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Hookie Co. has created this fully-electric motorcycle designed to play a part in interstellar mobility. The Tardigrade is a 8.5 feet long fully-electric motorcycle with a tubular exoskeleton that has a 68 mile range when fully charged. This won’t replace the rover but adds an additional source of transportation on the moon's surface, and while on Earth the Tardigrade is 300 lbs. On the moon, the motorcycle will only weigh 50 lbs. Learn more at Autoblog.com VIDEO AT LINK...... Transcript: Moon motorcycle concept. The Tardigrade is not your average motorcycle designed by the German-based company Hookie. This concept is for...

Geneva (AFP) – The WHO Wednesday urged rich countries to pay their fair share of the money needed for its plan to conquer Covid-19 by contributing $16 billion as a matter of urgency. The World Health Organization said the rapid cash injection into its Access to Covid Tools Accelerator could finish off Covid as a global health emergency this year. The WHO-led ACT-A is aimed at developing, producing, procuring and distributing tools to tackle the pandemic: vaccines, tests, treatments and personal protective equipment. ACT-A needed $23.4 billion for its programme for the year October 2021-September 2022 but only $800 million...

Pro-abortion pundits want to believe that Democrats can maintain control of the House and Senate in the midterms. Writing for the New York Times, Blake Hounshell and Leah Askarinam argue that there is a chance that Democrats will maintain a majority in Congress. Their analysis, especially on the issue of abortion, leaves out key insights that show pro-lifers are poised for a big sweep in the midterms. In “How Democrats Can Stop a Red Wave,” Hounshell and Askarinam suggest that abortion can win votes for Democrats. In recent years it has not, and data suggest it will not. The authors...

Chief Justice John Roberts was once in the vanguard as the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the Voting Rights Act. But as his more conservative colleagues showed Monday in restoring a Republican-drawn Alabama congressional map, Roberts is no longer in control. 1965 law required Alabama to have a second heavily Black district. It’s the latest order from a court whose bold reshaping of the law is leaving its chief justice on an island, often backing his fellow Republican appointees on their general direction but trying unsuccessfully to slow them down. Roberts was similarly in dissent last year when the same...

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Washington, DC. – Joe Biden likes to talk about how “unions built this country.” And, up to a point, he’s right. From FDR to Nixon, the American labor movement held considerable sway over the nation’s economic destiny. Since the 70s, a decade marked by economic extremes Biden’s policies are causing us to revisit, unions have been in decline. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports participation in the labor movement to be down across the board. Unionized private sector workers represent just 6.1 percent of the labor force, an all-time low, while the total number of those in unions dropped...

GoFundMe has frozen access to more than $160,000 in funds raised by supporters of a convoy of trucks and cars converging on Canberra to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates. After vehicles began arriving in the national capital on Monday morning, Australian Federal Police were forced to defend the front doors of Parliament House, as hundreds of people who were part of the larger protest moved towards the public entrance. The Convoy to Canberra rally is being led by groups who are against mandatory vaccinations and includes the so-called Sovereign Citizens movement, with many trucks, vans and cars travelling thousands of kilometres...

9 February 2022Wednesday of week 5 in Ordinary Time St. Apollonia, Großhau, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 10:1-10 ©Solomon prays to the Lord in the TempleThe fame of Solomon having reached the queen of Sheba, she came to test him with difficult questions. She brought immense riches to Jerusalem with her, camels laden with spices, great quantities of gold, and precious stones. On coming to Solomon, she opened her mind freely to him; and Solomon had an answer for all her questions, not one of them was too obscure for the king to expound. When the queen...

There are deeper problems to address than Joe since his entire dereliction of duty will be gone in three years. We must eliminate America’s Deep State (DS). The Term “DS” was arguably first coined by Peter Dale Scott, a leftist bent on deflating the Bush II administration, in his 2007 book, The Road to 9/11. He suggests the DS is a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry, effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the people through the formal political process.” The DS is deeper and more...

