Joe Biden may have just fallen for a fatal argument from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run. The former vice president held a rally in New Hampshire on Monday, where he pushed the idea of retraining coal miners as programmers by saying “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well.” And as The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel noted in a tweet, “This sort of ‘just transition’ stuff was murder on Clinton in 2016.” In contrast to President Trump, Democratic presidential candidates have pushed the idea of phasing out coal production and…
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In an important New Year development, Tesla Motors, in partnership with physicists from Canada’s Dalhousie University, filed a patent on December 26 for a new Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) battery technology. The patented design claims to significantly outperform the existing Li-Ion batteries widely used in electric vehicles and other energy storage applications today. The new and improved tech is likely connected to an April 2019 announcement by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who promised a “1 million-mile battery pack” for Tesla’s vehicles in 2020 and beyond. The 1 million-mile battery is integral to Musk’s plans for fleets of ‘robotaxis’ and long-haul trucks,…
The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed “the tomb”, it holds tonnes of radioactive debris from dozens of US atomic bomb tests carried out during the Cold War. Congress wants the Department of Energy to report back on the state of the ageing Runit Dome within six months. The demand is part of a huge defence bill approved by President Trump. More than 40 nuclear weapons tests took place on or near the Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958,…
(Natural News) Students attending St. Theresa Catholic School in Houston, Texas, were given an extended Christmas break thanks to an unexpected whooping cough outbreak that reportedly shut the school down early. And wouldn’t you know it, but St. Theresa has a 100 percent vaccination rate – meaning this whooping cough outbreak occurred among fully vaccinated students. An official statement released by Father Phil Lloyd, the school’s pastor, and Melissa Ilski, the school’s principal, explains that “[a]ll St. Theresa students are 100% vaccinated,” and that “[d]octors are unsure why vaccinated children may still get the disease.” “With this infection rapidly spreading…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a series of measures to tackle a “crisis” of anti-Semitic attacks, following a mass stabbing. Mr de Blasio said security would be stepped up in Jewish areas and schools would teach students to tackle hate. At least five people were injured in the knife attack at a rabbi’s house in New York state on Saturday. President Donald Trump called for unity to fight “the evil scourge” of anti-Semitism following the attack. Witnesses said the attacker burst into the house in Monsey, north of New York City, which was hosting a Hanukkah celebration,…
African Americans take back work that illegal immigrants have taken from them. Throughout raids on seven food processing plants in Mississippi, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents swept up 680 illegal immigrants in August. The companies were forced to employ Americans to do the job without the cheap labor. (The Failing New York Times explains) By the end of the 1960s, black workers predominated on the lines.It was an important win for African-Americans looking for an alternative to housework in wealthy white homes, or for those who had seen fieldwork dry up in an increasingly mechanized agricultural sector.“The chicken plant,”…
Through the looking glass: the ideas of “free internet” and “sovereign internet” are not mutually exclusive to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Recently, several positive tests were performed by the country that simulated how it would react to a foreign cyber attack. In February, news broke out that Russia intended to withdraw from the Internet to see what would happen in the event of foreign aggression. To this end, the Russian government had to pass a law requiring Internet service providers to allow all outbound traffic to be monitored and, if possible, to create an isolated RuNet intranet. The nation carried…
In 2020, new laws will have an effect on schools across California. Starting next school year, suspending students from first through fifth grade will be illegal for public schools in the state to deliberately defy teachers or administrators. Then it will be temporarily extended to children in grades six through eight from 2021 to 2025. Supporters say suspensions are used disproportionately against color students for willful defiance. Another new law— a mandatory change to the start times of kindergarten. Over the next three years, the legislation is expected to be phased in. High schools will start as early as 8:30…
Greta Thunberg’s father has said he thought it was “a bad idea” for his daughter to take to the “front line” of the battle against climate change. Millions of people have been inspired to join the 16-year-old in raising awareness of environmental issues. But Svante Thunberg told the BBC he was “not supportive” of his daughter skipping school for the climate strike. Mr Thunberg said Greta was much happier since becoming an activist – but that he worries about the “hate” she faces. As part of the same broadcast, guest-edited by Greta for Radio 4’s Today programme, Sir David Attenborough…
