>DOUGH
I’m here to see if we can form a bilateral agreement between the people of the Northern Cheyenne and the people of Ukraine to introduce buffalo to western Ukraine.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526433-1/norfolk-southern-ceo-epa-officials-testify-toxic-train-derailment&live
Norfolk Southern CEO & EPA Officials on Toxic Train Derailment
Norfolk Southern Railway CEO Alan Shaw, along with EPA officials and others, testified on the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio before the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee.
>Hate speech is protected in the United States.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-64741520
Nicholas Rossi prosecutor buys Scottish castle
The US prosecutor behind efforts to extradite US fugitive Nicholas Rossi has been revealed as the new owner of a controversial Scottish castle.
Mr Leavitt told BBC Scotland a decade-long fantasy to buy, restore and ultimately live in a Scottish castle led him and his wife to purchase Knockderry.
Speaking on his return to Utah after his latest visit to Scotland he said: "My wife and I have been looking at Scottish castles for at least a decade."
"It just so happened that the particular characteristics of Knockderry spoke to us in a way that prompted us to act. We like the fact that it's right next to the loch. We like the history and it met all of our criteria."
The Leavitt family insurance firm is the source of considerable private wealth for David and his wife Chelom who is a professor at Brigham Young University.
The couple said they did not know how much it would cost to restore Knockderry castle but were now documenting their efforts in an online blog.
>The Leavitt family insurance firm is the source of considerable private wealth for David and his wife Chelom
>documenting their efforts in an online blog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
Smith said that he found the plates on September 22, 1823, on a hill near his home in Manchester, New York, after the angel Moroni directed him to a buried stone box. He said that the angel prevented him from taking the plates but instructed him to return to the same location in a year. He returned to that site every year, but it was not until September 1827 that he recovered the plates on his fourth annual attempt to retrieve them. He returned home with a heavy object wrapped in a frock, which he then put in a box. He allowed others to heft the box but said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apadana_hoard
Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid. King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind to Lydia – this is what Ahuramazda, the greatest of gods, bestowed upon me. May Ahuramazda protect me and my royal house!
— DPh inscription of Darius I in the foundations of the Apadana Palace
>17 TRILLION
>1st Amendment protects the right to tell the truth
>and the right to ask questions.
>It's a pretty good amendment, I tell you what.
>It’s so good, it deserves to be protected with lots and lots of guns
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-pill-sensor-digitally-tracks-if-patients-have-ingested-their-medication
FDA approves pill with sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication
November 13, 2017
>FDA approves pill with sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication
>FDA approves pill with sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication
The product is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia, acute treatment of manic and mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder and for use as an add-on treatment for depression in adults.
Jitarth Jadeja
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/11/q-anon-movement-former-believer-523972
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/former-qanon-follower-jitarth-jadeja-on-the-takeout-2122021/
Former QAnon follower Jitarth Jadeja on "The Takeout" — 2/12/2021
Jitarth Jadeja, a former QAnon supporter who spent two years in the grip of online conspiracy theories, opens up about his experience of joining — and then exiting — that world, on "The Takeout with Major Garrett."
>consumes hydrogen below atmospheric levels
reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
water (H2O), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and an electric arc
https://www.newsweek.com/john-podesta-biden-body-paint-photo-torture-child-1785142
Fact Check: Is Biden Advisor John Podesta in Naked Body Paint Photo?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-climate-chief-delays-and-bottlenecks-slowing-ira-spending-131050663.html
Biden's climate chief: 'Delays and bottlenecks' slowing IRA spending
Speeding up the permitting process a top priority for the Biden administration, says John Podesta
U.S. President Joe Biden's top climate advisor says the United States needs to build electricity lines at double the current pace, blaming a sluggish permitting process for delaying vital arteries for the nation's clean energy transition.
"On average, interstate gas pipelines that require environmental impact statements are approved nearly twice as fast as transmission lines requiring the same," John Podesta told energy executives at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference on Monday. "We don't have that time."
The US$369 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the cornerstone of the Biden administration's climate policy. The legislation includes tax credits for electric vehicles, home solar panels, more efficient appliances, as well as measures to support grid-scale batteries and wind turbines. As senior advisor to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation, Podesta is tasked with deploying those funds.
"In just the battery industry alone, companies have announced over US$75 billion in investments for new and expanded domestic manufacturing since President Biden took office. US$28 billion of that has been in just the past six months," he said at the annual event in Houston, TX.
However, when it comes to building new electricity lines and other projects, he describes a permitting process "plagued by delays and bottlenecks."
"Plenty of delays happen at the state and local levels, and those need to be addressed. But there is plenty that we can do and must do federally," Podesta said, adding that he and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm are tracking the pace of more than 20 key electricity transmission projects.
