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If resident Joe Biden joins Democratic governors from around the nation in backing off COVID restrictions at his first State of the Union address next week, we have found the scientific study that informed this completely objective and not in any way politically motivated decision. Impact Research, a Democratic polling firm, published a memo yesterday calling on Democrats to “declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting normal.” “Twice as many voters are now more concerned about COVID’s effect on the economy (49%) than about someone in their family or someone they know becoming infected...

MBS discusses Ukraine crisis' energy impact in call with France's MacronSaudi Arabia keen to maintain stable, balanced oil market, MBS saysOPEC ministers have said no need to accelerate production increasesSaudi Arabia remains committed to OPEC+ agreement, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told French President Emmanuel Macron Feb. 27, in an endorsement for the bloc's alliance with Russia amid that nation's invasion of Ukraine.In the call, the two leaders discussed the Ukraine crisis and its impact on energy markets, according to a report carried by the official Saudi Press Agency."In this regard, his highness the crown prince affirmed the kingdom's keenness...

California’s African Americans are dying from COVID at a higher rate now. And they make up a disproportionate and growing share of the death toll for middle-aged Californians.

[Catholic Caucus] German archbishop says female deacons, ‘married priests’ needed to help solve ‘error’ in the ChurchArchbishop Ludwig Schick echoed comments made recently by Cardinal Marx and Germany's Synodal Path, calling for female ordination despite Church teaching prohibiting it. BAMBERG, Germany (LifeSiteNews) — Yet another German prelate has called for “married priests” and female deacons, echoing outspoken Cardinal Marx and other German prelates as Germany’s Synodal Path continues its divergence from Church teaching.In a guest article for daily newspaper “Fuldaer Zeitung,” Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg advocated for fundamental changes to Catholic teaching on the priesthood, arguing for ordaining “viri...

Ukraine and Russia have mutually agreed to meet for talks held at a location on Belarus’ border in an attempt to end Moscow’s invasion as Russian troops continue to attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to send a delegation to meet with Russian negotiators during a phone call Sunday with Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's president's office announced. The two sides have agreed to meet on Monday at the Pripyat river on the border, north of Chernobyl, the spokesperson said, an area that is currently under Russian military control. The Russian delegation includes officials from Russia's...

Condensed Matter Nuclear Reactions in Nano-Materials ARPA-E Workshop on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions October 21-22, 2021 With additional backup slides that weren’t presented at the Workshop. Workshop presenters with additional details are in “[…]”. Lawrence P. Forsley CTO, GEC Deputy PI, NASA Lattice Confinement Fusion Project Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory lawrence.p.forsley@nasa.gov Co-PI, Naval Surface Warfare Centers --------------------------------------------------------- Have We Found the Keys to the Kingdom? • Pd used as a hydrogen gas separator/purifier. [Benyo] • Has a unique electronic structure: 4d10 <> 4d95s1 : paramagnetic and ferromagnetic states • Pd will load H/D, e.g. PdDx...

Attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Miami would support former President Donald Trump should he make another run at the White House in 2024 and believe the Democrats would run 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton instead of President Joe Biden. The CPAC straw poll announced Sunday afternoon found that 59 percent of respondents would back Trump in a hypothetical 2024 Republican primary, an increase over his 55 percent support from a year ago at the CPAC in Orlando but a decline from his 70 percent standing from the July CPAC in Dallas. The former president has repeatedly floated...

A trained primary school teacher said that copying mistakes in the Bayeux Tapestry is going to 'turn her hair grey', almost six years into a project to stitch a full-size replica of the medieval original. Mia Hansson said she passed the halfway mark in January this year, having crafted 34.2 metres (112 feet) of the 68.38 metre (224 feet) artwork. The 47-year-old works on the tapestry - which tells the story of the Norman Conquest in 1066 - 'curled up on my sofa' at home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and can spend up to 10 hours per day on it. 'If...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ PFC Monica Brown . Refusing to leave her fallen comrades, PFC Monica Brown distinguished herself by acts of conspicuous gallantry and courage under fire, becoming the second woman since WWII to earn the Silver Star, one of the nation's highest awards for valor. SPC Brown displayed great courage in treating two wounded Soldiers while under intense...

