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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a British biotech firm’s application to release 2.4 million genetically altered mosquitoes into the wild as an “experimental pesticide product.”Via NBC News:The experimental public health effort, which still requires final approval from state regulators, follows the 2021 release of 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys by British biotech firm Oxitec.Oxitec said its genetically modified male, and thus non-biting, mosquitoes “find and mate with invasive female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, mediating a reduction of the target population as the female offspring of these encounters cannot survive,” thus reducing the overall population…Oxitec’s mosquito release...

A meme popular among American pundits claims that China’s economy is doomed by a slowly declining population. More important than the aggregate Chinese population is the technically proficient Chinese population. That has grown 20-fold, or by 2,000%, in the past 40 years. Other Asian countries, notably South Korea, previously achieved record-shattering productivity gains with similar enhancement of skills. We’ve heard this argument before, applied to the Asian Tigers. The doomsayers had their heyday just before East Asia’s growth went vertical. Perhaps the worst economic prediction in recorded history was Paul Krugman’s 1994 assertion that the Asian economic miracle was a...

“Ponzi Scheme” is a term that was coined about 100 years ago. It was named after an Italian immigrant, Charles Ponzi, who realized he could get investors by promising large returns for undefined, high-yield investments. His endeavor needed to make just enough money to keep attracting new investors, whose money, after Ponzi’s cut, was used to pay some of the earlier investors. In our modern day, Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme resulted in losses in the billions of dollars when the stock market tanked during the Great Recession. Selling the Deal Americans are just beginning to see the tip of the...

British Banks are to be told by the Treasury that they must protect free speech amid an escalating row over the blacklisting of customers who hold controversial views. Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, is understood to be “deeply concerned” that overzealous lenders are closing down accounts because they disagree with customers’ opinions and has asked City minister Andrew Griffith to investigate the issue. Whitehall sources said that results of a consultation on the subject will be published within weeks, after it was launched earlier this year in the wake of PayPal blocking the accounts of free speech groups. The controversy flared...

SHOCK: RFK Jr Reveals REAL Killer of His Father, Thane Eugene Cesar, Lockheed Martin/CIA Operative (8 MIN VIDEO)

More than 6,000 congregations have been given the approval to leave the United Methodist Church over the past four years amid a schism within the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States over whether to change its rules against homosexuality. According to numbers compiled by UM News, the number of UMC congregations granted disaffiliation passed the 6,000 mark earlier this week, with 6,182 as of Thursday morning. While the number includes all churches that have disaffiliated from the UMC since 2019, more than 1,800 came in 2022 and more than 4,000 in 2023. The UM News count derives from a...

SBC Pastor Dwight McKissic, the CRT-embracing, pro-choice egalitarian who can frequently be found advocating for every weird and woke position within the denomination, and who keeps on threatening to leave the convention but never does, has likened the SBC’s sentiments and treatment of women in 2023 to the racist treatment and attitudes towards enslaved black folks in the Antebellum South. In a post on Twitter, McKissic says that he believes the following statement with his whole heart: In 50-100 years our theologically conservative descendants will look back upon us theological conservatives now and lament just how poorly we viewed women...

The closure comes after Archbishop Alexander Sample condemned addressing students by their chosen pronouns. According to emails sent to school staff by leaders of four separate Portland Catholic schools Thursday and Friday, the Archdiocese of Portland has “temporarily” closed its Department of Catholic Schools. “Yesterday, Archbishop [Alexander] Sample let pastors of schools know of an important change for catholic schools for our Archdiocese…the Department of Catholic Schools has been ‘temporarily’ closed,” wrote Pastor Matt Libra of St. Rose of Lima Catholic School, a K-8, to parents on Friday. “In the interim period, the Pastoral Center will coordinate the functions of...

GEORGETOWN, Texas — A Georgetown man pleaded guilty in a federal court in Austin to an enhanced charge of possession of child pornography. According to court documents, 57-year-old David Lloyd Walther knowingly searched for, downloaded, distributed, and possessed child sexual abuse material, including child pornography using BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. During a search of Walther's home in November 2022, two large computer hard drives were found with more than 100,000 images and over 5,000 videos of material. Walther was the pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock at the time of his arrest.

