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Andrei Jikh 3.21M subscribers Your 401K Is Their Exit Strategy (SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI) Their massive IPOS are coming that will be difficult for markets to absorb. Taken together their IPOs are valued at 4.2 trillion dollars. Watch the video if you have the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhRjvX_t4hc&t=216s

“What a farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat,” a phrase I've heard often in my life. This applies not only to food but also to many other areas. It is often the basis for many prejudices but at the same time—to be fair—it can also be a good defense in certain situations. When does it apply and when doesn't it? The average casual visitor to our website may well raise their eyebrows. “What's that? Noahides?” Some will know what it means, especially the conscious visitor. It is what I noticed earlier when, as a Reformed/PKN member, I eventually moved...

'Nude isn't lewd': World Naked Bike Ride returns to Madison this June The 12-mile ride is a protest against oil dependency — and a statement that every body has a place in public. MADISON, Wis. -- Whether you love it, hate it or just tolerate it, the World Naked Bike Ride will return to Madison later this month. Organizers said the ride will begin at 11 a.m. on June 20. Madison is one of dozens of cities holding a ride worldwide. Organizers expect 160-200 people to join this year's event. The annual ride serves as a protest against oil dependency...

Question Shalom Rabbi, I am a Noahide and live by the 7 Noahide Laws. Though I have many friends and loved ones who follow a myriad of different faiths, mostly Christians, among other denominations. My question is one regarding mercy. I know many people do not follow the Noahide code out of ignorance, not malice. I would like to know if they would be given a chance to repent after getting confirmation of the Truth of G-d. In other words, do all non-Noahides inevitably disappear after death with no possibility of repentance and a share in the world to come,...

“Qatar bought a soccer team, a giant energy conglomerate — and, it seems, a French President.” — Biff Spackle.In April 2024, a 73-page secret report landed on the desk of France’s President Macron. It said the Muslim Brotherhood (once aligned with Nazi Germany) had spent forty years (yes, four decades) secretly infiltrating French neighborhoods, schools, and city halls. And all of it was bankrolled by Qatar and Turkey. Emmanuel Macron read the report. He understood it. Then he locked it in a drawer. And full credit for this story goes to Behind the Narrative 📣. This is the story he...

More than 100 staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees have been referred for suspension or debarment from taking US taxpayer dollars after a federal watchdog found they had helped Hamas carry out the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack against Israel. The US Agency for International Development’s Office of Inspector General (USAID) submitted 101 more names for debarment or suspension based on their “participation” in the attack that killed 1,200 in Israel — including 46 US citizens — or “affiliation” with Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades. “Among the individuals referred were UNRWA school...

The Brief The jury at the trial of Karmelo Anthony will get the case on Tuesday after four days of testimony. Anthony is charged with murder in the 2025 stabbing death of Austin Metcalf. If convicted, Anthony could face up to 99 years in prison. =========================================================================== MCKINNEY, Texas - A Texas jury will soon decide the fate of Karmelo Anthony. Anthony, 19, has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Investigators said Anthony and Metcalf got into an argument over stadium seating during a track meet in Frisco on April 2, 2025. When...

The parents of a 13-year-old girl filed a lawsuit against Oregon Health and Science University after doctors told them their daughter was dying — but it turned out surgeons had installed her new heart valve upside down, according to the complaint. Steven and Lori Stokes filed a $17 million lawsuit against OHSU and Dr. Ashok Muralidaran, who performed the surgery, in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleging negligence in medical care. On Aug. 15, 2025, an OHSU surgical team led by Dr. Muralidaran performed open-heart surgery on the girl to implant a heart valve. The procedure required surgeons to stop her...

Johnson travelled from Los Angeles to Brisbane last month to meet the family of his partner, Kate Tolo, 30, for the first time Johnson said his trip to Australia undid some of his anti-ageing work amounting to a 'biological insult' that took weeks for his body to recover from. 'I decided to live in her mum’s world. I ate everything she prepared, including meat, bread, and pasta, and embraced the discomfort of being an introvert in a week-long marathon social interaction with the entire extended family,' 'I experienced a huge spike in food noise when in Australia,' he said. 'The...

