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t the beginning of March, Aria Babu quit her job at a think tank to dedicate herself to something most people have never heard of. Having worked in public policy for several years, the 26-year-old Londoner had come to an alarming realisation about the future of the UK, the world – and the human species. ‘It became clear to me that people wanted more children than they were having,’ Babu says. ‘Considering this is such a massive part of people’s lives, the fact that they were not able to fulfil this want was clearly indicative that something was wrong.’

Tesla is down 11% today.

The latest banking crisis only increased concerns that the U.S. economy is headed for a downturn. Some politicians, including President Joe Biden, are now exploiting recession fears to extend pandemic-era aid programs. The sad reality is that these aid programs cannot deliver on their promises to solve the poverty problem. Between the beginning of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and that of Donald Trump, taxpayer spending on the nation’s 13 largest means-tested welfare programs increased by almost 240 percent. While poverty generally tends to fall during boom times and rise during busts, the overall trend has been mostly unchanged. That’s a terrible...

Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong indicated that the crypto exchange would consider moving away from the U.S. if the regulatory environment for the industry does not become clearer. "Anything is on the table, including relocating or whatever is necessary" he said after former U.K. Chancellor George Osbourne asked whether he could see Coinbase leaving the U.S. at Fintech Week in London. "I think the U.S. has the potential to be an important market for crypto, but right now we are not seeing that regulatory clarity that we need," he said. "I think in a number of years if we don't...

A West Virginia lawmaker dealt another major blow to the Democratic Party this week by announcing his switch to the GOP. Freshman West Virginia Delegate Elliot Pritt, who also works as a teacher, penned a letter to the House Democratic Caucus on Monday declaring that he could no longer remain a Democrat. "I am writing to inform you of my decision to leave the Democratic Party," Pritt wrote. "We are being pushed out," Pritt continued. "It has become more and more obvious that there is very little room in the party for traditional values or differences regarding political opinion." Pritt...

An arbitration panel ordered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to pay $5 million within 30 days to a Nevada software developer for proving Lindell was wrong in his claim that certain data was related to the 2020 presidential election and purported voting machine fraud. The panel, in its 23-page ruling issued Wednesday, said that the Robert Zeidman "proved the data Lindell LLC provided, and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data." Zeidman, a software developer, entered the "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge" contest in during a cyber symposium in August 2021.... ... "This...

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is suing the World Economic Forum, claiming the Swiss-based organization falsely portrayed him as one of its “young global leaders” and refused to take his name off its website for two years. Ramaswamy, 37, the son of immigrants from India who says he is worth $500 million, does not want to be associated with the WEF’s “progressive” and “radical” policies and positions, according to the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in a Cincinnati, Ohio, court. Major political figures as varied as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime...

Media reports on alleged scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas reveal the Left’s desire to destroy his credibility, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. After the ProPublica report on Thomas’ acceptance of expense-paid trips from his friend, billionaire real estate developer Harlan Crow, which Thomas said his colleagues assured him was not reportable, multiple other reports were released accusing Thomas of wrongdoing. Lawyers told the Daily Caller News Foundation the reports are incomplete, amounting to a smear campaign aimed at swaying public perception, joining two federal judges who also criticized the reports this week. “With each new hit piece,...

South Florida is facing gas shortages across the region after it was pummeled with severe storms last week that brought historic rainfall and widespread flooding. About 55 percent of gas stations in Miami and Fort Lauderdale are without fuel as of Thursday morning, according to GasBuddy’s Southeast Florida Live Gas Station Outage Tracker. Another about 34 percent of gas stations are also without fuel in West Palm Beach as demand for gasoline increased after the storms. Intense storms dropped a historic range of 15 inches to 26 inches of rain in the Fort Lauderdale region last week, with much of...

The insects were just as accurate as trained dogs, although not as cuddly. Peter F. Wolf / Unsplash Team of researchers primarily based out of Sorbonne University in Paris has trained ants to recognize the subtle scent of cancer cells, hinting at their tantalizing potential to detect cancers in humans. The researchers’ fascinating findings were recently published in the journal iScience. Widely known for their remarkable ability to cooperate and their ridiculous relative strength (able to carry between 10 and 50 times their own body weight), ants have only recently been lauded for their keen sense of smell. In 2012,...

H.4246 has been introduced in the South Carolina General Assembly to nullify the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed pandemic treaty and IHR amendments. Please help enact H.4246 by contacting your state legislators. Urge them to support strong measures that uphold and enforce the Constitution. snip TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING ARTICLE 27 TO CHAPTER 1, TITLE 1 SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE STATE OR ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS FROM IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL TREATIES BEFORE THE TREATY IS RATIFIED BY THE UNITED STATES SENATE. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of...

