Info in Bits & Pieces

EARTHQUAKE (Nov. 21):
A powerful earthquake of 5.6 magnitude hit Indonesia’s West Java Province on November 21, 2022, killing at least 162 people displacing thousands.

EARTHQUAKE (Nov. 27):
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is erupting for the first time in nearly 40 years. There have been dozens of earthquakes — one of them a magnitude 4.2 quake — have swarmed the region after the volcano’s summit caldera erupted on Sunday (Nov. 27) night. Officials have issued an ashfall advisory for Hawaii’s Big Island and residents have been asked to remain vigilant.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/dozens-of-earthquakes-swarm-hawaii-as-the-worlds-largest-volcano-erupts/ar-AA14I1Bi
~~~ by Ben Turner, MSM

Global Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Supplies Are Sold Out Until 2026, Major LNG Importer Warns
Japan is the leading importer of LNG. They are warning about years of tighter supplies because of competitive markets and underinvestment in supply. All long-term LNG contracts have been sold our until 2026.

New Zealand Paves the Way to Lower Voting Age to 16.
Activist group Make It 16 has been advocating for three years to lower the minimum voting age so that it’s in line with New Zealand’s Bill of Rights, which says 16-year-olds and above have the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of age.

Cursive Handwriting Obsolete?

• While 72% of adults say they read a book in the last year, almost 1/3 are now reading e-books, not hard copy books, according to Pew Research.
• Handwriting stimulates the brain as we exercise precise control over our fingers even as it deepens our thinking on whatever it is we are writing about.
• Generation Z has difficulty in reading cursive and nearly 2/3 cannot read and more cannot write it, according to Catherine Faust, former president of Harvard University.

Who Is The Biggest Threat to Democracy?
According to a recent poll conmissioned by The New York Times, 59% of registered voters believer that the MainStream Media (MSM) is the biggest threat to American democracy. To be clear, not social media, the mainstream media.

By the Numbers:

• 22 STATES
  A total of 22 states are calling on the Biden administration to rescind its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, in light of how vaccines provide little to no protection against infection and the growing awareness of side effects from the shots.
• 2,000 WORKERS
  More than 2,000 workers at 112 Starbucks locations across the U.S. joined the first nationwide strike that lasted one day, as part of a year-long attempt to unionization.
• 29,000
  The Netherlands is to cull another 29,000 chickens on a farm in the north of the country after a highly infectious strain of bird flu was detected, per a government statement on November 20, 2022.
• $59 MILLION
  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a 50 million pound (US$59 million) package of defense aid for Ukraine during his first visit to the Ukrainian capital since becoming British leader.
• 93 MILLION
  Four Republican U.S. senators have introduced a proposal that aims to provide greater scrutiny of visas for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. It would ban the issuance of non immigrant visas to the 93 million CCP members, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
• $3 BILLION
  Maintenance costs of Canada’s four submarines are expected to be about $3 billion through 2025 – double the price tag for 2018 to 2021.
• 60 PERCENT
  Sperm counts have dropped 60% over the past 45 years, according to a study published by Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Braun School of Public Health.
• 69 PERCENT
  of more than 6,000 Americans including 46% of Democrats, 77% of independents, and 91% of Republicans believe that the country is on the wrong trace, according to a Morning Consult survey last updated on November 14, 2022.

QUOTE:
”It’s important to take a step back and recognize that the First Amendment protects our fundamental, God-given right to express ourselves, right to state an opinion, even if somebody doesn’t like it.”
~~~ Eric Schmitt, Missouri attorney general, on Big Tech ensorship

QUOTE:
”Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
~~~ G.K. Chesterton

QUOTE:
”A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.”
~~~ African proverb

QUOTE:
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
~~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C. – 43 B.C.), Roman Statesman

“For with God nothing will be impossible.”
~~~ Luke 1:37 (Bible)