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South Africa’s opposition party is blasting the ruling African National Congress over draft regulations that would introduce race quotas for water use licenses for businesses. The proposed regulations (see page 91-92), which were published by Minister of Water Senzo Mchunu on May 19, would prove devastating to business sectors like agriculture and forestry, which reportedly account for about 60 percent of the country’s total water use.Under the ANC’s new water race quotas, applicants that use more than 250 000 m3 or withdraw more than a set minimum amount from streams need to meet strict racial quotas in order to get...

One of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s top D.C. fundraisers is a highly paid lobbyist for Big Pharma firm Moderna, and is advertising $1,000 tickets for access to DeSantis at his firm’s office a few blocks from the White House.The Daily Mail broke the story of lobbyist Marc Lampkin, one of the hosts of a DeSantis fundraiser in the swamp, on June 23rd.Lampkin has lobbied for Moderna since February 2021, and worryingly has also represented AbbVie – which makes puberty blocker Lupron targeted at “transgender” children – as well as the Chinese Communist Party-linked Fujian Jinhua – a semi-conductor manufacturer sanctioned...

An Oregon mayor has been left shocked after finding a dead raccoon and a sign with 'racially hateful' language that mentioned the city's first-ever black councilor outside his law office.

June is gay pride month. The homosexual community has adopted the rainbow as their symbol of God’s acceptance of their actions and lifestyle. But what does the Bible say about this?The only place in the Bible that addresses the rainbow is in Genesis 9 after the Noahic flood that destroyed the earth because the world had become so violent and sexually promiscuous in Genesis 6.After the flood, God re-established his covenant with humanity through Noah and his family. The Message Bible says it like this, Genesis 9:1-4 God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth!...

The Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), a denomination of over 2,000 churches with a statement of faith that aligns with the majority of Evangelical Christianity, has voted to allow women to serve in pastoral roles. The historic vote was part of CMA's 2023 General Council in Spokane, Washington, last week.Over 60% of delegates at the General Council approved updating the CMA Statement of Faith to reflect that, at the discretion of local church leadership, official workers, whether male or female, may use the title of "pastor" or "reverend" for specific ministry roles.The change means that females may be ordained for...

To Restore Faith in Public Health, We Need Truth CommissionsTwo blazing political controversies are destroying our trust in the integrity of medicine. One is, thankfully, mostly in the past — the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. The second is ongoing and growing increasingly bitter: How to best care for children who “feel” that they aren’t the sex they were born.These are different debates, but they share certain commonalities. Both issues involve the suspicion that officially preferred policies are more ideological than scientific. Both involve intense efforts by the establishment institutions to squelch heterodox opinions. Both have seen the erosion of the scientific...

Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway today revealed plans for a zero-emissions electric cruise ship with retractable sails covered in solar panels, which is due to set sail in 2030. The company currently has a fleet of eight ships, each with a capacity of 500 passengers, that travel along the Norwegian coast from Oslo to the Arctic Circle. Although a relatively small firm, CEO Hedda Felin hopes that this innovation “can inspire the entire maritime industry.” The project, named “Sea Zero,” was initially announced in March 2022 and since then, Hurtigruten Norway, along with 12 maritime partners and Norway-based research institute...

The New Hampshire globalist is the latest Never Trumper to rear his head once again ahead of 2024.Last Updated on June 6, 2023Globalist New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced that he would not run for president because he wants all never-Trump Republicans to rally behind a candidate to stop Trump from winning the GOP Primary. Sununu recently said some very nice things about Ron DeSantis during the Florida Governor’s Trip to New Hampshire, signaling that DeSantis is the candidate that Sununu is talking about.In the WAPO, Sununu attacked Republicans aiming to be Trump’s VP, writing, “Too many other candidates who...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson premiered his new program Tucker On Twitter to a massive audience, compiling tens of millions of views in a matter of hours. While Fox News and its corporate overlords had presumably hoped to silence Tucker through the 2024 Presidential Election, Carlson’s megaphone has only increased to quite possibly the largest in history since his dismissal from the cable news network. Former Fox News host and longtime truth-seeking newsman Tucker Carlson premiered his new show, Tucker On Twitter, on Tuesday evening, with the show airing at 6:00 PM and compiling tens of millions of views...

