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Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore. “Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making...

Hundreds of thousands of Romanians furious with the current government for the cancellation of the presidential election marched today (12) through the capital Bucharest to demand that the vote should proceed and that outgoing – and by now illegitimate – President Klaus Iohannis should resign. Reuters reported:“In a move that polarized voters, Romania’s top court voided the presidential election on Dec. 6, two days before the second round.The cancellation came after state documents showed frontrunner Calin Georgescu, a critic of NATO, had benefited from an unfair social media campaign likely to have been orchestrated by Russia, accusations Moscow has denied.”Reuters...

When Jim Tyrer first appeared on a Pro Football Hall of Fame ballot in the early 1980s after completing an impressive 14-year career, the Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman looked like a sure bet to land in Canton. Tyrer, though, never made it into the Hall, and his name disappeared from the ballot for more than 40 years. That's because, in the early morning hours of Sept. 15, 1980, in an upstairs bedroom of a two-story ranch house, while his children were fast asleep, Tyrer took a .38-caliber pistol and shot his wife to death, and then turned the gun...

A rally has been planned for noon Monday at Allentown City Hall following the discovery of an item resembling a noose draped over the desk of a Black employee there. It was found around 7:30 a.m. Friday inside the Community and Economic Development Office, according to the police department. Community leaders will be presenting a list of demands to the city of Allentown at the rally at City Hall, 435 W. Hamilton St., a press release said. The group says that the targeted employee is part of an open Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case with other city employees against...

Furious protests have erupted in Romania following the threat by former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, saying, ‘We did it in Romania, and obviously we will do it in Germany,’ referring to cancelling the result of the German general election in February. Speaking on television, Breton proclaimed that if the European Commission decides that the election in Germany was in some way influenced by foreign interference, they would seek to annul the result of the election in the same way they have just done with the Romanian election. Why did European Commission annul Polish election? The decision to cancel the presidential...

The image, posted by the airline on social media, appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower, with some on social media comparing the campaign to the 9/11 terror attacks in New York.There has been anger and dismay online over an advert used by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to promote the resumption of flights to Europe after a four-year safety ban. The image posted by the airline on social media appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower, with some on social media comparing the campaign to the 2001 World Trade Centre terror attacks in...

Incoming Vice President JD Vance has received some notable criticism for his comments on J6 protesters earlier today, and now he is firing back. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Vance appeared on Fox News Sunday today to speak about the incoming Trump Administration’s plans to save America. But he inadvertently whipped up a social media uproar when the subject turned to J6 pardons. During the discussion, Vance revealed to host Shannon Bream how Trump will decide who should get a pardon and who should stay in jail. And this is bad news for some notable J6 prisoners. “It’s very simple,”...

Los Angeles residents angered by local officials’ response to the fires devastating their communities are now questioning how their tax dollars are being used, a researcher told Fox News. Kristian Fors, a Los Angeles County resident and research fellow at the California-based Independent Institute, told the outlet on Sunday that Californians assume their leaders will fix problems that arise, Fox News reported. “I think at its core level, we, the citizens of the United States and of Los Angeles, we expect certain provisions from our government. And when people see that our basic needs are not being met, they’re angry,”...

Pasadena and Altadena, two communities hit hard by the Eaton fire, have a rich history of Black community and culture. Many homes go back generations and have been passed down for decades from parents to their children. Some say the areas were rare places where Black residents could afford homes, especially in the decades after the end of segregation... About 18% of Altadena’s residents and approximately 7% of Pasadena’s residents are Black... More than 4,000 structures were lost in the Eaton fire and more than 200 GoFundMe pages as of Saturday, Jan. 11, have shown the impact of the fire...

Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey has claimed that the Los Angeles fires are the result of a climate change “disaster” stoked by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of “Big Oil” — and there is “more death” coming as a result. “Trump has been bought for $1 billion by Big Oil. Just a payoff to kill the IRA and the Green New Deal. We know what will happen. More fires, more climate disasters, more death. The LA fires are preview of coming atrocities,” Markey wrote on X on Saturday: In another post from Friday, the left-wing senator said Trump is adding “fuel...

