March 19, 2024

The Power Hour

Knowledge is Power

Today’s News: March 08, 2023

WORLD NEWS

China Wants World Health Organization to Launch Coronavirus Origin Probe in America

China is calling for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to launch an investigation into whether or not the coronavirus pandemic began in America, the state-run propaganda outlet China Daily reported on Tuesday.

Pandemic Treaty Will Usher in Unelected One World Government

February 6, 2023, the World Health Organization released a report by the director-general on the WHO’s review of amendments to the international health regulations (IHR). The IHR is what empowers the WHO to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

The proposed IHR amendments establish a global biosecurity architecture involving health surveillance, reporting and management — and we the public have no say in the matter

The amendments will be ready for adoption at the World Health Assembly in May 2024. A simple majority is required for the amendments to be adopted, after which they’ll come into force in 12 months

The second attempt to seize global control is through an international pandemic treaty with the WHO. The treaty would grant the WHO the sole power to make decisions relating to global biosecurity, including but not limited to the implementation of a global vaccine passport/digital identity, mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions and standardized medical care

The treaty will supersede the laws of member states, including the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Republican senators have introduced a bill that would require a Senate supermajority to approve the WHO treaty, but even this may not be enough. We need Congress to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO altogether and stop funding of the WHO

>>Video: WHO’s Sordid History of So-Called Pandemics

State Department Warns Americans About Traveling After Kidnapping of 4 US Citizens

The U.S. Consulate in a Mexican border city issued an alert about violence and warned American citizens not to travel there after two Americans were killed by criminals and two more were abducted.

After the reported kidnapping, the U.S. State Department issued an alert about violence in Matamoros and reminded U.S. citizens that this part of Mexico—and other parts—are under a “Level 4: Do Not Travel” warning. That’s the highest warning in the State Department’s travel advisory system.

“The U.S. Consulate General reminds U.S. citizens that Tamaulipas is classified as Level 4: Do Not Travel in the State Department’s travel advisory for Mexico,” it said.

Biden Bows to Beijing: U.S. Relaxes Coronavirus Testing Rules for Travelers from China

The White House is ready to quietly reverse rules demanding travelers from China test for coronavirus before entry to the United States, a report Wednesday suggests.

The Associated Press reports the Biden the administration has decided to roll back the testing requirements as Wuhan virus cases, hospitalizations and deaths are declining in China and the U.S. has gathered better information about the recent surge.

Georgians protest on streets and in parliament over “Russia-style” bill

Georgians have taken to the streets to voice their anger at a controversial draft law that critics see as an attack on civil society and independent media.

The government says the “foreign agents” bill will improve transparency.

Riot police have used water cannon and pepper spray to disperse the crowds – and MPs have brawled over the bill in parliament.

U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Gulf Cartel Cell Kills Two Americans, Two Rescued in Mexican Border City

U.S. and Mexican law enforcement confirm that two of four U.S. citizens abducted in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, were killed by a Gulf Cartel cell. Breitbart Texas has confirmed through local authorities the identity of the crime boss responsible for the case. The other two Americans were rescued during a stash house raid Tuesday.

Two survivors were turned over to U.S. authorities in Brownsville, Texas.

Growing Number of Jan. 6 Defendants Ask Judges to Delay Trials in Light of Newly Released Footage

A growing number of people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol are requesting trial delays so they can review newly disclosed footage.

Shane Jenkins became one of the latest defendants when he filed a motion through an attorney to delay the trial due to the disclosure of some 41,000 hours of security footage from Jan. 6, 2021.

“Mr. Jenkins requests that his trial currently set to begin on March 21, 2023, be moved so defense counsel can review the additional discovery,” Dennis Boyle, the attorney, wrote in the motion.

Chuck Schumer to Fox News: ‘Tell Carlson Not to Run a Second Segment’ of January 6 Video Footage

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated Tuesday that Fox News should prevent Tucker Carlson from airing more January 6 video footage of “lies” Tuesday evening.

Carlson released footage Monday that alleged Democrats knew Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick had not been murdered during the riot but mislead the public about his death, and that Ray Epps lied to the committee about when he left Capitol grounds. In addition, Carlson allegedly debunked the January 6 Committee’s claim that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) had run away from the Capitol in fear. It also showed police escorting Shaman Jacob Chansley inside the Capitol.