A Thai Navy Seal that was part of a youth soccer team’s dramatic three-day rescue in 2018 from a flooded cave in Thailand was killed by a blood infection he contracted during the risky mission, officials said. The Royal Thai Navy said on Facebook Friday that the care was being given to Petty Officer 1st Class Bayroot Pakbara, but his health worsened after the infection spread to his blood. Authorities did not reveal what Pakbara suffered from serious infection, or how he contracted it. Pakbara, who was referred to by the Navy as a “hero,” will be promoted to lieutenant…
New York State will soon enable accused criminals to inspect their own criminal scenes and provide them with a complete list of named witnesses testifying against them as part of a series of new jailbreak laws. As reported by Breitbart News, the bail reforms in New York, set to come into effect in January 2020, will ensure that suspects charged with crimes deemed “non-violent” are not imprisoned before their trial dates and do not have to post bail. Alternatively, these offenders are released to the public immediately and expected to appear on their court dates. Every year in the state,…
The Wizard of OxyContin – where is he now? That nickname, revealed in leaked documents, belonged to an employee of Abbott Laboratories, which partnered with Purdue Pharmaceuticals to sell the drug. Starting in the late 1990s, he and his colleagues canvassed clinics around the country, hard-selling doctors on their flagship product. Purdue wooed doctors taught to distrust pain medications with steaks, vacations, and a stunning range of swag: Oxy-branded clocks, pens, beach hats, even swing music compilations. They were told that, unlike other opioids, OxyContin was addiction-proof; its time-release coating assured a steady, measured dose and would thwart attempts at abuse. Unmentioned…
Officials offer no explanation for a mystery drone fleet that has been spotted exploring Colorado’s night skies. Local media reported on Monday that at least 17 drones were seen over the skies of the counties of Yuma and Phillips with an estimated wingspan of six feet. Local police don’t know the aircraft’s origin, but they don’t think they pose a threat. “They do not seem to be aggressive, they do nothing that might suggest criminal activity,” Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott told The Denver Post. “They did a grid scan, a grid pattern, flying one square and flying another square.”…
Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, the former chief medical examiner who analyzed forensic evidence in some of the most prominent criminal cases in the state, died at 67 years of age. Carver provided evidence during his trial that led to a conviction in the so-called “wood chipper murder” and explained to jurors how Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old Greenwich High School student, died after being hit with a golf club and then stabbed the broken shaft through her throat. At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012, Carver also participated in investigating the shooting rampage that killed 20 children and…
Death by “Gun Control” book, written by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens. It works on a level that nobody can dispute: documented world history. Here’s the Formula: Hatred + Government + Disarmed Civilians = Genocide What makes the argument so powerful? Two factors. First, it makes common sense: unarmed defenseless people have no hope against armed aggressors. Second, it states the historical truth: evil governments did wipe out 170,000,000 innocent non-military lives in the 20th Century alone. When the gun prohibitionists quote a statistic about how many people are killed by firearms misuse, the discussion sometimes bogs down in…
A whistleblower complaint filed at the Internal Revenue Service in November by a knowledgeable church member alleges that a non-profit supporting organization controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used member tithes to amass more than $100 billion in a set of investment funds and the Church misled members about uses of the money. The complaint may be the most important look at LDS finances in decades, a window into one of the wealthiest religious organizations in the United States and the world. Details of the IRS filing reveal financial assets largely hidden from the church’s membership…
The federal cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska is closing for the 2020 season in an extraordinary response to the historically low numbers of Pacific cod. The decision came as little surprise, reported Friday, but it is the first time that the fishery has closed due to low stock concerns. “We’re on the verge of this overfished status on the knife,” said Nicole Kimball, member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, during talks in Anchorage. To blame for the die-off, it’s not over-fishing, but climate change. According to Steven Barbeaux, a research biologist with the National Oceanic and…
Mexican authorities detained a municipal police chief last month for his alleged connection to the killing of three women and six U.S.-Mexican children in northern Mexico, local media and an official said Friday. On 4 November in Sonora State, suspected drug cartel hitmen shot dead the nine women and children from Mormon families, sparking outrage in Mexico and the United States. Several Mexican media outlets reported law enforcement officers arrested Fidel Alejandro Villegas, Janos Municipality’s police chief, based in Chihuahua’s neighboring state, on suspicion of involvement in the case. A federal official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed Villegas ‘…