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LAUREL, MS—Inspired by the fight for medical freedom in Canada, local retiree Dale O'Reilly decided to donate to the Trucker Convoy. But in order to keep from getting doxxed by the Washington Post, he very wisely entered his name as "Hunter Biden." Smart! "I and the missus like to give money to worthy causes, but we don't want those no-good Antifa thugs showing up in our front yard," said O'Reilly. "Or worse—what if someone called my shuffleboard league and got me kicked out for donating to the truckers? Can't have that!" According to experts, pretending to be Hunter Biden is...

A woman became the third person ever to be cured of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, after she received a stem-cell transplant that used cells from umbilical cord blood, scientists reported Tuesday (Feb. 15). The two other people cured of HIV, Timothy Brown and Adam Castillejo, both received bone marrow transplants from donors who carried a genetic mutation that blocks HIV infection, Live Science previously reported. These transplants contained adult hematopoietic stem cells, which are stem cells that develop into all types of blood cells, including white blood cells, a key component of the immune system. This genetic mutation...

"It will obsolesce all existing launch systems".Elon Musk recently provided the first big update on SpaceX's Mars-bound rocket, Starship, and its competitors are watching on with "a mix of awe and horror", according to a report from Politico.At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk highlighted the fact that Starship will be reusable over and over again at a fraction of the cost of previous rockets. It's a development that threatens to leave NASA and other competitors in its wake as it launches to the proverbial stratosphere...While it has long been known that Starship would be reusable, the advanced capabilities...

Angered by mounting parking ticket fines, a Chicago man repeatedly went to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home over the past month while armed and then fired shots from his truck about a mile from her residence on Wednesday morning, according to prosecutors and police records. Lightfoot “became alarmed and distraught” when she learned of the man’s repeated visits to her home on Monday, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said. Joseph Igartua, 37, was ordered held without bail on felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and stalking by Judge Maryam Ahmad. Igartua drove to Lightfoot’s home last Saturday and walked...

BUFFALO, NY. — As the Earth continues to warm, some of the coldest places in the country could become a more desirable place for people to live. Scientists expect more and more people to move out of warmer places, leave the coasts and flock to cities that are seeing less severe impacts from climate change. Those places are being called "climate havens." “There's no place that's safe from climate change,” said University at Buffalo professor, Nick Rajkovich. However, there are places across America that will be safer, and less impacted by the extreme consequences of a changing climate. “People will...

You may be able to get a side of nostalgia with your next Taco Bell order. The chain announced Thursday that it has again teamed up with Klondike to serve the iconic Choco Taco ice cream treat on its dessert menu after a seven-year absence. The ice cream truck favorite is available as part of a test rollout at just 20 T-Bell locations in Los Angeles and Milwaukee, starting February 17, but only for a little while. When reached by Thrillist, spokesperson the chain wouldn't reveal plans to add the Choco Taco to the nationwide menu but hinted that it's...

[Catholic Caucus] Is This the End? Francis’ Vatican Promotes SuicideJesuit Father Carlo Casalone, professor for immoral theology at the Gregorian University, urges the Church in LaCiviltaCattolica.it (January 15) to support an [immoral] assisted suicide legislation (“consensual homicide”) in Italy.Marie-José Thiel, professor for immoral theology in Strasbourg, France, explained in the oligarchs’ LeMonde.fr (January 31) that Casalone could not have taken this position “without the approval of the Holy See.”She also believes assisted suicide should be allowed “to avoid a worse evil” like assisted suicide on request. Thiel seems to be the only one not realising that this will precisely be...

What the Hell happened to this guy? A former "special forces" commando ... Really? Pictures can say a lot! (I only include the tweet for conversation sake.)

Scientists say that a rapid drop in emissions because of Covid played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020. The decline in greenhouse gases and small particles called aerosols caused atmospheric changes that intensified the downpours. Many parts of eastern China experienced severe flooding in June and July in 2020. The researchers say the reductions in emissions contributed about one third of the extreme summer rain. A number of scientific studies have looked at what caused the flooding events, some pointing to the extreme conditions in the Indian Ocean. Now an international team has put forward a...

