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How do you know when a law enforcement agency is corrupt beyond reprieve? When they are unwilling to accept evidence of major crimes like child pornography due to political considerations. That’s what we have today with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, a federal “law enforcement” group that has no interest in solving actual crimes. During an interview released today by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani detailed the raid on his premises by the FBI. They took everything they could with a very conspicuous exception. They wanted nothing to do with Hunter Biden’s hard drives which...

The lack of an EU license for Covishield — the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India — is leading to travelers from the UK, India and African to be technically classed as “unvaccinated” under French travel rules. Which vaccine? The AstraZeneca vaccine technically has two names — Vaxzevria, which is produced in Europe, and Covishield, which is produced under license by the Serum Institute in India. It’s produced to the same specifications using the same ingredients, but Covishield doesn’t have a sales license in the EU. The manufacturers presumably didn’t think this was important since their product is used mostly in...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said he was informed by some members of the U.S. military that they would quit if the armed forces mandated COVID-19 vaccine, coming after a report claimed that Army headquarters told commanders to prepare for mandatory vaccinations in September.“I’ve been contacted by members of our voluntary military who say they will quit if the COVID vaccine is mandated. I introduced HR 3860 to prohibit any mandatory requirement that a member of the Armed Forces receive a vaccination against COVID-19. It now has 24 sponsors,” Massie wrote on Twitter. He didn’t provide more details.It isn’t clear how...

Click here to read the full articleJudge Royce Lam­berth on Tues­day denied the release of Jacob Chans­ley, the “Q Shaman” who has been sit­ting in jail for near­ly 6 months for non-vio­lent charges con­nect­ed to the Jan­u­ary 6 Capi­tol riot.Jacob Chans­ley, the horned shaman seen roam­ing around the halls of Con­gress on Jan­u­ary 6th, has been locked up in Wash­ing­ton DC for sev­er­al months — with­out bail.Jacob did not cause any vio­lence, he lis­tened to offi­cers and he was let in the build­ing by Capi­tol Hill police.Chansley’s men­tal health has declined while in jail and he has no tri­al date...

WORCESTER, Mass. — A woman who allegedly stole a pickup truck, rammed a police cruiser and dragged an officer was arrested after placing an order at a Worcester McDonald’s drive-thru. Now, 38-year-old Johanna Gardell is expected to be arraigned in Worcester District Court in connection with the dangerous and destructive drive that lasted for nearly two hours. Police said Gardell stole a pickup truck, belonging to Raymond James Restoration, from a job site on Tuesday morning. Workers were in the process of unloading materials when they realized the truck had vanished.(snip) Simoncini said all of his trucks are equipped with...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, said American voters are through dealing with the coronavirus and do not care about the dangerous new delta variant causing new cases of COVID-19. “No one cares about the Delta Variant or any other variant,” Ms. Greene tweeted Monday. “They are over covid & there is no amount of fear based screaming from the media that will ever force Americans to shut down again,” she tweeted. “All voters are over covid.” Ms. Greene, a first-year congresswoman, made the remarks as public health officials raise concerns about the highly contagious delta strain hindering efforts to...

A Chinese-owned company said on Monday that it had acquired the UK’s largest manufacturer of silicone and semiconductor. The deal has triggered warnings from MPs. Nexperia, a Dutch-based semiconductor manufacturer wholly owned by China’s Wingtech Technology, confirmed on Monday that it had obtained 100 percent ownership of Welsh semiconductor plant Newport Wafer Fab (NWF), and will rename it “Nexperia Newport.” British MP and chair of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee Tom Tugendhat has previously warned the government about the deal. In a letter (pdf) to Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Kwasi Kwarteng last month,...

Just days after getting out of prison, Bill Cosby is on a rampage to expose the “insurrectionist” media and cancel culture. “This mainstream media are the Insurrectionists, who stormed the Capitol,” the newly released 83-year-old actor-comedian warns. Cosby’s slammed the media in response to the backlash against his Cosby Show co-star Phylicia Rashad, who set off a firestorm for celebrating Cosby’s overturned conviction. “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” Rashad exclaimed in a since-deleted post. The actress, an incoming dean of Howard University’s College of Fine Arts, was rebuked by students and alumni...

U.S. Soccer responded to allegations the women’s national team slighted a World War II veteran and the American flag during a match with Mexico on Monday.A video clip showed some members of the women’s team facing away from the veteran, Pete DuPre, who was playing the harmonica for the U.S. national anthem.This is respect. Each and every player waited for their opportunity to come up to Pete post-game before getting on the bus, said hello, thanked him and signed his ball. https://t.co/0fhtkTSxIF— U.S. Soccer Comms (@ussoccer_comms) July 6, 2021It prompted some to claim that the members were attempting to protest...

