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Years back I believe the discussion of building desalination plants along the coast of California was met with quite the blowback from elitists and Hollywoodites. Do you think the same exists now?

Loudoun County Public Schools passed proposed policy 8040, allowing transgender students more rights in schools, 7 to 2 in a meeting Wednesday evening. The last Loudoun County School Board meeting had to be canceled ending in one arrested. On Tuesday the board delayed the vote once more. Some parents, students and staff were in support of this policy, like Alex Bennett, an LCPS teacher. “Up to the child how the student wants to be identified. It is their choice, as educators, parents and elected officials,” said Bennett. “Our job is to protect that identity, even when society does not agree.”...

MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation's most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. The mostly white mock temple will be on show in Mexico City's bustling main square, the Zocalo, close to the ruins of the real Templo Mayor, where the Aztecs venerated two main deities with elaborate pageantry and sacrificial offerings. The temple was destroyed by Spanish forces after their 1521 conquest and subsequent razing of Tenochtitlan, which became Mexico City....

Though the comment received little more than a headline from the newswires, the White House acknowledged earlier on Wednesday that it has started to see COVID cases leveling off in the hardest-hit states.WHITE HOUSE SAYS U.S. HAS STARTED TO SEE SOME LEVELING OFF OF COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN STATES SEEING SURGETo be sure, the drop in cases, which typically portends a decline in hospitalizations and deaths, has arrived just in the nick of time for some hospital systems in Florida and Texas, which have reported seeing a surge in beds occupied by COVID patients. Still, South Carolina recorded the fourth straight...

ETROIT – Video is being shared on social media of a woman dancing on top of a Detroit police SUV. Detroit Police Department’s interim Chief James White said officers inside the SUV did the right thing by not reacting. The incident happened over the weekend on Detroit’s east side. Members of the Detroit police crowd management team were sent to the area to break up a party. “People surround the car, about 50, 60 people and one of the people decided to get on the hood of the car and dance,” White said. “It’s not a nice video.” Police had...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has yet to respond to inquiries from Congress that request the locations in the United States where border crossers and illegal aliens are being sent. On April 15, as Breitbart News reported, a group of 34 House Republicans — including Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and Matt Rosendale (R-MT) — asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for information on where the agency was sending border crossers and illegal aliens after their release into the U.S. interior. This week, Sens. Mike Braun (R-IN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and Cynthia Lummis...

Since the vaccines were first offered to the broader population earlier this year, state and municipal governments across the US have tried to incentivize more adults to get the jabs by offering money, free beer, and entry into a lottery for millions of dollars to try and draw more people to get the vaccine. For some, this has bred resentment, as the vaccinated have questioned why they're being penalized for complying with the government's demands.As France resorts to using more heavy handed measures, like requiring vaccination passports for people to dine at restaurants The FT is the latest to take...

Some big-ticket purchases come with gifts that we are quick to discard. But not for this South Korean man who found something far more valuable instead. He discovered 110 million won (S$130,000) in cash hidden underneath a kimchi refrigerator that he had purchased online, reported MBC News on Monday (Aug 9). While cleaning the fridge, he found hundreds of 50,000 won bills covered in plastic and taped under the household appliance. Instead of keeping the money, the Jeju resident went to the police to lodge a report on Aug 6. A police officer who handled the case told MBC: "It...

During a viral new documentary released on Tuesday, Conservative Talk Show host Nicholas J Fuentes discussed the legal repercussions he has faced after he simply attended former President Trump’s speech on January 6th. Fuentes never entered the capitol building and remained approximately 200 yards away from the nearest entrance. The 23-year-old talk show host says he went to the capitol building following Trump’s speech because the former President said he would also be giving a speech outside the front of the building. “Currently the FBI is pursuing an investigation against me for my involvement at the capitol, I had done...

A new preprint study that raises concerns about the mRNA vaccines' effectiveness against Delta — particularly Pfizer's — has already grabbed the attention of top Biden administration officials. What they're saying: The study found the Pfizer vaccine was only 42% effective against infection in July, when the Delta variant was dominant. "If that's not a wakeup call, I don't know what is," a senior Biden official told Axios. Driving the news: The study, conducted by nference and the Mayo Clinic, compared the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the Mayo Clinic Health System over time from January to...

