CBS News

A third dose of coronavirus vaccine may be needed to prevent serious cases of new variants of the disease, Bill Gates said Tuesday. The billionaire philanthropist’s comments come amid to the growing concern that current vaccines are less effective against the South African and Brazilian variants.

“The discussion now is do we just need to get a super high coverage of the current vaccine, or do we need a third dose that’s just the same, or do we need a modified vaccine?” Gates told “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell. Continue reading “Third shot may be needed to combat new coronavirus variants, Bill Gates says”

Strategic Culture – by Matthew Ehret

If you are starting to feel like forces controlling the governments of the west are out to get you, then it is likely that you are either a paranoid nut job, or a stubborn realist.

Either way, it means that you have some major problems on your hands. Continue reading “How Conspiracy Theorizing May Soon Get You Labelled a ‘Domestic Terrorist’”

MSN

(Bloomberg) — It’s not easy putting a number on what is undoubtedly the largest forced blackout in U.S. history.

If you take the Texas power grid operator’s word for it, the rolling outages that have plunged much of the state into darkness amid an unprecedented cold blast have affected at least two million homes and businesses. If you trust a well-known website that scrapes data from 725 utility outage maps nationwide, it’s about 3.3 million in Texas alone, and 3.6 million across four states. But that may not include rolling outages that some power companies aren’t accustomed to reporting. Continue reading “Two Million? Five Million? Real Size of U.S. Blackouts a Mystery”

RT

The now former mayor of Colorado City, Texas, Tim Boyd, has resigned after two Facebook posts telling people needing help and without electricity that they are on their own.

“No one owes you are your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink of swim it’s your choice!” Boyd said in the now deleted post, which was riddled with grammatical errors.  Continue reading “‘Only the strong will survive’: Texas city mayor resigns for lashing out at residents asking for help during deadly storm”

RT

President Joe Biden has gone beyond purging the legacy of Donald Trump to scrub that of Barack Obama too, taking down the White House petitions page. The media was too busy gushing over his Valentine’s Day display to notice.

All links to ‘We the People,’ the petition page launched out by the Obama administration in 2011, now redirect to the main White House website. Neither the ‘Contact’ nor ‘Get Involved’ links, which used to lead to it, do so anymore. Apparently, this has been the case since January 20, when the Biden administration took over both the White House and its website. Continue reading “‘We the People’ gone and no one noticed: Biden removes Obama-era petition tool to thunderous media silence”

CBS 2

(CBS DETROIT) – Karen Hudson-Samuels’ career in broadcast journalism spanned over four decades in Detroit.

After making her name at WGPR-TV as an anchor, producer and news director, the historian and journalist used her vision to create one of the biggest accomplishments of her lifetime. Continue reading “Former Detroit TV Anchor Karen Hudson-Samuels Dies One Day After Taking COVID Vaccine”

The Canadian Press – by Lee Berthiaume

OTTAWA – The Canadian Armed Forces is deploying reconnaissance teams to the border as the federal government prepares to enlist the military’s help in establishing COVID-19 screening centres for travellers.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that all non-essential travellers arriving at the border by land will be tested starting Feb. 22 before they are allowed to enter the country. Continue reading “Military deploys recon teams to border as feds prepare border-testing sites”

Bakersfield

Meghan Markle may be pretty busy these days, expecting her second child with Prince Harry while handling the demands of her new career as a philanthropist, Netflix producer, Spotify podcaster and crusader against an intrusive tabloid media.

CBS announced this week that she and Harry will be interviewed by friend Oprah Winfrey for an upcoming TV special, in which they’ll discuss their marriage, philanthropic efforts and their move away from Britain’s royal family last year. Continue reading “Meghan Markle’s meeting with Gov. Newsom sparks talk about her political potential”

Citizen Free Press – by Kane

The Biden administration and Democrats are expected later this week to release an immigration reform bill, multiple sources familiar with the planning tell NBC News.

The legislative text of the “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021” will reflect the immigration priorities that President Joe Biden unveiled on his first day in office. His proposal includes an earned pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegals, expands the refugee resettlement program and deploys more technology to the Southern border. There are additional protections that are being considered in the legislation, such as asylum processing in home countries for minors, expanded benefits for DREAMers and ending the public charge rule. Continue reading “Biden to introduce bill granting citizenship to 11 million illegals”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is pushing drastic and ‘fundamental’ changes to the economy in order to immediately halt the release of greenhouse gasses – primarily carbon dioxide – and ‘go to zero’ in order to save the planet from long-prognosticated (and consistently wrong) environmental disaster.

Changes we’ll need to make in order to realize Gates’ vision include: Continue reading “Bill Gates Goes Full Captain Planet, Wants To Change ‘Every Aspect Of Economy’ While We Dine On Fake Meat”

Daily Wire – by Ian Haworth

“The scale of the fraud in the unemployment program created by the CARES Act has reached a staggering level,” according to a damning report from NBC News.

The report begins by discussing a fraud scheme which “cost taxpayers an estimated $11 million,” according to Orange County prosecutors. Nguyen Social Services are claimed to have been charging “up to $700 a pop to file false unemployment claims for people who did not qualify to receive Covid-19 relief money.” Continue reading “Report: ‘Staggering’ Levels Of Fraud, With More Than $100 Billion In Covid-19 Aid ‘Misspent’ Or Stolen”

Intellihub – by Lexi Morgan

A transformer failure in Jefferson Parish triggered a subsequent burst of electricity to flow downstream in the form of a massive electric fireball.

Louisiana resident Chris Fitzmorris shot the dramatic scene with his camera phone as the action happened in realtime as sparks shot down the powerlines. Continue reading “Electric fireball surges through Louisiana powerlines following a transformer failure”

Austin American Statesman – by Brian Mulder

Nearly half of Texas’ installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators.

Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt. Continue reading “Frozen wind turbines hamper Texas power output, state’s electric grid operator says”

RT

The world’s largest rare-earth miner, China, is reportedly trying to calculate the damage to US defense contractors if it moves to curb supplies of the minerals vital for the country’s weapons industry.

Chinese government officials reached out to industry executives, seeking to understand how badly companies in the US and Europe would be affected if China imposed restrictions on rare-earth exports, the Financial Times reported, citing sources involved in the consultations. Additionally, Beijing reportedly asked how long it would take the US to boost its own production of the vital elements or find alternative sources. Continue reading “China may exercise ‘nuclear option’ against US defense industry with rare-earths export ban – reports”

Great Game India

The Government of India has seized assets of Amnesty International worth Rs 176 million in the ongoing money laundering case. The government had raided the Amnesty India office several times in the last few years.

The Enforcement Directorate has attached the movable properties – worth Rs 17.66 crore – of the global human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, which had last year claimed that it was winding down its India operation because of alleged “witch-hunt” by the Indian government. Continue reading “India Seizes Amnesty International Assets Worth Rs 176 Million In Money Laundering Case”

Internet still down. Yesterday’s lie was that it would be up at 8:00 this morning.

8:30 am: Here is the new lie: “An outage has been reported in your area. Our technicians are looking into it, and we hope to have the issue resolved soon.”

Worst case scenario is Thursday when we get hooked into the new fiber optic system, which all the invading commifornians here have already gotten.  Continue reading “Trencher Alert Update”