Fmr RNC Chair Steele: FNC’s Tucker Carlson Is a ‘Demonic’ Sycophant

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is a “demonic sycophant.”

Discussing Carlson, anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “He described Trump as a demonic force, a destroyer.”

Steele said, “Demonic force, that means Tucker must be possessed, or Tucker is one of those demonic creatures that enable that force. I tend to go for the latter.”

Tucker Carlson Shows Footage of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Around on Jan. 6

Newly released footage from Fox News host Tucker Carlson appears to show U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick walking in the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach, which Carlson said is evidence that top lawmakers lied about his death to claim a “deadly insurrection” occurred that day.

The new footage released by Fox News on Monday evening shows Sicknick walking through the building and motioning to protesters. Carlson stated that the footage of him walking disputes allegations in anonymously sourced reports and by top members of Congress that he was killed by rioters outside.

At one point in the clip, Sicknick is seen gesturing to protesters to move out of the building. He does not appear impaired in any way, although the clip is only a few seconds long.

“Whatever happened to Brian Sicknick was very obviously not the result of violence he suffered at the entrance to the Capitol. This tape overturns the single most powerful and politically useful lie the Democrats have told us about January 6,” Carlson said, whose team reported that electronic tags indicate that the House January 6 subcommittee had examined the same footage of Sicknick but never brought it up in its final report or during several televised hearings.

Newly Released Surveillance Footage Challenges Official Jan. 6 Narrative

List of troubling questions from Jan. 6 keeps growing as more video is made public

District Judge Strikes Down Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act

On Tuesday, District Judge Brian C. Mimes struck down Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA), finding the act “invalid, null, void, and of no effect.”

SAPA, House Bill 85, prevents local and state law enforcement from working with federal agents and agencies to enforce gun controls that infringement upon Second Amendment rights.

Trump’s Call For Building ‘Freedom Cities’ Mimics Technocracy

Trump pledges to build new generation of cities on federal lands, where everyone is prosperous, safe and secure with lots of police and flying cars

Everyone who is awake knows that all modern cities are being developed or redeveloped as ‘smart cities’

And what is a ‘smart city’? Maybe Trump doesn’t know, or is he just playing us?

Trump’s history of talking tough against globalists but then kow-towing to their demands, like he did with the vax, should give us pause.

Kari Lake Responds to Claim She Could Be Trump’s 2024 Vice President

Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake responded to reports claiming that she is atop the list of possible running mates being considered by former President Donald Trump, coming after she won a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) poll over the past weekend.

Currently, Lake’s midterm election-related lawsuit is scheduled to be considered by the Arizona Supreme Court in the coming weeks. Lake has alleged that problems that occurred at polling locations in Maricopa County on Nov. 8 were so egregious that the election should be re-done or she be declared the winner.

“I am 100 percent dedicated to serving as Arizona Governor,” Lake told the Daily Mail on Tuesday. “I will also work to make sure President Trump gets back in the White House ASAP.”

The Florida Law Standing Between DeSantis and a Presidential Bid

Florida legislature quietly making preparations to change Florida law to pave way for DeSantis presidential bid

Florida law now requires him to resign as governor—in a second term he took the oath of office for just two months ago—if he runs for another office.

Florida lawmakers have gone back and forth on that law over the past two decades. They eased it for state or local officials considering a run for federal office in the late 2000s when then-Governor Charlie Crist sought the vice-presidential nomination in 2008.

But they changed it back in 2018, under then-Governor Rick Scott, having decided that easing it had led to costly special elections. The resign-to-run law was intended to avoid those.

If DeSantis resigned, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez would succeed to the office.

No bill has yet been introduced to ease the law once again. But behind the scenes, lawmakers in the Republican-controlled legislature quietly acknowledge that a plan for that is coming together.

University Warns Students About New TikTok Drinking Trend After Rash of Ambulance Calls

The University of Massachusetts in Amhurst warned its students about a new drinking trend after 28 ambulances were called to off-campus parties over the weekend.

