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A Pentagon report secretly published in 2020 and first disclosed this week, raises the potential for some form of armed conflict between nuclear-armed powers. The Pentagon’s “Joint Nuclear Options” report, dated April 17, 2020, was released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by the Federation of American Scientists. The report states, “Despite concerted US efforts to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international affairs and to negotiate reductions in the number of nuclear weapons, since 2010 no potential adversary has reduced either the role of nuclear weapons in its national security strategy or the number of...

Wokeness Gone WildWokeness may be the most absurd, harebrained concept foisted on the American public in our lifetimes. Consider just a few of the actions taken and claims made by proponents of this inane philosophy. Graduate students at Oxford University recently voted to remove a photograph of Queen Elizabeth from a campus common area. The movement was led by an American exchange student, the privileged son of a wealthy Washington, D.C., attorney. This should surprise no one since many proponents of wokeness are white, pampered, mansion-dwelling dilettantes.These thoroughly indoctrinated students claimed they were protesting Britain’s colonial history. One wonders if...

When will the Republicans wake up and see that the Democrat Party is not working for the US’s best interest? They work for POWER and will do anything to get it and keep it. We saw in nearly every big state lawsuit after the election that Obama judges were being assigned to the cases. They had multiple documents ready before they even heard the cases which ruled against President Trump and the American people every time. In February 2017 we reported on Obama and Carter judges making insane rulings against President Trump. We saw Obama judges obstructing justice with unconstitutional...

State already dealing with threat of blackouts, soaring prices before loss of Diablo Canyon reactor in 2025. California's push for clean energy has already created hardship for consumers, from a 40% decade-long climb in electricity costs to rolling blackouts that loom as a threat every heat wave. Now the state is poised to exacerbate that crisis with plans to retire its last remaining, zero-carbon emissions nuclear plant in 2025. The planned closure of Diablo Canyon, approved by the state in 2018, will take offline another 2200 megawatts of electricity production — nearly 10% of the state’s needs — with no...

A young father is celebrating the birth of his son while mourning the death of the boy's mother after she was killed in a fatal car crash. A young father is celebrating the birth of his son while mourning the death of the boy's mother after she was killed in a fatal car crash. Rusell was 33 weeks pregnant when she died, according to the Wichita Eagle. The baby's due date was in August. "Samantha was going to be a fantastic mother," Brandon Russell wrote on Facebook. "She always had everything planned out and ready to go. She was driven...

1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right. 2/ At least 20% of the population has strong authoritarian tendencies, which will emerge under the right conditions. 3/ Fear of death is only rivalled by the fear of social disapproval. The latter could be stronger. 4/ Propaganda is just as effective in the modern day as it was 100 years ago. Access to limitless information has not made the average person any wiser. 5/ Anything and everything can and will be politicized by the media, government, and those who trust them. 6/ Many politicians and large corporations...

As a teenager, Trump (center) attended the New York Military Academy. He then entered Fordham University before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, as it was one of the few places that offered real estate studies. https://www.pollhype.com/gallery/15-of-the-brightest-u-s-presidents-ranked-by-iq-score/?utm_medium=57313874&utm_source=mgid&utm_campaign=PHPresidentIQ0331&utm_term=57313874&utm_content=8729628&adclid=b120ea489f0ada4be3c3f8d46ffa97d7&requestid=XDPKWQgG&h=42

Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “anti-American” for questioning being monitored by the NSA. Weissmann said, “If you think about what Tucker Carlson could have done here, he could have followed the same route that “The New York Times” and other respected journalists did when they were incidentally overheard and may have, in fact, not been incidentally had their call records obtained by the Department of Justice. They could have gone to the attorney general, and Tucker Carlson could have joined them...

While many Hollywood elites work overtime to demonize Trump supporters, actor Matt Damon discovered that MAGA country didn’t conform to his preconceived notions during his research for his new movie Stillwater. Matt Damon said he researched his role of an Oklahoma oil rig worker by visiting the state and hanging out with real-life “roughnecks.” “These guys don’t apologize for who they are or what they believe, ever,” Damon said during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. “Culturally, [it’s] a very specific place and very different from how he [director Tom McCarthy] and I grew up. So...

...Trump, concluding the op-ed, warned that Democrats are coordinating with Big Tech to suppress any nonconformist thought from social media platforms. "This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional," he insisted. "The Supreme Court has held that Congress can't use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits it from doing itself. In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American." What are people saying? One user complained, "Trump screams 'I AM BEING CENSORED!' from the editorial page of a...