WASHINGTON— Saturday morning at the Naval Observatory looked a little different than usual. Once again, the Vance family hosted dozens of families at “Camp VPR,” a one-day camp that Second Lady Usha Vance created that takes place on the lawn of the Naval Observatory. The second lady shared exclusive photos of the day with The Daily Wire, showing children coloring, reading, painting, playing, and even digging in a play garden as they celebrated the beginning of summer and kicked off the second lady’s summer reading challenge. While there have been many parties at the residence in the past, Camp VPR...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/9/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesJudges 8:24- 24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of...

A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where footage from the scene appeared to show an attempted beheading. The suspect was arrested after bystanders intervened. The incident was reported shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Monday on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast, where officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland responded to a stabbing. Police said one man was taken to hospital with serious injuries. A second man was arrested in connection with the incident. Graphic footage posted by witnesses showed the suspect on top of the victim in the middle of the road...

Rabbi Boaz Sluck, a 55-year-old reserve soldier who was seriously wounded by an explosive drone during operations in southern Lebanon, spoke to Arutz Sheva-Israel National News from his bed at Rambam Health Care Campus and recounted the moments he says miraculously left him alive. “I was wounded in several parts of my body. I needed ten units of blood. What saved me was the protective vest our team commander purchased for us through donations, which prevented shrapnel from penetrating my vital organs," Sluck said. According to Sluck, the entire incident unfolded within seconds. He described spotting the explosive drone entering...

There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. The updated addition to the socialist dogma is tinged with what is called the Me-First perspective, the current rallying cry for a new batch of socialists attempting to upset the economic apple cart. This latest flavor is not too far from the traditional utopian idea that socialism could work somehow if all that is tweaked are price controls, the elimination of private ownership, slowing down market forces, and stifling entrepreneurial incentive and motivation. In other words, the new age socialists' prevailing cry for a socialist fix to...

US Vice President JD Vance says the United States and Israel “have a lot of shared interests, but we also have some situations where our interests diverge,” as Fox News host Jesse Waters begins an interview by asking him how “concerned are you about Israel spying on the United States and freelancing in Lebanon?” “I think where the president has been very clear here is that while Israel obviously has some objectives that it has, the United States’ main objective in Iran is to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon,” Vance says, without actually addressing the questions...

"Prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves" (James 1:22). It’s a delusion to think you can hear God’s Word, then disobey it without cost. Matthew 7:21-23 records the tragic results of spiritual delusion. Jesus says, "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And...

9 June 2026 Tuesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time St. Columba San Diego Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Kings 17:7-16The widow gives food to Elijah, and is fedThe stream in the place where Elijah lay hidden dried up, for the country had no rain. And then the word of the Lord came to Elijah, ‘Up and go to Zarephath, a Sidonian town, and stay there. I have ordered a widow there to give you food.’ So he went off to Sidon. And when he reached the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks; addressing...

"When you embrace somebody for the job, you really want to embrace a winner" Ouch. Willie Brown made Kamala, gave her positions, introduced her to donors and moved her through the political system. It probably helped that Kamala, unlikely presumably Gavin Newsom, was his ‘side piece’. Now with Kamala polling behind AOC in a hypothetical Dem presidential primary, Willie just dumped her. Politically at any rate.

The California Election 2026 primary is over. And yet, it’s not over, because the counting continues. Democrat leaders will justify the long counting period because they emphasize creating as much ease as possible for everyone to vote. Everyone gets a mail-in ballot, and everyone can vote from wherever they please in the state. A Los Angeles County resident can vote in Orange County or elsewhere in the state, and they can even vote with a provisional ballot if they don’t bring the original ballot with them. The state allows ballots to be counted up to seven days after Election Day,...

The Iran war is on the ballot in South Carolina, where GOP primary voters will determine the political fate of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a steadfast ally of President Trump and one of the Senate’s most hawkish members. … Graham’s advocacy for the war has even extended to telling South Carolinians to prepare to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East.