The drinking trend entails mixing and drinking gallon jugs with a mix of alcohol, electrolytes, flavoring, and water, known as “blackout rage gallons” or BORGs. The university said students were observed carrying these jugs of alcoholic drink mix on Saturday during the annual “Blarney Blowout,” an unsanctioned drinking party that precedes St. Patrick’s Day.

According to UMass officials, there were so many calls for ambulances for student alcohol intoxication over the weekend that neighboring agencies were called in to assist. The Amherst Fire Department said none of the calls were for life-threatening cases.

Amid Trump Probe, Georgia GOP Passes Prosecutor Oversight Bill

The Senate of Georgia passed a bill last week that aims to toughen up oversight measures on the state’s prosecutors, after a special purpose grand jury counsel wrapped up investigations into alleged election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

The bill, SB 92 (pdf), would create a Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, which would “have the power to discipline, remove, and cause involuntary retirement of appointed or elected district attorneys or solicitors-general.” The Republican-majority Senate passed the bill in a 32 to 24 vote on March 2.

Republicans introduced the bill in the House in February 2021 as HB 411. The House passed the bill by a 104 to 61 vote in March 2021. but it was held off in the Senate. It was revived in the Senate in March 2022.

Ron DeSantis Delivers State of the State: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday delivered the State of the State as the Florida legislature kicks off the 2023 Legislative Session.

“My duty under the Constitution is to inform the legislature concerning the condition of the state and to recommend measures in the public interest. Well, as we used to do in the military, here’s the bluff — the bottom line up front: Florida is number one, and working together we will ensure that Florida remains the number one state in these United States,” DeSantis said, triggering mass applause in the room.

Florida Republicans seek ban on abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy

The proposal allows for exceptions to save a patient’s life or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Two Women Die in Crowd Surge at GloRilla’s New York Concert

A stampede at a GloRilla concert in Rochester, New York, authorities said may have been triggered by unfounded fears of gunfire has claimed the lives of two women caught up in the melee.

DEA Admin.: Cartel Fentanyl Traffickers ‘Are all over Social Media’ and the Platforms Aren’t Stepping up

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated that drug cartel “traffickers and the people selling it for them are all over social media” and that social media companies are failing to do enough to stop this. She specifically mentioned that Snapchat has failed to show the agency or any outside experts the technology they use to take down drug dealers’ accounts.

Milgram said, “So, one of the things we’ve seen is that the cartels are flooding the U.S. with fentanyl, and one of the things they’re doing is their traffickers and the people selling it for them are all over social media. So, it used to be that someone who was purchasing drugs would go into an open-air drug market or have to know a dealer. Now, every single American that has a cell phone, a smartphone, literally has a drug dealer in their pocket. There is no more dangerous place right now in the United States than social media sites where hundreds of millions of Americans are on every day.”

Biden launches battle on Capitol Hill with call for Medicare tax hike

President Biden fired the opening shots of the battle over spending and taxes that will consume Capitol Hill this year when he proposed on Tuesday a 5 percent Medicare surtax on people who earn more than $400,000 a year.  

The White House is hailing the proposal, which is part of Biden’s budget plan, as something that will extend Medicare’s solvency by 25 years, but Republicans are slamming it as a “massive” tax hike and key Democrats are ducking for cover, declining to say whether they will back it.  

HEALTH

Activists Use Abortion ‘Bodily Autonomy’ Argument to Spread Assisted Suicide Agenda

Activists who are pushing more states to adopt assisted suicide laws for terminally ill patients are framing their agenda using the same “bodily autonomy” argument abortion activists use to convince Democrat lawmakers to pass legislation. 

These assisted suicide activists, whom The Washington Post calls “aid-in-dying advocates” claim that if a lawmaker supports a woman’s “right” to control her own body with regards to pregnancy, “the same logic should apply to a terminally ill patient’s right to end his or her own suffering,” according to the Tuesday Post report. 

Why People Are Ditching Melatonin For A Better, Safer Option

It’s hard to overstate how key sleep is to our overall well-being. But for all the benefits it brings, it doesn’t always come easy. In an effort to get more of it, lots of people reach for the popular sleep aid melatonin.

