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Leaked audiotape of Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif indicates he had no knowledge of covert Israeli military strikes before former secretary of state John Kerry provided him with the information, new details that contradict the State Department's recent defense of Kerry. These details are likely to further fuel calls from leading Republicans for Kerry's firing or resignation. The New York Times reported that Zarif said on the tape that Kerry told him Israel launched 200 airstrikes against Iranian interests in Syria. The Times did not provide further details on that issue. But an independent translation of the audiotape commissioned by...

It’s about control, it’s always been about control.Business owners, after months of seeking information from the Governor about specific metrics for reopening their businesses and the economy, finally get this: Gov. Whitmer unveils plan to tie Michigan vaccination rates to easing COVID-19 rulesWhitmer outlined four steps to gradually ease restrictions: Two weeks after 4.5 million Michiganders have received their first vaccine dose (55% of the eligible population), the state will lift requirements that employers mandate employees work remotely where feasible. Two weeks after 4.9 million Michiganders have received their first vaccine dose (60% of the eligible population), the state will...

Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this writer has lately seen. After enacting a COVID-19 relief package of $1.9 trillion in March without a single Republican vote in Congress, Biden proposed a jobs and infrastructure program of $2.2 trillion. He has now added an "American Families Plan" of another $1.8 trillion. In his speech to the joint session of Congress, Biden laid out its contents. The Washington Times relates: "Mr. Biden's latest spending package includes $225 billion for child care, $225 billion for a national paid family and medical...

Biden’s Shameful ‘Attack on Our Democracy’ Rhetoric His shameless descriptions of January 6 desecrate the memory of those lives lost in real attacks against this country and serve to justify the ongoing attack on our democracy he is perpetrating. Joe Biden is either an historical illiterate or a shameless liar. Perhaps he is both.Desperate to keep the disintegrating narrative about the events of January 6 alive, Biden, in his first sparsely attended speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, declared the January 6 protest was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”Marked safe from...

Which septuagenarian pol represents the greater threat to the United States — Rudy Giuliani or John Forbes Kerry Yet it was Rudy’s home and office in Manhattan that were raided Wednesday by the corrupt FBI, while America’s Gigolo continued to get a total pass on the amazing revelation that he’s been whispering top-secret U.S./Israeli intelligence to one of the top leaders of Iran, which l t’s great to be a Democrat, isn’t it? Not only do you never have to say you’re sorry, you also never have to say, “Not guilty, Your Honor.” eads the world in state-sponsored terrorism.

Matt Bracken is joined by Alex Jones to start the show and then Matt is on for the remainder of the show. Total time is 34 min. Some of the topics: -COVID vaccination programs facing dissent. Massive noncompliance. Dropping numbers showing up to vaccination sites. Waiting for crack downs. -Communism Bill Gates buying up farm land. Hisory shows starvation programs. No Meat ideas being discussed. Russian elites lived in luxury under communism. Certain demographics oppressed. -Food and water Undependable government services like water. Water filtration will be needed. Food storage. -Left seems to be going for broke this time in...

Roughly 11.6 million viewers watched President Biden's address to Congress on Wednesday, according to initial data from Nielsen. The initial data include viewers from Walt Disney Co.'s ABC, Comcast Corp's NBC, ViacomCBS Inc's CBS, and Fox, but not viewers on cable news networks like Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. Biden's speech drew in less than 75% of the viewership former President Donald Trump's speech congressional drew. In 2017, Trump saw 48 million viewers, followed by 46 million in 2018, 46.8 million in 2019,and 37.2 million in 2020.

On Thursday’s broadcast of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) admitted that she supported preserving the filibuster in the past, but she “learned from” how Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) conducted himself when he was in the majority “and also that the filibuster is a vestige of the Jim Crow days.”

Minneapolis recorded its second-most homicides ever in 2020 — after only 1995, when the city was ignobly dubbed “Murderapolis” in national media. And the trend has continued to escalate in 2021: between January 1 and April 25, the number of homicides increased by 92% compared to the same period in 2020. More than 80% of the shooting victims in 2020 were black. “We’re gonna blow Murderopolis off the charts this year,” one Minneapolis cop told me. (Names in this post have been withheld or partially redacted. As you may be aware, there is often intense suspicion of journalists amongst both...

. ... THE MAGI VISIT BABY JESUS . MATTHEW 2 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read MATTHEW 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels 5 B. C. Bible Timeline. MATTHEW Chapter 2 9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, April 28. Government has determined on the immediate establishment of a National Armory at Rock Island, Ill., to supply the loss of that destroyed at Harper's Ferry. Five employes of the Navy-yard at this city were discovered yesterday filling shells with sand and sawdust. They were arrested, and are now under guard of the Seventh Regiment at the Capitol. They will probably be tried by Court-martial, and, if convicted, shot. The propeller Daylight came up the Potomac without the slightest difficulty. She had no armament except one little howitzer. All on hoard are well. The Bienville also arrived...

