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The ground is swelling under the Three Sisters volcanic region in central Oregon. The U.S. Geological Survey issued a statement that the rate of uplift in an area 12 miles across has risen nearly an inch between June of 2020 and August of 2021. Yet, this latest uplift comes after some 25 years of activity. Scientists say it’s happening as lava is filling a space underground.

Five Freedoms: Julie Ponesse’s Speech to the Trucker ConvoyDr. Julie Ponesse was a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron University College for 20 years. She was placed on leave and banned from accessing her campus due to the vaccine mandate. This is her speech during the weekend when the Canadian truckers arrived in Ottawa to protest pandemic restrictions and mandates that have been so harmful to so many. Dr. Ponesse has now taken on a role with The Democracy Fund, a registered Canadian charity aimed at advancing civil liberties, where she serves as the pandemic ethics scholar.Video...

Rumble — Is the government setting up a false flag operation? Is this related to the Freedom Convoy? Hotel near is Ottawa airport

Netflix's documentary "The Tinder Swindler" is about man who scammed women into debt. Shimon Hayut lied about his identity saying he was real-life billionaire diamond mogul Lev Leviev's son. His victims say he loved-bombed them until they sent money or gave him their credit cards. When 29-year-old Cecilie Fjellhøy met Simon Leviev on Tinder in 2018, she thought she'd scored the man of her dreams. He was handsome, generous, thoughtful, and rich. At the time, Leviev told Fjellhøy he worked for his billionaire father in the diamond industry. Their online relationship quickly evolved into dates on private jets and at...

VIDEOJeff Zucker as you have probably never seen him before with hair being interviewed by Charlie Rose in 1992. Ironic given that both were decades later forced to make hasty exits from TV Land due to below the waist actions. One Fun fact about Zucker is that both he and your humble correspondent were both students of North Miami Senior High School though not at the same time. Although Zucker still has hair on his head in this video, you can already see it rapidly receding so fast that even during this interview you can see him losing hair. Just...

Congress passed a much-ballyhooed "infrastructure" bill. "Roads and bridges." Well, not much of it went to roads and bridges in the first place, only $110 billion out of $1.2 Trillion went to roads, bridges "and investments in other major transportation programs." But the The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) decides where to spend the money. The The Wall Street Journal reports "...Deputy Administrator Stephanie Pollack advised staff on the types of projects they should give the red light. According to the memo, proposals should be sent to the bottom of the pile if they “add new general purpose travel lanes serving...

Ex-U.S. Justice Department official Jeffrey Bossert Clark appeared on Wednesday before the congressional probe of the assault on the Capitol for questions about his bid to bolster former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud. Clark was spotted entering a room inside a U.S. House of Representatives office building where the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack conducts its depositions. A committee spokesman declined to comment. Clark, who served as the acting head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, drafted a Dec. 28, 2020, letter to Georgia state lawmakers that falsely claimed the department had found "significant...

What A Disappointment To Find Out What Hershey Is Doing Clip...

Just heard Brandon on TV saying he's now going to cure cancer. After that he'll move mountains and stop the seas from rising. Then heal the sick, raise the dead and make little girls go out of their heads. Oh, he's the one. (I just threw that last part in for good measure.)

OPEC+ agreed on Wednesday to stick to moderate rises in its oil output with the group already struggling to meet existing targets and wary of responding to calls on its strained capacity for more crude from top consumers to cap surging prices. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, a group known as OPEC+ which produces more than 40% of global oil supply, has faced calls from the United States, India and others to pump more oil as economies recover from the pandemic. But OPEC+ has stuck to its target of monthly increases of 400,000...

A Dutch company is currently building a 417-foot mega yacht for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that, once complete, will be the largest sailing vessel in the world. The only problem? Its three masts are too tall to leave the shipyard without dismantling a huge piece of Dutch history and infrastructure: the Koningshavenbrug bridge, also known as the De Hef. The bridge has stood in Rotterdam since 1927. It was heavily damaged in 1940 when the German Luftwaffe bombed the city. During renovations of the bridge in 2017, the city council promised residents the bridge would never again be dismantled. But...

Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan and killing children unable to access healthcare facilities, leading humanitarian organisation for children Save the Children said on Monday. Since the Taliban takeover last August, unemployment levels have exploded throughout Afghanistan, leaving parents unable to provide for their families. The direct result has been a surge in malnutrition, producing a dramatic rise in pneumonia in children. One doctor at a hospital in the north of the country said he had never seen so many cases of child pneumonia and severe malnutrition. Children have to lie three or even four to a bed, he told...

We underestimate the cost of losing historical knowledge at our peril. When we forget what happened only a generation ago—and as I’ve written before, these events are still for some living memory rather than history—we ensure that we will not recognize the conditions that allowed these things to happen in the first place. Suddenly, young men can march with Nazi flags in American streets, even though some probably had grandfathers who took up arms against the last bearers of that flag. Anti-Semitic crimes can be written off as isolated events rather than a dangerous indication of old demons stirring. That...

Students can survive by cheating unless their professors enforce academic integrity standards. We presume such enforcement exists, but my personal experience suggests otherwise. Let’s be honest: professors face unpleasant consequences if they resist cheating, but no consequences if they look the other way. Professors respond to their incentive structure like other living beings. I was naive to the culture of cheating when I was a student, so I was naive as a professor. My odyssey into the cheating world began when a student complained after an exam. She’d witnessed many infractions while I just sat there reading a book—everything from...

Joe Biden, John Gill or some intern posted on Twitter: "2021 was the greatest year of job growth in American history."

I support free speech for Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Rogan, Roseanne Barr, J. K. Rowling, Gina Carano, Ann Coulter, Ilhan Omar, Milo Yiannopoulos, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, Bill Maher, Paul Joseph Watson, Cenk Uygur, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Chris Rock, George Carlin’s ghost, Muhammad cartoonists, American flag burners, communists, socialists, fascists, Nazis, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, abortion activists, anti-abortion activists, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, the Proud Boys, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, atheists, you, me, and everyone elseBy Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)February 2, 2022The purpose of free speech isn’t to protect speech...

Biden will likely come out with some remark about the start of the 2022 Olympics this Friday. Will his statement 1. "Congratulate" the ChiComs - and briefly mention "good luck" to USA teams. 2. Congratulate the USA teams - but not mention China's brutal regime. 3. Congratulate the USA teams - and then slam the CCP for its oppression and atrocities.

The actor, 54, was allegedly quoted on tape using the N-word, but Whoopi Goldberg said on The View Monday, "I know Mel, and I know he's not a racist." "I have had a long friendship with Mel. You can say he's being a bonehead, but I can't sit and say that he's a racist having spent time with him in my house with my kids," added Goldberg, 54.

A bill that would eliminate salaries for school board members and increase scrutiny of the way public-school instructional materials and library books are chosen is now primed for consideration by the full House. The measure (HB 1467) is largely centered on increasing parents’ involvement in the selection of books and other learning materials. The bill requires that any committees convened for the purpose of “ranking, eliminating, or selecting” instructional materials must also include parents. The House Appropriations Committee on Monday signed off on the proposal after adding some tweaks. An amendment adopted by the committee made clear that the part...

Ousted Chris Cuomo forced Jeff Zucker's resignation from CNN by blowing the whistle on his years-long, open-secret affair with staffer Allison Gollust while fighting for his $18million severance pay, according unnamed media sources. In a statement on Wednesday, Zucker said he was stepping down for failing to disclose his relationship with Gollust when he was being interviewed as part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo. He and Gollust claim the romance started during COVID, but media sources tell DailyMail.com it long predates the pandemic and was an open-secret in the CNN offices. They lived in the same apartment building with...