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The World Economic Forum (WEF) was founded fifty years ago. It has gained more and more prominence over the decades and has become one of the leading platforms of futuristic thinking and planning. As a meeting place of the global elite, the WEF brings together the leaders in business and politics along with a few selected intellectuals. The main thrust of the forum is global control. Free markets and individual choice do not stand as the top values, but state interventionism and collectivism. Individual liberty and private property are to disappear from this planet until 2030 according to the projections...

"We feel super confident about Fox News being able to compete in any environment going forward," Steve Tomsic said at an investor conference. Fox Corp. chief financial officer Steve Tomsic has a warning to outgoing President Donald Trump or anyone else looking to launch a new conservative cable news network to cut into Fox News' audience share. Loyal viewers and longtime dominance are tall hurdles to taking on the Goliath of the conservative news world. "We don't have a hubris bone in our body, so we don't take lightly the potential for competition, whether it's the existing sort of classic...

Workers at an Upper Manhattan Chipotle restaurant say they’ve been fighting a losing battle against hordes of hungry rats — and a management team that let the infestation get so bad that four staffers have been bitten by the massive rodents. The besieged fast-casual Mexican joint on Broadway near West 169th Street in Washington Heights closed to customers indefinitely late last month, but only after rats chewed through the wiring of a computer system that handled orders, two employees told The Post. In the meantime, those workers are still going into the store to clean, in an effort to keep...

Staten Island pub owner Keith Maclarny holds a press conference outside of his bar Mac's Public House. Maclarny is among many business owners who had to close their doors in result of COVID spikes in New York. Quotes from the videos: "De Blasio and Cuomo have told the people that if you stand up to the emperor, you get crushed." "The ignorance is so high that on national television they find it funny that small business owners are trying to feed their families while millionaires sit in their perch." He goes on to decry the mocking by SNL and others.

SEVEN states have now joined Texas lawsuitArkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota and Lousiana…SEVEN states have now joined Texas lawsuit, arguing that the Equal Protection Clause has been violated in this election from state-to-state. @Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota. #StopTheSteal • #FightForTrump— Ali 🟧 #StopTheSteal (@ali) December 8, 2020

The 2017-2018 influenza epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few. Tallia says his hospital is “managing, but just barely,” at keeping up with the increased number of sick patients in the last three weeks. The hospital’s urgent-care centers have also been inundated, and its outpatient clinics have no appointments available.

At the constitutional debates in New York Alexander Hamilton asserted that: The true principle of a republic is, that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. Opposite to this republican democracy is the phony form of democracy preferred by Joseph Stalin where: “those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything.” In this election-fraud based phony-democracy the will of the people is annihilated, creating a definitively unrepublican form. This form must never be allowed a live birth. If election...

It looks Dallas Mavericks’ billionaire owner, Mark Cuban, will take a financial hit this NBA season no matter how many games his team wins. “Am I going to lose a lot of money this year? Yes. No question about it. More than $100 million when this is all said and done? Yes. No question about it,” Cuban said on Monday in an interview with a Dallas sports radio station. The Mavericks are one of many NBA teams likely to open the new season, which starts on Dec. 23, with few or no fans in the stands due to states’ social-distancing...

A firm co-owned by Ilhan Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, received over $500,000 in COVID bailout funds in addition to the millions they got from the Minnesota Representative’s campaign. Fox News reports that the political consulting firm the E Street Group, received “nearly $135,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans.” This, on top of the nearly $2.8 million Mynett’s firm received from Omar’s 2020 campaign, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data. According to reports last month, Omar’s campaign paid her husband’s company for a vast array of services such as “cable advertising, ‘digital...

Trump’s letter on impeachment to Nancy Pelosi - no wonder she was so upset during SOTU. It’s a burner !!!

Britain said on Tuesday it would drop clauses in draft domestic legislation that breached the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement after it clinched a deal with the European Union over how to manage the Ireland-Northern Ireland border.

