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Taking an electric car on a road trip can be a stressful experience - at least according to a couple who took their Kia EV6 on a cross-country trip from Michigan to Florida. Axios reporter Joann Muller said her husband took the electric car on a 1,500 mile road trip - she joined him part-way through - to see if the US is truly ready for mass EV adoption. While electric cars are becoming more prevalent, charging infrastructure isn't quite what it should be, Muller wrote. "We were constantly thinking about where to charge next," Muller wrote of her experience...

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Putin does not have enough money for the war: oil companies will additionally collect taxes for 600 billion rubles The Ministry of Finance of Russia plans to additionally collect more than 600 billion rubles from Russian oil and gas companies in 2023 thanks to the application of a new formula for determining the price of oil when calculating taxes, which from April will limit the discount on Russian Urals oil relative to the price of Brent. This was stated by Russian Deputy Finance Minister Mikhail Kotyukov at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on budget and taxes, which approved...

By the time a Chinese spy balloon crossed into American airspace late last month, U.S. military and intelligence agencies had been tracking it for nearly a week, watching as it lifted off from its home base near China’s south coast, an earlier sighting of the balloon than has been previously known. U.S. monitors watched as the balloon settled into a flight path that would appear to have taken it over the U.S. territory of Guam. But somewhere along that easterly route, the craft took an unexpected northern turn, according to several U.S. officials, who said that analysts are now examining...

U.S. researchers say that Russia has relocated thousands of Ukrainian children to a network of sites in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and in Russia whose main goal is to "reeducate" the children to make them pro-Russian.The researchers said in a report published on February 14 that they had identified 43 camps and other facilities where at least 6,000 Ukrainian children have been held."The primary purpose of the camp facilities we've identified appears to be political reeducation," Nathaniel Raymond, one of the researchers, said in a briefing to reporters.The report also provides evidence of the Russian government's efforts to sever communication...

Jim Cousens Must Die (satire) Australian police in Victoria at their innovative law-busting best have today created the evidence to convict and execute a man for using the f-word once about Queen Victoria. Police insist that if he had not done this 3 years ago, the reign of Queen Victoria would have been an astonishing success, but is now irretrievably destroyed forever by Jim's selfish and quintessentially male use of the F-bomb once. In Victoria there is zero tolerance for this sort of disrespect for women's hard-earned status as strong, independent, sassy, fearless, deeply compassionate victims of the eternally evil...

The liberal Poynter Institute for Media Studies seems to have an obsession with conservative media outlets getting put on blacklists. The Washington Examiner exposed how the State Department and liberal Big Tech giant Microsoft actively bankrolled the leftist British group Global Disinformation Index (GDI). GDI was reportedly “feeding blacklists to ad companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down” conservative websites “peddling alleged ‘disinformation.”’ GDI's blacklist included news sites like The Daily Wire, RealClear Politics, Breitbart, Newsmax, One America News, The Daily Caller, The Washington Times, the Examiner and Blaze Media. The former associate director for Poynter’s George Soros-funded...

Prigozhin admitted that he created and financed a "troll factory" Businessman and founder of Wagner PMCs Evgeny Prigozhin admitted for the first time that he created and financed the "troll factory". He said this in response to a request from Der Spiegel that Prigozhin was an alleged financier of the so-called "Internet Research Agency". "I have never been just a financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time," he said. They blocked it in my country present time What to do The "troll factory" was first mentioned in 2013....

World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab this week spoke about the ‘fourth industrial revolution technologies’ at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Klaus Schwab spoke about rapidly changing technology, chatbots, digital identities and more. The masters of the universe will control the digital world and in turn control people, according to Klaus Schwab. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is garnering increasing popularity throughout mainstream circles. n an article published today from far left Business Insider, they claimed that ChatGPT must be “woke” if OpenAI wants to attract large investors. image

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CBS News on Tuesday night reported US Intelligence actually saw the spy balloon lift off near China’s south coast and tracked it for nearly a week before it entered US airspace. “U.S. intelligence watched the Chinese spy balloon as it lifted off near China’s south coast, meaning the U.S. military had been tracking it for nearly a week before it entered U.S. airspace. Longer than originally know,” CBS News reported. “What they saw was this balloon heading east from China towards Guam and Hawaii, but then it took a sharp northward turn – a beeline towards Alaska!” CBS reported. Via...

