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A powerful Dutch banking executive signaled support for personal carbon wallets that would give citizens — and perhaps even a government regulator — the ability to track carbon emissions on a micro scale. Is this an early look at what the U.S. has in store if it doesn’t stop woke environmental, social and governance policies?

Democrats inched ahead of Republicans on FiveThirtyEight’s generic congressional ballot average on August 10 — less than four months from the midterm election night. FiveThirtyEight updated their generic congressional ballot average on Wednesday to show Democrats have a slight advantage over Republicans. The average showed generic Democrats with an average of 44.2 percent and generic Republicans with an average of 44 percent. The average from FiveThirtyEight looks at polls from Morning Consult, Rasmussen Reports, Ipsos, Data for Progress, and YouGov.

Prices charged by U.S. businesses were up 9.8 percent in July compared with a year ago, the smallest 12-month gain this year. The Department of Labor said Tuesday that its Producer Price Index for final demand fell 0.5 percent in July compared with a month earlier, largely because gasoline and oil prices fell. This was the first month-to-month decline in more than two years. Economists had expected an annual rise of 10.3 percent and a monthly increase of 0.3 percent. Last month, the Producer Price Index was up 11.3 percent compared with June of 2021 and 1.1 percent compared with...

Mulvaney speculated on CNN that likely only about 6-8 people would have information about Trump's safe. Former White House chief of staff for the Trump administration Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that he was not aware there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago. His comments followed the raid earlier this week of the former president's Florida home. On CNN's "New Day," Mulvaney said that only someone "really close" to Trump would have known there was a safe on the Florida estate. "I didn't even know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago, and I was the chief of staff for 15 months," he...

Many of our intellectual problems and difficult questions can be pleasantly and reassuringly stored here: "The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever." Deuteronomy 29:29 And . . . Regarding some questions the Lord Jesus said: "It is not for you to know." Acts 1:7 And . . . Not even the great Apostle Paul had all the answers: "Now I know in part" __Paul 1 Corinthians 13:12 We will get the answers to our difficult questions when we get home to Heaven. Meanwhile we wait patiently and...

Twitter is both reviving and improving its election misinformation strategy ahead of the 2022 US midterms. The social network has reactivated enforcement of its Civic Integrity Policy to prepare for the vote, and there are a handful of upgrades in store this year. To begin, it will avoid recommending misleading tweets through notifications — falsehoods might not spread as much as in the past. The company is considering this approach for "other surfaces," too. You should also see redesigned fact-check labels that are better at prompting people to read. Twitter first tested these labels in late 2021.Other efforts will be...

New York City Police Department Crime Stoppers has released a wild video in which a group of teenagers is seen opening fire at a 17-year-old victim in broad daylight.

"We have seen a lot of changes since the globalist left decided to release communist China’s Covid on us all in late 2019 as part of the ultimate power grab (not just in the USA but everywhere at the same time). Some people are still in denial that it has actually happened, so we’ve put together a quick method to prove it to those who either really don’t know or who simply pretend to not know that they are communists (or are supporting communism). If you think it is normal for the price of gasoline to rise from $1.68 right...

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author's opinion The highly suspicious FBI raid on President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, exposes some long-anticipated details about the country’s top law enforcement agency that show the FBI is a danger to freedom and liberty. Reports from Wednesday set the tone for exposing the FBI’s real motives for the raid on Trump, reminding readers about Trump’s declassification of a binder of documents on January 19th, 2021, which contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal and the Russia hoax. Two different DOJ Attorney Generals have defied President Trump’s...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison claims Florida’s new law preventing teacher discussions of gender ideology and sexuality with young children is “extreme” and “discriminatory” toward “LGBTQ+ students.” A Thursday press release from the attorney general’s office reported that Ellison and 16 other attorneys general around the United States have filed a joint amicus brief challenging Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, which has been derogatorily labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” law. The amicus brief supports the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Florida State Board of Education that claims the Parental Rights in Education law is “harmful” and “unconstitutional.” Florida’s...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) appeared to run away from a reporter’s question about her staff members’ involvement in changing state election law, as seen in a video released by Project Veritas. Project Veritas press secretary R.C. Maxwell questioned Murkowski outside of an Americans for Prosperity event after Project Veritas reportedly revealed that several of Murkowski’s former staffers pushed for Alaska’s Ballot Measure 2 to secure Murkowski’s reelection. In 2020, Alaska voters approved Ballot Measure 2 by a margin of roughly 4,000 votes. That ballot measure ended the two-party primary system for Alaskan elections. Now, Alaska will hold ranked choice voting,...