Here’s a very interesting and in-depth report on the Russia Ukraine situation. https://youtu.be/If61baWF4GE

During an appearance on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) blamed “weakness” on display from the Biden administration for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advance on Ukraine. The Wisconsin Republican also referred to the first Trump impeachment, which he said weakened the United States on the Ukraine issue in the eyes of Putin.

Explanation: "Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow is that pretty!" Soon after that pronouncement, about 53 years ago, one of the most famous images ever taken was snapped from the orbit of the Moon. Now known as "Earthrise", the iconic image shows the Earth rising above the limb of the Moon, as taken by the crew of Apollo 8. But the well-known Earthrise image was actually the second image taken of the Earth rising above the lunar limb -- it was just the first in color. With modern digital technology, however,...

(Yegor Zhukov, Age 21) The change of power in Russia will be very similar to my arrest. On the night of Aug. 2, when the longest day of my life finally ended and I laid down on a hard bunk bed in an isolation cell of a detention center, the similarity of these two events suddenly became clear to me. And while my cellmates slept — one young and one middle-aged man who were facing prison terms for armed robbery — my tired and screaming brain continued to draw parallels…. However repressive the ruling regime is, however widespread lawlessness becomes,...

@thehill @MittRomney: "President Trump slow-walking the provision of weapons to Ukraine was an enormous error and so was the error I think of our nation over some decades, not giving the kind of military defensive capability that Ukraine needed." Clip...

Ukrainian forces continue to fend off Russian troops as fighting persists Sunday, prompting apparent frustration from Russian President Vladimir Putin and questions regarding strategic miscalculations. Russia’s military is roughly 4.5 times larger than Ukraine’s active-duty force, but Ukrainians continue to hold the capital city of Kyiv as Russian troops encircle it. "The longer this goes on the worse it is for Vladimir Putin," former CIA Moscow station chief Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital. "There's got to be some questions about miscalculations."

@JohnStossel The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from"hate groups." But it's a scam... a money grabbing slander machine: 5 Minute Video ...

Last month (January, 2022) we published an article about the yet-to-be-approved by the FDA COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax, a company that in 2020 received $1.6 BILLION from Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which created instant billionaires even though the company to date has yet to produce a single product licensed for use in the U.S. Right Wing publications such as Gateway Pundit promoted the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine as a “Pro-Life” vaccine for Christians, and the Pro-Life Christian publication Lifesite News interviewed Dr. Peter McCullough who has also endorsed the vaccine. See:Novavax: Soon to be FDA-Authorized COVID-19 Vaccine for the “Christian...

The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account. The Checehn Republic, a Muslim-majority federal subject of the Russian Federation headed by Islamist strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is reported to have sent forces to Ukraine to support President Vladimir Patin’s ongoing invasion of the country, with Kadyrov sharing video footage which purports to show Chehen fighters replacing the Ukrainian flag with a Russian flag at a captured military facility. Kadyrov has boasted he could amass a 70,000-strong force to send to...

Leave it to Joe Biden to get the world in a nuclear war. Seriously, this buffoon destroys everything he gets his shaky gray hands on and now, things are getting very uncomfortable with the Russia situation. Joe Biden could’ve stopped this mess a long time ago, but he paved the way for Russia to be an aggressor by being a dementia patient, and also with his actions and inaction leading up to Russia invading Ukraine. And now, his “tough guy” rhetoric is just poking the bear. He’s writing a check his old wrinkly butt can’t cash. Now, Russia is feeling...

<p>Leading Republicans spent much of three days avoiding Donald Trump’s chief grievances or ignoring him altogether as they unified behind a midterm message designed to win back the voters the polarizing former president alienated while in office.</p><p>That changed Saturday night.</p>