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Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler's decision to try to mollify the violent mobs besieging the city by agreeing to "defund the police" is taking a big toll of black lives. The budget for police was cut by $27 million and the number of officers reduced by 120. Crime is now considerably worse than it was last year. Shootings for the first four months of this year have doubled to 348 compared to the same months last year. Homicides have increased seven-fold since last year. A disproportionate number of those murdered have been blacks. A peaceful demonstration to mark the anniversary...

The Energy Department announced on Monday that it was starting an “Earthshots” initiative to reduce the costs of clean energy within a decade — starting with its first goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen to $1 per kilogram. The Energy Earthshots Initiative will seek to, within a decade, speed up breakthroughs in affordable and reliable clean energy, according to a department statement. “The Energy Earthshots are an all-hands-on-deck call for innovation, collaboration and acceleration of our clean energy economy by tackling the toughest remaining barriers to quickly deploy emerging clean energy technologies at scale,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm...

Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz is sounding the alarm on Joe Biden. During an interview on Fox News, the former Republican lawmaker said Biden has “violated his own ethics pledge” by taking campaign cash from a Russia lobbyist. Chaffetz also noted that Russia gave campaign cash to Biden and got exactly what they wanted: Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. and approved a pipeline to be finished in Russia. “It turns out that Biden, in violation of his own ethics pledge, got campaign cash from a well-known Russian lobbyist ahead of his decision to drop sanctions...

Evidence is rapidly accumulating that China not only covered up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the coronavirus initially leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Explosive new reports based on intelligence sources go further than that: The laboratory’s suspected “gain of function” research was linked to “secret military activity,” which ultimately culminated in an improbably early COVID-19 vaccine patent. Indeed, the ‘warp speed’ rollout of the vaccine would be virtually impossible, unless the Chinese were already conducting research on the deadly coronavirus with the aim of developing their own vaccine. The Australian reported on Friday that the “U.S....

Too Much Hypocrisy: Francis Preaches "Church With Open Doors"“The Church must be a large room, not a small enclosed circle, but a community with arms thrown wide open, welcoming to all,” Francis feigned at the June 6 Corpus Christi Mass in St Peter’s basilica.He warmed up his mantra that a “Church of the pure and perfect” is a room with no place for anyone. But a Church of the "pure and perfect" is at best preached by Francis, for whom everyone seems to be "pure and perfect" except those who pollute the environment or take the faith seriously.Francis went to...

President Joe Biden has announced that he will meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in person prior to the meeting of the G7 nations this week in order to reaffirm the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom, however, potential rifts remain. Despite long-held concern that Joe Biden would favour relations with the European Union over the United Kingdom due to his anti-Brexit position, the President announced on Sunday that he would in fact first meet with his British counterpart before EU leaders.

Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state. Three months after they arrived, Honolulu police shot and killed her husband, 29-year-old Lindani Myeni, who was Black.

Record producer Quincy Jones and singers Barbra Streisand and Cher took part in the United Nations Human Rights’ “Call for Code” initiative in an event on Saturday, which is also the United Nations’ “World Environment Day.” Singers Carole King, Rod Stewart, Melissa Etheridge, Sia, and Kesha also joined the call for developers to deal with “climate change” issues, according to a report by Rolling Stone. The social media initiative is “a call to action, encouraging developers and innovators to use cutting-edge technologies to immediately create solutions for critical issues stemming from the global climate change.” The stars involved in the...

The New York Times told home-buyers to infuse eco-extremism into their decision-making when buying their homes. The latest climate drivel for The Times was headlined, “Add ‘Climate Hazards’ to Your Home-Buyer’s Checklist.” The lede paragraph reeked of agitprop: “As global temperatures increase and sea levels rise, home shoppers are looking at more than just location, price and the number of bedrooms when exploring properties.” The Times propagandized that climate change was causing people to wonder “about the risk of natural disaster, and what that risk might mean for a home’s value over time.” It’s too bad that Climate Depot Founder...

