The official palace statement Wrote:It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

 

 
   

   

Epoch Times Wrote:Wildlife photographer Bhargava Srivari, 29, took these photos whilst visiting Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, east Africa.
Bhargava has been visiting wildlife reserves since he was a child and couldn’t believe his luck in getting up close to the elegant spotted felines.

But despite the initial excitement, the group quickly realized they could be in some danger as the sun roof was completely open, exposing them to the adult cheetahs.

Washington Examiner Wrote:California is set to release at least 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes in an effort to create “safer prisons.”
"The goal is to increase incentives for the incarcerated population to practice good behavior and follow the rules while serving their time and participate in rehabilitative and educational programs, which will lead to safer prisons," Dana Simas, a state Office of Administrative Law spokeswoman, said in a statement about the mass release of prisoners in the Golden State.
"Additionally, these changes would help to reduce the prison population by allowing incarcerated persons to earn their way home sooner," she added.
These “incentives” are a part of an effort to give inmates “good time credits” to quicken their release.

Washington Examiner Wrote:Of those who are set to be released, nearly 20,000 are serving life sentences. Another 10,000 inmates were convicted for serious nonviolent offenses who have served half of their initial sentence.
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Legal Director Kent Scheidegger slammed the state for releasing the prisoners, arguing the plan was "just a giveaway" and not "useful" in determining whether an inmate should or should not be released.

Epoch Times Wrote:A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to five years’ probation after admitting to casting an illegal ballot during the Nov. 3 election.
Bruce Bartman, 70, apologized to Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Cappelli during a hearing on Friday, saying he “made a stupid mistake” when he illegally cast a mail-in ballot for his deceased mother.
The man’s attorney, Samuel Stretton, said in court that Bartman’s decision was “a very misguided political mistake, and very stupid.” The illegal ballot he cast was for former President Donald Trump.
Bartman entered a guilty plea to two counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting. Aside from the probation sentencing, Bartman will not be allowed to vote in an election for four years and cannot serve on a jury.

Fox News Wrote:Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued Thursday that authorities should stop building prisons and instead focus on underlying public health issues as New York City seeks to address a recent surge in violent crime.

New York Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, called on Congress to earmark $400,000 toward a program called "Stand Up To Violence," which seeks to address gun violence through counseling and community outreach. Ocasio-Cortez said it was "not acceptable" to use jails as "garbage bins."

Quote:The George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations agreed to accept $5 million from a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and China's international propaganda efforts, according to a report Saturday. 
The group, which was founded by Neil Bush, a brother to former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, goes by the name Bush China Foundation for short. Its goal, according to its website, is to build "a constructive relationship" between the U.S. and China. 
But a written agreement published by Axios reveals that the Bush China Foundation agreed in 2019 to accept $5 million over five years from the China-United States Exchange Foundation, an organization that's been criticized as a key part of China's international propaganda efforts.

BBC Wrote:Katrina Esau is 88. Her community crowned her Queen of the Western Nǁnǂe (ǂKhomani) San in 2015. A year earlier, then-president Jacob Zuma presented her with the National Order of the Baobab in Silver.

For the previous eight decades, Esau had gone largely unnoticed. Her people, the San – of whom the Western Nǁnǂe (ǂKhomani) are one group of many – are good at that. Their survival depended on it: first for the countless centuries that they had South Africa to themselves, living deftly on the land as hunter gatherers. And then, with the arrival of other groups, to evade the scrutiny of those who meant them harm.

The farm owner also forbade Esau from speaking her mother tongue, N|uu; a language with roots to humanity's very origins. Instead, the newly minted Afrikaans language (a mere 300 or so years old) would be Esau's camouflage for almost her entire life.

Fox News Wrote:The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."
"Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve. 
"But overcoming those barriers will be daunting. As with the wider field of conservation, racism and colonialism are in ornithology’s DNA, indelibly linked to its origin story. The challenge of how to move forward is roiling White ornithologists as they debate whether to change as many as 150 eponyms, names of birds that honor people with connections to slavery and supremacy."

Fox News Wrote:A New York City-based psychiatrist told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine in April that she had fantasies of "unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way."

