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from BBC News (UK)
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said further investigation is needed to conclusively rule out that Covid-19 emerged from a laboratory in China. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that although a lab leak was the least likely cause, more research was needed. The US and other countries have criticised China for failing to provide the WHO with sufficient data. Beijing has always dismissed the allegations of a virus leak. A report by WHO and Chinese experts released on Tuesday, said the lab leak explanation was highly unlikely and the virus had probably jumped from bats to humans via another intermediary animal. China has yet to respond to the WHO's latest statement. However the theory that the virus might have come from a leak in a laboratory "requires further investigation, potential with additional missions involving specialist experts," Dr Tedros said on Tuesday. "Let me say clearly that as far as WHO is concerned, all hypothesis remain on the table."
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from Bloomberg
Media/News Company
The U.S. will sanction nine petrochemical companies from Belarus next month unless President Alexander Lukashenko releases political prisoners and starts talks with his opponents, the State Department said Wednesday. “Regrettably, we find the human rights situation has deteriorated to arguably the worst point in Belarus’s independent history,” spokesman Ned Price said during a press briefing. State-owned petrochemical giant Belneftekhim, the Naftan refinery and seven other companies may lose protection under a general license from the Treasury Department that was issued in 2015 after Lukashenko released a previous batch of political prisoners.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
President Joe Biden’s proposed legislative package to increase taxes and spend trillions was released today by the White House. The wide-ranging bill included provisions on climate change, energy production and use, labor policy, rural broadband, among others and is said to cost $2 trillion.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Power has been a prominent advocate of the protection of victims of genocide. But her record inspires little confidence. Will Power continue the last administration’s direct funding of and partnerships with local...churches, mosques, synagogues, and other houses of worship? The Biden administration’s political appointees already at USAID have halted an Uyghur Cultural Preservation Project in Central Asia.
Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of the U.S. military’s Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee last Thursday on the current state of Cyber Command and cybersecurity. His testimony provided some alarming news about the threats America faces. Nakasone spoke of the increasing sophistication of hacks against the United States government and private sector companies from a range of adversaries. What was most alarming is the stealth of cyberthreats once they enter the United States. It is important for the private sector to play a role in cybersecurity, and for the government to build more cooperative relationships with private sector partners.
President Joe Biden unveiled the first part of his so-called “infrastructure” plan under the Build Back Better initiative. The plan is being used as a Trojan horse to hide a socialist agenda that would add trillions to the budget, hike taxes, and centralize federal power. It could mean at least a $2 trillion tax increase, the largest in five decades, hurting working class Americans and small businesses.
The movement needs leaders who follow the True North principles of conservatism. The conservative movement needs millions more adherents, advocates and activists to push back against the left’s agenda. Leaders must realize we don’t have to have one way forward—different organizations can utilize different strategies—but we need to be united.
from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
New reactor designs could lead to low-cost, low-risk, zero-carbon energy if regulators don’t make the economics untenable.
With Democrats at the helm of the federal government, climate change and zero-carbon energy technologies have become front-page issues in Washington. But just out of port, this conversation has been run aground by the environmental movement’s fixation upon wind and solar and its near exclusion of the lone form of carbon-free electricity that can scale anywhere in the world: nuclear. ... If zero-carbon energy is the civically agreed-upon goal (and, no, we’re not there yet), safe and scalable nuclear is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet. Yet rather than increasing nuclear plant output and getting new nuclear projects underway, the U.S. is at the beginning of a nuclear retirement en masse. In 2021, 5.1 GW of nuclear capacity will be retired, 5 percent of the current U.S. total. Up for retirement are the Dresden and Byron plants owned by Exelon Corporation in Illinois, and Unit 3 of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Today in Pittsburgh, Joe Biden announced his plan for more than $2 trillion in spending on infrastructure and an oversized grab bag of other priorities, including housing, manufacturing, elder care, and even the PRO Act, which would make it harder for workers to choose to stay out of unions. Another package, which reportedly could push the total price tag to $4 trillion, is still in the works. This, of course, comes on the heels of a $1.9 trillion bill he already signed into law. As Republicans and moderate Democrats contemplate whether they can support this — and haggle over details — there are three major things to keep in mind. Biden’s proposal is extremely expensive; our infrastructure is not “crumbling” for want of federal dollars; and Biden’s payment plan involves tax hikes that will damage the economy, harm the middle-class Americans Biden has vowed to shield, and eat up revenue sources that could, if nothing else, be put to better use fixing the existing deficit.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
Although founded as a divorce to justify divorce in a tale of Tudor dynastic angst, Andrewes and others like Richard Hooker make a serious case for the future of the Church of England as a new kind of Church. They sold it as a via media, a refuge for those uncomfortable with the extremes of Rome and Geneva, of a strong magisterium and strong predestination. He also highlights its value as a nationalist institution, viewing kingship as a scriptural alternative to the universal imperium of Roman Catholicism.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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