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Imagine you are a Honduran. If you make the average Honduran per capita income of $2,405.70 a year, and suddenly learn from a relative up in el norte that Joe Biden is handing out $3,600 a year to anyone in the U.S., legally present or not, for nothing more than having kids, what would you do?According to the Washington Free Beacon:President Joe Biden’s budget includes a provision that provides billions of dollars in cash to illegal aliens with children....Families, regardless of their legal status, would be eligible to receive checks of $3,600 per year per child. The Democratic bill would...

"Mark Zuckerberg your time is over" says US Senator Ed Markey "We will act."

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, already declared by some local media as the winner of his 2022 reelection campaign, has turned in a record-breaking fundraising haul of more than $4 million in the third quarter of 2021. Officials told Secrets that donations to the Republican maverick, many from small-dollar supporters, far exceeded any other fundraising quarter for the two-term senator. The raw numbers from the campaign show that he has raised more than $9 million year-to-date and has a whopping $7 million left on hand. The campaign said that over 150,000 small-dollar “grassroots donors” contributed to that amount. And when combined...

TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 10:38-42 Friends, today’s Gospel is the story of Martha and Mary. I’d like to offer a fresh take on this famous little story. One of the principal marks of Jesus’ teaching and ministry is the overturning of social conventions. And one of the most striking and surprising of Jesus’ moves was a radical inclusion of women. While this typically women’s work was going on, men would sit out in the main room of the residence and talk. If a prominent rabbi or Pharisee were present, the men would sit at his feet and listen...

A San Francisco federal court decided Monday that Tesla must pay a former worker, Owen Diaz, about $137 million after he endured a hostile work environment and racist abuse working there as an elevator operator.According to his attorneys, the case was only able to move forward because Diaz had not signed one of Tesla’s mandatory arbitration agreements which the company uses to force employees to resolve disputes without a public trial.A shareholder activist, Nia Impact Capital, has asked Tesla’s board to study the effects of mandatory arbitration agreements on the company, voicing concern that they enable harassment and other problems.

Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia over his attempt to sway the 2020 election there, and that heat is now overlapping with investigations in Congress looking at the former president’s efforts to subvert American democracy. A criminal investigation into Trump’s 2 January call prodding Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “just find” him 11,780 votes to block Joe Biden’s win in the state is making headway. The Georgia district attorney running the inquiry is now also sharing information with the House committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol in...

On Sunday, country music star Jason Aldean tore into California Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) latest mandate requiring children in his state to get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend school. Aldean, one of the few openly conservative entertainers out there, is on a recent tear after his wife, Brittany, was attacked for her political views. The “Dirt Road Anthem” singer took to Instagram after Newsom announced that his mandate would offer no testing alternative, meaning that children will need to get the vaccine if they want to attend classes.

Billionaire Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, hinted Monday that he might move his company’s headquarters from Chicago, saying the crime makes the city more akin to a war-torn country. “It’s becoming ever more difficult to have this as our global headquarters, a city which has so much violence,” Griffin said. “I mean Chicago is like Afghanistan, on a good day, and that’s a problem.” Griffin said he personally saw “25 bullet shots in the glass window of the retail space” in the building he lives in, adding that someone “tried to carjack the security detail”...

Men continue to listen to the lying politicians, the useful idiots in the Mockingbird media and the corrupt CDC and WHO instead of trusting in the living and true God. The latest example of someone who willingly goes along with the narrative, to his own destruction I might add, is a 33-year-old man from New York who mocked “anti-vaxxers” by calling them “idiots” and “morons.” After getting “fully vaccinated,” he’s now dead inside of 3 months.The COVID Blog reports:A 33-year-old New York husband and apparent dog lover is dead in another case of death after virtue signaling.Mr. Jordan Hayes received...

While some dogs are specifically trained to be protection animals, many are protective of their “territories.” That seemed to be the case for two pit bulls. According to authorities, the unnamed owner came home on the morning of Sept. 24 to find a dead man on his porch. Deputies arrived at around 10:30 a.m. to investigate, according to The Newnan Times-Herald, and it was unclear at first how the man died. The body was identified as that of Atlanta local 21-year-old Alex Binyam Abraha, who had several active warrants in a neighboring county, and whose motives are unknown, according to...