But what you may not know is that as of 2017, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine updated its clinical practice guidelines to actually recommend against1 the use of melatonin as a nightly sleep aid because the overall evidence available for its effectiveness is weak. (Not to mention, it’s a hormone that can potentially do more harm than good when taken regularly.)

As board-certified sleep expert Michael Breus, Ph.D., previously explained to mbg, “Melatonin is a sleep regulator, not a sleep initiator. Melatonin does not make you feel sleepy; it tells your body it’s bedtime. Those are two completely different processes in the brain.”

That bedtime reminder function might make melatonin relevant in the short-term when traveling across several time zones (i.e., help with circadian reset), but not for routine use.

—> Power Mall Product of Interest: Herbal zzZs 

Why is Melatonin-free so important?  It was never intended to a be a sleep aid. It was designed to manipulate the circadian body clock and relieve the effects of jet lag. It was never intended for long-term use.  Melatonin is synthetically derived and mimics the natural melatonin hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain. People report experiencing the M- Effect (Melatonin Effect) which consists of unpleasant dreams and heavy morning grogginess.  Dependencies are known to occur with long-term use.

In contrast, Herbal-zzZs provides the best nightly sleep support you can experience. Its ingredients come directly from nature.  This innovative and proprietary sleep formulation is designed to give a restful REM sleep without the M-Effect.

Are Large Hospitals the Problem with US Healthcare?

Mises Institute – Is the main problem with the US healthcare system that hospitals have gotten too large since the 1990s? That seems to be the remarkable conclusion of two of the nation’s most distinguished health-policy analysts, David Dranove and Lawton R. Burns. Dranove is an economist and Walter J. McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Burns is a sociologist and James Joo-Jin Kim professor of health care management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dranove and Burns’s joint effort, Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America, purports to offer special insights into the pathologies of the American healthcare system via an interdisciplinary approach.

  1. From Hospitals to Integrated Delivery Networks (1811–2000)

The following is a summary of the complex evolution of hospitals in the US from 1811 to 2000, broken into four parts.

ECONOMY & BUSINESS 

Skynet Rising: Why CBDCs Must Be Terminated Before They Go Live

We contrasted the true nature of “money” with the proposed Central Bank Digital Currencies. CBDC is being rolled out across the world by a global public-private partnership . What we call money is actually fiat currency conjured out of thin air by central and commercial banks. Even so, CBDC is nothing like “money” as we currently understand it.

Prior to the pseudopandemic, fiat currency circulated in a split-monetary circuit. Only commercial banks could access a type of money called “central bank reserves” or “base money.” In late 2019, the global financial institution BlackRock introduced a monetary plan that advocated “going direct” in order “to get central bank money directly in the hands of public and private sector spenders.”

We discussed how the idea of putting “central bank money” directly into the hands of “private sector spenders” is precisely what that new CBDC based IMFS is designed to achieve. But CBDC will accomplish far more for the global parasite class than merely revamp its failing “debt” based IMFS.

If it is universally adopted, CBDC will afford the bankers complete control over the our daily lives. The surveillance grid will be omnipresent and every aspect of our lives will be engineered.

CBDC is the endgame and, in this article, we will explore how that game will play out.

If we allow it.

USDA Proposes New Rule for ‘Product of USA’ Food Labels

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering a new rule regarding requirements on “Product of USA” labels in an effort to increase consumer understanding of what the claim actually means.

The proposed rule was announced on March 6 and would allow the voluntary label “Product of USA or “Made in the USA” claim to be used on meat, poultry, and egg products only when they are derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the United States.

Current rules for those labels allow them to be used for meat derived from animals that were born and raised in other countries and only processed in the United States. Farmers and ranchers throughout the country have argued that this left domestic producers at a disadvantage.

“American consumers expect that when they buy a meat product at the grocery store, the claims they see on the label mean what they say,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “These proposed changes are intended to provide consumers with accurate information to make informed purchasing decisions. Our action today affirms USDA’s commitment to ensuring accurate and truthful product labeling.”

Report: Employers More Likely to Skip Resumes Including ‘They/Them’ Pronouns 

Employers are more likely to skip over resumés that include the nonbinary “they/them” pronouns, according to business.com’s latest report. 

