Restriction of Movement/Activity
Wales’s blanket 20mph speed limits will be dropped by September, the nation’s new Labour Transport Secretary has said. The Telegraph has more.
Local councils can start raising limits in six months’ time, Ken Skates told the devolved Senedd parliament on Tuesday.
“We all agree 20mph works really well where it matters most. Outside schools, hospitals, heavily built-up areas, where children are coming into contact with motorised vehicles,” he said.
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Read MoreU.S. regulators are imposing further restrictions in the wake of news that fragments of the bird flu virus have been found in pasteurized milk in that country.
It’s the latest unnerving development that has followed positive tests among dairy cattle, although there has also been no suggestion that the presence of virus fragments found in some samples presents a danger.
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Read MoreSeasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after one reported case of pink-eye in a human.
The entire narrative is predicated upon a long-disputed claim that Covid-19 was the result of a zoonotic jump—the famed Wuhan bat wet-market theory.
While the source of Covid is hotly contested within the scientific community, the policy vehicle at the center of this dialectic began years prior to Sars-CoV-2 and is quite resolute in force and effect.
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Read MoreUntil recently, little was known about a group of Alberta doctors tasked by Premier Danielle Smith with reviewing how health data was used to inform decision-making during the pandemic.
The task force is led by Dr. Gary Davidson, who publicly questioned during the height of the pandemic how the government was using data to justify lockdowns.
Information about the task force came to light April 23 via documents obtained by the Globe and Mail. Ms. Smith answered reporter questions at the legislature later that day, defending the choice of Dr. Davidson to lead the review.
“I needed somebody who was going to look at everything that happened with some fresh eyes and maybe with a little bit of a contrarian perspective because we’ve only ever been given one perspective,” Ms. Smith said.
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Read MoreI HAVE just received a salutary reminder from a TCW reader that it is three years to the day since this huge anti-lockdown march – the largest I think after the mass vaccination rollout began – which was magnificently recorded by Oracle Films.
Their film record puts the MSM – and especially the BBC, ITV and Sky – to shame. They gave it zero to negligible coverage.
Imagine if these pictures had been relayed across the nation on the 6pm and Ten O’Clock News that day? The only surprise is that it wasn’t removed by YouTube.
As my correspondent averred, you cannot watch Oracle’s film of this march for freedom and bodily autonomy and not be moved. She said: ‘We will never forgive the lazy slurs of “granny killers”, anti-vaxers, conspiracy theorists . . . the former two I would wear now as a badge of pride! We need to turn these insults into an honourable label instead.’ You can see the film here.
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Read MoreLaLiga’s aggressive anti-piracy push sparks controversy, as it calls for Big Tech to remotely delete apps on users’ devices, raising significant privacy and ownership concerns.
One of Europe’s major four football leagues, Spain’s LaLiga, is trying to go even harder against what is considered to be (content) piracy.
It doesn’t help that massive amounts of money are already in the football industry – LaLiga, and no doubt others, believe they can always squeeze an extra euro. Whichever way.
And, in trying to do that, they are also trying to prove that Big Tech stores (both Western and Eastern) aren’t “doing enough” to comply.
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Read MoreGCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdown
Children in England could face the worst exam results in decades and a lifetime of lower earnings, according to research that blames failures to tackle the academic and social legacies of school closures during Covid.
The study funded by the Nuffield Foundation predicts that national GCSE results in key subjects will steadily worsen until 2030, when it expects fewer than 40% of pupils to get good grades in maths and English.
Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at Exeter University and one of the report’s co-authors, said: “Without a raft of equalising policies, the damaging legacy from Covid school closures will be felt by generations of pupils well into the next decade.”
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Read MoreFactory farms collect billions in taxpayer handouts to install expensive manure digesters that capture and burn methane — and generate profits from the waste. But the systems don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions — they just move the pollution around.
There has been much media hype about manure digesters and how they will “solve” climate change by capturing and burning methane from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) — aka factory farms.
Billions in taxpayer handouts and other incentives through pollution offset trading markets are encouraging factory farms to expand and profit from their waste stream.
Some economists now speculate that factory farms are earning more from making methane than milk!
My gut reaction 15 years ago to Vilsack’s manure digester panacea to global climate change remains true today — why pay to fix a problem that doesn’t even need to exist?
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Read MoreA third of Canadians are wary of air taxis and urban drones if the federal government is responsible for regulating traffic, says in-house Department of Transport research. “A third of respondents, 31 percent, have low trust in the Government of Canada to handle the implementation of the technology,” wrote researchers.
“A majority of respondents, 63 percent, have conditional support for advanced air mobility, indicating their support depends on specific circumstances,” said a report. Canadians told the transport department they’d accept robot flights for emergency services.
“Most respondents are comfortable with the following applications in urban areas: search and rescue operations (81 percent), firefighting (78 percent), emergency medical services (78 percent), aerial surveying and inspections (70 percent) and logistic and cargo transport (60 percent),” wrote researchers. “Other types of applications receive a lower level of comfort, notably tourism and sightseeing (58 percent) and home deliveries (53 percent).”
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Read MoreThat’s because Honda will be the next major automaker to receive billions in handouts from Ottawa to build EVs and batteries in Canada, no less a source than Ontario Premier Doug Ford has confirmed.
Although details aren’t yet known, Ford all but confirmed on Monday morning that Honda will receive billions in taxpayer dollars to build an integrated EV supply chain in the province.
But speaking at a conference in Toronto, Ford said it will surpass the $7 billion handed to Volkswagen — notwithstanding the $15 billion gran
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