U.S. Eyes Venezuela’s Energy Reserves As China And Russia Lose Ground

Written by Audrey Streb

After President Donald Trump removed Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. has emerged as the “master of the hemisphere” and is positioned to leverage the Latin American nation’s resources to outpace China, Russia, and Canada in the coming years, energy sector experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. [some emphasis, links added]

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On Laws Banning Hacking Women’s Genitals & Imposing Beliefs

Written by William M Briggs

I stole most of the headline from The Times, which ran a subtler version: “Laws banning FGM are harmful and ‘stigmatising’, say academics“. The practice of slicing off a women’s pertinents is now so common in England, thanks to massive immigration, they know it by its acronym “FGM”, for female genital mutilation. It’s still on the rare side in the States, so I spelled it out.

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U.S. Sees A 22% Drop in Measles Vaccination

Written by Jon Fleetwood

The share of U.S. counties where 95 percent or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles—the number mainstream vaccine devotees say is needed to achieve so-called “herd immunity”—has dropped from 50 percent before Covid to 28 percent, according to a Washington Post (WaPo) examination of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia

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Solar-Driven Atmospheric Dynamics in Neoglacial Evolution

Written by Joseph Fournier, Ph.D.

In a recent article, I introduced the idea that the transition from the thermal maximum of the Holocene Interglacial that defined the Northgrippian sub-epoch, to the on-set of present Meghalayan (neoglacial) sub-epoch, some 4,200 years ago, was found to coincide with both a sudden multi-centennial increase in iceberg calving rates into the North Atlantic and with an increase in the environmental concentrations of beryllium‑10 (10Be) and carbon‑14 (¹⁴C) isotopes

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