Lee Waters Deputy Minister for Climate Change announced decision on Tuesday Plans for a third Menai bridge and the Red Route in Flintshire will not go ahead The Welsh government has axed all the country's major road-building projects to put environmental concerns first. The decision was announced on Tuesday by Lee Waters, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, who said all infrastructure projects in future must now 'reduce carbon emissions and support a shift to public transport, walking and cycling'. It follows a year-long review by the Welsh Roads Review Panel which was set up in September 2021 and led by...

Is the military handling of a Chinese balloon, identified as a surveillance device, and other unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in recent days, just being hyped by the lapdog media to divert attention from the news that the Democrat administration of POTUS Joe Biden may have blown up the Nord Stream pipeline? That is a question on the minds of many Americans and many other people around the world. Answers are not so easy to come by as the Democrats have long and rambling press conferences to try to explain why such massive military action has been taken and what the...

Cockpit audio of pilots trying to figure out what the unidentified object over Lake Huron has been released. The audio was authenticated by the US Airforce. The US military decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron on Sunday. The Pentagon said the ‘octagon-shaped’ object shot down on Sunday likely fell into Canadian waters on Lake Huron. No debris has been recovered. “I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes,” one pilot said. “It’s so slow and so small you can’t see it.” “It’s just some kind of dark object. You...

Scientists are reporting a breakthrough discovery: A $3-per-pill epilepsy drug may be used to “switch off” autism symptoms in mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry journal. Autism spectrum disorder is a complex developmental condition that impacts how an estimated 5.4 million (2.2% of) adults — and one in 44 children — in the United States perceives and socializes with others. It is often accompanied by abnormalities such as epilepsy or hyperactivity, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. A team of experts at Germany’s Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research found that...

The Biden administration has denounced the actions of China's military after a new significant incident involving the Philippine and Chinese Coast Guards. It happened on Feb.6, but has only this week been revealed.State Department spokesman Ned Price in a Tuesday briefing blasted China’s "provocative and unsafe" interference aimed at disrupting Philippine vessels' "lawful operations" in the South China Sea. "More broadly, the PRC’s dangerous operational behavior directly threatens regional peace and stability, infringes upon freedom of navigation in the South China Sea as guaranteed under international law, and undermines the rules-based international order," Price said. Specifically, the allegation is that...

New research found that fluoride exposure via drinking water may increase the risk of hypothyroidism in pregnant women. In a smaller subset of participants, the researchers found lower IQ scores between boys whose mothers had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism compared to boys whose mothers had normal thyroid levels. Earlier research found an association between maternal fluoride exposure in pregnancy and lower IQ in boys, and this new research may explain these earlier findings, according to Ph.D. student Meaghan Hall. In the study, a half-milligram-per liter increase in drinking-water fluoride levels, which may not sound like much, but is roughly the...

President Biden’s recent admission in the State of the Union that the United States will need oil for at least another decade was a significant understatement.While there may be a relatively large reduction in demand in a decade due to the growth of alternatives, the U.S. will remain heavily dependent on oil.By way of example, in 2014 Norway was where the U.S. is today in terms of EVs on the road, seven years later it had only reduced oil demand by 8%.During President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union Address, he relayed an anecdote that I believe explains his stance...

A new report has put a price on exactly what the "work from home" trend has cost the office-laden city of Manhattan: a stunning $12 billion per year. Working at home means that office workers who would normally be out and about are spending $12 billion less than what they spent before the pandemic, according to a new Bloomberg News study.The average worker is spending about 30% less time in the office, meaning that spending on food and entertainment has fallen by about $4,700 per person, data from Stanford University shows.On a per-person basis, the figure is higher than anywhere...

The D.C. Court of Appeals just upheld a Washington D.C. law that will require that workers providing pre-K child care have at least an Associate’s Degree to provide child care in the city.The decision comes after a long-running court battle between childcare workers and the city. The requirements were adopted in 2016 and are just now being implemented.A four-year legal battle over D.C.’s new requirements that many child care workers get a college degree has seemingly come to an end.Last week the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. dismissed a long-running lawsuit challenging the education requirements,...