In a burning building situation, I can assure you I don't want someone who looks like me,' wrote T Becket Adams, the program director for the National Journalism Center at Young America's Foundation. 'I don't want Temu Philip Seymour Hoffman;' he said, referring to the late actor. 'I want Ving Rhames busting in like the Kool-Aid Man,' Adams said of the Mission: Impossible

The horror that has hit Los Angeles is something we haven’t seen since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over that lantern in 1871. Back then, Chicago burned to the ground and roughly 300 people died. That was more than 150 years ago, things were different then, and things are very different now. There is literally zero reason for a repeat, in any respect, of what happened in Chicago, and yet we are getting just that because of the mentality of the radical progressive leftists who’ve run that city for all but 8 of the last 64 years. The Great Chicago Fire...

WASHINGTON — President Biden says he is still considering whether to give pardons to people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Biden said he and his aides were playing close attention to rhetoric from Trump and his allies about his political opponents and those involved in his various criminal and civil woes. “It depends on some of the language and expectations that Trump broadcast in the last couple days here as to what he’s going to do,” Biden said. “The idea that he would punish people for...

As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement on Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.With temperatures rising around the globe and the oceans unusually warm, scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change.The firestorms ravaging the country’s second-largest city are just the latest spasm of extreme weather that is growing more furious as well as more unpredictable. Wildfires are highly unusual in Southern California in January, which...

[H/T grey_whiskers]https://x.com/stella_immanuel/status/1878424748033466759?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwDr. Stella Immanuel MD@stella_immanuelPFIZER JUST RELEASED ITS LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS OF ITS "COVID VACCINE" # The list of some side effects of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 Vaccine. Blood thrombosis. Acute kidney injury, Acute flaccid myelitis, Positive antisperm antibodies, Brainstem embolism, Brainstem thrombosis, Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases), Heart failure, Cardiac ventricular thrombosis, Cardiogenic shock, Central nervous system vasculitis, Neonatal death, Deep vein thrombosis, Brainstem encephalitis, Hemorrhagic encephalitis, Frontal lobe epilepsy, Foaming at the mouth, Epileptic psychosis, Facial paralysis, Fetal distress syndrome, Gastrointestinal amyloidosis, Hashimoto's encephalopathy, Hepatic vascular thrombosis, Herpes zoster reactivation, Hepatitis Immune-mediated, Interstitial lung disease, Jugular vein embolism,...

In the wake of the fires’ devastation, what comes next is not easy, and worse, often not fair. Gardeners, cleaning ladies, cooks, even nannies are now without work, but still have rent due. How do we include them in recovery? As firefighters slowly start to control the flames that have decimated too many of the hills and valleys that surround Los Angeles, talk of recovery is already underway. For those whose beloved homes are now reduced to slanting chimneys and ash, it may provide comfort to hear these pledges from our president, governor, mayor and other powers-that-be to support and...

After a protracted legal battle, that lasted over eight years, a court in Washington D.C. has ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to pay National Review over half a million dollars in attorney fees and costs. The ruling marks a significant victory for National Review, which was sued by Mann for defamation and infliction of emotional distress over two blog posts published in 2012 that criticized his work and involvement in a political dispute. Mann's lawsuit, which the court ultimately deemed meritless, dragged on for years, forcing National Review to expend considerable resources in its defense. During the...

Jen Psaki blames Trump, Elon, and Republicans in wake of California wildfires. Trump is not in office yet. Democrats control CaliforniaVideo

Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV Arson is NOT climate change.

“Dodged a Bullet” Because of the Timing of the Fire Posted on November 13, 2024 by SueEXCERPT:Firefighters worked to stop the fire from going over the hill to the enclave of homes on the other side. The reservoir [Santa Ynez Reservoir], which appears dry is in the background.A five-acre brush fire was reported in the Palisades Highlands near the Santa Ynez Reservoir and adjacent to Topanga State Park at 9:50 a.m. on November 13.According to LAFD this is “slow moving in heavy brush. It is topography driven (not wind) with steep slopes.” The cause of the fire is under investigation.An...