At the end of the fiscal year 2020, 39 states did not have enough money to pay all of their bills. .... Total debt among the 50 states amounted to $1.5 trillion at the end of the fiscal year 2020 ... Retirement plans, such as pension and retiree health care benefits .. account for the majority of state debt ... on average, the 50 states had only set aside 64 cents to fund pension promises and 8 cents to fund retiree health care promises .... When states cannot make up investment shortfalls, then taxpayers have to make up the difference....

The United Kingdom and governments throughout the world will try to brand climate change as a public health issue in order to expand their powers, as they did during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Baroness Claire Fox warned. Speaking with Breitbart London during the Reform UK party conference in Manchester, Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley said that while she is the “opposite of a conspiratorial thinker”, she believes that governments will try to retain the powers they have acquired during the pandemic by raising fears over a range of other issues, including climate change.

NICK Cannon's talk show opened to mixed reviews with some viewers slamming the "boring" premiere while others applauded a "great" first day. The media mogul, 40, launched his show today featuring a hilarious prank on pal Kevin Hart, while his adorable children sang his theme tune.

(CNN)US Capitol Police on Tuesday took into custody a suspect from a "suspicious vehicle" parked near the Supreme Court after giving the person commands and using a flash bang device. "One of our teams just moved in and extracted the man from the SUV. The man is in custody. Everyone is safe," Capitol Police said on Twitter. More than a half-dozen law enforcement vehicles, including a tactical vehicle, could be seen in the area after USCP said on Twitter they were investigating a "suspicious vehicle" and closed roads in the area. The Supreme Court, which returned to in-person arguments for...

Fenchol, a natural compound abundant in some plants including basil, can help protect the brain against Alzheimer's disease pathology. …Then, they performed large-scale virtual screening of more than 144,000 natural compounds to find potential candidates that could mimic the same beneficial effect of microbiota produced SCFAs in activating FFAR2 signaling. Identifying a natural compound alternative to SCFAs to optimally target the FFAR2 receptor on neurons is important, because cells in the gut and other organs consume most of these microbial metabolites before they reach the brain through blood circulation, Dr. Yadav noted. Dr. Yadav's team narrowed 15 leading compound candidates...

Bottom line: America is over COVID. It will remain endemic for decades, tragically killing some of us each year, just as does the flu. But it’s time to get back to normalcy. Yet Fauci denies the glaring light at the end of the tunnel, as if he wants the nation in paralysis forever. His instinct is all stick, no carrot; all fear, no hope. Add in the way he regularly does a complete 180 on his advice in a single day while refusing to admit it, and you have a top White House doctor who has lost far too many...

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Tuesday on the world’s most developed countries to take on and counter widening gaps between the rich and poor. He told the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris that the coronavirus and climate change have exacerbated inequality between and within nations and that action must be taken to reverse the trend. In addition to tackling those two threats, he told an OECD conference on climate and security that curbing corporate tax avoidance and ending discrimination against women and minorities are critical to improving global living conditions. Blinken said...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A New York mother and son have been charged with theft in aiding the disappearance of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Jan. 6 insurrection after the FBI initially raided a home 4,500 miles away in Alaska, looking for the computer. The FBI on Friday arrested Maryann Mooney-Rondon, 55, and her son, Rafael Rondon, 23, of Watertown, New York, in connection with the stolen laptop, according to court documents. Both also face other charges related to the riot at the Capitol.

Just heard an explosion outside the US Capitol. Sounded like something blown in place

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is in a military jail for denouncing the US over its Afghanistan pullout. Pro-Trump entities have shared their support for Scheller, including by raising over $2 million. Scheller, however, has said he'd rather "sit in jail" than accept support from Donald Trump. See more stories on Insider's business page. The MAGA community has raised more than $2 million for a Marine officer who went viral for criticizing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and saying he wanted to "bring the whole fucking system down." The officer in question, however, has spoken out against former President Donald Trump....