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womanofthehills's JournalTucker Takes a new role on the view! Babylon Bee
https://twitter.com/thebabylonbee/status/1650564566877630465?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQNEW YORK, NY — As part of a plan to broaden its audience, the long-running daytime talk show The View has announced former Fox News host Tucker Carlson will be joining the program's panel. Producers hope Carlson's presence will both draw new viewers and educate current cast members.
"Tucker's going to be a great addition," said Executive Producer Brian Teta. "Not only will we reap the benefits of bringing in a more politically conservative audience but our other co-hosts will benefit from hearing new political perspectives! Win-win!"
Boom in labs handling dangerous pathogens not matched by biosafety and biosecurity regulation
The number of labs handling dangerous pathogens has risen to more than 100 around the world but has not been accompanied by sufficient oversight, raising biosafety and biosecurity concerns, a new report by King’s College London
There has been a global boom in construction of labs handling dangerous pathogens, but this has not been accompanied by sufficient biosafety and biosecurity oversight. Our new report documents for the first time the current picture around the world and sets out clear recommendations to help address current shortcomings that need to be implemented at the local, national and international level.
– Dr Filippa Lentzos. https://twitter.com/filippalentzos/status/1636387584149696523?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQ
You gotta love this John Fetterman tweet
https://twitter.com/johnfetterman/status/1648456948004827137?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQLots of water in Rio Grande River this yr
Federal water managers have more room to breathe this spring as two Southwestern rivers that provide New Mexico and Texas with drinking water and irrigation supplies are seeing the benefits of record snowpack and spring runoff.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service delivered the good news Tuesday for water managers, cities and farmers as federal officials rolled out operating plans for the Rio Grande and the Pecos River.
The mountain ranges in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico that serve as headwaters for the two rivers last winter saw nearly double the snowpack of historic averages, resulting in runoff that will provide a major boost to reservoirs.
And even more of that snowmelt will reach streams and rivers since soil moisture levels were able to recover last summer during what was one of the strongest monsoons the region had seen in 130 years.
(I’m in the middle of the state - high desert mountain foothills - and last summer it was lush - so much rain - best gardens I ever had in all my years of living here)
https://www.koat.com/article/new-mexico-rivers-get-boost-from-winter-snowpack/43643470
NYT's - Leaked Documents Suggest Ukrainian Air Defense Is in Peril if Not Reinforced
A huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia’s air force from changing the course of the war, according to U.S. officials and newly leaked Pentagon documents.
WASHINGTON — For more than a year, Ukrainian air defenses, reinforced by Western weaponry, have kept Russian planes at bay.
But without a huge influx of munitions, Ukraine’s entire air defense network, weakened by repeated barrages from Russian drones and missiles, could fracture, according to U.S. officials and newly leaked Pentagon documents, potentially allowing President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to unleash his lethal fighter jets in ways that could change the course of the war.
In the early days of the invasion, Russian aircraft flew hundreds of combat flights to bomb targets in Ukraine. But a combination of quick thinking by Ukrainian commanders and poor intelligence and bad aim by Russian pilots left many of Ukraine’s warplanes and air defenses intact, preventing Moscow from gaining control of the skies above the battlefield and forcing Russia to keep much of its air force out of the fight.
Now Pentagon officials are worried that Moscow’s barrage of attacks from afar is draining Ukraine’s stores of the missiles it uses to defend itself. And a Pentagon assessment from late February contained in the trove of leaked documents that were discovered circulating online last week paints an even grimmer picture. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/us/politics/leaked-documents-ukrainian-air-defense.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
French Protesters storm Blackrock
The Telagraph
“Dozens of trade unionists invaded the offices of US-based investment firm BlackRock in protest against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms on Thursday.
Members of the railway worker’s union set off firecrackers in the atrium of the Centorial building near the capital’s Grands Boulevards, filling it with smoke. “
Florida braces for 5,000-mile-wide stinky seaweed blob -- and a toxic algae bloom
A toxic algae bloom known as a red tide has been killing fish along the Gulf Coast and southern Florida, kicking up the stench of decay.
Now, a massive blob of seaweed twice as wide as the U.S. is drifting across the Atlantic Ocean and could wash ashore in Florida in the coming months, creating an even bigger mess. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-braces-for-5000-mile-wide-stinky-seaweed-blob-and-a-toxic-algae-bloom/ar-AA18LxPJ
(it’s twice as big as the USA & it doubles EVERY month. Expected in July so HOW BIG will it be in July?)
Over on CBS news they just reported double billing by Wuhan Lab to US
The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to records reviewed by CBS News.
"What I've found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research," said Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator with over two decades of experience combating white-collar crime and healthcare fraud.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-government-agencies-may-have-been-double-billed-projects-wuhan-china-records-indicate-probe/
Adam Schiff on Silicon Valley Bank
https://twitter.com/repadamschiff/status/1634733931424620544?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQhttps://twitter.com/repadamschiff/status/1634684186060619776?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQ
https://twitter.com/repadamschiff/status/1634373962208628736?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQ
Fauci on CNN - could be manipulated " a bit"
Fauci on CNN Newsroom
JUST IN – Fauci Now Says A Lab Leak Could Still Be Considered As Coming From Natural Origins
"A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab, and was being studied in a lab, and then came out of the lab. But if that's the definition of lab leak, then that's still a natural occurrence.
The other possibility is someone takes a virus from the environment that doesn't actually spread very well in humans, and manipulates it a bit, and accidentally it escapes or accidentally infects someone and then you get an outbreak.”
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