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Former DNC fundraiser was instrumental in luring Amazon to Virginia with lucrative tax incentives The Washington Post, a news blog owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has issued a controversial endorsement in the Virginia governor's race, backing a white man over two qualified black women seeking the nomination. The Post endorsed Terry McAuliffe, who was elected governor in 2014 despite having no political experience beyond raising money for Democrats. The Post, which also endorsed McAuliffe in 2014, explained its decision by noting that McAuliffe's rivals, including two black women serving in state government, are "relatively untested" and lack political experience....

The Department of Homeland Security has pushed back the Real ID deadline until 2023. Originally, air travelers were going to need to have a Real ID by October 1, 2020, in order to board a domestic flight. Last year, the Trump Administration bumped that deadline out a year to October 1, 2021. Now, it’s been bumped out all the way until May 3, 2023...

Posting the English parts:Music - Alexey Ashtaev (RIP) Lyrics – Leonid Vorobyev and Roman Vorobyev Arrangement - Alexey Ashtaev and Leonid Vorobyev Leonid Vorobyev – bass, producing, mixing, mastering, video-montage Ksenia Buzina – lead vocal Igor Dzhavad-Zade – drums Sergey Kurmaev – synthesizer, backing vocal Serge Tiagnyriadno (Kyiv, Ukraine) – synthesizer, backing vocal Vasily Akimov – backing vocal Danil Buranov - backing vocal Andrey Zyl – trumpet Maxim Likhachev – trombone Oleg Kudryavtcev – tenor sax Konstantin Kovachev – guitar Rei Frometa – percussion Special guests – Cheynesh Baytushkina – overtone singing Symphony Orchestra – various musicians Conductor – Alexey...

On tonight’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Fox News host referred to Americans being placed on the TSA’s No Fly List by the Biden administration only hours after America First commentator Nick Fuentes revealed that he was added to the list. “There are reports tonight that a number of American citizens including Americans who were at the Trump rally in January, the perfectly legal Trump rally in Washington in January, have been placed by this administration on the No Fly List, meaning they cannot fly domestically,” said Carlson, before noting that his team has not been able to independently...

We all know watching the Oscars is America's favorite pastime, but it was surprisingly eclipsed by several other shows this year! Here's a list of programs that outperformed the Oscars' ratings in 2021. 1. Wilford Brimley's diabetes commercial: To be fair, it's tough to compete with Brimley's authoritative voice and majestic walrus mustache. Diabeetus. 2. Arlo Huckleberry's infrared trail camera in Arkansas: This riveting viewing of various forest critters prowling around the hills at night averages 12 million views per day. 3. YouTube livestream of paint drying: Most audiences prefer this to lectures from millionaire celebrities. 4. TikTok reaction video...

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed a sweeping anti-abortion bill that bans the procedure if the woman is seeking it solely because a fetus has a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome. Doctors who perform an abortion solely because the child has a survivable genetic issue can face felony charges. The proposal also contains a raft of other provisions sought by abortion opponents. The measure passed the Republican-controlled Legislature on party-line votes over unanimous opposition from minority Democrats. The Republican governor is an abortion opponent who has never vetoed a piece of anti-abortion legislation. …

A contingent of House Republicans on Monday asked President Biden’s nominee for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to investigate if Hunter Biden, the president’s son, lied during a background check in order to obtain a firearm. The request comes after Politico reported last month that Hunter Biden responded “no” to a question about drug use on the Firearms Transaction Record in obtaining a gun in 2018, even though he had been discharged from the Navy Reserve five years early after testing positive for cocaine. President Biden and his family have publicly acknowledged Hunter Biden's struggle with...

Several researchers used by leading corporate media outlets to debunk claims that COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have previously attended events or accepted awards from the controversial lab, The National Pulse can reveal. The researchers’ Chinese Communist Party ties – which present a clear conflict of interest – are omitted from the media reports, which instead present the scientists as unbiased adjudicators of COVID-19’s origins. support In March 2020, NBC Science Contributor Dr. Joseph Fair called for the Trump administration to “stop blaming China” for the outbreak of the virus, despite mounting evidence – even at the...

