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ransomnote: I excerpted the video. The first half is the the Japanese PM's reaction to Trump asking why Japan didn't tell the US about Pearl Harbor in advance (she straightens in her chair). The second half was her reaction to his statement, 'You believe in suprise, I think, much more than us.' (She raises her brows and blinks) MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra OMG. President Trump does not GAF Japanese Reporter: Why didn’t you tell Japan about your surprise attack against Iran? Trump: Who knows better about surprises than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" Look at her face.. SAVAGE...

In the waning days of the benighted Biden Administration, as Democrats do when they are preparing to leave office, the leftist agents in the federal apparatus rapaciously took every opportunity to shore up their hold on as many levers of power as possible. As always, this included seating as many reliably leftist activist judges as they could, so that they had places to go when they wanted to overthrow the ability of the incoming administration to do what it was elected to do. One of the judges the deep state installed was a Massachusetts criminal defense attorney named Brian Murphy....

Despite ongoing conflicts, Israelis continue to report high levels of happiness. The annual World Happiness Report has once again been released, placing Israel in a respectable eighth place, with most citizens reporting that they are happy living in the country. The index is published each year by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. According to the latest rankings, Scandinavian countries occupy the top spots. Residents of Finland are the happiest in the world, followed by those in Iceland. Denmark ranks third. In a surprise, Costa Rica takes fourth place-the highest ranking ever for a Latin American country....

TEHRAN — Following the latest round of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in the country, Kevin, the janitor at the Office of the Supreme Leader, was officially recognized as now being the most senior military official left in Iran. Over the last few weeks, U.S.-led strikes have almost completely annihilated the Ayatollah's regime and the Iranian military chain of command, leaving Kevin as the highest-ranking member of government personnel left in the entire country. "Me? Really? Wow, nobody told me I got promoted!" Kevin reportedly said upon hearing the news. "I just scored the janitor job a couple of months ago,...

Footage from Russian state broadcaster RT has captured the moment a missile lands just a few feet from where its reporter was broadcasting in southern Lebanon. RT, formerly Russia Today, said Steve Sweeney, its Lebanon bureau chief, and his cameraman had "miraculously survived" and were being treated in hospital. The BBC has verified the footage.

This is a different type of hospice fraud. Seniors not aware they are in hospice (they aren't dying), neglected and defrauded when the home owner distributes their identity information to others who bill medicaid.DrOzCMS @DrOzCMSHospice fraud isn’t just about stealing your tax dollars – in some cases it’s about stealing your life. Federal and state authorities raided this illegal hospice ring in southern California earlier this month, but there are plenty more like it. We won’t rest until seniors and taxpayers are safe. March 18, 2026

Explanation: Even if you live with your head in the clouds, you won’t find a jellyfish like this one very often. The featured image shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida on March 4. The launch happened 52 minutes before sunrise, and the second stage rocket exhaust plume was high enough in the sky to catch the light of the rising sun, while the photographer was still in the dark. This combination of light and shadow, possible at dawn or dusk, makes the exhaust, mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide, appear as a glowing cloud....

The new White House task force will withhold government funding for state and local benefits programs if their anti-fraud controls are viewed as lacking. IT MODERNIZATION The White House is kicking off President Donald Trump’s “war on fraud” with a focus on federally-funded benefits like housing, food and cash assistance programs. Among the tactics that a new anti-fraud task force will be pursuing is withholding government funding to state and local jurisdictions whose anti-fraud controls for benefits are deemed inadequate and increasing data-sharing between states and the federal government, according to the Monday executive order establishing the task force. Both...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born writer who immigrated to the United States in 1926, worked as a screenwriter and playwright and wrote several novels expressing an individualistic philosophy she called “objectivism.” Rand’s novels and outspoken ideology were subjects of academic and media debate from the onset of her literary career, but controversy soared with the 1957 publication of her 1,168-page “Atlas Shrugged.” The novel describes a revolt by business executives, inventors, artists and other accomplished Americans who opposed suffocating taxes and regulations. Rand likens the rebels to Atlas, a figure of Greek mythology who holds the world on his shoulders....

