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President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial grew into a contentious fight night on the floor of the Senate Friday, as his Philadelphia lawyer repeatedly attacked Democrats and sparred with managers as well as senators seeking to test sturdiness of his defense. Trump lawyer Michael Van der Veen was charged with responding to questions asked by senators themselves during a question-and-answer period spelled out in Senate rules – and used his time to snap at lawmakers who have advanced the impeachment effort. At one point, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders submitted a question, which as read out by a clerk asked whether he...

High-powered guests at a controversial dinner series hosted by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were treated to custom-made gifts that cost taxpayers more than $10,000, according to documents obtained by an independent watchdog this week. Pompeo spent a total of $10,433 on 400 engraved pens made in China, embossed with the emblem of the Madison Dinners, an event series that raised concerns within the State Department inspector general’s office over its questionable diplomatic value and political overtones.The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal-leaning government watchdog also known as CREW, obtained documents on the customized gifts through...

To our disgust, we confirmed earlier this week that information was inserted into the 2020 election fraud narrative to sidetrack and defraud the effort to uncover the fraud. The man behind this false information is a huckster with a long track record of deceit, Dennis Montgomery.Earlier this week, Larry Johnson at the Gateway Pundit, reported that Dennis Montgomery was behind an operation to insert false narratives into the 2020 election fraud investigation.Larry Johnson: A Closer Look at the Hammer and Scorecard – UPDATEDSome readers were upset hearing Larry’s news. One comment was that there was more support for the ‘Hammer...

UK Microwave Group (UKuG) member Kent Britain WA5VJB talks about 'Care and Feeding of Yagi’ Antennas' - including some interesting ways to doing Yagi’s and myths of Yagi Stacking. - Recorded from the online UKuG talk on Wednesday 10 February 2021

....No one interest group could have achieved this on its own. It required a perfect storm. It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy much less a specific plot. It only requires that the right confluence of events present themselves in a way that prompts action and cooperation. I might add one more push for pandemic that touches on a general philosophy of life. The world is overflowing these days with people who are consumed by ideology. They have a perception that something is fundamentally wrong with the world and are consumed with a burning passion to fix it. They long...

During the fourth day of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, attorneys for the former president went on the offensive by playing clips of Madonna, Johnny Depp, and several prominent Democrats including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris promoting physical violence. David Schoen, one of the attorneys representing Trump, introduced the montage during the Senate trial Friday. He said that some of the Democrats accusing Trump of inciting violence are hypocrites. “We need to show you some of their own words,” he said. The video included a clip of Madonna giving a speech at the Women’s March on Washington in 2017, during which...

Actress, author and humanitarian Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest. In an Instagram Live chat with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof – watch it below – Judd, speaking from her ICU bed, says she was walking in a Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg. Judd, a frequent visitor to Congo, was doing work to track the Bonobos, an endangered great apes species. Describing “an incredibly harrowing 55 hours” during which she was transported, in part by...

On early January, 2021, Mary Fanning and Alan Jones published two pieces in The American Report titled: Proof Positive: Coordinated Cyberwarfare Attack Against US By China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan To Steal Election From Trump.andSTEALING AMERICA: ‘Former’ Communist Comey Got SCORECARD Election HackingSource Code And Knew SolarWinds Was Not SecureThese articles claim to have a positive proof of a massive coordinated international cyber attack against multiple US election sites during the first week of December, 2020. The stated aim of this attack was allegedly to steal the elections from Trump. The authors of these articles claim that two secret tools...

Judicial Watch Seeks Release of Sally Yates Records on Her Refusal to Defend President Trump’s Travel Ban Professor Charged with Stealing $1.75 Million in Research for China Judicial Watch Seeks Release of Sally Yates Records on Her Refusal to Defend President Trump’s Travel Ban It should surprise no one that on Joe Biden’s short list for attorney general was former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates , an Obama holdover “who shot to national prominence after President Donald Trump fired her, making her one of the first heroes of the #Resistance.” President Trump fired her after she refused in early...

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” FNC Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean stated that if a Republican like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had done what New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has with nursing homes in coronavirus, “that would be a lead story on every single news channel, including the local and the national networks, and every headline of every newspaper.” Dean said, “There have been some very good reporters on the local level that have followed this story. But Brian, I mean, let’s not mince words. If this is a Republican governor, say this is Ron...

