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The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier station that measures heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but officials Wednesday say it won’t be a problem. There are hundreds of other carbon dioxide monitoring sites across the globe. The federal government is looking for a temporary alternate site on the Hawaiian island and is contemplating flying a generator to the Mauna Loa observatory to get its power back so it can take measurements again, said officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Lab in Colorado that operates the station....

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it. Pressure has been mounting on Amazon to discontinue sale of the film, called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” since Irving shared the link to the documentary with his millions of Twitter followers in October. The synopsis on Amazon says the film “uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel.” At The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York City, Jassy said...

NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated. But the space agency said it will still be watching human-caused carbon pollution but in different ways. NASA on Tuesday announced that its GeoCarb mission, which was supposed to be a low-cost satellite to monitor carbon dioxide, methane and how plant life changes over North and South America, was being killed because of cost overruns. When it was announced six years ago, it was supposed to cost $166 million, but the latest NASA figures show costs...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke in a November 24, 2022 video conference for an "international" event commemorating 33 years since the assassination of Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian jihadist who had been one of Osama Bin Laden's mentors. Haniyeh praised Azzam for having been "determined," "merciful," "devoted," and a "knight" and "symbol" of Jihad. He also said that martyrdom is man's greatest objective, and he praised Azzam for waging Jihad in Afghanistan when he could not do so in Palestine. The commemorative event was organized by the League of Islamic Scholars in Palestine. Haniyeh's remarks were aired on Al-Aqsa TV...

The Biden economy is a mess and it’s getting worse. Now even the far-left media can’t hide the mess. Why would any union member vote for Joe Biden? Today’s job numbers from ADP were horrible. The brakes came on abruptly for the private job market in November. …Companies added just 127,000 positions for the month, a steep reduction from the 239,000 the firm reported for October and well below the Dow Jones estimate for 190,000. It also was the lowest total since January 2021. This doesn’t bode well for either the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies attempting to stem inflation...

Environmentalists on Wednesday accused the U.S. government of not doing enough to ensure the survival of the Rio Grande silvery minnow as drought tightens its grip on one of the longest rivers in the West. In a lawsuit filed in federal court, the group WildEarth Guardians asked a judge to force the Bureau of Reclamation and the Fish and Wildlife Service to reassess the effects of water management activities on the endangered fish. They also want federal officials to develop enforceable measures to keep dams and diversions along the river’s stretch through New Mexico’s most populated region from jeopardizing the...

At the G20 Summit, Klaus Schwab made it clear that he believes there should be a “great restructuring of our world”: Unelected Klaus Schwab at the G20 summit:Said we need a "deep systemic restructuring of our world…and the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process"They aren't even hiding it anymore. It's The Great Reset.— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) November 17, 2022So far it appears that part of the “great restructuring” does not include super-rich “great reset” proponents not staying at five-star hotels, because Schwab was spotted at the DC Waldorf while definitely not planning to dine on...

The conservative apparel and lifestyle company behind last year’s viral “Let’s Go Brandon” wrapping paper is on target to double last year’s sales. The company behind the gift wrap, Freedom Speaks Up, has marketed the wrapping paper as a way to troll your liberal relatives over the holidays. In a press release about the massive sales, the owner of the company, Seth Weathers, said that he started making it on a whim in 2021 — but it resulted in over 500,000 sq.ft. of the novelty wrapping paper sold. “This year is going to be double what it was in 2021!”...

Deploying air marshals to border leaves US 'vulnerable to attack' during holiday travel season, official claims U.S. air marshals are reportedly staging a "mutiny" on the Biden administration over its immigration policies, as they plan to refuse mandatory deployment orders to the southern border and, therefore, face possible termination. Though refusing the order puts them at risk of termination, dozens of air marshals argue that abandoning their current assignments will leave American fliers more vulnerable to threats over the busy holiday travel season. Amid an influx of illegal immigrants held in custody, the Federal Air Marshal Service asked for volunteers...

TUESDAY, Nov. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For health care workers providing care to patients with COVID-19, the risk for COVID-19 does not differ significantly with use of medical masks versus N95 respirators, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Mark Loeb, M.D., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues examined whether medical masks are noninferior to N95 respirators for preventing COVID-19 in health care workers providing routine care in a multicenter trial. Data were included for 1,009 health care workers at 29 health care facilities who provided direct care to...

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by the Biden administration to reinstate its debt relief program. The three-judge panel consisted of an appointee from each of the last three presidents, according to Politico. The Biden administration was appealing to overturn the Nov. 10 decision by Fort Worth, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman...

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Washington — The House Ways & Means Committee now has access to several years of former President Donald Trump's tax records, days after the Supreme Court declined to block their release. The Treasury Department said in a brief statement that it has "complied with last week's court decision." ... ...The dispute between Trump and the Ways and Means Committee arose from an April 2019 request from Chairman Richard Neal to the Internal Revenue Service for Trump's individual tax records and those of eight of his business entities for 2013 to 2018.... ...After the change in presidential administrations, and with the...

NEWS: John Thune, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, says in interview Senate Repubs want to leverage the next US debt limit increase to force federal spending cuts and changes to Social Security and other entitlement programs. “There’s a set of solutions there that we really need to take on if we’re going to get serious about making these programs sustainable and getting this debt bomb at a manageable level before it’s too late,” Thune told Bloomberg editors and reporters in Washington.

Free Speech is perhaps the most important cornerstone of Western Civilization, and it is disappearing from the American landscape as our system of government takes the shape of the third world we have tried so hard – for generations- not to resemble. Americans are now betraying the dangerous work of trying to protect our historic civil liberties. And one man, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter says he wants to do something about that. “This is a Battle for the Future of Civilization,” Musk tweeted this week. “Elon Musk announced he will make internal files on Twitter’s suppression of free...

TWEET FROM ELON MUSK:Elon Musk @elonmusk · FollowGood conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so. Sounds like Tim Cook didn’t want a new smartphone competitor. 6:05 PM · Nov 30, 2022

Color me a bit surprised at this news, considering the context of our times. Twenty years ago, this result would have been utterly predictable, but critical race theory and ethnic determinism had not yet ingrained themselves into the educational, legal, and corporate establishments at that time.Maybe those radical concepts haven’t actually ingrained themselves as much as people think. At least that’s what the result of today’s Marquette Law poll on racial preferences suggests:The Marquette survey finds that the public is skeptical of the use of race in college admissions, with 41% in favor of a decision that would find a...

They really really REALLY are scared of Elon Musk.As I have written about before, the European Union has been making noises about Twitter’s compliance with its Digital Services Act, which among other things requires pretty aggressive censorship of speech, under the guise of preventing “misinformation.”More details on #Mastodon ⤵️ https://t.co/rNlULHh181— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) November 30, 2022Today the EU went a step further, openly threaten to ban Twitter in Europe unless Musk buckles to their demands:The EU has threatened Elon Musk’s Twitter with a European ban unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory...

The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team defeated the Iranian team on Tuesday in a must-win game. Now the American team moves on the playing The Netherlands on Saturday. There was a little extra sweetness in celebrating the U.S. victory this year because of the political protests going on in Iran now. Iranians in support of the protesters celebrated the U.S. victory in Iran. One woman spoke on the condition of remaining anonymous from her home in southern Iran. “Mahoora” said, “It’s not just some people in Iran, it is the majority of people in Iran that want the U.S. to...