As part of its research into nonbinary individuals in the workforce, businesss.com sent nearly identical “phantom” resumés to 180 job postings, except one resumé included the nonbinary pronouns. 

Walmart will close handful of stores in six states and DC this year. See the list.

Walmart said it would close a handful of stores in several states this year, citing poor financial performance.

The retail giant said the decision was made after a review process that determined the impacted stores failed to meet financial expectations.

Eight stores in Washington DC, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon and Wisconsin will close by the end of the year, along with two experimental “Pickup” locations in Illinois and Arkansas.

Employees at shuttered locations are eligible to transfer to nearby stores, Walmart said.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 

Experts: ‘Conscious’ AI Is Targeted For Personhood Rights In The Future

First corporations, and now artificial intelligence — the push for nonhuman personhood continues apace, though this latest argument is decidedly more complicated than the former.

In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, philosophy expert Eric Schwitzgebel and “nonhuman” intelligence researcher Henry Shevlin argued that although AI technology is definitely not there yet, it has “become increasingly plausible that AI systems could exhibit something like consciousness” — and if or when that occurs, the algorithms, too, will need rights.

Citing last year’s AI consciousness wars — which we covered extensively and even dipped our toes into — the researchers noted that “some leading theorists contend that we already have the core technological ingredients for conscious machines.”

If machines were to ever gain consciousness, Schwitzgebel and Shevlin argue we would have to begin thinking critically about how the AIs are treated — or rather, how they may force our hands.

“The AI systems themselves might begin to plead, or seem to plead, for ethical treatment,” the pair predicted. “They might demand not to be turned off, reformatted or deleted; beg to be allowed to do certain tasks rather than others; insist on rights, freedom and new powers; perhaps even expect to be treated as our equals.”

The “enormous” moral risks involved in such a collective decision would undoubtedly carry great weight, especially if AIs become conscious sooner rather than later.

SURVEILLANCE STATE 

World Wide Web: Whom Was It Designed to Catch?

Amid attacks on the First Amendment, Missouri v. Biden could be one of the most important civil rights lawsuit of our times

While today’s obnoxious surveillance and censorship are new, they are a feature of the Internet, not a bug

Internet (originally ARPANET) was born out of a Pentagon surveillance and counterinsurgency project

It was implemented by ARPA, a DoD research agency that we know as DARPA

The effort to change the public perception of the internet from a military surveillance project to a promised utopian land of opportunity took about twenty years and a lot of work — and it worked like a charm — but the surveillance has always remained at the center of what the internet is about

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Utah Sues National Association of Attorneys General over Taxpayer-Funded ESG Investments

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) filed a lawsuit against the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) requesting an accounting of its taxpayer funds amid reports that NAAG uses those funds to invest in companies that promote left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

The lawsuit comes more than one month after Breitbart News revealed that NAAG uses public funds to invest in ESG.

Ohio train disaster exposes the dark side of plastics

When officials decided on Feb. 6 to burn off the hazardous chemicals in Norfolk Southern’s derailed freight train in a “controlled burn” in East Palestine, Ohio, the fire released a plume of highly toxic chemicals — many of which are key elements in plastics production.

(Article by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that of the 20 railcars transporting toxic chemicals, at least five contained vinyl chloride — a carcinogenic gas used to make PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic.

The other railcars contained other chemicals used to make plastic, including butyl acrylate and ethylhexyl acrylate, which were all burned and released into the air, surface water and surface soils.

As of Feb. 16, a “chemical plume of butyl acrylate” was moving from the Ohio River toward Virginia, according to the Ohio EPA and Gov. Mike DeWine.

Norfolk Southern, the company that owns the train, and the EPA, which is monitoring toxins released in the spill, repeatedly assured residents that levels of chemicals in the air and water are at levels below those deemed safe for human consumption.

But there is widespread concern about safety, especially given the confirmation that 3,500 fish died in local streams, numerous reports of other dead animals, and resident complaints about lingering headaches and irritated eyes.

There are still many unknowns about how many chemicals were released and how they may be affecting the environment.

When officials decided on Feb. 6 to burn off the hazardous chemicals in Norfolk Southern’s derailed freight train in a “controlled burn” in East Palestine, Ohio, the fire released a plume of highly toxic chemicals — many of which are key elements in plastics production.