Dr. Aruna Khilanani spewed the race-hating virtual remarks — in which she also said she’d walk away from the shooting "with a bounce in my step" and that white people "make my blood boil" and "are out of their minds and have been for a long time" — at the Ivy League institution’s Child Study Center on April 6.

Audio of the talk was posted on the substack online platform of former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss on Friday, along with an interview of Khilanani conducted by writer and podcaster Katie Herzog.

A flyer promoting the talk and posted online by Weiss titled the lecture, "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind" and included "learning objectives" such as "Set up white people’s absence of empathy towards black rage as a problem" and "Understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage."

BBC Wrote:US airline United has announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airliners and "return supersonic speeds to aviation" in the year 2029.
Supersonic passenger flights ended in 2003 when Air France and British Airways retired Concorde.
The new Overture aircraft will be produced by a Denver-based company called Boom, which has yet to flight-test a supersonic jet.
United's deal is conditional on the new aircraft meeting safety standards.
A typical passenger jet may cruise at about 560mph (900km/h) but Overture is expected to reach speeds of 1,122mph (1,805km/h) - also known as Mach 1.7.

(09-16-2020, 07:20 AM)kyonides Wrote:

Chinese defector virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan

publishes report claiming COVID-19 was made in a lab

Doctor Li-Meng Yan, a scientist who studied some of the available data on COVID-19 has published her claims on Zenodo, an open access digital platform. She wrote that she believed COVID-19 could have been “conveniently created” within a lab setting over a period of just six months, and “SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring, zoonotic virus”.

Quote:“The natural origin theory, although widely accepted, lacks substantial support,” Dr Yan writes in the report.
“The alternative theory that the virus may have come from a research laboratory is, however, strictly censored on peer-reviewed scientific journals. Nonetheless, SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring, zoonotic virus.”

(10-15-2020, 11:33 PM)kyonides Wrote:

Chinese Virologist Who Claimed COVID Was Made in Lab Says Her Mom Has Been Arrested in China

Newsweek Wrote:An academic who claimed—without evidence—that the Chinese government was behind the manufacturing and intentional release of SARS-CoV-2 now says her mother has been arrested in retaliation for her speaking out to U.S. media.
Li-Meng Yan, a former Hong Kong University post-doctoral student, fueled internet conspiracies last month after asserting the virus that causes COVID-19 was "not from nature" while pushing a pre-print report filled with baseless assertions about the origins of the virus.

Li-Meng Yan Wrote:This is not the first time my mom and my other family members [have been] arrested by the [CCP]. I cut off most connection with my family directly. This is the fourth time my mom, 63 years old, teacher, got arrested by Chinese Communist Party.

Dr. Li-Meng Yan Wrote:They verify my work from the very beginning, even from last January, that these people know what happened, but they choose to hide for the Chinese Communist Party and for their own benefits

News Com AU Wrote:The three news organisations managed to get their hands on around 4000 pages of emails sent by Dr Fauci between January and June 2020, although many were redacted because of their sensitive contents.

News Com AU Wrote:The emails reveal the theory that Covid did not emerge from a Wuhan wet market but from the Wuhan Institute of Virology emerged early in the pandemic.

In February 2020, Dr Fauci received a message from scientist Kristan Andersen which stated that he should “look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered”.

Dr Andersen said there were “unusual features” that made up a “really small part” of the genome that might not be noticed as otherwise the virus looks “totally normal”.

“I should mention that after discussions earlier today, Eddie, Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory,” the expert added.

Tucker Carlson Wrote:Part of the troubling thing that we’re seeing with these emails that are coming out is, not only do they seem to correspond with what President Trump said and what [then-] Secretary [of State Mike] Pompeo said in terms of the origins of the virus,” Meadows said during an appearance on “Hannity,” “but it indicates that Dr. Fauci had knowledge, or at least a suspicion, of things not happening in an evolutionary manner very early on, and he didn’t share that … That’s very troubling and something that we do need to get to the bottom of.