Iran told the UN’s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday that it plans to produce uranium metal enriched to up to 20% purity for reactor fuel in a move that the US branded “provocative.” Such a development would put Tehran in further breach of a 2015 nuclear accord negotiated under the Barack Obama administration. The deal bans all work on uranium metal since it can be used to make the core of a nuclear bomb. It committed Iran to sourcing such material from abroad rather than producing it domestically. “We have made clear that such provocative steps would not and will not...

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with its propaganda has misled people to believe that the Party and China are the same. The Chinese regime also declares that it is the sole representative of the Chinese people, holding the 1.4 billion Chinese people hostage. Yet the CCP claims that the Chinese people have chosen the CCP. However, as of July 1, the centennial of the CCP, nearly 380 million Chinese people around the world have publicly declared that they withdrew from the CCP, as well as its associated organizations. The head of the CCP, Xi Jinping referred to the...

Beth Palmer was 17 and dreaming of becoming a singer in March, 2020 when the United Kingdom went into lockdown because of the coronavirus. One month later, she was dead. “She was a wonderful, wonderful daughter. She was just funny, she lit up the room.,” said Mike Palmer, Beth’s father. “She was so affectionate and loving as well. She basically had the world at her feet. She had everything, everything to live for.” Palmer didn’t die of the coronavirus. She took her own life. An aspiring singer and vocal student at the Access Creative College in Manchester, Palmer crumbled in...

With the continuing disasters of Democrat-run cities, it would be easy to become numb to the chaos and violence rolling through some of America’s most historic metropolises. But that is not the answer; silence and apathy are never the answer. Now is the time, in fact, to look directly at those who facilitate these arenas of death. There are liars corralling their victims (those previously known as constituents) into dumpster fires that used to be gleaming symbols of American opportunity. Now, galloping through her urban war zone, one mayor of a Hell Town, USA is blaming racism, sexism, the courts,...

Nine countries have refused to sign onto an international tax reform framework that includes a 15 percent global minimum corporate tax pushed by the Biden administration as a way to reduce international tax arbitrage by U.S. multinationals and blunt the impact of President Joe Biden’s proposed domestic corporate tax hike. While officials from 130 out of 139 countries in the so-called OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting agreed last week to establish the new framework, Ireland, Estonia, Hungary, Peru, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Kenya did not sign the agreement. Irish Finance...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband placed a bet of up to $6 million on Apple, Amazon and Google-parent company Alphabet ahead of a powerful House committee moving forward with bills aimed at reining in the powers of Big Tech. Paul Pelosi on May 21 spent up to $250,000 on 50 Apple calls that have a strike price of $100 and that expire on June 17, 2022. He also bought 20 Amazon calls, costing up to $1 million, that have a strike price of $3,000 and that also expire on June 17, 2022.

During 2020, the government shut down the economy and opened the spigots of spending. The deficit ...

'The sheriff in Frederick County, Maryland, accused a Democratic county council member of putting one of his deputies at risk by intervening in a traffic stop involving a Black motorist. 'Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, a Republican, put Democratic county Councilman Kai Hagen on blast Wednesday, accusing the Democrat of putting a sheriff's deputy in danger by interfering in a routine traffic stop 10 days prior. '"The actions of Councilman Hagen were unlawful, totally inappropriate, unnecessary, and created both an officer safety issue and traffic safety issue," Jenkins wrote in an email to County Executive Jan Gardner and the council...

A huge explosion has been seen off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, sending plumes of black smoke and flames into the sky. The blast, which erupted in an area full of oil and gas fields on Sunday, was caused by a mud volcano. None of the energy stations were damaged and no-one was hurt, it added. The blast took place about 10km (6 miles) from the Umid gas field, which is 75km (45 miles) off the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, state oil company Socar spokesperson Ibrahim Ahmadoc said. The fire continued to smoulder into Monday, but...

A 75-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries when a shoplifter allegedly knocked her over while fleeing from a business in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood last week, police said Tuesday.

The State legislature of Vermont has overridden the Republican RINO (Republican in Name Only) Governor Phil Scott’s vote of a bill that gives ‘non-citizens’ the right to vote in two cities’ elections. An absolute tragedy against Americans constitution and integrity. “In a 20-10 vote, Vermont Democrats just barely achieved the two-thirds majority needed to override the governor’s veto of two separate bills – securing the House’s successful override vote Wednesday,” Fox News reported.