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will now consider how pipelines and related natural gas projects affect climate change and environmental justice communities, the commission ruled in a 3-to-2 vote on Thursday. The ruling marks the first time that FERC, an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, oil, and natural gas, has updated its policy for reviewing gas projects since 1999. Environmental advocates hailed the move, saying it will provide a crucial new avenue for blocking new fossil fuel infrastructure and staving off the worst effects of the climate crisis. But conservatives and industry groups slammed the decision,...

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2022 Setting the Stage for the Ultimate Tyranny – Jan Markel Rumble Video My friends, if you follow current events in light of the EXPONENTIAL growth and implementations of the technological mediums of godless and lawless men, then you will have to see that all things globally and nationally are moving very very rapidly to the Day of the Lord and to the mark of the Beast- Rev. 13. Jan's intererview with Leo is beyond sobering and should cause us all to be redeeming the time for Jesus and looking for His soon coming for His Bride!...

Sofía Jirau is making history in the modeling world. The 25-year-old woman from Puerto Rico is one of the newest models for Victoria's Secret — and is the first model in the company's history to have Down syndrome.

The House of Commons and Senate will not meet to debate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act on Friday due to expected "police operations" in response to the freedom convoy. The presence of the truckers' freedom convoy in Ottawa was the reason Trudeau engage the Act in the first place. A letter from Speaker Anthony Rota announced the cancellation. The House of Commons "will not sit today," he wrote. "A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa. Given these exceptional circumstances, and following discussion with all recognized party leadership, the sitting today is cancelled."

The violent crime plaguing the Democrat-controlled Black communities is nothing new. For over two hundred years, violence has been a mechanism of control wielded against Black Americans by Democrat party leadership. It is a historical fact that the Democrat party was the party of slavery, secession, segregation, and now socialism. And whether it was the whip, the branding iron, rape, castration, or murder, they have always applied violence as the primary tool to compel Black obedience. But it is put into maximum overdrive whenever White Democrat leadership feel that their Blacks are getting a little too uppity. From the fifty...

… Military vehicles, along with the forces that use them and the industries that supply them, represent a huge climate problem, accounting for 5% of the world’s carbon emissions every year. And there’s no bigger actor in that space than the U.S. military, which sucks up more petroleum than any other institution on earth to fly jets, heat buildings, and ferry food and supplies to 750 bases spread across the world. That might be changing, though. The Department of Defense (DOD) has embarked on a decarbonization push in recent months, claiming to be in the process of building a greener...

RCMP are investigating what is being described as a “organized violent attack” on pipeline workers, police and equipment at a Coastal GasLink drilling site near the Morice River in northern British Columbia.Mounties were called for reports that 20 masked people, some of them wielding axes, had attacked security guards at the work site near Houston, B.C., shortly after midnight Thursday, smashing the windows of their vehicle. (snip) The site of Thursday’s attack is in an area that has been a flashpoint for past blockades and protests by opponents of the pipeline, including supporters of the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en...

Teen TikTok star reveals how father fatally shot armed stalker at Florida home A Florida teenager gained a legion of fans by posting fun videos on TikTok — but the hobby quickly turned into a nightmare when a stalker showed up at her family’s home in 2020 and fired a shotgun through their front door. Ava Majury created a TikTok account in 2020 when she was 13 and within a year attracted more than a million followers by sharing videos of herself dancing and lip-synching to trendy music. During the early part of the pandemic, the teen noticed she kept...

Democrats in Congress have proposed a plan that would declare an unconditional "war" on "racism," and fund it with $70 billion for a new, Cabinet-level "Department of Reconciliation." The National Pulse has posted online an image of the proposed resolution that is being supported by a couple dozen Democrats already. A summary explains the plan is to be "declaring unconditional war on racism and invidious discrimination and providing for the establish of a Cabinet-level Department of Reconciliation charged with eliminating racism and invidious discrimination." The plan likens itself to President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty," a move that over the...

Just delivering Javelin anti tank missiles from Estonia to our Ukraine friends.