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Greta Thunberg has been twice detained at protests in Oslo over an onshore wind farm which she and activists say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway. The 20-year-old Swedish environmental campaigner and hundreds of other demonstrators say a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of indigenous rights and have been demanding the removal of 151 wind turbines from land used by Sami herders. "We want to make it very clear that it is the Norwegian state that is committing the real crime here, for violating human rights," she...

On July 15, 1993, nearly thirty years ago, the late Kristen Scott-Miller’s killer, an 18-year old named Anthony Georg Simpson, did not commit premeditated murder. This was according to a jury of 12 men and women in Chapel Hill — wokesters, years before the term came into vogue. Although he had loaded his gun and departed with it from his house, Simpson received a second degree murder sentence, making him eligible for parole more than ten years ago.One Bright Summer Morning The deceased was on her morning jog. She was 26 and newly married. She had a budding career. Her...

On February 9, Nike sent a letter to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and city officials asking for more police at their MLK Community Store, which has been closed for months because of ongoing retail theft, with the shoe brand even proposing to pay law enforcement directly if it would bring them the protection they were requesting. According to KGW8, Nike proposed two options. The company was open to creating an "intergovernmental agreement" with the city of Portland to directly fund full-time police officers who would be selected to police the store. A second option would be to pay off-duty Portland...

Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton just submitted a resolution (H.C.R. No. 54) in the Texas Legislature to inform the federal government of a series of "alleged boating accidents" that occurred across Hunt, Hopkins, Van Zandt, and possibly other counties. The alleged boating accidents caused all the private gun owners in those counties to lose all their guns and ammo, but thankfully resulted in no injury or loss of life. It seems Texas is finding it necessary to inform the federal government to save them some trouble down the road should the latter decide to further degrade the Second Amendment: The Texas...

Geneva (AFP) – An exceptionally long La Nina weather phenomenon that intensified drought and flooding is finally ending, the United Nations said Wednesday -- but what comes next might bring its own problems. The outgoing La Nina phenomenon, a cooling of surface temperatures that can have a widespread impact on global weather conditions, started in September 2020. However, despite La Nina's cooling effect, both 2021 and 2022 were warmer than any year prior to 2015. Now El Nino, its warming opposite in the cycle, El Nino, could be on the way this year, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in...

Senior U.S. Navy leaders in the Atlantic and European regions discussed, in some detail, the nature of the Russian build-up and naval activity in the Arctic region during a recent seminar in Washington. Speaking Feb. 9 at a seminar sponsored by the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and the Center for Maritime Strategy (CMS), a think tank of the Navy League of the United States — Deterring Russia at Sea in the High North — were Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Vice Adm. Dan Dwyer, commander, U.S. Second Fleet. The seminar was moderated by retired Adm. James...

“I am looking for an honest man.”This was the answer of Diogenes the Cynic when asked why he carried a lighted lantern around Athens in broad daylight.George Santos’s embarrassing lies are bare for all to see, and the mainstream media hasn’t been this happy since the heyday of their Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Since one cannot tolerate bold-faced liars in political positions, many Democrats, members of the media, and the occasional Republicans have called for Santos to resign his House seat. After all, Santos won his seat under false pretenses. This is unacceptable!Let’s play a game shall we?Given the number and...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have sent a letter to Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch asking him to stop Fox News personalities from “spreading false election narratives,” warning they could lead to “further acts of political violence.” The Democratic leaders focus on Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has received exclusive access from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to review security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “We demand that you direct Tucker Carlson and other hosts on your network to stop spreading false election narratives and admit on...

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REDDING, Calif. — The Shasta County Board of Supervisors met Tuesday morning to discuss what to do now that the dominion voting machines have been removed. ... This comes just after Monday's Open House event, where citizens got to meet two other certified vendors of electronic vote-counting vendors, ES&S and Hart. ... After much discussion from the board members and concerned citizens on both sides of the issue, the topic of hand-counting ballots arose. The conversation between those who wanted to return to hand counting and those in favor of a new electronic voting system seemed pretty evenly divided.**** However,...

