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U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm claimed Friday that Americans can "learn from what China is doing" in combating climate change. During an interview at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, Granholm sang the praises of China for its efforts to reduce climate change, claiming the country is actually "very sensitive" about the issue, more so than the United States. Granholm made these claims despite the fact that China recently hit its coal-production record last year. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, "55% of China’s energy" now comes from fossil fuel "compared to 11% in the U.S."...

CNBC analyst Jim Cramer is once again being pilloried on social media after a clip resurfaced showing the “Mad Money” host recommending viewers buy shares of Silicon Valley Bank’s parent company, which owns the tech-driven commercial lender that swiftly collapsed on Friday. “The ninth-best performer to date has been SVB Financial (the bank’s parent company). Don’t yawn,” Cramer told viewers during a Feb. 8 episode of “Mad Money.” Cramer listed SVB Financial among his “biggest winners of 2023 … so far” alongside blue-chip stocks such as Meta, Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Norwegian Cruise Line. “This company is a merchant...

By Leo Wolfson, State Politics Reporter Leo@CowboyStateDaily.com U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman is making it clear she has no regrets about public comments she made during the Wyoming legislative session about state affairs. She said she’ll continue to speak out on state-level issues in the future. “You all knew who you were electing when you elected me,” the Wyoming Republican said Wednesday on the Cowboy State Politics podcast. “I will continue to weigh in on issues that are important to the state of Wyoming, important to our constituency and are important from a policy standpoint.” Hageman retweeted a Twitter post complaining...

Fortunately, bail-ins do not apply to deposits under $250,000, which are protected by FDIC insurance. That is true in theory, but as of September 2021, the FDIC had only $122 billion in its insurance fund, enough to cover just 1.27% percent of the $9.6 trillion in deposits that it insures. The FDIC also has a credit line with the Treasury for up to $100 billion, but that still brings the total to just over 2% of insured deposits. If just one or a few banks become insolvent, the FDIC fund should be sufficient to cover the insured deposits (those under...

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The Biden administration is considering the use of vaccines in poultry as one option to address a bird flu epidemic that has killed millions of chickens and contributed to high egg prices.“There are a range of options the United States regularly considers when there is any outbreak that could affect the security and safety of the United States’ food supply,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. “Right now, we are focused on promoting and enhancing high-impact biosafety practices and procedures.”Those safety procedures include efforts to prevent transmission of the bird flu through enhanced...

People in Great Britain who keep chickens in their yards are forced to register them with the government under a new proposed law to stop the spread of bird flu.As part of the ongoing efforts to combat avian influenza, the government of England, Wales, and Scotland introduced a proposal on Wednesday that would make it mandatory for all poultry keepers to formally register their birds.The new rules would apply to all bird keepers, no matter how many birds they own. Currently, only people who keep 50 birds or more are required by law to do so.Under the rule, people who...

While all humans are image bearers of the Lord our God, by no means are they all His children, especially all who by freely made choices have rejected Jesus Christ and thereby placed themselves under the control and influence of demonic powers and principalities. Of these there are today Luciferian and Satanic Globalist elitists and their American water-carriers, Progressive Liberal and Democratic cultural elitists.

Six suspects, ages 11-14, are in custody after a brutal City Center attack, Philadelphia police said. Part of the incident was caught on video.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) says Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s sympathetic coverage this week of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack increases the risk for future violence because it creates a space “where people feel like they can do it again.” In a clip from an interview on Showtime’s “The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth” shared exclusively with The Hill on Friday, the first-term lawmaker said that what Carlson has done with the 41,000 hours of surveillance footage that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave him is “really dangerous.” “It creates a problem where if there’s not real...

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul blasted former National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci after Fauci denied allegations he froze out former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield from a key COVID-19 origins conference call. Fauci was accused of freezing out Redfield from a February 2020 conference call regarding the origins of COVID-19 during Wednesday’s explosive hearing from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The former NIAID director rejected the allegations in a Fox News interview Thursday, saying House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan’s allegations of bribing scientists...

WASHINGTON — Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the 2020 election — representing more than two-thirds of Congress, according to a new STAT analysis of records for the full election cycle. Pfizer’s political action committee alone contributed to 228 lawmakers. Amgen’s PAC donated to 218, meaning that each company helped to fund the campaigns of nearly half the lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Overall, the sector donated $14 million. The breadth of the spending highlights the drug industry’s continued clout in Washington. Even after years of criticism from...

Naomi Wolf has condemned the distortions by Democrats over January 6 and apologised to conservatives for believing the lies. What A Babe !!!!!!!!! Spread The Word.

Steve Bannon shredded Elon Musk on Friday night, calling the Tesla CEO a “complete phony” who is beholden to the communist regime in China. Appearing on Tim Pool’s podcast, Bannon was asked about Musk tweeting that he’s “open to the idea” of acquiring Silicon Valley Bank, which went under this week in spectacular fashion. It is the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. Bannon threw buckets of cold water on any such acquisition: He’s owned by the Chinese Communist Party. What are you talking about? Tesla, the only thing of real value is Tesla. He uses it for margin loans....

Russia has lost an estimated five men for every Ukrainian soldier its forces have killed in the battle for Bakhmut, according to a Nato official. Speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity, the official said that Nato intelligence showed that Russia’s losses in the assault on the eastern salt-mining town far outweighed Ukraine’s. The official also said, however, that Ukraine’s losses defending the city were significant. Russia’s use of costly wave attacks have prompted comparisons to the First World War and the commander of the mercenary forces leading the assault has described the battle as a “meat grinder” for Russian...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The rains that pounded the Bay Area caused so much flooding that Interstate Highway 580 by Oakland's Fruitvale and Laurel districts shut the road early Friday morning for about six hours. The water was so high that the rains even brought the ducks out to swim. Though the rains began pouring down late Thursday night, the California Highway Patrol shut down westbound 580 at MacArthur Boulevard/High Street about 3 a.m. Friday. And the freeway stayed that way, wet and free of cars, for most of the morning commute. Finally, the freeway reopened before noon.

Did you ever watch that show, “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader?” I didn’t, but the title alone made for an amusing concept, and an obvious theme. I think over the years the premise underwent evolutions, but at one point, it was a game show which saw adult contestants answer trivia questions for a cash prize — but the material was entirely sourced from elementary school textbooks. Apparently the game was actually a challenge for many of the players, but what if it had been “Are You Smarter Than A First-Grader?” Surely that couldn’t be too hard… could it? Now,...

Last week I warned that it already felt like a recession in Silicon Valley, where Patagonia fleece vests are practically the corporate uniform for founders and venture capitalists alike. Now the chill in the California air is clear to everyone. The questions now revolve around how long “tech winter” lasts and how far it spreads as contagion from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse becomes a real concern. Will this be another Lehman Brothers meltdown threatening the entire system or just another of the long line of banks that hit a pain point and required regulators to intervene? The Fed itself...

On February 28th, the Supreme Court heard arguments on President Biden’s plan to extinguish an estimated $400 billion in student debt. Biden deserves credit for highlighting a debilitating federal program in desperate need of reform. His proposal, however, would make the problem far worse, not better. Any serious reform would force academic institutions to take some responsibility for the education they provide—and to show some responsibility to the many young Americans they induce to go deeply into debt. The problems run deep. American higher education has become a hollow bubble of an industry coasting on brand equity and past glory....

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) WHILE WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER DEEPLY, WE CANNOT TOLERATE ERROR AND EVIL IN OUR CHURCHES. (David Jeremiah)