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During an interview with David Axelrod’s “The Axe Files” podcast, Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) discussed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) visiting former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the January 6 Capitol Hill riot. Cheney called the move by McCarthy “inexcusable” during a portion of the interview highlighted Monday on CNN’s “At This Hour.”

FROM 2/5/2021: Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a “reset” of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis. On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF), along with Russia’s Sberbank and its cybersecurity subsidiary BI.ZONE announced that a new global cyberattack simulation would take place this...

Money managers increased their net long position in CBOT corn futures and options to 401,993 contract FORT COLLINS, Colo.- Speculators have been buying Chicago-traded corn since August when troubles began for the 2020 U.S. harvest, and that enthusiasm expanded even more last week as weather concerns are on the radar for the 2021 crop. In the week ended April 13, money managers increased their net long position in CBOT corn futures and options to 401,993 contracts from 386,619 a week earlier according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. That is funds’ most bullish corn stance and their first time...

A freeper sent me the link to this amazing video that everyone should see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEAWyfuEWY A YouTube interview with the author of "The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine" who wrote the book after working on consulting on litigation and becoming aware of the fraud, deceit, "ghostwriting," etc. uncovered during the discovery process of litigation of pharma. Shocking and disturbing picture of how "science" is really conducted now. It will help anyone get a better idea of how to judge new drugs, clinical trials, "scientific" papers; medical journals and pharma fear mongering marketing.

David Bowie Oasis Prince Elton John, he never really got on with the ‘Your Song’ singer, “An old bitch… his writing is limited to songs about dead blondes,” Richards once said of the Rocketman without so much as a second thought. Led Zeppelin, “The guy’s voice started to get on my nerves. I don’t know why; maybe he’s a little too acrobatic.” Metallica

Chilling surveillance video captured the moment a gunman fired at a Queens home Saturday amid a parking dispute — killing a 10-year-old boy. The footage, tweeted by the NYPD on Sunday, shows the killer walking on the sidewalk in front of a home on Beach 45th­ Street in Far Rockaway around 9:30 p.m., reaching his arm through its iron railing — and pumping a barrage of bullets at the house. The video shows eight bright bursts, one for each bullet fired. The father of slain sixth-grader Justin Wallace told The Post on Sunday that his nephew was opening the door...

First of all, Wuhan is a place and not a race, and to identify the coronavirus by its place of origin, like naming the Ebola Virus for a river in Zaire, is not racist or xenophobic — it's merely accurate. There is no racism or xenophobia in labeling an infection "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" or calling something "Lyme Disease" after a nearby town in Connecticut. What calling this latest virus the Wuhan Virus is is a reminder of the multiple contagions China has spawned and released on an unsuspecting world. Nor is connecting some very big, ugly, and obvious dots...

The judge called it an "unthinkable crime," and said it was "incomprehensible" that a child would be so "unfeeling," before sentencing the older of two teen girls involved in the carjacking murder of grandfather and Pakistani immigrant Mohammed Anwar. The judge gave the 15-year-old the maximum sentence -- six years of youth detention.

An elected Virginia sheriff is quitting the Democratic party, citing its “relentless attack on law enforcement.” Smyth County Sheriff Chip Shuler, who has been twice elected as a Democrat, said he filed Monday to join the GOP — which his application unanimously accepted by the party, according to WJHL-TV.“I am changing to the Republican Party because of the relentless attack on law enforcement by Democrats in Richmond and Washington,” Shuler said in a press release.“My deputies work hard to serve and protect the citizens of Smyth County,” he said. “As sheriff, it has been difficult to watch my deputies try...

Fort Shafter, Hawaii — Gen. Charles A. Flynn assumed command of U.S. Army Pacific from Gen. Paul J. LaCamera in a ceremony held June 4, 2021, on Historic Palm Circle at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Flynn comes to Fort Shafter after serving as deputy chief of staff for U.S. Army operations, plans and training at the Pentagon. He succeeds LaCamera, who was confirmed last month by the U.S. Senate to be the next U.S. Forces Korea commanding general. Flynn’s return to Hawaii is a homecoming, as he commanded the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks from 2014-2016 and served as U.S....