Volume 1665
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- Mag Reg Top reports that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced during a press conference at the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles that Japanese artist, Maezawa, 42, will be the first paying customer on its BFR rocket on a trip around the moon sometime in 2023. Calling it #DearMoon, the billionaire intends to bring six to eight artists with him to create work that “reflects their experience.”
- According to The Morning Bell, Bill Gates wants to make a statement by donating $20 billion in endowments this month followed by $9 billion every year for the next four years. Gates currently has a net worth of $129 billion.
- Epoch reports that the lieutenant who was acting police chief on duty the day of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has been placed on administrative leave following a report that found systemic failures by law enforcement who responded to the incident.
- The Epoch Times reports that an explosion and a fire occurred on July 19 at the Hoover Dam in Nevada, which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. The Hoover Dam helps form Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States and is also a hydroelectric power generator that provides electricity for utilities in several states. Lake Mead is currently at record low water levels.
- Business Insider reports that The River Rhine is drying up amid record-breaking summer heatwaves. The river, which passes through Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, is crucial for moving cargo. The water level at the Rhine's bottleneck is at its lowest level in at least 15 years.
- According to Epoch, U.S./Mexico border apprehensions recently topped 1.7 million, with three months of the fiscal year remaining. At the same time, the Biden administration has broken a long-standing policy of publicly releasing the number of illegal immigrants who die while crossing into the United States, or soon after.
- A U.S. federal court has granted a request by Missouri and Louisiana officials to obtain information and documents from top-ranking officials in the Biden administration over its alleged collusion with social media giants in an effort to censor and suppress free speech, according to The Epoch Times.
- The Epoch Times reports that vaccine mandates will force over 700 pilots, 40,000 National Guard troops to be discharged from the service for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. As a follow-up, a federal district court in Ohio has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on thousands of U.S. Air Force service members who remain unvaccinated after having opposed the shot on religious grounds but have had their religious exemption applications denied.
- U.S. District Court Judge Matthew McFarland, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump in late 2019, issued a temporary restraining order filed on Thursday preventing the Biden administration from taking any action for at least 14 days against any Air Force member who opted not to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Epoch Times reports that Kelly Walker, a former USDA soil scientist, has stated that policies that restrict the use of chemical fertilizers would likely lead to crop failures and could cause a dust bowl like that seen during the Great Depression. This has become a growing concern as countries including Canada and New Zealand look to adopt such policies. Soil needs a transition process that can take years if farmers move from chemical to organic fertilizers. If this process is done too quickly, however, the soil isn’t able to adjust, and crops will lack key nutrients for their growth.
- Fox Weather reports that cars were submerged in floodwater in northern New Jersey after heavy rain drenched the area July 18. Rainfall rates were estimated between 3 and 5 inches per hour just before 3 p.m. for storms in New York and New Jersey. The police needed heavy-duty vehicles to get through the streets to rescue drivers.
- Fox Weather reports that in the UK, July 18, 2022 was third hottest day ever, with London and Manchester reaching 100 degrees ,and Wales had its highest temperature on record. European heatwave helps spread dozens of wildfires over hundreds of thousands of acres. From Slovenia to Spain to Portugal & France, many fires have been burning for days. Deaths total more than 500.
- Ron Paul Institute reports that Dr. Deborah Birx was the real power behind President Trump's disastrous Covid policy. She was the lockdown fanatic who admits in a new book that she subverted the hapless Trump Admin and pushed falsehoods to get what she wanted. Millions of lives were ruined.
- Despite heading one of the only Western governments to still mandate face masks on rail transport, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was conspicuously maskless as he shook hands during a Monday photo op aboard an Okanagan, B.C., steam train. It is noted that the prime minister was not breaking any laws because the Kettle Valley Steam Railway is a heritage railroad not bound by federal transport regulations, according to The National Post.
- According to The Epoch Times, Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Tuesday dropped a murder charge against a bodega worker who was captured on camera stabbing a man who went behind the counter and attacked him.
- On July 20, 1969, Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, almost 238,900 miles away from the earth. His famous words were, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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