When she competed as a 17-year-old at the World Championships in Russia in 2013, Mary Cain was the youngest ever participant to represent her country at the competition and a red-hot prospect dubbed ‘the fastest girl in America’ by some. That November, Cain joined Nike’s Oregon Project training group, and in 2014 …
Read More »Geoengineering sounds ‘nuts,’ but the fact it might work without us having to change our lifestyles is why climate zealots hate it
Oxford University’s Geoegineering Programme defines the process as “the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to counteract climate change” and a new book, Geoengineering: The Gamble discusses its potential benefits and pitfalls. The author, Gernot Wagner, is a climate economist who teaches at New York University and was the …
Read More »‘Start of dim future?’ German police unions sound alarm over potential weed legalization amid ongoing govt coalition talks
Police unions in Germany have expressed their opposition to the legalization of possession and consumption of weed, in no uncertain terms. No such measures are planned for the near future, but law enforcement are apparently concerned with it being potentially included in the new ruling coalition agenda. “There has to …
Read More »How Covid catastrophizing & a colossal crimewave are causing America’s second Great Retail Panic
Veteran media fearmongers have spent the last two years predicting the imminent doom of a society deprived of hairspray and baked beans in some sort of great retail apocalypse, the likes of which our materialistic society hasn’t seen since the Great Depression. But according to these chroniclers of collapse, this …
Read More »Putin won’t rule out oil & gas trade in cryptocurrencies, but says they are too ‘volatile & energy-consuming’ for now
Speaking to CNBC on Wednesday, after taking part in the 20th annual Russian Energy Forum in Moscow, Putin criticized the monetary policy in Washington as undermining the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Runaway inflation and debt at home, combined with using the dollar as a sanctions instrument abroad, are …
Read More »Overdoses soar by nearly 30 PERCENT in US, breaking record for second year in a row – CDC
Some 96,779 Americans died of drug overdoses over the last 12-month period counted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a report released by the agency this month has revealed. The record-setting number of deaths surpasses what were already record-setting figures from the year before as the nation’s drug …
Read More »Syrian soldier killed, 3 wounded after ‘Israeli attack’ south of Palmyra – state media
The attack near Palmyra came in the late hours of Wednesday night, killing one soldier and wounding three others, SANA reported, citing a military source that pinned the strikes on “the Israeli enemy.” “The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the al-Tanf area towards the Palmyra area, …
Read More »More US soldiers killed themselves in few months than died from Covid-19 since start of pandemic, Pentagon reveals
Between the beginning of April and the end of June 2021, there were 139 total military suicides – 99 in active service, 14 among reservists, and 26 in the National Guard – says the latest report from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO). The statistics released show a 46% surge …
Read More »Putin says US itself killing dollar as reserve currency by weaponizing sanctions & uncontrolled money printing, fueling inflation
“It seems to me that the United States is making a very big mistake by using the dollar as a sanctions instrument… by preventing payment in dollars for the sanctioned products,” Putin told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on Wednesday, after a panel at the Russian Energy Week. Countries facing US sanctions, like …
Read More »What hope is there when even the Rolling Stones roll over and cancel ‘Brown Sugar’ for fear of offending the woke mob?
The Rolling Stones were supposed to be the bad boys of the 1960s cultural revolution, the antithesis of those nice boys in suits called the Beatles. Teenagers’ parents liked the Beatles; they seemed cuddly, wholesome, witty, and only wanted to hold your hand – whereas the Stones looked like they …
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