CINCINNATI, Saturday, Feb. 8. Special dispatches to the Commercial and Gazette give additional details of the capture of Fort Henry. At the time of the attack the rebel infantry were in their camp eating dinner. They abandoned everything, leaving thousands of shot-guns and all their camp equipage and clothing. In pursuing the enemy. Maj. McCULLOUGH, of Col. DICKEY's Cavalry, captured six guns, and Col. JOHN A. LOGAN captured eight guns and thirty-three prisoners. WASHINGTON, Saturday, Feb. 8. Dispatches received at Headquarters from Gen HALLECK say that, after the reduction of Fort Henry, our forces immediately proceeded up the river, in...

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender, and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. – Sowell Over the past few years, I have often wondered how corporations have spurned their customer base in the pursuit of activism and how they have remained in business? How did corporations get so detached from profits that they can shun a good percentage of their consumer base and still keep their share prices stable or growing? I found the answer in Conscious Capitalism and ESG investing. I first heard of Conscious Capitalism...

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...In downtown Ottawa I see people wearing Canadian flags to declare themselves patriots because they march to reject the government’s mandates. I disagree: doing this does not make you any sort of a patriot but rather just a complaining obstructionist with a flag on your back. Eighty-four per cent of Canadians have received at least one dose of vaccine against COVID-19, as have 90 per cent of truckers. So the protesters represent no more than 16 per cent of the population and no more than 10 per cent of truckers.

If there’s one good thing that’s emerged from COVID madness, it’s learning that many of America’s teachers hate not just America, but also their students. The Democrat establishment, recognizing that Americans have had it with masks (especially as studies show that they don’t work), is pulling back from mask mandates. However, America’s teachers are not ready to let their students—whom they clearly consider dangerous little vermin—return to class maskless. Doing so might allow them to spew their child germs on those people whom state and local governments believe are fit people to oversee America’s up-and-coming generations. Suddenly, four strong Democrat-run...

A former head of the KGB has publicly warned Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine, becoming the second prominent figure to do so in two days... Yevgeny Savostyanov, 69, has announced he backs a letter penned by Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, 78, which warns Putin against an attack on Ukraine and accuses him of whipping up an 'artificial' conflict to distract from his domestic problems. Savostyanov applauded Ivashov's letter for proving that 'Russian patriots are not saliva-spraying people who beat the drum of war' but 'those who care about the peaceful and prosperous development of cities, towns and villages of our...

You may have heard that the Republican National Committee described last year's Capitol riot as "legitimate political discourse." Although that is what The New York Times reported last week, it is not actually true. It is true, however, that the RNC, which used that phrase when it censured Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) for participating in the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, did not explain what it meant until after its misbegotten resolution generated a predictable storm of criticism. The episode illustrates why neither Republicans nor Democrats can be trusted to give an...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEphesians 6The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your...

California, Florida and Michigan may be geographically distant from one another and have somewhat different cultures, but when they engage in trade with one another, it is free. The business owners and workers in these states all work under the same federal laws. The Constitution gives the federal Congress, not state governments, the power to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States." If a worker or entrepreneur does not like the laws of the state they now inhabit, they are free to move to another part of the United States -- or they can vote their state...

In today’s social and political environment, unless you’ve done or thought something for which you are genuine sorry, don’t apologize. Back in the mid-80s, when Madonna exploded onto the music scene, I despised her. I was a serious musician back then, playing drums professionally (something I did from my teens until my early 30s). However, I’ve never forgotten how Madonna handled the fact that, in 1985, photos surfaced revealed that, when Madonna was 19 years old and first came to NYC, she posed for Penthouse. When those photos were leaked, Madonna’s reaction was pretty much (and I’m paraphrasing here, not...

They’re now the subject of an official investigation but I doubt anything will change. If you visited D.C. in the days before COVID and January 6 madness, and wandered around (or got permission to go into) the Capitol, you saw Capitol police officers on duty. They were doing pretty much what all police officers do, which is to stand guard at vulnerable spots, making sure no one did anything naughty (e.g., graffiti) or downright dangerous (e.g., gun or knife attacks, etc.). However, beginning with January 6, 2021, it became apparent that Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol police officers have a different mandate:...