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE BILL OF COMPLAINT Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1251(a) and this Court’s Rule 17, the State of Texas respectfully seeks leave to file the accompanying Bill of Complaint against the States of Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendant States”) challenging their administration of the 2020 presidential election. As set forth in the accompanying brief and complaint, the 2020 election suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities in the Defendant States: • Non-legislative actors’ purported amendments to States’ duly enacted election laws, in violation of the Electors Clause’s vesting State legislatures...

We’ve known for a while now that President Trump has been threatening to veto the NDAA unless it includes a provision to repeal section 230 of the 1969 Communications Decency Act. Personally, this has seemed like a rather ill-conceived notion from the start, particularly since it’s likely to backfire in a big way. There’s enough support for the “must-pass” nature of the NDAA and for section 230 that the veto could very well be overridden, handing a win to the bipartisanship crowd in open defiance of the President’s goals. We’ve known for a while now that President Trump has been...

Jenna Ellis @JennaEllisEsq IMPORTANT POINT REPORTERS ARE MISSING IN PA SUIT: The Supreme Court only denied emergency injunctive relief. In the order, it did NOT deny cert. @MikeKellyPA’s suit is still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. https://supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20a98.html 6:24 PM · Dec 8, 2020

Spanish Archdiocese Celebrates ‘Sexual Diversity’Universal Church disagreesMADRID (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Office of Social-Pastoral Work of the archdiocese of Madrid parroted on its website the LGBTQ slogan of "living unity in diversity," a mantra propagated by the Jesuit-administered Community of Christian Life (CVC).Almudena Cathedral, archdiocese of Madrid The websites of the archdiocese and the CVC notably bear the rainbow colors of the LGTBQ flag. CVC claims to be inspired by Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Quoting the controversial document, the website states, "The Church makes her own the attitude of the Lord Jesus, who offers His boundless love to each...

The House overwhelmingly approved a $740 billion defense bill Tuesday, defying a veto threat from President Donald Trump and sending the measure to the Senate for final passage. The bill was approved by a veto-proof margin of 335 to 78, with most Republicans joining most Democrats. The legislation authorizes a 3% pay hike for U.S. troops, along with hazard pay and various bonuses. The annual defense policy measure also sets troop strength for the various services, spending levels for weapons systems and a range of other congressional priorities. Under the bill, a special commission must make recommendations for changing the...

The Virginia Republican Party has decided to hold a nominating convention instead of a primary to select statewide candidates for next year’s election – prompting outgoing GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman to call the state party a “raging dumpster fire.” State party officials during an online meeting Saturday voted in favor of the nomination process. The decision has also prompted state Sen. Amanda Chase, to say she’ll run as an independent. “Over the past decade, I’ve seen too many of our grassroots candidates get cheated by the Republican establishment elite and political consultants who control these Republican Conventions and I refuse...

The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies met today. Since 1901, this committee composed of the House Majority and Minority Leader, the House Speaker, the House Majority and Minority Leaders, and a chairman chosen by the Senate, has been responsible for designating a theme for the inauguration and setting a schedule of events.(Did you know inaugurations have themes? I didn’t. In case you have even the tiniest bit of curiosity, this year’s theme is “Our Determined Democracy: Forging a More Perfect Union;” Good luck with that sh**.) Not much got accomplished. Congressional Republican leaders rejected a resolution that asserted that...

COVID-19, with over a 99.5% recovery rate, has prompted the state of California to enact a draconian lockdown on its people. Anyone deemed “non-essential” must stay at home, wear a face mask, and social distance. They’re so serious, they sent out a statewide “severe alert” to all cell phones in the state

As Kevin Williamson observes, the 1950s still play something of an outsized role in the American imagination:Americans talk about the postwar years — the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy years — as though they were a kind of golden age. They weren’t, and damned few of us would be happy with the political settlement that existed then: The Left may cheer the high statutory tax rates of the time, but actual tax collections in those years were almost exactly what they are today, and as much as 80 percent of that Eisenhower-era tax revenue was spent on the military and national...