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New York, along with other states, is moving forward with massive wind turbine projects. The push for "9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy" comes at a high price, not only for families who are left dependent on expensive and unreliable energy, but for the planet. Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose "teeth began to fall out"...

Scientists believe that the damage to boats is being done by just a few juvenile males

Big wonder today.

The climate hysteria movement is replete with predictions of utter doom for various ecosystems on Earth owing to the scourge of man-made global warming, which has been re-branded “climate change.” But a new study shows that one of those ecosystems — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — seems to be doing just fine despite dire warnings of its imminent demise. For several years, climate alarmists have been claiming that the Great Barrier Reef, along with all the coral reef systems on the planet, is essentially doomed because of climate change. The predictions have been apocalyptic for the reef. A 2020 story...

Mark Steyn, host of The Mark Steyn Show on GB News, ranted about Alberta's new leading cause of death — those of ill-defined and unknown causes.The Canadian-born radio and television presenter and author began hosting his show on the British news channel in 2021.

Actor Alec Baldwin took a swipe at former President Donald Trump during a conversation about last year’s shooting on the set of his movie. During an interview with CNN, Baldwin said, “The former president of the United States said [I] probably shot her on purpose. To me, that was the only time I was worried about what was going to happen,” as Variety reported. He added, “Here was Trump, who instructed people to commit acts of violence, and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death.” Baldwin said he was “1000%” concerned that...

Unexplained excess deaths outstrip those from virus as medics call figures ‘terrifying’ The effects of lockdown may now be killing more people than are dying of Covid, official data suggests. Figures for excess deaths from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that around 1,000 more people than usual are dying each week from conditions other than the virus. The Telegraph understands that the Department of Health has ordered an investigation into the figures amid concern that the deaths are linked to delays to and deferment of treatment for conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Over the past...

Former Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods was the first elected official in the state to endorse President Trump in 2016. Two years later U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas sentenced Woods to serve 18 years in federal prison, in addition to three years of supervised release and ordered Woods to pay $1.6 million in restitution. Yesterday, the lead FBI Agent in his case plead guilty to destroying exculpatory evidence that could have proven Woods’ innocence. “In a plea deal filed Wednesday, a former FBI agent pleaded guilty to paying a business to “wipe” his...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Crime victims say they felt victimized all over again when Mayor Latoya Cantrell showed up in court to support a juvenile perpetrator during sentencing. “I was in shock. She wasn’t there for us. She was there for the assailant and his mother. It felt like she supported the crime,” says the victim. “Your own Mayor isn’t supporting you,” says another victim. Both women became victims of the same 13-year-old last September in separate incidents. They say he was one of three young gunmen who threatened and robbed them. “I opened the door, and there is a...

Retired CIA director Mike Hayden tweeted his agreement with a British journalist’s claim on Wednesday that the Republican Party is the most “nihilistic, dangerous and contemptible” political force he had seen in the world.On Wednesday, Financial Times columnist Edward Luce tweeted, “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.”Hayden shared Luce’s tweet, adding, “I agree. And I was the CIA Director.”Hayden’s comment follows a swipe he took at former President Donald Trump last week following the FBI raid on...

[Catholic Caucus] A Vatican II Moment: The Sea Float Mass It's been a while since we posted a new image for our "A Vatican II Moment" series -- but this takes the cake. One year after Francis had the boldness to claim, to our lying eyes, that the New Mass of Paul VI is, "the only expression of the Roman Rite," Fr. Mattia Bernasconi, of the Archdiocese of Milan, decided to celebrate it on a float bed by the seaside in Calabria (southern Italy), as part of a Youth Camp. Right there we see the "elevation of the chalice",...

The counties that have seen the sharpest Republican gains tend to have smaller populations and are mostly concentrated in the Florida Panhandle: Lafayette, Liberty and Taylor. Democrats have lost a lot of ground since 2018. They saw decreases in their percentages in all but two Florida counties — Seminole and Alachua, where their gains were less than one percentage point.

Liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley has called out Democrat President Joe Biden for leaving billions of dollars worth of military equipment for the Taliban during the withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. As Slay News previously reported, the Department of Defense Inspector General’s report released Thursday revealed that the U.S. military left $7 billion in equipment and weapons behind. Despite having months to prepare for the exit, the Biden administration “took no steps to remove or destroy” our military equipment and “elected to leave this arsenal intact to the Taliban.” Turley said: “Defense Department Inspector General has released its long-awaited report...

It's now almost six months to the day since Russia invaded Ukraine. According to the United Nations, the conflict has displaced at least 12 million Ukrainians while huge parts of the east and the south of the country lie devastated. But according to frontline volunteer, Seva, he along with many of his countrymen and women remain committed to the war - even if it means paying the ultimate cost. Speaking as part of a special edition of Sky News' Ukraine War Diaries podcast, to mark six months since the beginning of the war, Seva explains. "Everyone is tired of war,...

During the Overtime segment of Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that some of the increased funding for the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act will be used to audit middle-class taxpayers. While discussing Washington Post columnist, CNN Contributor, and “PBS NewsHour” Special Correspondent Catherine Rampell’s recent tour of an IRS facility and the problems the agency has with processing tax returns due to outdated technology, Maher said, “This bill that Biden signed this week has $80 billion…that’s what it’s for, right? It’s $80 billion to the IRS. Now, of course, the Republicans are saying, you’re going...

It was last used when whisky was measured in hogsheads and production of the water of life was moving from an often-illicit farmyard enterprise to a thriving national business.Now the secrets of whisky production from 200 years ago are being uncovered by archaeologists probing the remains of a distillery which ceased production in 1824.Fire pits which would once have heated copper stills, tasting glasses, bottles and the timber-lined vats which held gallons of the amber nectar have all been unearthed at the National Trust dig on the old site of the Glenlivet distillery.During the past two weeks the archaeology team...

Raising a child born in 2015 through the age of 17 will set a family back $310,605. Add in another $218,004 for four years at a private college, or $102,828 at a state Raising a child born in 2015 through the age of 17 will set a family back $310,605. Add in another $218,004 for four years at a private college, or $102,828 at a state university. “A lot of people are going to think twice before they have either a first child or a subsequent child because everything is costing more,” Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at Brookings, tells...

Republicans Adam Laxalt and Sheriff Joe Lombardo now lead their respective races in the swing state of Nevada, according to a Trafalgar Group poll released Friday. Lombardo, who is running for governor against incumbent Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak, has taken the lead in the general election race by about three points (46.2 – 43.6 percent). Libertarian Brandon Davis holds 3.8 percent, while other candidates combine for 0.6 percent. 5.8 percent of respondents are undecided.

Today America lies in a coma in Jacobi Medical Center fighting for its life. Democrats put her there. Jesus Cortez was sucker punched by lifetime criminal Van Phu Bui outside of a Bronx restaurant in a completely unprovoked attack. (click for video) Officially, his name is Van Phu Bui, but he has other names; Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Alvin Bragg, Kathy Hochul, Gavin Newsom, Beto O'Rourke, George Soros, Larry Krasner, George Gascon, Alenjandro Mayorkas. He is the democrat party. To say Bui is dangerous is a gross understatement. Police then arrested Van Phu Bui, a 55-year-old on probation,...

Just had an email from my private court source, who to date has never been wrong about either who nominees would be, what the outcomes of various cases would be, or even dates of confirmation (with one exception---he was off by 1 week when it came to Kavanaugh and the Balless Edsel last minute claims). Here is what he said about Liz Clusterbomb Cheney. Read to the end. It's a hoot, and true. "The GOP should make it clear that, if she runs for President, she will not have any vote for her recognized. And Merrick Garland can help them....