 Of course CNN's Jim Acosta, an outspoken critic of Trump, calls it a whitewash. But this is the same Acosta that lied about Trump's immigration speech in May 2019, about Trump visiting injured Steve Scalice after he was shot in 2017, and even lied why his press pass was suspended.

  Only last month, Fauci admitted funding Wuhan over Covid Research by way of NIH, but denied it was 'Gain of Function', even though he was a proponent of it and argued for it in 2012.

White House Senior Official Wrote:An unclassified summary of that baseline study was released in March, and it found that domestic violent extremists, motivated by a range of ideologies, pose an elevated threat to our country in 2021, with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists — and specifically those who espouse the superiority of the white race — and anti-government militia violent extremists posing the most lethal threat.
...the need to do something in this space, like the “See something” — “If you see something, say something” concept that has been promulgated previously by DHS.  This involves creating contexts in which those who are family members or friends or co-workers know that there are pathways and avenues to raise concerns and seek help for those who they have perceived to be radicalizing and potentially radicalizing towards violence.

White House Senior Official Wrote:This is a strategy that is agnostic as to political ideology or off the spectrum. What matters is when individuals take their political or other grievances and turn that — unacceptably, unlawfully — into violent action.

Daily Mail Wrote:The secretive safety team - known as the 'black box' inside the firm - is made up of around 100 agents across cities including Dublin, Montreal and Singapore
Team members have the power to spend any amount tackling the worst crises at their rentals including sexual assaults, murders and deaths

Nick Shapiro, ex-National Security Council adviser to Barack Obama and deputy chief of staff at the Central Intelligence Agency, worked as crisis manager

Shapiro, who has since left the role, told Bloomberg the crises facing the company reminded him of the White House Situation Room.

KFOR Wrote:The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana who ordered that plans continue for lease sales that were delayed for the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska waters “and all eligible onshore properties.”
The decision is a blow to Democratic President Joe Biden’s efforts to rapidly transition the nation away from fossil fuels and thereby stave off the worst effects of climate change, including catastrophic droughts, floods and wildfires.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states. Doughty said his ruling applies nationwide. It grants a preliminary injunction — technically a halt to the suspension pending further arguments on the merits of the case.

Vision Times Wrote:China Daily paid over 1.6 million dollars in ad campaigns with leading media organizations such as the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Time, and Financial Times for the six-month period ending on Apr. 30, 2021. Another one million dollars was paid to outlets such as Houston Chronicle and Chicago Tribune to print copies of China Daily publications.

• Time – $700,000
  
  
• The Seattle Times – $57,807
  
  
• Chicago Tribune – $30,305
  
  
• Financial Times – $371,577
  
  
• Houston Chronicle – $66,678
  
  
• Boston Globe – $67,433
  
  
• The Globe and Mail – $329,898
  
  
• Foreign Policy – $291,000
  
  
• Los Angeles Times – $361,700
  

Washington Examiner Wrote:On March 19, Paul Pelosi exercised call options and paid $1.95 million to buy 15,000 shares of Microsoft at a strike price of $130 each, according to a public disclosure form filed on April 9 with the House clerk. In a separate transaction that same day, Pelosi paid $1.4 million for 10,000 shares at $140 each.
Members of Congress and their spouses are required to report any trades worth more than $1,000 to the clerk. In that same disclosure form, it was also reported that Paul Pelosi spent between $500,001 and $1 million to purchase 10,000 shares of Roblox Corporation stock the day it went public on March 10.
Microsoft’s stock on March 19, the day of the purchases, closed at about $230. On Tuesday morning, the stock is priced at $257.23, which is a nearly 12% increase.
Microsoft announced on Monday it will buy Nuance Communications, a software technology company focused on speech recognition using artificial intelligence, for $19.7 billion (including debt assumption) in an all-cash purchase, according to Axios. The acquisition is Microsoft’s second largest after its $26.2 billion deal to buy LinkedIn back in 2016.
In late March, Microsoft was awarded a contract with the Army to build 120,000 HoloLens augmented reality headsets that could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, according to CNBC.

Breitbart Wrote:His amendment would have barred any of the $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief bill funds from being made available to “any enterprise, agency, instrumentality owned by the Government of the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party.”