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Cutting down on "wasteful" car ownership will help to avert a "climate apocalypse," says the WEF Washington Moves Forward with Plan to Ban Non-Electric Cars by 2030 The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling for an end to private car ownership. A recently published paper calls for an end to “wasteful” private vehicle ownership in favor of public transportation and communal cars. “The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,” the WEF paper states. It then calls on car owners to sell their vehicle because, “Car sharing platforms such as Getaround and BlueSG have...

Join RSBN as we cover LIVE the America First Policy Institute Annual Policy Summit 2022 from Washington D.C. Watch has many notable speakers and politicians in a powerhouse lineup to discuss America First Policies. Featuring: Newt Gingrich, Kellyanne Conway, Lou Holtz, Dr. Alveda King, and many more! Coverages begins on July 26th, 2022 at 7:30 AM ET. The Conference will end with a Speech by President Donald Trump the evening of Tuesday 7/26/22 . Click on link provided.

Five months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there remains a startling lack of understanding by many Western policymakers and commentators of the economic dimensions of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and what it has meant for Russia’s economic positioning both domestically and globally. Far from being ineffective or disappointing, as many have argued, international sanctions and voluntary business retreats have exerted a devastating effect over Russia’s economy. The deteriorating economy has served as a powerful if underappreciated complement to the deteriorating political landscape facing Putin.

Florida rapper Rollie Bands took great exception to people criticizing his beats. In fact, he took to Instagram on Friday, inviting the naysayers to confront him at his Tampa Bay-area apartment complex. Minutes after posting his challenge on the social media site, he was shot dead. According to HipHopDX, Bands wrote on his Instagram story: “A lot of these n*****s know where I live at fr. I sleep in peace. If a n***a want smoke I’m at my crib in 5 minutes.” And five minutes after the posting, Bands was shot once in the parking lot of his apartment building....

The White House is working on naming a monkeypox coordinator as they prepare for the possibility of more cases emerging within the United States.

It’s one of the worst betrayals conservatives have ever suffered at the hands of the Republican Party.On Tuesday, the House passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act with a stunning 47 Republican votes and the blessing of GOP House leaders, and the bill is now rapidly gaining traction with Republicans in the Senate, shocking even Democrats and the liberal media. The Respect for Marriage Act would enshrine same-sex “marriage” into federal law, override duly enacted laws and constitutional amendments in 35 states, require the federal government to recognize polygamy or any other redefinition of marriage that a state may come...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard have been listed by Ukraine among a number of American politicians, academics and activists Kyiv claims have promoted “Russian propaganda.”The list was compiled by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, founded in 2021 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to study the impact of Russian disinformation. The center is part of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.The list—which also includes retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, military strategist Edward Luttwak, political scientist John Mearsheimer and journalist Glenn Greenwald—does not explain what the consequences are for those who Ukraine clearly considers responsible...

President Biden warned oil companies last week that if they don’t do more to help address rising prices, he will revoke their drilling permits on federal lands. While touting that gas prices have fallen to below $4 at 30,000 gas stations across 35 states, he said more needs to be done. "First, we’re going to look at ways to increase oil production from the existing wells and permits that exist today," he said. "The industry has more approved permits for production on federal lands than they can possibly use. That’s a fact. Let me say it again: They have more...

The murder investigation included records of Italian social clubs, draft cards, and Ellis Island immigration logs. For decades, it seemed that Lindy Sue Biechler’s killer would never be found. The 19-year-old newlywed’s stabbing death in her Lancaster County apartment in 1975 had stunned her community and shattered her family. As years passed, police kept working the case, slowly eliminating suspects as technology improved. Detectives on the scene had managed to save a sample of the killer’s DNA. But for decades it had no match in DNA databases of convicted criminals. That’s when CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist at Parabon Nanolabs,...

