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Here we go again — the UN will try again in October to get its own income stream. The UN bureaucrats don’t want to go begging for cash among difficult right wing populist leaders, they want their own money. So, yet again, they’re proposing some form of carbon tax on ships and planes, supposedly to save the world from beachy weather. But we all know that the main purpose is to line the pockets of The Blob.
If they succeed, they will just ask for more. There’s no accountability. No limits. Just an infinite array of ways to “help us” by taking our money.
Thanks to Climate Depot for the link.
As America nears its 250th birthday, polling by Gallup finds that its citizens are growing less proud of their country.
According to a new Gallup poll, just 53 percent of all adults are "very" or "extremely" proud to be American, which is the lowest point dating back to 2001. The remaining share of adults in the poll said they were "moderately proud" (22 percent), "only a little proud" (15 percent), or "not proud at all" (9 percent).
According to another survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research of 2,596 adults conducted April 16-20, Americans' pride in their country has declined on several metrics since 2017, including pride in the nation's military and the country's political influence around the world.
Who else read that as Katie Fhtagn?
In a Michigan kindergarten cultural diversity activity, a Gaza Muslim teacher forced young white kids to wave Palestinian flags and taught them to chant “Death to America. Death to Israel” in Arabic.
Doctors in Israel just pulled off something that addiction specialists have been chasing for decades — and it didn’t require a single scalpel.
In a jaw-dropping medical first, physicians at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa used focused sound wave technology to essentially switch off a patient’s opioid addiction. In less time than it takes to watch a sitcom, a man who had been swallowing roughly 130 pills a day walked away craving zero.
The patient, identified only as H., is a family man in his forties who originally hurt his neck years ago. Doctors prescribed opioids for the pain. The pain eventually faded — but the addiction didn’t. He was trapped, needing the drug just to feel normal and function day-to-day.
That’s when Rambam’s team stepped in with technology developed by Israeli firm Insightec. Using MRI-guided ultrasound waves, physicians targeted the nucleus accumbens — the brain’s pleasure and reward hub — and modulated its electrical activity without cutting, burning, or destroying a single cell. No surgery. No anesthesia. No recovery room.
Within a week, H. tested completely clean. His self-reported craving level: zero out of ten. But the surprises didn’t stop there. The man who used to smoke three packs of cigarettes daily nearly quit cold turkey. His desire for alcohol vanished too. The treatment essentially hit the reset button on his entire reward system.
