Why the world is running out of frankincense BBC | 12/21/2025 | Lauren Hadeed
The precious, fragrant resin is the scent of the festive season and rising in popularity in the wellness industry – but its natural source is being decimated.
Salaban Salad Muse has built his whole life around frankincense.
Living the small town of Dayaha in the Sanaag region of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, he works as a seasoned harvester of the famously aromatic resin, obtained only from the Boswellia tree.
Every year, Salad Muse camps for three to six months in a cave near the site he owns with these trees on it.
Wait . . . what? I’d have thought that the odds of my ever reading that sentence were darn close to zero.
California seems to have a plan to chase all gasoline businesses out of their state:
Gavin Newsom PANICS after Chevron LEAVES California YouTube | 12/17/2025 | Steve Turley
… Chevron‘s announcement to relocate its headquarters from California to Houston, Texas, after over 140 years, with CEO Mike Wirth citing high taxes, excessive regulations, and a difficult business environment that impacts retaining engineers.
Valero is reported to be closing its Benicia refinery by April 2026, accepting a $1 billion loss rather than comply with state mandates, resulting in job losses, a 20% budget hit to Benicia, and potential gas supply issues. Phillips 66 is shutting down its Los Angeles refinery by the end of December 2025, eliminating 139,000 barrels per day of fuel production. Combined, these closures are said to remove nearly 20% of California’s gasoline refining capacity within a year.
California’s policies mentioned include cap-and-trade requiring carbon emissions allowances, a unique gasoline blend mandate isolating the state from national markets, and legislation capping refinery profit margins. The state lacks pipelines to other U.S. refineries, and the federal Jones Act restricts domestic shipping to U.S.-flagged vessels, limiting imports from places like Texas.
Governor Of California PANICS After Shell LEAVES California youtube | 12/18/2025 | Pump Report
… the state’s strict refinery requirements, low-carbon fuel standards, and environmental regulations create a perfect storm for sky-high prices at the pump. … the Cap-and-Trade program adds hidden costs to every gallon, and even minor supply disruptions send prices skyrocketing.
Permanent Closure Requirements for Underground Storage Tank with Single-Walled Components. CA WATERBOARDS / X | 12/19/2025 | Mike Netter
In 2014, California passed a bill mandating that all gasoline storage tanks in the state of California be upgraded from single wall tanks to double wall tanks. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2026. As a result of this law, across the state 473 gas stations will close.
SEATTLE ON TRIAL: Fire dept medics ‘abandoned’ 16-year-old CHOP shooting victim Antonio Mays Jr to die: expert witness The Post Millennial | December 17, 2025 | Katie Daviscourt
… The fatal shooting occurred around 3 am on June 29, 2020, when protesters operating as “CHAZ/CHOP security” unleashed a barrage of gunfire on Mays and his 14-year-old friend, Robert West, while they were driving a vehicle through the zone. The Antifa-BLM autonomous zone was established following the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody. Anti-police activists occupied a six-block radius in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, leading city officials to abandon the SPD east precinct and implement policies restricting police and emergency responder entry without special approval.
Mays, a black teenager from California, endured more than 25 minutes of “agonizing pain” before succumbing to his injuries, said Attorney Evan Oshan, representing the Mays family.
So the city and the first responders are to blame — not the gunmen, rioters, and liberals who supported this insanity?
Apparently “Great Britain News” has some work to do…
Armed Sydney police ram into car and arrest five men en route to Bondi Beach just days after terror attack Great Britain News | December 18, 2025 | Ben Chapman
…Images from the scene showed the men lying on the red and footpath with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.
Probably meant “road.” Or maybe it’s just their accent.
Photos and videos of the detentions spread rapidly online, but police are yet to realise the identities of those arrested or confirm the exact number of people taken into custody.
Perhaps meant “release,” but who actually knows? May be correct as is.
The incident occurred just days after the Bondi Beach terror attack which claimed the lives of 15 people.
Naveed Akram, 24, has been charged with 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act after waking from a coma.
Well, he probably couldn’t have done it before waking from a coma, could he?
Photographer Finds Thousands of Dinosaur Footprints Near Italian Winter Olympic Venue breitbart.com| 12/16/2025
MILAN (AP) — A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced Tuesday.
The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has never previously yielded dinosaur tracks, experts said. . . .
The dinosaur prints are believed to have been made by long-necked bipedal herbivores that were up to 10 meters (33 feet) long, weighing up to four tons, similar to a Plateosaurus, Dal Sasso said. Some of the tracks were 40 centimeters wide, with visible claws.
The footprints indicated that the dinosaurs traveled in packs and they sometimes stopped in circular formations, possibly as a protective measure.
I’ve had a few long-necks in my time, but never saw any 33-foot-long, four-ton vegetarians with visible claws. Much less in a circle.
You sure the scientists weren’t accidentally watching The View?
As Stalin said, what matters is who does the counting.
As Polar Bear Population Explodes, Animal Loses its Climate Crisis Mascot Status Legal Insurrection | September 17, 2024 | Leslie Eastman
… in 2019, I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzes the latest data and reviews the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving.
Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university.
However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true.
The polar bear, the iconic image of the climate crisis, has entirely lost its eco-activist mascot status. Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg (President of the Copenhagen Consensus and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution) recently examined the numbers in a New York Post piece and came to the same conclusion.
Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore’s hit 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death.
The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund’s chief scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012.
And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears.
Why? Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around 26,000 in the present day. (The main reason? People are hunting a lot less [fewer] polar bears).
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This is not to say people don’t go hunting for polar bears. They do. It’s just that they do it with cell phone cameras for Instagram posts while they take “polar bear safaris.”
Canada boasts around 16,000 polar bears, approximately 60% of the world’s total population. With as many bears as taxpayers, Churchill, Manitoba (pop. 900), bills itself as the “polar bear capital of the world.”
“And we don’t pay taxes.”
vs. Lie-senkoism:
Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate NBC News | December 12, 2025 | Elmira Aliieva
With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive.
How? How are they doing this? Will it work?
The species is being forced to adapt to the harsher reality of a warming Arctic, in what scientists believe is the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic change in a mammal.
How? How are they doing this? Will it work?
Researchers from the University of East Anglia in Britain say these findings, published Friday in the journal Mobile DNA, offer a rare glimmer of hope for the species.
“Mobile DNA“? How are they doing this? Will it work?
“Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century, with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,” Alice Godden, who is the lead author of the study, told NBC News.
Shall we check with her (or him) 25 years from now? Will he or she still be accountable for the accuracy of this prediction?
Will the journal?
Will NBC News?
“I believe our work really does offer a glimmer of hope — a window of opportunity for us to reduce our carbon emissions . . .
She or he should start keeping a journal now recording how she or he does this over the next 25 years.
. . . to slow down the rate of climate change and to give these bears more time to adapt to these stark changes in their habitats.”
Both Climate Change and Evolution measurably act on the time span of 25 years? How do they do this? Will it work?
The study “does not mean that polar bears are at any less risk of extinction,” Godden said,
— Godden forbid —
though the discovery may “provide a genetic blueprint for how polar bears might be able to adapt quickly to climate change.”
Godden added: “We all must do more to mitigate our carbon emissions to help provide and extend this window of opportunity to help save this wonderful vital species.”
How? How do scientists and reporters get away with this? Will it work?
