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...Under the version of the Build Back Better Act that passed the House last month, new offshore drilling would be permanently prohibited in three major regions: the Atlantic, the Pacific and the eastern Gulf of Mexico... ...Other policies aimed at limiting oil and gas development have inspired fierce partisan divides on Capitol Hill. But coastal lawmakers of both parties have rallied around preventing drilling off their coastlines.. ...Still, the U.S. oil and gas industry has expressed serious concerns about the limitations on offshore drilling... ...Asked yesterday whether he supported royalty hikes, Manchin told reporters: "I think adjustments need to be...

Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.Now, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have overcome these obstacles with an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume, the researchers reported in a paper published Nov. 29 in Nature Communications.Enabled by a joint design of the camera’s hardware and computational processing, the...

...As a diversity admissions officer, he later traveled the country recruiting students to West Point from underrepresented communities. “It was so hard to tell people like, ‘Yeah, you can trust the military,’ and then their kids Google and go ‘Why is there a barracks named after Lee?’” he said.... ...Only 6% of nominations to the Army, Air Force and Naval academies made by the current members of Congress went to Black candidates, even though 15% of the population aged 18 to 24 is Black, according to a March report by the Connecticut Veterans’ Legal Center. Eight percent of congressional nominations...

One of my older jazz songs played on (synthesized) koto and guzheng, because why the h*ll not?

SPIN THE WHEEL MAKE A DEAL..FAUCI’S WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE We’ve all heard Biden’s mumbled phrase, ‘Build Back Better.’ Building back implies something is broken, but many things were still working under President Trump. Our southern border was under control. A wall was being built. The country was energy self-sufficient. There were jobs and a free flow of goods. The price of gas at the pumps was the lowest it had been in years. A pipeline was being built. There was some semblance of law and order. Trump chucked the climate change bunk and eliminated the trans nonsense from our military.

The Early History of humansSince the olden days, humans have looked up in the sky and blamed astronomical events for the unpleasant things happening to them (which was purely a coincidence). Not only this, but humans had also praised the occasions when a good thing happened after a few astronomical sightings (which was also coincidental). I am talking about the events that include sighting a comet, meteor shower or Northern lights, and even novas. In the 15th century, Pope Callixtus III excommunicated comets as an ‘Instrument of the Devil’. In 1835-36, when Halley’s Comet arrived, people assumed that it had...

Topline:Lockstep political decision to roll out leaky “vaccines” occurred around the world immediately following the Omicron announcement.Circumstances with a new, heavily mutated variant, vastly different population immunity and knowledge about “genetic vaccine” effectiveness, nothing like those 12 months ago when first generation COVID injections were rolled out globally.Omicron may be more infective, is likely no more dangerous — but may be more likely to evade injection-induced immunity.There is no conclusive evidence that Omicron originated in Africa — which happens to have the lowest injection rate and case rate of COVID-19.Mass injection of first gen injections, followed by re-worked Omicron-specific jabs,...

Having had a minute to process his acquittal on all five counts against him, a very relaxed, amiable and self-possessed Kyle Rittenhouse sat down with Charlie Kirk, host of The Charlie Kirk Show, and Human Events editor Jack Posobiec for an hour-long interview on Monday. Rittenhouse family spokesman Dave Hancock was also present. The podcast aired on Tuesday. One of the most memorable moments of the trial came during Kenosha Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger’s closing arguments. Holding the AR-15 Rittenhouse had used to defend himself against his attackers on August 25, 2020, finger on the trigger, Binger inexplicably pointed...

I'm transferring to a newer computer and having difficulty with various things. I've got everything fixed now except my sound. The computer was working before but I upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10 and added a new video card to feed 3 monitors, About the time I put the 2nd video card in I noticed the noise in my speakers. I've tried headphones and the noise is there. I've tried USB speakers and the noise is there. I used a Bluetooth speaker and the noise is gone. I've changed the sound drivers 3 times with and older driver and...

The social media posts started in May: photos and videos of smiling people, mostly women, drinking Mason jars of black liquid, slathering black paste on their faces and feet, or dipping babies and dogs in tubs of the black water. They tagged the posts #BOO and linked to a website that sold a product called Black Oxygen Organics. Black Oxygen Organics, or “BOO” for short, is difficult to classify. It was marketed as fulvic acid, a compound derived from decayed plants, that was dug up from an Ontario peat bog. The website of the Canadian company that sold it billed...

Abstract Viruses such as human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS‐CoV‐2]) represent a great burden to human health worldwide. FDA‐approved anti‐parasite drug ivermectin is also an antibacterial, antiviral, and anticancer agent, which offers more potentiality to improve global public health, and it can effectively inhibit the replication of SARS‐CoV‐2 in vitro. This study sought to identify ivermectin‐related virus infection pathway alterations in human ovarian cancer cells. Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) quantitative proteomics was used to analyze human ovarian cancer...

This is forty-seven year old lie. Today, it ends.

What’s Happening: For months, we’ve seen the Southern border grow out of control. Reports indicate over one million migrants have flooded the country. More are on their way. Clearly, this is a situation that needs to end. But, as you can imagine, Joe Biden is blatantly ignoring the situation. Governors from border states have called on Joe to do something. His administration has ignored them. So, a team of Republican governors is taking matters into their own hands. And they are storming the border themselves. From IJR: Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced he will join 10 additional GOP governors...

Twitter has slapped an "unsafe link" warning on a study from the American Heart Association which found that mRNA vaccines dramatically increase risk of developing heart diseases from 11% to 25%.As of this writing, when one clicks on the link in the below tweet...🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 New study and warning from American Heart Association: mRNA vaccines dramatically increase risk of developing heart diseases from 11% to 25% 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨https://t.co/7QxltagOPj — Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 2, 2021This warning, which ZeroHedge followers are no stranger to, pops up, requiring one to click "Ignore this warning and continue" before they can proceed to the American...

The FDA's excruciatingly slow release of data related to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has already borne fruit, and it's damning despite a trickle of just 500 pages per month out of 329,000 pages - which will take until 2076 to complete.As first reported by Kyle Becker, there were a total of 42,086 case reports for adverse reactions (25,379 medically confirmed, 16,707 non-medically confirmed), spanning 158,893 total events.More than 25,000 of the events were classified as "Nervous system disorders."Another table of the 1st batch of 55 on Pfizer's adverse events data: No wonder they don't want all the data released!pic.twitter.com/qmdi303krl — Patrick...

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At least 60 Michigan schools have been forced to temporarily close as a result of copycat threats in the wake of the shooting in Oxford Township, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Thursday. Just days after a 15-year-old boy at Oxford High School was charged in the fatal shootings of four students and the injuries of eight others, Bouchard stated that at least 100 instances of direct threats or threatening social media posts have surfaced throughout the state. This includes a 12-year-old who threatened to "shoot up" his school....

“The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens” (Proverbs 3:19).

Despite a federal judge declaring President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate unconstitutional, Penn State University will keep its Jan. 4 deadline requiring employees to get vaccinated, and some employees who choose not to get vaccinated will be given education and counseling.“Many of you know (the mandate) is being challenged in the courts so we don’t know the outcome of that process yet, but we are planning around it prevailing, and so implementing that mandate,” Penn State Provost Nicholas P. Jones said Tuesday in the University Faculty Senate meeting. “We’ve got to prepare because there’s not a lot of runway between now...

Asked if he felt by guilty by ABC journalist George Stephanopoulos, Baldwin replied: 'No. No. I feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can't say who that is, but I know it's not me.'