s happening to the rainforests is a classic example of how the official narrative ignores logic and reality. But it's far from clear that the deal currently being touted at COP26 is actually a good thing at all, either for the countries involved or the planet's ecosystem, still less as a way of stopping global warming. If it works the same...

Traditional Fascism was defined as an authoritarian government working hand-in-glove with corporations to achieve totalitarian objectives. A centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, using severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.That governmental system didn’t work in the long-term because the underlying principles driving free people rejected government authoritarianism. Fascist governments collapsed and the corporate beneficiaries were nulled and scorned. Then along came a new approach to achieve the same objective.The World Economic Forum (WEF) was created to use the same fundamental associations of government and corporations. Only this time the corporations organized to tell the...

"Julian Reichelt is dethroned." So cheered the Berliner Zeitung a few days ago after it was revealed that Bild, Europe's largest newspaper, had been forced to sack its editor — and one of Germany's most popular journalists — following allegations made in a Ben Smith New York Times article of affairs with junior colleagues. The piece also suggested that Axel Springer SE, the German publishing giant that owns Bild, is out of touch with today's woke and metoo values. Moreover, a few weeks earlier, Springer announced it was going to purchase Politico, the U.S. politics website, for about $1B —...

Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe. The 285-page document suggests that Malaysia’s trees are absorbing carbon four times faster than similar forests in neighboring Indonesia. The surprising claim has allowed the country to subtract over 243 million tons of carbon dioxide from its 2016 inventory — slashing 73 percent of emissions from its bottom line. Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations, a Washington Post investigation has found. An examination of 196 country reports reveals a...

If there is one truism of modern American politics, it’s that good fortune is a fleeting thing. Almost a year to the day after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, his Democratic party was dealt a body blow on election day 2021. ..... In short, this White House has not had a good story to tell for months and in Virginia and New Jersey they paid the price. But if there is one silver lining for Democrats, it’s that midterm elections are a year away and there is time to right the ship. For all the...

Looking at election 2021, all I can say is wow! Virginia was a big deal, but conservatives made gains in state legislatures, city councils, and school boards across the country. And these gains occurred even in blue states that Biden won by a landslide just one year ago. How quickly have fortunes changed. Biden remorse is for real. But what lessons have the Dems taken away from their electoral drubbing? The smart ones are soiling themselves. The not so smart ones — that would be Bernie and the Squad — have analyzed the results and determined that they lost because...

November 8th, 2021St. Paul Ngan of Vietnam St. John the Baptist church, Edmond, Oklahoma Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingWisdom 1:1-7 ©Seek the Lord in simplicity of heartLove virtue, you who are judges on earth,let honesty prompt your thinking about the Lord,seek him in simplicity of heart;since he is to be found by those who do not put him to the test,he shows himself to those who do not distrust him.But selfish intentions divorce from God;and Omnipotence, put to the test, confounds the foolish.No, Wisdom will never make its way into a crafty soulnor stay in a body that...

Ørsted, a Danish power group, and Vestas, a wind turbine maker, said projects in Europe had to deal with low wind speeds, while supply chain stagnation, rising energy prices and raw material costs hit manufacturers. Warned about difficult situations for the renewable energy industry. Vestas warned on Wednesday that “the global business environment for renewable energy will become increasingly difficult.” Second time In 3 months. Orsted, the developer of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Lower wind speed This year, compared to 2020, 2021 profits were expected to reach the lower end of the guide range. The group said operating...

A wild elephant stomped a Thai reporter to death in Chanthaburi on Friday. The reporter was on the scene taking photos of a mission to administer medical treatment to the animal which had been severely injured in a fight with other elephants. The wounded elephant panicked and charged after being shot with a dart filled with antibiotics, killing 46 year old Parinya Kesarathikul, a reporter for the Thai language daily KomChadLuek. The injured elephant had been taken to a shelter by a swamp in the Khao Khitchakut. According to Nation Thailand, a veterinarian with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week seized imports from a Chinese company backed by an investment group in which climate czar John Kerry holds a $1 million stake. Kerry and his wife are invested in Hillhouse China Value Fund L.P., part of the Hillhouse investment group that is a top shareholder in a Chinese solar panel company that works with companies known to be using forced labor. It was on that account that CBP seized the imports from LONGi Green Energy, citing a law that prohibits foreign imports produced through labor abuses. The news could raise additional concerns about...

President Joe Biden issued a statement on Sunday slamming Nicaragua's "sham elections," in which President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are expected to claim victory. In the statement, Biden accused Ortega's government of conducting "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic." Biden said the imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures and preventing other parties from competing in the election "rigged the outcome well before election day." He also noted that independent media has been shuttered, journalists jailed, and civil society groups bullied. "Long unpopular and now without a democratic...

Capehart: Winsome Sears Not Proof GOP Victories Weren’t Motivated by Racism — ‘Whiteness Is a Hell of a Drug’ This week on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” host Jonathan Capehart responded to a Wall Street Journal editorial directed at him for claiming Glenn Youngkin winning Virginia’s gubernatorial win would be a win for white supremacy. The editorial, noting that Virginia elected Winsome Sears, a black woman, as lieutenant governor, mocked Capehart’s analysis ahead of the election as a “‘racist’ fail.” Capehart argued Sears’ election doesn’t make his assertion wrong. “Whiteness is a hell of a drug. Fear worked, and Youngkin won...

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