Bitcoin could soon be the currency of choice in Miami. Commissioners in the Florida city are mulling whether or not to give public officials the option of receiving their salaries, or a portion of it, in Bitcoin and if they should allow the public to use the cryptocurrency to pay for city services, the Miami Herald reported. Mayor Francis Suarez, who’s trying to shape Miami into a tech hub, is ready to go all-in with Bitcoin but commissioners voted late Thursday to first study the use of the virtual currency and to find a vendor that could help with transactions...

With control of the House, Senate, and White House as a backdrop, Biden administration officials in their meeting with gun control advocates conveyed confidence about enacting gun control legislation through legislative and executive actions that in the past had not gotten the votes. On Wednesday, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice and White House Public Engagement Director and Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond held a virtual meeting with leaders of gun control groups, including Gifford’s Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, and Brady, during which they discussed gun violence in America. Rice and Richmond told attendees that President Joe Biden and...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Rush's classic eighth studio album, Moving Pictures, which is the Canadian prog-rock trio's best-selling record. Released on February 12, 1981, Moving Pictures became Rush's first #1 record in its home country and reached #3 on the Billboard 200, making it the band's highest-charting album in the U.S. at the time. It's sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. alone. The album spawned two of Rush's most enduring songs, "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight," which reached #44 and #55, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100, and #8 and #4 on the publication's...

Of course they knew. Lincoln was born in a log cabin ....Log Cabin Republicans. Id bet good money they were all gay and all using the L. Project as a primary sex pick up org.

Bad experiences with food, like a dodgy curry that makes us ill for days, triggers a switch in our brains that means we never want to eat it again, a study reveals. UK researchers have managed to replicate the effect of a negative experience on eating behaviour, using sugar-loving snails as models in the lab. They used 'aversive training', which involved tapping the snails on the head when sugar appeared, as a proxy for food poisoning in humans, while being filmed. Aversive training flicked an appetite-suppressing switch that meant the snails refused to feed on the sugar, even when hungry....

The Rhine and the TiberA battle over Holy Communion is brewing between German bishops and the Vatican. In the latest exchange between the Holy See and a German ecumenical study group known by its acronym ÖAK, Cdl. Kurt Koch, the Holy See's chief ecumenist, doubled down in an open letter (Monday) to Tübingen professor Volker Leppin.Leppin had lamented what he called the cardinal's "brusque dismissal" of his ecumenical group's proposal for an intercommunion free-for-all. Leppin is the director of the Protestant section of ÖAK, which the Vatican, last September, blasted for proposing in a study of "reciprocal Eucharistic hospitality" between...

Dr. Derek Heard with Phoebe said only around 5,000 Black people in Albany have received the vaccine. African-Americans make up almost 75 percent of the roughly 74,000 people who live in Albany. Heard said he knows there’s some hesitancy from past medical experimentation like the Tuskegee Experiment. Heard said he understands the fear but added things have changed. The vaccine, Heard pointed out, has been tested and deemed safe.

Robberies and assaults against Asian Americans in the Bay Area have them fearful, Asian leaders said at a news briefing earlier this week. ... Late last month in Oakland's Chinatown, a 91-year-old man was pushed to the ground allegedly by 28-year-old Yahya Muslim, who has been arrested on suspicion of the attack and two others in Chinatown.In late January in San Francisco, two older men died in attacks. One man was Thai. Two Daly City residents have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the deaths.

The first time Shelby Steele used the word “equity” in one of his books—“White Guilt,” published in 2006—he was referring to the value his father had accrued in restoring “three ramshackle homes to neat lower-middle-class acceptability.” This was in 1950s Chicago, a city the author describes as “virulently segregated.” Shelby Steele Sr., a Southern-born black truck driver who’d left school in third grade to work the fields, concealed his homeownership from his white employer. He was afraid he’d be fired for “getting above himself.” No bank would loan the elder Steele money, so he used bricks, discarded lumber, and cast-off...

Globalist billionaire George Soros held meetings in 2013 and 2017 with Myanmar’s deposed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and held great influence over her regime, records reveal. Soros’ son Alexander visited Myanmar in 2020. Suu Kyi has been a neoliberal cause celebre feted at Buckingham Palace and championed by Hollywood actors Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell. Now, the military has overthrown Suu Kyi, alleging election fraud. This is causing concern in Soros-world, and thus it is causing concern with the Biden White House. The Biden administration is strongly involving itself in Myanmar affairs. The Biden regime is threatening Myanmar’s...