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A line of children's outfits laid along Santa Cruz County beaches. The line of clothes stretched along a three-mile-long line that started at Sea Cliff State Beach and ended at Seascape Park Beach. The group behind the display consists of various community activists and organizations that support a ceasefire in Gaza. Organizers said the 13,000 outfits represent the number of children that have been killed in the conflict. According to UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, more than 12,300 children have died in Gaza between October 2023 and February 2024. "We've had a lot of people...

Support Free Republic... What was that on Thursday evening was it the "Putin-Biden Debate"... I think there's some football game this weekend a lot of churches having events related to it I notice so let's go with a "Football Update"... The Joe Biden Update bring out the Benny Hill music... Why not an actual Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" show close to intro Joe Biden... And in his own words the Physical Occupant Of The White House... Are they trying to create sympathy for Biden... Back in the 1970's as a teenager I read all three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag...

In the clips shared to social media, masses of garbage could be seen charging down canals and storm drains, the water carrying it virtually invisible for all of the junk. “These are the trash tsunamis of Indonesia and it will all end up in the ocean,” clean-up environmentalist Gary Bencheghib, who shared the clip, wrote. “We can no longer turn a blind eye to these waves of plastic.” “The trash is not the problem. It’s the people. If they don’t waste from the beginning, there will still be trash but maybe better managed,” another wrote. Others called for a more...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An attorney for the Laundrie family released contents of Brian Laundrie’s notebook on Friday, including what appeared to be his confession and explanation for killing his fiancée Gabby Petito. This is a rough transcription of the eight pages of Brian Laundrie’s notebook, released by Steve Bertolino:“Gabby, I wish I was right at your side, I wish I could be talking to you right now. I’d be going through every memory we made, getting even more excited for the future. But [we] lost our future. I can’t [live] without you. I’ve lost every day we [could’ve] spent...

Crows in Sweden are being trained to pick up cigarette butts that are littering the streets. In Södertälje near Stockholm, the birds are being recruited to help with this persistent waste problem. A device designed by startup Corvid Cleaning rewards crows with a small amount of food for every butt they bin. It provides positive reinforcement that encourages these intelligent birds to repeat the behaviour. Crows can do jobs, share knowledge and even mourn their dead. Some studies suggest that they could be the smartest animals on the planet besides primates with a level of reasoning equal to a seven-year-old....

Toxoplasma gondii, a microscopic parasite that gets inside our cells, is present in about 10 percent of the population in the U.K. But in tests on lung cancer patients, all were found to be infected with the parasite. "It's a remarkable result which we don't fully understand yet," states Geoff Hide, Professor of Parasitology at the University of Salford. "It is possible that the presence of the parasite in these patients is exacerbating their symptoms of cancer or interfering with their therapy." Working with Professor Dave Singh, clinical consultant at the Medicines Evaluation Unit at Manchester University, they tested 72...

Celani: Progress understanding LENR-AHE effects, using thin, long Constantan wires multielements coated, under D2 gas mixtures at high temperatures, by DC/AC voltage stimulation in coiled coaxial geometry. Francesco Celani(1,2), C. Lorenzetti(1), G. Vassallo(1, 3), E. Purchi(1), S. Fiorilla(1), S. Cupellini(1), M. Nakamura(1), P. Cerreoni(1), P. Boccanera(1), R. Burri(4), A. Spallone(1,2). 1) ISCMNS_L1, Via Cavour 26, 03013 Ferentino-IT; 2) INFN-LNF; Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati-IT; 3) DIID, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo-IT; 4) IETCLaboratories, 6827 Brusino Arsizio-CH. Our group has been studying LENR phenomena in Constantan (Cu55Ni44Mn1) since 2011. In fact, this alloy captured our attention since it promotes efficiently...

Full title: So much for clearing up the planet! Climate change protesters who marched through Manhattan are branded hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city Climate change skeptics have branded protesters who marched through Manhattan on Sunday as hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city. New Yorkers uploaded images to social media sites showing piles of trash - included ditched paper and cardboard signs - left behind after thousands took part in the People's Climate March. 'Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn't even use a trash can,' one critic, known as @chelsea_elisa on Twitter,...

