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Poland has urged the European Union to introduce "control mechanisms" to the bloc's carbon market and curb financial speculators' participation in the scheme, the Polish government said on Tuesday. Polish climate minister Anna Moskwa met EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermans in Brussels on Monday to discuss Brussels' plans to overhaul its carbon market. European Union policymakers are preparing to negotiate a major reform of its core policy tool for curbing emissions - the emissions trading system (ETS), which requires power plants and industry to buy CO2 "allowances" to cover each tonne of CO2 they release. The ETS is designed...

The seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report says. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and six other federal agencies issued a 111-page report Tuesday that warns of “significant consequences” from rising seas in the next few decades, with parts of Louisiana and Texas projected to see waters a foot and a half (0.45 meters) higher. However, the worst of the long-term sea level rise from the melting of ice...

As part of the clean-operations at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, engineers sent down a remotely operated submarine into the bowels of Unit 1 on February 9, according to plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO). When the catastrophe struck, Units 1, 2, and 3 were busy working and had fuel in their reactors. The tsunami knocked down the power sources and cooling systems used to control the temperature of the fuel, which resulted in a colossal amount of heat to melt the fuel and the reactor. Eventually, this melting slurry of radioactive fuel and equipment...

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones has withdrawn from the race and is now running for Georgia’s 10th Congressional District. He said in a news release last week that he made the decision to switch races after speaking with former President Donald Trump. “After speaking with President Trump about his America First agenda, the President feels as though I would better serve Georgia in Congress,” said Jones. “He is building a team to take back the U.S. House and Senate in 2022 and the White House in 2024. It is going to be a Republican revolution. While running for governor,...

Google today announced a new operating system, Chrome OS Flex, a free-to-use, cloud-based OS built to convert old PCs or Macs into Chromebooks. The new OS was developed by Google a few years after acquiring Neverware—the makers of Cloudready—and was primarily made for schools and businesses with fleets of old PCs or Macs that have been bogged down after years of use. Google argues these systems could be revitalized by stripping out Windows or macOS and installing Chrome OS Flex, a lightweight operating system that can run on weaker hardware and remain stable for years due to its reliance on...

As we continue to expose malfeasance across virtually every level of public service in Illinois, the most recent lifting of mask mandates for a large number of students from the Temporary Restraining Order issued against Governor Pritzker, the Department of Public Health, and the State Board of Education has now created yet another misinformation campaign with total disregard for the truth and rule of law. The short version, Is if anyone tells you that you have to wear a mask on a school bus because it's federal law they should be ignored because it is not federal law. "In this...

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Japan on Monday to review a plan to release treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. Japan hoped the visit would help it push through the plan, which is opposed by the local fishing industry and neighboring countries. The wastewater has been kept in massive tanks since the plant went into meltdown in 2011, and storage space is running out. The IAEA team would evaluate the safety and radiation effects on humans and the sea.

While governors of multiple states are decreeing the end of assorted covid mandates regarding masks, vaccines, and travel, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that "now is no time to relax our vigilance. Requiring everyone to 'mask up,' and show their vaccine passports to travel or enter public buildings are mainstays of our effort to protect national security." "First, they serve as an early warning of trouble," the Secretary argued. "Anyone one who isn't wearing a mask is suspect. Anyone who doesn't immediately put on a mask when ordered to do so is doubly suspect. The same...

Watkins has over 50 years experience embalming people. Hirschman showed Watkins the clots more than four months ago. Watkins had never seen anything like it.Steve Kirsch17 hr ago 495348 This tweet pretty much summarizes everything you need to know about this article:OverviewCary Watkins has been embalming people for over 50 yearsI interviewed him in a short 5 minute phone interview available on RumbleWatkins confirms Hirschman’s story about unusual blood clots that only started happening after the vaccines rolled out. Hirschman showed him the clots 4 months ago. He’s never seen anything like these clots in his career either.Hirschman is seeing...

CNN senior political commentator and former Obama adviser David Axelrod on Tuesday cautioned President Joe Biden “not to oversell where we are as a country” during his upcoming State of the Union address. Axelrod acknowledged that Biden should note the “progresses that have been made” during his presidency but said he should show “empathy” given the “terrible trauma” the nation has gone through.

Steve Kirsch Check out this paper published in JAMA written by a bunch of CDC authors including my favorite CDC misinformer, Dr. John Su.It’s super popular. Over 500,000 views.Here’s the key paragraph:Furthermore, as a passive system, VAERS data are subject to reporting biases in that both underreporting and overreporting are possible.38 Given the high verification rate of reports of myocarditis to VAERS after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination, underreporting is more likely. Therefore, the actual rates of myocarditis per million doses of vaccine are likely higher than estimated.I agree. Underreporting is more likely. In fact, the term “overreporting” wasn’t even mentioned in...