Absolutely USELESS Illinois State Reps do not even know the difference between Right and Wrong. I am Stunned But I know I shouldn't Be. State Reps like Brad Halbrook Depend on their Own thinking instead of getting clues from Our Constitution or Expert Legal advice from people who lead in the field. Absolutely DISGUSTING! VOTE THEM ALL OUT FOLKS!!

Russian defence chiefs have been mocked for claiming to destroy a German-supplied lethal Leopard 2 tank - when in fact they had blown up tractors in Ukrainian fields. The ridiculing was led by head of Wagner private army Yevgeny Prigozhin, who sees it as yet more evidence of blundering incompetence by Putin's defence chiefs and army. The Russian defence ministry hailed 'footage of the destruction of foreign armoured vehicles, including Leopard tanks'. But in reality, military analysts say the footage showed Russia blasting farm vehicles with a missile fired from a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter. In the video, a Russian...

Could Target's woke executives finally be made to pay attention?They might, given that they've been issued legal demands from a shareholder to produce all documents related to its woke transgender agenda.According to America First Legal, a group that is led by Stephen Miller, a former member of the Trump White House:WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL), on behalf of its client, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), served the Target Corporation with a formal demand for the production of corporate books and records, seeking transparency regarding its management’s radical LGBT political agenda that has apparently cost...

"Greed of the fossil fuel industry" is "destroying our planet," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says socialism creates "an environment that provides for all people, not just the privileged few." "Nonsense," says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video. Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez and most of us, spent lots of time in socialist countries. He once smuggled books into the Soviet Union. What he's seen convinces him that environmental-movement socialists are wrong about what's "green." "We tried socialism," says Palmer. "We ran the experiment. It was a catastrophe. Worst environmental...

Students will use algebra skills to "evaluate" the math involved in different reparations proposals, according to the unit overview.

Patients receiving neuromuscular blocking medications as part of their anesthetic regimen should be carefully monitored to ensure best care, according to guidelines from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. Medications that provide neuromuscular blockade are frequently used in anesthesia, both to ease placement of a breathing tube at the beginning of the anesthetic (intubation) and to provide optimal conditions for the surgery itself. Both ASA and ESAIC guidelines for the management of neuromuscular blockade recommend patients be monitored quantitatively as part of the process, meaning that the degree of muscle relaxation is...

Video at source A cold-hearted bowhunter shrugged off a sobbing boy who confronted him about hunting in his Long Island town, telling the child that death is simply “a part of life,” new video shows. Dominick Lobifaro, 30, was confronted Sunday by an Oakdale man and an animal-loving youngster who weren’t happy to see him scoping out a nearby wooded area of state-owned land apparently too close to their home, according to a clip of the heated encounter. “Hey, the kids wanna know — why you wanna kill deer?” the unidentified man asked Lobifaro as he sat in his truck....

As if things weren't rocky enough for CNN Worldwide CEO Chris Licht, a new report from The Wall Street Journal revealed top on-air talent voiced concerns about the CEO to incoming COO David Leavy. The Journal, citing anonymous sources close to the matter, reported that Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, and Erin Burnett have all criticized Licht. The report follows a disastrous profile in The Atlantic, a widely-panned town hall with former President Donald Trump, and an ongoing ratings slump. CNN announced that Leavy would be joining CNN 24 hours before Tim Alberta's Atlantic piece dropped, and though the new COO...

Yesterday, globalists at the European Union and World Health Organization unveiled a “landmark digital health partnership” to “facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats.” We’re promised, moreover, that “This first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network…will… deliver better health for all.” Actually, what you’ll get with this “health partnership” is international aggregation of your personal data, surveillance, control and abuse. Even before that dark day arrives, as Dr. Robert Malone has pointed out, bureaucrats in the “Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology” have already launched...

Ukraine's Major General Andrey Kovalchuk, the former commander of November's Kherson Counteroffensive, tells The Post how he intended to blow up the dam. "Kovalchuk considered flooding the river," The Post writes. "The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper's water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages. The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort.

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine may deprive Russian-occupied Crimea of vital freshwater supplies for more than a decade, according to the head of the Ukrainian Ecological League. Kyiv has started the evacuation of thousands of residents on the west bank of the river, while urging Russian occupation authorities on the east bank to evacuate tens of thousands more. While both sides grapple with the sudden devastation, the water levels at the Nova Kakhovka reservoir—which is north of the dam and was a source of water for the North Crimean Canal and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power...