A tentative, EU-brokered deal between Serbia and Kosovo this week to normalise relations marks a quiet victory for the West as it vies with Russia for influence in Belgrade. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago, pro-Moscow sentiment has spilled into Serbia's streets. T-shirts with the letter Z, a symbol of Russia's campaign, are sold as souvenirs while far-right groups openly tout support for Russia. President Aleksandar Vucic, trying to pull off a tricky balancing act between Serbia's deep cultural and religious ties with Russia on the one hand and European Union ambitions and a NATO partnership on...

11 injured people arrived at the Ichilov Hospital for treatment and they suffer from bruises, cuts, burns and bruises on the body. One wounded person was taken to the operating room and two remained hospitalized. In addition, 39 protesters were arrested.

There's no denying it, mushrooms are pretty great to eat. But here's something you might not have known: Some mushrooms are also great for hammering on the outside of transatlantic 787 Dreamliners! The Verge @verge · Follow Meet the mushroom that could one day replace plastic https://trib.al/GpROnAJ Here's one more reason to love a good mushroom: one day, you might be able to make headphones, memory foam for shoes, or even aircraft exoskeletons with it. Researchers just assessed the engineering possibilities with one particularly impressive mushroom and found that it might be able to replace plastic in a whole bunch...

Russia’s seaborne oil exports remained resilient in February, as the nation found new buyers even as the full force of Western restrictions was brought to bear. Oil-market watchers are closely following Russian export data for signs of disruptions after the European Union and the majority of Group of Seven nations banned most seaborne imports of oil and fuel in condemnation of the invasion in Ukraine. Aided by ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers, Russian producers have turned to buyers in the Gulf, Latin America and Asia, ship-tracking data shows.

Join an intimate group of leading corporate executives and board members for an off-the record discussion on the role of business in the public square. A compendium of crises, ranging from climate change to the Covid-19 pandemic, and shifting demands from employees and customers are transforming the business landscape, giving rise to important sustainability initiatives. How are we going to navigate this next horizon? Together we will explore two themes. 1. Business as unusual. What paradigms are decaying and how can we help them leave well? 2. Emerging future. What initiatives are being born today and how do we help...

It seems as if the Hollywood elites cannot make it through one public appearance without regurgitating at least one woke talking point. Another such instance happened at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles when actress Sally Field took the stage to accept her lifetime achievement award -- and almost immediately turned it into an apology for being white. "I was a little white girl with a pug nose born in Pasadena, California," she said, "and when I look around this room tonight, I know my fight, as hard as it was, was lightweight compared to some of...

Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed racism and her gender for her landslide defeat in her re-election bid, as Chicagoans weary of the rising crime on her watch celebrated her fall from “political rock star to rock bottom.” “I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” she replied when asked by a reporter if she had been treated unfairly. But she called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.” “Regardless of tonight’s outcome, we fought the right fights and we put this city on a better path,” Lightfoot said, as she urged her fellow mayors around the US not...

Less about dEmoCraCy and Ukraine, and more of this. That's all. Citizens for Sanity @citizens_sanity · Follow The wait is over! Citizens for Sanity is out with a brand new ad exposing the RACIST equity mandates destroying our society. Equity = Bigotry. Pass it on. VIDEO AT LINK......................

If the climate crisis wasn’t already screaming “scam” then I can’t help you. Leftists are pushing an agenda to destroy industries that produce reasonably priced energy by claiming those industries cause an existential threat of warming, that is causing extreme changes to the climate, that is threatening our survival. Record cold temperatures, along with record snow and rain are obviously causing skepticism, so the pushers of the theory decided it was necessary to put out a piece of pure propaganda: that record cold temperatures occur because the earth is warming. I call B.S. From David Knowles in an article published...

AFP) — Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian forces as fighting for the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut is getting ever more brutal with Russia losing hundreds of troops a day, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday. As the battle raged, Moscow said it shot down Ukrainian drones targeting civilian sites in Russian territory while another one crashed near the capital. AFP aerial footage released Tuesday showed almost all buildings in Bakhmut in ruins and smoke rising over the city once known for its sparkling wine production and salt mines.