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from BBC News (UK)
Captain Sir Tom Moore has died with coronavirus. The 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, was admitted to Bedford Hospital on Sunday. The Queen led tributes to Capt Sir Tom, "recognising the inspiration he provided for the whole nation and others across the world". His daughters said they "shared laughter and tears" with their father in their final few hours together. Announcing his death, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said the last year of their father's life had been "nothing short of remarkable". He tested positive for Covid-19 last week. His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated. The Army veteran won the nation's hearts by walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire last year during the first lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together. He was credited with lifting the nation's spirits and his saying "Tomorrow will be a good day" trended on social media. He was knighted by the Queen in July in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is in hot water overseas —and potentially at home—with members of the Philippines government accusing Bloomberg-funded charities of illegally paying regulatory agencies to implement his anti-tobacco policies. While the general public may be shocked by the allegations, those familiar with Bloomberg may be less surprised, given his tendency to leverage his philanthropic largesse as a means of influencing government policy, from funding tobacco control efforts to installing privately funded lawyers in state attorney general offices across the U.S.
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from Daily Record (Ellensburg, WA)
Driving cattle is as much a part of the American West tradition as deep red sunsets and the sounds on the open prairie. For more than 60 years, the Eaton family has raised cattle and other animals on the rolling hills near the Yakima Valley. They’ve been moving cattle from their winter pastures to their summer calving grounds for generations. In fact, the Kittitas County ranching family’s cattle drive through the Yakima Canyon is one of those traditions that’s been going on so many years nobody remembers exactly when it started.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
This result certainly wasn’t what local lawmakers intended, but it was actually quite predictable. “Ralphs and Food 4 Less, both owned by the parent company Kroger, announced Monday that they will be closing 25% of their stores in Long Beach after the city council passed an ordinance requiring companies with over 300 employees nationwide to pay employees an extra $4 per hour,” local news outlet Fox 11 reports. Two stores in the area will be shut down. A company spokesperson directly cited the city council’s ordinance mandating higher wages as the reason they are closing down. "The irreparable harm that will come to employees and local citizens as a direct result of the City of Long Beach’s attempt to pick winners and losers, is deeply unfortunate," the spokesperson said. "We are truly saddened that our associates and customers will ultimately be the real victims of the city council’s actions."
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
In 1993, the average corn yield in the U.S. amounted to 100.7 bushels per acre. That number grew to 175 bushels per acre by 2020. The steady increase in corn yields began in the late 1930s, when yields averaged well below 30 bushels per acre, and accelerated in the 1950s. Since then, yields have been increasing by an average of almost 2 bushels per acre each year
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
The arguments pushed by advocates of higher minimum wages are heavy on anecdotes and short-term benefits. Take President Biden: “If you work for less than $15 an hour and work 40 hours a week, you’re living in poverty.” But this misleading statement distracts us from the reality that few minimum-wage earners are sole providers of a household or are single parents struggling to make ends meet.
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from New York Magazine
The pandemic amplified the impossibly hard circumstances that mothers, especially single mothers, are expected to surmount with no safety net. We spoke Tara, a single mom, about how she made it through an unthinkable year. Something had to give for Tara and for so many other women left to navigate an unrelenting list of tasks required to keep a job and a family afloat. In this context, it is unsurprising that millions of women would be pushed into unemployment over the course of the pandemic. When Tara looks back on everything she managed in the last year, she can barely believe it. “All that stuff really happened,” she reminds herself. She spoke to the Cut about how she made it through an unthinkable year.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Technocracy News
India Invents AI Camera Network To Track Every Physical Movement
Technocrat engineers are advancing surveillance technology at breakneck speed. India’s latest invention can co-opt thousands of cameras to track individuals or vehicles in real time as they move about. This is ubiquitous, full-time surveillance that could completely destroy privacy.
How To Stop The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’
The “collectivist tyrants” pushing the Great Reset should be understood as Technocrats pushing Technocracy. The Populist movement is the only natural enemy of Technocracy, but this movement has largely abandoned personal responsibility as the solution while looking to figureheads instead.
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from Technocracy News
India Invents AI Camera Network To Track Every Physical Movement
Technocrat engineers are advancing surveillance technology at breakneck speed. India’s latest invention can co-opt thousands of cameras to track individuals or vehicles in real time as they move about. This is ubiquitous, full-time surveillance that could completely destroy privacy.
How To Stop The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’
The “collectivist tyrants” pushing the Great Reset should be understood as Technocrats pushing Technocracy. The Populist movement is the only natural enemy of Technocracy, but this movement has largely abandoned personal responsibility as the solution while looking to figureheads instead.
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from Twitchy
Sitting Congresswoman AOC has accused an unnamed — and heretofore, unmentioned — Capitol Police officer of possibly trying to lead her to her death during the January 6 riots at the Capitol. We’d say a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted, given AOC’s track record.
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from WND (World Net Daily)
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, LOW, EXTREME RIGHT
Gab.com is an online community where freedom of speech is paramount, with no "fact-checking" of "political opinions, news, history, math problems, memes, or anything else." With that objective, it's not surprising it's been banned from app stores and deplatformed by Silicon Valley giants. Gab CEO Andrew Torba, who signs off on his commentaries with "Jesus is King," says that recently his company has been dumped by a bank, a server-hardware company, an infrastructure analysis software operation and an accountant. "We've been deplatformed by 25+ service providers including both app stores, PayPal, dozens of payment processors, hosting providers, email services, and more," he said.
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