<p>Buckle in, Arizona. The Legislature is about to take a turn to the right.</p><p>If that’s even possible.</p>

2022 U.S. Map & Case Count Updated July 25, 2022 Print Total confirmed monkeypox/orthopoxvirus cases: 3,487 *One Florida case is listed here but included in the United Kingdom case counts because the individual was tested while in the UK. Case Count by State of Residence Case Count by State: Alabama 5 Arizona 35 Arkansas 4 California 356 Colorado 53 Connecticut 22 Delaware 3 District Of Columbia 139 Florida 273 Georgia 268 Hawaii 10 Idaho 2 Illinois 344 Indiana 33 Iowa 7 Kansas 2 Kentucky 4 Louisiana 25 Maryland 87 Massachusetts 82 Michigan 24 Minnesota 20 Mississippi 1 Missouri 8 Nebraska...

A New York state law, signed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is preventing the public release of the booking photo for a man accused of attempting to stab Rep. Lee Zeldin. In 2019, Cuomo sought to ban the public release of all booking photos, arrest records, names, and charges for suspects accused of crimes. The state’s Democrat-controlled legislature moved forward with a similar plan that prevents local and state police from releasing a suspect’s booking photo to the public unless it serves a law enforcement purpose. The law, which Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has never objected to, is now helping...

The CDC is investigating the first two cases of monkeypox that have been identified in children in the US. One case is a toddler who is a resident of California. The other is an infant who is not a US resident. Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid response coordinator, said the Biden administration is considering declaring monkeypox a public health emergency that will help unlock federal financial assistance in response to the outbreak. This comes after the WHO declared monkeypox a global health emergency on Saturday, as well as pressure from Congress and the first confirmed cases of monkeypox...

School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a lesson from student activists in the 1960s, the climate justice movement’s youth will shut down business as usual. Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we’ve learned already makes it clear that, without a dramatic break from this system, we cannot ensure a livable planet for our presents and futures. Why occupy? Because we’ve marched. We’ve launched petitions. We’ve written open letters. We’ve had meetings with governments,...

A veteran Communist Party of Britain member has been appointed chair of a World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) lead advisory group. Professor Susan Michie, director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, will head the W.H.O.’s Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. The Times reports the UCL academic, who is a frequent contributor on the BBC and ITV, has been a member of the Communist Party of Britain for more than 40 years. Michie was propelled to public attention in 2021 when she said wearing masks and social distancing should continue for the “long...

Hulu, the Disney-backed streaming service, will not run political ads related to abortion, guns, and the Jan. 6 riot, all of which are crucial to Democrats’ midterm election messaging. Party leaders are, as The Washington Post reported, irate. Unlike television networks, Hulu is not limited by the 1934 Communications Act, which demands that broadcast networks give politicians the same level of access to airwaves. “Hulu’s censorship of the truth is outrageous, offensive, and another step down a dangerous path for our country,” executive directors of three Democratic committees said in a statement.

ENTEBBE, Uganda. July 26 (Interfax) - Moscow has never refused to negotiate with Kyiv, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "We have never refused to negotiate, because, as everyone is well aware, any fighting ultimately ends at the negotiating table," Lavrov said at a press conference in Uganda's capital Entebbe on Tuesday. "The United States, the United Kingdom, and a number of European countries have forbidden the Ukrainians from reaching an agreement" with Russia based on the proposals that were discussed in Istanbul, he said.

Law enforcement officials with the Orlando Police Department evacuated a parking garage at the Universal Orlando CityWalk late Saturday due to what they said was a fight involving “several juveniles.”

Taiwan’s “Han Kuang Exercise” is a yearly exercise to prepare for a possible Chinese invasion by the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China. The annual military exercise is carried out by the Republic of China Armed Forces in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu. Taiwan’s Ministry of Defence shared an official video of the second day of the Han Kuang Exercise.

The news breaks after the first lady experienced a series of embarrassing incidents in her official position. On July 12, LaRosa had to apologize for the first lady’s embarrassing speech to the Latino community, after she compared them to breakfast tacos. On July 16, Jill Biden complained she and the president had to deal with multiple crises since taking office, instead of focusing on their planned agenda items. “He had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment,” she said. On July...