A Naperville liquor commissioner tendered her resignation Friday after she was arrested on several charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol. Dana Davenport, 43, of the 1100 block of Olympus Drive, was pulled over by officers at 1:23 a.m. Friday near Washington Street and Martin Avenue, Naperville police Cmdr. Michaus Williams said. She was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to signal, disobeying a traffic control signal, improper lane usage and tampering with evidence/providing false information. Davenport could not be reached for comment. She was appointed to the Liquor Commission in January 2021; the term was...

Leaders of the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada have alleged that 'nefarious elements' are plotting to plant stolen guns on demonstrators in Ottawa in a bid to 'discredit' their movement, a day after Mounties seized 15 guns and arrested 11 people thousands of miles away in Alberta. Danny Bulford, the self-described head of security for the Freedom Convoy, made the allegation in a video address late Monday night, suggesting the plot is connected to a truck full of firearms that was stolen in Ontario on Sunday. 'We received information from multiple believed-reliable sources that firearms may be planted in Ottawa,...

Previous studies by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers showed that psychedelic treatment with psilocybin relieved major depressive disorder symptoms in adults for up to a month. Now, in a follow-up study of those participants, the researchers report that the substantial antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, given with supportive psychotherapy, may last at least a year for some patients. A report on the new study was published on Feb. 15, 2022 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. "Our findings add to evidence that, under carefully controlled conditions, this is a promising therapeutic approach that can lead to significant and durable improvements in depression,"...

Nearly 1,500 New York City municipal workers have been fired over their refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. That number represents less than 1% of the city's workforce, but it appears to be the country's largest workforce reduction linked to COVID vaccines. Under a mandate set by former Mayor Bill de Blasio, city employees on leave without pay and those who were newly hired had been told they had until Friday, Feb. 11., to show proof of vaccination or they would face termination. The workers on leave had to submit proof of their first dose and would then have 45...

On Tuesday, February 22, Asteroid (455176) 1999 VF22 will fly past Earth at around 2:54 am EST. This object is classified as "potentially hazardous" as it gets near our planet and is fairly large, but next week's flyby is perfectly safe. The space rock won’t get closer than 5,366,000 kilometers (3,334,000 miles) – that’s almost 14 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. NASA’s Small-Body Database gives an absolute magnitude for the object of 20.7, but without an albedo – the fraction of reflected light by the surface – it is very difficult to estimate its true size....

Hillary Clinton refused to answer questions about allegations that her allies spied on the Trump campaign as the controversy continued to engulf her Tuesday. Exclusive pictures and video obtained by DailyMail.com show a stoney faced Clinton silently waving away repeated questions of whether she spied on Donald Trump. She refused to say when or if she planned to comment. Clinton was arriving at her daughter Chelsea’s Manhattan apartment mid morning. Wearing a blue coat and black pants, she looked strained behind her black face mask as she stoically ran the gauntlet of questions. The former first lady and secretary of...

Virginia says the Duke of York sexually abused her on three occasions. Prince Andrew has settled a sexual abuse lawsuit brought by accuser Virginia Giuffre in Manhattan federal court, according to newly filed court papers. "We write jointly with counsel for defendant to advise the Court that the parties reached a settlement," Giuffre's attorney David Boies wrote in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday.

Sick and All AloneIt shouldn’t be needed, but it is. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has introduced a patient protection bill, so that ‘if you’re in a hospital or long-term care facility, you have a right to have your loved ones there present with you.’ Every other state and country will hopefully follow. Some places have even prevented the dying from dying in the company and warmth of loved ones.Reacting to the Governors bill, Brownstone scholar Dr. Jay Bhattacharya tweeted: “Perhaps the cruelest lockdown policy: preventing people from visiting their sick loved ones in hospitals or long-term care facilities”Many people commented...

A new preclinical study has demonstrated how an experimental drug can treat type 2 diabetes by increasing the expression of a recently discovered protein found to influence insulin signaling in cells. Across several mouse studies, the research shows the novel compound improved aspects of metabolic syndrome associated with diabetes. In the early 2000s, a protein dubbed SWELL1 was identified and it was initially thought to solely play a role in lymphocyte function. Around a decade later, researchers discovered SWELL1 also influences insulin signaling in many tissues across the body. Subsequent study revealed SWELL1 activity is vital for normal insulin secretion...