FULL TITLE: So much for clearing up the planet! Climate change protesters who marched through Manhattan are branded hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city Climate change skeptics have branded protesters who marched through Manhattan on Sunday as hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city. New Yorkers uploaded images to social media sites showing piles of trash - included ditched paper and cardboard signs - left behind after thousands took part in the People's Climate March. 'Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn't even use a trash can,' one critic, known as @chelsea_elisa on Twitter,...

I don’t know who said it, but whoever came up with the idea that “whatever liberals don’t want to ban, they want to make mandatory,” is absolutely accurate. You name it, they’ve got a plan to force everyone to do it or to rid the world of it. Nothing is too small to escape their crosshairs, not even straws. Straws are a favorite target, the banning of which is all the rage in Democrat-controlled cities across the country. They pat themselves on the back so hard over this Jihad against straws that you’d think they were giving themselves the Heimlich...

An Austin woman who collects litter along central Texas trails and streets hits a milestone on Saturday, when she'll log her 500th "trash hike" in a year and a half. Julie Sondecker started her mission in May 2017 after a trip to the Barton Creek Greenbelt. "Basically just found a bunch of trash, and it just kind of got me fired up," Sondecker said. "It really irritated me to find so much trash in one of my favorite places." The hiker talked to KXAN Thursday, completing her 499th hike around Lady Bird Lake, reusable mesh trash bag in hand. That...

San Jose is launching a new program to clean up the streets while also helping get people off them. The initiative will employ 25 homeless residents to pick up trash at 40 "litter hotspots" around the city. The employees will be paid $15 per hour and work four to five hours per day. announced by Mayor Sam Liccardo Thursday in partnership with Goodwill and Downtown Streets Team. Participants will start picking up trash in November. While the pay is better than San Jose's minimum wage (currently at $13.50 per hour as it scales toward $15 by 2019), it's probably still...

Here is how Hillary voters left Independence Hall last night

A Virginia man who adopted a stretch of highway under the name Darth Vader donned the costume of the Star Wars character while cleaning up roadside trash. Darth Vader, aka Henry Wakley, was spotted Thursday wearing a version of the Sith Lord's costume with an orange reflective vest at the side of Route 460 in Blacksburg. Wakley adopted the stretch of highway last year and a sign at the side of the road states it was adopted by "Darth Vader." Wakley, who spends most of his time in New Zealand on business, said he decided to don Darth Vader's robes...

After nearly three days of environmental protesting, the Skagit County Sheriff's Office says trash was left littered on the side of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train track.

A "close pass" by orbiting junk has forced the International Space Station's crew to scramble into its attached Soyuz capsule. It is the fourth time in ISS's 15 years that a collision risk has prompted such precautions. Three astronauts briefly fled the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday as a fragment of a former Soviet weather satellite flew by. They sheltered in a Soyuz spacecraft, which normally transports crew members to and from Earth. A space industry source quoted by the Russian news agency Interfax claimed that US space monitors had spotted the space junk "very late." That had left...

Key California legislators have reached an agreement that could lead to a statewide ban on carry-out plastic bags at supermarkets, liquor stores and pharmacies by 2016, officials said Thursday.

National Day Of Service And Remembrance Lorton, VA - September 11, 2013 In memorial for September 11, visit Mason Neck State Park in remembrance and help us with a shoreline clean up. Help by volunteering to pick up garbage along the trails and beach to help make the park a more beautiful place. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Meet at the Visitor Center.

There are many things about liberals that are infuriating, but one of the most aggravating is their unabashed hypocrisy. From the President of the United States to Earth Day revelers in a San Francisco park, what sets liberals apart from sane people is that they rarely do what they demand from everyone else. It's almost as if the left's ideology embraced a tenet that if you preach about it, and if you look and talk the part, you're instantly exempt from actually doing what it is you promote. In other words, liberals are like grown up Boy Scouts who...

JEROME • Dave Guymon and his son, Nate, like to ride their ATVs at the Snake River Canyon Park at least once a week. They were there Tuesday afternoon, spinning circles in the mud and roaring over rises as Jet, their black Lab, occasionally sprinted in pursuit. Even with the roar of engines, nearby gunshots were audible. The popular park just east of U.S. Highway 93, on the north rim of the Snake River Canyon, is a prime spot for shooters to practice. But their continued use of the area is jeopardized by litter they leave and safety concerns for...