Toyota says it will stop donating money to lawmakers who contested the results of the 2020 presidential election following recent pushback over its contributions.A June report from left-leaning watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, found Toyota contributed more than twice as much to Republican lawmakers who voted against certifying the results than any other corporate PAC in the analysis — prompting some to call for a boycott of the automaker. Toyota said in a statement Thursday that it is “committed to supporting and promoting actions that further our democracy” and that it understands “the PAC...

I've made this point many times before, and I want to make it again more loudly and more plainly today. It is not conservatives who have turned American politics into a culture war battle. It is liberals. And this shouldn't come as a surprise: Almost by definition, liberals are the ones pushing for change while conservatives are merely responding to whatever liberals do. More specifically, progressives have been bragging publicly about pushing the Democratic Party leftward since at least 2004—and they've succeeded. *SNIP* Now: maybe you're personally delighted by the Democratic Party's leftward march and maybe you're not. It doesn't...

This is actually good news, and Insanity Wrap will explain why momentarily:First she told viewers that it wasn’t being taught in schools, because it was simply a concept for law school discourse. Then she said that parents who objected to it being taught in schools were merely the pawns of right-wing think tanks and funding groups, but her latest attack on those who oppose the pedagogy is that they are QAnon, Trump-supporting, white nationalist, evangelical Christians.She told viewers on Wednesday’s The Reid Out, “that Republicans aren’t running an election, they are waging an all-out war for power that increasingly is...

World Medical Association to cancel 'conscientious objectors' to abortion The Vatican's top partner in vaccine promotion is threatening the freedom of pro-life doctors to conscientiously object to the murder of preborn babies, the elderly or terminally ill. Human rights organizations and Catholic bioethicists are condemning as "particularly alarming" the World Medical Association's (WMA's) proposal to revise its International Code of Medical Ethics by introducing a section that will obstruct "conscientious objection." "This is a serious attempt to overturn the legitimate balance that gives precedence to doctors' freedom of conscience over the practice of acts that are only tolerated by law,"...

TO HELL AND BACK Man who claims he died for 23 minutes says he was ‘pulled into depths of hell where he saw pit of burning bodies’ A MAN claims he died for 23 minutes and was "pulled into the depths of hell" where he saw a "pit of burning bodies". Bill Wiese spoke of his horrifying ordeal and claimed he met two "ferocious" demons that "tore his flesh open" during his visit.

Rwanda says it is sending 1,000 security personnel to Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique to help fight Islamist militants who have terrorized the region. In a statement issued Friday on the government's website, Rwanda said the deployment would start immediately and was being done at the request of the Mozambican government. Mozambican officials did not respond to VOA’s request for comment Friday. "We are deploying 1,000 soldiers and policemen to help Mozambique in the fight against jihadists in Cabo Delgado,” Rwandan army spokesman Colonel Ronald Rwivanga told VOA’s Central African Service. The Rwandan government said its troops would join...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Tuesday that it had fined a passenger $10,500 for refusing to wear a face mask during a February flight. In a press release, the agency said that a passenger had taken an Allegiant Air flight on Feb. 27 going from Provo, Utah, to Mesa, Ariz., and allegedly refused to wear the mask properly over both his nose and mouth. "Flight attendants instructed him seven separate times to wear his facemask properly, and each time he moved it off of his nose after the flight attendant walked away," the release said. "When told that he...

Steve Schmidt, cofounder of the disgraced, anti-Trump Lincoln Project, said the January 6 Capitol protests are “likely to kill a lot more Americans than were killed on the 9/11 attacks,” which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans on U.S. soil. Speaking at the Lincoln Project’s virtual July 7 town hall discussing what the far-left PAC is doing to “defend democracy in 2022,” Schmidt echoed the sentiments of his “friend,” MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd, suggesting the January 6 Capitol protest will be worse in terms of casualties than 9/11.

July 9, 2021 Researchers have taught a drone to recognize and hunt down meteorites autonomously by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today ﷯ Example image of two meteorites deployed during a field test near Walker Lake, Nevada. The meteorites are marked with orange flags. Note the dark shadow of the quadrictoper drone. Credit: Robert Citron et al. Planetary scientists estimate that each year, about 500 meteorites survive the fiery trip through Earth's atmosphere and fall to our planet's surface. Most are quite small, and less than 2% of them are ever recovered. While the majority of rocks from space may not...

There should be limits to how much stupidity the American people have to endure from the Democrat Party. Their ongoing obsession with the rowdy crowd of January 6th has crossed over into the pathological. Pelosi and her clownish minions in Congress don’t need a “Select Committee” to investigate, they need heavy doses of anxiety medication. It was riot, libs. You usually love those. Calm down. This past week marked what Democrat legacy media claimed was the “sixth month anniversary” of the January 6th “insurrection.” Are they toddlers? Do they mark their half birthdays too? An anniversary is something that happens...