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Billions of people around the world face starvation if Net Zero policies ban the production of nitrogen fertiliser derived from fossil fuels. This is the stark warning from two top American scientists who say that eliminating fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertilisers and pesticides “will result in about half the world’s population not having enough food to eat”. They add that eliminating Net Zero fertiliser will create “worldwide starvation”. In a wide-ranging paper titled ‘Challenging ‘Net Zero’ with Science‘, Emeritus Professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen of Princeton and MIT respectively, along with geologist Gregory Wrightstone, state that Net Zero – the...

Americans have already cast 30 million votes in the first weeks of early voting, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. The number of early votes suggests Americans are highly motivated to cast their ballot before Election Day, which saves the Trump and Harris campaigns time and money. Swing state early voting data, which is more valuable than polling, appears to be benefiting former President Donald Trump thus far. More on Trump’s preliminary lead is here. Republicans took the lead in cumulative early voting in North Carolina and continued to hold it for a couple of days. The lead...

The cast of “The West Wing” visited Wisconsin to help the Harris-Walz team promote early voting Saturday. Actors made stops in Waukesha, Milwaukee and Madison, Wisc. Actor Bradley Whitford kicked off discussions on the ground with voters alongside Martin Sheen, Dulé Hill, Mary McCormack and Richard Schiff. “Get in the game. Make a substantive contribution,” Sheen said while amping up voters. “If you go down swinging, at least you took your shot. Just don’t watch the pitch go by.” The rest of his speech touched on policy initiatives like climate change and gun laws. “Global warming constitutes a clear and...

Former President Jimmy Carter says he hopes to cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. As Carter nears his 100th birthday, beating former President Trump is one of the only things on his mind. “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip, his grandson Jason Carter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Carter’s 100th birthday is on Oct. 1. He first entered hospice care in Feb. 2023 and has outlived his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last November.

Mickey, Goofy and Donald want to work in a unionized Disney clubhouse. The “cast members” who don the costumes of the beloved characters at Disney’s California theme parks filed a petition to have a vote on whether to join the Actors’ Equity Association, the union shop which represents live performers such as Broadway actors and even strippers. The group organizing the petition said that it had amassed signatures from more than two-thirds of the 1,700 Disneyland employees as of Thursday.

One of the most notorious political scandals in American history, the Watergate Scandal is set to be exposed yet again in White House Plumbers (2023), an all-new miniseries coming this Spring. The notorious scandal that would ultimately remove President Richard Nixon from power remains to this day an unprecedented act of political espionage, showing what even people in the highest and most respected institutions in the country are willing to do in the name of the greater good. It's a well-documented historical event that has been depicted and referenced in various movies and shows, but with White House Plumbers, it's...

Nearly half of all vote-by-mail ballots in Pennsylvania had already been cast before Tuesday night’s U.S. Senate debate, which was judged a disaster — even by Democrats — after Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), recovering from a stroke, struggled to form coherent sentences. Fetterman had sought to avoid a debate, and his campaign has restricted his public appearances.. When he finally agreed to one, Democrats sought to delay the debate until ballots were already being cast by mail, since Democrats are more likely to use that method and more of the party’s vote would already be cast. However, given that...

...More than a foot of snow had fallen in New Jersey by early Saturday morning. ...Rhode Island issued a travel ban for all non-emergency vehicles on Saturday... ....A snow emergency was declared in Boston.. ....Maryland activated National Guard troops. ....Coastal residents in one Massachusetts town were told to consider leavin

If New Yorkers are trying to make a case for ignoring them, they’re doing a great job. Tonight theater-goers were treated to a night of booing and free style political rants at the highly acclaimed play, “Hamilton”. Vice President-elect Mike Pence was in attendance which apparently triggered the cast and crew. Some of the audience cheered while others loudly booed when he arrived, according to reports from people in attendance. But the show-stopper, literally, was the statement the cast read to him after the performance (and apparently after he already left the room.) After social media lit up with stories...

About 6 million people break their bones each year, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. But after fracturing his arm, one industrial design graduate used a 3-D printer to produce n exoskeletal brace. The result is an innovative concept for fixing broken bones that, if nothing else, has presented an interesting case for rethinking the plaster cast. Victoria University graduate Jake Evill created the brace prototype with a homemade 3-D printer and nylon plastic. In an interview with Wired magazine, Evill said the inspiration for his Cortex design came from the trabecular, a structure that forms the inner...

CORAL SPRINGS— A Fort Lauderdale man was arrested over the weekend after he tried to saw a cast off his son's hand and severely cut the teenager, according to a Coral Springs police affidavit released on Monday. Lawrence Roberts, 33, was arrested Sunday and charged with aggravated child abuse, a first-degree felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment. "I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence," Obama said in September...

A website launched on Tuesday, which published the names of 200 Israeli soldiers who participated in the Cast Lead counterror operation in 2008 and 2009 in Gaza, as well as their photographs, ranks, positions, birthdates, identity numbers and addresses, was taken down briefly Thursday for violating the terms of its use. The site was back up later, referring to the soldiers as war criminals.

Martin Freeman is set to star as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's two-movie adaptation of The Hobbit... Thorin Oakenshield...Richard ArmitageFili...Aidan TurnerKili...Rob Kazinskyetc...

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(IsraelNN.com) IAF jets attacked more than 100 targets Tuesday in Gaza, on Day 18 of Operation Cast Lead, and an anti-aircraft gun was discovered in a mosque. [See video below.] The targets included about 55 tunnels used for smuggling weapons and 20 spots used for launching rockets. IAF aircraft aided by ground forces hit 22 crews of armed gunmen. In one case, a ground force spotted terrorists laying an explosive device and called in the IAF which hit the terrorists. Troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip encountered several gunmen armed with anti-tank missiles and light weapons. The troops directed...

Drudge has a photo up of Cindy McCain with a "bright pink" wrist cast. Haven't heard of any recent accidents or wrist surgeries, hope she gets better.

A strange ugly sea monster was cast ashore in Guinea.

Bags of cocaine are seen in a plaster cast on a woman's leg on this photo released by Dutch customs police on Friday, May 11, 2007. Dutch customs police stopped the woman trying to smuggle 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of cocaine into the Netherlands in a plaster cast on her leg, a police spokesman said. The woman, whose name was not released, acted nervously while her passport was being checked and agents became suspicious about the thickness of the cast. A sniffer dog quickly indicated that the cast contained more than plaster. The woman was taken to hospital, where an...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2005 – With Iraqi election officials and Iraqi security forces leading the way, millions of Iraqis streamed to the polls today to vote on their country's constitution. Officials reported that scattered incidents of violence early on in the voting that were quickly squelched by Iraqi security forces. Coalition forces are supporting the Iraqis with perimeter checkpoints and crowd control. Officials in Iraq said security has been tight and involves a three-stage inspection system that kicks in before voters arrive at the polling sites. No one with bags, cell phones or packages may enter the polling areas, they...