A video clip shows Hunter Biden naked while recounting how he was passed out in a pool when a computer with recordings of him engaged in “crazy” sex acts was stolen — possibly for blackmail purposes, according to a report Wednesday.

On Tuesday night Mesa County Colorado Clerk Tina Peters stepped forward as the whistleblower behind CodeMonkeyZ’s explosive report on Dominion Voting Machines last week. Tina Peters leaked documents to Ron Watkins, CodeMonkeyZ, last week before the planned Lindell Symposium. The Gateway Pundit reported on this leaked information last week. This morning during Watkins’ presentation CodeMonkeyZ told the crowd his attorney Ty Clevenger had advised him to stop his review until Colin Hayes returns hard drives to Mesa County. Apparently, the hard drives were taken without permission. UPDATE— We can CONFIRM that the hard disks were NOT STOLEN from Mesa County...

After Mike Lindell's appearance on the April 28, 2021, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show, Lead Stories published a story titled "Attention Mike Lindell: What You May Want To Know About The 'Data' Used In Your Stolen Election Claims" that traced some of the data used in Lindell's movies to a man named Dennis L. Montgomery. Lindell has been quite vague on the source of his data and the name "Dennis L. Montgomery" never appears in any of his videos. And with reason: According to the New York Times, Montgomery's own lawyer once called him a "con man" and in the same...

Cyber hackers returned nearly half of the $600 million they stole from DeFi platform Poly Network, in what is considered one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists in history. Around $260 million has been returned as of Wednesday noon, Poly Network said in a tweet. Of the funds given back, $3.3 million were in ethereum, $256 million in Binance smart chain, and $1 million in polygon, according to the post. The return of funds follows pleas from Poly Network on Tuesday, asking the hackers for the money back and urging cryptocurrency exchanges and miners to halt tokens from the hacker's wallets.......

Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuits against the attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell can move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing the Trump allies’ motions to have the billion-dollar litigation thrown out over procedural issues and claims that they didn’t defame Dominion with their discredited allegations that the company was involved in election fraud that delivered the presidential election to Joe Biden.

Most media are giving ample coverage to Texas’ COVID woes, as the Delta variant has hospitals running out of ICU beds. But few reports note how President Joe Biden’s border disaster is helping drive the crisis. US border agents encountered nearly 189,000 migrants in June alone, the latest in a string of record-setting months. And the Biden administration is releasing many of these illegal entrants into the interior. Plus, that surge surely means a similarly huge rise in migrants who never get caught. Especially since Team Biden won’t let Texas authorities do any immigration enforcement of their own. More than...

Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday that he plans to travel to his Italian estate for 10 days beginning this week as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and other metrics continue to rise in New Jersey. Murphy said he was planning to leave on Tuesday evening to join his wife and children at their multimillion-dollar estate about two hours north of Rome. The State Department has issued an advisory recommending that travelers reconsider going to Italy due to COVID-19. Anyone coming to the U.S. from Italy must provide a negative COVID-19 viral test taken within three calendar days of travel. Murphy said he...

When the sovereign power of the regime—which includes but is not limited to the government—changes from one ruling principle to another (say, from consent and political equality to antiracism and equity) the regime has transformed into something else. The new ruling authority is a new regime. Never mind election fraud; the question people on the Right must now consider is whether a completely fair election, or even several elections, could reasonably be expected to change the ruling element, the “preponderant part” which defines justice. What would it take to replace the true sovereign power that is the regime? Such a...

An Oklahoma school board member has claimed that maskless children who aren’t yet eligible for covid vaccination will be killing their vulnerable peers. Linda Sexton has been literally pleading for face masks to be made compulsory after claiming that elementary school children could be committing murder without them. She has called for Norman Public School board to defy the Republican governor’s ban on mask mandates and pursue legal action. RT reports: Speaking at a board meeting on Monday, Sexton said she was “very, very angry” that children as young as five who cannot be vaccinated will be “exposed to a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday following an inquiry that found he sexually harassed 11 women, mounting legal pressure and demands for his departure by President Joe Biden and others, a startling downfall for a man once seen as a possible U.S. presidential contender.Cuomo, a Democrat who had served since 2011 as governor of the fourth most-populous U.S. state, made the announcement after New York Attorney General Letitia James on Aug. 3 released the results of a five-month independent investigation that concluded he had engaged in conduct that violated U.S. and state laws.The investigation,...