Vice President Harris says she plans on whipping up another role in her future: cookbook author. “One day I’m going to write a cookbook,” Harris said during a Thursday appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” “I am a very good cook,” the VP said while discussing a Sunday night family dinner tradition she shares with husband Doug Emhoff and her two stepchildren. “I’ve started to actually write my recipes because the kids [and] my husband will always say, ‘Why don’t you write down your recipes?’ And I realized I probably should start doing that,” Harris, 58, told Hudson. “The family...

Tony Blinken, now secretary of state, was the Biden campaign foreign affairs adviser who urgently phoned Morell in October 2020 to suggest the laptop was a Russian plant. “We can prove that the entire purpose of this letter at the outset was to influence a presidential election with some of the most senior people who have ever been in our intelligence community ­using the imprimatur of their security clearances to pave the way for Joe Biden’s presidency,” Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast this week. Morell, now a CBS contributor (Hey, “60 Minutes,” scoop in your...

The Patriotic Millionaires organization, whose millionaire members claim they want to pay higher taxes to the federal government, were unwilling to sign a pledge to do just that because it would require them as individuals to voluntarily pay higher taxes. Instead, the Patriotic Millionaires want Congress to pass laws making all millionaires pay more in taxes. “A bunch of millionaires said they want to pay higher taxes and they’re advocating for it, but they won’t sign a pledge saying they’re willing to pay the taxes that they endorse,” said Stepehn Moore, a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. At...

The FBI has opened a probe into an antisemitic assault on a Las Vegas Jewish teen with autism who came home from school with a swastika carved into his back, according to Newsweek. The 17-year-old boy who wears a kippah is non-verbal. He uses a service dog to go to school at Clark High School in Las Vegas, the Jewish Press reported. In the incident, the boy’s service dog’s equipment bag was also vandalized. The teen’s mother told the news outlet that Clark High School refused to take her complaint seriously. The mother questioned how the boy’s assistant could have...

Meri Perkins 3 DAYS AGO This doctor complains of adverse events and has developed a theory of why: copy to search and replace DOT w/ . rccxandillnessDOTcom/rccx-theory-part-i-genes-and-properties-of-the-rccx-module-explain-clusters-of-illness-in-families-and-all-the-symptomssyndromes-found-in-chronic-illnessDOThtml BJ B J 17 DAYS AGO Just wanting to give an update for all of those people who have muscle twitching. I was vaxxed in October 21, the twitching started the night of the vax along with fever fast heart and insomnia. I have now been twitching all Lauren O. MARCH 6, 2023 I haven’t posted on here in a long time. I received one Moderna vaccine on august 2021. I’ve had muscle...

...in the heart of Paris, scientists have uncovered 50 graves in an ancient necropolis which offer a rare glimpse of life in the French capital's precursor Lutetia nearly 2,000 years ago.Somehow the buried necropolis was never stumbled upon during multiple road works over the years, as well as the construction of the Port-Royal station on the historic Left Bank in the 1970s.However, plans for a new exit for the train station prompted an archaeological excavation...The "Saint Jacques" necropolis, the largest burial site in the Gallo–Roman town of Lutetia, was previously partially excavated in the 1800s.However, only objects considered precious were...

ANALYSIS: Paper latest example of how woke U. Minnesota academics pass off political views as scholarly work A paper on “diversity, equity and inclusion” in health services departments has been retracted for misrepresenting the “authenticity of experiences” cited. But the paper is just the latest example of how woke University of Minnesota academics pass off their political views as scholarly work. “Transactional and transformative diversity, equity, and inclusion activities in health services research departments,” first published on Jan. 8 in Wiley Online Library and then in March in Health Services Research, contained problems acknowledged by the authors. One of the...

SECOND WEEK OF EASTER John 3:31-36Friends, today’s Gospel promises eternal life to those who believe in the Son of God.In almost every religion, the life of faith has something to do with a creature’s relationship to the Creator; nearly all religions speak of the creature’s dependency upon God, of his subjection to the divine providence, and of his need for grace and forgiveness. Christianity, too, articulates these basic relationships, but it pushes beyond them because it speaks of the Incarnation and the gifts associated with it.We hear in the third chapter of John’s Gospel that “God so loved the world...

As I publish this, the Indonesian national holiday Hari Kartini is just beginning. Geopolitically, Indonesia is a free market democratising society which is wavering between being non aligned in its region and being troubled by some aspects of modern Chinese expansionism. It behooves The West to try to understand Indonesia better. It is the fourth biggest nation in the world by population. The Kartini Day holiday celebrates the life and spirit of Javanese princess Raden Ajeng Kartini, who established the first high school for girls in Java over a hundred years ago during Dutch Colonial rule. This made Kartini a...