Month: June 2022

Orange County’s ‘Mixed’ Response to Homelessness: Grand Jury Report

An Orange County Grand Jury report showed “mixed” success in the county’s effort to address homelessness through the “Continuum of Care,” a series of nonprofits and government agencies tasked with ending homelessness in the region, with local concern remaining at an all-time high. Though the county has over 5,700 homeless individuals, according to the 2022…


Patriotic Popeye (1957)

Popeye’s nephews want to play with fireworks on July 4, but Popeye tries to dissuade them. They manage to light some off and get into trouble. Popeye saves the day. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres Story by Caryl Meyer Music by Winston Sharples Produced in 1957 Credit: Public Domain Movie – publicdomainmovie.net/ *…


Guilty Pleas to Two Federal Felonies From Man Who Breached Rotunda Doors

A South Carolina man who opened the inner Capitol Rotunda doors during the breach on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty in federal court on June 30 to two felony charges. George Tenney III, 35, of Anderson, pleaded guilty in Washington to civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. Judge Thomas Hogan accepted Tenney’s guilty…


US Health Care Is Under Attack

Commentary The United States could be under attack. In 2020, the country experienced 1,389 ransomware attacks, averaging 3.8 attacks per day. A year later, the number of attacks had risen to 2,690, representing a 92.7 percent increase, according to Security Magazine. This year, things have gotten considerably worse. In the last 12 months, ransomware attacks…


Manuka Honey Fights Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Plus so Much More

The steadily worsening problem of antibiotic-resistant pathogens – cause for grave concern in the medical community – has researchers working overtime to discover solutions.  But several studies raise hope that Manuka honey may hold the key to combating MRSA and other drug-resistant strains. In one study conducted at Cardiff Metropolitan University and published in 2012 in Microbiology, researchers…


First Probable Case of Monkeypox Found in Orange County

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County reported its first presumptive case of monkeypox June 30. Local officials presumed the case to be monkeypox, and are performing contact tracing and working to prevent further infections. In the meantime, Orange County authorities are awaiting confirmation of the case from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According…


Israel’s Bennett Hands Premiership to Foreign Minister Lapid, Won’t Seek Reelection

Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett handed over Israeli premiership to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday after lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament (Knesset). The Knesset dissolution followed the collapse of Bennett’s ruling coalition and opened the way for a Nov. 1 election that will be Israel’s fifth in less than four years. Accompanied by their…


‘We Now Understand Better How Little We Understand About Inflation’: Federal Reserve Chair Powell

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted during a panel discussion that lacks understanding about inflation, which is at a 40-year high in the United States. “I think we now understand better how little we understand about inflation,” Powell said at the European Central Bank’s annual policy forum in Sintra, Portugal, on Wednesday. “This was unpredicted,” he…


TV Series Review: ‘America the Beautiful’: Superb Start, Lackluster Finish

In the hope of impressing a mate, a male roadrunner catches a lizard and displays it proudly before the female. (National Geographic for Disney+/Neil Anderson) TV-PG | 3h 58min | Documentary, Nature | 4 July 2022 (USA) Releasing a limited TV documentary series titled “America the Beautiful” (ATB) on the fourth of July is nothing if not brilliant timing and…


We Need a Reset, but Not ‘The Great Reset’

A interview with Catherine Austin Fitts about her work in exposing corruption and fraud in the banking industry and government. Typically, my conversations with experts about the COVID pandemic revolved around the infection and its treatment. Today’s interview with finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts will tackle the COVID topic from a different angle. Austin Fitts…