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Global warming may have already passed irreversible tipping point After the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic, scientists warn point of no return on global warming may have already been reached. Presenting the first findings of the world’s largest mission to the North Pole, an expedition involving 300 scientists from 20 countries, Markus Rex said on Tuesday that the researchers had found that Arctic ice is retreating faster than ever before. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/15/global-warming-may-have-already-passed-irreversible-tipping-point

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explained the reasoning behind his opinion that a lab leak was the most likely explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins, in a wide-ranging interview with Fox News. Former CDC director Redfield explains why he believes COVID-19 emerged from lab, WHO 'compromised' Redfield argued COVID-19’s efficient human-to-human spread contradicted the behavior of other deadly coronaviruses with similar profiles, such as SARS and MERS, which first reached humans through animal contact but spread at a much slower pace. "When I said before that I didn't think it was biologically plausible that COVID-19 went from a bat to some unknown animal into man and now had become one of the most infectious viruses," Redfield said, "That's not consistent with how other coronaviruses have come into the human species. And, it does suggest that there's an alternative hypothesis that it went from a bat virus, got into a laboratory, where in the laboratory, it was taught, educated, it evolved, so that it became a virus that could efficiently transmit human to human." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-redfield-cdc-covid-19-lab-leak-who-compromised

McConnell haunts Democrats with new pledge to block Biden court nominee The Senate minority leader, whose dubious maneuvering to turn the Supreme Court to the far right still haunts liberals, just previewed a fresh scheme to bolster conservative judicial supremacy on the nation's top bench for years to come, with widespread consequences for all three branches of government. The Republican veteran indicated Monday he would implement his self-declared rule and refuse to confirm a Supreme Court nominee picked by President Joe Biden in election year 2024 if the GOP wins the Senate next year. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/mitch-mcconnell-biden-agenda-manchin/index.html

Le’Veon Bell: I have a right to how I feel about Andy Reid because of what he said to me https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/06/13/leveon-bell-i-have-a-right-to-how-i-feel-about-andy-reid-because-of-what-he-said-to-me/

There will never be any excuse for the Tulsa Massacre , I'm very ashamed of the white people of Tulsa . They need to make amends for that terrible crime.

You realize Biden was joking with the troops who were standing at attention when he walked in and told them at ease.

Local Alabama ABC anchor who broke Clinton tarmac story dead at 45 Death of Christopher Sign, 45, is currently being investigated as suicide https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alabama-abc-anchor-broke-clinton-tarmac-story-dead-45

Kelce was born and raised in Cleveland so not a surprise

Putin says Russia prepared to extradite cyber criminals to US on reciprocal basis https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/13/europe/putin-russia-cyber-criminals-intl/index.html

This could make some black students really resent white people , not a good idea.

Family of Georgia's secretary of state was still getting death threats months after election, report says "You and your family will be killed very slowly," read one anonymous text Tricia Raffensperger told Reuters was sent on April 24. "We plan for the death of you and your family every day," read another text message Tricia Raffensperger told Reuters she had received earlier that month. Her husband, Brad Raffensperger, told CNN's "Erin Burnett Out Front" Friday the threats are unacceptable. "This is not acceptable behavior to threaten the wives, the children, the family of people that work for the government or even the government workers," he said. "They didn't sign up for this." Tricia Raffensperger told Reuters that the threats and intimidation had forced her family into hiding for almost a week in late November. Intruders had broken into a family member's house around that time, and the same night, members of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers were found outside the Raffenspergers' home. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/11/politics/georgia-raffensperger-family-death-threats-election/index.html

US super-rich 'pay almost no income tax' ProPublica says it has seen the tax returns of some of the world's richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett. The website alleges Amazon's Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla's Mr Musk paid nothing in 2018. ProPublica said it was analysing what it called a "vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data" on the taxes of the billionaires, and would release further details over coming weeks. While the BBC has not been able to confirm the claims, the alleged leak comes at a time of growing debate about the amount of tax paid by the wealthy and widening inequality. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57383869

Cheney: Trump using same rhetoric as Chinese communist party “When you listen to Donald Trump talk now, when you hear the language he’s using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy,” the congresswoman for Wyoming said. “When he says that our system doesn’t work ... when he suggests that it’s, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it’s failed — those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us. It’s very dangerous and damaging ... and it’s not true.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-liz-cheney-chinese-communist-b1861039.html

The troops who died fighting the Nazi were the real antifa

Grill the Sgt at arms of the Senate and House who did not take the warning from the FBI serious. They knew Trump was holding a major rally nearby 1/6 to protest the certification of the vote. He called for the rally about 2 weeks earlier , the Capitol Police should have had riot gear , gas masks and plenty of tear gas .

Yep in Israel anyone but Netanyahu , in the U.S. anyone but Trump.

I can agree 🙂

Even places with a wall are not stopping people . The parents must really be desperate to have their children dropped off like that. What should be done ?

He's played for 6 other teams before getting here , that's not a good sign.

Spotrac updated Bill's to $11M , Greg Rousseau still not under contract.

Finally also good trade value

Flynn should have his military pension cancelled

Toronto or any Canadian team might as well stay in the city they are playing

Astrophysicist explains why UFO videos fail to impress him Frank said that he will read any government reports with interest, but said there may "be more prosaic explanations" like the possibility Russia and China are using drones to lure "our pilots into turning on their radar and other detectors, thus revealing our electronic intelligence capacities." https://www.foxnews.com/science/astrophysicist-explains-why-reported-ufos-fail-to-impress-him

Trump has the dream team to defend him, Rudy Giuliani , Sidney Powell , and Lin Wood otherwise known as the clown car.