Prominent Democrat lawyer David Boies, best known for representing Al Gore in Bush v. Gore after the contested 2000 election, riled many of his fellow Democrats by recently writing a Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Partisanship on Iran Is Dangerous for America," with the subtitle of "Trump is doing the right thing for the U.S., and we Democrats should judge the war on the merits."Needless to say this set many liberals on edge, including a highly irked Isaac Chotiner of the New Yorker. He doesn't tolerate dissent from the Democrat party line well. Earlier, Politico found an anonymous Democrat strategist to...

The pair met in the Oval Office and fielded questions from reporters, one of whom asked why Washington had not informed Tokyo of its plans to attack Iran. "We went in very hard. We didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise," he said. "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor."

Iran executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler in a public hanging Thursday along with two other people who were arrested during the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters in January. Saleh Mohammadi, a rising star from Qom, was allegedly tortured to confess to the capital crime of waging war against God, with the teen executed without a fair trial, according to human rights groups. “His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society,” Nima Far, a human rights activist and Iranian combat athlete, told Fox News. Mohammadi, along with...

Please pay attention. This is about the Minab girls’ school and there is new information.@owenjonesjourno has a pattern. He “platforms” a few safe voices, then smears anyone who does not fit his narrative as liars or “pro war.”Now he calls British Iranians who share Minab… pic.twitter.com/uvLrFLsBVy— Kusha (@kusha_alagband) March 18, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he will keep serving as head of the central bank if his nominated successor, Kevin Warsh, is not confirmed by the time his term is up in May, as dictated by the law. Separately, Powell said he will not leave his Board of Governors position, which technically extends until early 2028, until the Department of Justice investigation of him is “well and truly over with transparency and finality.” Powell said during his Wednesday press conference that he would serve as “chair pro tem” if Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to take over the role,...

An Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field was coordinated with the Trump administration in advance, according to three Israeli officials, despite President Trump’s initial assertion in a social media post that the United States “knew nothing about” it. “The United States knew nothing about this particular attack,” Mr. Trump wrote in the social media post late Wednesday, saying that Israel had “violently lashed out.” A day later, Mr. Trump appeared to have changed course. Speaking to reporters Thursday at the White House, Mr. Trump implied that he had spoken about the strike ahead of time with Prime Minister...

Hollywood, the most sublime dream factory ever known to humanity, has died. Official reports don’t include an exact time of death, but the end came after years on life support, sustained by a legion of CGI-enhanced superheroes. Once rollicking and reckless, full of glamour, danger, and suspense, Hollywood spent two decades withering into a cosmetically altered, politically correct corpse. Its one surviving older relative, opera, could not be reached for comment. Its only child, television, and two grandchildren, video gaming and little TikTok, were distracted by family quarrels, and did not attend the funeral. Hollywood was born in late August...

Acting on direction from the White House, the Pentagon and the Navy are devising a plan to escort merchant ships and tankers through the narrow passage. In the past, mines have been a primary weapon to restrict transit through the waterway, but during the current conflict, Iran is choosing projectiles to control the waterway.Still the U.S. is striking Iran’s mine layers Caine said. “We’ve made it a priority to target Iran’s minelaying enterprise, their mine layers, the naval bases and depots, in addition to the missiles that could influence the straits,” Caine said. “And [U.S. Central Command] continues to attack...

Why doesn’t failed MSNBC host Joy Reid leave the U.S., as so many haters of President Donald Trump and his America-First policies have vowed to do? On Monday, she expressed her paranoid, fantasy-driven, and hysterical hatred and contempt for the United States during the second Trump administration, and compared the U.S. unfavorably to the Islamic Republic of Iran. So why not move to Tehran, Joy? It’s likely that real estate there is quite inexpensive these days. Reid started out by claiming a moral equivalency between the Islamic Republic, which has murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens over the...

SAN FRANCISCO — A mystery man known as “John Doe” has been charged with identity theft and passport fraud, and refuses to give up his true identity even though it means he’ll be kept behind bars indefinitely, court records show. Doe, whose name and age are unknown to authorities, is charged with stealing the identity of a Puerto Rican native who claimed to have lost important documents and identification papers 15 years ago, court records show. On March 10, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Cisneros used Doe’s refusal to identify himself as the basis for determining that he is a potential...

A video of Theo Von, speaking his mind regarding the government of Israel.