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DEMS STILL WANT JAN. 6 COMMISSION AFTER SENATE REJECTION

A narrow Senate defeat for a so-called “January 6 Commission” to politically target Trump protesters hasn’t stopped Democrats. According to reports, a House Select Committee hearing may serve as an avenue for continuing to peddle a narrative of “insurrection”. Democrats have already used the January 6 event to illegally spy on U.S. citizens, and jail...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERING RESEARCH AT TOP U.S. LAB

It’s being hailed — at least by some — ​“the next generation of the way we do science.” The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is leading projects to use Artificial Intelligence to speed “transformative discoveries” in science. The lab recently received a $37 million grant from the DOE to further its projects....

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CHINA WANTS A BULLET TRAIN INTO THE U.S.

The Chinese government has looked at plans that would construct an underground high-speed rail from the mainland, underground through Siberia, into Alaska, and possibly even to the U.S. West Coast. That’s according to the Chinese news outlet Sina.  It may sound farfetched. But a pan-Asia railway built and funded by China is set to begin...

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COVID BAD, ROUNDUP WEED KILLER GOOD

When the COVID War broke out in January 2020, we noted that hundreds of millions of people, animals, and living species have been, and continue to be killed by the trillions of tons of pesticides, insecticides, and chemicals pumped into the earth, water, and air. And, of course, the artificial ingredients and preservatives added to...

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LOUISIANA: CANNABIS OK, BUT DON’T SMOKE IT

Louisiana, a state where “legalized medical marijuana” means that non-smokable cannabis products may be purchased from a registered pharmacy on the recommendation of a doctor (such as CBD oil), is now on the verge of decriminalizing the recreational use of marijuana. Fines, But No Jail An item in the Wall St. Journal on 26 May...

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ASSUME HE IS ARMED!

By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato I cannot urge strongly enough that the whole idea of “force continuums” for practical self-defense is ridiculous and dangerous. Ridiculous, because it assumes that, somehow, the victim of a violent attack will have the capacity to know (rather magically, I would assume) the criminal history, the abilities, and the...

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AMOEBA GENE IMPROVES VISION IN BLIND MAN

In a first, scientists have shown that a blind person’s vision can be improved through the application of genetic therapy. A 58-year-old man lost his sight 40 years ago to retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited condition that breaks down the retina, the cells lining the eyeball that respond to light, but leaves the eye’s connection to...

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SNAP DEBUTS FIRST COMMERCIAL AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES

Snap Inc., parent company of social media app Snapchat, has beaten rivals Apple and Facebook to introduce the newest generation of augmented reality glasses. The smart glasses, dubbed Spectacles, look like a slightly boxy pair of sunglasses instead of the giant, face-eating goggles used by some previous “mixed reality” technologies.  The lenses are actually transparent...

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THE BUILDING IS THE BATTERY

Concrete is one of the world’s workhorse building materials and also among the most energy-intensive to create. Now researchers at Sweden’s Chalmers Institute of Technology have found a way that concrete can give back some of that fuel. Into a slab of standard concrete, the scientists mixed short carbon fibers that can conduct electricity. The...