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Just Stop Oil (JSO) supporters have spray-painted “1.5 is dead” on Charles Darwin’s grave after confirmation that last year was the first to breach the important global warming threshold. Two people used chalk paint on the naturalist’s grave in Westminster Abbey, London, at about 9.30am on Monday, the climate protest group said. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading council, from Rode in Somerset, were involved in the action, JSO added. The Metropolitan police confirmed two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage “with what is...

As Los Angeles firefighters continue to battle deadly wildfires, authorities were forced to confront wild conspiracies - including a claim that firefighters are using 'women's handbags' to douse the flames. Disgraced Sandy Hook truther Alex Jones made the assertion on Thursday, sharing video of fire crews carrying bags filled with water. He claimed the department needed to use the 'women's handbags' because it sent supplies over to war-torn Ukraine. But LA Fire Department Chief Erik Scott, a public information officer, has since explained to the Wall Street Journal that the so-called handbags were actually canvas bags fire departments regularly use...

Potlicker, a 4-year-old bull from Black Pines, B.C., named 2024's Bull of The YearAt his ranch in Black Pines, just outside Kamloops, B.C., Ed LeBourdais knows how to get his bulls' attention. Grabbing a five-gallon bucket, he gives it a few firm thumps to summon his herd. "They all come once you beat the bucket," he told CBC's Daybreak Kamloops host Shelly Joyce. "The older guys will definitely come first. The younger ones, they'll follow when we start [scattering grain]." Among the towering figures lured by the rhythmic thuds is Potlicker, a 1,700-pound bull who has made a name for...

In November 1961, a disastrous brush fire destroyed nearly 500 homes when it roared over a mountain ridge and swept through canyons in Los Angeles' Bel Air community, a grim illustration of the potential for wildfire devastation in a densely populated area surrounded by steep terrain and dry brush.

NATIONAL PEACH MELBA DAY Another dessert brought to us by an internationally famous chef, National Peach Melba Day offers a refreshing celebration on January 13th each year. #PeachMelbaDay French chef Auguste Escoffier invented the elegant dessert back in 1892 or 1893, depending on the source. He created the dessert with peaches, vanilla ice cream, and raspberry sauce while employed at the Savoy Hotel, London. The dessert honored Australian soprano, Nellie Melba. The chef was known for naming his creations after famous people. Three such recipes are celebrated on the calendar including National Melba Toast Day onMarch 23rd. Nellie Melba was...

There have been multiple reports of unexplained drone activity on both forks, including several over Southold and three over Riverhead last month, as well as at least one over Shelter Island and one in Laurel this month. Just after the New Year, county officials revealed that Francis Gabreski airport in Westhampton Beach has experienced repeated breaches of restricted airspace surrounding the airport, which serves as the headquarters of the 106th Rescue Wing of the New York Air National Guard. There is little uniformity among the sightings. Some drones have been observed hovering for hours in one place, while other reports...

"State Farm, my insurer for decades, canceled my insurance and everyone in our immediate neighborhood just before the fire. State Farm WASN’T there. . . ." — James Woods. “So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.” — Michael ShellenbergerFor those in the USA with an interest in collapsing the USA, the Los Angeles fire is the gift that will keep...

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...

On Sunday evening, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unleashed a fiery critique on social media, accusing five key figures—Dade Phelan, Dennis Bonnen, Greg Bonnen (Dennis’ brother and a current House member), Dustin Burrows, and Cody Harris—of running the Texas House like a “personal business” through a revolving door of leadership positions and shared financial interests.

Athens: Turkey’s fiercest rival Greece is now equipped with Rafale fighter jets. The Hellenic Air Force has officially completed the acquisition of 24 Rafale fighter jets. Greece received the last Rafale aircraft at Tanagra Air Base on 9 January. .....

Rice University physicists have mathematically unveiled the possibility of paraparticles, which defy the traditional binary classification of particles into bosons and fermions. Their research, which delves into the realms of abstract algebra and condensed matter, hints at groundbreaking applications in quantum computing and information systems, suggesting an exciting, albeit speculative, future for new material properties and particle behavior. Breaking Conventional Particle Categories Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have believed that all particles fall into one of two categories — bosons or fermions — defined by their distinct behaviors. However, recent research by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard...

