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U.S. consumers will spend more to heat their homes this winter than last year due to surging energy prices, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected in its winter outlook on Wednesday. Energy prices have risen sharply worldwide, causing power crunches in large economies like China and India. The United States has, so far, not seen that same effect, even though the prices of fuels ranging from natural gas to heating oil and propane have risen notably and will hit household finances as the weather turns colder. Propane Oil to Rise the Most: 54%"The main reason wholesale prices of natural...

The leftist pundits in the media are twisting themselves silly trying to spin the terrible economic situation in an attempt to save President Joe Biden. A new Bloomberg Opinion op-ed actually tried to argue that high inflation is a good thing for America. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Karl Smith actually had the audacity to publish a nonsensical article headlined, “America Needs Higher, Longer-Lasting Inflation.” His sub-headline was just as ridiculous: “The benefits of moderately rising prices and wages outweigh the costs.” His main argument was that “a higher rate of inflation, and correspondingly higher wage growth, could be a net positive...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will help develop up to seven offshore wind farms on the East and West coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico as it moves to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 — generating enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes.If approved and built, the projects could avoid about 78 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, officials said.President Joe Biden has set a goal to deploy 30 gigawatts, or 30,000 megawatts, of offshore wind power in the United States by 2030. Meeting the target...

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Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has donated unused campaign funds to a nonprofit organization that will examine different election practices in Arizona. According to an FEC filing, Flake transferred $150,000 from the Jeff Flake for US Senate, Inc. account to the Public Integrity Foundation late last month. The contribution was made days after the group was established, according to a report from Axios published on Wednesday.

The unnamed suspect reportedly began firing the weapon "into a supermarket" in the small town of Kongsberg - about 80 miles from the capital Oslo. He was later detained by police - who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack. "The man has been apprehended ... from the information we now have, this person carried out these actions alone," police chief Oeyvind Aas told reporters. "Several people have been injured and several are dead," Aas said. He declined to comment on the number of casualties. Twitter user ikke said: "There is a guy with bow and...

White House officials have reportedly been in touch with representatives from major U.S. oil and gas companies about how to bring down prices in the U.S., Reuters reported Wednesday. The Biden administration has been in touch with industry representatives after crude oil hit a seven-year high of $80 this week, according to Reuters, citing two sources with knowledge of the conversations. The reported conversations occurred days after oil prices in the U.S. hit $81.50 a barrel, the first time since October 2014 that U.S. crude closed at more than $80.

President Joe Biden turned his back on the press for the second time in a week Wednesday following a bevy of bad news about the economy. Addressing the shaky status of the U.S. supply chain, Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles will begin to operate 24/7 in order to handle more goods amid growing backlogs. Then he exited stage left. It followed the president taking no questions after his remarks on a disappointing September jobs report last Friday.

Palmyra’s seen a lot of contention during the coronavirus pandemic. First, the local restaurant “Taste of Sicily” was fined for non-compliance with the governor’s bans on indoor dining. More recently, school board meetings have gotten hot and heavy with debates over pandemic policies, to the point where district administrators opted to only take public comment virtually at a September board meeting, and a group of high school students protested against the statewide mask mandate for schools. Is it really any surprise then, that a hotly-contested school board election would follow? It has, but, in a twist, the pandemic is now...

Partial transcript below:RECEIPTS! Patent PROVES Vaxx is Obedience Training Platform - THE FINAL VARIANT! (redvoicemedia.com)Partial transcript begins:Stew Peters: Well just a week or so ago we featured Dr. Carrie Madej, who was here showing us some slides of some self-aware alien looking scorpion looking thing that she found under a microscope inside a the vials of these so-called vaccines.Shortly thereafter we featured Dr. Zandre Botha who said that she found little discs that were connected with some sort of metal connector.Then we talked to Karen Kingston.All of them are saying that this is some sort of an injectable computing device.Now...

Carriers of goods including Walmart, UPS, and FedEx are moving to work more shifts—including 24 hours per day, seven days per week—to address global supply disruptions that have contributed to a surge in inflation, the White House said Wednesday. The update was announced ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with the heads of Walmart, FedEx, and UPS to address the supply chain bottlenecks before the Christmas season. According to a fact sheet released by the administration, Walmart said it would “increase its use of night-time hours significantly and projects they could increase throughput by as much as 50 percent over...

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On Thursday afternoon, September 30, at 3:45 PM Eastern, the 40 to 60 agents from the FBI, DOJ and local police raided retired Army Ranger Jeremy Brown’s home and arrested Jeremy in Florida. The charge was misdemanor trespassing from an event he attended 10 months earlier. We were notified by his family and an attorney following the raid. The FBI searched Jeremy’s home, RV, and trailer. And then they arrested Jeremy and took him away. His family contacted The Gateway Pundit the next morning. Jeremy Brown NEVER entered the US Capitol on January 6. His crime was refusing to be...

CHICAGO (AP) — The head of the Chicago police officers union has called on its members to defy the city’s requirement to report their COVID-19 vaccination status by Friday or be placed on unpaid leave. In the video posted online Tuesday and first reported on by the Chicago Sun-Times, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara vowed to take Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration to court if it tries to enforce the mandate, which requires city workers to report their vaccine status by the end of the work week. After Friday, unvaccinated workers who won’t submit to semiweekly coronavirus testing will...

The school called Smith but, when he arrived, told him they were going to handle the matter “in-house.” When the school eventually called the sheriff’s office, it wasn’t to arrest the alleged perpetrator (who later admitted the act) but was because Smith was making a scene—he wasn’t violent, but he launched obscenities at the principal. Still, the sheriff’s deputies took Smith’s daughter to a hospital, where a rape kit showed that she had, in fact, been sexually assaulted.The principal then sent a message to the school community saying that, while the deputies had shown up at school, everyone at the...

In a newly published study, physician-scientists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that the flu vaccine may provide vital protection against COVID-19......Although it isn't exactly known yet how the flu vaccine provides protection against COVID-19, most theories speculate that the flu shot may boost the innate immune system. The results, said study authors, strongly suggest that the flu vaccine may protect against several severe effects of COVID-19.

President Trump on Wednesday released a statement on Joe Biden’s cratering poll numbers. "Do you miss me yet?” Trump asked after ripping into Joe Biden. “Covid is raging out of control, our supply chains are crashing with little product in our stores, we were humiliated in Afghanistan, our Border is a complete disaster, gas prices and inflation are zooming upward–how’s Biden doing? Do you miss me yet?” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready to pay sharply higher bills for heating this winter, along with seemingly everything else. With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government said Wednesday it expects households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter. Nearly half the homes in the U.S. use natural gas for heat, and they could pay an average $746 this winter, 30% more than a year ago. Those in the Midwest could get particularly pinched, with bills up an estimated 49%, and this could be the...

RESIST!Transcript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Several people were killed and others injured by a man armed with a bow and arrow near the Norwegian capital, Oslo, police said Wednesday. They said the suspected attacker was arrested. “There are several injured and also dead,” the police chief in the town Kongsberg, Øyvind Aas, said at a press conference on Wednesday night, according to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. No details were immediately available on the numbers of dead and injured. According to police, the suspected perpetrator walked around the city shooting at people with a bow and arrows.