Podesta says the IRA includes funding to improve state and local permitting processes, but implementing the bill's 135 separate programs has been challenging.
"We can move faster by setting tight deadlines for agencies to complete environmental reviews. We can move smarter by making it easier to approve projects with low environmental impact," he said. "And we can move strategically by improving basic information sharing amongst agencies, and quality standards for project approvals. And by listening to local communities earlier in the process to keep the infrastructure project out of court."
Podesta says speeding up the permitting process within the bounds of "rigorous scientific standards" is a top priority for the Biden administration.
"I've worked in three White Houses. Permitting has never been a top priority for senior administration officials in the past. Now, thanks to President Biden, it is."
While he laments the IRA's slower-moving elements, international speakers at CERAWeek continue to see the legislation as a major driver of U.S. investment that puts pressure on other governments to roll out their own large-scale clean energy incentives.
"The U.S. IRA has given you a simple, very immediately addressable incentive scheme," Sanjiv Lamba, CEO of U.K.-based energy company Linde, said at CERAWeek on Monday.
In Canada, oil and gas companies, and other energy stakeholders, are looking to Ottawa to make its clean energy and emissions reduction incentives more competitive with U.S. offerings. Enbridge (ENB.TO)(ENB) CEO Greg Ebel says he would like to see that happen in the upcoming federal budget.
"They've really put a lot of carrots on the table in terms of promoting people to invest," Ebel said of the Biden administration in a recent interview.
"I think that's going to be very well received by the industry (in Canada)."
>tied up and dumped in the street with a note from cartel bosses APOLOGIZING to the four South Carolina families
Lukashenko signed a law that provides for the death penalty for officials and military personnel for treason.
“Let’s be very clear about what I said: No blank checks, OK? So, from that perspective, I don’t have to go to Ukraine to understand where there’s a blank check or not,” McCarthy told CNN. “I will continue to get my briefings and others, but I don’t have to go to Ukraine or Kyiv to see it. And my point has always been, I won’t provide a blank check for anything.”
>The psychological torture of it all is one of the hardest aspects to overcome.
On March 7, 2023, the member of Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), Ms. Inna Sovsun, the deputy head of the Pro-EU Holos Party submitted a draft law on the legalization of same-sex partnerships to Ukrainian Parliament
She says that Ukrainians can no longer wait for equality and that "LGBT Ukrainians deserve to have a family", immediately, as Zelenskyy Government is in no hurry to discuss such things.
https://twitter.com/InnaSovsun/status/1633060444670767105
🏳️🌈🇺🇦Today, I submitted a draft law on the legalization of same-sex partnerships to Ukrainian parliament.
Today 56% of Ukrainians support same-sex partnerships! So, I hope the majority of the parliament, including @ZelenskyyUa party will take the lead from the people!
John Douglas Hazen successfully proposed at the Imperial War Conference that the British Empire buy Greenland for Canada to prevent the United States from acquiring it.
>FBI accessed emails between one defendant and his attorney and discussed its contents.
>This agent apparently knew one defendant planned to go to trial.
>The judge excused the jury as soon as this info was revealed in court yesterday.
>The USA gave hundreds of billions of $$$ to Ukraine so that they would feel safe enough to pass LGBT laws when the sovereignty of their nation hangs in the balance.
It's a good thing we're not at war.
https://twitter.com/Cobratate
“There’s Wagner and there’s two brigades of airborne assault,” says Oleksandr, an infantryman from Sumy, who is part of a Ukrainian assault battalion in Bakhmut. “It’s rough. Constant waves, nonstop.”
Some have characterized the Russian attacks as huge waves of cannon fodder, while others say that the invaders’ tactics have evolved to keep up with the battlefield.
The older Serhiy says that the enemy likes to send a team of three or four expendable foot soldiers to attack and make the Ukrainians expose themselves by shooting at them. At that point, the more elite forces zero in on the defenders’ position.
Once they begin exchanging fire, the Ukrainians are struck with heavier weapons like Russian mortars and rockets from Grad multiple launch rocket systems or BMP infantry fighting vehicles and BTR armored personnel carriers with machine guns.
“They get the positions where we are, establish the coordinates, then they hit us from seven to nine kilometers out with mortars,” as well as from closer by with grenade launchers, says the older Serhiy. “They wait for the house to fall so we have to jump out. The building catches fire and then they try to finish us off.”
“Their birds come out and they chase us with fire,” adds the younger Serhiy, referring to Russian UAVs, like quadcopters and Orlan-10 fixed wing drones that spot distant heavy weapons. “They hit accurately.”
>Airlifted to airport after protesters block the roads, Netanyahu departs for Rome
>We're really worried about protecting children from seeing nudity online. Apparently that is of such paramount importance that we don't care if Vladimir Putin has a red carpet to interfere in our elections.