Volume 1670
Did you know……
- According to Epoch Times, on Aug. 23 Governor DeSantis, along with trustees of the State Board of Administration (SBA), passed a resolution directing Florida’s fund managers to make investments that do not involve the ideological agenda of the ESG.
- USA Today reports that President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will cancel at least $10,000 in student loan debt for millions of borrowers, giving long-sought relief to Americans saddled by payments and taking a major gamble to energize young voters ahead of the midterm elections.
- Epoch Times reports that 2 constitutional lawyers who worked in the Bush and Reagan administrations say that the warrant used to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence had no legal basis because a former president’s right under the Presidential Records Act supersedes the statutes the Department of Justice and FBI used to carry out the raid earlier this month.
- Leaderpost.com reports that scores of grasshoppers have take over swaths of crops in Saskatchewan. Grasshoppers and crickets have been munching on hay fields over the past few weeks, wrecking crops, but they’ve also become a source of food for chickens. The Ministry of Agriculture reported that grasshoppers have caused significant crop damage during the growing season. Aphids, diamondback moths, strong winds, heavy rains and hail also damaged crops this past week.
- The Canadian Press reports that, because of China's driest summer in six decades the Yangtze River is barely half its normal width and China is set to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year. Factories in Sichuan province and the adjacent metropolis of Chongqing in the southwest were ordered to shut down after reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels and demand for air conditioning surged in scorching temperatures.
- According to The Canadian Press, Canadians seek emergency department care more often than people in other countries, and wait longer for it, causing disastrous outcomes. Canada had the highest wait times for specialists and non-emergency surgeries among 11 surveyed OECD countries, pre -COVID. 900,000 British Columbians don’t have a family doctor. 1,000,000 Ontarians are also searching for one.
- Epoch Times reports that, “Under Mao’s Cultural Revolution, they can find something you wrote, something you said many years ago, and then demonize you as an ‘oppressor.’ You lose your job, you go to camps, you go to struggle sessions.
- According to The Epoch, Dr. Robert Malone, on Aug. 19 sued the Washington Post, alleging statements in an article about him were defamatory. The Jan. 24 article says Malone offered “misinformation” when he said during a speech that the COVID-19 vaccines “are not working” against the Omicron virus variant.
- Epoch reports that nearly 5 million illegal immigrants have crossed U.S. borders in the 18 months since President Joe Biden took office, according to a new report. A total of 4.9 million illegal aliens, including some 900,000 “gotaways” who evaded apprehension and have since disappeared into American communities, had entered the country by the end of July.
- Epoch reports that a federal judge last Thursday issued a permanent injunction against the Biden administration’s pause of new oil and gas leasing in federal lands. The injunction applies to the 13 states that sued the Biden administration over the moratorium in March 2021, including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Terry Doughty, the U.S. district judge for the Western District of Louisiana, ruled that the White House overreached in the ban.
- The U.S. Department of State issued an advisory warning Americans about an increased risk of kidnapping when going to Mexico, amid heightened cartel violence in several areas, such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery. The Mexican states cited are Sinaloa, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Zacatecas, and Tamaulipas states.
- According to Epoch, Dr. Fauci is resigning as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. The moves will take effect in December, 2022.
- U.S. government officials haven’t presented sufficient evidence to keep a key document related to the search warrant executed at former President Donald Trump’s home shielded from the public. Officials have claimed that an affidavit that convinced U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to approve the warrant needs extensive redactions to protect FBI agents and witnesses, as well as the ongoing investigation into Trump.
- Epoch reports that lawmakers and advocates in the United States are ramping up the pressure on the federal government to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada. The Canadian American Business Council’s new campaign, “Travel Like it’s 2019,” aims to flood federal MPs with public demands for action. It calls on Ottawa to scrap the troublesome ArriveCan app, and wants the federal government to clear the backlog of 350,000 applications for the Canada-U.S. trusted-traveller system known as Nexus.
- Epoch reports that the price tag of a taxpayer-funded project to build a barrier around President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house has grown to nearly $500,000.
- According to Epoch, increased domestic lithium production plays a crucial role in President Joe Biden’s green energy plan, as 2021 marked the largest rollout of solar, wind, and electric batteries in the history of the United States. Nevertheless, lithium mining has quietly revealed itself to be a significant contributor to environmental pollution in the frantic rush to abandon fossil fuels.
- Epoch reports that a pediatric program at Yale University has sparked outrage after its director said it helps children as young as 3 years old with their “gender journeys” through “medical intervention”.
- Christian Headlines reports that a Nigerian journalist will stand trial in Nigeria after he was arrested for reporting about attacks against predominantly Christian communities. The trial date is set for September 6, 2022.
- Rebel News reports that the United States Embassy in Kiev has issued a new warning for Americans still in the Ukrainian city to leave due to the possibility of intensified military action by Russian forces and urges U.S. citizens to depart Ukraine now using privately available ground transportation options if it is safe to do so.
- Blacklock’s Reporter reports that foreign students in Canada are implicated in money laundering for organized crime. Students from China and Hong Kong were named by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre: “A number of suspected ‘money mules’ are international students.”
- The Hill Times reports that the federal cabinet has given a series of retroactive pay increases to Canada’s chief public health officer, Theresa Tam.
- According to LifeSiteNews.com, The Chinese Embassy in France tweeted out a blasphemous cartoon earlier this month because of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The image depicts a witch-like woman with gaunt features having Pelosi’s face wearing a mantle and crowned with stars, climbing through a window towards a sleeping baby under a map of China and a frog, with a brawn man holding a hammer looking on.
- Rebel News reports that the Saskatchewan government wants to know why the feds are trespassing on farmers' lands, accusing them of trespassing on private land without the owners’ permission to take water samples from dugouts
- The New York Post reports that thousands of rainbow-colored fentanyl pills that resemble candy have been confiscated this week across the country, according to authorities — who warned that the drugs could be part of a marketing scheme targeting youngsters. More than 15,000 of the candy-looking pills were discovered strapped to someone’s leg at the Nogales Port of Entry in Arizona on Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection said.
- CBSnews.com reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband pleaded guilty Aug. 23 to a single charge of driving under the influence and causing injury, which stemmed from an incident in May in Northern California. He was sentenced to five days in jail and three years' probation, but will avoid further time behind bars.
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