Lisa Christensen, who was an alternate juror in the trial (but did not know she was an alternate until just before deliberations began), gave an interview to Minneapolis news station KARE 11 on Thursday where she provided the first insight the public is getting into what went through the minds of jurors before and during the trial. Some of the things she said during the interview raised more questions regarding the possibility that some jurors feared voting to acquit would hurt their city – or them. Christensen, who lives in Brooklyn Center, told reporter Lou Raguse that she had “mixed...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Republican Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will be speaking at a "Back the Blue and Freedom Rally" Saturday at the Ohio Statehouse. "As we all saw on video, Officer Reardon saved the young woman's life and should be treated like a hero. See y'all there!" Greene said on Twitter. More at link

Project Syndicate – a media outlet that counts funding and written contribution from George Soros, Bill Gates, the United Nations, and Google – is engaged in “media partnership” deals with several Chinese state-run media outlets, The National Pulse can today reveal. The globalist propaganda outlet – founded in 1995 – has also been lauded by the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with its Twitter account praising the outlet’s content defending genocide in Xinjiang as “objective and informative.” We find "The #Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified" carried by the #US-based media organization Project Syndicate objective and informative. We applaud...

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some internal company changes, which, taken in total, collectively feel like a full version change. It deserves an announcement. In the product world, not all changes are enjoyed by all customers. Some changes are immediately appreciated. Some changes take time to steep, settle in, and get acquainted with....

... The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even “very liberal.” What’s more, white women suffered the worst of all. White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives. ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), not only funded groups that collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but he approved his subordinates’ attendance at a conference sponsored by China’s Wuhan lab, which is widely believed to be the source of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19.Although the 2016 Conference on Viral Infection and Immune Response, hosted by the Nature science journal, has been scrubbed from the publication’s website, archived versions of the site show that two researchers from NIAID were in attendance.At the time of the conference, attendee Kanta...

Too bad journalists don’t do what Chris Sky is doing: going directly to the scene, recording what they see with their cameras If every well-meaning dear reader writing to Canada Free Press (CFP) positing: “I’m reading about terrible things happening in Canada, are they true?” would take the time to watch Citizen Journalist Chris Sky’s video ‘Ontario Border Closure & Roadblock’, they would see Canadian Truth in Action. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, only 4,500-odd people had viewed the video. (on Bitchute and Youtube) Where is the MSM? As usual, sitting at home, sipping their lattes, trying during...

Biden administration is willing to throw Israel under the bus to gain favor at the United Nations and with the globalist crowd The Biden administration’s ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, met virtually on April 21st with Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini. According to an official readout of this meeting, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield “underscored the critical role that UNRWA plays in providing vital services to a vulnerable population and reiterated Secretary [of State] Blinken’s pledge of partnership with the agency.” The Biden administration wasted no time announcing that it would...

NASA will run an asteroid impact simulation event over the course of the week as the space agency ups its game in the pursuit of keeping Earth safe from threatening space rocks. While there are no known significant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, an asteroid impact is considered inevitable in our planet’s future. The potential impact could still be millions of years away, but NASA is working now to prepare for the inevitable. Over the course of the week commencing April 26, members of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) will participate in a “tabletop exercise” to see...

It is now fairly common knowledge that Ravi Zacharias—a spiritual hero to multitudes—had for many years been living a secret life of manipulative, vile, and even predatory sexual immorality, spiritual deceit, and professional duplicity.It’s hard to imagine that a person of such influence ventured as far into evil as he did. Even on his deathbed—surely suspecting his disgusting deeds would eventually come to light after he was gone—he did not repent. It knocks the wind out of us, gives ugly opportunity to our critics, and leaves many furious to the core.Stunned, shocked, and shaken, some don’t know how to process...

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge hearing a challenge to voter privacy policies during the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate's recount of 2.1 million 2020 election ballots in the county that includes metro Phoenix said Tuesday he is not convinced voter secrecy is being upheld. The comment from Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin came at the end of a lengthy hearing where he also declined to extend a previous judge's order that auditors hired by the Senate comply with state voter privacy laws -- at least until he hears more at a hearing on Wednesday.