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Explanation: What’s happening inside this interstellar mountain? Stars are forming. The mountain is actually a column of gas and dust in the picturesque Eagle Nebula (M16). A pillar like this is so low in density that you could easily fly though it -- it only appears solid because of its high dust content and great depth. The glowing areas are lit internally by newly formed stars. These areas shine in red and infrared light because blue light is scattered away by intervening interstellar dust. The featured image was captured recently in near-infrared light in unprecedented detail by the James Webb...

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Lab has just released a study showing that in 2021, US privately-owned plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) “saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline.” But that is a huge exaggeration because fossil fuels provide 61% of the electricity in the US … so only about a third of that apparent savings is a real reduction in fossil fuel use, the equivalent of maybe 130 million gallons. The Argonne report also says that from 2010 to 2021, EVs have saved 2.1 billion gallons of gas. So let’s be generous and say...

One powerful Twitter employee implicated in the Hunter Biden censorship scandal has a history of official misconduct.James Baker is a former FBI general counsel who was deeply involved in various investigations probing supposed connections between former President Donald Trump and Russia, according to the New York Post. The investigations proved baseless, with allegations of Russian collusion never corroborated.Baker found himself hired as Twitter’s deputy general counsel after he was fired from the FBI in the midst of the agency’s “Russiagate” scandal.In his new job, Baker soon found himself directing censorship of news regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop.In internal Twitter communications following...

https://twitter.com/AGHuff/status/1600172812571770884 Dr. Andrew G. Huff @AGHuff 8h Here is a link to download all of my files from EcoHealth Alliance. These files contain the unredacted originals of many documents. I have not altered the files in any way, including the terrible naming conventions of the files. It includes... an investment presentation on the collecting coronavirus samples, gain of function, humanized mice, to make medical counter measures presented to In-Q-Tel, the CIA's (& DoDs) venture capital firm, which succinctly explains how EcoHealth planned to conduct this R&D. I will be posting an more organized and annotated version of these documents on...

Polls have closed in Georgia, where Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP nominee Herschel Walker face off in a Senate runoff election

A Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Tuesday honoring Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was not without awkwardness. Honorees visibly avoided handshakes with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a receiving line, after exchanging warm greetings with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer. McCarthy, R-Calif., who is expected to be the next speaker of the House, praised the actions of law enforcement on Jan. 6. “These brave men and women are heroes, heroes who protected so many from harm on that day,” he said. “Days like...

On this date in 1938, Austrian Martha Marek was guillotined in Vienna for several murders by poison. She first came to the attention of the discerning interwar crime audience in 1925 when she and her husband Emil were convicted of insurance fraud: Emil claimed to have “lost his leg while chopping wood” just after having taken out a policy, but examination showed that the lost leg had actually been chopped off methodically — and clumsily. They both served a short stint in prison but at least Martha still had four good limbs to go with her wits. Martha before her...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own after a sham referendum. The area - particularly around the town of Bakhmut - is now the main focus of fighting after Ukraine's forces retook Kherson in the south last month. President Zelensky called it the "most difficult area that protects not only the east, but our entire state". Russia and its proxies have controlled parts of Donetsk since 2014. But speaking on the Day of the Armed Forces, Mr Zelensky said he believed Ukraine would take back all the land occupied...

See Twitter Link. Totally Political Ceremony

Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, reduced the risk for hospitalization for any cause in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with and without type 2 diabetes. The findings suggest that dapagliflozin should be considered in such patients. Patients with CKD are often hospitalized, contributing to lower quality of life and higher health care costs. Prior studies have shown that SGLT2 inhibitors can reduce cardiovascular events and slow progression to kidney damage in patients with or without diabetes. The effect of these drugs on hospitalizations in patients with CKD is less clear. Researchers from University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands...

US man ‘trapped’ in Russian-controlled Donetsk despite release from prison “I am very happy to be free. But I don’t know what to do next. The Russians never gave me back my passport, and I feel trapped here,” Murekezi said in a phone interview from the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Russian-annexed Donetsk region. Before moving to Ukraine, Murekezi spent six years in the US air force. He left the military in 2017 and started investing in shares and cryptocurrencies. His interest in crypto eventually brought him to Kherson, a city he quickly started to call home. When...

What is it about a social media app that allows short video sharing that would constitute a national security risk? The answer is not about dog and cat videos, or dancing diatribes or funny, weird or goofy content; nor is the national security risk attached to any data of the app users or content providers. The national security risk is found in the ability to influence public opinion that is not under the control of the United States government, or more specifically the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS). The need for control is a reaction to fear. TikTok, as a...

“[Dr. Huff] is the whistleblower of whistleblowers,” said Alex Jones Tuesday. “So much of the intel we got over the last two-and-a-half years came from him.”“This is the guy who sent the documented reports to the senate committees, this is the guy that got massively harassed for it, and now he is standing tall & fighting harder than ever.”Watch & share this explosive interview & be sure to download the unredacted documents provided by Dr. Huff:

Critics are sounding the alarm on the Internal Revenue Service significantly lowering the threshold for transaction reporting through payment apps, warning the change signals a new level of government overreach that targets small businesses and middle-class Americans. The IRS issued a reminder last week to taxpayers who utilize third-party payment processors like Venmo and PayPal about changes to reporting income in an updated explainer on their website. These changes created by the American Rescue Act now require the platforms to report any transaction over $600.

In a cryptic tweet shared with his 107.9 million followers, the billionaire declared: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” And when asked whether it would have been easier just to start “X” from scratch, he replied: “Twitter probably accelerates X by three to five years, but I could be wrong. “Everything apps” haven’t really made a lasting impression in Western economies yet — but over in China, super apps have taken the economy by storm.

COMMENT To see where this dumptruck is heading, let's first follow the trail of debris. It's difficult to track back, but the impacts of internet content mills, which thrived until around 2010, are still readily visible. The net effect of content generated at the rate of ten to thirty pieces daily on specialty topics — all at the hands of non-specialists via the guiding hand of Google Trends — led to an internet that, by 2010, was saturated with fluffy (if not nonsensical), keyword-stuffed articles that offered little in the way of usable info and in many cases, plenty of...

Gates Inc has assumed complete regulatory capture over American "public health" institutions.Bill Gates is taking a short break from his efforts to depopulate the planet to join the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Thursday as their “special guest.” Both Gates and Anthony Fauci will participate in the annual meeting convened by the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of the National Institutes of Health. The ACD is comprised mostly of academics who act as stooges for a variety of interests. Committee members vote on resource allocation and NIH regulation and policy, and can help facilitate government funding for several endeavors....

(CNN) - House Republicans say they will seek congressional testimony from top Twitter employees who oversaw the company’s handling of a New York Post report on Hunter Biden’s laptop in public hearings when Republicans officially reclaim control of the House in the next Congress, indicating that probes into digital content moderation will figure prominently. On Tuesday, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican and likely next chairman of the House Oversight Committee, wrote to three people who reportedly played key roles in the decision to temporarily suppress the Post’s story in the weeks before the 2020 election, calling on...

President Trump made a simple and common-sense case for Constitutional justice in America on Monday in a Truth Social post. “WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ‘LEGITIMATELY’ WON THE ELECTION TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY, NOT PEOPLE WHO HAD TO CHEAT IN ORDER TO WIN!!!” he wrote.Trump’s comments came after the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, dumped a treasure-trove of evidence related to Big Tech censorship and governmental collusion during the 2020 presidential election.Via RSBN, the “Twitter Files” revealed that Twitter handily worked to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 presidential election, highlighting the dirty underbelly of government and...