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When was the last time you were stuck in an elevator due to a power blackout? Or patients at your local hospital were put at risk for the same reason? These are very common occurrences in the energy impoverished Third World. And they could become a reality for many in the West if deluded leaders there continue down the path of “green-energy” decarbonization. A rare inconvenience usually associated with bad weather in the West, power blackouts are everyday events in the East. In my southern India hometown, I recently had to climb the stairs of a multi-story apartment not once...

Norway’s easternmost Arctic community of Vardø has long been home to surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations so important to NATO, especially now during its ongoing conflict with Russia. Vardø, like other areas of Northern Norway, has grown used to the presence of hush-hush facilities and their personnel amongst them, but now a local conflict has arisen over wind power. Such conflicts are nothing new. While the vast majority of Norwegians are in favour of more investment in renewable energy, as opposed to oil, few want towering turbines in their own backyard. That’s what seems to set Vardø apart: Residents long used...

It’s hard not to discuss the state of roads and bridges in the United States after we heard of last month’s collapse of a bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It is sad and ironic that on the same day the bridge collapsed, resident Joe Biden traveled to Pittsburgh to tout the implementation of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which only allocates $110 billion (9.17 percent) for what would be considered traditional infrastructure, U.S. roads, bridges and related projects.The Wall Street Journal recently estimated 43,000 bridges in the United States are in need of repair at an estimated cost well above the $40...

Five people were stabbed in separate incidents in New York City subway stations this weekend since officials on Friday vowed to combat crime and address homelessness in the city's transit system as part of a new public safety initiative, according to the New York Police Department. No arrests have been made in connection to any of the incidents, and all five victims are in stable condition, a NYPD spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.

Ambassadors usually do not have to announce they are against suicide bombers. But for one Biden nominee, it turned out to be necessary. In 2006, Amy Gutmann was the president of the University of Pennsylvania. During a Halloween party in her home, she posed for a photo with a student who was dressed as a terrorist. The picture resurfaced after Gutmann was approved by the Senate on Feb. 8 to be President Joe Biden’s ambassador to Germany. According to a Jerusalem Post article from 2006, Gutmann only issued an apology after days of growing controversy over the costume worn by...

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The left has been speaking up lately about protecting our “democracy,” which seems unusual since usually they never talk proudly about the U.S., they just bash it and talk about moving to some whiter country instead. They almost sound patriotic. But nope, it’s just smoke and mirrors, which both allosw them to fool people into thinking the left cares about the country and to sneak in their radical agenda. Despite the fact the Founding Fathers were genius enough to create a Constitution that has lasted almost 250 years, arguably the longest in the world today providing the freest country, the...

here is a theory kicking around dissident politics that says journalism is best seen as an activity, rather than a profession. It is a form of activism that uses information, real and manufactured, to promote various agendas and ideologies. Contrary to what the media companies used to say, they are not neutral observers speaking truth to power, but power centers promoting agendas that serve their interests. One key point in this argument is that journalists themselves no longer bother pretending they are neutral. The Washington Post still has that silly line “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on its masthead, but it...

Five people dead, baby found alive at suspected drug party in Colorado Five people were discovered dead inside a Colorado apartment — where a four-month-old baby was also found alive — after what police are investigating as a possible drug-fueled party that turned fatal. The bodies of three women and two men were discovered inside a unit at The North Range Crossings Apartments on East 104th Avenue, Commerce City police Chief Clint Nichols said, the Denver Post reported. Another adult and an infant were found alive, he added. A substance that “could be described as illicit narcotics” was found in...

~In Ottawa, the Totalitarian Mammy-Singer continues his trashing of Canadian norms and institutions. During Friday afternoon's Clubland Q&A, we heard that our colleague and sometime guest-host Andrew Lawton had been pepper-sprayed by the shameful Ottawa coppers. He had to go to emergency, and was eventually discharged from hospital just before dawn on Saturday. Andrew being Andrew, he got straight back to work reporting what was happening on the streets around Parliament - and promptly caught a second hit from the peelers. He is now boasting that he has strong "natural immunity" to pepper. It isn't really funny, though, is it?...

West Palm Beach, FL – A home intruder was fatally shot early on Saturday morning when he broke into the wrong house and woke up a couple who was armed. The incident occurred at about 4:16 a.m. on Feb. 12 in the 500-block of Avon Road in West Palm Beach, WPBF reported. Police said that a 40-year-old man broke into a home through a window into the master bedroom where the homeowners were sleeping, FOX News reported. Once he was inside the bedroom, the suspect turned on a bedroom light which woke up the sleeping couple, WPTV reported. Police said...

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.

Throughout the pandemic, the CDC has diligently maintained a running tally of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for the public to view – you know, all of the numbers that make up the majority of virus fear porn.But that information amounts to just a fraction of the data that has been collected by the agency.According to a new report by the New York Times, the CDC has also been collecting much more detailed data about Covid infections that breaks down by age, race, and vaccination status. The critical information would go a long way towards figuring out an end to...

Currently, Sacramento County has 37 portable toilets available for an estimated 10,000 homeless people. That’s about 270 people per port-a-potty. They could be removed in June when funding for their upkeep runs out, said county spokeswoman Kim Nava. The county’s portable toilet program is fairly new. It dates to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when officials put out 50 port-a-potties near homeless camps. Thirteen have been removed since then. The county also put out 50 water stations, but has so far removed 21. Some of the toilets and water stations were damaged or went missing, and the county did...

capital punishment is an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct. This function may be unappealing to many, but it is essential in an ordered society that asks its citizens to rely on legal processes rather than self-help to vindicate their wrongs..."

Cathie Wood said investors are making a mistake by piling into index funds. Companies that have prospered in the past are often ripe for disruption, the Ark Invest boss said. The tech-stock guru said it's riskier to own benchmarks than Ark's funds. Cathie Wood said risk-averse investors and fund managers are putting money in companies and benchmarks based on past successes, instead of betting on innovative companies. "We have, I think, one of the most massive misallocations of capital in the history of mankind. You have investors investing in the past," the CEO and CIO of Ark Invest said in...

<p>An Oklahoma Democratic congressional candidate is under fire for allegedly verbally attacking several pre-teen girls while at the home of a friend who was hosting a sleepover with multiple middle school girls present.</p><p>Abby Broyles, a candidate for Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, went to the friend’s house on Feb. 11 and became more and more aggressive as she continued to drink wine throughout the night, according to NonDoc.com.</p>

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