Perhaps some here remember, I posted a thread some weeks ago. I received a check, almost $2,000 from the government. It had NO DOCUMENTATION whatsoever. The return address on the envelope was marked "US Separtment of the Treasury, Bureau of The Fiscal Service...Philadelphia PA." The check was made to me AND my wife. We were NOT due any refund that we were aware of for the last several years. Folks here advised me NOT to cash or deposit the check, with many different ideas about schemes and scams that could have been behind the check. I looked up all I...

This video, documenting the moments after David Humphlett was bitten by a diamondback rattlesnake, has been viewed over 38 million times across various media channels, mostly because of David's nonchalant reaction. Check it out: VIDEO AT LINK................ "Welp. I'm cooked." That phrase has been praised, mocked, and turned into a meme. It's even spawned multiple crypto coins trying to cash in on the viral wave — some of which have surprisingly contributed real dollars to help pay for David's hospital bills. Antivenin costs a lot of money, and he received over 88 vials of the stuff. But the biggest question...

Germany's far right is in a buoyant mood. On Saturday, while its conference was under way in the eastern town of Riesa, in Saxony, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) laid out ambitions to close Germany's borders, resume buying Russian gas and, in effect, dismantle the EU. German media reported that party's agreed manifesto includes plans to quit the Paris climate deal, exit the Euro currency and create a new confederation of states. The AfD's leader, Alice Weidel, even publicly embraced the term "remigration" - a word that's widely understood to mean the mass "return" or deportation of people with a migrant...

For Americans, living under President Joe Biden, it has been an exceptionally long four years. President Donald Trump bequeathed to Biden a strong country with American energy independence, a secure border, a robust military, peace abroad and economic prosperity at home. Sadly, Biden ruined everything Trump left to him by pursuing destructive progressive policies that were an abysmal failure. On his first day in office, Biden declared war on the oil and gas industry, shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline and placing moratoriums on drilling.

Melania Trump revealed the details of her $40 million documentary, where she'll live as first lady, and if Barron will come to the White House in a new interview that aired on Monday. The incoming first lady opened up in a sit down with Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends about her plans for her second term in the White House. She indicated that, unlike her first four years in the position, she plans to take a much more high-profile role in the White House. In addition to her documentary, she plans to expand her Be Best campaign. She explained...

For decades, conservative Christians opposed to homosexuality cited the Bible scholarship of Richard B. Hays, the dean of Duke Divinity School, who provided a full-on argument from Scripture against gay relationships. “Homosexuality is one among many tragic signs that we are a broken people, alienated from God’s loving purpose,” Mr. Hays asserted in his book “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” (1996), which was read by a generation of seminary students. Then, last year, Mr. Hays released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by recanting his earlier views and asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that...

Green radicals from the Just Stop Oil activist collective defaced Charles Darwin’s grave on Monday, claiming that humanity will not be able to adapt to the supposed climate crisis. Members of the climate change alarmist Just Stop Oil group used orange spray paint to deface ‘Father of Evolution’ Charles Darwin’s grave memorial in Westminster Abbey, with the message “1.5 is dead”, a reference to the 2015 Paris Agreement, which called on governments to prevent the world from increasing temperatures beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. “Two Just Stop Oil supporters have painted Charles Darwin’s grave to demand that the UK government works...

Let's play a quickfire round of "As I said ten years ago": 🎯"Successful terrorism persuades the terrorized that in fact you've had an attack of conscience. That's why after 9/11, across Europe, North America, and Australia, Muslim immigration accelerated. It's quite astonishing, that. It's never happened in human history before. But... https://t.co/6oQH89pG3q pic.twitter.com/G7J0ohfvNB — Bob Loblaw 🇺🇸 (@1BobLoblaw) January 13, 2025 This was not a rhetorical flourish, even in 2015. It is not just that the peoples of the west are increasingly taking on the psychological condition of battered wives, but that, in England and elsewhere, their daughters are literally...

Commiefornia's Push to Restrict Vintage and Classic Cars 4:12 VIDEO AT LINK............ They want to create "ZERO EMISSION ZONES" where you cannot drive. Eventually this will expand to the entire state and you will not be able to drive an ICE automobile or TRUCK in California............... These people are INSANE.................