Handling your finances can be a tricky balancing between short-term needs and wants and long-term goals. After all, there’s much to take into account, ranging from this week’s groceries to your retirement fund. Unfortunately, you never know what unexpected events are right around the corner, waiting to cause you headaches and heartache. To ensure security for your future and the future of your family then, financial planning is critical to making educated choices regarding your money.

Multiple corporate media broadcasters advanced an identical narrative following the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, attempting to use guilt by association to tarnish criticism of the raid as conspiracy theorists calling for violence. Numerous media outlets, many of which were ABC affiliates, repeated a similar talking point following the raid, saying, “sources say there’s been a strong reaction to the raid on extremist and Q-Anon-related forums.” The outlets claimed that most of these “forums” were active before the January 6 Capitol riot and alleged there were calls for “violence” and “civil war” on them after...

Circumplanetary Disk Star AS 209 Scientists studying the young star AS 209 have detected gas in a circumplanetary disk for the first time, which suggests the star system may be harboring a very young Jupiter-mass planet. Science images from the research show (right) blob-like emissions of light coming from otherwise empty gaps in the highly-structured, seven-ring disk (left). Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bae (University of Florida) ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the first-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk. What’s...

Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement today at 2:30pm, the Justice Dept announces

Multiple myeloma is a kind of cancer that develops in a type of white blood cell known as a plasma cell. Stanford cancer team uses the custom molecule sBCMA-Fc V3 to inhibit the development of diffuse large B cell lymphoma and multiple myeloma in mice. Researchers at Stanford University have created “decoy receptor” molecules that prevent the development of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and multiple myeloma (MM) in mice. The molecules, which were recently described in a study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), were also found to be nontoxic in monkeys, indicating they could be...

Country music star John Rich reacted to the FBI raiding former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, proclaiming, “See you in November!”“A BIG thank you to Joe’s FBI for raiding Trump’s home! You guys just poured 81 million gallons of premium Patriot octane on an already blazing Freedom fire! See, you are good for something after all:) Much appreciated! See you in November!” Rich tweeted on Wednesday.A BIG thank you to Joe's FBI for raiding Trump's home! You guys just poured 81 million gallons of premium Patriot octane on an already blazing Freedom fire! See, you are good for something after...

Reports are coming in of an apparent break-in attempt at the FBI’s field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. The FBI’s Cincinnati office issued a statement on Twitter saying that at around 9:00 A.M. ET, “an armed subject attempted to breach” the office’s screening facility. “After an alarm and a response by FBI special agents, the subject fled north onto Interstate 71,” the rest of the statement reads. The suspect has not been named. Statements from the FBI field office and the Clinton County Emergency Management Agency describe an unfolding standoff in a rural area 50 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

A Florida man, completely naked and armed with a machete, ended up lying on his stomach and arrested after trying to steal another man's clothes Monday. Brandon Wright, 34, was allegedly picking palmetto berries in the woods in the town of DeLand, officials in Volusia County say. Wright suddenly wielded a large, machete-style knife and demanded that a nearby surveyor give him his clothes, wallet and phone, according to QFox13. The surveyor started to comply until Wright threw the machete and some of the berries he'd collected at him. Luckily, the sword hit the surveyor by the handle and bounced...

Yuval Noah Harari, historian, futurist, and World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser, said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population” in the early 21st century given modern technologies’ rendering human labor economically and militarily “redundant.” Harari’s remarks were made in an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published on Tuesday. He assessed widespread contemporary disillusionment among “common people” as being rooted in a fear of being “left behind” in a future run by “smart people.” Such fears are justified, he added, given his projection that emerging technologies will displace economic needs to many categories of existing...