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President Biden’s controversial, Soviet-born pick to lead a key branch of the Treasury Department admitted in a newly unearthed video that she “wants” traditional fuel industries “to go bankrupt.” Saule Omarova, Biden’s pick to be the comptroller of the currency, was filmed calling coal, oil and gas “troubled industries” in which “a lot of the small players … are going to probably go bankrupt.” “At least, we want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change, right?” she said in the now-viral clip. The Cornell University law professor made the remarks in February during a “Social Wealth...

Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who led U.S. Army Europe until 2017, said he believes Russia's actions over the last year, including the troop buildup along the Ukrainian border in March and alleged involvement in fostering a migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border, are strategic in nature."This is part of an ongoing process to undermine Ukrainian government, to present Ukraine to the West as a failed state so that there is no further effort to integrate Ukraine into the West, into the EU ... or NATO," Hodges said.Russia is being further emboldened by the European Union's failure to apply more...

The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial says he has received a wave of disturbing messages calling him a "racist," "Klan" supporter, and a "skinhead," the Daily Mail reports. "I didn't know that under your black robes justice you wear a white robe of the klan. There is no way a fair trial can be heard under your supervision," one email reads to Judge Bruce Schroeder. One message threatens the lives of the judge's children, promising "pay back" if Rittenhouse is acquitted.

38. Fri. Nov. 12, 2021 Testimony, even from the opposing side, in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse proved the falsity of hundreds of media reports. Rittenhouse, who went to Wisconsin in August 2020 to protect storefronts and businesses being looted and burned by rioters, shot and killed two attackers during violent protests, and shot a third man. Media reports widely declared Rittenhouse, then 17-years old, to be a murderous white supremacist (although all three of the men shot were white and, according to evidence, had been attacking or pointing a loaded gun at Rittenhouse at the time). 37. Fri. Nov....

Suspected witness tampering is uncovered in the Kyle Rittenhouse case as star witness Gaige Grosskreutz, who aimed his gun at Rittenhouse, had charges dropped by the prosecutor only days before being a witness in the case. We reported on Gaige Grosskreutz multiple times since last August when he had his arm nearly blown off by Kyle Rittenhouse after he pointed his gun at Kyle. For some reason, Grosskreutz has not been charged as a felon in possession of a firearm and attempting to kill Kyle Rittenhouse, even though at the time of the event, Grosskreutz was a felon.

Republicans hold America’s reddest large urban constituency in Tarrant County, Texas. The locals consider its seat, Fort Worth, a “Mecca for conservatives.” If any place in America should be beyond the reach of progressivism, it is these 900 square miles of Lone Star land. And yet, a recent incident within the Keller Independent School District has revealed cracks in the red paint of Texas’ conservative Potemkin village. On Oct. 26, Kathy May, a mother of four children in the district, tweeted pictures from Gender Queer: a Memoir, a book found in the library of Timber Creek High School. The illustrated...

Many outside of Greece believe that Mount Olympus — like Atlantis — is a mythical location that exists only in Greek mythology, says Greek journalist and director Athina Krikeli.Krikeli, who has lived in the United States for the past 25 years, spoke about her experience on the subject to the Athens News Agency radio station. Over the past decade, Krikeli has been working on a series of documentaries with the goal of making the famous mountain — the tallest in Greece — known worldwide...“After showing the first short documentary about Olympus, initially in New York and then in some universities...

A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers.. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay last Saturday of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or face mask requirements and weekly tests. Lawyers for the Justice and Labor departments filed a response Monday in which they said stopping the mandate from taking effect will only prolong the COVID-19 pandemic and would “cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Friday hopes that Steve Bannon’s indictment for failing to comply with the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol sends a “chilling message." A federal grand jury indicted one-time White House adviser to former President Trump on Friday for two charges of contempt of Congress for failing to appear for an Oct. 14 deposition before the panel and for refusing to provide documents.

Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight. Paul D Thacker reportsIn autumn 2020 Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, Albert Bourla, released an open letter to the billions of people around the world who were investing their hopes in a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine to end the pandemic. “As I’ve said before, we are operating at the speed of science,” Bourla wrote, explaining to the public when they could expect a Pfizer vaccine to be authorised in the United States.1But, for...

November 13, 2021 Saturday of week 32 in Ordinary Time St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church, El Paso, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingWisdom 18:14-16,19:6-9 ©The Red Sea became an unimpeded wayWhen peaceful silence lay over all,and night had run the half of her swift course,down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word;into the heart of a doomed land the stern warrior leapt.Carrying your unambiguous command like a sharp sword,he stood, and filled the universe with death;he touched the sky, yet trod the earth.For, to keep your children from all harm,the whole creation, obedient to...

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said she agrees with the notion that people don’t care about gas prices if they can’t afford child care so they can work. Guest host Maria Teresa Kumar said, “One of the things that we saw was a historic infrastructure bill that passed that’s going to alleviate, not just our roads and clean water, but has implications for a brighter future when it comes to climate energy and so on and so forth. However, now, the second part of this plan, the human infrastructure, the one that will build back...

“Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing” (James 3:16). False wisdom ruins lives. Renowned eighteenth-century theologian Jonathan Edwards said the following about the effect of the Fall on man: Sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness; and God was forsaken, and fellow-creatures forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings. Self-love became absolute master of his soul, and the more noble and spiritual principles of his being took wings and flew away. Edwards’s analysis certainly agrees with...

VIDEOIt's driving liberals NUTS! Every time they hear "Let's Go Brandon" or see it on a sign it causes them to throw hilarious hissy fits. The result is it inspires even more chants of "Let's Go Brandon!"

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I’m putting that fact in a headline because somebody needs to. For the past 15 months, most “news” outlets have been skirting around one simple fact: Kyle Rittenhouse has never shot a black person. Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, the men who were killed while attacking Rittenhouse, were both white. Gaige Grosskreutz, the man who was shot while pointing a gun at Rittenhouse, is white. A lot of people still don’t know that fact, because the media they trust to give them the news has hidden it from them. It doesn’t fit the preferred narrative. It doesn’t help promote “social...

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Terrorist lawyer Huwaida Arraf in campaign launch An anti-Israel activist who helped organize the 2010 flotilla of ships to the Gaza Strip and was the lawyer for a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Jewish college students is running for Congress as a Democrat in Michigan. Huwaida Arraf, who this week launched her campaign based on her record of "fighting injustice" on the world stage, is an activist lawyer who cofounded the International Solidarity Movement, which encourages anti-Israel activists to take "direct action" to force confrontations with Israeli forces. Arraf has used her status as an American citizen to protect Palestinian...

Ashley Biden, Joe Biden’s daughter, apparently left her diary behind or someone stole it from her and it was problematic for Joe Biden, both in terms of allegations concerning Ashley and Hunter. Project Veritas was offered the diary and decided against publishing it, but another conservative site, The National File, did publish it. James O’Keefe of Project Veritas turned it over to law enforcement. However, on Sunday, after raiding the homes of two of his journalists and taking their notes and documents. The raid on O’Keefe’s home was a pre-dawn raid. The FBI shone white lights in his face, threw...

Tony Evers should be on trial, not Kyle Rittenhouse Posted by DrJohn on 13 November, 2021 at 7:27 am Gov. Tony Evers (D-idiot) of Wisconsin has mobilized 500 members of the National Guard prior to the verdict delivery in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. This is a classic case of too little, too late. Evers should be charged with being an accessory to murder. IMO he is a criminal. The Rittenhouse case is a classic example of an attempted lynching. The media has misrepresented, distorted and outright lied about what happened. Think Nicholas Sandmann or Jussie Smollett. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Moron)...