Delaware US Attorney David Weiss exploded that fallacy when he slipped out a late Friday evening letter to the House Judiciary Committee, hoping to bury the bad news on the eve of the holiday weekend. Added to the limp, over-long missive to Congress a few hours earlier from Hunter Biden’s fabled lawyer Abbe Lowell whose big complaint was about a breach of the “spirit of the law,” it was not a good day for the Biden protection unit. With Hunter Biden’s former “best friend in business” Devon Archer slated to testify this month before he goes to jail with nothing...

Another huge one-day bag by the Russian military...

Church attendance in the United States is lower than before the coronavirus pandemic, a Gallup News survey found. “U.S. church attendance has shown a small but noticeable decline compared with what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic,” the survey report states. The report details: In the four years before the pandemic, 2016 through 2019, an average of 34 percent of U.S. adults said they had attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the past seven days. From 2020 to the present, the average has been 30 percent, including a 31 percent reading in a May 1-24 survey.Gallup noted that church...

A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the second time in less than three weeks. The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was not formally notified but became aware on Friday of the bus dispatched from Brownsville, Texas, to L.A. Union Station, Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl said in a statement. 'The City of Los Angeles believes in treating everyone with respect and dignity and will do so,' he said. The bus arrived around 12:40pm, and the 41 asylum-seekers on board were welcomed by a collective of faith and immigrant...

The move to change birth certificates follows Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's order to city councils to stop non-parents from adopting their same-sex partners’ children. PADUA, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — A magistrate in northern Italy has requested that birth certificates issued to lesbian couples have the name of the nonbiological mother removed. Earlier this month, Valeria Sanzari, interim prosecutor of Padua, opened a legal case to remove the names of non-biological parents from birth certificates issued by the famous city, Reuters reported. “In Italy, marriage is only between a man and a woman, and therefore only the biological parent is the...

Two different guns may have been used in the December 8, 1980 shooting of music icon John Lennon, RadarOnline.com has learned. According to British author and TV producer David Whelan, two different types of bullets were removed from Lennon's body during the autopsy. One was marked as a Semi-wadcutter or hollow-point bullet, while the other was listed as a 38-caliber lead bullet. Whelan believes that the different bullet types add weight to his theory that a second shooter was involved in the killing. The author has spent three years investigating the murder and has highlighted several inconsistencies in the official...

Archbishop Andrews Thazhath’s circular insisted on following synod-approved Mass rejected by the majority of priests and laity In a public protest against the Vatican-appointed apostolic administrator of an Indian archdiocese, a group of lay people burnt his circular that insisted on a controversial form of Mass, which has been the center of a five-decade-old liturgical dispute. Parishioners of the St.Mary’s Basilica, the Cathedral in Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, burnt copies of the circular of their Apostolic Administrator Archbishop Andrews Thazhath on June 26 in Kochi city, the commercial capital of southern Kerala state. The cathedral, the seat of the Major Archbishop of...

Damage in the aftermath of yesterday’s storm Shortly after President Trump finished yesterday’s stump speech, a freak storm wrecked the small town of Pickens, South Carolina. Trees were uprooted, and roofs were blown away. One day later, the power has yet to be fully restored while nearly all 3,126 residents have a hand in cleaning up. But considering the way a crowd of 50,000 welcomed Sen. Lindsey Graham to the stage yesterday, the latest forecasting suggests bad weather has only just begun for the political establishment in the Palmetto State. “It was an odd, wild storm that only touched two...

The fatal shooting by police of a 17-year-old boy driving a car in a Paris suburb is the latest in a spate of such deadly incidents in France. It was the third killing this year during a police traffic stop and followed a record 13 deaths last year. Most of the victims have been of black or Arab origin, Reuters news agency reports. What is the legal basis for firing during a traffic stop? By law French police are allowed to shoot in five instances following a 2017 change in the law. That includes when the driver or occupants of...

Washington, D.C. authorities said that three local businesses on Sunday were hit with explosive devices and a Molotov cocktail. In a news release, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said that the suspected attacks happened within a fifteen-minute span. At approximately 4:30 a.m., the suspect detonated an explosive device on the sidewalk outside the ATM of a Truist Bank located in the Northeast section of the city, adding that the explosive device caused damage at the location. Six minutes later, authorities said the suspect detonated an explosive device on the sidewalk in front of the doors at the Nike Store located...

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