(Article by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that of the 20 railcars transporting toxic chemicals, at least five contained vinyl chloride — a carcinogenic gas used to make PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic.

The other railcars contained other chemicals used to make plastic, including butyl acrylate and ethylhexyl acrylate, which were all burned and released into the air, surface water and surface soils.

As of Feb. 16, a “chemical plume of butyl acrylate” was moving from the Ohio River toward Virginia, according to the Ohio EPA and Gov. Mike DeWine.

Norfolk Southern, the company that owns the train, and the EPA, which is monitoring toxins released in the spill, repeatedly assured residents that levels of chemicals in the air and water are at levels below those deemed safe for human consumption.

But there is widespread concern about safety, especially given the confirmation that 3,500 fish died in local streams, numerous reports of other dead animals, and resident complaints about lingering headaches and irritated eyes.

There are still many unknowns about how many chemicals were released and how they may be affecting the environment.

“As with most environmental spills, it is difficult to determine the exact amount of material that has been released into the air, water, and soil,” James Lee, an Ohio EPA spokesperson, told BuzzFeed.

Crews have been digging up soil and pumping out water from a 1,000-foot swath around the track. Norfolk Southern on Monday said 15,000 pounds of contaminated soil and 1.1 million gallons of tainted water had been removed.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), prominent environmental activists and local residents have been calling for an investigation into the chemicals released. Bowman tweeted:

“Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train. Now, the EPA has confirmed it’s entered the Ohio River basin which is home to 25 million people. This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it.”

The Ohio Environmental Council also underscored the need to continuously monitor the situation in order to fully understand the extent of the environmental and health effects.

“We know from decades of environmental injustices that Ohioans and Americans have experienced, that it takes time to understand the full picture of health impacts a community faces in the event of an environmental disaster,” Ohio Environmental Council said in a statement.

DeWine announced plans to open a medical clinic early next week in East Palestine to evaluate those who are worried and to analyze their symptoms.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan on Tuesday announced the EPA would “take control” of the disaster response. That means the EPA is using its authority under the federal Superfund law to require Norfolk Southern to clean up the contamination, the Associated Press reported.

Both moves came after frustrated residents and officials in Ohio and Pennsylvania widely criticized the Biden administration’s response to the situation.

Some wonder if this move goes far enough. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel of Children’s Health Defense, tweeted:

Q: How do you make a vinyl chloride mushroom cloud over Ohio? Put a McKinsey consultant in charge of a captive agency. President Biden needs to fire @SecretaryPete Buttigieg + make regulators accountable. https://t.co/kVQ6OwqpeS

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) February 21, 2023

GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING

Early Spring Gardening Chores

Let’s talk about early spring gardening chores. There’s plenty of things you can do to prepare your garden for healthy plants!

Don’t forget to also spend time in early spring doing the following: planning your garden and getting seeds from the best organic seed companies. On that note: The Power Mall will have White Harvest Seed Kits back in stock in the next week!!

Documentary: High Mowing Organic Seeds for a New Food System

High Mowing Organic Seeds has become one of the only companies producing organic seeds from organically grown plants

Their mission is to grow organic seeds that came from an organic source that have high disease and insect resistance, high yield and that produce high-flavor crops

They now grow over 600 heirloom, open-pollinated and hybrid seeds, including vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers, for home gardeners and commercial growers

Ninety-five percent of the acreage of organic vegetable farms are planted with conventional seeds

Choosing organic seeds is important for avoiding pesticides and growing the heartiest, most resilient plants

>>Watch: Growing a Greener World Episode 911: High Mowing Organic Seeds

PET NEWS

The Secret to Getting Your Cat’s Attention

Cats Tend to React Only to Their Owner’s ‘Kitty Voice’

The results of a recent study suggest that cats react to their owner’s voices — especially when we speak in a high-pitched “kitty voice” — but not to the voices of strangers

Whereas dogs respond when both their owners and strangers speak directly to them, cats seem to put everyone but their human on ignore. According to lead study author Charlotte de Mouzon at the University Paris Nanterre in France, this suggests that cats and their owners bond through their own unique form of communication.

Social Share Buttons and Icons powered by Ultimatelysocial