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Jens Stoltenberg, who serves as Secretary General for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has announced that the troop total in Iraq will be increasing massively in the upcoming years. Stoltenberg announced earlier this week that 4,000 troops will eventually be deployed to Iraq, an eight-fold increase from the current total of 500. They are expanding the footprint in the Middle Eastern nation under the guise of supporting “Iraqi forces as they fight terrorism and ensure that ISIS does not return.” “Increases in troop numbers will be incremental,” he said. NATO is also working on increasing tensions with Afghanistan in...

A woman who 'married' herself in a commitment ceremony attended by friends and family divided viewers when she appeared on This Morning. Meg Taylor Morrison, 35, a life and business coach from Atlanta, Georgia, explained she 'married' herself as a symbol of 'self-love' after splitting from her fiancé four months before their planned October 2020 wedding. She decided to keep parts of the ceremony in place - only she said her vows in a mirror and kissed her reflection instead of wedding someone else.

Donald Trump came out on top in an Epoch Times poll asking readers for their five favorite presidents.95% of the readers included Trump as one of their top five. ... The poll also asked readers for their five least favorite presidents:94.9% included Barack Obama.

Two California Representatives spearheaded a letter calling on mass liberal cable, satellite and Big Tech companies they took donations from to censor Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax. The call to silence these outlets by Democrat representatives was wholly un-American. The New York Times reported that the letter signed by Reps. Gerald McNerney (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) questioned the roles of “Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, Dish, Verizon, Cox [, Altice] … Roku, Amazon, Apple, Google and Hulu” on the alleged “spread of dangerous misinformation.” The letter reportedly asked: “‘Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, OANN and...

This is probably too trivial and a waste of bandwidth, for an article. But could someone explain why my fitbit says it is 1.07pm. my laptop is 1.10pm, my phone is 1.08pm and the TV Weather Channel shows 1.08pm. Seems like they should all be in sync!

Bill Gates is out with a new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. He is hitting the talk show circuit promoting the book and the idea that the planet is headed for a major climatological disaster that will end the human species. Setting aside as to whether or not there is some climatological disaster developing, Gates' book should really be named "How I Plan to Make Even More Billions By Getting Governments to Fund Every Mad Scheme I Have Invested In". Gates would like for you to think of him...

Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, continues to benefit financially from the fact that her "Momala" is just one 78-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency. Emhoff, 21, scored a major modeling contract with IMG Models just days after her stepmom was inaugurated, and made her runway debut last week during a virtual fashion show presented by Proenza Schouler. The Brooklyn-based "artist" has also used her newfound celebrity status to make money by selling her homemade knitwear. Emhoff's first "collection" of one-of-a-kind clothing and accessories sold out almost immediately on Mall, a boutique online shopping platform. ... Predictably, the...

California Democrats Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney have written to a dozen cable, satellite and streaming companies calling on them to better combat disinformation--which they principally identify as Fox, Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN)--and grilling them on what they plan to do about it. Fox said such letters set a "terrible" precedent. Those were the only two signatories on the letters, but they are both on the powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee. The legislators came just short of calling on the distributors to drop those channels, but not by much. They said that "some purported news...

...a Police State Situation"Following the 2020 presidential election, progressive feminist and author Naomi Wolf (expressed regret) over her vote for Joe Biden if she had been aware of his possible strategy of returning to lockdowns to combat COVID-19.Monday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Wolf said she remained skeptical of the approach and was concerned about the trend toward a police state.Partial transcript as follows:

Meghan McCain on Tuesday doubled-down on her attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci — accusing him of putting people at risk with an “intentional lie” about masks when COVID-19 first ravaged the Big Apple. “The View” co-host ripped into the White House infectious disease expert as she defended her call Monday for him to be replaced with someone who “understands science.” “He told me not to wear a mask and that masks don’t work when I was 3 months pregnant in the middle of Manhattan,” tweeted McCain, 36, who gave birth to daughter, Liberty, in September. “He then later admitted it...

As the horror of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's mismanagement of the COVID pandemic in his state sinks in, fellow Democrats are demanding an investigation. State Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) vocally condemned Cuomo for mingling infected elders among nursing home residents throughout the state. Cuomo responded to this criticism by warning Kim "I will destroy you." Kim called the Governor's threat "chilling. He reminded me that he won an Emmy for his role in fighting the COVID pandemic and that it was his word against mine—a giant vs. a pygmy. He professed himself undecided about whether to 'disappear' me or...

A brief observation of the first two days in Lent reveals militaristic, even violent imagery in the battle against sin and the unruly passions of the flesh. The Collect (opening prayer) of Ash Wednesday provides an image of troops mustering for battle:Grant, O Lord, that we may begin with holy fasting this campaign of Christian service, so that, as we take up battle against spiritual evils, we may be armed with weapons of self-restraint. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and...

A look at Fauci's mixed messages on masks, vaccines and reopenings National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci's often inconsistent comments and mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic are prompting renewed scrutiny as debate rages over reopening schools and businesses nearly a year after the lockdowns started. "Dr. Fauci is a very good public-health official. His job is to advise policy makers and inform the public," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Tuesday. "But his job is NOT to decide what we can do, where we can go or which places can open or close And...

Rather than specifically triggering the toxic effects of organisms such as anthrax, the Sunshine project warned that weapons based on a new medical technique called RNA interference could shut down vital genes. If the sequence of the target gene varies between two different populations the technique could be used to interrupt key body functions in one population and not the other. "If as little as 10% or 20% of a target population would be affected, this would wreak havoc among enemy soldiers on a battlefield or in an enemy society as a whole," the group said. Others say the concerns...

(...) In 2019, Joy Garner with The Control Group set out to answer that question by conducting a litigation survey of never-vaccinated people. They found that, in every case, the claims we hear from our vaunted government and TV experts about the risks and benefits of vaccines are demonstrably false. In fact, they learned that the tiny, vaccine-free minority of Americans is far healthier overall than the vaccinated majority. (...)

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it asked Facebook’s Oversight Board to end the censorship of former President Trump and allow him back onto the platform. Judicial Watch told the Oversight Board that the decision to suspend Trump is an affront to free speech and transparency. The Oversight Board is empowered by Facebook to review and overturn Facebook’s censorship decisions. “Facebook and Big Tech censorship of former President Trump is an attack on the free speech of every American,” stated Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch President. “Simply put: Big Tech must stop censoring conservatives in their effort to help Joe...

Health authorities in England have announced that not a single case of influenza has been detected this year, with one professor suggesting that mask wearing should be kept in place during winter to drive down flu deaths to “zero.”

Greg Kelly interviews Trump on Newsmax, 21 minutes

Madonna has a reported fortune of $850 million but she still feels that she is a victim. In a recent Instagram post, she took aim at the patriarchy that she claims is suppressing her. She is no stranger to controversy. Madonna has a history of doing and saying anything for publicity, but this recent comment stands out as hypocritical for someone with her experience and history.

Cue the late-night jokes. Hillary Clinton has penned a political thriller titled “State of Terror” about a fictional secretary of state, she revealed Tuesday. In a statement first reported by Axios, the former Obama secretary of state and failed 2016 presidential candidate announced that the book would be released in October by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press. In the novel, “a novice Secretary of State joins the administration of her rival.