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You may have heard of a company’s “ESG score”: The initials stand for environmental, social and governance — and the scores businesses receive can determine whether they have access to capital and at what interest rate, among other things.Now, Bank Australia wants to export that kind of thinking to an individual’s choice of car.According to Fox Business, the financial institution announced Friday that it will stop providing loans for new gas and diesel cars starting in 2025. Instead, it will only be giving loans to those buying new electric vehicles or used gas and diesel cars…

Alexey Pertsev, accused of facilitating money laundering via the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash app, must stay in jail for at least a further 90 days, a judge in the Netherlands ruled Wednesday. Pertsev, 29, was arrested Aug. 10 on the orders of the Dutch authorities, just two days after the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the currency mixing service, which it linked to over $1 billion in illicit transactions and to North Korean hackers. The arrest has generated consternation from the Web3 community, which has warned it could have a chilling effect on those developing open-source software, and on those who have...

This summer as Las Vegas deals with a continuing drought, Lake Mead continues to recede. As the lake recedes 5 different sets of human remains have been found in the dried-up lake and now one of the sets of remains has been identified. From NBC News: Skeletal remains found in drought-stricken Lake Mead in May have been identified as those of a 42-year-old man who was reported to have drowned two decades ago, a coroner has found. The remains found May 7 at Callville Bay are one of several discoveries made since May 1 as the water level of the...

A crew of muggers attacked and robbed a 67-year-old man in the Bronx – returning for a second round as the victim struggled to get on his feet, new video shows. Video released early Thursday by the NYPD shows at least four suspects chasing the victim on the sidewalk at East 151st Street and Courtlandt Avenue in Melrose around 2:30 a.m. August 15. They knock him onto the sidewalk before one suspect throws a punch, the video shows. The bandits surrounded the victim – who was lying on the sidewalk – and snatched his backpack, as well as $300, cops...

CNN medical analyst Dr. Lean admits the so-called science she demanded the public comply with has impaired her young son. Wen championed mask and vaccine mandates throughout the pandemic, insisted children be forced to take PCR tests weekly until they are fully vaccinated and called for the unvaccinated to be banned from participating in society. Just months ago, Wen, the former Commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department and former head of Planned Parenthood, urged the Biden administration to “further restrict the activities of the unvaccinated.” “I wish that [Biden] would go further to restrict the activities of the unvaccinated...

A Multnomah County jury has slapped Walmart with $4.4 million in damages after a Portland area man said in a lawsuit that a theft prevention employee racially profiled him for “shopping while Black” and tried to have him ejected for bogus reasons. Michael Mangum said he felt “disrespected and embarrassed” after a worker at the Wood Village Walmart began watching him, then summoned police and falsely claimed Mangum had threatened to smack him in the face. “When he said he’s going to call the police, I couldn’t believe it, because I hadn’t done anything,” Mangum, now 61, told The Oregonian/OregonLive...

In 1965, columnist and commentator Paul Harvey wrote an interesting piece titled, "If I were the Devil." This was basically a commentary on what Harvey would do if he were Satan and wanted to destroy America. Nearly 60 years later, most of what Harvey predicted has come to pass. While America has not been completely destroyed, our nation is clearly in decline. In 2022, here's what I would do if I wanted to finish the job.

Rooster Note: A friend reminded me of this yesterday. Probably the best sermon ever. Thought youse guys would enjoy. The Man of Sorrows “A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” — Isaiah liii. 3. POSSIBLY a murmur will pass round the congregation, " This is a dreary subject and a mournful theme.” But, O beloved, it is not so, for great as were the woes of our Redeemer, they are all over now, and are to be looked back upon with sacred triumph. However severe the struggle, the victory has been won; the labouring vessel was severely tossed by...

NOAA prediction really starting to fizzle....

The California Dream ain't what it used to be. In this parody of The Beach Boys' "California Girls", the Babylon Bee Boys express their yearning to leave the Golden State some day. I Wish We All Could Leave California (Beach Boys Parody video, by Babylon Bee)

Thursday to increase the size of Russia's armed forces from 1.9 million to 2.04 million as the war in Ukraine enters its seventh month. The last time Putin fixed the size of the Russian army was in November 2017, when the number of combat personnel was set at 1.01 million from a total armed forces headcount, including non-combatants, of 1.9 million.

Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: Once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler, then anything is legitimate to stop him — and, yes, everything illegitimate was done to stop him in 2020, and it was “warranted.” Now that the Orange Hitler is lining himself up for a second tilt at the presidency, it’s OK to suspend democracy again to stop him. This mass delusion of the left,...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

“When Jesus came into the official’s house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder, He said, ‘Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.’ And they began laughing at Him. But when the crowd had been sent out, He entered and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. This news spread throughout all that land” (Matthew 9:23–26). Unlike those in the contemporary Western world, funerals in most ancient cultures, including the Jewish one of Jesus’ time, were not events with reverent music and quiet whispers. Instead funerals featured much loud wailing by...

A clip has resurfaced from 2020 of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) telling a father who paid off his daughter’s student loans that he would not get his money back under her loan forgiveness program. President Joe Biden announced a new program on Wednesday that would “forgive up to $20,000 of federal student loan debt for Pell Grant recipients, and up to $10,000 for other qualifying borrowers,” according to NPR. He also extended the federal student debt payment pause to the end of the year

n August 897 or so, the deposed Pope Stephen VII (or VI*) was executed (or just murdered) in prison by strangulation. Details, you see, are thin on the ground here in the so-called Dark Ages. Rome has come down a bit in the world. “The ruins of Rome,” quoth Gibbon, presented the sad image of depopulation and decay: her slavery was a habit, her liberty an accident; the effect of superstition, and the object of her own amazement and terror. The last vestige of the substance, or even the forms, of the constitution, was obliterated from the practice and memory...

Donald Trump demanded that Republicans replace Mitch McConnell as their Senate leader in a brutal statement where he attacked the Kentucky senator and his wife, former Transportation secretary Elaine Chao. The former president accused McConnell of being a 'pawn' for Democrats and said his inaction is causing moves in Congress 'our Country can never recover from'. He also claimed that McConnell and Chao, who is Chinese, got 'rich' off of decades of business with China and said a new Republican Senate leader should be chosen. Most predictions point to Republicans taking back a majority in Congress in the 2022 midterms,...

In the past we have used CTH threads to spotlight the smart thinking and resourcefulness of Treepers from all walks of life. A discussion thread where people can share tips, things that can actually be done, to help offset the financial pressures during severe economic times. I think we may all benefit from starting a series of post like that again. Let us share our wisdom and experience again. There are many thousand who will benefit, as I have always done, from reading your smart tips and suggestions. What ideas, tips and suggestions do you have to help people save...

VIDEOIf there is just ONE memorial quote to come out of the 2022 Florida gubernatorial campaign, it has to be Charlie Crist urgently insisting that "He offered me his lunch!"

Illinois State Police announced Wednesday that it has forced nearly 300 people in southern Illinois to give up ownership of their firearms after they had their firearms rights revoked.As part of a “firearms enforcement blitz” from June 16 to July 31 in 41 southern Illinois counties, including St. Clair, Madison, Monroe, Clinton and Randolph counties, state police officers performed 710 “compliance checks,” which resulted in 295 people being “placed into compliance” with the state’s Firearms Owners Identification Card, or FOID card, law.Illinois State Police said those placed in compliance had to do the following:▪ Surrender their FOID card.▪ Transfer all...