Among right-wingers, there has been some delight about polls showing that Joe Biden's popularity at the 100-day mark is the lowest of any president since World War II. Oh, if you exclude Donald Trump. Undaunted by this detail, they note with satisfaction that Biden's approval rating, according to multiple polls, is somewhere between 52 and 57%. At this point in his presidency, Trump's approval was 40%. Americans were far less partisan in the era of Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush and even Clinton than they are now. Large numbers of Democrats were willing to give high marks to Eisenhower when the economy...

Did you know that Michel Foucault, the French philosopher and avatar of the Sexual Revolution, is also regarded as the founding father of Wokeness? Today’s hippest ideology? It’s true. Countless academics and scholars regard Foucault as post-modernism’s most influential thinker. This is because his postmodernism gave birth to ‘critical theory’ which promoted the rejection of the individual, Western civilization and all objective reality. Instead, Foucault regarded the dynamic of life as comprised of identity groups locked in power struggles between the virtuous ‘oppressed’ and their demonic ‘oppressors’. This, in turn, produced Critical Race Theory (CRT) which has become the foundation...

Democrat Lawfare groups The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed and sent a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved in the Maricopa audit. A group of election security and administration experts are asking the Justice Department to send federal monitors to Arizona as the Republican-led state Senate carries out an audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the state’s 2020 presidential election. In a letter to the top official at the Justice Department’s voting section, five elections experts from the Brennan Center for Justice, Protect...

Moscow on a midsummer’s night in 1941 was a balmy place to be. For the discerning, there was Chekhov’s Three Sisters playing to full houses, while opera lovers had a choice between Rigoletto and La Traviata. Others fished for their suppers on the banks of the river, tended their allotments, or simply strolled through Gorky Park. All felt safe in the knowledge that, for the past two years (give or take a few weeks), Stalin’s Soviet Union had been in a pact of friendship and non-aggression with Hitler’s Germany. Though their fundamental political beliefs were polar opposites — one communist,...

RUDY Giuliani claimed the FBI turned down taking Hunter Biden's hard drives three times while they raided his home. Giuliani made the comments during an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday, a day after the FBI raided his home with a warrant to seize electronics. "The agents seemed somewhat apologetic, I might say," Giuliani said. "They were very, very professional and very gentlemanly. The only time they got perturbed is at the end of the search, when they had taken about seven or eight electronic items of mine ... they weren't taking the three hard drives." Giuliani continued to...

Colorado Democrats unveil 3 more gun violence prevention proposals in wake of Boulder shooting By: Blair Miller , Meghan LopezApr 29, 2021 DENVER – Colorado Democrats on Thursday unveiled three more bills aimed at preventing gun violence – something they have pledged to do in the wake of the Boulder King Soopers shooting and with two other gun violence prevention bills already signed by the governor. The bills, which sponsors discussed in a news conference and said would be formally introduced later Thursday, piggyback off of two other bills -- SB21-078 and HB21-1106, the safe storage and reporting of lost...

Abortion is critical to the freedom and imagination of Americans, according to the head of Planned Parenthood. But in reality, it’s the reason why millions don’t exist today – their freedom lost along with their lives.In an interview that went largely unnoticed by the media, Alexis McGill Johnson spoke about the “dire” landscape for “abortion rights” on the podcast Undistracted. In an April 8th episode, the president of the nation’s largest abortion provider attributed new abortion restrictions to “this last gasp of patriarchy.” Among other things, she criticized President Biden for not using the word “abortion,” accused pro-life politicians of...

Colorado lawmakers introduce gun bill package in response to King Soopers shooting by: Gabrielle Franklin Posted: Apr 29, 2021 DENVER (KDVR) — Gun control is back in the spotlight at the Colorado State Capitol. Lawmakers introduced a package of bills in hopes to reduce the violent incidents in the state. Democrats from the House and Senate revealed three bills Thursday designed to stop the next tragedy. While they all lay out the details for prevention, some are wondering if they will be enough. “Between the gun violence prevention bills we’ve already passed this session, and the three bold measures we...

The number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 400,000 in Brazil, the second-highest in the world, as the country continues to struggle with its vaccination programme. There were 3,001 deaths in 24 hours, after a peak of more than 4,000 was reached at the start of April. The 14-day average of deaths and cases remains high but has seen a slight fall. Congress has opened an inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic. President Jair Bolsonaro, who has frequently spoken out against lockdowns, masks and defended unproved drugs as treatment, is facing widespread criticism and his support has...