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The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 meters in height, around nine times taller than that from the highly destructive 2011 Japan tsunami, new research has found. An international research team says the eruption should serve as a wake-up call for international groups looking to protect people from similar events in future, claiming that detection and monitoring systems for volcano-based tsunamis are '30 years behind' comparable tools used to detect earthquake-based events. Dr. Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Secretary-General of the International Tsunami Commission and a senior lecturer...

McDonald’s Chicken Big Mac was a huge hit in the United Kingdom. Now it’s crossing the pond. Beginning later this month, the burger chain is testing the fan favorite at select restaurants in Miami for a limited time. The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its meaty sibling, however it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties. Of course, it also includes the signature Big Mac sauce, pickles, shredded lettuce and a slice of American cheese. McDonald’s briefly sold the limited-time offering earlier this year in the UK. The Chicken Big Mac was so popular that it sold...

A shocking security video showed an Oklahoma woman in the backseat of a police cruiser slip out of her handcuffs, grab an officer's AR-15, and shoot at him and a bystander through a car window. The Grady County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma said police responded to an emergency call on August 12 at about 11:45 a.m. about a strange woman crawling around on the ground and barking at people. They placed 36-year-old Rachel Zion Clay into a deputy's patrol car where she was able to slip out of the handcuffs and reach the officer's AR-15 that was in a console...

The 2022 midterm elections are now 81 days away, and Republicans have a five-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, if the elections for Congress were held today, 46% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 41% would vote for the Democrat. Just four percent (4%) would vote for some other candidate, but another eight percent (8%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Stroll tweeted: Please oh please keep asking how you can turn down the temperature in the country. And why does he have two passports? The Russian passport, of course, is kept in a vault at Yasenevo and only swapped out at third country meets, so it can't be that one.

Republican Tiffany Smiley is closing in on Democrat incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), in Washington’s U.S. Senate Race, according to the most recent poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates. The poll found that Smiley is closing in on the Democrat with 43 percent of the vote, compared to Murray’s 49 percent of the vote. The McLaughlin & Associates poll also found that eight percent were undecided.

"Having lost time during their totally manufactured scamdemic in 2020 (yes Covid is real, no it isn’t deadly to approximately 99% of us, but it did stop people from dying of the flu), the WEF loving leftists are back to destroying Western civilization as quickly as possible as their hatred of same knows no end. Now that people are able to move around again they are taking full advantage to import more reliable left wing voting replacement citizen cheap labor. To be clear this is not a new phenomenon, this is merely the resumption of prior activities. And it isn’t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Frustrated that his congregation didn't buy him a luxury watch, a pastor in Missouri called them "poor, broke, busted and disgusted" during a recent sermon. According to The Washington Post and NBC News, a video clip of the Aug. 7 sermon posted on TikTok showed Rev. Carlton Funderburke of the Church at the Well in Kansas City telling his congregation he was upset they weren't "honoring" him with a Movado watch. “That’s how I know you still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me,” Funderburke said in the video, according to...

I recently posted a deeply referenced compilation of evidence detailing the historic humanitarian catastrophe that has slowly unfolded within most advanced health economies across the world. Caused by a global mass vaccination campaign led by the Pharma masters of BMGF/WHO/CDC that illogically (but profitably) targeted a rapidly mutating coronavirus. They did it with what turned out to be the most toxic protein used therapeutically in the history of medicine. In vials mixed with lipid nano-particles, polyethylene glycol and who knows what else.I cited studies and reports showing massive increases in cardiovascular deaths and neurologic (and other) disabilities amongst working age...

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. "And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called...

This week, in an unusual move rarely witnessed in Washington, D.C., Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky ordered an overhaul of the "health" agency's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite insisting that national elections include mail-in voting, Starbucks is cracking down on its employees’ mail-in unionization efforts. Efforts to organize have dominated Starbucks’ internal dialogues throughout the last two years, even before the Elmwood store in Buffalo, New York, was the first to successfully unionize in 2021. Since then, more than 200 stores are now members of Starbucks Workers United, with more than 300 more headed to a vote. More than 10,000 Starbucks employees (partners) have signed the new union pledge. For a company as progressive as Starbucks, one might assume unionization would be welcome. Founder Howard Schultz himself...

I created a new chart that lists 22 women from the Scriptures. There are more than 22 women I could cover, but I took the 22 most influential ones. Now, we all know who these women are, and their stories. From Eve to Mary, these women have had as great an impact on mankind as the men. Three, or maybe 4, are not known for their love of the One true GOD, while the others are remembered for their strength and courage in the face of adversity. From Eve falling for Satan's lie, Dinah's indiscretion of going to town without...

The New York Times announced Thursday that it has hired Buzzfeed News’s Ken Bensinger to “pioneer a new beat” covering right-wing media — the same Ken Bensinger, the Times omits in its announcement, who first reported the Steele Dossier. New York Times Politics Editor David Halbfinger declared in a splashy release that Bensinger would join the “democracy team” on the Politics Desk, covering right-wing media as his full-time beat. The statement provides an exhaustive list of topics and stories Bensinger has covered — from campaign finance, to “political disinformation,” to the Oath Keepers’ finances. Curiously absent, however, is any mention...

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A man accused of punching out a stranger on a Bronx street was taken back into custody on Friday for breaking the terms of his lifetime parole at Gov. Kathy Hochul's nudge after he was previously released without bail. Bui Van Phu, 55, was arrested after state officials contacted the Bronx District Attorney's Office to "talk about the actual charges that were filed" and "make sure that our laws are being properly executed," Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Friday, the New York Post reported. "I took action in my own hands," Hochul said during an unrelated news conference on Long...

During the 19th century, Catholics found themselves settled and growing in numbers in the United States, a great Protestant country that was relatively tolerant and hospitable toward Catholics. This, even though the American people generally felt that the Roman religion adhered to by these Catholics was a false and corrupt version of Christianity. The leaders of the Catholic Church in America – its bishops, priests, and religious sisters – were well aware of the great danger that Catholics, an island surrounded by a vast sea of Protestantism, might fall away from the true faith and either: (a) embrace the Protestant...

Explanation: Saturn is the most distant planet of the Solar System easily visible to the unaided eye. With this extraordinary, long-term astro-imaging project begun in 1993, you can follow the ringed gas giant for one Saturn year as it wanders once around the ecliptic plane, finishing a single orbit around the Sun by 2022. Constructed from individual images made over 29 Earth years, the split panorama is centered along the ecliptic and crossed by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Saturn's position in 1993 is at the right side, upper panel in the constellation Capricornus and progresses toward the...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being criticized by some in his country after he said in an interview this week that he held back details of the United States' warnings about Russia's impending invasion because he feared people would flee the country and its economy would collapse."Honestly, my hair stood on end when I read what [Zelenskyy] said about evacuation," journalist Bogdan Butkevich wrote on his Facebook page, reports The Washington Post. "How can a person who has Mariupol, Bucha, and Kherson on his conscience say that an evacuation would have overwhelmed the country? He didn't want to put the...

The program is called the ‘Known Traveller Digital Identity,” and it’s not a theory! It’s here! Known Traveler Digital IdentityHere are the major partners of the KTDI program: WEF, Canada, Netherlands, etc… As part of the project, Canada has developped the ArriveCAN app. According to their website: “You must use ArriveCAN to provide mandatory travel and public health information before and after your entry into Canada. ArriveCAN is not only keeping travellers safe, but is part of our ongoing efforts to modernize cross-border travel.” In other words, this app is ‘mandatory’ (not for Canadian citizens, and you can refuse using...